Today’s production environment is influenced by megatrends such as customer individualization, connectivity, and digitization. This results in the need to economically manufacture mechanical components with integrated intelligence in small quantities. Simultaneously, the integration of addit...

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...

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...

Sebastian Anders joined the Engineering Systems research group as a research associate on 01.12.2022. Sebastian Anders graduated from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering. During his studies he supported the Engineering Systems res...

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...

Institute FAPS is the consortium leader of the recently joint research project E|MPOWER with the partners VIA IMC, Electreon, Risomat and TH-Nürnberg. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, funding code 01MV22020A as part of the „Elektro-Mobil“ ...

The FAPS start-up ROBOTOP was represented as an exhibitor at the Dies Academicus 2022 with Dr. Eike Wolfram Schäffer and Baris Erdönmez as one of three selected FAU showcase start-ups. With the three selected research-based start-ups, which were represented at the Dies Academicus 2022 of the Frie...

Organised by the German Electro and Digital Industry Association (ZVEI), the ODCA was founded with 33 well-known companies and renowned research institutes such as the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, represented here by the FAPS chair. Its goal is the worldwide development of a di...

At the 23rd Cooperation Forum on Vehicle Wiring Systems at Audi Sportpark Ingolstadt, the staff of the Signal and Power Networking research area presented itself with a booth at the accompanying trade exhibition. This allowed, besides the participation in exciting technical presentations, also an in...

Rasool Shahsevani started his research activities in the field of robotics and mechatronics in 2015 at Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS), the chair of Prof. Dr. Franke. He is working on his PhD dissertation with the subject of "Universal Robotic Gripper with Multi Extens...