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 9:30am-11:30am

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

Mo-Fr 9:30am-11:30am

Address:
Prittwitzstraße 10
89075 Ulm
Room: B310d
Member Senate

Research and teaching priorities

Lehrveranstaltungen

  • Informatik Grundlagen für Ingenieure und Energiewirtschaft (Bachelor Grundstudium)
  • Enterprise Information Systems (Bachelor Hauptstudium, WIN)
  • Digitale Transformation und Data Mining (Bachelor Hauptstudium)
  • Künstliche Intelligenz (Masterstudiengänge SY, ER)

 

Technologieschwerpunkte

  • Multiagenten-Systeme und Digitale Zwillinge
  • Semantic Web Technologien und Ontologien
  • Constraint Solving und logisches Schließen
  • Reinforcement Learning

 

Anwendungsschwerpunkte

  • Skill- und Service-basierte Industrieproduktion und Intralogistik
  • Intelligente Produktionssteuerung mit Neuronalen Netzen und Reinforcement Learning
  • Unternehmenswissensgraphen, Modellierung von Supply Chains in Wissensgraphen
  • Architekturen und Protokolle des Industrial Internet of Things
  • Anwendung von Digitalisierung und KI in der Lebensmittelproduktion und -logistik

About me

Studiendekan des Studiengangs Lebensmitteltechnologie (LET): 

als Studiendekan verantworte ich den Hochlauf und die administrative Leitung des neuen Studiengangs LET, von Schulkontakten und Messeauftritten über die Studienorganisation, Studienberatung, Leitung der Studienkommission und des Beirats bis hin zur erfolgreichen Akkreditierung nach dem Qualitätssystem der THU. 

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