IPMS employees receive MB award
This year, our current colleagues Dipl.-Ing. Simon Eisele and Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Hemeling as well as M.Sc. Lars Weyh received the mechanical engineering sponsorship award.
The topic of Simon Eisele's thesis was: “Development of a real-time capable rimless-wheel model to describe rimless-wheel walking for a modular elastic exploration rover”. The topic was supervised by the Department of Mechanics of Compliant Systems (by Dr. Lukas Merker and Prof. Lena Zentner) in cooperation with the DLR (Institute of System Dynamics and Control, Oberpfaffenhofen).
The object of research was the so-called SCOUT rover (https://www.dlr.de/de/sr/forschung-und-transfer/projekte/raumfahrtforschung/rover-scout). A compact reconnaissance robot for exploring areas on foreign celestial bodies that are difficult to access - such as crater walls and caves. The SCOUT is equipped with so-called rimless wheels in order to make progress on this difficult terrain. The resulting locomotion can be regarded as a hybrid form of walking and rolling. In order to improve the control of the rover, a deformation model for the rimless wheels of the Scout based on non-linear beam theory according to EULER-BERNOULLI was developed as part of the diploma thesis, which can be used to describe the rolling process of the SCOUT wheel.
Christoph Hemeling worked on the topic of “Force measurement using fiber segment interferometry” in his diploma thesis. He was supervised by M.Sc. Vitalii Shmagun and Junior Professor Thomas Kissinger. In the thesis, the basic possibilities of fiber optic form measurement were investigated. Specifically, the principle of fibre segment interferometry was investigated, which is characterized by a higher strain sensitivity compared to conventional FOSS methods and should thus contribute to the realization of compact and highly accurate force sensors in the future.
The “Verein zur Förderung der Fakultät für Maschinenbau und der Feinwerktechnik der Technischen Universität Ilmenau e.V.” awards the Mechanical Engineering Promotion Prize once a year.
With this prize, the association recognizes and rewards outstanding student achievements that represent relevant contributions to the development of teaching and science in the fields of mechanical engineering and precision engineering. Achievements of an interdisciplinary nature are given priority.
