RT Conference Proceedings T1 Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory A1 Remazeilles, Anthony A1 Rasines, Irati A1 Fernandez, Asier A1 Neumann, Maike A1 Beetz, Michael A1 Grossard, Mathieu A1 Hellingman, Clive A1 Coulon, Carl Helmut A1 Cichon, Torben A1 Gosselin, Florian A1 Vincze, Markus A2 Tardioli, Danilo A2 Matellán, Vicente A2 Heredia, Guillermo A2 Silva, Manuel F. A2 Marques, Lino AB This article provides a detailed description of the membrane-based sterility testing process, the use case selected in the Horizon Europe project TraceBot for demonstrating the benefit of agile robotics in a laboratory setting and its interest for the pharmaceutical industry. Based on videos of human operators performing manually the sterility testing process, we detail its different steps, starting from a human perspective, with a more robotic approach in mind, and highlight the major atomic functionalities a robot should have for executing the process at hand. Together with the analysis of the process flow of actions, we also list all elements/objects involved, and analyse the technical and scientific challenges in this process and its application environment as well as in general pharmaceutical processes. Finally, with the objective to engage the community in collaborating and taking advantage of our use case study, the complete process flow description is made available on a website, together with associated data like the object’s meshes and a generic robotic setting in ROS environment. PB Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH SN 9783031210648 SN 2367-3370 YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1693 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1693 LA eng NO Remazeilles , A , Rasines , I , Fernandez , A , Neumann , M , Beetz , M , Grossard , M , Hellingman , C , Coulon , C H , Cichon , T , Gosselin , F & Vincze , M 2023 , Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process : Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory . in D Tardioli , V Matellán , G Heredia , M F Silva & L Marques (eds) , ROBOT2022 : 5th Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems , vol. 589 LNNS , Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , pp. 223-234 , 5th Iberian Robotics Conference, ROBOT 2022 , Zaragoza , Spain , 23/11/22 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_19 NO conference NO Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. NO Acknowledgements. Supported by the TraceBot project under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme, grant agreement No. 101017089. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 30 jul 2024