The
Professorship of Assembly and Handling Technology which has developed in 2008 from the rededication of the
professorship of mechatronic drive technology has got its historical roots in the professorship of mechanism and gear
trains (1954 to 2004) at the Chemnitz University of Technology.
The modern assembly and handling technology is not thinkable without an innovative drive technology. Mechatronic
drive systems where advantages of mechanisms, servo drive technology plus sensor technology and programming are
combined are especially in the foreground. Modern assembly systems with a plane or three-dimensional system structure,
e. g. so-called pick and place automates, robots or parallel kinematics have already become mechatronic marked drive
systems with an intelligent symbiosis of mechanic, actuator engineering, sensor technology and informatics and therefore
important applications of the common mechanism- and drive technology.
The employees’ fields of research and education of the present day contain
design, construction and
dimensioning
as well as
simulation and
optimization of modern movement and drive systems for very different tasks and fields
of application in a broadly industrial environment. In a mechanical point of view especially drive systems with a non-linear
movement characteristic like link mechanisms and cam mechanisms or there combination with wheel- or flexible drive mechanisms
constitute the research works besides of the common themes
robotic and therefore necessary handling instruments. One main
focus of the research is the so-called
partly flexible resp.
hybrid mechanisms.
Furthermore we apply ourselves to the
theme ‘electronical cam plate’ resp. the so-called
motion-control-systems
with the construction and optimization of an optimal movement design for various movement scenarios.
The professorship of assembly and handling technology is targeted because of its main foci in the environment of the production
engineering and the common mechanical engineering to the
profile-line 2 of the Chemnitz University of Technology.
The
student education is presently characterized by the following contents of teaching:
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conveyance of scientific knowledge and classic operations of the gear- and mechanism technology (structure synthesis,
analysis, measure synthesis, …),
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utilisation of computer- and CAD-technology for calculation. Optimization and simulation (with Mathcad, ProEngineer, MKS, FEM)
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complex inspection of movement and drive systems with more than one actuator and sensor plus their directing and
controlling algorithms
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design, interpretation and construction of assembly and handling features (basics of the robot- and movement technology,
grabs, rotary indexing table, assembly lines, etc.)
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steady adding of new research results to the present contents of teaching (e.g. resilient mechanisms, bionic movement systems)
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drive engineering traineeships
The
Professorship of Assembly and Handling Technology lends students, practicians and interested persons support with
different problem definitions as a competent partner.
