Towards Multi-functional Robot-based Automation Systems

Andreas Angerer, Michael Vistein, Alwin Hoffmann, Wolfgang Reif, Florian Krebs, Manfred Schönheits

2015

Abstract

Multi-functional robot cells will play an important role in smart factories of the future. Equipped with flexible toolings, teams of robots will be able to realize manufacturing processes with growing complexity. However, to efficiently support small batch sizes and a multitude of process variants, powerful software tools are required. This paper illustrates the challenges that developers face in multi-functional robot cells, using the example of CFRP production. The vision of a new programming environment for such future flexible automation systems is sketched.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Angerer A., Vistein M., Hoffmann A., Reif W., Krebs F. and Schönheits M. (2015). Towards Multi-functional Robot-based Automation Systems . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-123-6, pages 438-443. DOI: 10.5220/0005573804380443

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco15,
author={Andreas Angerer and Michael Vistein and Alwin Hoffmann and Wolfgang Reif and Florian Krebs and Manfred Schönheits},
title={Towards Multi-functional Robot-based Automation Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2015},
pages={438-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005573804380443},
isbn={978-989-758-123-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Towards Multi-functional Robot-based Automation Systems
SN - 978-989-758-123-6
AU - Angerer A.
AU - Vistein M.
AU - Hoffmann A.
AU - Reif W.
AU - Krebs F.
AU - Schönheits M.
PY - 2015
SP - 438
EP - 443
DO - 10.5220/0005573804380443