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28.01.2025 – Practical career days @ ETIT

As part of the practical career days at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, schoolchildren were able to immerse themselves in fascinating areas of research and experience the role of electrical engineering in our everyday lives up close. Exciting laboratory tours took them through the world of mechatronics, measurement technology, robotics and sensor technology, while interactive workshops invited them to solder, participate and tinker. The CD-Lab team presented selected aspects of the research topic of precise measurements in motion. Experiments showed how 3D measurements work, how movements affect results and how these can be recorded and compensated for. In addition to the technology, the focus was on interacting with researchers and students – a great opportunity to ask questions and gain insights into the study program. We were impressed by the students’ curiosity and questions, and we hope to see some of them again as students in a few years’ time.

13.09.2024 – CD-Lab @ Technology Talks Austria

The (system) integration of requirements from different areas such as business, industry and society is also essential for the major challenges of our time. This is the only way to develop holistic solutions for the ecological and digital transformation that place people at their center. Research, technology and innovation play a central role in this from start to finish.
The Technology Talks Austria 2024 by AIT discussed these topics in a mix of concise keynotes by internationally renowned speakers, interesting plenary debates and workshops. Thanks to the Christian Doppler Research Association and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy, a part of the CD-Labor team was able to attend this great event!

19.07.2024 – CD-Lab @ IEEE Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs

The CD-Lab team enjoyed a very interesting IEEE Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2024 in Boston, USA. Three days of exciting presentations and exchanges of ideas. From the CD-Lab we did our part by contributing
📃 4 superbly presented papers on high tech measurement system design, analysis and control,
🌍 2 well received invited sessions “High Precision Motion Systems” with 12 papers from around the world,
🤘 and 1 keynote that Ernst was unexpectedly asked to deliver😉.

Topped with a high profile social program for networking and meeting colleagues and friends it was again an extraordinary experience.

24.05.2024 – Christian Doppler Laboratory at the Long Night of Research 2024

Science communication makes research and its significance understandable for everyone and thus strengthens trust in science. The Long Night of Research was a wonderful opportunity for this. The campus Gußhaus of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Wien was packed with visitors to the 19 stations.
The CD-Laboratory for Precision Measurements in Motion also made its contribution. Matthias Laimer and Stefan Hager presented live experiments and gave an insight into the research topic of precision measurements in motion. Experiments showed how 3D measurements can be conducted, how relative motion affects results and how these disturbing motions can be recorded and compensated.

01.02.2024 – Grand opening of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Precise Measurements in Motion

On February 1, 2024, the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Precise Measurements in Motion was officially opened in the Contact Room of TU Wien.

Under the moderation of Dean Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Görtz, speeches were held by Vice Rector Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Peter Ertl and the President of the Christian Doppler Society (CDG), Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Dr. Martin Gerzabek, whose address clearly highlighted the outstanding position of the TU Wien in terms of active Christian Doppler laboratories.

After an introduction to the challenges of inline measurement technology by Dr. Jürgen Steininger, the head of the laboratory, Prof. Dr. Ernst Csencsics, gave a overview of the contents of the CD laboratory. Under the theme “Bringing the Lab to the Fab”, it is the aim to dynamically create a local, laboratory-like environment between the measurement object and the measurement system in order to enable fast and high-precision in-line measurements on moving objects directly in industrial production environments. In this course, selected problems and solution approaches were demonstrated in live experiments by employees of the CD laboratory. The guests had the opportunity to experience first-hand how the movement of unstructured technical surfaces can be measured and to learn about the problems associated with 3D measurement using structured light on moving objects.

After a presentation of the Micro-Epsilon Group by Managing Director Prof. Dr. Martin Sellen, the event came to an end with a buffet and networking.