Best Paper Award for the contribution Quantifying Uncertainties of Contact Classifications in a Human-Robot Collaboration with Parallel Robots at the 16th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, Munich, Germany. Award Winners: Aran Mohammad, Hendrik Muscheid, Moritz Schappler and Thomas Seel
Prize of the Mechanics Section of the Leibniz Universitätsgesellschaft Hannover e.V. for the outstanding Master's thesis. Prize winner: Henrik Zeipel
2022
41st Animal Welfare Research Prize awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Award Winner: Leon Budde
2021
Robotics Talent 2021 awarded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor, Transport and Digitalization. Award Winner: Tim-Lukas Habich
Award for an Outstanding Performance and Colaboration of a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Mechatronic Systems awarded by the association of friends of the Leibniz Universität Hannover e.V. Award Winner: Jorge Badilla
2019
Dr. Jürgen-Ulderup-Award for outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Award Winner: Marvin Stüde
Dr. Jürgen-Ulderup-Award for outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Award Winner: Tim-Lukas Habich
Best Paper Finalist with the contribution Online Learning of the Inverse Dynamics with Parallel Drifting Gaussian Processes: Implementation of an Approach for Feedforward Control of a Parallel Kinematic Industrial Robot at the IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2019), Tianjin, China. Award Winners: Tim-Lukas Habich, Daniel Kaczor, Svenja Tappe and Tobias Ortmaier
The former doctoral candidate of the Institute of Mechatronic Systems Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schoob is awarded the prize of the Frank Hirschvogel Foundation for the most outstanding dissertation of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2019. The dissertation is titled "Stereo vision-guided laser microsurgery".
2018
VDI-Knubben-Technikpreis of VDI Bezirksverbandes Hannover e.V. for the thesis Autonomes Öffnen und Traversieren von Türen durch einen redundanten mobilen Manipulator Award Winner: Marvin Stüde
Best Paper Award for presenting the contribution A user study on robot path planning inside a Virtual Reality environment at the 50. International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), München Award Winner: Christian Just, Tobias Ortmaier and Lüder A. Kahrs
Best Oral Presentation in cooperation with Lehrstuhl für Kontinummsrobotik for the contribution Towards Concentric Tube Robots for Microsurgery: First Results in Eye-to-hand Visual Servoing at the Hamlym Symposium on Medical Robotics, London, UK Award Winner: Vincent Modes, Sontje Ihler, Tobias Ortmaier, Ayra Nabavi, Lüder A. Kahrs and Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
2017
Best Presentation Award for presenting the contribution Force Sensing, Low-Cost Manipulator in Mobile Robotics at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), Nagoya, Japan Award Winner: Dipl.-Ing. Kathrin Nülle
2016
2nd Prize for the contribution First Study on a Monolithically Manufactured Variable-Length Continuum Robot with Hybrid Actuation at the 15th annual meeting of the Geman Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC), Bern, Schweiz. Award Winner: Dipl.-Ing. Dennis Kundrat, Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Schoob, Dr.-Ing. Lüder Alexander Kahrs, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
VDE Klee-Prize for the dissertation "Ein knochenfixiertes, mechatronisches Assistenzsystem für die minimalinvasive Cochlea-Implantat-Chirurgie". Award Winner: Dr.-Ing. Jan-Philipp Kobler
2015
Best Paper Award with the contribution Concurrent Energy Efficiency Optimization of Multi-Axis Positioning Tasks at the 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2015), Auckland, New Zealand. Award winners: Dipl.-Ing Christian Hansen, Dipl.-Ing. Kai Eggers, Dr.-Ing. Jens Kotlarski, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
1. Prize: Golden manus for the contribution Medical assistance system: Precise drilling at the manus competition bold applications with plastic bearings 2015 Award Winner:M. Sc. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Jan-Philipp Kobler
Award for an Outstanding Performance and Colaboration of a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Mechatronic Systems awarded by the association of friends of the Leibniz Universität Hannover e.V. Award Winner: M. Sc. Daniel Ramirez
