Completed Projects

Automotive & Mobility

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

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