Professor Dr.-Ing. Hartwig Baumgärtel

Professor
Programme advisor
Faculty Production Engineering and Production Economics

Functions at the university

Address:
Prittwitzstraße 10
89075 Ulm
Room: B212c
Office hours:

Mo-Fr 8:30am-04:00pm

Address:
Prittwitzstraße 10
89075 Ulm
Room: B212c
Office hours:

Mo-Fr 8:30am-04:00pm

Address:
Prittwitzstraße 10
89075 Ulm
Room: B310d
Member Senate

Research and teaching priorities

Courses

  • Fundamentals of Computer Science for Engineers and the Energy Sector (Bachelor’s Foundation Stage)
  • Enterprise Information Systems (Bachelor’s main cycle, WIN)
  • Digital Transformation and Data Mining (Bachelor’s main cycle)
  • Artificial Intelligence (Master’s programmes SY, ER)

 

Key Technology Areas

  • Multi-agent Systems and Digital Twins
  • Semantic Web Technologies and Ontologies
  • Constraint Solving and Logical Reasoning
  • Reinforcement learning

 

Key Application Areas

  • Skill- and service-based industrial production and intralogistics
  • Intelligent production control using neural networks and reinforcement learning
  • Enterprise knowledge graphs, modelling of supply chains in knowledge graphs
  • Architectures and protocols of the Industrial Internet of Things
  • Application of digitalisation and AI in food production and logistics

About me

Professor of Digitalisation and AI in Production and Logistics

As Professor of Digitalisation and AI, I teach courses on these topics within the Engineering and Industrial Engineering degree programmes at the Faculty of Production Engineering and Production Management. The spectrum ranges from an introduction to computer science with Python programming in the first semester to a module on methods and applications of artificial intelligence at Master’s level. 

Dean of Studies for the Food Technology (LET) programme: 

As Dean of Studies, I am responsible for the roll-out and administrative management of the new LET degree programme, from liaising with schools and attending trade fairs, through to organising the programme, providing academic guidance, chairing the Programme Committee and the Advisory Board, right through to successful accreditation in accordance with the THU’s quality assurance system. 

Weber, Jakob; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Völker, Sven. "A flexible Learning Factory based on Production Control by Collaborative Digital Twins". 16th Conference on Learning Factories, Bozen, Italy, May 2026, to appear

Verkhov, Alexander; Lober, Andreas; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Ollinger, Lisa. "Semantic Integration of FMEA Knowledge into Manufacturing Control: A Runtime Exception Handling Framework", 25th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2025), Incheon, Korea, November 2025. 

Lober, Andreas; Verkhov, Alexander; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Ollinger, Lisa. "A modular knowledge base concept for dynamic control logic design for adaptive manufacturing", 2025 IEEE 30th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Porto, 2025, DOI:10.1109/ETFA65518.2025.11205704

Lober, Andreas; Weber, Jakob; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Ollinger, Lisa. "Skill Orchestration Agent: A Knowledge-Driven Orchestration Framework for Adaptive Manufacturing Control", 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 2921-2928, doi: 10.1109/CASE58245.2025.11163862

Lober, Andreas; Lehmann, Joel; Weber, Jakob; Reichwald, Julian; Ollinger, Lisa; Völker, Sven; Baumgärtel, Hartwig. Agentenbasiertes Redesign und Neuinterpretation von OPC UA Designstrategien zur Flexiblen Fähigkeitsbasierten Produktion. at - Automatisierungstechnik 72(3):233-258, 2024

Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Lober, Andreas; Ollinger, Lisa; Völker, Sven. Digital Twin-supported Warehouse 5.0 - A practical path towards smart warehousing. In: Glock, Christoph; Grosse, Eric. Warehousing 5.0: Managing the transition from techno-focused to human-value-centric intralogistics. ISBN: 979-8873704354. Independent. 2024

Lehmann, Joel; Lober, Andreas; Häußermann, Tim; Rache, Alessa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Reichwald, Julian. Domain-agnostic Intelligent Digital Twins: Merging of Application-near Knowledge Representations with the Proactive Internet of Digital Twins (IoDT). Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, Volume P-337 (NFORMATIK 2023 - Designing Futures: Zukünfte gestalten), S. 1725-1738. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Berlin, 2023

Lober, Andreas; Lehmann, Joel; Reichwald, Julian; Ollinger, Lisa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig. Flexible Skill-based Production Systems through novel OPC UA Design Approaches. IFAC-PapersOnLine Vol. 56 Issue 2, S. 3654-3659, Elsevier, 2023

