A multi-robot architecture for the RoboCup Logistics League
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Elektrotechnik & Informationstechnik https://doi.org/10.1007/s00502-020-00826-5
A multi-robot architecture for the RoboCup Logistics League P. Kohout, M. De Bortoli, J. Ludwiger, T. Ulz, G. Steinbauer
Due to increasing demands on flexibility in terms of product configuration as well as delivery time production settings increasingly use teams of mobile robot systems. The RoboCup Logistics League was designed to provide a testbed to develop and test such flexibe multi-robot approaches for production environments. It resembles a product setting with on-demand product orders of different configurations. In this article we introduce the concept of the leagues and we present the solution of the team GRIPS to face that challenge. Keywords: flexible production; logistics; RoboCup; planning
Eine Multi-Roboter-Architektur für die RoboCup Logistics League. Durch die erhöhten Erfordernisse an die Flexibilität der Produktkonfiguration sowie der Lieferzeiten verwenden Produktionsumgebungen vermehrt mobile Robotersysteme. Um eine Testumgebung für Entwicklung und Evaluierung solcher flexiblen Multi-Robot Ansätze für Produktionsumgebungen bereitzustellen, wurde die RoboCup Logistics League entworfen. Sie stellt eine Produktionsumgebung mit On-Demand-Bestellungen und individuellen Produktkonfigurationen dar. In diesem Artikel stellen wir das Konzept der Testumgebung sowie die Lösung für diese Herausforderung des Team GRIPS vor. Schlüsselwörter: flexible Produktion; Logistik; RoboCup; Planung
Received May 29, 2020, accepted September 1, 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
1. Introduction Due to increasing demands on flexibility in terms of product configuration as well as delivery time triggered by the boom in e-commerce (e.g. on-line configurators, on-line shopping) production needs to become more flexible. This trend is well known under terms like flexible production or Industry 4.0. Usually in order to allow reasonable prices for products and to guarantee stable product quality and fast availability production is heavily automatized. The increasing demand for flexibility, in contrast with common rigidity of automation, asks for new concepts and opens interesting and challenging research questions ranging from Robotics over IoT and multi-agent systems to planning and scheduling. In order to provide an appealing show case that allows research and teaching in the area of flexible production within the RoboCup initiative [10] a competition called the RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) was founded. It resembles the setting of a flexible production plant. In this paper we like to introduce the RCLL, to show the challenges that are posted by the competition, and describe how the competition can be used to develop and evaluate new concepts in production [11]. 2. Logistics League The RCLL [6, 8] is part of the RoboCup initiative and focuses on the stimulation of the development of approaches in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence using robotics competition. In this league the goal is that a team of robots in cooperation with a set of production m
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