Prof. Dr. Ruprecht Altenburger

Work at ZHAW

Focus

Chairman of the committee of CEN CWA "Position markers for digital applications on construction sites, structural monitoring and BIM-applications"

Projects

• Vibration Inspection for Bridge Repair Alerts / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• HumanTech / Project leader / completed
• Build Smarter. Cleaner. Cheaper. / Project leader / completed
• Holistic mechatronic design for a sonic toothbrush / Project leader / completed
• OGT – Optical Ground Terminal / Project leader / completed
• DIWA – Drone Interaction with Wild Animals / Project leader / completed
• Vision inspection systems for process optimization and quality assurance in the manufacturing of technology components for textile machines / Team member / completed
• Robo-Mate – Intelligent exoskeleton based on human-robot interaction for manipulation of heavy goods in Europe’s factories of the future / Team member / completed
• ACTIVAL – Electromechanical valve for reciprocating piston compressors / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Altenburger, R., Henrici, A. and Robbiani, M. (2024) 'Analytical solution of an ill-posed system of nonlinear ODE's', Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 130(107762). doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2023.107762.
• Altenburger, R., Scherly, D. and Stadler, K. S. (2016) 'Design of a passive, iso-elastic upper limb exoskeleton for gravity compensation', ROBOMECH Journal, 3(12). doi: 10.1186/s40648-016-0051-5.
• Altenburger, R., Heitz, C. and Timmer, J. (2002) 'Analysis of phase-resolved partial discharge patterns of voids based on a stochastic process approach', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 35(11), pp. 1149–1163. doi: 10.1088/0022-3727/35/11/309.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Stadler, K. S. et al. (2016) 'Robo-Mate an exoskeleton for industrial use : concept and mechanical design', in Tokhi, M. O. and Virk, G. S. (eds) Advances in Cooperative Robotics : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CLAWAR 2016. London: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 806–813. doi: 10.1142/9789813149137_0094.

Patents and patent applications

• Bergmann, Andreas; Altenburger, Ruprecht; Aul, Peter,

  2005.

  Bewegungsvorrichtung mit gelenkigen Stäben für eine Plattform mit sechs Freiheitsgraden.

  Patent number EP1609563 A1

  (2005-12-28)

  .

  Available from: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DEP1609563A1

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