Lehmann, Joel; Lober, Andreas; Häußermann, Tim; Rache, Alessa; Ollinger, Lisa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Reichwald, Julian. The Anatomy of the Internet of Digital Twins: A Symbiosis of Agent and Digital Twin Paradigms Enhancing Resilience (not only) in Manufacturing Environments. In: Grieves, M; Vickers, J.: MDPI Machines, Special Issue on Advances in Digital Twins for Manufacturing, ISSN 2075-1702, 2023

Lober, Andreas; Ollinger, Lisa; Völker, Sven; Baumgärtel, Hartwig. Towards Logistics 4.0: A Skill-based OPC UA Communication between WMS and the PLC of an Automated Storage and Retrieval System. International Conf. on Industrial Logistics, Zagreb, 2023

Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Lober, Andreas; Som, Johannes; Völker, Sven; Ollinger, Lisa. Design of a WMS with OPC UA-based Control of an Automated Rack Storage as Study Project in Computer Science and Proof-of-Concept for Skill-Based Engineering. IALF 13th Conference on Learning Factories. Reutlingen, May 2023  

Lober, Andreas; Lehmann, Joel; Häußermann, Tim; Reichwald, Julian; Baumgärtel, Hartwig: Improving the Engineering Process of Control Systems Based on Digital Twin Specifications. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (IEEE ELECOM), November 2022

Lehmann, Joel; Lober, Andreas; Rache, Alessa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Reichwald, Julian. Collaboration of Semantically Enriched Digital Twins based on a Marketplace Approach. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - WINSYS, ISBN 978-989-758-592-0

Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Bischof, Daniel: "Integrated Production Lot Scheduling and Transportation Planning for Vendor-Managed Inventory in Industrial B2B Supply Relationships with Customer-specific Production"; International Conference on Operations Research OR2021, Bern, August/September 2021

Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Moder, Patrick; Ramzy, Nour; Ehm, Hans: "Service-based Semiconductor Manufacturing using the Digital Reference Ontology for Global Service Discovery", IECON 2020 - 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore (online), October 2020, pp. 4533-4540, ISBN 978-1-7281-5414-5 , IEEE, 2020

Lober, Andreas; Baumgärtel, Hartwig: "Semantic service discovery in heterogeneous cyber-physical systems", Proceedings of the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL), Hamburg (online), October 2020

Sipsas, Konstantinos; Zalonis, Andreas; Broechler, Raimund; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Ehm, Hans: "A platform application for exploiting the Digital Reference Ontology", IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), Tampere (online), June 2020, pp. 557-562, ISBN 978-1-7281-6389-5, IEEE, 2020

Baumgärtel, H., R. Verbeet: "Service and Agent based System Architectures for Industrie 4.0", IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2020, Workshop on Management for Industry 4.0; Budapest (online), May 2020, ISBN 978-1-7281-4973-8

Verbeet, R., H. Baumgärtel: "Implementierung von autonomen Industrie 4.0-Systemen mit BDI-Agenten", in Bauernhansl, T., M. ten Hompel, B. Vogel-Heuser: "Handbuch der Industrie 4.0", 3. Auflage, Springer, 2020

Baumgärtel, H., R. Verbeet: "Service- und Agenten-basierte Ansätze für Industrie 4.0-Systeme"; in Bauernhansl, T., M. ten Hompel, B. Vogel-Heuser: "Handbuch der Industrie 4.0", 3. Auflage, Springer, 2020

Moder, P., H. Ehm, H. Baumgärtel, N. Ramzy: "Semantic Web - Befähiger der Industrie 4.0", in Bauernhansl, T., M. ten Hompel, B. Vogel-Heuser: "Handbuch der Industrie 4.0", 3. Auflage, Springer, 2020

Fay, A., F. Gelhoff, M. Seitz, B. Vogel-Heuser, H. Baumgärtel, C. Diedrich, A. Lüder, T. Schöler, G. Sutschet, R. Verbeet: "Agenten zur Realisierung von Industrie 4.0", VDI-Statusbericht des VDI/VDE Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik Fachausschuss 5.15; VDI; 2019

Baumgärtel, H., H. Ehm, S. Laaouane, J. Gerhardt, A. Kasprzik: "Collaboration in supply chains for development of CPS enabled by semantic web technologies", 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Göteborg, 3627-3638