Enabling End-Users in Designing and Executing of Complex, Collaborative Robotic Processes

Over the last years, capabilities of robotic systems have quantitatively and qualitatively improved. But going beyond isolated robotic systems, the integration and interoperability of robotic capabilities in complex work processes remains a major challenge. This lack of tools to integrate robots nee...

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Vydáno v:Applied system innovation Ročník 6; číslo 3; s. 56
Hlavní autoři: Zörrer, Helmut, Weichhart, Georg, Schmoigl Tonis, Mathias, Bieg, Till, Propst, Matthias, Schuster, Dominik, Sturm, Nadine, Nativel, Chloé, Salomon, Gabriele, Strohmeier, Felix, Sackl, Andreas, Eberle, Michael, Pichler, Andreas
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2023
Témata:
Automation
Collaboration
digital twin
Digital twins
Domains
End users
end-user programming
Engineers
healthcare robotics
Interfaces
Programming environments
Research projects
robotic devices
Robotics
Robotics industry
Robots
skill-based programming
Skills
Software
Subject specialists
User groups
visual programming environment
Workflow
Austria
ISSN:2571-5577, 2571-5577
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Shrnutí:Over the last years, capabilities of robotic systems have quantitatively and qualitatively improved. But going beyond isolated robotic systems, the integration and interoperability of robotic capabilities in complex work processes remains a major challenge. This lack of tools to integrate robots needs to be addressed on technical, semantic and organizational level. In the ROBxTASK research project, we developed an approach to support cooperation between different types of users in order to enable domain experts, with no robotic know-how, to work with robot-assisted workflows. By engineering robotic skills at a useful and usable level of abstraction for experts in different domains, we aim to increase re-usability of these skills on two different levels, (robotic) device level, and on level of application specific workflows. The researched prototype consists of a web platform, which allows (a) engineers to register (robotic) devices and the implemented skills of the devices, (b) domain experts to use a graphical task design environment to create workflows across multiple robotic devices and lastly (c) robot co-workers to download and execute the workflow code in a local environment with digital twins or real robots. Additionally skills and workflows can be shared across organisations. Initial user studies have shown that the visual programming environment is accessible and the defined skill-set is easy to understand even for domain experts that are inexperienced in the field of robotics.
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ISSN:2571-5577
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DOI:10.3390/asi6030056