Research projects

4D.TWO® and 4D.watcher

Cur­rent research projects

The devel­op­ment and appli­ca­tion of our 4D.TWO® (hard­ware) and 4D.watch­er (soft­ware) are pro­mot­ed with­in the scope of the fol­low­ing projects.

DIPOOL

Dig­i­tal process online opti­miz­er for smart laser machines (BmBF, ref­er­ence num­ber: 02P20A006, 07-01-2021 – 06-30-2024)

Project objec­tive
Auto­mat­ic and robust mon­i­tor­ing, qual­i­ty assur­ance and opti­miza­tion of laser cut­ting and laser weld­ing by using arti­fi­cial intelligence

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of a process flex­i­ble, mul­ti-sen­so­ry process mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem | Devel­op­ment of an AI-capa­ble data structure

Part­ners
FHG ILT, LBBZ, Dreher, Marx, Pre­citec, KIT – IIIT

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DiRe­AL

Dig­i­tal remote assis­tant for sta­tus analy­sis and online error cor­rec­tion of laser mate­r­i­al machin­ing process­es (BmBF, ref­er­ence num­ber: 13N15348, 08-01-2021 – 07-31-2024)

Project objec­tive
Com­bi­na­tion of dif­fer­ent sen­sor con­cepts (such as pho­to diode-based sys­tems, videog­ra­phy) for AI-based mon­i­tor­ing of laser weld­ing process­es and visu­al­iza­tion in laser remote assistants

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of inter­faces for com­mu­ni­ca­tion with exter­nal sys­tems | Design and imple­men­ta­tion of the eval­u­a­tion strat­e­gy for mul­ti­spec­tral sen­sor data | Error detec­tion dur­ing weld­ing of alu­minum bat­tery boxes

Part­ners
Oculavis, FHG ILT, Scan­son­ic, Hema elec­tron­ics, Cloos (asso­ci­at­ed)

Laser­Com­pos­ite

Sen­sor devel­op­ment (AiF, ref­er­ence num­ber: KK5251401WO1, 10-01-2021 – 03-31-2024)

Project objec­tive
Devel­op­ment of a join­ing process for sheet metal/sheet met­al as well as cord con­nec­tions made of alu­minum and cop­per by means of laser beam weld­ing for con­duc­tiv­i­ty > 33 MS/m as well as for reduc­tion of inter­metal­lic phases

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of an inte­grat­ed opti­cal design of the mul­ti-spec­tral sen­sor hard­ware | Devel­op­ment of a real time inter­face for the data out­put | Detec­tion of errors dur­ing the weld­ing of alu­minum-cop­per compounds

Part­ners
BBW, TU Ilmenau

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AgiloDrive 2 - Finanziert von der Europäischen Union - NextGenerationEU
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AgiloDrive2

Joint project: Agile pro­duc­tion sys­tems and mod­u­lar prod­uct build­ing blocks for elec­tri­cal trac­tion motors (BmWK, ref­er­ence num­ber: 13IK003A, 11-01-2021 – 10-31-2024)

Project objec­tive
Devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of an agile, dig­i­tal prod­uct and pro­duc­tion build­ing block for elec­tri­cal trac­tion motors

Tasks for 4D
Inte­gra­tion and test­ing of the mul­ti-spec­tral sen­sor sys­tem for e‑mobility appli­ca­tions (laser-based dis­man­tling and laser weld­ing of hair­pin sta­tors for elec­tric motors) | Imple­men­ta­tion of AI-based data analy­sis algorithms

Part­ners
Scha­ef­fler, Braun, Zeiss, Formi­Ka, Gehring, KIT, Koob, LTB, Ste­in­groev­er, Pro Beam, Schunk, Stahl, Trumpf, Wafios

Weld­ing­Watch

(AiF, ref­er­ence num­ber: KK5251402KL1, 09-01-2022 – 08-31-2024)

Project objec­tive
Devel­op­ment of inline process mon­i­tor­ing of laser weld­ing process­es for con­tact­ing of bat­tery cells based on ML algo­rithms with short adap­ta­tion and inte­grat­ed con­trollers for reduc­ing the scrap rate below 0.1%

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of the hard­ware inter­face for the inte­gra­tion of exter­nal sen­sors | Appli­ca­tion tests for appli­ca­tion cas­es of e‑mobility (laser weld­ing of bat­tery cells) | Process con­trol based on sen­sor data

Part­ners
TU Munich – iwb

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DigiAut­o­Fab

Dig­i­tal end-to-end work­flow for addi­tive series pro­duc­tion of plas­tic com­po­nents for the auto­mo­tive indus­try (BmWK, ref­er­ence num­ber: 13IK034B, 09-01-2023 – 06-30-2026)

Project objec­tive
Opti­miza­tion of a net­worked dig­i­tal prod­uct cre­ation process from con­struc­tion, pro­duc­tion prepa­ra­tion and actu­al addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing up to post-processing

Tasks for 4D
Inte­gra­tion of addi­tion­al data sources such as scan posi­tions into an LPBF sys­tem | Analy­sis of pow­dered raw mate­ri­als | Error detec­tion dur­ing addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing of plas­tic components

Part­ners
Leotech, John Deere, Wen­zel, Nexe­di, Dye­Man­sion, Porsche, Uni Stuttgart, Fraunhofer

DIPOOL
Dig­i­tal process online opti­miz­er for smart laser machines (BmBF, ref­er­ence num­ber: 02P20A006, 07-01-2021 – 06-30-2024)
 

