Baxalta Innovations GmbH, a Takeda company, Industriestraße 67, A-1221 Wien, Austria; Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Hungary.
Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics, Óbuda University, Hungary.
SLAS Technol. 2024 Aug;29(4):100168. doi: 10.1016/j.slast.2024.100168. Epub 2024 Aug 2.
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.
支持性机器人解决方案接管了生物医学研究和开发实验室中人类劳动力的平凡但必不可少的任务。协作和移动机器人领域的最新技术使它们能够在以人为中心和低结构化的环境中得到利用。然而，它们引入的额外复杂性阻碍了它们的适应性。在我们的论文中，我们旨在理清复杂的实验室机器人集成架构。我们首先对实验室工作流程进行层次分解，并将活动表示映射到自动化控制架构的层和组件。我们详细阐述了这个框架的细节，以取放实验室器具运输为例——这是一个关键的支持步骤，我们发现这是该领域专家最感兴趣的领域之一。我们的概念提案作为参考架构模型，其关键原则被用于参考实现，并与国际标准化努力保持一致。
