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Identifying and evaluating suitable tasks for autonomous industrial mobile manipulators (AIMM)

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This paper investigates the application potential for the technology-push manufacturing technology (TPMT) autonomous industrial mobile manipulation (AIMM), in order to link the conceptual ideas (academia) to actual manufacturing requirements (industry). The approach is based on the proposed TPMT methodology in a comprehensive industrial case study. More than 566 manufacturing tasks have been analyzed according to three main application areas (logistics, assistance, and service) to find their suitability for the AIMM technology. The conducted TPMT analysis shows that AIMM has great potential within the manufacturing industries. More than two thirds of the analyzed manufacturing tasks are solvable with AIMM within the next few years. The AIMM technology, at its current stage, finds most suitable applications within logistics (e.g., transportation and part feeding), moving toward assistance (e.g., (pre)assembly and machine tending), and in the future more service-minded tasks (e.g., maintenance and cleaning). Based on the identified real-world applications, it is possible to raise the AIMM technology to the next levels of industrial maturation, integration, and commercialization.

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    Simon Bøgh, Mads Hvilshøj, Morten Kristiansen & Ole Madsen

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Bøgh, S., Hvilshøj, M., Kristiansen, M. et al. Identifying and evaluating suitable tasks for autonomous industrial mobile manipulators (AIMM). Int J Adv Manuf Technol 61, 713–726 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-011-3718-3

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