Oliver Kosak

Oliver Kosak is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Software & Systems Engineering within the Faculty of Applied Computer Science at the University of Augsburg. His research focuses on self-organization and self-adaptation in technical systems, with emphasis on swarm robotics, multi-agent systems, and self-organizing production in Industry 4.0 contexts.

Research Interests

• Self-organization and self-adaptation
• Automated planning and constraint solving
• Swarm robotics and multi-agent systems
• Industry 4.0 and self-organizing production

Scientific Contributions

• Developed Protease 2.0 for extended swarm formation flight
• Pioneered semantic plug-and-play architectures
• Advancing deadlock avoidance in self-organizing production

Awards & Recognition

• 2022 Bavarian Culture Award (Science Category)

He coordinates research on self-organizing process route planning in the KI-Production Network Augsburg and teaches courses on self-organizing systems at both bachelor and master levels.