Title :
Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems
Author :
Frei, Regina ; Di Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna ; Barata, Jose
Author_Institution :
New Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
manufacturing systems; adhesive tape roller dispenser; industrial manufacturing assembly systems; mass customization industry; self-adaptive systems; self-organizing evolvable assembly systems; Assembly systems; Condition monitoring; Manufacturing industries; Mass customization; Mass production; Product design; Production systems; Robot sensing systems; Robotic assembly; Service robots; Control; Design; Industrial Robotic Systems; Reconfigurable Manufacturing; Self-Organisation;
Conference_Titel :
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 2008. SASO '08. Second IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venezia
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3404-6
DOI :
10.1109/SASO.2008.20