Research Awards
Research-Award by ITIS e.V. UniBw München 2014 (October 24, 2014)
Unserem ehemaligen Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter Herrn Dr.-Ing. Klaus Mühlbauer wurde beim Dies Academicus am 24.10.2014 der Forschungspreis von ITIS e.V. an der UniBw München in Neubiberg in Anerkennung seiner hervorragenden wissenschaftlichen Leistungen verliehen.
Zur Person:
Herr Dr. -Ing. Klaus Mühlbauer, geb. 1982 in Tirschenreuth, studierte Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und promovierte an der Universität der Bundeswehr München am Lehrstuhl für Elektrische Antriebstechnik und Aktorik von Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Gerling zum Thema "Regelung von Zwei-Generator-Bordnetzen und Wirkungsgradsteigerung der Leistungselektronik in Teillast" (siehe auch Band 13 der Reihe Forschungsberichte Elektrische Antriebstechnik und Aktorik). Herr Mühlbauer arbeitet heute als Systemingenieur für Elektrische Antriebstechnik bei der Continental AG in Regensburg.
Auszug aus der Laudatio von Prof. Dr. Färber:
Herr Mühlbauer hat in seiner Arbeit das hochaktuelle Thema der Energie-Effizienz aus zwei Richtungen betrachtet. Zum einen hat er im Gesamtsystem eines elektrischen Flugzeugbordnetzes die Energie-Effizienz untersucht, in dem zwei Generatoren an einer einzigen Turbine betrieben werden und damit zusätzliche Freiheitsgrade für den optimalen Betrieb dieser Turbine genutzt werden können. Zum anderen hat sich Herr Mühlbauer damit beschäftigt, wie der Wirkungsgrad des Inverters eiens elektrischen Antriebs im Teillastbetrieb verbessert werden kann. Dies ist z.B. für Traktionsantriebe von Elektro- oder Hybridfahrzeugen wesentlich, weil in typischen Fahrzyklen immer der Teillastbetireb für den Gesamtwirkungsgrad entscheidend ist. Herr Mühlbauer hat in seiner Arbeit theoretsich gezeigt, dass die Energie-Effizienz gegenüber bisher bekannten Systemen deutlich verbessert werden kann, und er hat dies zudem experimentell verifiziert. Im Rahmen seiner Arbeit kam es zu fünfzehn wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen und einer Patentanmeldung.
Bühler Motor Mechatronic Award 2014 (September 30, 2014)
Unser ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Herr Dr.-Ing. Klaus Mühlbauer wurde am 30.09.2014 in Nürnberg im Rahmen der EDPC mit dem Bühler Motor Mechatronic Award 2014 ausgezeichnet.
Die Bühler Motor GmbH würdigt mit diesem Preis die herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistung, die in seiner Dissertationschrift "Regelung von Zwei-Generator-Bordnetzen und Wirkungsdgradsteigerung der Leistungselektronik in Teillast" (siehe auch Band 13 der Reihe Forschungsberichte Elektrische Antriebstechnik und Aktorik) zum Ausdruck kommt.
Link zur Bühler-Pressemitteilung über die Preisverleihung
Forschungspreis des Freundeskreises der UniBw München e.V. 2013 (25.10.2013)
Unserem ehemaligen Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter Herrn Dr.-Ing. Johannes Klötzl wurde beim Dies Academicus am 25.10.2013 der Forschungspreis des Freundeskreises der UniBw München e.V. in Neubiberg in Anerkennung seiner hervorragenden wissenschaftlichen Leistungen verliehen, die in seiner Dissertation "Stabilität automobiler Leistungsbordnetze" (siehe auch Band 11 der Reihe Forschungsberichte Elektrische Antriebstechnik und Aktorik) zum Ausdruck kommen.
Link zur UniBw-Pressemitteilung über die Preisverleihung
ITK Student Award 2013 (June 07, 2013)
Our student of the EIT-2010 course Mr. B.Sc. Andreas Greifelt has received the Student Award of the ITK Engineering AG on June 07, 2013 at the UniBw Munich.
