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A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study
The contemporary market creates a demand for continuous improvement of production, service, and management processes. Increasingly advanced IT technologies help designers to meet this demand, as they allow them to abandon classic design and design-testing methods in favor of techniques that do not r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34883834 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21237830 |
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author | Stączek, Paweł Pizoń, Jakub Danilczuk, Wojciech Gola, Arkadiusz |
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description | The contemporary market creates a demand for continuous improvement of production, service, and management processes. Increasingly advanced IT technologies help designers to meet this demand, as they allow them to abandon classic design and design-testing methods in favor of techniques that do not require the use of real-life systems and thus significantly reduce the costs and time of implementing new solutions. This is particularly important when re-engineering production and logistics processes in existing production companies, where physical testing is often infeasible as it would require suspension of production for the testing period. In this article, we showed how the Digital Twin technology can be used to test the operating environment of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR). In particular, the concept of the Digital Twin was used to assess the correctness of the design assumptions adopted for the early phase of the implementation of an AMR vehicle in a company’s production hall. This was done by testing and improving the case of a selected intralogistics task in a potentially “problematic” part of the shop floor with narrow communication routes. Three test scenarios were analyzed. The results confirmed that the use of digital twins could accelerate the implementation of automated intralogistics systems and reduce its costs. |
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spelling | pubmed-86594352021-12-10 A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study Stączek, Paweł Pizoń, Jakub Danilczuk, Wojciech Gola, Arkadiusz Sensors (Basel) Article The contemporary market creates a demand for continuous improvement of production, service, and management processes. Increasingly advanced IT technologies help designers to meet this demand, as they allow them to abandon classic design and design-testing methods in favor of techniques that do not require the use of real-life systems and thus significantly reduce the costs and time of implementing new solutions. This is particularly important when re-engineering production and logistics processes in existing production companies, where physical testing is often infeasible as it would require suspension of production for the testing period. In this article, we showed how the Digital Twin technology can be used to test the operating environment of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR). In particular, the concept of the Digital Twin was used to assess the correctness of the design assumptions adopted for the early phase of the implementation of an AMR vehicle in a company’s production hall. This was done by testing and improving the case of a selected intralogistics task in a potentially “problematic” part of the shop floor with narrow communication routes. Three test scenarios were analyzed. The results confirmed that the use of digital twins could accelerate the implementation of automated intralogistics systems and reduce its costs. MDPI 2021-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8659435/ /pubmed/34883834 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21237830 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Stączek, Paweł Pizoń, Jakub Danilczuk, Wojciech Gola, Arkadiusz A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study |
title | A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study |
title_full | A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study |
title_fullStr | A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study |
title_full_unstemmed | A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study |
title_short | A Digital Twin Approach for the Improvement of an Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR’s) Operating Environment—A Case Study |
title_sort | digital twin approach for the improvement of an autonomous mobile robots (amr’s) operating environment—a case study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34883834 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21237830 |
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