Research Area 3: Operating
Remotely operated production facility coping with scarcity and uncertainty
To aquire new knowledge on how to remotely operate an adaptive and flexible production facility for enough-to-use parts with joint human/robot teams while facing large uncertainties due to impure materials, scarce information and scarce human workforce in a harsh environment: We will establish concepts for the automated and adaptive production of parts by human-robot teams and develop robust monitoring schemes, information-exchange methods and decision-making processes.
Disciplines: Communications engineering, decision psychology, human space exploration, internet of things, optimization under uncertainty, process monitoring, production engineering, robotics, team psychology
Operating Theme 1: Concept for a remotely-operated Mars production facility
Under extreme scarcity and in a hostile environment, production must be rethought from scratch. The goal of this Focus is to conceive a facility that is jointly operated by symbiotic teams of humans and robots, focusing on novel concepts of automatized material transfer, reconfigurable robots, and robot awareness of human well-being.
Project leaders: Christiane Heinicke, Frank Kirchner, Anna Valente, Kirsten Tracht, Vera Hagemann, Elsa A. Kirchner
Operating Theme 2: Adaptive and flexible production planning, monitoring and modeling
In our production setting, we must deal with impure materials, imperfect parts and scarce energy and workforce. The goal of this Focus is to steer the production facility by means of digital representations fed with data collected with integrated sensing and monitoring concepts. This will allow for an adaptive production of enough-to-use parts with minimum expenditure of resources.
Project leaders: Kirsten Tracht, Matthias Steinbacher, Nicole Megow, Frank Kirchner, Andreas Fischer, Bj?rn Lüssem, Anna F?rster
Operating Theme 3: Information-exchange and decision-making under uncertainty
We will develop semantic communication methods supporting decision-making in a context of scarce information and a threatening environment. The basis for human decisions will be researched depending on machine trustworthiness, communication channel and form, timing of information exchange and teamwork processes in human-robot teams.
Project leaders: Armin Dekorsy, Bettina von Helversen, Vera Hagemann, Christiane Heinicke
