Daniel Frisch and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Student Paper Award, First Runner-Up of the "2023 IEEE Symposium Sensor Data Fusion and International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (SDF-MFI), Bonn, Germany" for the paper Deterministic Von Mises-Fisher Sampling on the Sphere Using Fibonacci Lattices.

Markus Walker, Marcel Reith-Braun, Peter Schichtel, Mirko Knaak and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Paper Award of the "2023 IEEE Symposium Sensor Data Fusion and International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (SDF-MFI), Bonn, Germany" for the paper Identifying Trust Regions of Bayesian Neural Networks.

The paper titled "The Kernel-SME Filter with Adaptive Kernel Widths for Association-free Multi-target Tracking" by Eugen Ernst, Florian Pfaff, Uwe D. Hanebeck, and Marcus Baum is among the five finalists for the Best Student Paper Award of the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023).

Lukas Driller joins the ISAS lab.

Markus Walker joins the ISAS lab.

Kailai Li, Florian Pfaff, and Uwe Hanebeck received the Jean-Pierre Le Cadre Best Paper Award, First Runner-Up of the "25th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2022), Linköping, Sweden" for the paper Circular Discrete Reapproximation.

Florian Rosenthal successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Stochastic Control for Cooperative Cyber-Physical Networking". The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Dr. Daniel Quevedo, Queensland University, Australia.

Uwe D. Hanebeck has been elected as president of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) for the year 2023 and as vice-president for 2022. Founded in 1998, ISIF is the premier global resource for multidisciplinary approaches for theoretical and applied information fusion technologies. Its managing board of 20 directors is responsible for the annual "International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)" and its flagship journal "Journal of Advances in Information Fusion (JAIF)".

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the top 2 percent most widely cited scientists in different disciplines, the World's Top 2 percent Scientists. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and provides standardized information on citations, h-index, and more. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation data base for peer-reviewed literature by Elsevier publishing. In August 2021, the "Stanford List" contains about 190,000 researchers of the more than 8 million scientists considered to be active worldwide. The list contains 9434 active scientist in Germany. More information is available at https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3.

Kailai Li successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "On-Manifold Recursive Bayesian Estimation for Directional Domains" with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Fredrik Gustafsson, Linköping, Sweden.

Our project proposal "Gaussian Process Modeling on Directional Manifolds for Data-Driven Estimation of Rigid Body Motion" has been accepted by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with a funding of 36 PM.

The Real-Time Control Framework (RTCF) developed by ISAS is released under the MIT License. With this framework, modular and high-performance control applications can be easily developed and seamlessly integrated into ROS ecosystems.

Lukas Michiels joins the ISAS lab.

Dr. Igor Gilitschenski becomes tenure track assistant professor for robotics at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and at the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). He obtained his PhD degree at ISAS in April 2015 with the thesis Deterministic Sampling for Nonlinear Dynamic State Estimation.

Uwe D. Hanebeck is now author and coauthor of more than 500 publications in various high-ranking journals and conferences.

The lab has acquired a new multi-GPU server equipped with four high-end graphics cards, which will significantly simplify and accelerate the work on computationally intensive methods. Especially research related to deep learning applications will benefit from the new server. The server is equally accessible for both employees and students.

Marcel Reith-Braun joins the ISAS lab.

Dr.-Ing. Florian Pfaff was awarded with the SICK-science award 2018 for the Best Dissertation for his PhD thesis "Multitarget Tracking Using Orientation Estimation for Optical Belt Sorting".
The award ceremony will take place during the „50 Jahre Informatik“ celebrations on June 19 at the KIT.

Christopher Funk joins the ISAS lab.

Due to the outstanding project results, the IGF project 18798 N "Inside Schüttgut" (Verbesserung optischer Schüttgutsortierung durch simulationsgestützte Entwicklung von Trackingverfahren) was awarded the title project of the year 2019.

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Florian Pfaff successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Multitarget Tracking Using Orientation Estimation for Optical Belt Sorting" with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Dr.-lng. Thomas Längle, Fraunhofer IOSB Karlsruhe.

Start of project "Robotersysteme für die Dekontamination in menschenfeindlichen Umgebungen (ROBDEKON)" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).