The new COMET K2 competence center: Symbiotic Mechatronics
Since 1st January 2018, the LCM (Linz Center of Mechatronics GmbH) has a new COMET K2 competence center called “Symbiotic Mechatronics”. This competence center is funded by BMVIT, BMWFJ and the province of Upper Austria and handled by FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency). This funding enables LCM to carry out risky innovative projects with its partners at the interface between science and industry. The excellence and national and international partner network developed in the previous funding phase (K2 Center ACCM – Austrian Center of Competence in Mechatronics) can now be used and taken to a new level in order to strengthen sustainable the research location of Austria.
DISSERTATIONEN | PHD`S
PATENTS
SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
MASTER'S AND DIPLOMA THESIS
Vision | Mission
The center will continue to realize its vision “To be a leader in mechatronic excellence and a successful international innovation provider” by the following main measures:
- Challenging, high level research program devoted to trendsetting technologies
- Continuous intensification of networking with leading international scientific and company partners and research centers, optimally selected for the centers needs.
- Strengthening the centers international visibility by high level publications, organizations of and significant contributions to international conferences and workshops
- Development of excellent research personnel by an interdisciplinary human resource program (PhD grants, international exchange of researchers, conference visits, etc.)
Research activities | Research Areas
Today’s world is faced with radical changes calling for novel orientations of industrial branches, e.g. in product development, engineering, or manufacturing, and of our daily lives as well. Dramatic progress in information and communication technology has strongly pushed worldwide networking. New concepts and prominent initiatives such as “internet of things”, “cyberphysical systems”, “Industry 4.0”, or “Factories of the Future” give visible evidence thereof and aim at stimulating radical innovations and significant product improvements. Most of these concepts include mechatronic systems as indispensable parts and request strong mutual interaction among these systems and with various physical, digital, human and ambient environments. Following nature’s example, we are bringing mechatronic systems into mutual, beneficial interrelations with their interacting partners, be it press brakes, digital twins, disabled persons, or indoor climate. This partnership resembles an “organism” for which the principle of symbiosis will open new potential benefits for complex technical systems.
The scientific results of Comet K2 research projects, together with the expertise of both LCM and our clients provide the means for marketable products and for tomorrow’s solutions. LCM’s intensive cooperation with international universities and research partners serves as a basis for a sustainable internationalization strategy.
National and international founded projects
The LCM team has comprehensive experience in tendering for EU projects and other international project plans. Some of the results of these projects have since been successfully brought onto the market. We have submitted project proposals for the following national programmes and structural funds:
ETP: European Technology Platforms: Initiative to support international networking. Funding: Horizon 2020 – Rules for Participation (100/70%) | JTIs: JTI – Joint Technology Initiatives: public-private partnership to support transnational research collaboration in selected technological fields | cPPPs: contractual Public Private Partnerships | EIPs: European Innovation Partnerships | ERANET: European Research Area | EIT (KICs): European Innovation and Technology Institute – Knowledge and Innovation Communities | HORIZON2020: research nnovation programme european commission | FET: Future and Emerging Technologies | Art. 185-Initiativen
