Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Bruckmann Room: MD 334 Phone: +49 (0)203 379-1908 Telefax: +49 (0)203 379-41434 E-Mail: tobias.bruckmann@uni-due.de LinkedIn ResearchGate

Research Profile

Research Focus

• Robotics - especially rope robotics (layout and mechatronic design, realisation and prototype development, rope force control methods and operation) with current focus on logistics and construction
• Automation technology and mechatronic system design
• Human-machine interfaces and assistance systems - especially for construction machinery and mining

Scientific Activities

Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

• Member of the Scientific Committee of "IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2020", Lienz, Austria (planned)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "6th IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics (ISRM 2019)", 28-30 October 2019, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "ECCOMAS Multibody Dynamics Conference 2019", 15-18 July 2019, Duisburg, Germany.
• Co-organiser of the IFToMM "Fourth International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots" (CableCon2019), 30 June - 4 July 2019, Krakow, Poland (together with Dr Andreas Pott, University of Stuttgart).
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "IFToMM D-A-CH Conference 2019", 26-27 February 2019, Aachen, Germany
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "2019 International Conference on Service Robotics Technologies (ICSRT 2019)", 22-24 March 2018, Beijing, China
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "4th International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI 2018)", 17-19 November 2018, Guangzhou, China
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2018)", 4-7 September 2018, Coimbra, Portugal
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "IFToMM D-A-CH Conference 2018", 15-16 February 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the IFToMM "First International Congress for the Advancement of Mechanism, Machine, Robotics and Mechatronics Sciences", 17-19 October 2017, Beirut, Lebanon
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the IFToMM "Third International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots" (CableCon2017), 2-4 August 2017, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "IFToMM D-A-CH Conference 2017", 15-16 February 2017, Chemnitz, Germany.
• Member of the scientific committee of the "Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics '16)", 26-27 October 2016, Aachen, Germany
• Member of the scientific committee of the "IFToMM D-A-CH Conference 2016", 25-26 February 2016, Innsbruck
• Member of the scientific committee of the "IFToMM D-A-CH Conference 2015", 11 March, Dortmund, Germany
• Co-organiser of the IFToMM "Second International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots" (CableCon2014), 24-27 August 2014, Duisburg (together with Dr. Andreas Pott, Fraunhofer IPA)
• Co-organiser of the workshop "Control and Application of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots" at European Robotic Forum 2013, 19-21 March 2013, Lyon, France (together with Dr. Jean-Pierre Merlet (INRIA, France) and Dr. Andreas Pott (Fraunhofer IPA))
• Co-organiser of the IFToMM "First International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots", 2-4 September 2012, Stuttgart, Germany (together with Dr. Andreas Pott, Fraunhofer IPA)
• Co-organiser of the workshop "Wire-Driven Parallel Robots" at the European Robotic Forum 2012, 5-7 March 2012, Odense, Denmark (together with Dr. Jean-Pierre Merlet (INRIA, France) and Dr. Andreas Pott (Fraunhofer IPA)).

Reviewer Activities

• Associate Editor for "2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019)"
• Associate Editor for "2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017)"
• Associate Editor for "2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)"
• Associate Editor for "2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)"
• Reviewer for "Construction Robotics" (Springer)
• Reviewer for "Forschung im Ingenieurwesen" (Springer)
• Reviewer for "IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics"
• Reviewer for "IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering"
• Reviewer for "IEEE Transactions on Robotics"
• Reviewer for "Robotica" (Cambridge Journals)
• Reviewer for "Meccanica" (Springer Publishing)
• Reviewer for "Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science" (SAGE Publications)
• Reviewer for "International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems" (SAGE Publications)
• Reviewer for "Mechanism and Machine Theory"(Elsevier)
• Reviewer for "Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing" (Elsevier)
• Reviewer for "International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems" (InTech Open)
• Reviewer for "Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering" (Springer)

