Technology Offers
- Plant engineering
- Drive technology
- Automotive industry
- Building industry
- Polymer industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Process and production engineering
Inspecting surfaces with machine learning
A method has been developed at KIT to automatically evaluate surface states of objects using video images, neural networks, and machine learning. Intelligent surface inspection can improve defect inspection.
Adaptive gearbox for robots based on the human model
Muscles work quickly and with little force or slowly and powerfully. With a novel adaptive linear gear unit, this behavior for electric motors in robots is implemented in the smallest possible space.
- Drive technology
- Automotive industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Process and production engineering
- Measurement technology
- Simulation and data processing
- Services
From vehicle noise to warning system
KIT researchers analyse, how mobility caused noise and sound affect humans. Research is also being conducted on the chassis dynamometer to find out how the car of the future may sound.
- Automotive industry
- Drive technology
- Automation / IT
- Measurement technology
- Simulation and data processing
- Safety technology
- Services
- Analytics
Automobiles on the test bench
KIT's vehicle-in-the-loop test bench enables continuous, close-to-reality vehicle tests, considering the interaction with the driver and the environment.
- Automation / IT
- Services
- Drive technology
- Electrical engineering
- Measurement technology
- Simulation and data processing
Performance checkup for Pedelecs
Test bench for electrically assisted bicycles accelerates the development of electric motors and drives. The system quantifies cycling cycles, ranges and assistance levels in a reproducible and realistic manner.
- Plant engineering
- Drive technology
- Aerospace industry
- Energy technology
- Process and production engineering
- Mechanical engineering
Aerodynamic film cooling holes
An optimized inlet geometry of film cooling holes on the cooling air side improves the film cooling effectiveness for cooling hot metal surfaces.
- Drive technology
- Energy technology
- Energy and water supply
- Plant engineering
- Transport and logistics
Freight and energy transport by magnetic levitation train
New concept combines magnetic levitation and energy transmission via superconductor tapes in the rail structure and offers a double benefit for freight logistics.
High-frequency sensor for non-contact torque measurements
Combination of a ferromagnetic sensor film and a high-frequency strip-line enables torque measurements.
- Automation / IT
- Drive technology
- Automotive industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Plant engineering
- Safety technology
- Communication and data transmission
Emergency brake assistant for vehicles and machines
Retrofittable emergency activation system ensures adjustable emergency braking while still allowing the driver to intervene during the braking process.
- Automotive industry
- Chemical industry
- Energy technology
- Polymer industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Food industry
- Process and production engineering
- Simulation and data processing
- Software and IT
- Drive technology
Simulate atomization at multiple scales
Virtual test bench using particle-based hydrodynamics provides improved simulation and realistic visualization of two-phase flows during atomization.