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Mobile robotics and robot-assisted processes

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Automation with robots and mobile robotics is revolutionising industries worldwide. Robots are increasingly being used to perform repetitive tasks that relieve human workers and optimise production processes. In industrial manufacturing, robots enable precise and efficient assembly of components, the handling of dangerous or monotonous tasks and an increase in productivity.

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Automation with robots and mobile robotics is revolutionising industries worldwide. Robots are increasingly being used to perform repetitive tasks that relieve human workers and optimise production processes. In industrial manufacturing, robots enable precise and efficient assembly of components, the handling of dangerous or monotonous tasks and an increase in productivity.

At match the current research in robotics focusses on developing advanced technologies and methods to make robots even more efficient, versatile and adaptable. Overall, current research is helping to push the boundaries of these technologies and realise their potential to solve real-world problems in various fields. Some of the most important topics in the field of mobile robotics and robot-assisted processes at the match include

  • Mobile robotics: One focus is on the development of technologies for the precise localisation and navigation of robots in dynamic environments.
  • Cooperative autonomous multi-robot systems: Investigating the coordination and cooperation of multiple mobile robots to jointly accomplish complex tasks. By developing algorithms for co-operative planning and control, robots can work as a team to increase their efficiency and performance.
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning: By using machine learning, robots can solve complex problems, recognise patterns and adapt to new situations.
  • Path planning of highly redundant robot kinematics: In this focus area, efficient path planning methods are developed which are designed for highly redundant robot structures. The ambiguity of inverse kinematics requires intelligent algorithms that enable the seamless movement of a robot.
  • Robot structure synthesis: Exceptional areas of application require specialised robot kinematics. For example, robot kinematics with solid-state joints or underactuated robot chains are developed on the match.
  • Applications in new areas: Research into robot-assisted processes is also exploring new areas of application and industries in which robots can be used, such as in the handling of forge-hot components or in the deep sea. The development of customised robotic systems can open up new opportunities for automation and increased efficiency.

Research Projects

  • Digital planning and automated production of building-integrated photovoltaics (DIGI-PV)
    The goal of the DIGI-PV project is to reduce barriers to the large-scale use of PV technology in order to open up significantly more façade areas for energy use. For this purpose, automated processes and tools are being developed that enable planners, producers and users to implement efficient and cost-effective processes and support them along several phases of the product life cycle.
    Team: Sebastian Blankemeyer, Jessica Schönburg
    Year: 2023
    Funding: BMWK
  • Strategies for piezo actuator-assisted disassembly of bolted joints
    The Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 871 "Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods" has been researching the scientific principles of regeneration since 2010, using civil aircraft engines as an example. The motivation is how complex components can be efficiently maintained and repaired in a resource-friendly way. The match focuses in the transfer project T16 on and develops novel strategies for gentle disassembly using the example of bolted joints.
    Team: Richard Blümel
    Year: 2023
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2,5 Years
  • Active Suction Device for Deep-Sea Applications (ASDDSA)
    In a collaboration with the GEOMAR (Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel), the match team is researching the development of a soft robotic system that can be used in the deep sea to take sediment samples. The aim is to develop a lightweight, cost-effective and pressure-neutral actuation system to replace the hydraulically actuated titanium manipulator currently in use and reduce the overall costs of deep-sea sediment sampling.
    Team: Jan Peters, Cora Maria Sourkounis
    Year: 2022
    Funding: DFG
  • Assembly station based on a magnetic levitation system
    To achieve a cost efficient production of optical components or photonic integrated circuits, PhoenixD is following the approach of implementing an production matrix based on a levitated transport system. The goal is to use the mover not only for the transport between stations, but also as a functional unit during the stations.Therefor the match investigates and develops an integrated assembly station.
    Team: Lars Binnemann
    Year: 2021
    Funding: DFG (PhoenixD)
    Duration: 4 Jahre
  • TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction
    While productivity in the manufacturing industry increased linearly in most areas, this value has stagnated in the construction industry for about 50 years. The reason for this is the high manual effort required to create complex formwork elements. The aim of TRR 277 is to avoid this by using additive manufacturing processes. An interdisciplinary approach is being pursued, taking into account planning, production and assembly.
    Team: Lukas Lachmayer, Hauke Heeren
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG
  • Handling of Hot-Forged Hybrid Components in the Process of Tailored Forming
    The CRC 1153 "Tailored Forming" aims to exploit the potential of hybrid solid components based on a novel process chain and to develop the required manufacturing processes. The match focuses on the development of functional modules for form-variable and function-integrated handling of components with temperatures up to 1250 °C.
    Team: Caner Ince
    Year: 2019
    Funding: DFG
  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics
    Currently, the assembly of large products and systems requires the use of complex and bulky assembly equipment that can only be installed and operated at central production sites. The vision for the future is the use of a network of autonomous mobile robots that take over assembly or production directly at the target location. This solution requires coordinated cooperation between robots of different sizes.
    Team: Tobias Recker, Henrik Lurz
    Year: 2018
  • Underactuated handling systems
    Within the field of "underactuated handling systems" assembly systems with fewer actuators than degrees of freedom are being researched. The basic idea is to reduce the design effort and avoid the costs of actuated systems, where each degree of freedom is typically linked to a separate motor. The main topics are the structural synthesis of the orientation mechanism and the control of the highly nonlinear dynamics.
    Team: Tobias Recker
    Year: 2017
  • Robot-assisted cooperative handling and assembly
    The handling and assembly of compliant and large-scale components is an important step in the process chain, especially with regard to fiber composite production. The problems that can occur when handling flexible components are their shape changes, which can lead to an undefined placement position. Furthermore, grasping with conventional grippers is often not possible.
    Team: Sebastian Blankemeyer
    Year: 2015

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