Robots to Re-Construction - The Roadmap to Robotized Asbestos Removal

After completing his mechanical engineering studies at RWTH Aachen University in 1984, Prof. Corves worked as an assistant lecturer also at RWTH Aachen University, where received his doctorate in 1989. His thesis dealt with the kinematics and dynamics of industrial robots within a Collaborative Research Centre funded by the prestigious German Research Foundation. After working at RWTH Aachen University as a Postdoc in the position of Chief-Engineer until 1991, he took a research and development position in industry in the field of special machine construction in Germany and Switzerland. In 2000, he was appointed university professor and director of the Institute for Mechanism Science, Machine Dynamics and Robotics at RWTH Aachen University, where his teaching and research is concentrating on the aforementioned institute topics. Prof. Corves has lead numerous national and European research activities such as Bots2ReC with more than 400 publications containing books, journal and conference papers covering different topics such as robotics, cam mechanism, glass machinery, pneumatic mechanisms, computer-aided graphical analysis and synthesis in mechanism theory, mechatronic development and machine design strategy. Since 1987 Prof. Corves is member of the German Association of Mechanical Engineers (VDI), where he holds positions as the chairman of the VDI-Scientific Board on "Gears, Mechanisms and Machine Elements", the chairman of the VDI Committee "Mechanisms for handling and manipulation" and member of the VDI Board of the Society of Process and Product Design.

Tobias Haschke began his mechanical engineering studies at RWTH Aachen University in 2010 and completed them as Master of Science in spring 2016. During his studies, he focused on "Development and Design" and was already working as a student assistant at Prof. Corves' chair in the research area of robotics. His master thesis was about the generic design and analysis of multiple redundant parallel manipulators. After his studies of mechanical engineering, he started working as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics and has been working on the EU research project Bots2Rec from the beginning. Therein, he mainly dealt with the topics of dynamic task planning, central robot control and software architecture. In January 2019, he took over the leadership of the research project Bots2ReC and at the same time, he became group leader of the robotics group at the chair of Prof. Corves. In further research projects, Tobias Haschke is engaged in the agile development of cyber-physical systems and the automation of logistic scenarios using AGVs. Furthermore, he is in charge of the research area "Construction Robotics" at the institute of Prof. Corves and Prof. Hüsing.