Autor: Lars Dohrmann

The human being has the ability to adapt to physical changes in the production and logistic environment. The aim of this research project is to equip series transport vehicle with additional intelligent technique so that the vehicle becomes an automated guided vehicle (AGV) and to reduce the commissioning effort for AGVs. The user can control the AGV by voice and gesture so the AGV can do the work automatically. To realize such an interactive system it is important to develop decentralized controllers for the AGV. Thus, it is possible that the AGV is able to flexibly adapt his own behaviour.

Continuously growing XXL-products are reaching dimensions that can hardly be handled without innovative technological support. Therefore advances in the transport and lifting technologies are aimed at manufacturing (partly) automated assembly aids for the final assembly of large scale components. The assembly of XXL-products is similar to the construction of prototypes. The aim is to avoid constant new development and design of assembly aids by making them usable across several processes. In addition to the presentation of a method for systematization and easier choice of assembly aids in this paper there will also be presented the product development process of an assembly aid for craneless and therefore weather-independent assembly of rotor blades on offshore wind energy plants.