Research Focus
- Software and systems engineering in the field of digital farming
- Requirements engineering of the different actors in the agricultural ecosystem
- Improvement of interoperability and networking between actors and systems
- Improvement of the acceptance of digital farming solutions (e.g. FMIS, decision support systems, agricultural machinery)
- Data management for innovative solutions in the food chain
Our chair cooperates with the Friends of Digital Farming e.V., in which renowned companies along the value chain, such as BASF, John Deere, Hochwald, Aldi Süd, but also agricultural practitioners, such as the Hofgut Neumühle Teaching and Research Institute, are represented. Furthermore, the chair is active in the national AI lighthouse project Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft mittels KI (Sustainable Agriculture Using AI) and collaborates closely with the Smart Farming program of Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern.
News
2023
- 09.02.2023 - New research assistant
- From mid-February Vishal Sharbidar will support us as a research assistant at the Digital Farming Chair.
- 08.02.2023 - Two publications at GIL-Jahrestagung 2023
- S. Bosse et al., "Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft mittels Künstlicher Intelligenz - Ein plattformbasierter Ansatz für Forschung und Industrie", in 43. GIL-Jahrestagung, Resiliente Agri-Food-Systeme: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze, 2023.
- F. Phillips, M. Favier & J. Dörr, "FarmBot-based-ISOBUS demonstrator for research and teaching", in 43. GIL-Jahrestagung, Resiliente Agri-Food-Systeme: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze, 2023.
- 08.02.2023 - Publication in Informatik Spektrum
- Doerr, J., Favier, M. & Moehrle, F. Interoperabilität im Digital Farming – Status quo und zukünftige Herausforderungen. Informatik Spektrum (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-023-01524-0
- 08.02.2023 - Presentation on „Improving interoperability in the agricultural domain: the gaia-x initiative (…and more)“
- Jörg Dörr, Presentation on „Improving interoperability in the agricultural domain: the gaia-x initiative (…and more)“ at event “Space Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture - Where space data, connectivity and new technologies connect with the agri-food sector” (Space Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture | ESA Business Applications). 25.1.2023, Stream available here (timestamp: 4:02:27)
- 01.02.2023 - Presentations at the GIL Conference 2023
- The chair will give two paper and one project presentation at the GIL conference from 13.02.2023 to 14.02.2023 at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Further information about the GIL conference can be found here (German).
- 13.01.2023 - Invitation to the online event: Efficient fertilisation through digitalisation (German)
- 02.01.2023 - New research project - Offene Digitalisierungsallianz Pfalz II (ODPfalz)
- Since January 2023, the chair has been participating in the project Offene Digitalisierungsallianz Pfalz II (ODPfalz) with a work package. Here you can find more information about the project.
Our Research
Research focus: Digitization in agriculture
In agriculture, there is a strong heterogeneity between the individual actors and the systems used. This ensures that a lack of interoperability makes it difficult to network systems. Digital farming solutions (e.g., farm management systems, decision support systems, agricultural machinery) also tend to face poor user acceptance due to a lack of transparency ... more