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The family of RRP itself forms the technological basis of future robotic products for emerging markets:

• mobile one or two-armed manipulators for tasks in manufacturing or laboratory automation, particularly in material flow automation and logistics
• personal or domestic robots as helpers in everyday environments (office, home, public spaces)

The goal of the showcase industry is the implementation of an RRP into a trial system development processes. Of particular interest in this context is the application of the BRICS principles by today‘s typically SME-type system integrators. This is the reason why a separate task has been included to allow the consortium to take into account the needs of this potential BRICS user group. Given a specified industrial robot tasks an RRP will be configured in hardware and software components, integrated, evaluated at a selected task and optimised:

• hardware components will be integrated
• component drivers/middleware will be installed/tested and algorithms will be added
• functional integration and optimisation using the MDE tool chain

For addressing specific needs and engineering cultures of both larger robotics suppliers and spin-off type small and medium robotics industries two approaches are planned:

• A prototype system of a mobile manipulation application (to be largely developed outside of BRICS with existing hardware, software, tools and methods) will be re-engineered on the basis of the BRICS results. Assessed differences regarding both development processes regarding typical criteria such as reached performance, cost and time advantage, serviceability etc. will be used as a measure for the BRICS RRP optimization.
• In regular assessment workshops teams of robotics engineers apply the BRICS results in defined robotics development tasks. Systematic evaluation results of the BRICS-based hardware, software, tools and engineering process will be used for directing and optimizing the BRICS research and development.

Results:

• Status of Showcase Industry (June 2011)
  Extract of: A. Bubeck, R. Hollmann, N. Blümlein, M. Drust. Specification of evaluation procedures, implementation of evaluation workshops and annual progress report on all BRICS showcases. BRICS Deliverable D5.2, June 2011.