Development of a Safety Industry 4.0 Production Environment

Abstract

In modern industrial environments, the usage of autonomous mobile robots is very common. Building up the mobile robot's prerequisites not only financial resources but interdisciplinary knowhow too. Therefore, these preconditions barriers small and medium-sized companies from the up to date industrial concepts. In order, to support small and medium-sized companies this paper shows, how to design and implement mobile robot systems capable to work safety into complex industrial 4.0 environment. This research task can be accomplished in three steps. The first step deals with the conceptualization and creation of a test environment inspired by a small and medium-sized environment. The difficulty is to build a new suitable test factory, which fits in an office room. In the second step, a simple work station for different test cases were conceptualized. The third step deals with the creation of different mobile robots. Because of the limited space the mobile robots in this work were not bigger than 20x20x20cm. A concept for a test industry 4.0 test factory with simple work stations was created. Different miniature mobile robots were bought and tested, whereby different risks of the standards were researched. For the next steps, an implementation and guideline of a solution in a small-or medium-sized company will be tested and written.