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Industrial Management and Assembly Technology
Assembly Technology and Robotics
The robotics research groupassembly technologies
and robotics research group addresses the processes
regarding the last step in production chain. Here, the
assembly process has a significant influence on the costs
and quality of the end product, thus innovative ideas and
technologies are required for achieving cost-, energy- and
planning-efficient solutions.
Particularly, the digitization and planning of assembly pro-
cesses, including the operating resources such as robots,
transportation and automation technologies are the main
research areas being investigated by our team.
Based on digital models, concepts are being developed
by our researchers to generate an automated design,
selection and configuration of assembly systems. Par-
ticular attention is here being paid to the industrial robot
as a universal tool for the automation of processes in
production. Furthermore, the global necessity of alterna-
tive and sustainable energy resources has encouraged our
researchers to investigate new manufacturing and assem-
bly technologies, addressing the production of lithium-ion
batteries. A large part of the work is therefore oriented
towards the future area of electromobility and decentral-
ized energy storage. In this connection, a research line
was developed at iwb for the production of large-format
lithium-ion battery cells from electrode fabrication to
cell and module assembly. This offers a unique platform
to research the relationships between production and
product quality, as well as the processing of new materials
and the integration of new technologies for the fabrication
of next generation batteries.
Projects
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Cell-Fi – Acceleration of electrolyte uptake through
optimized filling and wetting processes
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CyMePro – Cyber-physical metrology for 3D digitization
in networked production
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ExZellTUM II – Center of Excellence for Battery Cells at
the Technical University of Munich II
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FELIZIA – Solid electrolytes as enablers for lithium cells
in automotive applications
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FORobotics – Mobile, ad-hoc cooperating robot teams
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ProMoA – Product-based automatic model-based
system development
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ProKal – Process modelling of the calendering of
high-energy electrodes
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SPICY – Silicon and polyanionic chemistries and
architectures of Li-ion cell for high energy battery
Presentation of a jaw suction pad for handling of cell holders at
Automatica 2017
Real robot cell and its virtual model