Year: 2025

  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!