Deliverable D 18.1 Common Framework Orientations

FP3 – IAM4RAIL WP18 was structured around 2 timeframes. In the short-term view, maintenance robots are being developed. Those robots meet business needs expressed by partners. The aims are different: some want to accompany the growth of their transport offer without having to increase the surface area of their maintenance facilities, others want to acquire new resources to accelerate an equipment deployment program, and still others want to reduce their costs or improve the quality of the information they collect.

To ensure that developments continue beyond these 4 robots, the work package aims to structure a railway robotics ecosystem in the medium-term view. This ecosystem supports the technical policy of robot modularity, which is essential for the expansion of robotics in railway maintenance.
In this first year of work, we set out to determine the main guidelines that will govern the development of common tools and methodologies for our ecosystem. The purpose of this document is to set out these orientations.