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MARC Seminar Series 02
Applied Robotics - From Research to Industry
Time: May 14, 2025, 13:00-15:00 (CET). 45-minute presentation followed by a joint discussion
Location: Hybrid. Room: A6-0136-013 (Empirin), Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna Campus
Seminar Abstract
Robots, needed to stay competitive in industry, wanted to be used in research for continuous improvement of functionalities and to demonstrate possibilities. They can be used as supportive devices like exoskeletons, in collaborative environments with collaborative serial manipulators, in machining operations in types of gantry or parallel kinematic structures, or in classical serial arm robots in dirty and dangerous production environments. Even humanoids and robot dogs are not futuristic anymore.
But how do we manage to use them in collaborative environments with humans or animals, or unstructured environments outside the factory? How do we decide on a specific robotic type, like serial kinematics, parallel kinematics, gantry robots, or autonomous mobile robots? How do we choose and design peripheral devices? And how do we apply safety regulations in specific areas? Above all, how do we close the gap between research and industry to come to the state of applied robotics?
Those questions will be discussed and demonstrated on specific use cases in different application areas, like construction robotics, robotics in the rehabilitation of patients with neurological diseases, and production and assembly environments.
Speaker
Maike Klöckner, Operations Development Specialist at Alfa Laval Technologies AB.
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Maike Klöckner was born in 1987 in Essen, Germany. She studied mechanical engineering with a focus on construction design and automation at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. After this, she focused on human-robot collaboration in her role as Project Engineer at RIF e.V., Dortmund, Germany. During this time, she applied for funding for a research project within robotic rehabilitation, which was the basis for her PhD with the title “Entwicklung einer Kinematik für die automatisierte Bewegungstherapie von neurologischen Patienten auf Basis einer bewährten manuellen Therapiemethode” ("Kinematics development for the automated movement therapy of neurological patients based on a proven manual therapy method"), which she received in 2018 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Hereupon, she moved 2019 to Lund, Sweden, to work as a post-doc within construction robotics at Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH).
Since 2024, she is working in her role as OD Specialist at Alfa Laval Technologies AB, focusing on future automation solutions within production and assembly.