Industrial Robots and Manufacturing Automation

The use of industrial robots is an essential basis for the modern manufacturing industry, both to increase productivity and to relieve people of heavy, tiring or dangerous work. When designing flexible, low-operator production sections, they are essential and take over e.g.

• parts manipulation (e.g. loading robot),
• are directly integrated into technological processes (e.g. paint spraying robots) and
• implement parts transport (e.g. driverless transport systems).

Furthermore, service robots open up a multitude of new fields of application, such as

• Cleaning robots (e.g. cleaning high-rise glass facades)
• Inspection robots (e.g. inspecting sewer pipes)
• Medical robots (e.g. support and operate disabled persons)
• Earth detection robots (e.g. digital mapping)

This interesting topic is offered to students of the study fields Mechatronic Systems / Vehicle Mechatronics, Automation Technology and Technical Informatics as well as Electrical Power and Drive Engineering by

• Robot applications
• Control and simulation / Programming of robots

In our laboratory, articulated arm robots are available to students, on which practical experiments are carried out.

They program, 'teach' and test the robots.