Winners of the Innovation Awards for the automation industry announced at SPS IPC Drives conference

The winners of the Innovation Awards for the Automation Industry have been announced at an awards ceremony held as part of the SPS IPC Drives conference. The top prize went to Werner Kraus of the Fraunhofer IPA and his paper on “The Energy Efficiency of Parallel Cable Robots”, followed by Michael Homann of the Technical University of Braunschweig, with his presentation on “Aspects of Current Measurement in Induction Machines with Delta Sigma Convertors”. Henning Osterfeld of Bosch Rexroth AG took the third prize with his insight into “Modular Energy Management through Object Oriented SPS-Programming Techniques”.

The Committee Chairs, Prof. Georg Frey of the University of Saarland, Prof. Walter Schumacher of the Technical University of Braunschweig and Prof. Alexander Verl of Stuttgart University / Fraunhofer IPA, congratulated the three winners on the high quality content of each paper, their topicality and relevance to practice.

As well as presenting their paper at the SPS IPC Drives conference and seeing it published in the proceedings, the three prize winners will receive prize money of 3,000 Euro, 2,000 Euro and 1,000 Euro respectively.

The Innovation Awards for the Automation Industry is sponsored by the event organiser, Mesago Messemanagement GmbH.

Brief profiles of the winners:

Werner Kraus
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA
Werner Kraus achieved a distinction for his diploma studies in mechatronics at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in 2011. He now works as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA on the control technology of parallel cable robots.

Michael Homann
Technical University of Braunschweig
From 2004 to 2010 Michael Homann studied electrical engineering, specialising in control technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Since September 2010 he has been a research associate at the Institute of Control Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. His research focus is the application of Delta Sigma converters in electrical drive technologies.

Henning Osterfeld
Bosch Rexroth AG
Henning Osterfeld studied electrical engineering / automation technology at Gießen-Friedberg Technical College. He was employed by Siemens between 2010 and 2011 and since 2011 has worked on system development for motion control at Bosch Rexroth
 

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