Prof. Dr. Ruprecht Altenburger

Personal profile

Management role

• Head of Research/Focus Area, Advanced Control
• Head, Control Engineering Laboratory

Position at the ZHAW

Professor in Control Engineering
Lecturer for Mechanics, Mechatronics and Control Engineering
Lecturer MAS Automation Management

www.zhaw.ch/ims/

Expertise and research interests

- Research and development of mechatronic systems
- Simulation of mechatronic systems
- UAV navigation and implementation on embedded systems
- Coupled simulation of finite element models with control

Educational background

2007 Dr.Ing. (PhD); Universität Stuttgart
2001 Physicist; Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
1992 Machine Mechanic; SIG Neuhausen/CH

Professional milestones

2004-2007 Startup and project engineer, PKSystems GmbH
2001-2004 Project engineer, Zentrum für Fertigungstechnik Stuttgart

Membership of networks

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Automatik
• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

Projects

• HumanTech / Project leader / Project ongoing
• BIMprove – Build Smarter. Cleaner. Cheaper. / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Holistic mechatronic design for a sonic toothbrush / Project leader / Project completed
• Optimierung des Schwingungsverhaltens eines Vergleichsmikroskops für ballistische Expertisen / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• OGT – Optical Ground Terminal / Project leader / Project completed
• DIWA – Drone Interaction with Wild Animals / Project leader / Project completed
• Vision inspection systems for process optimization and quality assurance in the manufacturing of technology components for textile machines / Team member / Project completed
• Robo-Mate / Team member / Project completed
• ACTIVAL – Electromechanical valve for reciprocating piston compressors / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Altenburger, Ruprecht; Scherly, Daniel; Stadler, Konrad S.,

  2016.

  Design of a passive, iso-elastic upper limb exoskeleton for gravity compensation.

  ROBOMECH Journal.

  3(12).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40648-016-0051-5

• Altenburger, Ruprecht; Heitz, Christoph; Timmer, Jens,

  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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/35/11/309

• Stadler, Konrad S.; Altenburger, Ruprecht; Schmidhauser, Emilio; Scherly, Daniel; Ortiz, J.; Toxiri, S.; Mateos, L.; Masood, J.,

  2016.

  Robo-Mate an exoskeleton for industrial use : concept and mechanical design [paper].

  In:

  Tokhi, M. O.; Virk, G. S., eds.,

  Advances in Cooperative Robotics : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CLAWAR 2016.

  19th International Conference on CLAWAR, London, 12-14 September 2016.

  London:

  World Scientific.

  pp. 806-813.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813149137_0094

Patents and patent applications

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

  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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