With this award ITK is appreciating the outstanding performance, which result is expressed in his bachelor-thesis "Inbetriebnahme und Evaluierung eines Traktionsantriebs auf Basis einer neuartigen umrichtergespeisten Asynchronmaschine".
ITK Engineering AG has been established in 1994 and is a premium partner of development to the automotive, aerospace, medical and robotics industries. Cutting-edge technologies and highly skilled staff are the key to creative developments and innovations that contribute to the customers success. At the headquarter in Herxheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) and in branch offices in Germany, USA, Japan, Spain and Austria ITK has more than 550 employees.
ITK Student Award 2013 - presentation
ITK Student Award 2012 (June 28, 2012)
Our Scientific Assistant Mr. M.Sc. Florian Bachheibl has received the Student Award of the ITK Engineering AG on June 28, 2012 at the UniBw Munich.
With this award ITK is appreciating the outstanding performance, which result is expressed in his master-thesis "Erstellung eines Berechnungsprogramms für 3L-NPC Stromrichter mit IGBT- und IGCT-Leistungshalbleitern".
ITK Engineering AG has been established in 1994 and is a premium partner of development to the automotive, aerospace, medical and robotics industries. Cutting-edge technologies and highly skilled staff are the key to creative developments and innovations that contribute to the customers success. At the headquarter in Herxheim (Rhineland-Palatinate) and in branch offices in Germany, USA, Japan, Spain and Austria ITK has more than 460 employees.
ITK - common media information (german)
ITK - special UniBwM media information (german)
Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation 2007 (November 14, 2007)
Our Scientific Assistant Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Berthold Schinnerl has received the Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation in Dusseldorf, November 14, 2007.
The foundation recognized the outstanding scientific work which resulted in two publications
Novel Analytical Calculation Method for the Non-Linear Ψ-i-Characteristic of Switched-Reluctance-Machines in the Aligned Rotor Position (at the IEMDC 2007) and
Novel Analytical Calculation Method for the Non-Linear Ψ-i-Characteristic of Switched-Reluctance-Machines in Arbitrary Rotor Positions (at the EPE 2007)
with this award. At the same time the foundation emphasised the personal competency of the laureate.
The non-profit Rheinmetall-foundation, founded in 2000, contributed to the advancement of the young scientists. Since 2004 prices have been awarded yearly for the outstanding works of young scientest in the Electrical Engineering as well as the automatic control engineering area. Is is of central interest to support talented young scientists and to open up additional opportunities for qualification. Scholarships worth 6000 € are therefore earmarked for further means of education such as e.g. research and development placements abroad or participation in seminars and conventions.
On the occasion of the awards presentation at the Rheinmetall-Concern situated in Düsseldorf, Dr. Gerd Kleinert, member of the Rheinmetall AG board declared: "We did and do not want to complain any longer about the situation of the young scientist in Germany but wanted to play an active part in the improvement of the tertiary education and hence of the attractiveness of education in our country at large with this foundation and the associated sponsorship of talented young scientists."
Apart from Mr. Schinnerl, three more young scientist from the Rheinisch-Westphälischen Technical University of Aachen and the University Hannover were awarded in 2007.
Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation 2006 (November 02, 2006)
Our Scientific Assistant Dr.-Ing. Gurakuq Dajaku has received the Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation in Dusseldorf, November 2, 2006.
With this award the foundation is appreciating the outstanding performance, which result is expressed in his dissertation Electromagnetic and Thermal Modelling of Highly Utilized PM Machines. Additionally the foundation is emphasizing the laureate's personal professional responsibility.
The non-profit Rheinmetall-Foundation has been established in the year 2000 and is working on financial support for young scientists. For this purpose the foundation gives scholarships to laureates, who have done innovative and practice-oriented scientific performances and who have convinced by their personal skills.
Since 2004 the Rheinmetall-Foundation annually confers awards for outstanding work of new generation scientists in the area of the automobile- and electro-technology. "We feel committed to give an opportunity to active junior scientists and to promote them as far as possible", said Ingo Hecke, Chief Representative of the Rheinmetall AG. The scholarships are appropriated and are to serve the further qualification of the scientists, for instance by stays abroad or seminar and congress participations.
