Entwicklung und Optimierung von Montage- und Handhabungsprozessen
Developing and Optimising of Handling and Assembly Processes
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Precision AssemblyWhether sensors, pacemakers or watch movements: wherever parts have to be assembled very precisely, conventional robots and corresponding peripherals reach their limits. In this area, match is investigating new solutions and strategies to implement reliable and economical precision assembly processes.Team:Year: 2018Funding: basic funding
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Handling of Hot-Forged Hybrid Components in the Process of Tailored FormingThe 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:Year: 2019Funding: DFG
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PhoenixDThe PhoenixD Cluster of Excellence brings together various specialist domains from optical design, optical simulation and optical production with the aim of developing intelligent, integrated and adaptive optical systems. In this project, match takes on precision assembly tasks and focuses more intensively on fully process-integrated component alignment via self-assembly and the development of innovative, self-optimising assembly concepts.Team:Year: 2019Funding: DFG
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Self-AssemblyThis research area is concerned with the development of self-assembling or self-positioning systems. The specific design creates energetic potentials that effect the components and thus pull them to the assembly position. Handling of the individual components is no longer necessary, which enables new applications, such as non-contact assembly.Team:Year: 2019Funding: PhoenixD, DFGDuration: 7 years
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CRC 1368: adhesive-based assembly processes in XHV-adequate atmospheresAs part of the Collaborative Research Center 1368 "Oxygen-free production", the match deals with adhesive-based assembly technology in a technically oxygen-free atmosphere. The aim of the sub-project is to gain knowledge about the technical properties of bonded joints produced in an oxygen-free atmosphere and with deoxidized joining partners.Team:Year: 2020Funding: DFG
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Assembly of photonic integrated circuitsThe Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD pursues the goal of integrating conventional and complex high-performance optics into intelligent, miniaturised and adaptive optical systems. In this context, match is researching novel concepts and processes for the micro-assembly of optical systems.Team:Year: 2021Funding: DFG (PhoenixD)
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Assembly station based on a magnetic levitation systemTo 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:Year: 2021Funding: DFG (PhoenixD)Duration: 4 Jahre
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Strategies for piezo actuator-assisted disassembly of bolted jointsThe 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:Year: 2023Funding: DFGDuration: 2,5 Years
Machine Concepts and System Integration
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Underactuated handling systemsWithin 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:Year: 2017
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Active image-based feeding of small parts using aerodynamic chicanesA crucial component of automated assembly is the feeding device, which provides the handling device (e.g. industrial robot) with the components to be assembled in a defined position and orientation. In this project, methods for the flexible and efficient feeding of components are being researched with the help of image processing, AI and aerodynamic orientation modules.Team:Year: 2022Funding: DFG (German Research Foundation)
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IT security in the deployment of 5G in production ecosystems (5GProSec)The goal of the research project is therefore to systematically record and eliminate possible attack vectors and unintentional disruptions in the use of 5G, especially in production, in order to lower hurdles for the use of 5G in companies and eliminate security concerns.Team:Year: 2023Funding: BSI
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CRC 1153: Flexible process chain for the resource-efficient production of tailored forming componentsWithin the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1153, novel design, joining, forming, finishing and testing processes for the production of hybrid solid high-performance components were developed and realised in the first two funding periods. Within the third funding period, the individual processes in this sub-project will be linked to form an automated overall process in order to validate the functionality of the processes in a continuous process chain and to provide reproducible samples for the individual sub-projects.Team:Year: 2023Funding: DFGDuration: 2023-2027
Robot aided Assembly and Handling Processes
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Collaborative Assembly of Human and MachineIn the process chain, assembly represents the last step of value creation and thus plays an crucial role in the production process of companies. The high cost and time-consuming processes involved in the assembly indicate that there is considerable potential for rationalization, from the planning and preparation of the assembly to the execution of the assembly. In addition, companies are looking for solutions to address problems resulting from an aging workforce and an increasing demand for skilled workers. For this reason, match develops collaborative assembly systems and processes.Team:Year: 2015
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Robot-assisted cooperative handling and assemblyThe 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:Year: 2015
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Autonomous Mobile RoboticsCurrently, 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:Year: 2018
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TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in ConstructionWhile 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:Year: 2020Funding: DFG
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Digital planning and automated production of buildingintegrated 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. The focus here is on existing buildings. The challenges here are currently the complex planning processes for the BIPV façade and the non-automated and therefore cost-intensive production of BIPV modules. 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:Year: 2023Funding: BMWK
Soft Material Robotic Systems
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Coherent Methodology for Modelling and Design of Soft Material Robots – The Soft Material Robotics Toolbox (SMaRT)Robots made of soft materials offer a high degree of flexibility. The compliance of the material leads to a high level of adaptability that classic robot systems do not offer. In the project SMaRT ("Soft Material Robotics Toolbox"), match is conducting research together with the Institute for Mechatronic Systems (imes) and the Institute for Dynamics and Vibrations (IDS) on a coherent methodology for modeling and designing soft material robots.Team:Year: 2019Funding: DFG
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Soft Material Robotic SystemsSoft Material Robotic Systems (SMRS) are flexible robots made of soft materials such as silicone or elastomers. Unlike conventional robots, they can adapt to complex environments and utilize pneumatic, hydraulic, or even chemical actuators for movement. SMRS are frequently utilized in areas where traditional robots are unsuitable due to their rigidity or limited flexibility, such as in medical rehabilitation, food production, or underwater research.Team:Year: 2019Funding: DFG Priority Programme
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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:Year: 2022Funding: DFG