Open Lab 2018

On November 15, 2018, an Open Lab took place at the Institute of Automation and Control. Students were invited to experience live demos of lab experiments, to see poster presentations of current research projects, and to talk about possible topics for theses and student projects.

Stefan Koch gives a hands-on explanation of silicon wafer temperature control - carefully avoiding
any contamination of the wafer

Two trucks of the automated driving test bed - one of them named in honour of Astrid Rupp, who together with Markus Tranninger originally built up the test bed

Tobias Renzler - between operating the trucks of the automated driving test bed - discusses possible projects and thesis topics with a group of students

Martin Kirchengast and Valentin Kaisermayer demonstrate the quadrotor - a laboratory setup to
study the flight stabilization of multirotor helicopters

Maximilian Wetzlinger explains the magnetic levitation lab experiment - an electromagnet that stabilizes an iron ball in mid air - to amazed students

Selma Čeliković gives an overview of the project she is working on at the institute - a control strategy to reduce the production costs of pharmaceutical products

Jakob Ludwiger shows off a robot of the 'GRIPS' Robocup Logistics League team - meanwhile, the robot is busy operating a factory machine making a product

Markus Tranninger gives a push to the inverted reaction wheel pendulum to demonstrate its resilience to
external disturbances - pushing it to its limits

Stefan Hölzl presents his work on pressure control for
combustion engine test beds - concisely explaining
the setup described on the poster

Klemens Kranawetter, Stefan Koch, and a group of students at the steer-by-wire test bed - each of them waiting for a chance to grab the steering wheel

Credits

Lab Experiments

Martin Kirchengast
Stefan Koch
Jakob Ludwiger
Franz Michael Maier
Markus Reichhartinger
Tobias Renzler
Markus Tranninger
Maximilian Wetzlinger

Organization

Alexandra Doczy
Roland Falkensteiner
Valentin Kaisermayer
Vamsi Makkapati
Eveline Paulitsch
Josef Pucher

Poster Presentations

Selma Čeliković
Stefan Hölzl
Valentin Kaisermayer
Stefan Koch
Klemens Kranawetter
Richard Seeber

Contact information

Institute of Automation and Control
Graz University of Technology
Inffeldgasse 21/B
8010 Graz

Tel.: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 7021
Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 7028