Memberships

• Member of the VDI/VDE-GMA Technical Committee 4.10 "Interdisziplinäre Produktentstehung"
• Member of the VDI/VDE-GMA Technical Committee 4.15 "Mechatronik"
• Member of the "Technical Committee for Robotics and Mechatronics of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM)".
• Member of the "Verein Deutscher Ingenieure" (VDI)
• Member of the "Global Young Faculty" (Universitätsallianz Metropole Ruhr/Stiftung Mercator), 2013-2015

Activities in boards and commissions

• Member of the Commission for Research, Young Academics and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Duisburg-Essen (since 2019)
• Member of appointment committees of the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Member of doctoral committees of the TU Delft (Netherlands) and the University of Bologna (Italy)

Invited Talks

• Panel discussion and lecture "Rope robots for automated walling", 10 April 2019, VDMA Forum "Forschung live" at bauma 2019, Munich, 2019
• "Cable-Driven Robots for Automated Masonry", 13 February 2019, Campus Technik Lienz, Lienz, Austria
• "Cable-Driven Parallel Robots - with a Focus on Application Engineering", Winterschool Mechatronics Lienz, 11-15 February 2019, Campus Technik Lienz, Lienz, Austria
• "Use of cable robots for automated construction", University Day 2018: Innovation Industry Construction, Teaching - Practice - Research, 27 November 2018, Essen, Germany.
• "Cable-Driven Parallel Robots - with a Focus on Application Engineering", 2nd Summer School on Parallel Kinematic Manipulators (PKM 2018), 17-21 September 2018, Montpellier, France
• "Application Studies of Large Cable-Driven Parallel Robots", 5 December 2017, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• "Large Cable-Driven Robots - An Automation Concept for Coating?" IntAIRCOAT 2017, 10-11 May 2017, Dublin, Ireland.
• "Cable-Driven Robotics- From Basic Research to Industrial Testing", 4 May 2017, Symposium Motion Technology, Dortmund, Germany.
• "Application of Large-Scale Cable-Driven Parallel Robots", 2016 Science - International Robotics Alliance Conference, 29 September 2016, China Europe International Conference Center, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China.
• "Prospects for Cable Robotics in Marine and Offshore Engineering", Marine and Ocean Engineering Colloquium, 12 December 2015.
• "Cable Robot Applications and Research Trends", 7 July 2013, CNU-RRI, Chonnam National University, South Korea.
• "Application of parallel cable robots", 11 July 2012, IGM seminar "Kinematics, Dynamics and Mechatronics in Motion Engineering", Institute of Transmission Technology and Machine Dynamics of RWTH, Aachen University, Germany
• "Application of parallel wire robots", 8 November 2012, "Mechatroniktag 2012", Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Bocholt
• "Application Examples of Wire Robots", ACCM Workshop on "Multibody System Dynamics, Robotics and Control", 26-27 September 2011, Linz, Austria

Current Research Projects

• Development of Lightweight Racking machines based on Cable Robot Technology from NRW (LEAN)

• Automated Wall Building

Completed research projects

• Development of a storage and retrieval system based on the Stewart-Gough platform: Within the BMBF-funded EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr, a new type of storage and retrieval system based on the cable-driven Stewart-Gough platform (cable robot) is being developed with the participation of key companies and suppliers from the field of intralogistics.
• CableBOT- Parallel Cable Robotics for Improving Maintenance and Logistics of Large-Scale Products: In this project - funded by the EU in the 7th Framework Programme - cable robot systems are used to transport large-scale components.
• FAROMIR: In a cooperation of several institutes, a robot assistance system for the home is being researched.
• Mechatronics for SMEs: Technology consulting and support for SMEs in the Germany-Netherlands border region DFG projects SEGESTA (Rope-driven Stewart platforms in theory and application) and ARTIST (Workspace synthesis of rope-driven parallel kinematic structures)
• Research project ADONIS
• Research project CARina