The Future Workplace: A Symbiotic System of Systems Environment

McConnell, Alistair C.; Mitchell, Daniel; Donaldson, Karen; Harper, Sam; Blanche, Jamie; Lim, Theodore; Flynn, David; Stokes, Adam A.

doi:10.1201/9781003186380-18

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“…The term Cyber‐Physical System (CPS) has been created due to the advancement of inter connectivity between embedded physical systems (robots, sensors and actuators) with computation technologies (digital twins, simulations and dashboard interfaces), where an overview is displayed in Figure 1 [33, 34]. A DT (digital twin) is a copy of a physical object, environment and system that is connected and shares operational and functional data [35].…”

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Lessons learned: Symbiotic autonomous robot ecosystem for nuclear environments

Mitchell,

Emor Baniqued,

Zahid

et al. 2023

IET Cyber-Syst and Robotics

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Nuclear facilities have a regulatory requirement to measure radiation levels within Post Operational Clean Out (POCO) around nuclear facilities each year, resulting in a trend towards robotic deployments to gain an improved understanding during nuclear decommissioning phases. The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority supports the view that human‐in‐the‐loop (HITL) robotic deployments are a solution to improve procedures and reduce risks within radiation characterisation of nuclear sites. The authors present a novel implementation of a Cyber‐Physical System (CPS) deployed in an analogue nuclear environment, comprised of a multi‐robot (MR) team coordinated by a HITL operator through a digital twin interface. The development of the CPS created efficient partnerships across systems including robots, digital systems and human. This was presented as a multi‐staged mission within an inspection scenario for the heterogeneous Symbiotic Multi‐Robot Fleet (SMuRF). Symbiotic interactions were achieved across the SMuRF where robots utilised automated collaborative governance to work together, where a single robot would face challenges in full characterisation of radiation. Key contributions include the demonstration of symbiotic autonomy and query‐based learning of an autonomous mission supporting scalable autonomy and autonomy as a service. The coordination of the CPS was a success and displayed further challenges and improvements related to future MR fleets.

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confidence: 99%