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Ádám Wolf¹, David Wolton², Josef Trapl²

¹Baxter AG, a Takeda company, Austria; Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Hungary.

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Summary

Automating pharmaceutical labs requires adaptable robots. A new concept allows mobile manipulators to learn device interfaces via barcodes and cloud databases, simplifying integration for complex tasks.

Keywords:

Autonomous manipulation Laboratory automation Mobile robotics Plug and Play System integration

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Area of Science:

Pharmaceutical automation
Robotics in drug development

Background:

Pharmaceutical laboratories and production facilities require increased automation for efficient medicine delivery.
Adapting advanced technologies from other industries to the pharmaceutical sector presents unique challenges due to specific industry requirements.

Purpose of the Study:

To provide an overview of automation approaches applicable to the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in development laboratories.
To propose a novel concept for enhancing the integration of diverse automated devices, focusing on mobile manipulators.

Main Methods:

Reviewing current automation technologies and their potential pharmaceutical applications.
Developing a concept for a mobile manipulator system with vision capabilities.
Utilizing barcodes and a universal cloud database for device interface information retrieval.
Standardizing device interaction through barcodes and fiducial markers.

Main Results:

Identified challenges in integrating multi-vendor devices into end-to-end automation systems due to interface diversity.
Proposed a concept where mobile manipulators learn device poses and retrieve operational data from a cloud database.
Defined the necessity of barcodes and fiducial markers for standardized device interaction.

Conclusions:

The proposed concept offers a pathway to overcome integration complexities in pharmaceutical automation.
Standardization through barcodes and fiducial markers is key for enabling mobile manipulators to operate diverse laboratory devices.
Further research and development are needed to fully implement and validate this concept in pharmaceutical settings.