Keywords: modular-robots, co-design, top-down-development, topology-optimization, informed-decomposition
Scope
LPL and the Institute of Micro Technology and Medical Device Technology (MIMED, Prof. Lüth) are jointly developing a process for the semi-automatic design of task-specific low-cost lightweight robots. The project deals with the multidisciplinary computational design process by combining optimisation sub-problems of several sub-systems. It ties together modular robotics, structural optimisation, additive manufacturing with innovative design processes to realise customisable robots with minimal development time.
Results
Hardware and software tools for the automatic robot design with its concurrent structural optimisation
