Decentralised aerial swarm for adaptive and energy efficient transport of unknown loads

Huang, Kangyao; Chen, Jingyu; Oyekan, John

doi:10.1016/j.swevo.2021.100957

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“…In many cases, a Digital Twin provided at the enterprise level can provide a visual representation of the decision points so that humans may make the decision of how to balance all production choices (in a trade-off fashion) in order to best meet net zero considerations, while maintaining the ability to react to changing market conditions. Digital Twins could also be used to support the development of Human-Robot Collaboration strategies, as well as multi-agents in holonic manufacturing systems, while supported by optimisation algorithms [189,190]. In Figure 6, for agile manufacturing, a production decision point often occurs at the postponement stage, where the organization will decide to what level a product is prebuilt before final customization, and involving LCA and CE measures within the decision though the generation of alternative scenarios may help identify reduced carbon emission options.…”

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Manufacturing in the Age of Human-Centric and Sustainable Industry 5.0: Application to Holonic, Flexible, Reconfigurable and Smart Manufacturing Systems

Turner

Oyekan

2023

Sustainability

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This paper provides a classification of manufacturing types in terms of new technological tools provided in the Industry 5.0 framework. The manufacturing types agile, holonic, flexible and reconfigurable benefit from and are potentially changed by Industry 4.0 technologies and the human-centric focus of Industry 5.0. Furthermore, the use of Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) provides a holistic method for estimating the true value of emissions emitted during the carrying out of manufacturing decisions. As a result, LCA may be used as a central guiding framework, in addition to the use of Circular Economy metrics, for decisions in manufacturing whose results could be presented to humans as part of a scenario-generation system using visualisations within a Digital Twin environment. This enables a decision maker to make informed decisions regarding current and future production needs. Regardless of the size of production facility, this integrated approach is perhaps the most significant gap in research identified by this survey of manufacturing types and systems when viewed through the lens of Industry 5.0. This paper makes the contribution of providing an assessment of the major manufacturing types in the context of Industry 5.0, highlighting the gaps in the current research and providing a sustainable and human-centric agenda supported by LCA use with modern production methodologies.

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Manufacturing in the Age of Human-Centric and Sustainable Industry 5.0: Application to Holonic, Flexible, Reconfigurable and Smart Manufacturing Systems

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Oyekan

2023

Sustainability

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“…With the increased adoption of drones, various challenges are to be addressed during the transportation of goods. These could be resolved by using mathematical modeling approaches as well as nature-inspired approaches [14]. Figure 8 shows multiple drones combining their lifting capacity to lift a heavy object.…”

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Aerial robot swarms: a review

Luthra

2023

IJRA

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<span lang="EN-US">The purpose of this review is to highlight the current research on aerial robot swarms and their applications. It focuses on the system architecture and follows the current trend in aerial robotics promoting research in this field along with its impact on society. Further, it explores the dynamics as well as the flying mechanisms of a drone and sheds light on the different algorithms being used to control aerial swarms. Due to a lot of research going on in this field, we also discuss the different trends that are active and of keen interest to the researchers, including the swarm pattern formation behavior.</span>

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“…In addition, Lin et al (2005) addressed a rendezvous problem; robots aggregate to a specific location while avoiding network disconnection (a fragmentation phenomenon in our work). The work by Huang et al (2021) aimed to build a system of quadcopters that supports a cooperative lift of a target object. Flocking rules are incorporated with a control subsumption architecture to distribute a swarm of robots considering the balanced weight distribution of the object.…”

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Distributed cohesive configuration controller for a swarm with low‐cost platforms

Lee

2022

Journal of Field Robotics

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This study presents a cohesive configuration controller for distributed space coverage by a swarm of robots. The goal is to build a dense, convex network that is robust against disconnection while robots are flocking with only incomplete knowledge about the network. The controller is an integrated framework of two different algorithms. First, we present a boundary force algorithm: physics‐based swarm intelligence that borrows the concept of surface tension force between liquid molecules. The combination of such a force with conventional flocking produces a convex and dense configuration without knowledge of the complete geometry of a robot network. Second, robots distributively determine when a configuration is on the verge of disconnection by identifying a local articulation point—a region where the removal of a single robot will change the local topology. When such a point is detected, robots switch their behavior to clustering, which aggregates them around the vulnerable region to remove every articulation point and retain a connected configuration. Finally, we introduced an index that objectively represents the level of risk of a robot configuration against the massive fragmentation, called vulnerability index. We provide theoretical performance analyses of each algorithm and validate the results with simulations and experiments using a set of low‐cost robots.

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Decentralised aerial swarm for adaptive and energy efficient transport of unknown loads

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Manufacturing in the Age of Human-Centric and Sustainable Industry 5.0: Application to Holonic, Flexible, Reconfigurable and Smart Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing in the Age of Human-Centric and Sustainable Industry 5.0: Application to Holonic, Flexible, Reconfigurable and Smart Manufacturing Systems

Aerial robot swarms: a review

Distributed cohesive configuration controller for a swarm with low‐cost platforms

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