Autonomous smart machines for digital production

The VERITAS project laid the foundations for the optimized design and operation of autonomous, self-organizing and dynamically cooperating intelligent machines for digital production. Current applications use a central management system to control IoT devices and their interactions. While agile cooperation between individual subsystems enables a high degree of flexibility and versatility in production, their centralized use makes IoT devices heavily dependent on the availability and reliability of network connections. For mobile IoT devices in particular, the wireless connection over the last few meters to the machine poses a major challenge. Furthermore, as the number of machines and the complexity of the software used increases, this approach becomes increasingly difficult to manage.

Find out more about the project, which runs from June 2019 to December 2022, here and on the Fraunhofer IIS website.