WS#14 R3: Mechatronics for Robustness, Resilience, and Reliability of robotic systems
Wesley Roozing (TG on Mechatronics, University of Twente), Navvab Kashiri (TG on Mechatronics, Leonardo),Room 25-27
Questions to be answered
- How to quantify R3 (Robustness, Resilience, and Reliability) for mechatronic systems?
- How to design R3 benchmarks for mechatronic systems?
- Where are the main R3 technology gaps in the mechatronic engineering of robotic systems?
Description
Now that robots are moving beyond traditional applications in industrial settings into applications in human, unstructured, and challenging environments in the field, their design and engineering face more strenuous requirements. Robots need to be Robust, Resilient, and Reliable (R3): Being able to withstand environmental conditions such as dust, moisture, heat, radiation, vibration, impacts, and so on, maintaining long-term reliability potentially even under sub-component failure. Operating in human environments means that these robots also need to be reliably safe in their interactions. Moreover, many of these new robots are mobile, which means that these properties need to be achieved within limited weight and energy consumption to achieve long-term operation.
Achieving these aspects at the hardware and low-level software level is a necessary condition for robots to achieve R3 at the task and cognitive level. While the latter is certainly important as well, this workshop focuses specifically on the mechatronics principles to achieve Robustness, Resilience, and Reliability of robotic systems.
Organisation of the WS
00:00 – 00:05: Introduction by organisers incl. TG Mechatronics update
00:05 – 00:40: Keynote talks
- Speaker 1: Aksel Transeth (TG on I&M, SINTEF Digital)
- Speaker 2: Markus Grebenstein (DLR)
- Speaker 3: Benjamin Mottis (Anybotics)
00:40 – 01:00: Panel discussion
01:00 – 01:15: Breakout discussions (4-6 groups) w/ flipovers
01:15 – 01:20: Groups present discussion outcomes
01:20: Closing
Intended outcome
- First definition of R3 (Robustness, Resilience, and Reliability) KPIs for Mechatronic systems, potentially leading to a whitepaper output.
Speakers, Panelists, etc
Speakers/panelists:
- Markus Grebenstein (DLR)
- Aksel Transeth (TG on Inspection and Maintenance, SINTEF Digital)
- Benjamin Mottis (Anybotics)
Moderators: Wesley Roozing and Navvab Kashiri
Topic Groups and/or Innovation networks involved
- Topic Group on Mechatronics
- Topic Group on Inspection and Maintenance
Projects involved
Further information
Organisers
- Wesley Roozing (TG on Mechatronics, University of Twente), w.roozing@utwente.nl
- Navvab Kashiri (TG on Mechatronics, Leonardo), navvab.kashiri@leonardo.com