Visual impairments are often associated with barriers in the everyday mobility of those affected and not infrequently lead to social isolation. Although classic mobility aids can assist with mobility, these can usually only be used in familiar environments after intensive training. In unfamiliar env... Weiterlesen

Helmut Engelhardt joins the Medical Engineering Research Department as a research associate as of January 15th, 2023. After his apprenticeship as a technical assistant for computer science and several years of work as an application developer, Helmut Engelhardt completed his bachelor’s degree ... Weiterlesen

The ROBOTOP GmbH – founding team (Dr. Eike Wolfram Schäffer, Baris Erdönmez, Tony Phan, Nicolas Falbesaner) was awarded in the first phase of the business plan competition Northern Bavaria by BayStartUP as one of the best business ideas from Franconia and the Upper Palatinate. The jury had mor... Weiterlesen

The research project Next2OEM addresses the entire value chain for automotive wiring harnesses. The project aims to digitize and automate the value chain to enable the reshoring of wiring harness manufacturing to Germany. For a “next-to-OEM wiring harness manufacturing“, highly automated proce... Weiterlesen

To clarify its own claim and as a starting point for the strategic planning of climate and environmental protection, FAPS has decided to adopt a memorandum of understanding. Weiterlesen

Alexander Müller joined the research sector automation technology at the chair FAPS as research associate on 01.02.2023. After the completion of his professional training as an associate engineer for computer systems and automation technology and a subsequent professional activity as a software deve... Weiterlesen

Since February, Nils Thielen has taken over the lead of the research group Electronics Production. As scientific assistant, he has been researching in the field of data-driven quality control of solder joints at FAPS since 2019. Alexander Hensel, who has been responsible so far, achieved in his rese... Weiterlesen

Unmanned aerial vehicles offer high application potential for the automated execution of inventory, inspection and surveying processes and can make transport processes more flexible. However, the unmanned aerial vehicle systems presented to date do not have the necessary autonomy and do not meet the... Weiterlesen

Although the range of applications for image processing has been growing for years, only a portion of industrial visual inspection tasks have been automated to date. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods hold the potential to automate even difficult visual inspection tasks that have been performed ma... Weiterlesen

FAPS startup ROBOTOP and Dr. Eike Wolfram Schäffer in an interview with Wolfgang Kräußlich (Editor-in-Chief SPS Magazin) in the SPS-Magazin startup podcast RocketScience. Among other things, this is about how ROBOTOP wants to help reduce CO2 emissions and improve communication. But first and foremos... Weiterlesen