A new trend in automation is to deploy so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS) which combine computation with physical processes. The novel RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo (LLSF) aims at such CPS logistic scenarios in an automation setting. A team of robots has to produce products from a number of semi-finished products which they have to machine during the game. Different production plans are possible and the robots need to recycle scrap byproducts. This way, the LLSF is a very interesting league offering a number of challenging research questions for planning, coordination, or communication in an application-driven scenario. In this paper, we outline the objectives of the LLSF and present steps for developing the league further towards a benchmark for logistics scenarios for CPS. As a major milestone we present the new automated referee system which helps in governing the game play as well as keeping track of the scored points in a very complex factory scenario. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Niemueller, T., Ewert, D., Reuter, S., Ferrein, A., Jeschke, S., & Lakemeyer, G. (2014). RoboCup logistics league sponsored by festo: A competitive factory automation testbed. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8371 LNAI, pp. 336–347). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_30
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