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German-Polish project consortium develops measuring gripper for robot applications
On 6 February 2025, the Professorship Production Systems and Processes invited all German and Polish partners of its new ‘GRIP’ project to a joint workshop.
Together with their industrial partners, the researchers want to develop a modular, highly integrated gripping and monitoring system that can be used to automate and improve processes in mechanical production. ‘In short, we want to develop a gripper for robots that can simultaneously measure during gripping - regardless of whether it's the geometry, weight, temperature or optical properties of the gripped object,’ explains Dr Matthias Rehm, Chief Executive Engineer at the Professorship Production Systems and Processes. ‘If we succeed in integrating these measuring functions into the gripper, we can obtain additional information during handling, eliminate additional measuring stations and thus shorten our process chain, that means reduce costs.’
The German-Polish cooperation project is funded by the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) in Germany and by the InnoGlobo programme in Poland. ‘GRIP’ was one of just a few projects selected in the first binational call for proposals of this kind and categorised as eligible for funding.
In addition to Chemnitz University of Technology, Wolfram Designer und Ingenieure and GBZ Mannheim GmbH & Co. KG are involved. In Poland, the automation company LUMEL S.A., the mechanical engineering company SECO/WARWICK S.A. and the University of Zielona Góra are working on the project.
At the workshop on 6 February, the focus was on intensifying personal relationships. In particular, technical issues relating to the scope of functions of the gripper in the various use cases were discussed and decisions were made on the basic version with the interfaces to the individual systems.
On 6 February 2025, the Professorship Production Systems and Processes invited all German and Polish partners of its new ‘GRIP’ project to a joint workshop.
Together with their industrial partners, the researchers want to develop a modular, highly integrated gripping and monitoring system that can be used to automate and improve processes in mechanical production. ‘In short, we want to develop a gripper for robots that can simultaneously measure during gripping - regardless of whether it's the geometry, weight, temperature or optical properties of the gripped object,’ explains Dr Matthias Rehm, Chief Executive Engineer at the Professorship Production Systems and Processes. ‘If we succeed in integrating these measuring functions into the gripper, we can obtain additional information during handling, eliminate additional measuring stations and thus shorten our process chain, that means reduce costs.’
The German-Polish cooperation project is funded by the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) in Germany and by the InnoGlobo programme in Poland. ‘GRIP’ was one of just a few projects selected in the first binational call for proposals of this kind and categorised as eligible for funding.
In addition to Chemnitz University of Technology, Wolfram Designer und Ingenieure and GBZ Mannheim GmbH & Co. KG are involved. In Poland, the automation company LUMEL S.A., the mechanical engineering company SECO/WARWICK S.A. and the University of Zielona Góra are working on the project.
At the workshop on 6 February, the focus was on intensifying personal relationships. In particular, technical issues relating to the scope of functions of the gripper in the various use cases were discussed and decisions were made on the basic version with the interfaces to the individual systems.