Dr.-Ing. Lukas Merker

research assistant

Bild von Lukas MerkerTU Ilmenau / FG MSys

Contact

☎     +49 3677 / 69-1880
 
🖷     +49 3677 / 69-1823
 
✉    lukas.merker@tu-ilmenau.de
 
🏘    WB 2290

Visitor address

Max-Planck-Ring 12
Werner-Bischoff-Bau
WB 2290

Mailing address

Technische Universität Ilmenau
Fakultät für Maschinenbau
Fachgebiet Mechanik Nachgiebiger Systeme
PF 10 05 65
98684 Ilmenau
Germany

Research areas

  • Vibrissa-inspired tactile sensing for object shape detection
  • Compliant actuated and sensorized tensegrity structures
 

Teaching

  • Seminar „Engineering Mechanics 1“
  • Seminar „Engineering Mechanics 2“
  • Seminar „Engineering Mechanics 3“
  • Seminar „Transmission Technology 1“
  • Supervision of student theses and project seminars
  • List of supervised theses
 

Publications

 

Awards

  • Silver medal at the international trade fair "Ideen-Erfindungen-Neuheiten (iENA)" Nuremberg, 2023, Topic: "Self-supporting device (TenSens platform) with pre-stressed optical fibers for determining an external force with corresponding point of application".
  • Best Paper Award of the INTELLI 2021, The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications, in Nizza, Frankreich, vom 18. bis 22. Juli 2021. Presented paper: Merker, L.; Steigenberger, J.; Behn, C., 2021. Friction Invariant Object Reconstruction Using a Vibrissa-inspired Tactile Sensor Concept.
  • Best Paper Award of the INTELLI 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications, in Porto, Portugal, 18. –22. Oktober 2020. Presented paper: Merker, L.; Scharff, M.; Zimmermann, K.; Behn, C., 2020. Surface Sensing of 3D Objects Using Vibrissa-like Intelligent Tactile Sensors.
  • Best Presentation Award in the research fied „technology & sustainability “, of the 20. NachwuchsWissenschaftlerKonferenz (NWK) at the University of Applied Sciences in Merseburg, Deutschland, 19. Juni 2019. Presentation topic: Dreidimensionale Objektabtastung und -rekonstruktion mittels taktiler Sensoren der Bionik.