Publications (22)
Model-based training of manual procedures in automated production systems
Frieder Loch, Gennadiy D. Koltun, Victoria Karaseva +2
Maintenance engineers deal with increasingly complex automated production systems (aPSs). Such systems are characterized by an increasing computerization or the addition of robots…
Frequency and Impact of Technical Debt Characteristics in Companies Producing Mechatronic Products
Fandi Bi, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Litong Xu
Complexity of products, volatility in global markets, and the increasingly rapid pace of innovations may make it difficult to know how to approach challenging situations in mechatr…
Maintainability and evolvability of control software in machine and plant manufacturing -- An industrial survey
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Felix Ocker
Automated Production Systems (aPS) have lifetimes of up to 30-50 years, throughout which the desired products change ever more frequently. This requires flexible, reusable control…
Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics: Perspectives and Challenges from the 2024 IEEE ICRA Workshop, Yokohama, Japan
Andrew I. Cooper, Patrick Courtney, Kourosh Darvish +20
Science laboratory automation enables accelerated discovery in life sciences and materials. However, it requires interdisciplinary collaboration to address challenges such as robus…
Towards Modern Inclusive Factories: A Methodology for the Development of Smart Adaptive Human-Machine Interfaces
Valeria Villani, Lorenzo Sabattini, Julia N. Czerniak +3
Modern manufacturing systems typically require high degrees of flexibility, in terms of ability to customize the production lines to the constantly changing market requests. For th…
A Model Driven Approach on Object Oriented PLC Programming for Manufacturing Systems with regard to Usability
Martin Obermeier, Steven Braun, Birgit Vogel-Heuser
This paper presents the modular automation for reuse in manufacturing systems (modAT4rMS) approach to support the model-driven engineering (MDE) of object oriented manufacturing au…