Special Session organized by

Philipp Richard, Technologie-Initiative SmartFactory KL e.V., Germany, Peter Detzner, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Alexis Bernhard, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany, Jana Jost, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany, Steffen Bondorf, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Achim Wagner, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany.

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Focus

This Special Session addresses intralogistics as an integral cyber-physical subsystem of factory automation, spanning both the robot level and the system level. It focuses on the integration of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) as cyber-physical entities embedded in production and intralogistics systems, enabled by digital twins, distributed control systems, and/or agent-based architectures. Contributions are expected to address robot-level functionalities, behaviors, and coordination mechanisms, as well as system-level commissioning, orchestration, and lifecycle engineering. Particular emphasis is placed on interoperability, reconfigurability, monitoring, and trustworthy, coordinated decision-making across production and intralogistics domains rather than on isolated fleet-centric solutions.

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Topics under this special session include:

• Cyber-physical integration of intralogistics into factory automation systems
• Integration from shopfloor and intralogistics to MES and IT systems
• Digital twins for AMRs and intralogistics systems
• Machine learning on the edge for AMRs
• Practical applications of autonomous transportation systems
• Simulation-based AI development and applications for AGVs and AMRs
• Commissioning, configuration, and reconfiguration of autonomous transport systems in modular factories
• Lifecycle engineering, evolution, and maintenance of intralogistics automation systemsand
• Orchestration and coordination of AMRs fleet management systems
• Distributed and multi-agent coordination across production and intralogistics domains
• System-of-systems architectures for factory-wide orchestration and control
• Robot-level functionalities, behaviors, and abstractions of AMRs within cyber-physical factory automation systems
• Trustworthiness, safety, and risk reasoning in autonomous intralogistics environments
• Monitoring - situation assessment in intralogistics