Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
Goals of SLEM
In the project "Self-learning and self-explanatory machine" an intelligent assistance system is developed, which supports users of different expertise adaptively, both in the operation of (special) machines, as well as the guidance of special production processes of complex products. In the following, operation includes maintenance, repair, retrofitting and installation of the machines. For this purpose, state data of the machines and interaction data of the user are recorded with the help of built-in sensors, which is then used for the AI training. In this way, the self-learning and self-explanatory machine can observe the trained user and learn from this how it should be operated. As a result, it will be able to identify the user's information needs and guide them appropriately through complex processes.
The status data of the machines, e.g. temperature curves or specific movement states of robot arms, can often already be recorded by machine-internal sensors and read out externally. Interaction data from the user can be recorded by inputs at the user interfaces such as a touch display or directly via gestures for operation or also recognition of activities around the machine, e.g. opening, filling. The fusion of all available data with additional synthetically generated data enables a detailed observation of the processes.
