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The employment of simulation tools is the established method to analyze and validate research results. Generally, simulation tools can represent certain key characteristics or behaviors of a selected real-life or abstract system. However, these tools simplify approximations and assume relevant information. Today, most research areas are interdisciplinary. Therefore, the presentation and validation of collective results are a difficult challenge. Demonstrators and prototypes consider these difficulties and relevant factors, which can range from determining the required data sources to the employment of technological devices. The research domain “Autonomous Logistics” is such an interdisciplinary research domain, which focuses on the decentralization of decision-making processes. The showcase demonstrator “factory of autonomous products” is a development of this research domain. This paper introduces this showcase from the demonstrator perspective and proves the benefits.
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Ganji, F., Veigt, M., Scholz-Reiter, B. (2012). Prototyping in Research Domains: A Prototype for Autonomous Production Logistics. In: Uckelmann, D., Scholz-Reiter, B., Rügge, I., Hong, B., Rizzi, A. (eds) The Impact of Virtual, Remote, and Real Logistics Labs. ImViReLL 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28816-6_9
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