Increasing the level of automation in pharmaceutical laboratories and production facilities plays a crucial role in delivering medicine to patients. However, the particular requirements of this field make it challenging to adapt cutting-edge technologies present in other industries. This article provides an overview of relevant approaches and how they can be utilized in the pharmaceutical industry, especially in development laboratories. Recent advancements include the application of flexible mobile manipulators capable of handling complex tasks. However, integrating devices from many different vendors into an end-to-end automation system is complicated due to the diversity of interfaces. Therefore, various approaches for standardization are considered in this article, and a concept is proposed for taking them a step further. This concept enables a mobile manipulator with a vision system to “learn” the pose of each device and - utilizing a barcode - fetch interface information from a universal cloud database. This information includes control and communication protocol definitions and a representation of robot actions needed to operate the device. In order to define the movements in relation to the device, devices have to feature - besides the barcode - a fiducial marker as standard. The concept will be elaborated following appropriate research activities in follow-up papers.

提高制药实验室和生产设施的自动化水平在向患者提供药物方面起着至关重要的作用。然而，该领域的特殊要求使得采用其他行业中存在的尖端技术具有挑战性。本文概述了相关方法以及如何将它们用于制药行业，尤其​​是在开发实验室中。最近的进展包括应用能够处理复杂任务的灵活移动机械手。然而，由于接口的多样性，将来自许多不同供应商的设备集成到端到端自动化系统中是很复杂的。因此，本文考虑了各种标准化方法，并提出了一个概念以使它们更进一步。这一概念使带有视觉系统的移动机械手能够“学习”每个设备的姿势，并利用条形码从通用云数据库中获取接口信息。此信息包括控制和通信协议定义以及操作设备所需的机器人动作的表示。为了定义与设备相关的运动，除了条形码之外，设备还必须具有基准标记作为标准。该概念将在后续论文中进行适当的研究活动后进行阐述。此信息包括控制和通信协议定义以及操作设备所需的机器人动作的表示。为了定义与设备相关的运动，除了条形码之外，设备还必须具有基准标记作为标准。该概念将在后续论文中进行适当的研究活动后进行阐述。此信息包括控制和通信协议定义以及操作设备所需的机器人动作的表示。为了定义与设备相关的运动，除了条形码之外，设备还必须具有基准标记作为标准。该概念将在后续论文中进行适当的研究活动后进行阐述。