Project objec­tive
Auto­mat­ic and robust mon­i­tor­ing, qual­i­ty assur­ance and opti­miza­tion of laser cut­ting and laser weld­ing by using arti­fi­cial intelligence

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of a process flex­i­ble, mul­ti-sen­so­ry process mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem | Devel­op­ment of an AI-capa­ble data structure

Part­ners
FHG ILT, LBBZ, Dreher, Marx, Pre­citec, KIT – IIIT

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DiRe­AL
Dig­i­tal remote assis­tant for sta­tus analy­sis and online error cor­rec­tion of laser mate­r­i­al machin­ing process­es (BmBF, ref­er­ence num­ber: 13N15348, 08-01-2021 – 07-31-2024)
 
Project objec­tive

Com­bi­na­tion of dif­fer­ent sen­sor con­cepts (such as pho­to diode-based sys­tems, videog­ra­phy) for AI-based mon­i­tor­ing of laser weld­ing process­es and visu­al­iza­tion in laser remote assistants

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of inter­faces for com­mu­ni­ca­tion with exter­nal sys­tems | Design and imple­men­ta­tion of the eval­u­a­tion strat­e­gy for mul­ti­spec­tral sen­sor data | Error detec­tion dur­ing weld­ing of alu­minum bat­tery boxes

Part­ners
Oculavis, FHG ILT, Scan­son­ic, Hema elec­tron­ics, Cloos (asso­ci­at­ed)

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Laser­Com­pos­ite
Sen­sor devel­op­ment (AiF, ref­er­ence num­ber: KK5251401WO1, 10-01-2021 – 03-31-2024)
 
Project objec­tive

Devel­op­ment of a join­ing process for sheet metal/sheet met­al as well as cord con­nec­tions made of alu­minum and cop­per by means of laser beam weld­ing for con­duc­tiv­i­ty > 33 MS/m as well as for reduc­tion of inter­metal­lic phases

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of an inte­grat­ed opti­cal design of the mul­ti-spec­tral sen­sor hard­ware | Devel­op­ment of a real time inter­face for the data out­put | Detec­tion of errors dur­ing the weld­ing of alu­minum-cop­per compounds

Part­ners
BBW, TU Ilmenau

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AgiloDrive2
AgiloDrive 2 - Finanziert von der Europäischen Union - NextGenerationEU
Joint project: Agile pro­duc­tion sys­tems and mod­u­lar prod­uct build­ing blocks for elec­tri­cal trac­tion motors (BmWK, ref­er­ence num­ber: 13IK003A, 11-01-2021 – 10-31-2024)
 
Project objec­tive

Devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of an agile, dig­i­tal prod­uct and pro­duc­tion build­ing block for elec­tri­cal trac­tion motors

Tasks for 4D
Inte­gra­tion and test­ing of the mul­ti-spec­tral sen­sor sys­tem for e‑mobility appli­ca­tions (laser-based dis­man­tling and laser weld­ing of hair­pin sta­tors for elec­tric motors) | Imple­men­ta­tion of AI-based data analy­sis algorithms

Part­ners
Scha­ef­fler, Braun, Zeiss, Formi­Ka, Gehring, KIT, Koob, LTB, Ste­in­groev­er, Pro Beam, Schunk, Stahl, Trumpf, Wafios

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Weld­ing­Watch
(AiF, ref­er­ence num­ber: KK5251402KL1, 09-01-2022 – 08-31-2024)
 
Project objec­tive

Devel­op­ment of inline process mon­i­tor­ing of laser weld­ing process­es for con­tact­ing of bat­tery cells based on ML algo­rithms with short adap­ta­tion and inte­grat­ed con­trollers for reduc­ing the scrap rate below 0.1%

Tasks for 4D
Devel­op­ment of the hard­ware inter­face for the inte­gra­tion of exter­nal sen­sors | Appli­ca­tion tests for appli­ca­tion cas­es of e‑mobility (laser weld­ing of bat­tery cells) | Process con­trol based on sen­sor data

Part­ners
TU Munich – iwb

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DigiAut­o­Fab
Dig­i­tal end-to-end work­flow for addi­tive series pro­duc­tion of plas­tic com­po­nents for the auto­mo­tive indus­try (BmWK, ref­er­ence num­ber: 13IK034B, 09-01-2023 – 06-30-2026)
 

Project objec­tive
Opti­miza­tion of a net­worked dig­i­tal prod­uct cre­ation process from con­struc­tion, pro­duc­tion prepa­ra­tion and actu­al addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing up to post-processing

Tasks for 4D
Inte­gra­tion of addi­tion­al data sources such as scan posi­tions into an LPBF sys­tem | Analy­sis of pow­dered raw mate­ri­als | Error detec­tion dur­ing addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing of plas­tic components

Part­ners
Leotech, John Deere, Wen­zel, Nexe­di, Dye­Man­sion, Porsche, Uni Stuttgart, Fraunhofer

Con­tact us!

If you would like to learn more about our prod­ucts and ser­vices, or would like to request a cus­tomized offer, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us. You can con­tact us by phone, via email or by using our con­tact form. We look for­ward to receiv­ing your enquiry!

Con­tact
Sched­ule con­sul­ta­tion appointment

Con­tact us!

If you would like to learn more about our prod­ucts and ser­vices, or would like to request a cus­tomized offer, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us. You can con­tact us by phone, via email or by using our con­tact form. We look for­ward to receiv­ing your enquiry!

Con­tact
Sched­ule con­sul­ta­tion appointment
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