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

  • Strengthening the resilience of value creation networks through competence pooling

    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)

    Overall project: Konzipierung von Kompetenzdepots
    Term: 1. January 2025 - 31. December 2027
    Funding source: BMBF / Verbundprojekt

    In the automotive, IT/semiconductor and smart infrastructure sectors in particular, supply bottlenecks, natural disasters, political instability or pandemics can lead to the complete collapse of value creation networks. Until now, there has been a lack of ability to quickly and flexibly deploy critical skills that are needed at short notice in crisis situations. For example, if maritime transport is disrupted, competences are needed to change transport routes, or expertise to negotiate emergency contracts. Together with partners from the sectors, the project is developing solutions on how to pool competences in a network with other actors.

    ResiKomp aims to increase the resilience of value networks by procuring the necessary competences through digital competence pooling. Competence pools are digital points of contact for companies to identify critical competences in specific sectors, simulate crisis scenarios and their potential impact using, for example, AI algorithms, and develop mechanisms and specific actions to provide and procure the necessary competences in response to potential disruptions. Platform- or community-based approaches will enable companies to access critical competences across their network in crisis situations. This includes mechanisms to ensure a balance between trust and competition, hidden competence monopolies and risk mitigation mechanisms.

    The project idea is characterized by the cross-network bundling of several necessary pillars for the provision and procurement of competences in crisis situations. These pillars provide tools for identifying, simulating and exchanging critical competences. In the future, a community of practice, leveling options for networks and operator concepts for digital competence pools will emerge. 

  • 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.

  • 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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