System architecture and conception of a standardized robot configurator based on microservices

Web-Based Platform for Planning and Configuration of Robot-Based Automation Solutions: A Retrospective View on the Research Project ROBOTOP

“…For this reason, expert knowledge and Best Practice (BP) examples, regarding reasonable realizable physical functions and interaction with the product as well as first basic path planning for position and range evaluation of RAS, are necessary. Thereby, BP [14,21] are modularized and digitalized, successfully implemented RAS.…”

“…Mostly, configurators are used for the individualization of predefined products such as clothes or automobiles [2] rather than new and dynamic engineering tasks. Therefore, we introduced the idea of a real knowledge-based engineering configurator (KBEC) [24], with which new RAS can be created based on BP [21] as well as customized and validated through constraints [15]. KBEC based on constraints [5,7] provide advantages in transferability, scalability, and maintainability.…”

“…ROBOTOP is based on the scalable and flexible idea of a microservice architecture, firstly introduced in 2006 through amazon [29]. In doing so, the ROBOTOP functions are divided into several independent microservices (MS), such as BP selection, configuration, simulation, AML-data-exchange [1,14] and spec-sheet generator [21]. The MS can communicate via standardized interfaces.…”