Space Exploration
Awards
- 2013 VDE Award for Philip Bangert
- 2013 Gold medal at IAC student competition for Florian Reichel
- 2013 International Zonta Award for Maike Neuland
- 2012 European Research Council's Advanced Grant for "Control of Networked, Distributed Picosatellite Systems" for Prof. Schilling
- 2011 Rotary "Kulturpreis" for Marco Schmidt
- 2010 Prof. Schilling inducted into the Internation academy of Astronautics
- 2008 Silver medal at IAC Glasgow for Oliver Kurz
- 2008 IABG Award for Oliver Kurz
- 2006 Award of the British Interplanetary Society for Marco Schmidt
- 2006 First Prize at IAC student competition, Valencia for Marco Schmidt
- 2006 ZARM Award for Marco Schmidt
Research Interests
- Small satellite development, multi satellite systems and ground station networks.
- Enabling intelligent space systems using recent approaches in miniaturization, sensors, control engineering and distributed systems.
- Our emphasis is also on information processing for combining tele strategies with autonomous reactions.
Sample of prior experience
- European Mars Rover design MIDD - system design, sensor system layout, teleoperations concept and on-board data processing.
- The European space probe HUYGENS landed on the Saturnian moon Titan with an adaptive descent control developed by us at Informatik VII.
- Research projects carried out at the chair also include UWE-1, UWE-2, UWE-3, PiNaNuPo and NaKoFo.
