Researchers around the world are already working on how to master increasingly complex production and logistics systems of the future, especially in the port environment. In spite of progressive automation, humans are indispensable and exposed to great physical strain, especially due to manual material provisioning in automobile handling. Under the…

MEXOT pursues the overriding goal of ergonomic workplace design through the combined use of passive, sensory exoskeletons and the development of a process- and employee-specific material supply system using driverless transport vehicles (AGVs). On the one hand, the goal is to reduce employee workloads and make process flows more efficient…

The port environment is characterized by the handling of heavy and large loads and a high turnover. Despite this, humans are indispensable in the advancing automation. In the specific application of automobile handling, vehicles are prepared for the respective target market in technical centers. For this purpose, tires and trailer…

The research project MEXOT aims to develop a socio-technical overall system for the manually dominated automobile sector by using sensory exoskeletons and automated guided vehicles (AGV) to improve the work´s productivity and economic circumstances. Reducing manual paths and feed times through a context-situation AGV behavior while using the exoskeleton´s support…