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Lab Automation through Mobile Manipulators

A mobile robot system was developed that is capable of automating the complete sample management in a biotechnological or clinical laboratory. The robot consists of a wheeled platform and a mounted industrial robot arm with an attached gripper tool. The proper interaction with the biotechnological devices is accomplished by the use of a color camera for object recognition, a force/torque sensor to prevent damages and laser scanners for precise localization in the plant. Furthermore necessary changes to the environment of the robot are kept to a minimum.

Lab Automation through Mobile Manipulators.

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[1] Martin Wojtczyk, Rüdiger Heidemann, Chetan Goudar, and Alois Knoll. Bioreactor monitoring in a cell culture development laboratory with an autonomous mobile manipulator. In 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, USA, March 2010. [ .bib | .pdf ]
[2] Martin Wojtczyk, Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, Claus Lenz, Suraj Nair, Rüdiger Heidemann, Chetan Goudar, and Alois Knoll. Teaching and implementing autonomous robotic lab walkthroughs in a biotech laboratory through model-based visual tracking. In IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVII: Algorithms and Techniques: Autonomous Robotic Systems and Applications, San Jose, CA, USA, 2010. [ DOI | .bib | .pdf ]
[3] Martin Wojtczyk, Rüdiger Heidemann, Chetan Goudar, and Alois Knoll. Monitoring bioreactors in a cell culture development laboratory with an autonomous mobile manipulator. In Cell Culture Engineering XII, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2010. [ .bib ]
[4] Martin Wojtczyk, Rüdiger Heidemann, Chetan Goudar, and Alois Knoll. Parallel computing for autonomous mobile robots. In Intel Developer Forum 2010, San Francisco, USA, 2010. [ .bib ]
[5] Martin Wojtczyk. A New Model To Design Software Architectures For Mobile Service Robots. Dissertation, Technische Universität München, München, Germany, 2010. [ .bib | .pdf ]
[6] Martin Wojtczyk, Rüdiger Heidemann, Klaus Joeris, Chun Zhang, Mark Burnett, Tom Monica, and Alois Knoll. Automating the complete sample management in a biotech laboratory with a mobile manipulator. a real world application for service robotics. In Leon Trilling, D. Perkins, Dionysios (Dion) D. Dionysiou, Leonid Perlovsky, Kent Davey, David Landgrebe, Miguel A. Marino, D. L. Russell, Steven H. Collicott, Marco Ceccarelli, and John W. Lund, editors, Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION, pages 347-356, Cambridge, UK, 2009. World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, WSEAS Press. [ .bib | .pdf ]
[7] Martin Wojtczyk, Giorgio Panin, Claus Lenz, Thorsten Röder, Suraj Nair, Erwin Roth, Rüdiger Heidemann, Klaus Joeris, Chun Zhang, Mark Burnett, Tom Monica, and Alois Knoll. A vision based human robot interface for robotic walkthroughs in a biotech laboratory. In François Michaud, Matthias Scheutz, Pamela Hinds, and Brian Scassellati, editors, HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human Robot Interaction, pages 309-310, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2009. ACM. [ DOI | .bib | .pdf ]
[8] Martin Wojtczyk, Rüdiger Heidemann, Chetan Goudar, and Alois Knoll. Task and data parallelism in robotics for autonomous mobile manipulators. In Intel Developer Forum 2009, San Francisco, USA, 2009. [ .bib ]
[9] Martin Wojtczyk, Simon Barner, Michael Geisinger, and Alois Knoll. Rapid prototyping of an adaptive light-source for mobile manipulators with EasyKit and EasyLab. In SPIE Optics and Photonics 2008, Illumination Engineering, Eighth International Conference on Solid State Lighting: Applications, San Diego, CA, USA, 2008. [ DOI | .bib | .pdf ]
[10] Martin Wojtczyk and Rüdiger Heidemann. Status report: Installation and modification of a mobile robot platform to perform a complete automated sample management process. Bayer internal report, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, 2006. [ .bib ]
[11] Martin Wojtczyk, Rüdiger Heidemann, Klaus Joeris, Chun Zhang, Mark Burnett, Alois Knoll, and Konstantin Konstantinov. The Use of a Mobile Robot for Complete Sample Management in a Cell Culture Pilot Plant. In Rodney Smith, editor, Cell Technology for Cell Products, Proceedings of the 19th ESACT Meeting, Harrogate, UK, June 5-8, 2005, pages 543-547. Springer Netherlands, 2005. [ DOI | .bib | .pdf ]
[12] Torsten Scherer, Iris Poggendorf, Axel Schneider, Daniel Westhoff, Jianwei Zhang, Dirk Lütkemeyer, Jürgen Lehmann, and Alois Knoll. A service robot for automating the sample management in biotechnological cell cultivations. In Proc. 9th IEEE Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, volume 2, pages 383-390, Lisbon, 2003. IEEE. [ .bib | .pdf ]
[13] Dirk Lütkemeyer, Iris Poggendorf, Torsten Scherer, Jianwei Zhang, Alois Knoll, and Jürgen Lehmann. Let's start moving - A mobile robot has the potential of complete automation in monitoring mammalian cell cultures. In Proc. UEF Cell Culture Engineering VIII, Snowmass, CO, USA and GVC/Dechema Jahrestagung, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002. [ .bib ]
[14] Iris Poggendorf, Dirk Lütkemeyer, Torsten Scherer, Jianwei Zhang, Alois Knoll, and Jürgen Lehmann. Using an industrial robot arm for monitoring cultivations of mammalian cells in pilot scale. In Computer Applications in Biotechnology 2001: modelling, monitoring and control of biotechnological processes, Proc. 8th IFAC international conference, Quebec City, Canada, 2001. [ .bib | .pdf ]
[15] Dirk Lütkemeyer, Iris Poggendorf, Torsten Scherer, Jianwei Zhang, Alois Knoll, and Jürgen Lehmann. First steps in robot automation of sampling and sample management during cultivation of mammalian cells in pilot scale. Biotechnology Progress, 16(5):822-828, 2000. [ .bib | .pdf ]
[16] Dirk Lütkemeyer, Iris Poggendorf, Torsten Scherer, Jianwei Zhang, Alois Knoll, and Jürgen Lehmann. Robot automation of sampling and sample management during cultivation of mammalian cells on pilot scale. In Proc. UEF Cell Culture Engineering VII, Santa Fe, NM, 2000. [ DOI | .bib ]
[17] Torsten Scherer, Jianwei Zhang, Alois Knoll, Iris Poggendorf, Dirk Lütkemeyer, and Jürgen Lehmann. Roboterisierung des Probenmanagements in der Biotechnologie. In Proc. of GVC/DECHEMA Tagung Prozessmesstechnik in der Biotechnologie, Bamberg, Germany, 2000. [ .bib | .pdf ]