5G-SMART

5G for Smart Manufacturing

H2020-ICT-2019, https://5gsmart.eu/

Partners: ERICSSON (Coordinator)(Sweden, Germany, Hungary), ABB AB (Sweden), BME (Hungary), CUMUCORE OY (Finland), FRAUNHOFER IPT (Germany), MARPOSS (Germany, Italy), ORANGE (France), BOSCH (Germany), T-SYSTEMS (Hungary), U-BLOX (Switzerland, UK), UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA (Spain)

BME Tasks

WP4 - Cloud-based Mobile Robotics in Factory: Trials and Validation of 5G in Semiconductor Factory (together with Bosch, Ericsson HU/DE/SE, Universily of Lund)
- A4.3: Implementation of 5G Use Cases: BME contributed by designing and developing the robot's control software, including the integration of sensor and actuator modules.
- A4.4 Validation of Use Cases: BME contributed to the trial of Cloud-based Mobile Robotics use case by conducting, testing and analysing the validation.
WP5 - 5G Optimization and Desing for Manufacturing
- A5.1 Develop and evaluate new technology features and concepts beyond the trials: BME with Ericsson Hungary contributed with cloud software platform functionality for reliable and collaborative control functions.

Read more about this trial in the deliverables published by 5G-SMART:

Reutlingen trial

The third trial site of 5G-SMART was a Bosch semiconductor factory in Reutlingen (Germany) where industrial Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) applications and industrial control communication were explored. Here, 5G-SMART was working towards the realization of two use cases: Cloud-based mobile robotics and TSN/Industrial LAN over 5G.

Our solution

The intelligence of an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) was completely removed and reimplemented in a cloud native manner in the edge cloud, reducing the cost of the robot and simplifying scalability. For this use case, a first demo has been developed that showcases the coordination of the mobile robots using a common map stored in the Edge cloud.

SW components, HW architecture

The software components mapped onto the hardware architecture of the system, including the factory cloud part and the two (commercial and our custom-built research) AGV types. Typically, the controllers of the commercial AGVs are closed, except monitoring data available on standard interfaces, but without access to the internals. In case of commercial AGV (MiR 100), we can access sensor data and odometry information via ROS interfaces, so we can run the navigation and localization functions from the factory cloud.

Related publication

Reider, N., Németh, G., Rácz, S., Balogh, M., Vidács, A., Fehér, G., Harutyunyan, D., Buseck, P., Hohner A., Validation of Cloud-Controlled Autonomous Mobile Robots in a Real Semiconductor Plant. (2023) European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Göteborg, Sweden https://www.eucnc.eu/programme/aiu3/

BME Team

Marcell BALOGH, Márton HORVÁTH, Gábor FEHÉR, István HORVÁTH, Markosz MALIOSZ, Attila VIDÁCS

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