Description
The market for robot‐centric automation (RA) solutions is a global growth industry.
Nevertheless, due to the high cost and complexity of robotcentric automation solutions, small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) often fall short of this trend. Subject and objective of the dissertation is the creation of efficient and scalable engineering concepts and solutions for the planning of RA solutions based on web technologies. For this purpose, the engineering configurator concept, a microservice‐based web platform reference architecture, and a development method required for engineering configurators based on three sub‐methods (W1‐W3) were introduced. Via user‐centered development approaches, a modular architecture for RA solutions as well as approaches from knowledge‐based configuration (subfield from artificial intelligence (AI)), sales, planning and engineering of robot‐centered automation solutions are made accessible to a broader audience. The concepts and methods were validated in the context of the ROBOTOP web platform as well as by means of various 3D web, AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) multi‐user demonstrators. The concepts and methods thus also enable efficient digitalization or process automation of the engineering of RA solutions through the introduced, structuring methods for knowledge acquisition, modeling as well as implementation and thereby support the vision of the digital twin in the context of Industry 4.0.
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