22.05.2026 2026 TMECH Best Paper Award Finalist
We are happy to announce that the paper “Unified Control of an Orbital Manipulator for the Approach and Grasping of a Free-Floating Satellite,” published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (vol. 30, no. 6, December 2025), was named a finalist for the 2026 TMECH Best Paper Award. The paper was selected as one of 5 finalists from over 700 papers published in TMECH in 2025.
19.05.2026 Studienpreis der SEW-EURODRIVE-Stiftung
15.05.2026 1st Place at Mobile Manipulation Challenge
The paper “Per-Group Error, Not Total MSE: Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models for 11-DoF Mobile Manipulation” (Pau Montagut Bofi, Mario García Blasco, Tessa Pulli, Markus Vincze) participated in the Mobile Manipulation Challenge organized by Toyota at the workshop “From Data to Decisions: VLA Pipelines for Real Robot”. This workshop is part of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026.
Today it has been announced that this paper won the first prize, outperforming 36 participants from around the world.
Congratulations to the team on this excellent achievement!
11.12.2025 Würdigungspreis 2025 für Bernhard Schimkowitsch
25.11.2025 Andreas Kugi mit dem Kardinal-Innitzer-Würdigungspreis ausgezeichnet
10.11.2025 Young Author Award at MMM2025
It´s time to celebrate:
Nico Fischer has been awarded the Young Author Award for the best MMM 2025 paper at the 20th IFAC Symposium on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Minerals and Metal Processing (MMM 2025).
At the MMM 2025, that took place in Lima, Peru, in October 2025, he presented his research results titled “Empirical Roll Wear Model to Predict Changes of the Roll Surface Height Distribution in a Temper Rolling Process” (N. Fischer, A. Steinboeck, A. Kugi).
fotocredit: MMM2025
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”.
