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

• 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

• Altenburger, Ruprecht; Henrici, Andreas; Robbiani, Marcello,

  2024.

  Analytical solution of an ill-posed system of nonlinear ODE’s.

  Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.

  130(107762).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2023.107762

• 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

• 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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