December 2nd, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
We had the great pleasure of welcoming Frank Schwabe from FANUC Europe – Technical Center RO for an exciting guest lecture in our Robotic Systems course. Mr. Schwabe provided our students with an engaging introduction to industrial robotics, presenting FANUC’s technologies, product portfolio, and real-world applications in automation. The students were highly motivated, asked many insightful questions, and gained valuable perspectives on how modern robotics shapes today’s manufacturing environments. A big thank you to Mr. Schwabe and FANUC for their support and for inspiring the next generation of engineers!
Kategorie: Fanuc, Fanuc Education Cell, Fanuc Olympiade, Industrial Robotics, Industrie, Roboter, Robotic Systems
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September 5th, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
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In pick-and-place tasks, which are often implemented with delta robots in industrial practice, short cycle times are desired. These lead to high accelerations of the robot and thus to high inertial forces, which cause the frame to vibrate. The frame vibrations reduce the performance and positioning accuracy of the robot and lead to material fatigue. To reduce frame vibrations, we have developed an optimal control approach that calculates vibration-reducing trajectories. To reduce vibrations, the free frame vibration is suppressed at the end of the trajectory. The chosen approach optimizes the trajectory holistically, i.e., both the geometric path and the motion law along the path are optimized. The optimization uses a multibody simulation model that was constructed with the aid of experimental system identification. Application- and robot-specific boundary conditions can be taken into account in the calculation of vibration-reducing trajectories.
contact:
Nils Brückmann
Christian Mirz
Preprint of the corresponding paper can be found here.
Further information on the Delta robot can be found here.
Kategorie: Parameteridentifikation, Simulationen, Trajektorie
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June 5th, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
How can objects be gripped safely and gently at the same time – without any traditional joints?
With this 3D-printed prototype, we demonstrate how topological optimization and compliant mechanisms together open up new paths in robotic gripping.
The design is based on flexible structures that can be strongly deformed through targeted geometry adjustment – ideal for adapting to spherical objects, for example.
Objective:
– Maximization of the contact surfaces
– Even distribution of forces
– Reduction of damage to the object
Thanks to additive manufacturing and computer-aided design, complex, high-performance structures could be implemented that would be almost impossible to realize using conventional methods.
Contact person:
Estefania Hermoza Llanos
Kategorie: Additive Fertigung, Additive Manufacturing, Greiferentwicklung
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April 14th, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
In March, we were able to take part in this year’s annual meeting at the Rhein-Mosel-Werkstätten in Koblenz as an exhibitor and network member of daaap.
A special highlight: The event was opened by Ms Schall, Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitization in Rhineland-Palatinate, among others. She took the time to get to know the IIDEA project and was even able to try out our model workplace for herself.
We are delighted with the interest shown in our project by the participating workshops. The direct exchange, valuable discussions and new contacts show that The vision of inclusive digitalization is shared and carried forward.
Contact person:
Mathias Hüsing
Kategorie: Allgemein, Cobot, IGMR, Kollaboration, kollaborierenden Roboter, Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration, Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration, Roboter, Robotik, Werkstatt
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April 14th, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
Congratulations to Esteban and Gregory – they took 3rd place at this year’s championship at FANUC in Neuhausen and thus won bronze!
The task: a challenging battery assembly that had to be completed in just three days. The standard was particularly high this year and for the first time eight teams took part.
We are very proud of our two talents! Many thanks to Sophie Charlotte for making this participation possible!
Contact person:
Sophie Charlotte Keunecke
Kategorie: Fanuc, Fanuc Education Cell, Fanuc Olympiade, Industrial Robotics, Industrie, industrielle Robotik, Roboter, Robotik
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March 5th, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
At the IGMR, we are working on the next generation of additive manufacturing as part of the DFG-funded FunkDAF research project together with the MSE and VCI institutes: layerless, multidimensional material deposition.
🔹 What does that mean?
Multiaxial additive manufacturing with a robot-guided print bed allows us to deposit material along specific stress paths. This leads to improved material utilization and reduces the disadvantages of layer-by-layer construction.
🔹 Our challenges:
– Precise robot guidance along the print paths
– Synchronization of extruder and robot movement
– Constant printing speed for maximum quality
The print paths are generated on the VCI from FEM stress data – resulting in mechanically optimized structures. 💡
Contact person:
Mark Witte – witte@igmr.rwth-aachen.de
Kategorie: Roboterprogrammierung, ROS, Trajektorie
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March 4th, 2025 | by
Jansen, Christina
We kicked-off our new project “AuBa@C – Automation of Battery Disassembly using Advanced Hardware and Software for Battery Recycling” together with cylib. Here at IGMR, we conduct research into automated disassembly using robots. In the project together with cylib, we can transfer our expertise from projects such as Bots2ReC, SHEREC or di.monta to the disassembly of EV batteries.
We are excited to collaborate with cylib (Dr. Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav (Head of Pre-Processing and Robotics Expert) and Sara Ognjanovic (Project Manager for Automation in Battery Discharge and Disassembly).)
This project is supported by the “KUER.NRW | Grüne Gründungen Nordrhein-Westfalen” funding initiative, under the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE/JTF NRW 2021-2027), coordinated by the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Projektträger Jülich (PtJ).
contact:
Stefan Groß
