It provides the basic structure for most of our applications. Features of the robot are task level programming and sensor guidance. In this project, techniques for mobile service robots are developed. A very actively developing research area is Nanorobotics . Here, the intelligent interaction between the operating range of the very small and the dimension of the supervising human will be an important feature of the system.
Magnetic bearings constitute our second main research area.
Over the years we have developed methods, tools, and applications for this new bearing technology. It is especially suited for vacuum and clean room techniques machine tools, electric drives, and turbo-machinery vibration control including active damping, balancing and identification. Interest from industry in robotics and magnetic bearings has grown substantially. Therefore, we have been concentrating our research on magnetic bearings in the International Center for Magnetic Bearings in the ETH-section of the Zurich Technopark. Nanotechnology constitutes our third and latest research area.