Daniel Frisch and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Student Paper Award, 2nd runner up of the "2026 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI), Pilsen, Czechia" for the paper Estimating Rotation Speed on the Sphere: Low-Rank Fokker–Planck Prediction on 𝕊² × ℝ.

Benjamin Siebler successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Train Localization with Magnetic Field Distortions and Bayesian Methods". The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Assoc. Prof & Docent Gustaf Hendeby, Linköping University, Sweden.

The publication

Michael Fennel, Markus Walker, Dominik Pikos, Uwe D. Hanebeck,
HapticGiant: A Novel Very Large Kinesthetic Haptic Interface with Hierarchical Force Control,
IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 862–875, Oct.-Dec. 2025.

won the IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Application Paper Award.

Dongming Yu is on his first day of internship.

Markus Walker received the Best Presentation Award at the "60. Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium" in Boppard, Germany, for his presentation, "Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control Using Deterministic Samples".

Markus Walker, Marcel Reith-Braun, Tai Hoang, Gerhard Neumann, Uwe D. Hanebeck,
Smooth Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control Using Deterministic Samples,
arXiv preprint: 2601.03893, January, 2026.

Sample-Efficient and Smooth Cross-Entropy Method Model Predictive Control Using Deterministic Samples,
arXiv preprint: 2510.05706, October, 2025.

Follow-up visit of Prof. Ondřej Straka, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Plzeň, Czech Republic for joint research on data-driven Bayesian estimation.