2nd Prize for the contribution Towards endoscopic image-to-physical registration of mastoid cells and trabecula at the 14th annual meeting of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC), Bremen, Germany. Award Winners: Dipl.-Ing. Jan Bergmeier, Dr. med. Dorothea Daentzer, Dr. med. Christine Noll, Dr. med. Omid Majdani, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier, Dr.-Ing. Lüder Alexander Kahrs
2014
Dr. Jürgen-Ulderup-Award for outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Award Winner: M. Sc. Svenja Tappe
2013
Best Paper Finalist with the contribution Path Planning Approach for the Amplification of Electrical Energy Exchange in Multi Axis Robotic Systems at the IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2013), Takamatsu, Japan. Award Winners: Dipl.-Ing Christian Hansen, Dr.-Ing. Jens Kotlarski, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
Dr. Jürgen-Ulderup-Award for outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Award Winner: M. Sc. Daniel Beckmann
2012
2nd Prize for the contribution Automated Control of Laser Osteotomy using Optical Coherence Tomography at the 11th annual meeting of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC), Düsseldorf, Germany. Award Winners: Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Fuchs, Dipl.-Ing. Dennis Kundrat, Dr. rer. nat. Michael Schultz, Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Krüger, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
1st Place in the RoboCup@Work Competition at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vila Moura, Portugal. Award Winners: Student team of the imes with the supervisors M. Sc. Benjamin Munske and Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Gaa
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist with the contribution Enhanced Approaches for Energy-Efficient Trajectory Generation of Industrial Robots at the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2012), Seoul, Korea. Award Winners: Dipl.-Ing Christian Hansen, Dipl.-Ing. Julian Öltjen, M. Sc. Davis Meike, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
1st Place at the RoboCup@Work Worldcup in Mexico City, Mexico. Award Winners: Student team of the imes with the supervisors M. Sc. Benjamin Munske and Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Gaa
Award for an Outstanding Performance and Colaboration of a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Mechatronic Systems awarded by the association of friends of the Leibniz Universität Hannover e.V. Award Winner: Ing. Mauro Riva
2010
Dr. Jürgen-Ulderup-Award for outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Award Winner: Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Fuchs
3rd Prize for the contribution Reconstruction of three-dimensional OCT-data sets from untriggered, rotatory 2D-OCT-videorecords at the 9th annual meeting of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC), Düsseldorf, Germany. Award Winners: Dipl.-Ing. Jan Thommes, Dr. med. Christoph M. Happel, Prof. Dr. med. Talat Mesud Yelbuz und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier
2009
Hans-Joachim-Denecke-Award of the German Society for Skull Base Surgery at the 17th Annual Conference for A Robot Guided Minimally Invasive Approach for Cochlear Implant Surgery: Preliminary Results of a Temporal Bone Study, Tübingen, Germany. Award Winners: Dr. med. Martin Leinung, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Rau, Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Baron, Dipl.-Ing. Hubertus Eilers, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bodo Heimann, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ortmaier, Sönke Bartling, Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Lennarz, Dr. med. Omid Majdani
Recognition of outstanding cooperation as visiting scientist at the Departement of Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, awarded by the association of friends of the Leibniz University Hanover. Award Winner: M.Sc. Trung Do Thanh
2008
Dr. Jürgen-Ulderup-Award for outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Award Winner: Dipl.-Ing. Lars Perner
2007
Award of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in occasion of the innovation competition 2007 for the project: Resthörerhaltende, minimal-traumatische Cochleaimplantat-Versorgung durch steuerbare Formgedächtnis Elektroden, Bonn, Germany. Award Winners: Dr. med. Omid Majdani, Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Lennarz, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bodo Heimann, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) M.Sc. Christoph Müller, Albert Schaeffer, Dipl. Phys. Jörg Pesch, Gerhard Sedlmayr.
