Tag: Award

SPARC member Pit Henrich was awarded first place for his presentation at AIBEConf, held at the Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) in Erlangen. His research focuses on advancing robotic interaction with deformable tissue and objects (a critical challenge in surgical robotics) by providing str...

At the 16th international MID Congress (Mechatronic Integrated Discourse) in Amberg, the paper “Investigating Wire Encapsulating Additive Manufacturing for Mechatronic Integrated Devices” by Markus Ankenbrand, Tanmay Ulhas Naphe, Finn Gohlke, Kok Siong Siah, Prof. Jörg Franke and Prof. Florian Risch...

On June 27, Eva Nistler, former student at the Chair of Automatic Control, was awarded the “Hanns-Voith-Stiftungspreis 2025” in the “Digitalization” category for her outstanding master thesis “Experimental Validation of a sensitivity-based DMPC algorithm”. The award ceremony took place in Heidenheim...

Klaus Löhe, Johannes Reinhard, Niklas Petrasch, Sebastian Kallabis and Knut Graichen have received the Best Paper Award 2025 of the AIST (Association for Iron & Steel Technology) Committee in the Hot Sheet Rolling category for their work “Work Roll Speed Drop Compensation for Hot Strip Mills red...

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 ...