Factory in a Day Project Reducing System Integration Time

to One Day

Alexander Bubeck

March 27th, 2015

Outline

• Fraunhofer IPA

• Goals of Factory in a Day (FiaD)

• Consortium as a whole

• Roles of ROS Industrial

• Current state and developments

• Outlook

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The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization for applied research in Europe.

• It undertakes applied research of direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society.

• Partners and clients are industrial and service enterprises as well as the public authorities.

Fraunhofer worldwide

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Fraunhofer IPA

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineeringand Automation IPA

• One of the largest single institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• More than 50 years of experience

• Core competence in production and automation

MünchenFreiburg

Stuttgart

Karlsruhe

Saarbrücken

Darmstadt

Nürnberg

Dortmund

BerlinHannover

Bremen

Dresden

Fürth

Rostock

Fraunhofer institutes and facilities

Other sites

IPA - Facilities and Laboratories

Robot testing area

Painting technology Planning cockpit Biomedicine Surface engineering

Learning factory Cleanroom

Gait lab

Fraunhofer and ROS Industrial

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• User of ROS since 2009 (service robot projects)

• Collaboration with SWRI since 2011

• Organization of multiple ROS industrial workshops and trainings

• Founding the ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe in 2014

• Involved in multiple ROS industrial connected research projects …

Factory in a Day

• Reduce system integration time to one day– 50% price reduction of fully integrated systems

– Handling of short production batches of SME‘s

– Short-term lease contracts for robots and machinery -> reduce investment risks

• Runtime 2013-2017

• The project is funded by the Seventh Framework Programmeof the European Union.

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Goals of Factory in a Day

Key breakthrough technologies to be developed:1. Safe robot arms with novel proximity-sensing skin and dynamic

contact-avoiding behaviors

2. Platform-independent harmonized robot software components for seamless integration with existing machinery and robots

3. Standard core hardware modules (e.g. adaptive grippers and arms) plus a procedure to use Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) for task specific parts

4. Fast teaching software for on-site robot “programming”, using domain-specific models and languages

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Consortium as a whole

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NAME PARTNER COUNTRY ORGANIZATION TYPE

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium University

Materialise NV Belgium Industry

Universal Robots AS Denmark SME

Siemens Industry Software SAS France Industry

Centre National de la Recherche scientifique

(LAAS)

France Research Institute

Unicam Software GmbH Germany SME

Siemens AG Germany Industry

Fraunhofer IPT Germany Research Institute

Fraunhofer IPA Germany Research Institute

Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany University

Randstad Nederland BV Netherlands Temp Agency

Philips Consumer Lifestyle Netherlands Industry

Lacquey BV Netherlands SME

Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculty of

Industrial Design Engineering

Netherlands University

Factory Control Netherlands SME

Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculty 3ME

(Coordinator)

Netherlands University

PAL Robotics Spain SME

EMP Tooling UK SME

Work packages• New business models and

certification procedures• System hardware in a day• Dynamic obstacle

avoidance• Learnable skills• Rapid installation software

framework• Demonstration/validation

Roles of ROS Industrial

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Key breakthrough technologies to be developed:1. Safe robot arms with novel proximity-sensing skin and dynamic

contact-avoiding behaviors

2. Platform-independent harmonized robot software components for seamless integration with existing machinery and robots

3. Standard core hardware modules (e.g. adaptive grippers and arms) plus a procedure to use Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) for task specific parts

4. Fast teaching software for on-site robot “programming”, using domain-specific models and languages

Roles of ROS Industrial

• Develop a complete framework for the rapid installation of a mobile manipulation system in new environments to cooperate with onsite workers– Software quality and robustness assessment infrastructure

=> Continuous integration (buildbot and now docker-based Jenkins)=> Real world benchmarks

– Platform independent harmonized robot software components=> ROS Industrial drivers and capabilities (extension and contribution)

– Robot deployment toolbox=> Model-driven approach with multiple user roles

– Holistic rapid self-calibration routine

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Focus: Philips use case

Agile development approach:

• Short term iterations of industrial use cases every ~2-3 month => „Robothon“

• Currently „Factory in 2 days“

• First use cases from Philips shaver production

• Development of toolbox in advance

• Onsite application development and system integration, development of missing capabilities

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Focus: Philips use case

• Video

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Current status

• Development and improvement of:– universal robot driver (https://github.com/ros-industrial/universal_robot)

– BRIDE (https://github.com/ipa320/bride)

• New components (to be released):– Palettizing

– Calibration

– Perception (halcon itf)

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Outlook

Coming in the next month:• New use cases for Robothons (involvement of other companies)

• Rework of universal robot driver (ros-control based)

• Integration of skill framework [1]

• Iterate and find new gaps/impediments

• Open source more work

[1]: Aertbeliën, Erwin, and Joris De Schutter. "eTaSL/eTC: A constraint-based task specification language and robot controller using expression graphs." Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. IEEE, 2014.

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Contact Information

Alexander Bubeck Project Manager Robot and Assistive Systems

Fraunhofer IPANobelstr. 1270569 StuttgartGermany

Phone: +49-711-970-1314Email: alexander.bubeck@ipa.fraunhofer.de

www.ipa.fhg.dewww.rosindustrial.org

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