Besides Dr. Dajaku, three further junior scientists from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and from the University in Hanover received the Foundation-Award in 2006.
Research-Award by ITIS e.V. UniBw Munich 2006 (October 20, 2006)
During the Dies Academicus on October 20th, our research assistant Dr.-Ing. Gurakuq Dajaku has been granted the ITIS e.V. research award in recognition of his excellent scientific achievements.
In the following is the laudatio of Vice President Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. Nat. habil. Uwe Borghoff:
Writing his dissertation on "Electromagnetic and Thermal Modelling of Highly Utilized Permanent Magnet Machines", Mr. Dajaku has worked on a topic with high practical relevance. Hard drives in computers, drives for machine tools and even traction motors in hybrid vehicles are realized very successfully using Permanent Magnet Machines.
In his dissertation, Mr. Dajaku has analyzed the two essential limitations to such electrical drives: magnetic saturation and thermical load. It is an extraordinary accomplishment, that Mr. Dajaku was able to improve the existing models significantly. This has led to a considerably better understanding of electrical drives, resulting in the capability to calculate engine behaviour with higher accuracy.
With regard to contents, Mr. Dajaku’s proceeding is characterized by
- detailed knowledge in electrotechnics
- brilliant analytic modelling
- intensive numerical cross-checking and
- extensive verifying measurements
Mr. Dajaku’s personal way of working is characterized by a great amount of diligence, meticulousness, independence, goal-orientedness and responsibility. His permanent readiness to help others is remarkable.
The special accomplishment of Mr. Dajaku also becomes apparent by receiving the best grade 1,0 in all individual scores of his doctoral examination. Additionally, he has already published nine papers during the short period of time that he is employed at the chair for electrical drives and actuators.
Mr. Dajaku’s work has been funded by Damiler Chrysler AG (via ITIS e.V) during the whole time.
Study-Award by ITIS e.V. UniBw Munich 2005 (December 16, 2005)
Our graduate of the study-course 2002 Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Phichianrat Parunnit from Thailand has been awarded the ITIS Study Price at the UniBw Munich for his excellent diploma thesis Dec. 16, 2005.
In the following is the laudation speech given by Mr. Vice-President Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. habil. Uwe Borghoff:
Thai citizen Mr. Parunnit has made the extraordinary achievement of graduating in electrical engineering after only 3 1/4 years.
In his diploma thesis titled “Evaluation of the course of torque of the PM traction machine PM-V1 by means of d-q-parameters determined by numerical FEM-calculations (ANSYS) and comparison with other FEM-based calculation methods” he has performed outstandingly. The findings of this diploma thesis are an essential part of the work for ITIS-project No. 95 (“Research at the electrical drive of hybrid vehicles”).
In his thesis, Mr. Parrunit has examined how the course of torque of a permanent-magnet excited electrical machine can be calculated using the Finite Elements Method (FEM). The program ANSYS has been used as tool. The methods compared are:
- FEM-calculation of the electrical machine’s d-q-parameters and herefrom determination of torque;
- Torque-calculation via the Maxwell-stress-tensor;
- Calculation of torque based upon the variation of magnetic co-energy depending on the angle of rotation.
A special difficulty occuring in these analyses was the necessity to account for saturation of the magnetic circuit as the example of use is a highly exploited machine. Mr. Parunnit’s work has lead to new findings considering torque-generation in permanent-magnet machines under the influence of saturation.
Mr. Parunnit treated the task given to him with great assiduity and in doing so, he has proven detailed knowledge. He provided very valuable contribuation to the highly up-to-date matter of electrical drives of hybrid vehicles. He showed goal-orientedness, extreme competence and he worked very successfully.
