Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering

Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering (AICAUSE) | RMIT University
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Narrators: Dr Jan Olaf Blech, Research Fellow, AICAUSE; Professor Heinz Schmidt, Director, AICAUSE; Dr Huai Liu, Research Fellow, AICAUSE; Mr Zoran Savic, Senior Educator Electrical/Electronic, Engineering (TAFE); Dr Ian Peake, Manager VITELab.

VISUAL: AICAUSE. The Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering. Developing advanced manufacturing software systems to remotely control robots. RMIT University logo.

VISUAL: Dr Jan Olaf Blech, Research Fellow, AICAUSE speaking to the camera.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: So key elements of a robot - a robot comprises mechanical ...

VISUAL: Video of a robot spray painting a red table in a spray booth.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... parts which you can touch; there are electronic parts like sanders.

VISUAL: Close up of a computer screen which has a heading: HILustre Order Entry and then a diagram for the robot’s program.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: There's a controller device, maybe several controller devices ...

VISUAL: Dr Jan Olaf Blech speaking to the camera.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... and on these controller devices ...

VISUAL: A person touching the screen of a robot controller device with their back to the camera. As they step away, a sign at the base reads: Hilustre Coatings, spray booth loading control cabinet.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... the software that runs on this controller has to decide ...

VISUAL: Robot spraying red paint on to a table in a spray booth.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... how to react, how these mechanical parts ...

VISUAL: Different camera angles of the robot spraying red paint on to a table in the spray booth.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... shall be moved in order to ...

VISUAL: Close up of the robot’s base where it’s pivoting in a full circle as it sprays.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... fulfil a task that this ...

VISUAL: Dr Jan Olaf Blech speaking to the camera.

Dr Jan Olaf Blech: ... robot is supposed to fulfil.

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt, Director, AICAUSE speaking to the camera.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: AICAUSE is short for Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering.

VISUAL: Video of robot (from the company ABB) with spider like arms above a conveyor belt lifting possibly biscuits off a conveyor belt and placing them neatly in rows of two for packaging.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: Automation is becoming more widespread because it's part of ...

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt speaking to the camera.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... a wave, if you like, and an industrial revolution of sorts ...

VISUAL: A male worker places some red hot steel on the end of a rod into a machine which closes on the hot steel rod.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... automating work that is happening in environments that are poisonous to human, that are unsafe ...

VISUAL: Robot arm lifting a metal rod on to a grinder which sparks as it hones the rod.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... all of that is automation. There's so much robotics around the place, so much automation that people don't see because it is underground or far away or in hostile environments.

VISUAL: Dr Huai Liu, Research Fellow, AICAUSE speaking to the camera.

Dr Huai Liu: So human beings cannot be worked together with the robots so we need to remotely control, we need to remotely maintain, we need to remotely test these robots from our lab, not in the field.

VISUAL: Mr Zoran Savic, Senior Educator Electrical/Electronic, Engineering (TAFE) speaking to the camera.

Mr Zoran Savic: Testing, testing? Well, testing is everything. Writing some code, ultimately, has to be proven that it does what you expect it to do on the system.

VISUAL: Dr Ian Peake, Manager VITELab speaking to the camera.

Dr Ian Peake: One of the big challenges in industrial automation is the software and the testing of the software, both at the beginning when you're installing equipment and if something goes wrong and you don't necessarily know when that's going to happen. And so with the research in the Centre what we want to do is look at different ways that we ...

VISUAL: Close up of a computer screen for robot control and a power switch which has a glowing yellow light.

Dr Ian Peake: ... could make it easier to find bugs ...

VISUAL: Camera is looking through door to spray booth. A male worker is inside the spray lab placing a sock-like cover on the robot’s arm.

Dr Ian Peake: ... and to fix bugs and to enable people to come ...

VISUAL: Close up of another angle of the male worker inside the spray booth placing a sock-like cover on the robot’s arm.

Dr Ian Peake: ... to telecommute, if you like ...

VISUAL: The male worker is pulling the sock-like cover off the robot’s arm and wiping the end of the robot’s spray nozzle.

Dr Ian Peake: ... to a hostile or unsafe or remote workplace.

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt speaking to the camera.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: AICAUSE is currently working on a concept called VITELab ...

VISUAL: Two males sitting in a computer lab looking at the high resolution tiled visualisation walls ie a wall with nine TV screens joined together. Six of the screens on the left are covered with video of a computer generated image of a robot working and moving. The top right TV screen shows a computer lab, the middle right screen shows two males looking at the screen for a webcast with the two males sitting in the computer lab and the bottom right screen has a computer screen and search page on it.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... that assist users to work together over multiple sites.

Dr Ian Peake: It's also a ...

VISUAL: Dr Ian Peake speaking to camera.

