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RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo: A Competitive Factory Automation Testbed

  • Tim Niemueller
  • Daniel Ewert
  • Sebastian Reuter
  • Alexander Ferrein
  • Sabina Jeschke
  • Gerhard Lakemeyer
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8371)

Abstract

A new trend in automation is to deploy so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS) which combine computation with physical processes. The novel RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo (LLSF) aims at such CPS logistic scenarios in an automation setting. A team of robots has to produce products from a number of semi-finished products which they have to machine during the game. Different production plans are possible and the robots need to recycle scrap byproducts. This way, the LLSF is a very interesting league offering a number of challenging research questions for planning, coordination, or communication in an application-driven scenario. In this paper, we outline the objectives of the LLSF and present steps for developing the league further towards a benchmark for logistics scenarios for CPS. As a major milestone we present the new automated referee system which helps in governing the game play as well as keeping track of the scored points in a very complex factory scenario.

Keywords

Mobile Robot Machine Type Enterprise Resource Planning System Manufacture Execution System Machine Area 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Tim Niemueller
    • 1
  • Daniel Ewert
    • 2
  • Sebastian Reuter
    • 2
  • Alexander Ferrein
    • 3
  • Sabina Jeschke
    • 2
  • Gerhard Lakemeyer
    • 1
  1. 1.Knowledge-based Systems GroupRWTH Aachen UniversityGermany
  2. 2.Institute Cluster IMA/ZLW & IfURWTH Aachen UniversityGermany
  3. 3.Electrical Engineering DepartmentAachen Univ. of Appl. Sc.Germany

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