In the course of the ConSensE project, the Institute FAPS, together with four other academic and three corporate partners of the ConSensE consortium, participated in the Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE) Summit in Stuttgart, which was organized by Fraunhofer IAO. In addition to keynote speeches fro... Weiterlesen

The aim of the research project AutoTron funded by the BMBF and conducted together with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center of the Technical University of Munich is to increase the efficiency and expand the range of applications of robot-assisted sample positioning in neutron diffraction. The robotic sy... Weiterlesen

Funded by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), the research project “Automatic Monitoring of Construction Progress through the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics” (BauKIRo) is investigating a solution for the automated recording of construction pr... Weiterlesen

Around 100,000 employees in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region work for suppliers of the automotive industry. Many of the jobs depend on the combustion engine and are endangered by the transformation of the industry. The large-scale project transform_EMN with a volume of 6.6 million euros supports co... Weiterlesen

The German government’s greenhouse gas reduction targets require the increased use of renewable energy sources. In addition, current political and social developments are leading to energy price inflation. Consequences of import dependency on energy sources make themselves felt negatively and ... Weiterlesen

Rising prices and supply insecurities of industrial raw materials are threats to the production of innovative products and thus the climate goals of the European Union. Hard to replace rare earth elements (REE), which e.g. are used in the production of semiconductors or permanent magnets and therefo... Weiterlesen

In the research project “Acoustically and Energetically Self-Optimizing Aircraft (AkesoFlug)” funded by the Bavarian Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie, a novel approach towards reducing the sound emission and energy consumption of unmanned aerial vehicles is... Weiterlesen

Together with the VDMA Industrial Drone Solutions (IDS) working group, the FAPS institute is investigating for the second time how ready industrial user industries are for commercial drone applications. The aim of the survey is once again to determine the current relevance of drone solutions in vari... Weiterlesen

Alexander Schneider joined the research sector automation technology as a research associate on 15.05.2022. Mr. Schneider completed both the bachelor’s and master’s programs in electrical engineering-electronics-information technology (specialization: automation technology) at the Friedr... Weiterlesen

The results of the first phase of the Business Plan Competition Northern Bavaria are known: Along with two other start-ups from FAU, the team oculai is also among the winners. At oculai, everything revolves around a solution for camera-based data collection on construction sites. By means of compute... Weiterlesen