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Skills shortages, occupational health and safety, and efficiency gains are motivating the automation of construction equipment. In the bauma Talk “The Way to Autonomous Machines” last week our colleague Maximilian Schöberl discussed „The Arrival of #Cobots“ with Stephan Oehme. If you missed the… [read more]

How can more accurate and efficient planning of heterogeneous transport systems be ensured? This is the question we addressed in the PlaKAT research project. Until now, there was a lack of comparative approaches. In addition, the high complexity of transport systems led to planning insecurity.… [read more]

In the "OptiFit" project, we developed a guideline for retrofit projects for storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). In order to sustain the ASRS maintenance activities and timely modernizations are being carried out. In practice, plant operators are not always aware of retrofits and its potential.… [read more]

Since recently, we at the chair fml own a private 5G campus network in our test hall. We are using it to research use cases of 5G in logistics and the networking of mobile robots. We use the far-reaching advantages over WLAN - high bandwidth, nearly latency-free communication and secure transmission… [read more]

Since last week we control our forklift teleoperated out of the office. For this purpose, we welcomed the start-up enabl Technologies as our guests. Within one week, their team equipped our forklift with cameras and sensors to enable teleoperated handling. This allows, for example, the partial… [read more]

At the DiesAcademicus on December 2, 2021, Professor Johannes Fottner and Professor Magnus Fröhling received the prestigious TUM Sustainability Award on behalf of the CirculaTUM research network. The interdisciplinary network was founded to bundle the diverse competencies of TUM for a… [read more]

How can we achieve a more accurate wheel-rail system design method for stacker cranes? We have developed a prediction model for calculating realistic load spectra over the design life. We integrated this model together with the new DIN EN 13001-3-3 into a software tool. In the future, dynamic… [read more]

How do we successfully counter uncertainties in the dynamic environment of production logistics? This initial question is the basis for a current expert survey on networking and the ability to change in production and logistics using autonomous transport systems, which we are currently conducting at… [read more]

How do you develop powerful and innovative construction machines? Lecturer Dr.-Ing. Herbert Pfab, Head of Wheel Loader Development at Liebherr Group, will address this question and other exciting topics in our new lecture on heavy equipment. We at TUM fml are anchoring our long-standing research… [read more]

How can we shape our economy to be both more sustainable and more resilient, use resources in a smarter manner and preserve them for future generations? With its research profile and study programs, the Technical University of Munich has an outstanding role to play in actively contributing to the… [read more]