Publication
Interactive Digital Twins for Online Planning and Worker Safety in Intralogistics and Production
Andreas Luxenburger; Jonas Mohr; Dieter Merkel; Sönke Knoch; Daniel Porta; Christian Paul; Johannes Widenka; Philipp Schäfers; Markus Baumann; Stefan Lehnhoff; Joachim Schwab
In: Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality. IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Extended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR-2024), January 17-19, Los Angeles, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2024.
Abstract
Asset administration shells constitute a standardized,
technical realization of digital twins and enable a unified
description of important information within a production site
for a safe, continuous and joint planning of intralogistics and
manufacturing processes. In this paper, we show how an information
and service infrastructure based on asset administration
shells can be used to provide online-planners with unified, i.e.
manufacturer-independent information facets of and respective
control interfaces for involved assets, such as collaborative robots.
To this end, we implemented a semi-virtualized production
process using important industrial communication standards
where the current state of real and simulated robots, as well as
products, can be observed and manipulated at run-time and on
site by means of an Augmented Reality-based user interface. In
such dynamic scenarios, the worker safety needs to be maintained
using the advances from the virtual representation of all assets.
A technical demonstrator has been developed and discussed with
domain experts to proof the underlying concept.
Projects
- BaSynaos - Online-Prozessplanung für Intralogistik und Produktion im Basissystem für Industrie 4.0
- BaSySafe - Software-based risk assessment based on asset administration shells for safe human-machine interaction
- BaSys4Transfer - Verbundprojekt BaSys4Transfer: BaSys - Transformation von Unternehmensprozessen, Fertigung und IT-Systeme zur Industrie 4.0