Completed Projects

Automotive & Mobility

Hydrogen in Future Retail Logistics  

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Sponsor: invest BW 

Total Project Cost:  262.868 €

Project Period: 01.12.2022 bis 30.11.2024

Decarbonization in rail transport by retrofitting diesel locomotives with highly efficient zeroemission hydrogen engines (HydroLoc)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Wittek

Sponsor: BMBF FH-Kooperativ 1-2020

Total Project Cost: 331.167,43 €

Project Period: 01.08.2021 - 31.10.2024

Autonomous Driving Test Field in Baden Württemberg

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Project Partner: FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe City, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB, Bruchsal Town and Region, Heilbronn City

Sponsor: Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

Total Project Cost: 2.5 Mil. €

Project Period: 01.10.2016 bis 2023

Development of an automated adjustable hemming die- FlexFalz Subproject: Development of a digital twin for the automation of an adjustable hemming die

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Hufnagel

Sponsor: BMWi ZIM

Total Project Cost: 220.000 €

Project Period: 01.08.2021 - 31.12.2023

Development of a method for optimising the surface quality of compensated effective surface geometries; Subproject: Development of the individual solution approaches for optimising the surface quality

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Scholle

Sponsor: BMWi ZIM

Total Project Cost: 220.000 €

Project Period: 01.07.2021 - 31.12.2023

Proximity Sense through Ultrasonic Skin (proSenseUSkin)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nicolaj Stache

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research-Research at Universities of Applied Sciences with Companies ("FHprofUnt") 

Total Project Cost: 456.051 €

Project Period: 01.08.2019 - 30.11.2023

Automated Citizen Shuttle to Promote Social Participation

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Project Partners: Emm! Solutions GmbH, Künzelsau Town, Stegmaier Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, hfcon, Stetten Castle

Sponsor: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg

Total Project Cost: 614.823 € (HHN: 185.436 €)

Project Period: 29.06.2020 - 31.12.2022

Hydrogen Combustion Engine with Variable Compression Ratio

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Wittek

Sponsor: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden Württemberg (Innovative Projects)

Total Project Cost: 139.800 €

Project Period: 01.01.2020 - 30.06.2022

Autonomous Hybrid eco Assisted Drive (AHeAD)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Koch-Gröber, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Daniel Zöllner

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Young Engineers Programme)

Total Project Cost: 864.000 €

Project Period: 15.07.2015 - 31.07.2021

AI Lab in the Centre for Machine Learning at the Heilbronn University

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nicolaj Stache

Sponsor: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg regional AI-Labs

Total Project Cost: 99.911 €

Project Period: 01.03.2020 - 31.05.2021

Safe and sustainable mobility for urban and rural regions through intelligent road infrastructure (SALUS)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nicolaj Stache

Sponsor: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden Württemberg (Programme for Universities for Applied Sciences and SMEs) 

Total Project Cost: 169.950 €

Project Period: 01.05.2018 bis 31.07.2020

Asynchronous machine for an engine test bench

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Wittek

Sponsor: German Research Foundation

Total Project Cost: 202.000 €

Project Period: 2016 - 2020

Project eMiniVanH – Small electric vehicles for delivery services in Heilbronn 

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Daberkow

Sponsor: Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württemberg 

Total Project Cost: 117.135 €

Project Period: 01.10.2018 bis 31.03.2020

PEMS- Portable Emission Measurement System

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Koch-Gröber

Sponsor: German Research Foundation 

Total Project Cost: 204.000 €

Hybrid heat sink for electric vehicle drives (HYKE)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wettlaufer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Ringhand

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research 

Total Project Cost: 323.460 €

Project Period: 01.01.2015 - 31.12.2017

Mechanical-hydraulic processes arising in a VCR connecting rod (Joint Project: VARIMOT - Variable Systems for Efficiency Improvement in Gasoline Engines with Small Cylinder Displacement

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Wittek

Sponsor:  Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy 

Total Project Cost: 320.886,54 €

Project Period: 01.06.2015 bis 30.11.2017

Materials Processing & Engineering

Automated Assembly of Lithium-lon Battery Packs with aritifical intelligence

Project Leader : Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Hufnagel

Sponsor : invest BW

Total Project Cost: 258.932 € 

Project Period: : 15.08.2022-14.01.2025

Energy-efficient operational concepts for health protection with cooperatively operating ventilation and air-conditioning systems based on simulations, sensor data and artificial intelligence (ESTATE).

