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Robot and Automation

Smart Production

Robot and Automation

Smart Production

The Smart Production group has an overall focus on new approaches, structures, tools and technologies for factories of the future. Research interests spans from the individual processes on the shop floor to factory infrastructure to engineering and design.  Digitalization and digital infrastructures have been the key focus of many of the activities in the group with research looking into seamless IT/OT integration, digital thread, IIoT, data analytics, AI, modularity for easy integration, digital assistive tools for human operators, and semantic modelling.

On the hardware site, the group manage the AAU 5G Smart Production Lab, which is home to a variety of equipment that together form a small factory setup. This allows the research activities in the group to be designed, studied, and validated in a realistic production environment.

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AAU 5G Smart Production Lab

Lately, novel production paradigms and topologies such as Matrix and Swarm production has become a key focus area in the group, supported by the installation of a Matrix production setup with a planar motion system and six industrial robots in the AAU Smart Production Lab. 

Matrix production system with B&R Acopos planar track system and six KUKA robots

Contact

Assistant Prof. Casper Schou
E-mail: cs@mp.aau.dk 
Tlf: +45 2086 8884