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 progress by an...

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 ...

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...

Current trends and challenges in wire and terminal processing require the development of flexible and intelligent systems for process monitoring during the production of crimp connections. Within the framework of the research project "Deep Learning based crimp force curve analysis for holistic, inte...

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 are pa...

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...

As part of the FlaMe research project, a new machine for laser powder bed fusion of metallic materials (PBF-LB/M) with a high-power green laser from Fa. Trumpf was successfully installed. The machine will be used within the project to overcome the challenges of laser-based processing of high-purity ...

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 being resea...

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 v...

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 Friedrich-Alexa...