Abstract: In a method for measuring the wing edge of a vehicle on a test bed, the test bed has a coordinate system in which the Z-axis is the vertical axis, the X-axis is an axis on the test bed extending in the horizontal plane in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle located on the test bed for testing, and the Y-axis is an axis of the test bed extending perpendicular to the X-axis in the horizontal plane. In determining the position and orientation of the wing edge, a light pattern projected onto a vehicle by an illumination unit is moved and recorded by two imaging units. A subset for evaluation is formed from the 3D point clouds determined stereophotogrammetrically from the recordings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the automated coupling and decoupling of a tool attachment from a tool drive means. The tool attachment and the tool drive means are configured to actuate a connection means for the connection of at least two workpieces. The connection means can be a screw or a bolt. The tool attachment can be coupled with and released from the tool drive means, in that the tool attachment is placed on the tool drive means. According to the invention, a magazine is present, having at least one tool attachment receiving space as well as holding means for the tool attachment in the tool attachment receiving space. The tool drive means is moveable in the axial direction with respect to the tool attachment for coupling as well as releasing the tool attachment with respect to the tool drive means. The tool attachment is held on the tool drive means in a form-fit manner. Coupling and decoupling occurs in an automated manner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting the direction of the orientation of a vehicle, wherein the direction of the orientation of the vehicle is the direction of the axis of symmetry of the vehicle. In this case, the currently imaged vehicle represents its own reference in that, from the photographic image of the front side of the vehicle, a correlation is determined between the parts of the photographic image of the front side of the vehicle that are located in different parts of the photographic image of the front side of the vehicle with respect to an optical axis of symmetry of the front side of the vehicle, wherein the direction of the orientation of the vehicle relative to the imaging direction of the photographic image is derived from the correlation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for adjusting the wheel alignment parameters of the wheels of a vehicle, wherein at least one vehicle axle is gripped by one gripping device per wheel axle, near the wheel flanges of the corresponding axle. According to the present invention, the gripping devices are moved by means of controllable drive means in such a way that the wheel alignment parameters of the wheels are adjusted via the orientation of the gripping devices.

Abstract: A device and a method for automatically connecting two workpieces via fasteners has a magazine for receiving the fasteners. A fastener nest is provided whose lower side can be coupled to the upper side of the magazine, the fastener nest including openings for inserting the fasteners and the openings being blockable and unblockable at their lower ends.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for determining and adjusting the chassis geometry of a vehicle. In order to provide a device for determining and adjusting vehicle chassis geometry, which can be manufactured as inexpensively as possible, the invention proposes that two tracks be provided on which the vehicle can be moved from a position A to a position B, each track having two means to permit lateral relaxation of the vehicle wheels as well as rotary discs located in the area of the vehicle's front axle at position B, that a measuring sensor operating according to the principle of stereophotogrammetry is located on the outside of each of the tracks, and that means for measuring the travel of the measuring sensors and a steering-wheel balance for detecting the position of the steering wheel are provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for automatically connecting two workpieces by means of fasteners, the device having a magazine for receiving the fasteners. In order to improve a device for automatically connecting two workpieces to the effect that supplying the fasteners is less personnel- and cost-intensive, the invention proposes that a fastener nest (7) be provided whose lower side can be coupled to the upper side of the magazine, the fastener nest comprising openings for inserting the fasteners and the openings being blockable and unblockable at their lower ends. Compared to the prior art, this solution is more economical and reduces cycle time.

Abstract: A method is for determining the axle geometry of a vehicle, wherein light of a given structure is projected onto a vehicle wheel, and the diffusely reflected light can be analyzed in order to determine the orientation of the plane of the vehicle wheel. Several lines of a laser light generated by means of one or several laser light sources are projected on the wheel, and one or several of these lines fades in and/or out in temporal succession. The reflected light is captured by means of one or several cameras.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for adjusting the steering wheel of a motor vehicle. The aim of the invention is to enable an automatic adjustment of the steering wheel in the steering clearance center by ‘stabilizing’ or carrying out a steering hysteresis measurement, and the subsequent adjustment of the steering wheel, in a simple, rapid and cost-effective manner. To this end, the invention relates to a method for adjusting the steering wheel of a motor vehicle in the steering wheel clearance center, the method being characterized by the following steps: the floating plates of the vehicle geometry test bed, on which the front wheels of the motor vehicle are arranged, are rotated when the wheels are stopped in order to cause the rotation of steering wheel; the steering wheel angle is determined according to the triggered steering wheel movement; and the steering wheel clearance center is adjusted.