Dr Ian Peake: ... facility that has high-resolution ...

VISUAL: Close up of the nine screens on the walls, still with the same image as previous.

Dr Ian Peake: ... tiled visualisation walls; it's the nerve centre, if you like ...

VISUAL: Close up of one of the two males working in the computer lab with his back to the camera. Two computer screens can be seen and in the background is the visualisation wall with an image of the computer generated robot working.

Dr Ian Peake: ... of an operation which includes remote monitoring and remote testing brought up on these large screens with video feeds ...

VISUAL: Dr Ian Peake speaking to camera.

Dr Ian Peake: ... from remote sites.

VISUAL: Same image as previous of the computer lab and the screens, camera is a little further back now. The computer graphic of the robot is moving.

Dr Ian Peake: So for example, if someone decided that they needed to do a large collection of tests on a piece of industrial equipment like a manufacturing simulation then they ...

VISUAL: Male sitting at computer screen, camera is behind him looking at screens. The robot in the generated image is moving a little more now.

Dr Ian Peake: ... would use the VITELab to combine the high-performance computing-side ...

VISUAL: Close up of a male using a mouse beside a laptop.

Dr Ian Peake: ... to think up the test cases and then to relay those test cases ...

VISUAL: Close up of the computer screens showing the robot generated image moving and software.

Dr Ian Peake: ... over the network to exercise the equipment and see ... find bugs as quickly as possible.

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt speaking to the camera and smiling at the end.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: So we look at software architecture, we look at the aspects of collaboration platforms where teams, here, in one place and in a remote place collaborate with each other to solve problems at the same time, but in different locations, as a team.

VISUAL: Mr Zoran Savic speaking to the camera.

Mr Zoran Savic: Okay, the advantages for RMIT with this type of training is that RMIT is the only university in Australia that has this equipment.

VISUAL: Video of containers holding six spray cans moving on a conveyor belt in a factory.

Mr Zoran Savic: People that come in here from industry and have a look at this ...

VISUAL: Close up of switches on the robotic area – written above the button switches are: error, automatic on, automatic off, controller off. The Automatic on which is lit.

Mr Zoran Savic: ... they are amazed that we have this type of equipment to work on.

VISUAL: Video of robots lifting spray cans labelled with ABB on the side of the cans from a six holed container to a conveyor belt in a factory behind a panel of glass.

Mr Zoran Savic: We have pretty much ... that equipment has every technology ...

VISUAL: Another angle of the same conveyor belt moving the empty containers around and close up of the conveyor belt.

Mr Zoran Savic: ... that you will find in an automation application. They say if your students can work on this equipment, they can work ...

VISUAL: Mr Zoran Savic speaking to the camera.

Mr Zoran Savic: ... on any automation project in industry.

VISUAL: Dr Ian Peake speaking to the camera.

Dr Ian Peake: I think the benefits to industry of AICAUSE and the VITELab ...

VISUAL: Close up of male worker in spray booth moving the table and then spraying table manually.

Dr Ian Peake: ... are that if industry partners get in early ...

VISUAL: Close up of robot’s spray arm in the spray booth.

Dr Ian Peake: ... then we can tailor our research ...

VISUAL: Robot’s spray arm passing quickly over the table spraying the edge red.

Dr Ian Peake: ... and the innovation that comes from that research to the industry and their specific domain and that obviously saves them lots of time and money.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: It's an interesting question why ...

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt speaking to the camera.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... RMIT was chosen for AICAUSE; this is really a place where ...

VISUAL: Same image as used earlier with the male looking at his computer screen in the lab (the camera is behind him looking over his right shoulder) and the large visualisation screen on the wall in the background, another computer screen on the right has the program on it. The computer generated image of the robot moving is on the screens.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... research is applied, where we have specialist research areas and have excellence in very special areas ...

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt speaking to the camera.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: ... come together when it comes to software, there's not a single engineering discipline that in which software's not becoming dominant and increasingly so.

VISUAL Same image as used earlier (camera is at the left back of the room) with the man sitting behind a computer screen in the lab and the visualisation wall is in the background.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: RMIT is just the place where these things meet in a very fortuitous manner and you can do this type of research.

VISUAL: Professor Heinz Schmidt speaking to the camera and smiling.

Professor Heinz Schmidt: So AICAUSE has found the right place, if you like, in RMIT.

VISUAL: The Australia-India Research Centre for Automation Software Engineering would like to thank: Dr Caspar Ryan, School of Computer Science and Information Technology; RMIT Advanced Manufacturing Precinct; Hilustre Coating Pty Ltd, ABB Australia. A small RMIT University Logo is on the bottom of the screen

VISUAL: RMIT University logo and www.rmit.edu.au/research/aicause.

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