Evolvable Assembly Systems: Towards User Friendly Manufacturing

Frei, Regina; Ribeiro, Luís; Barata, José; Semere, Daniel

doi:10.1109/isam.2007.4288487

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“…Evolvable Assembly Systems (EAS) [8] specifically target the challenges encountered in Mass Customization industry. So far, EAS were based on a multi-agent control solution called CoBASA [1], operational at Uninova, Portugal.…”

Section: Challenges In Manufacturingmentioning

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Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems

Frei

Serugendo

Barata

2008

2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

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Current solutions for industrial manufacturing assembly systems do not suit the needs of Mass Customization industry, which is facing low production volumes, many variants and rapidly changing conditions. This paper proposes the concept of Self-Organizing Evolvable Assembly Systems, where assembly system modules and product parts to be assembled self-organize and self-adapt (among others, choose their coalition partners, their location and monitor themselves) in order to easily and quickly produce a new or reconfigured assembly system each time a new product order arrives or each time a failure or weakness arises in the current assembly system. This paper presents the design and partial implementation of such a system following an architecture for self-organizing and self-adaptive systems based on policies enforced at run-time on the basis of collected and updated metadata. As a case study, the assembly of a Adhesive Tape Roller Dispenser is considered.

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Section: Challenges In Manufacturingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems

Frei

Serugendo

Barata

2008

2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

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“…Further the evolvement of new functionalities is accomplished in Evolvable Assembly Systems (EASs) [2], that concentrate amongst others on the reaction to emergent product changes. Following [8], evolvability is the enabler for tomorrow's production systems.…”

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Self-Reconfiguration of Industrial Mobile Robots

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Pooley

Aylett

2010

2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

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In this paper a flexible self-reconfiguration mechanism for industrial mobile robots in car manufacturing is presented. Implemented in a holonic multi-agent system, userinserted process changes are executed self-organised. Starting with a natural-language based description of the desired process change, an uncoupled recombination mechanism is the core part of the presented approach. The novel recombination of already existing system functionalities enables the addition of new functions to an already existing system while stability and productivity are assured. A hierarchical-organised standard holon and heterarchical-organised reconfiguration holons are provided to separate the execution of routine tasks and self-reconfiguration tasks. By using the principles of holonic manufacturing and skill evolvability, the self-reconfiguration mechanism supplies functional flexibility for industrial mobile robots without uncontrolled loss of productivity.

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“…the goods, the impact of emerging requirements is deeply felt at the shop floor level. Virtually all the recent control approaches and paradigms advocate the use of distributed (BMS) (Ueda 1992), holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) (Babiceanu and Chen 2006;Bussmann and Mcfarlane 1999;Gou et al 1998;Van Brussel et al 1998), reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) (Koren et al 1999;Mehrabi et al 2000), (EAS) ( Barata et al 2006b;Frei et al 2007b;Onori 2002;Onori et al 2005;Onori et al 2006) and evolvable production systems (EPS) ( Barata et al 2007a; Barata et al 2007b;Frei et al 2007a).…”

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MAS and SOA: Complementary Automation Paradigms

Ribeiro

Barata

Mendes

Innovation in Manufacturing Networks

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This document surveys existing research in emergent concepts and technologies supporting the establishment of what are expected to be future automation systems. Multiagent systems (MAS) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are currently the and study of SOA and MAS for distributed automation systems suggests that there are substantial benefits in converging both paradigms and technologies In this context, the goal of the present work is to unveil their strengths and weaknesses and propose the unification of complementary features as a mean to provide unprecedented support to the study, modelling, design and implementation of complex distributed systems.

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Evolvable Assembly Systems: Towards User Friendly Manufacturing

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems

Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems

Self-Reconfiguration of Industrial Mobile Robots

MAS and SOA: Complementary Automation Paradigms

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