Projects and products of the department MRD

As part of the project, a software suite tailored to the production environment was developed to support a wide range of process and product optimisation tasks, e.g. performance and condition monitoring, quality optimisation, product development, variant management, trial planning and updating of master data.

Within the E-MonAut project, measures for the optimization of the operational management are investigated and evaluated. These measures are expected to make a comparatively large contribution to the reduction of the final energy demand with a relatively low investment volume while at the same time actively protecting the building fabric (e.g. prevention of mold growth) and considering the individual user needs (comfort and economic criteria, information requirements).

An excavator works without an operator? Yes, there is one. It was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, Systems Engineering and Image Exploitation IOSB in Karlsruhe. The autonomous excavator "IOSB.BoB" ("excavator without an operator") can, for example, salvage hazardous materials or remove contaminated soil layers and represents a flexible demonstration and development system for testing scalable autonomous functions.

In the BMBF project AgriApps (application modules for the automated management of special agricultural crops) a modular concept for the automation of agricultural tasks is being researched. An autonomous robot can be equipped with different "apps" that perform different tasks. Thus, a high utilization of the robot over different seasons and thus an economical operation can be achieved.

SENEKA's project idea is to provide the emergency and rescue services with dynamically networkable sensors and robots in the event of a disaster in order to significantly shorten the two most important phases of disaster management for saving human lives - the reconnaissance of the disaster area and the search for victims and sources of danger.

Pfadplanung für einen teilautonomen mobilen Bodenroboter im Rahmen des Projektes SAM-UGV: Semi-Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle System Demonstrator

Method for in-pipe navigation for the virtual inspection of sewer networks