Smart Human-Machine Systems
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The "Smart Human-Machine Systems" project offers the opportunity to develop innovative solutions in the field of human-machine interaction at the interface between theory and practice. Students not only learn about digitalization and robotics in practice using specific use cases, but also test and evaluate their own developments. The range of projects offered by the Department of Human-Machine Systems Engineering is interdisciplinary and looks at interaction design from analysis to implementation and evaluation.
As with our other courses, registration for the projects takes place via the document function in the course catalog. Further information can also be found on our departmental websites.
What our project participants can expect
- Project management: Gain initial experience in agile project management and in the organization of development teams, get to know common tools and processes in practice
- Robotics and programming: take your first steps with beginner-friendly robots and graphical programming, delve deeper with the support of the team and teachers and quickly achieve amazing results based on a comprehensive robot API with your own Python scripts
- Hands-on digital experience: get to know and try out innovative technologies such as human-robot collaboration, virtual and augmented reality, 3D scanning and printing in practice using real industrial examples and setups, carry out digital work system design with economic and ergonomic evaluation yourself, experience assembly and welding training
- Solve complex problems in an interdisciplinary team: Prepare, carry out and evaluate common experimental investigations in research and development projects, use simulation and measurement empirically for this purpose, evaluate results, optimize products and processes
You will master the challenges of a development project in a team. You will solve given tasks with several humanoid NAO robots. How you solve these tasks is up to your creativity. You will manage your development project yourself and present your results to us as the client. You will be able to learn about robotics and programming without any prior knowledge and will be supported by our experienced supervisors. You will gain experience with project management and teamwork, deepen problem-oriented thinking and get an introduction to programming.
With us you can:
- Organize and manage projects in a group
- Analyze requirements
- Design, implement and demonstrate a solution
- Present results
Your contact person is Jens Hegenberg.
Immerse yourself in the world of modern production work. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and develop solutions for practical applications. For example, you can use a collaborative robot to evaluate for which processes the use of a robot is suitable and sensible. Digital work system design helps to find, analyze and eliminate ergonomic and efficiency problems at workplaces. With the help of augmented and virtual reality, new personnel can be trained more quickly for assembly, for example, and processes can be improved. Together as a team, you can solve company-related problems and develop your digital skills in the process. This project will also enable you to make decisions about the use and further development of these technologies.
With us you can:
- work on case studies in a team
- Solve business-related problems
- Gain practical experience
- get to know lessons learned
Your contact person is Estella Landau.
At the beginning of the project, you will learn about different ways in which people perceive their environment and interact with technical devices. For objective assessments, various physiological measurement methods can be used in experiments, which you will then test in practice. You will then apply the knowledge you have acquired during your studies and in previous projects to plan an interdisciplinary research project and carry out parts of it independently. This not only offers the opportunity to gain practical study experience, but also to get to know and apply creative research approaches.
With us you can:
- plan experiments on perception and interaction and carry them out in an interdisciplinary team
- get to know physiological measurement methods for evaluation and apply them in practice
- evaluate empirical work and document results according to scientific standards
- carry out a research project: Design and implement an interactive experiment
Contact person is David Mack.
Our aim with this range of projects is to support not only professional but also personal development. We want to challenge you to think critically, develop creative solutions and always keep an eye on real-life applications beyond the academic horizon. If you are inspired, you can then deepen your knowledge and skills, for example in a seminar paper or thesis in the field of human-machine systems technology.