Referenzfeld zur Erforschung und Entwicklung neuartiger hybrider Formen der Zusammenarbeit von Menschen und Maschinen in der Logistik

Abstract

The article describes the concept of a research center (currently under construction) that is going to be used as a novel experimental reference field for in-novative services in intralogistics. An important aim of the center is to enable research of hybrid value added networks, where humans and machines intimately cooperate with each other to complete work tasks together. In the context of Industry 4.0 this novel form of hybrid interaction entails new challenges that need to be further researched – for example, the use of real-time localization and virtual reality systems creates new possibilities in the field of human-machine interaction (HMI). Additionally, the research center is equipped with various modular and freely scalable reference and experiment systems that allows to emulate different real-time scenarios, including digital twin simulation concepts. The full system flexibility (flexible system networking, flexible use of generated data etc.) leads to high datasets. With the help of machine learning and deep learning concepts, new knowledge from this dataset can be extracted. The described system flexibility leads to new interoperability problems. In order to ensure the interoperability of the systems a common syntax has to be provided. Therefore, more research on this topic is needed.