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259
Partner Email:
riccius@europanorat.de
Project Title:
Analysis of the business potential of service robots in facility management processes
Abstract:
In the last years service robots for cleaning the floor of rooms and mowing lawn have been introduced in private households and gardening. While the number of users and the number of robots increased, prices could be reduced. Although there are obvious advantages of these robots in comparison to manual work, many people are disappointed about certain aspects of the automized processes, e. g. about the power management. Typically private persons take the situation as it is, without performing systematic and extensive experiments and investigations. However, concerning professional applications the situation is different. For facility management professionals the following basic questions arise: Is the current state of the art in the case of service robots sufficient for professional applications from the practical point of view? Are there economic advantages in comparison to the corresponding services carried out manually? In which application fields exists which economic potentials? Which are the main demands of potential professional users on further developments of service robots for floor cleaning and mowing lawn? Based on careful and extensive experiments and investigations of existing service robots (as the iRobot Roomba of iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA) the master thesis should give clear answers to these questions. Especially it should serve as a bases for deciding for or against the introduction of service robots for floor cleaning and mowing lawn in professional facility management processes. Very important aspects to be considered in this connection are the following: Archievement of service levels according to the facility management agreements concerning the above mentioned processes, power consumption, power management, efficiency of energy utilization, environmental aspects, (manual) effort for unloading the robots, Maintenance of the robots.
Advisor:
Walter Riccius
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Degree:
Master
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