Towards robotic laboratory automation plug & play: Reference architecture model for robot integration

Autor: Ádám Wolf, Panna Zsoldos, Károly Széll, Péter Galambos
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: SLAS Technology, Vol 29, Iss 4, Pp 100168- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2472-6303
DOI: 10.1016/j.slast.2024.100168
Popis: Supportive robotic solutions take over mundane, but essential tasks from human workforce in biomedical research and development laboratories. The newest technologies in collaborative and mobile robotics enable the utilization in the human-centered and low-structured environment. Their adaptability, however, is hindered by the additional complexity that they introduce. In our paper we aim to entangle the convoluted laboratory robot integration architectures. We begin by hierarchically decomposing the laboratory workflows, and mapping the activity representations to layers and components of the automation control architecture. We elaborate the framework in detail on the example of pick-and-place labware transportation - a crucial supportive step, which we identified as the number one area of interest among experts of the field. Our concept proposal serves as a reference architecture model, the key principles of which were used in reference implementations, and are in line with international standardization efforts.
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