Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory

Anthony Remazeilles; Irati Rasines; Asier Fernandez; Maike Neumann; Michael Beetz; Mathieu Grossard; Clive Hellingman; Carl Helmut Coulon; Torben Cichon; Florian Gosselin; Markus Vincze

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_19

Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory

Anthony Remazeilles^*, Irati Rasines, Asier Fernandez, Maike Neumann, Michael Beetz, Mathieu Grossard, Clive Hellingman, Carl Helmut Coulon, Torben Cichon, Florian Gosselin, Markus Vincze

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Abstract

This article provides a detailed description of the membrane-based sterility testing process, the use case selected in the Horizon Europe project TraceBot for demonstrating the benefit of agile robotics in a laboratory setting and its interest for the pharmaceutical industry. Based on videos of human operators performing manually the sterility testing process, we detail its different steps, starting from a human perspective, with a more robotic approach in mind, and highlight the major atomic functionalities a robot should have for executing the process at hand. Together with the analysis of the process flow of actions, we also list all elements/objects involved, and analyse the technical and scientific challenges in this process and its application environment as well as in general pharmaceutical processes. Finally, with the objective to engage the community in collaborating and taking advantage of our use case study, the complete process flow description is made available on a website, together with associated data like the object’s meshes and a generic robotic setting in ROS environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ROBOT2022
Subtitle of host publication	5th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics
Editors	Danilo Tardioli, Vicente Matellán, Guillermo Heredia, Manuel F. Silva, Lino Marques
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	223-234
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783031210648
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_19
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	5th Iberian Robotics Conference, ROBOT 2022 - Zaragoza, Spain Duration: 23 Nov 2022 → 25 Nov 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	589 LNNS
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	5th Iberian Robotics Conference, ROBOT 2022
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Zaragoza
Period	23/11/22 → 25/11/22

Keywords

Laboratory automation
ROS
Traceability
Use cases

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10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_19

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Remazeilles, A., Rasines, I., Fernandez, A., Neumann, M., Beetz, M., Grossard, M., Hellingman, C., Coulon, C. H., Cichon, T., Gosselin, F., & Vincze, M. (2023). Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory. In D. Tardioli, V. Matellán, G. Heredia, M. F. Silva, & L. Marques (Eds.), ROBOT2022: 5th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics (pp. 223-234). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 589 LNNS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_19

Remazeilles, Anthony ; Rasines, Irati ; Fernandez, Asier et al. / Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process : Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory. ROBOT2022: 5th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics. editor / Danilo Tardioli ; Vicente Matellán ; Guillermo Heredia ; Manuel F. Silva ; Lino Marques. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 223-234 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory. / Remazeilles, Anthony ; Rasines, Irati ; Fernandez, Asier et al.
ROBOT2022: 5th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics. ed. / Danilo Tardioli; Vicente Matellán; Guillermo Heredia; Manuel F. Silva; Lino Marques. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 223-234 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 589 LNNS).

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Remazeilles A , Rasines I , Fernandez A, Neumann M, Beetz M, Grossard M et al. Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory. In Tardioli D, Matellán V, Heredia G, Silva MF, Marques L, editors, ROBOT2022: 5th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 223-234. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_19