roboflo

Task scheduler for robotic systems that juggle many tasks in parallel across multiple stations.

https://github.com/rekumar/roboflo

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Task scheduler for robotic systems that juggle many tasks in parallel across multiple stations.

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Host: GitHub
Owner: rekumar
License: gpl-3.0
Language: Python
Default Branch: master
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Size: 677 KB

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planning robotics workflow

Created about 4 years ago · Last pushed about 2 years ago

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Readme License Citation

Task scheduler for any system with coordinated workers. The original use case is for the Perovskite Automated Spin-Coating Assembly Line (PASCAL) in the Fenning Lab at UC San Diego, where a robotic arm moves small glass slides between stations to perform experiments.

roboflo assumes that you have a set of Worker's that act (independently or in unison) to perform Task's of set duration. Furthermore, one or more Worker's can function to transition between Task's (eg my robot moves a sample from the hotplate to a camera, or my mom moves me from school to soccer practice). These transition moves constitute a special case of Task's , called Transition's. The total set of Worker's and Transition's define your System. Sets of Task's are consolidated into Protocol's (eg the same process for five samples or five kids), which are then scheduled (using the Scheduler on your System) to minimize the total working time. An example schedule is shown below.

Happy robot-ing!

Example Schedule

PS - shoutout to Taskpacker, from which I drew heavy inspiration. roboflo carries much of the design philosophy from Taskpacker, but uses only Python packages (the backend is Google ORTools as opposed to Numberjack, which can be difficult to install especially on Windows). roboflo also introduces Transitions, which define a finite state machine, as a critical component in the workflow under the assumption that many robotic platforms involve workers whose specific jobs are to move things between other workers.

Owner

Name: Rishi E Kumar
Login: rekumar
Kind: user
Location: Honolulu, HI
Company: Oceanit

Twitter: rekumar_
Repositories: 22
Profile: https://github.com/rekumar

Citation (CITATION.cff)

abstract: "A software tool to create job schedules for robotic laboratories."
authors:
- affiliation: UC San Diego
  family-names: Rishi E Kumar
cff-version: 1.2.0
date-released: '2024-01-29'
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10581792
license:
- cc-by-4.0
repository-code: https://github.com/rekumar/roboflo/tree/v0.2.1
title: 'rekumar/roboflo: v0.2.1'
type: software
version: v0.2.1

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pypi.org: roboflo

Scheduler for automation tasks that involve multiple stations/workers.

Documentation: https://roboflo.readthedocs.io/
License: MIT
Latest release: 0.2.1
published about 3 years ago

Versions: 5
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 68 Last month

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Dependent packages count: 9.6%

Average: 19.9%

Dependent repos count: 21.9%

Downloads: 28.3%

Maintainers (1)

rekumar