We're pleased to announce the continuation of the EcoWalk project with EcoWalk II, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation. Led by Dr. Daniel Renjewski and in collaboration with MPI-IS led by Dr. Alexander Badri-Spröwitz, Alexandra Buchmann and Bernadett… [read more]

The program for this year's lecture series “Applied Mechanics Seminar” has been fixed. We will have 7 lectures by representatives from research and industry on current topics in applied mechanics. The seminar will be held in room MW3102 on selected Thursdays, 17:00 – 18:30. Schedule: 25.04.2024:… [read more]

Advances in prosthetic evaluation have been achieved through a joint project with the IPD CAD Lab at the University of Maribor and the Chair of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich. Exciting possibilities in prosthetics are emerging through additive manufacturing, especially with… [read more]

The Chair of Applied Mechanics is doing very well in teaching mechanical engineering: Two second places in the department's teaching award! Moritz Sattler won second place in the category “exercise in the early Bachelor” for the exercise Engineering Mechanics 3. Robot Dynamics was awarded second… [read more]

MPI seeks an intern with a passion for bipedal robots and a desire to gain hands-on experience working with robot hardware, electronics, and software. You will assist the MPI team in constructing a replica of our EcoWalker small biped robot and documenting the procedure. Further information and… [read more]

Last week, we gave a demonstration of the mobile dual-arm system we have developed. The two robot arms perform manipulation tasks during transport, making intralogistics more efficient. We worked on the synchronization of the two robot arms and investigated the impact of the platform dynamics on the… [read more]

Our former PhD student Dr. Christina Insam received the Rudolf Schmidt-Burkhardt Award for her outstanding PhD thesis. Her dissertation is titled "Fundamental Methods for Real-Time Hybrid Substructuring with Contact: Enabling Testing of Prosthetic Feet" and was defended on September 20, 2022. A… [read more]

We will show you how robots and modern camera technology can support us in our everyday lives in the future. You will get to know our humanoid robot LOLA and explore the differences between you and LOLA. Could LOLA help you outside the lab? Find out! We will also "program" two robotic arms together.… [read more]

Higher, faster, and further on the one hand, but also safer and more efficient on the other hand – this trend demands a great deal of today’s and future engineers. In addition to the challenging maxim, economic aspects lead to the desire to reduce time to market of products required to master… [read more]

It seems that as computing power increases, models simply become more complex. So model order reduction remains crucial. Reducing complexity is often achieved by coordinate reduction, but may be enhanced by clever mathematical formulations to obtain simpler equations of motion. That’s exactly what… [read more]