Evolvable assembly systems: towards user friendly manufacturing

Frei, Regina, Ribeiro, Luis, Barata, Jose and Semere, Daniel (2007) Evolvable assembly systems: towards user friendly manufacturing. In IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing, 2007. ISAM '07. IEEE. pp. 288-293 . (doi:10.1109/ISAM.2007.4288487).

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Abstract

Besides coping with the highly dynamic product and production system life cycles with ever-changing requirements, modern assembly systems also need to be user-friendly. Their modularity at fine granularity-level combined with local intelligence and a distributed control approach allows the systems to evolve together with the requirements -but their complexity would soon not be manageable from outside any more if user-friendliness was not considered a major criterion. Systems must be made to serve their users. Thanks to Self-* capabilities, systems can gain an increasingly high degree of autonomy. Diagnosis plays a particularly important role in this process.

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