Abstract: A device for controlling a handling device comprising a carrier housing which can be arranged on the handling device with a tactile sensor body arranged on the outside of the carrier housing and a tool carrier movably mounted on the carrier housing, wherein the sensor body can be actuated by the tool carrier when load is acting on the tool carrier, wherein the sensor body is formed by a gas-filled chamber which is surrounded by a flexible shell, which can be deformed by collision with an obstacle, and further comprises a pressure sensor for measuring the gas pressure prevailing inside the chamber.

Abstract: In an apparatus for detecting a collision of a handling device with an obstacle, comprising at least one gas-filled chamber, which is surrounded by a flexible sheath that is deformable by collision with an obstacle and has a flexible supporting structure, wherein the supporting structure forms a damping element, which, together with the sheath, mechanically damps the forces that act in the event a collision, and also comprising a pressure sensor for measuring the gas pressure inside the chamber, wherein the apparatus is able to be attached to the handling device in a manner covering at least a first and a second region of the handling device, the sheath and the supporting structure are formed in one piece with one another and provide different degrees of damping from one another in the first and the second region.

Abstract: Method for producing a cushion with a casing made of an airtight casing material and a flexible, polydirectionally air-permeable filling body which is arranged in the casing and which is materially connected to the casing. The method includes at least the following steps: coating a first mold cavity of a molding tool with a curable, flowable and/or sprayable plastic material to form a first casing shell, coating a second mold cavity of the molding tool with the curable, flowable and/or sprayable plastic material to form a second casing shell, inserting a pre-produced filling body into the first casing shell located in the first mold cavity, and joining together of the first and second casing shells located in the first mold cavity and in the second mold cavity before the plastic material cures or fully reacts.

Abstract: A device for detecting the impact quality in contact sports comprises at least one sensor for detecting a force acting on a training device and at least one sensor for detecting an acceleration of the training device, wherein the force sensor comprises a fluid-filled, elastically deformable sensor body, in which a pressure sensor measuring the fluid pressure is arranged.

Abstract: A device for controlling a handling device comprising a carrier housing which can be arranged on the handling device with a tactile sensor body arranged on the outside of the carrier housing and a tool carrier movably mounted on the carrier housing, wherein the sensor body can be actuated by the tool carrier when load is acting on the tool carrier, wherein the sensor body is formed by a gas-filled chamber which is surrounded by a flexible shell, which can be deformed by collision with an obstacle, and further comprises a pressure sensor for measuring the gas pressure prevailing inside the chamber.

Abstract: In an apparatus for detecting a collision of a handling device with an obstacle, comprising at least one gas-filled chamber, which is surrounded by a flexible sheath that is deformable by collision with an obstacle and has a flexible supporting structure, wherein the supporting structure forms a damping element, which, together with the sheath, mechanically damps the forces that act in the event a collision, and also comprising a pressure sensor for measuring the gas pressure inside the chamber, wherein the apparatus is able to be attached to the handling device in a manner covering at least a first and a second region of the handling device, the sheath and the supporting structure are formed in one piece with one another and provide different degrees of damping from one another in the first and the second region.

Abstract: The method and a device are for protecting persons and stationary or autonomously moving obstacles in front of stationary or autonomously moving handling apparatuses such as manufacturing, transport, inspection or service robots and their manipulators from collisions within their workspace by pressure sensors in protective covers filled with medium in such a manner that the medium is not supplied to each individual protective element from outside, but the protective elements in their interior, in addition to a pressure sensor, also comprise a pressure-increasing device, which sucks in the medium, preferably ambient air, and generates a pressure in the interior of the protective element, which is adjustable from a control device.

Abstract: The method and a device are for protecting persons and stationary or autonomously moving obstacles in front of stationary or autonomously moving handling apparatuses such as manufacturing, transport, inspection or service robots and their manipulators from collisions within their workspace by pressure sensors in protective covers filled with medium in such a manner that the medium is not supplied to each individual protective element from outside, but the protective elements in their interior, in addition to a pressure sensor, also comprise a pressure-increasing device, which sucks in the medium, preferably ambient air, and generates a pressure in the interior of the protective element, which is adjustable from a control device.

Abstract: The invention includes a method for docking autonomous mobile units. Travel maneuvers are specified with which constricted space conditions can be taken into consideration. Further, different motion paths are recited that are to be sequentially traversed in order to locate a guide beam and in order to be able to dock reliably and dependably at a docking device. Preferably, a slot-shaped guide beam residing perpendicular to a travel surface of the unit is provided, and position-sensitive detectors for this guide beam are present on the unit, these being arranged parallel to the travel surface of the unit. The exact rotation (beta) of the unit relative to the docking device can be identified on the basis of the guide beam and the detectors, whereby the unit knows its approximate configuration in the space on the basis of ultrasound and odometry measurements. The invention can particularly be utilized in household robots or industrial robots.