Over the next three years, the Bavarian research alliance “Intelligent Manufacturing Processes & Closed-Loop Production” (FORinFPRO) will be researching fundamental concepts for process-specific sensor and condition monitoring, as well as the data-based modelling, control, and optimisation of manufacturing processes. The project has been funded by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung to the tune of around €2 million. Tobias Gotthardt, Bavarian State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy, handed over the confirmation of funding today.

The paper "External Torque Estimation for Mobile Manipulators: A Comparison of Model-based and LSTM Methods" by Matthias Stueben, Alexander Poeppel and Wolfgang Reif received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, which took place from 5 - 7 December in Naples, Italy. The award is given to the best submission with a bachelor's, master's or PhD student as its first author.

What do the scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) actually do? What do the flight attendants' trolleys have to do with an aircraft's kerosene consumption? And what can automation look like with very small lot sizes and even larger components?