23.07.2025 Best Paper Award at Mechatronic Systems Symposium
Great Success for the ACIN Team at the 10th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems!
Two ACIN papers were not only selected for presentation but also honored with prestigious award nominations:
- Finalist – Mechatronics 2025 Best Paper Award:
“Stabilization of a Rotary Inverted Pendulum using Neuromorphic Vision Feedback”
by Lukas Pechhacker, Gerald Ebmer, Minh Nhat Vu, and Wolfgang Kemmetmueller - Winner – Mechatronics 2025 Best Student Paper Award:
“Leveraging Contact Dynamics for Energy- and Torque-Optimized Inverse Kinematics”
by Alexander Wachter, Christian Hartl-Nesic, and Andreas Kugi
This outstanding scientific recognition is a fantastic boost for the team and a testament to their innovative research!
05.11.2024 ÖWGP-Doktoratspreises 2024
17.10.2024 IROS Best Application Paper Award
We are proud to announce that Christoph Unger received the IROS Best Application Paper Award Sponsored by ICROS for his paper „ProSIP: Probabilistic Surface Interaction Primitives for Learning of Robotic Cleaning of Edges“ (C. Unger; C. Hartl-Nesic; M. N. Vu; A. Kugi) presented at the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), in Abu Dhabi, UAE, (Oct. 14.-18, 2024).
23.05.2024 ICRA 2024 – Outstanding Reviewer Award
At the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society awarded Dr. Minh Nhat VU the “Outstanding Reviewer Award”.
06.05.2024 Houska Prize Nomination 2024
Promoting business-related research and innovation is not only essential for strengthening Austria as a business location but also the declared goal of the Houska Prize. Innovation performance and economic impact are key criteria in its selection process.
With “High-Precision Scanning Mirrors for 3D Measurement Technology and Satellite Communication”, we have this year been nominated for this prestigious prize, which was awarded end of April 2024. Next to the applications in 3D sensors, fast steering mirrors are a key component for optical satellite communication. Together with Micro-Epsilon as industrial partner, the developed research results have already been implemented into first products.
For more information on the project, check out the nomination video. It was an extraordinary event with excellent research projects and highly deserving winners. Congratulations again to all award recipients!
Nomination video
Project profile
Press release on Houska Prize winners
Fotocredit: Alexander Müller
Fotocredit: Gregor Hofbauer
15.04.2024 AIROV – Best Paper Award
We are pleased to inform that Peter Hönig and his paper “Improving 2D-3D Dense Correspondences with Diffusion Models for 6D Object Pose Estimation” won the AIROV Best Paper Award!
12.12.2023 Dr. David Brunner was awarded the Dr. Ernst Fehrer-Preis
On December 6, 2023 Dr. David Brunner has received the Dr. Ernst Fehrer-Preis for his cutting-edge research on control of scanning MEMS-mirrors for light detection and ranging in automotive applications.
Since 1982, the Dr. Ernst Fehrer Award has been awarded yearly for outstanding technical research achievements with practical applicability at the Technische Universität Wien.
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
fotocredit: TU Wien
TU Wien News, 6.Dez.2023
03.07.2023 Auszeichnung durch SEW Eurodrive Stiftung
23.06.2023 Prof. Kugi erhält die Goldene Stefan-Ehrenmedaille
05.06.2023 2022 Honorable Mention from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 an “honorable mention” was received for the publication
Marie Harder, Manuel Keppler, Xuming Meng, Christian Ott, Hannes Höppner and Alexander Dietrich, “Simultaneous Motion Tracking and Joint Stiffness Control of Bidirectional Antagonistic Variable-Stiffness Actuators,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 6614-6621, July 2022.
This publication resulted from an international collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR), TU Wien, and BHT Berlin. The paper was selected by the RA-L Editorial Board as one of 5 Honorable Mentions among more than 1100 papers published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) in 2022.