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Robotics is one of the great technological revolutions of our century, with fundamental implications for a wide range of different industries.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=“1\/2″]
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Full-Day Workshop at IROS 2019 in Macau<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Industrial mass production is no longer conceivable without robotics and automation. The trend in modern manufacturing is towards individualized products, tailored to the customer, with an exploding variety of variants and much shorter product life-cycles. This, in order to satisfy the market demand of a flexible and customizable industrial production. In this context, the classic way of conceiving industrial automation, which is mainly focused on purely automated or manual forms of production, is clearly reaching its limits.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]
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<\/div>[vc_column_text]Nowadays, robots and autonomous systems, partly in direct human-robot cooperation, are moving into the production of smaller batch sizes and can thus create a decisive competitive advantage in all industries. This flexibilisation also includes opportunities to optimize energy and material flows for resource-efficient production.<\/p>\n

In our view, a modern manufactory or Factory of the Future needs a broad range of digital production technologies, robot systems, and applications for flexible and networked manufacturing processes effectively integrated in different production scenarios. One focus is on the realization of robust robot-supported manufacturing processes using digitization approaches and industry 4.0. This will make factory applications in particular more efficient, more cost-effective, safer, and more resource-conserving. More in details, a competitive Factory of the Future has to pursue the following objectives:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column el_class=“widget“ offset=“vc_col-lg-4 vc_col-md-4 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_tta_accordion style=“outline“ shape=“square“ spacing=“3″ c_icon=“chevron“ active_section=“1″ collapsible_all=“true“][vc_tta_section title=“Development …“ tab_id=“1456310633072-d1c76f4a-d2b0″][vc_column_text]… of new digital production chains from the digital model to the automatically assembled product. In doing so, resource and energy consumption as well as costs are reduced despite flexibilisation and human personnel are relieved. In this context, digital mapping, the so-called \u201cDigital Twin\u201d, can be used during the entire production cycle of a component, e.g. for preliminary design, design support, virtual commissioning, or optimization of production processes and plants.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=“Establishment…“ tab_id=“1456310633074-3511fc8e-3ecf“][vc_column_text]… of versatile digital production concepts through mobile robotic systems and networked, intelligent production and assembly robots. For assembly, inspection, maintenance and disposal of products and large structures, the use of mobile manipulators and large robot arms in big production lines seems a promising solution until the \u201cfuturistic\u201d use of humanoid robots will become a concrete option.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=“Safe, highly efficient, and intuitive …“ tab_id=“1456311164931-a5a1aa33-5e44″][vc_column_text]… collaboration between humans and robots as well as between humans and machines in general in the cognitive production plant of the future. Robotic systems and industry 4.0 concepts have a proven broad impact on general industrial robotics. Lightweight robots are currently undergoing a fundamental change towards human-robot cooperation and sensitive manipulation in automotive manufacturing, production in SMEs, and in surgery. In addition to fully automated solutions, modern manufacturies increasingly relying on advanced assistance systems to support people in order to be able to act highly flexibly and efficiently.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=“Increased productivity …“ tab_id=“1562771714604-f647f692-e113″][vc_column_text]… with high quality standards through efficient material flow, advanced assembly capabilities, and self-reconfigurable machineries and workcells.<\/p>\n

The objectives of the Factory of the Future are ambitious and therefore challenging to pursue. The enormous technical challenges need the bundling and closely interlinking of expertise in different fields related to robotics and autonomous systems, like robotic assistance, perception, sensor technology, control, and AI. Only with the joint effort of such expertise, holistic answers to the questions of production and assistance of the future will be possible. This workshop aims at presenting and discussing current research results in the broad field of robot-aided manufacturing, directing the way towards novel innovations and open issues. Some of the questions we will try to answer are:[\/vc_column_text]