Project Leaders: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jennifer Niessner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Sponsor: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Total Project Cost: 640.160 € 

Project Period: 01.01.2022-31.12.2024

Determination of concepts for the reduction of aerosol particle pollution in public transport using flow simulations and sensor networks (AerÖPNV)

Project Leaders: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jennifer Niessner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Sponsor: MWK

Total Project Cost: 510.000 € 

Project Period: 01.12.2021-31.10.2023

Development of Planking Components for Rail Vehicles with Optimised Vibroacoustic Behaviour (OptiPlank)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arndt Birkert

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 217.428 €

Project Period: 01.11.2020 - 31.12.2022

Virtual Try-Out - Active Surface Design taking into account the System Deformation

Projektleiter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arndt Birkert 

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 188.650 €

Project Period: 01.10.2019 - 31.05.2022

Development of an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly nitriding process for heavily deformed components

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wettlaufer 

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 183.429 €

Project Period: 01.01.2020 - 30.04.2022

Development of a Novel Method for Springback Minimisation of Stamped Sheet Metal Parts 

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Markus Scholle

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 190.000 €

Project Period: 01.10.2019 - 31.01.2022

Test Aerosols and Methods for Testing the Effectiveness of Air Purification Technologies against Sars-CoV-2

Project Leader for Sensor Network: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Sponsor: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden Württemberg, Special Funding Measure for COVID-19 Research

Total Projekt Cost: 1.596.000€ (HHN: 295.200€) 

Project Period: 01.12.2020 - 30.11.2021

Investigation of the Effectiveness of Room Air Cleaners as a Function of Spatial and Climatic Conditions using CFD Simulation and Sensor Networks (RaLuFi - RaumLuftFilter)

Project Leader for Sensor-supported Online-Monitoring: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raoul Zöllner

Supporters: MANN + HUMMEL,  Palas, Dräger

Project Period: 01.11.2020 - 30.04.2021

Correlation of Crash Properties of Extruded Aluminium Sections and Manufacturing Processes

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Ringhand

Sponsor: German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF) Industrial Collective Research (IGF)

Total Project Cost: 746.660 € (HHN: 174.490 €)

Project Period: 01.09.2018 bis 30.04.2021

Development of a Novel Scaling Method in Drawing Operations

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Scholle

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 190.000 €

Project Period: 01.01.2019 - 30.04.2021

Automated Measurement; Selection and Assembly of Lithium Cells

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Hufnagel

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 189.396 €

Project Period: 01.06.2018 bis 31.03.2021

Innovative Millimeter-Wave Sensor Technology for Industrial Applications (MikroSens) - 2nd Funding Phase

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Ott (HHN), Prof. Dr. Thomas Walter (Overall Project Head Uni. Ulm), Uni. Ulm, HS Pforzheim

Sponsor: Ministry of Science, Research and Arts BW,  European Regional Development Fund (EFRE) Centre for Applied Research at Applied Sciences Unis. (ZAFH)

Total Project Cost: 997.175 €

Project Period: 01.01.2019 - 31.03.2021

Development of a modularization, control and optimization method for rotary indexing machines

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Bröcker

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy  (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 190.000 €

Project Period: 01.05.2018 bis 31.07.2020

Bending Springback in the Bending Radii of Car Body Components; Simulation-based Development of Corrective Measures

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arndt Birkert

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs) 

Total Project Cost: 190.000 €

Project Period: 01.10.2018 bis 30.09.2020

Development of an innovative hardening process for austenitic stainless steels including a novel pre- and post-treatment operation

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wettlaufer

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs, Cooperation Projects ZF)

Total Project Cost: 189.208 €

Project Period: 01.10.2017 bis 30.09.2019

Development of new solution methods in fluid mechanics based on first integrals of the Navier-Stokes equation

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Scholle

Sponsor: German Research Foundation (Individual Research Grant)

Total Project Cost: 181.500 €

Project Period: 01.07.2017 bis 30.06.2019

Development of a novel method for the true-to-processing and area-preserving springback compensation

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Scholle

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs -Cooperation Projects ZF)

Total Project Cost: 189.913 €

Project Period: 01.04.2017 - 31.08.2019

Sence2Cloud Optical lnline Quality Assessment of Bended Metal Sheets 

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Ott, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Lanquillon, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Ringhand, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Wittenberg

Sponsor: Baden-Württemberg Foundation gGmbH

Total Project Cost: 240.099.67 €

Project Period: 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2018

FE-based development of a method for proactive tuning of car body assemblies

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arndt Birkert

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Innovative SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 189.944 €

Project Period: 01.10.2016 - 30.09.2018

„HWU Impact Beam“ Development of a tool technology for integrated forming und joining of high-strength Aluminium alloys into complex components in short cycle times

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Arndt Birkert

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs)

Total Project Cost: 190.000 €

Project Period: 01.03.2016 - 31.12.2017

The modular concept factory for all hybrid production tasks

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Wittenberg

Sponsor: German Research Foundation (State Major Instrumentation)

Total Project Cost: 202.000 €

Joining Technology for Automotive Lightweight Concepts (FALKON)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Ringhand

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Research at Universities of Applied Sciences with Companies)

Total Project Cost: 323.220 €

Project Period: 01.05.2014 - 30.04.2017

Development of an innovative gas nitriding process for hardening stainless steels

Project Leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wettlaufer,

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs - Cooperation Projects ZF)

Total Project Cost: 148.212 €

Project Period: 01.06.2015 - 30.03.2017