The Business
Aldebaran designs and produces
user-friendly and interactive
humanoid robots. In less than
10 years, we have become a
leader in the humanoid robotics
market. Today, we offer robots that
assist professionals in education,
research, health, distribution, and
tourism, as well as those that help
both families and individuals.
The Challenge
Humanoid robots require a high
degree of safety, due to their close
interaction with humans. We must
provide customers a product that
is safe and secure by construction
and which conforms to the
principal robotic standards (such
as IEC12100, ISO10218, ISO13482).
The Solution
Aldebaran evaluated the Papyrus
Robotic Platform, a design and
development tool customized for
the robotic domain. The RobotML
language, an extension of the
industry-standard UML integrated
into the Papyrus Robotic Platform,
is capable of modeling any kind of
mobile robots. The Platform also
provides modules for model-based
safety and security analyses based
on the ISO13482.
The Benefit
The use of Papyrus helped
Aldebaran to centralize project-
related knowledge and supported
development of different parts of
the
Romeo II robot. It also helped
improve information exchange
between different teams.
Eclipse Papyrus Case Study Series
humanoid robots
family is growing
March 2016
[ Romeo II Project ]
« We believe in a future
where humanoid robots
will be assisting humans
in their everyday lives,
their family lives, their
leisure activities, and
in their work. »
The Business
From
Nao to Pepper
F
rom the outset, our goal was to make robots
accessible to everyone, based on the view that
they will become our daily companions.
We designed our first robot,
Nao, in 2006. As an impressive
testimonial to this amazing pioneering
adventure, over 9,000
Naos are currently
in use throughout the world, with
particular successes in research and
education.
In 2009, we launched the
Romeo project
in collaboration with research several
laboratories and institutions, with the
goal to intensify our research into
assistance aimed at people facing a loss
of autonomy.
In 2014, Aldebaran introduced
Pepper
for the B2B market in Japan. Starting
with the summer of 2015,
Pepper is
available to customers in Japan. More
than 7000
Peppers have been sold today.
Aldebaran currently represents more
than 400 Aldebaranians, 4 offices (Paris,
Tokyo, Boston and Shanghai). It has
recently become a subsidiary of the
SoftBank group.
The Challenge
« Most available
standards, guidelines
and norms are
not adapted to the
robotic domain »
M
odern robotic systems and, in particular,
humanoid robots, are complex and are
capable of performing sophisticated
tasks in different domains. Such
robots must satisfy certain
dependability requirements including
notably reliability, availability, safety,
and security. Unfortunately, most
available standards, guidelines, and
norms pertaining to functional safety
propose classical methods and generic
methodologies which are not adapted
to the robotic domain. In particular,
the fast evolution of modern humanoid
robots, their ever-growing complexity
and multi-disciplinary aspects, require
new safety approaches capable of
analyzing a system from the earliest
development phases, as well as new
tools adapted to the robotic domain.
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The Business & The Challenge
The Business
The Challenge
&
[Nao (on the left) was born in 2006. 9,000 Naos are now in use all over the world. © Aldebaran]
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The Solution
I
n order to cope with system complexity, Aldebaran
turned to a model-driven engineering approach
supported by Papyrus and tuned to the robotic
domain. This significantly simplified
the support of system requirements,
design, safety and security analysis, and
verification and validation throughout the
system life-cycle.
The RobotML language provided within
the Papyrus Robotic Platform makes
it easy to design, simulate and deploy
robotic applications. With RobotML,
robotic systems can be defined using
appropriate notations, abstractions,
and facilities to automatically generate
executable code. RobotML proved to be
a good solution for Aldebaran’s experts
that deal with variability problems, as
well as for system architects who no
longer need to be concerned with the
details of low-level programming.
In addition to modeling, the Papyrus
Robotic Platform provides facilities
to develop safe and secure robotic
systems. It can help Aldebaran to
automate the safety analysis process
and also to link it with ISO13482 and
the different phases of the corporate
development life-cycle practices.
The platform includes a language
that defines the main safety concepts,
libraries of various hazards and safety
requirements as specified by ISO13482,
FTA (fault tree analysis) and FMEA (failure
mode and effects analysis) modules, and a
report generation module.
[“ For the safety study
of its companion robots, Aldebaran
uses Papyrus as complex system
modelling tool.” ]
ROdOLPHE GELIN - CHIEF SCIENTIST OFFICER
ALdEBARAN ROBOTICS
[Pepper was first introduced for the B2B market in Japan in 2014. © Jake Curtis / Aldebaran]
The Solution
« dealing with
complexity »
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The Benefits
T
he use of Papyrus can help Aldebaran to
better cope with engineering time and cost by
bridging the gap between system development
and safety and security analysis. Indeed,
the preliminary results of the
safety and security analysis performed
in the early phases of robotic life-cycle,
can reveal the most critical aspects of
the design, which, thanks to Papyrus
Robotic Platform, can be mitigated at
minimum cost.
In the scope of the
Romeo II project, by
using UML profile mechanisms in Papyrus
the Papyrus Robotic Platform provided a
shared view of the system for both system
and safety/security engineers.
This allowed Aldebaran to integrate all
data linked with the development and
safety/security analysis to this single
robotic model. As a result, Aldebaran
experts got a flexible tool, which enables
the different teams to view the system as
a whole, to improve the communication
on the project, and to facilitate
collaborations between team members.
« A flexible tool,
which enables
the different teams
to view the system
as a whole, »
About Aldebaran Robotics
Nature : Industry
Domain : Humanoid robotics
Web Site : www.aldebaran.com
Employees : 400
PAPyRuS CASE STuDy SERIES
Publisher :
CEA List //
Chief Editor :
Sébastien Gérard //
Texts :
Rodolphe Gelin //
Layout :
Florence Boulenger-Delplanque
Copy Edit :
Bran Selic //
Cover
Picture :
© Aldebaran (Nao Robots) & LaCozza / Fotolia
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About List (www-list.cea.fr) : One of three institutes which comprise CEA Tech (CEA Technological Research Division), the List institute is committed to technological innovation in
digital systems. Its R&D activities - driven by major economic, societal and industrial challenges - encompass four main themes : advanced manufacturing ; embedded systems ;
ambient intelligence ; and healthcare, including radiotherapy and imaging technologies.
About Papyrus (www.eclipse.org/papyrus) : Papyrus is an Eclipse project led by List (contact : Sébastien Gérard at sebastien.gerard@cea.fr). Papyrus is also labelled as a solution of
the Eclipse industrial working group Polarsys (https://www.polarsys.org/solutions/papyrus). Papyrus supports model-driven approaches by providing a standards-based modeling
tool that supports, out of the box, both the uML and the SysML international industry standards from the OMG. In addition, Papyrus provides very advanced support for custom uML
profiles that specialize UML, which enables users to define and implement their own domain- and project-specific modeling tools and languages (DSMLs). The user interface of
Papyrus is highly configurable to support a broad spectrum of user-specific domains and concerns.
[Nao’s Visitors Book in a recent event © Aldebaran]
The Benefits
[ The model-based safety and
security analyses provided by the
Papyrus Robotic Platform would allow
Aldebaran to better control the quality
of its products starting with the early
phases of system life-cycle. ]
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