The Laboratory Automation Plug & Play (LAPP) framework is an over-arching reference architecture concept for the integration of robots in life science laboratories. The plug & play nature lies in the fact that manual configuration is not required, including the teaching of the robots. In this paper a digital twin (DT) based concept is proposed that outlines the types of information that have to be provided for each relevant component of the system. In particular, for the devices interfacing with the robot, the robot positions have to be defined beforehand in a device-attached coordinate system (CS) by the vendor. This CS has to be detectable by the vision system of the robot by means of optical markers placed on the front side of the device. With that, the robot is capable of tending the machine by performing the pick-and-place type transportation of standard sample carriers. This basic use case is the primary scope of the LAPP-DT framework. The hardware scope is limited to simple benchtop and mobile manipulators with parallel grippers at this stage. This paper first provides an overview of relevant literature and state-of-the-art solutions, after which it outlines the framework on the conceptual level, followed by the specification of the relevant DT parameters for the robot, for the devices and for the facility. Finally, appropriate technologies and strategies are identified for the implementation.

增加制药实验室和生产设施的自动化水平起着至关重要的作用。然而，这一领域的特殊要求使其挑战适应其他行业中存在的尖端技术。本文概述了相关方法以及如何在制药行业中使用，特别是在发展实验室中。最近的进步包括能够处理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的自动化系统中是复杂的。因此，在本文中考虑了各种标准化方法，提出了一种概念来进一步服用一步。该概念使具有视觉系统的移动操纵器能够“学习”每个设备的姿势，并利用来自通用云数据库的条形码 - 获取接口信息。该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操作的表示。为了定义与设备相关的动作，设备必须具有 - 除了条形码 - 作为标准的基准标记。在随访论文中的适当研究活动之后，将详细阐述该概念。