Tag: Award

This year's Computer Science Day on 25.04.2025 in H9 once again offered the opportunity to experience top-class lectures on current topics in computer science. Prof. Dr. Florian Rabe gave his inaugural lecture in this context. There were also exciting presentations by Prof. Dr. Matthias Nießner (TU ...

Manuela Ockel from the Chair of Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems of ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke and project partner Andre Borchers from Fraunhofer IKTS took first place in the open competition of the Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Working Group. The joint contribution from t...

The Chair of Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg was honored with the Innovation & Technology Award at this year's Robotics Challenge of Arena2036. Further information can be found on the FAPS website.  

At the 10th specialist colloquium of the Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics (MHI e.V.) in Berlin, Dr. Maximilian Metzner, alumnus of the Chair of FAPS, was awarded the MHI Doctoral Prize 2024. The MHI Board of Directors recognized his outstanding dissertation on “Plann...

Julian Dahlmann, Andreas Völz and Knut Graichen received the Best Paper Award 2024 of the journal at – Automatisierungstechnik in the applications category for their work “A Concept for Automated Maneuvering of Vehicles with Trailers (in German)”. The award was presented at the 59th Control Engineer...

Frank Hannig received an “Outstanding Reviewer Award” for his reviewer activities as a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2025) conference. Only 1.7% of all 591 TPC members received the award. Hannig: “I am delighted that I was selected ...

The I4 was able to score three papers at the Workshops associated with EuroSys/ASPLOS. Dustin Nguyen presented his work Honey, I Shrunk the Guests (Best Paper Award) on deploying virtualisation extensions to observe processes at the HCDS workshop. You will find further information at the chair's ...

At the IPC APEX EXPO 2025 in Anaheim, California, the paper “Improving THT-AOI Image Classification through Federated Learning: A Study on Model Performance and Training Stability under Various Data Distributions” by Ben Rachinger, Nils Thielen, Sven Meier, ESI member Prof. Jörg Franke and Prof. Flo...

At the “5th International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems” (ROBOVIS 2025) in Porto, the paper “Learn Where I Can Walk: Auto-Labeling of Walked Areas Using Monocular Camera Trajectory” by Helmut Engelhardt, Matthias Kalenberg, ESI member Prof. Jörg Franke and Dr. Sina ...

The FAPS chair of ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke has won the “Best Freestyle Demonstrator” award at the OE-A Competition. The award was presented for a fully additively manufactured light bulb developed at FAPS. The demonstrator shows the combination of additive manufacturing with printed ele...