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MEMBERS OF THE                              AREAS OF APPLICATION                                TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACT

                    PROJECT TEAM
                                                                _All remote laser welding processes that require    _Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can
                    _Thibault Bautze-Scherff                      process monitoring.                                be used to its full extent in combination
                      (Team Representative)                     _Laser joining tasks in the automotive industry, for   scanner-based laser material processing.
                    _Martin Zeitler                               example on door and seat structures, as well as on   _Various kinds of in-process monitoring
                    _Volkan Türetkan                              numerous components for electric vehicles.         technologies (e.g. photodiodes, pyrometers)
                    _Dr. Uwe Megerle                            _Scanner-based laser applications in the field       are localized at an equal spatial resolution as
                     (SCANLAB GmbH, Puchheim, Germany)            of additive manufacturing, necessitating highly    the galvanometer scanner itself.
                                                                  accurate process monitoring (SLM/LPBF).           _The centralized data processing allows for a
                    Blackbird Robotersysteme GmbH,              _Further applications using OCT or other sensors     single user interface, greatly simplifying the
                    Garching b. München, Germany                  for coaxial process monitoring and control in      human-machine interaction.
                                                                  combination with galvanometer scanners            _Open-interface for various kinds of sensor
                                                                                                                     types to be synchronized with the scanner.





                       > 13 axes in action: robotic on-the-fly
                      remote laser welding with OCT-based
                      process monitoring







                                                                                                                               > The Blackboard in its initial case accompanied
                                                                                                                              by a scanner and its RTC control board.










                                                                                       > Pre-, in-, and post-
                                                                                      process data as
                                                                                      it’s provided by the
                                                                                      Blackboard.



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