The Christian Doppler Society honours special achievements in application-oriented basic research: One of two prizes goes to the Institute of Mechanics and Mechatronics.

Christoph Hametner receives a research award for CDL

Basic research - but very close to commercial application: This is the area that the Christian Doppler Society (CDG) specifically promotes. Christian Doppler Laboratories and Josef Ressel Centres are established in close cooperation between universities or universities of applied sciences and commercial enterprises, financed by the public sector and private companies.

The CDG honours their most successful projects with the CDG Prize. This year's prize, worth a total of 40,000 euros, was presented at a ceremony at the MAK on 26 September 2024. It went to two projects: Prof. Christoph Hametner from the Institute of Mechanics and Mechatronics at TU Wien was honoured for his research into electronic monitoring, control and optimisation of alternative vehicle drive systems. The second prize went to Christoph Hauer from BOKU Vienna.

Control Technology for more Efficient Vehicles

In a modern car, decisions are constantly being made over which humans have no direct influence - from exhaust gas aftertreatment and temperature control to energy management in electric or hybrid vehicles. Sophisticated control technology can be used to ensure that these decisions are made in a predictive, efficient manner. In the "Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Control and Monitoring of Drive Systems", Christoph Hametner and his team have been working on such intelligent control concepts since 2017.

"CD laboratories provide stability for dealing with complex issues, but also the necessary flexibility to respond to new technological challenges and scientific findings", says award winner Christoph Hametner. "Collaboration with companies enables research results to be tested in real systems, which provides impetus for basic research. Basic research, in turn, provides findings that can lead to significant improvements in application."

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More about the CD-Laboratory:

The car learns to think ahead (only in German), opens an external URL in a new window

Website of the CD-Laboratory, opens an external URL in a new window

Backround information:

About the CDG-Award, opens an external URL in a new window

Outstanding success for TU Wien: victory in the ‘ECCV Control Benchmark for sustainable Transport" (only in German), opens an external URL in a new window

The vehicle that understands itself (only in German), opens an external URL in a new window

Practically all technical products and systems today are mechatronic systems: From the smallest devices such as smartphones, to vehicles and robots, to large industrial plants such as power stations. They combine components of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and electronics as well as computer science. The focus of scientific research at our institute is precisely on these disciplines and especially on their integration in mechatronic systems.

On the one hand, our range of courses covers important basic subjects of the Bachelor's degree, such as mechanics or control engineering. On the other hand, in the Master's degree programmes we offer students challenging curricula and exciting final theses that allow them to deepen and specialise in the topics of mechatronics.

Our Research Units

E325-01 Technical Dynamics and Vehicle System Dynamics

E325-02 Mechanics of Solids

E325-03 Sensor and Actuator Technology

E325-04 Control and Process Automation