Honours, Awards, Fellowships
| International Awards / Academy memberships | |
| 2011 | Elected as corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics |
| 2008 | Walter-Reis-Award for Innovation in Robotics for the field Service Robotics |
| 2002 - 2006 | Consulting professor at Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics |
| 2001 | Recipient of Scientific Award of the cities Ravensburg and Weingarten |
| 1990 | Invited research stay at "Centre de Recherche Mathématique of the Université de Montréal (Prof. Dr. F. H. Clarke) |
| 1984 | Research stay at International Institute for Applied systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria) with a fellowship from the Max-Planck-Society |
| 1983 | Award for Postgraduate Studies in Australia from the Australian Government |
| 1978 - 1981 | Scholarship of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung |
Invited Plenary Presentations | |
| 2010 | Plenary lecture "Telematics: the Internet of things integrating energy, mobility, work and houses intelligently" at IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications TA 2010, Timesoara (Romania) |
| 2009 | Plenary Panel “Space Education through Nano/Pico Satellites“ at 60th International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon (Korea) |
| 2009 | Plenary lecture “Networked Distributed Pico-Satellite Systems for Earth Observation and Telecommunication Applications” at international conference on Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME) 2009, Bandung (Indonesia) |
| 2009 | Plenary lecture “Networked Distributed Pico-Satellite Systems for Earth Observation and Telecommunication Applications” at IFAC Workshop AGNFCS’09, Samara (Russia) |
| 2009 | Plenary lecture “Networked Robotics” at 11th IASTED Conference Control Applications CA 2009, Cambridge (United Kingdom) |
| 2009 | Plenary lecture “Distributed Mobile Sensor Networks – by Satellites and by Mobile Robots” at 1st International Workshop “Novel Developments and Applications in Sensor Technology”, Coburg (Germany) |
| 2008 | Plenary lecture “Assistance Systems for the control of Rovers in Harsh Environments” at SICE Annual Conference 2008, Chofu, Tokyo (Japan) |
| 2008 | Plenary lecture “Small is beautiful: Die UWE-Satelliten im 1 kg-Bereich” International Organisation for Space Exploration IFR, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) |
| 2008 | Plenary lecture “Rovers for Harsh Environments”, Workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance, Benicàssim (Spain) |
| 2005 | Plenary presentation on “The HUYGENS Probe-Mission to Explore the Saturnian Moon Titan” at the IASTED conference „RA`05 Robotics and Applications“, MIT Cambridge |
| 2005 | Key note address “The HUYGENS Probe-Mission to Explore the Saturnian Moon Titan” at TAROS 2005, Imperial College London |
| 2005 | Plenary lecture “The Cassini/Huygens Mission to the Saturnian System” International Organisation for Space Exploration IFR, Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
| 2005 | Semi-Plenary lecture “The CASSINI / HUYGENS Space Mission to Explore the Saturnian System” at the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague |
| 2001 | Plenary lecture „Space Robotics for Interplanetary Probes“ at "15th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace", Bologna |
| 2001 | Tutorial on „Virtual Laboratories for Mechatronics Experiments“ at Canadian Conference on Engineering Education, Victoria (Canada) |
| 2000 | Tutorial on „Virtual Laboratories for Education in Control Engineering“ at the IASTED conference „CA`99 Control and Applications“, Cancun (Mexico) |
