From automation in industrial environments to the investigation of biological-technical flow or reaction processes to the generation of data bases for individualized medicine - measurement technology forms the basis of many fields of application.

The demands on measurement technology are manifold and often go beyond the limits of what is currently established. The most important requirements for future solutions are, among others

• growing fusion of sensor and measurement technology in highly integrated concepts as an opportunity for flexibility, portability, miniaturization, autonomy, ...
• function integration: acquisition and evaluation of measured variables - from simple monitoring to automatic interpretation (autonomous model-based data processing, pattern recognition, self-monitoring, auto-calibration, plug&play capability, communication capability...)
• system integration: coupling of measurement and control/regulation, energy self-sufficiency, wireless communication of several networked measurement systems
• fusion of multimodal measurement data (SoftSensing), e.g. to obtain trend information
• acquisition of spatially distributed measurement data
• coupling of physical, chemical and biological measuring principles on one sensor element (Lab-on-a-Chip)

In the future, measurement technology will increasingly act interdisciplinary and develop from the pure determination of measurement data to a "smart", integrated, dynamically adapting technology. Our chair meets this challenge and benefits from extensive experience in research and development of metrological systems.

Main topics and current research interests are among others

• ultrasonic sensor systems
• vibro-tactile human-technology interaction through acoustic focusing
• resonant piezoelectric sensors for gas and liquid analysis
• microfluidic inline measuring systems
• fluidic disposable test carriers with integrated measuring technology, embedding of sensors in 3D-printing
• signal acquisition, analysis and processing
• tomographically quantifying measurement technology
• development of application-specific measuring and testing systems