Innovációs szolgáltató bázis létrehozása diagnosztikai, terápiás és kutatási célú
kiberorvosi ren...(2019-1-3-1-KK-2019-00007) Támogató: NKFIH
Increasing the level of automation in pharmaceutical laboratories and production facilities
plays a crucial role in delivering medicine to patients. However, the particular requirements
of this field make it challenging to adapt cutting-edge technologies present in other
industries. This article provides an overview of relevant approaches and how they
can be utilized in the pharmaceutical industry, especially in development laboratories.
Recent advancements include the application of flexible mobile manipulators capable
of handling complex tasks. However, integrating devices from many different vendors
into an end-to-end automation system is complicated due to the diversity of interfaces.
Therefore, various approaches for standardization are considered in this article,
and a concept is proposed for taking them a step further. This concept enables a mobile
manipulator with a vision system to "learn" the pose of each device and - utilizing
a barcode - fetch interface information from a universal cloud database. This information
includes control and communication protocol definitions and a representation of robot
actions needed to operate the device. In order to define the movements in relation
to the device, devices have to feature - besides the barcode - a fiducial marker as
standard. The concept will be elaborated following appropriate research activities
in follow-up papers.
