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In order to deploy AGVs in industry, it is mandatory to consider the tradeoff between smartness and embeddability. This paper aims at making the manufacturing research community more sensitive about this tradeoff and its consequences. Nowadays, AGVs are widely chosen by manufacturers to implement flexible material-handling systems which are necessary to cover the industrial requirements. However, many issues, presented in this paper, must be tackled to deploy these AGVs. A tradeoff-oriented procedure is proposed by considering these issues in flexible manufacturing system applications. Then, an approach is proposed to illustrate this procedure by providing simulation and experimental results. This approach is also used to roughly describe the smartness/embeddability tradeoff.
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Demesure, G. et al. (2018). Smartness Versus Embeddability: A Tradeoff for the Deployment of Smart AGVs in Industry. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., Cardin, O. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73751-5_30
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