Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke

Chair of Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems

As an interdisciplinary institution, the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems conducts research on safe and accepted mechatronic support and therapy systems in the human environment and for use on and in the human body.

Research projects

  • Mechatronic assistance systems for human
  • Mechatronic therapy systems
  • Automated processes in medicine and medical technology
  • Acquisition of biomedical parameters and their IoT connection
  • Digitalization in medicine assisted by AI
  • Robotic and (semi-) autonomous assistance systems
  • Mechatronic implants
  • Automation of medical diagnostics
  • Patient-specific models for surgical training
  • Compliant sensors and actuators

  • Open-Source-Entwurfs- und Simulationsumgebung für hochintegrierte 2.5D/3D-Chipsysteme

    (Third Party Funds Group – Overall project)

    Term: 1. May 2024 - 30. April 2027
    Funding source: BMBF / Verbundprojekt

    Miniaturized mechatronic and autonomous systems, suchas automotive control units, electronic medical devices or wearables, integratea large number of different functional submodules and require increasingnetworking, a compact form factor and decentralized signal processing, e.g.through artificial intelligence. This requires the co-integration of manymonolithic integrated circuits in a highly complex package, taking into accountthermal, electromagnetic and geometric boundary conditions, as well as globaloptimization of partitioning at the functional level.

    The aim of the “PASSIONATE” researchproject is therefore to develop a free 3D design environment for packages andsystems-in-package. The project thus complements other projects for thedevelopment of open-source tools for the design of integrated circuits byadding an environment for modeling spatial geometries and methods forsimulating multiphysical, in particular thermal and electromagnetic properties.This closes a significant gap between open-source tools at chip level andopen-source PCB software in order to cover the entire value chain with freetools. The basis of the new 3Ddesign and simulation environment is a spatially oriented computer-aided design(3D-MCAD) system, which is extended by interfaces to the upstream chip designtoolchain (system, logic and circuit development) and the import of geometries.Among other things, this enables feature-based, parametric modeling of variousassembly and connection technologies.

    The quality of the designed tool and thesimulation techniques is validated by comparison with commercial software andfinally by the realization of two physical demonstrators with a focus onhigh-frequency technology and digital system design.

  • Digitale Planung und Simulation hybrider AC/DC-Energienetze in automatisiertenProduktionsanlagen; Teilvorhaben: Modellgestützte Planung und simulative Betriebsstrategien für hybride AC/DC-Energienetze

    (Third Party Funds Single)

    Term: 1. March 2022 - 31. December 2024
    Funding source: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi)
  • Trusted Ecosystem of Applied Medical Data eXchange; Teilvorhaben: FAU@TEAM-X

    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)

    Overall project: Trusted Ecosystem of Applied Medical Data eXchange (TEAM-X)
    Term: 1. January 2022 - 31. March 2025
    Funding source: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi)

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