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Record W4285048301 · doi:10.1109/lra.2022.3190096

A High-Fidelity Simulation Platform for Industrial Manufacturing by Incorporating Robotic Dynamics Into an Industrial Simulation Tool

2022· article· en· W4285048301 on OpenAlexafffund
Zengjie Zhang, Ram Dershan, Amir M. Soufi Enayati, Marjan Yaghoubi, Dean Richert, Homayoun Najjaran

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicFlexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of VictoriaUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsModular designRobotAutomationComputer scienceSoftwareSimulation softwareFidelityTask (project management)Industrial robotControl engineeringHigh fidelityControl systemSimulationEmbedded systemEngineeringSystems engineeringArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Simulation provides an efficient and safe evaluation solution for industrial automation to pretest software before deploying it in real systems. However, only high-fidelity simulation environments that precisely reconstruct the behavioral patterns of real systems can guarantee a successful transfer from simulation to reality (sim-to-real). Many existing industrial simulation tools provide libraries for various industrial devices, which simplify the development efforts significantly, but they generally lack the ability to model the system dynamics and often fail to generate a realistic representation when the system performance is sensitive to the modeling deviation. For example, robots equipped with intelligent algorithms potentially lead to task failure if the software is sensitive to the variation of the system dynamics. In this paper, we design a novel simulation platform for industrial manufacturing use cases consisting of a cooperative robot and a modular manufacturing device. With the dynamic model of the robot integrated into a manufacturing digital-twining software, the platform achieves high simulation fidelity by incorporating the effect of the robot dynamics to the control logic of the industrial tasks. Also, the simulation can exchange data with the real robot via an open protocol, which enables the simultaneous test of the real and simulated systems. Two experiments are conducted on the simulation platform to validate its fidelity in terms of the consistent control logic with the real system. Also, a workpiece distribution use case is studied to show how the simulation platform is used to develop a task-planning algorithm for a manufacturing application.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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