Honors of Diploma-Theses by VDE/VDI 2005 (November 17, 2005)
Unser Absolvent des Studienjahrgangs 2001 Herr Dipl.-Ing. André Kosmowski wurde im Festsaal des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wirtschaft, Verkehr und Technologie in München am 17.11.2005 für seine herausragende Diplomarbeit mit dem Titel "Ermittlung der Belastunbg des magnetisachen Kreises bei unterschiedlichen Lastfällen und Berechnung der Verteilung der Eisenverluste für die Pkw-Traktionsmaschine PM-75kW mit Hilfe der FEM-Software ANSYS 7.1" geehrt.
Hier eine kurze Würdigung:
Herr Kosmowski hat für das hochaktuelle Thema der elektrischen Antriebe in Hybridfahrzeuegn die Untersuchung der nichtlinearen und betriebspunktabhängigen Eisenverluste zielstrebig, äußerst kompetent und sehr erfolgreich durchgeführt.
Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation 2005 (November 02, 2005)
Our Scientific Assistant Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Schramm has received the Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation in Dusseldorf, November 2, 2005.
Die Stiftung würdigt mit diesem Preis die herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistung auf dem Gebiet der "Weiterentwicklung und Optimierung von elektrischen Antrieben mit geschalteten Reluktanzmaschinen", zu der Herr Schramm verschiedene Fachbeiträge veröffentlicht hat. Zugleich hebt die Stiftung die persönliche Kompetenz des Preisträgers hervor.
The non-profit Rheinmetall-Foundation has been established in the year 2000 and is working on financial support for young scientists. For this purpose the foundation gives scholarships to laureates, who have done innovative and practice-oriented scientific performances and who have convinced by their personal skills.
Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation 2004 (November 03, 2004)
Our Scientific Assistant Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Harald Hofmann has received the Foundation-Award of the Rheinmetall-Foundation in Dusseldorf, November 3, 2004.
With this award the foundation is appreciating the outstanding performance, which result is expressed in the paper "Single-Phase Reluctance Actuator and Single-Phase Permanent Magnet Actuator Compared for Low-Cost Applications". Additionally the foundation is emphasizing the laureate's personal professional responsibility.
The non-profit Rheinmetall-Foundation has been established in the year 2000 and is working on financial support for young scientists. For this purpose the foundation gives scholarships to laureates, who have done innovative and practice-oriented scientific performances and who have convinced by their personal skills.
Study-Award by Förderkreis der UniBw Munich 2002 (December 18, 2002)
Unserem Absolventen des Studienjahrgangs 1999 Herrn Dipl.-Ing. Georg Stern wurde auf der Diplomierungsfeier am 18.12.2002 ein Studienpreis des Förderkreises der UniBw München für seine herausragende Diplomarbeit mit dem Titel "Simulation des Drehzahlverlaufs einer Reluktanzmaschine unter Berücksichtigung von Fehlern bei der Positionsrefassung" verliehen.
Hier die Laudatio von Frau Vizepräsidentin Professorin Dr. phil. Merith Niehuss:
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit der rechnergestützten Simulation von Reluktanzmaschinen (Reluktanzmaschinen sind eine Sonderbauform der elektrischen Maschinen). Die Reluktanzmaschine eignet sich u.a. für den Einsatz als Traktionsantrieb (Fahrantrieb) in zukünftigen, elektrisch betriebenen Kraftfahrzeugen. Ein Nachteil solcher Reluktanzmaschinen, ist, dass für ihren Betrieb die Rotorposition zu jedem Zeitpunkt sehr genau bekannt sein muss. Ist dies nicht der Fall, so kann die Maschine nicht das gewünschte Drehmoment entwickeln, und die Leistungsfähigkeit des Antriebes sinkt stark ab. Ziel der Diplomarbeit von Herrn Stern war es, eine Grundlage dafür zu schaffen, die Leistungsfähigkeit des Reluktanzmotor-Antriebes in Abhängigkeit von der Genauigkeit der Positionserfassung beurteilen zu können (mit anderen Worten: das Verhältnis von Aufwand bzw. Kosten zu Nutzen beurteilen zu können). Diese Fragestellungen können mit Hilfe des erarbeiteten Simulationsprogramms zuverlässig beantwortet werden.