CARIPU - Cooperative Acting Robots in Industry and Public

The proposed research focuses on the development of a new generation of autonomous mobile robots that integrate seamlessly into existing production processes and cooperate intuitively with people. The goal is to break down barriers between humans and AMRs by identifying relevant factors on user acceptance and concerns for interaction. The research will use AI to gain semantic information about the environment to optimize AMR behavior, and big data analysis to derive global optimization strategies and enable predictive maintenance. The project's goal is to create the basis for developing a new generation of AMRs that can be integrated as easily as possible into existing production processes and intuitively work together with humans, respectively, putting them back into focus. To achieve this, AMRs will be equipped with additional sensor technology. The project objectives are: (1) enabling comprehensive environment perception for cooperative acting robots, (2) extension of the “fleet control system” with flexibility and efficiency enhancement features, and (3) assessment of the improved user acceptance.