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KI.Fabrik - FuE Projekt

Gestaltung der Fabrik der Zukunft für KI-gestützte Produktionstechnologien

Lighthouse initiative KI.FABRIK

On June 23, 2021, the official launch of the KI.FABRIK Bavaria flagship initiative of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) took place at the automatica trade fair at the Deutsches Museum with the laying of the foundation stone for the KI.FABRIK. The goal of this ten-year initiative is the development and commissioning of the first KI.FABRIK in Bavaria by 2030 and is part of the Free State of Bavaria's High-Tech Agenda.

The Deutsches Museum will remain a showcase for the project even after the foundation stone was laid: within the first two years, a prototype or demonstrator will be gradually opened there, bringing the factory of the future closer to the public through hands-on AI experiences.

Prof. Sami Haddadin (links), Direktor der Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, und Hubert Aiwanger (rechts), Wirtschaftsminister Bayern, bei der Grundsteinlegung der KI.FABRIK (Bild: Fabian Vogl/TUM)

 

The KI.FABRIK differs significantly from previous concepts in terms of the direct physical interaction of the factory's central AI function with robots and similar systems within the factory environment. Another difference is the intuitive and transparent connection between humans and machines in the KI.FABRIK, facilitated, among other things, by wearable technologies. The KI.FABRIK also encompasses other projects, such as:

 

Further information can be found at the following link.

Objective

The four-year KI.FABRIK R&D project, along with an infrastructure project, forms part of the first phase of the flagship initiative and provides the technological framework for the first prototype of AI-supported production.

KI.FABRIK will be enabled to manufacture various mechatronic products using fully modular, reconfigurable, highly automated, and integrated AI technologies. In the long term, this will allow for the competitive, automated production of highly complex and customized products in Bavaria, starting from batch size one. At the same time, KI.FABRIK offers locally based companies and research institutions unique research, development, application, and collaboration opportunities for technologies and application scenarios developed in Bavaria in the field of the factory of the future. KI.FABRIK Bavaria will be a fully flexible and networked location for the local, crisis-proof, and profitable production of state-of-the-art IT and mechatronic high-tech components in Bavaria.

Research tasks

Today's robotics technology has reached a point where the autonomous execution of a wide variety of tasks in manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance is, in principle, possible. However, it often lacks the ability to navigate in unfamiliar environments or to react appropriately to dynamic events. This becomes increasingly apparent as the number of robots, or the more interconnected groups of robots, need to be coordinated in conjunction with humans. This raises the following fundamental questions:

  • What conditions must be met for a person to trust a machine?
  • How can a robot learn from a human?
  • How should communication between a robot and a human be structured?
  • How should this communication be structured when an "intelligent" robot changes its behavior through newly learned information?
Human-AI interaction

In addition to changing human characteristics and needs, work situations, environments, and tasks, the addition of AI introduces another dynamic component to human-machine systems. Research into human-AI interaction is still in its early stages. However, since artificial intelligence always requires a medium (machine, robot) to interact with humans, numerous studies from the field of human-machine/robot interaction can be built upon:

A central question is how a task can and should be handled by humans and AI. Various concepts of coexistence, cooperation, and collaboration are available for this purpose. The goal should be for the weaknesses of one to be compensated for by the strengths of the other. It is important to investigate how a division of labor can adapt in a learning AI and how this adaptation affects the human-AI system.

Project partners

The following seven chairs at TUM are represented in the consortium:

as well as the following industry partners:

KI.Fabrik in the media

From the project

What is KI.Fabrik?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AofE_csCt8
KI.Fabrik: Digitaler Zwilling für die Teleoperation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pVJMxxMlUM
KI.Fabrik: Designprozess mit Hilfe von generativer KI automatisieren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36iQ4pBJG1o
MIRMI  #AI at #TUM: KI.Fabrik in 20 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaDYC36t2o&pp=ygUJa2kuZmFicmlr
Grundsteinlegung der KI.Fabrik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-37J1ov1nQ&pp=ygUJa2kuZmFicmlr

KI.Fabrik @ automatica 2021 und 2023

KI.Fabrik Bayern: Künstlicher Zwilling für mehr Effizienz, Nachvollziehbarkeit und Vertrauen in KI?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1w1MvGwsU
KI.Fabrik Bayern: Künstlicher Zwilling für mehr Effizienz, Nachvollziehbarkeit und Vertrauen in KI?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1w1MvGwsU&pp=ygUJa2kuZmFicmlr
KI, Robotik und Algorithmen in der Wirtschaft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7jS3PgI9eA&pp=ygUJa2kuZmFicmlr
 

Other media

Leschs Kosmos: https://www.zdf.de/wissen/leschs-kosmos/rente-mit-85-wie-schaffen-wir-den-demographischen-wandel-100.html

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/babbel-net-mit-buelent-ceylan/ki-erleben-mit-buelent/swr/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzE5ODQxMzM

 

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