SPP 2206:  Cooperative Multilevel Multistable Micro Actuator Systems (KOMMMA)

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering ; Materials Science and Engineering
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402743889

This project comprises coordination and management of the scientific collaboration within the priority programme SPP 2206 ‘Cooperative Multistage Multistable Micro Actuator Systems (KOMMMA)’. The priority programme intends to advance the important development step from single actuators to KOMMMA. The coherent cooperation of different microactuators will enable innovative ‘smart’ system solutions and new functionalities, thus building a bridge towards the success of today’s sensor technology. The objective of this interdisciplinary Priority Programme is to demonstrate new theoretically based concepts for understanding the complex coupling and synergy effects in cooperative microactuator systems on different length and time scales. Based on a fundamental understanding of these effects, novel development methods have to be demonstrated for the design of new system architectures as well as for their fabrication and control by focusing on bi- and multistable mechanisms. In the second funding period, the Priority Programme will concentrate on the core issues of ‘design and evaluation of multifunctional microactuator system architectures’ and ‘methods for their fabrication and control’ taking coupling and synergy effects into account.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes

Projects

• A 2D array of cooperative hybrid levitation micro-actuators (2DAMA) (Applicant Korvink, Jan Gerrit )
• ADOPT - Adaptive Optics for THz (Applicants Ament, Christoph ;  Bechtold, Tamara ;  Hoffmann, Martin ;  Wallrabe, Ulrike )
• Cooperative elastomeric multi-actuator platform (CALMAR) (Applicants Maas, Jürgen ;  Marschner, Uwe ;  Richter, Andreas ;  Vorrath, Ernst-Friedrich Markus )
• Cooperative shape memory actuator systems for nanomechanics and nanophotonics (Applicants Kohl, Manfred ;  Ludwig, Alfred ;  Wulfinghoff, Stephan )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Kohl, Manfred )
• Coupling effects in a multi stage of bistable micropumps for high positive or low negative pressures (Applicant Kutter, Christoph )
• Coupling Effects in Re-Programmable Micro-Matter (Applicants Kohl, Manfred ;  Rühe, Jürgen ;  Wendler, Frank )
• DECMAS phase 2: Dielectric Elastomer Membranes for Cooperative Micro-Actuator/Sensor Concepts (Applicants Rizzello, Gianluca ;  Schultes, Günter ;  Seelecke, Stefan )
• EASY-BRAILLE - Electrothermal Actuator System for bistable hybrid Braille area displays (Applicant Schlaak, Helmut F. )
• Multistage Multistable Actuation System with scalable stroke, range and force capability based on cooperative electrostatic actuators (MUST ACT) (Applicant Mescheder, Ulrich )
• Push, Push, Push – Cooperative Actuators and Actuators Fields by Direct Writing Pro-cesses (Applicant Rühe, Jürgen )
• Spatial alignment and functional manipulation of droplet-based systems (Applicants Ament, Christoph ;  Hoffmann, Martin )
• Switchable, bistable microactuator systems based on stimuli-responsive polymers (Applicants Blasco, Ph.D., Eva ;  Selhuber-Unkel, Christine )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Manfred Kohl