Master’s Thesis: User centered design of a mobile maintenance robot
Your mission
For this master's thesis you will develop a concept design for a mobile maintenance robot for industrial applications.
The focus is on a user-centered design that takes technical requirements into account.
Ensure that the robot can be set up and dismantled quickly and easily, has short set-up times and is safe, error-free and intuitive to operate.
The robot should fit into the boot of a small van and be designed in such a way that it can be operated outdoors in harsh weather conditions.
Your tasks
- Market research in the field of maintenance robots and maintenance processes in industrial contexts such as windparks and shipyards
- Field observation and interviews with potential users
- Develop and test a conceptual design of the robot for a specific use case
- Develop your design concept by building physical mock-ups to test ergonomics and user-friendliness
- Design detailing: renderings, drawings and, if desired, a 1:5 model
Qualification
- Profound knowledge in 3d-modeling
- Good physical prototyping skills (ergonomic models, functional models)
- Creo Parametric 7 (beneficial)
- Rhino 3D (beneficial)
- Keyshot (beneficial)
- Adobe CC
Start date
As soon as possible. Please send your resumé and portfolio to Tilo Wüsthoff (details below). Due to processing times the earliest start date is approximately three months after submission of your final application papers.
The thesis will be conducted at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics in Oberpfaffenhofen close to Munich.