Benchmarking of Cyber-Physical Systems in Industrial Robotics: The RoboCup Logistics League as a CPS Benchmark Blueprint

  • In the future, we expect manufacturing companies to follow a new paradigm that mandates more automation and autonomy in production processes. Such smart factories will offer a variety of production technologies as services that can be combined ad hoc to produce a large number of different product types and variants cost-effectively even in small lot sizes. This is enabled by cyber-physical systems that feature flexible automated planning methods for production scheduling, execution control, and in-factory logistics. During development, testbeds are required to determine the applicability of integrated systems in such scenarios. Furthermore, benchmarks are needed to quantify and compare system performance in these industry-inspired scenarios at a comprehensible and manageable size which is, at the same time, complex enough to yield meaningful results. In this chapter, based on our experience in the RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) as a specific example, we derive a generic blueprint for how a holistic benchmark can be developed, which combines a specific scenario with a set of key performance indicators as metrics to evaluate the overall integrated system and its components.

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Author:T. Niemueller, G. Lakemeyer, S. Reuter, S. Jeschke, Alexander FerreinORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803801-7.00013-4
Parent Title (German):Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications
Publisher:Academic Press
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:German
Year of Completion:2017
Tag:Autonomous mobile robots; Cyber-physical systems; Industry 4.0; Multi-robot systems; Smart factory
First Page:193
Last Page:207
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
FH Aachen / MASKOR Institut für Mobile Autonome Systeme und Kognitive Robotik
collections:Verlag / Academic Press