10.18453/rosdok_id00002396 Gu, Xiangyu Xiangyu Gu http://d-nb.info/gnd/1177184885 Universität Rostock 2018 621.3 Electrical Engineering, Electronics 2018 en http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00002396 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00002396-9 In modern laboratories, an increasing number of automated stations and instruments are applied as standalone automated systems such as biological high throughput screening systems, chemical parallel reactors etc. At the same time, the mobile robot transportation solution becomes popular with the development of robotic technologies. In this dissertation, a new superordinate control system, called hierarchical workflow management system (HWMS) is presented to manage and to handle both, automated laboratory systems and logistics systems.