From August 24 to August 27 the 9th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Application (CCTA) 2025 took place in San Diego with more than 240 registrants, five plenaries, three workshops, and an industry panel. People showed their work on how to apply control to applications to solve real world problems. We are proud to announce that the paper "On the effects of angular acceleration in orientation estimation using inertial measurement units“ by Felix Brändle, David Meister, Marc Seidel, Robin Strässer, and Frank Allgöwer has been awarded the Outstanding Student Paper Award.
Our work on the autonomous e-scooter revealed an interesting phenomenon, when inertial measurement units are used to estimate the orientation of a body. We showed fundamental limits on the achievable performance, when this is not accounted for, shaping the way for a better understanding to improve autonomous systems beyond just the e-scooter project.
