Abstract
This paper presents a flexible and reconfigurable assembly cell designed using the Holonic Manufacturing System paradigm. The function of the cell is to assemble damped machining tools. The automation is challenging due to the size and frequency of changes in the product spectrum. The current version of the cell is composed of an assembly robot, a pallet transport system, the feeding equipment including a custom elevator, and sensors including stereo vision systems. The Holonic Manufacturing System paradigm has been used both for the architecture of the real-time control system and for the mechanical design of the cell. Therefore, when appropriate, the holons do not communicate through software or signal but through the realization of their tasks and the use of sensors to update the view of their environment. The system demonstrates the advantages of the Holonic Manufacturing System paradigm to achieve the required reliability, flexibility and reconfigurability of smaller manufacturing cells.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Chirn, J., McFarlane, D.: Application of the Holonic Component-Based Approach to the Control of a Robot Assembly Cell. In: IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 268. Citeseer, San Fransisco (2000)
Gellein, L.T., Nyen, P.A.: Aprox – agent-based product-resource-order execution. from solution concept to application development framework. In: 3rd CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (2010)
Koren, Y., Heisel, U., Jovane, F., Moriwaki, T., Pritschow, G., Ulsoy, G., Van Brussel, H.: Reconfigurable manufacturing systems. CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology 48(2), 527–540 (1999)
Leitao, P., Colombo, A., Restivo, F.: ADACOR: a collaborative production automation and control architecture. IEEE Intelligent Systems 20(1), 58–66 (2005)
Leitão, P.: Agent-based distributed manufacturing control: A state-of-the-art survey. In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2008)
Maeda, Y., Kikuchi, H., Izawa, H., Ogawa, H., Sugi, M., Arai, T.: An easily reconfigurable robotic assembly system. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2003, vol. 2, pp. 2586–2591. IEEE, Los Alamitos (2003)
Morel, G., Panetto, H., Zaremba, M., Mayer, F.: Manufacturing enterprise control and management system engineering: paradigms and open issues. Annual Reviews in Control 27(2), 199–209 (2003)
Nambiar, A.: Modern Manufacturing Paradigms–A Comparison. In: Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, vol. 3 (2010)
Roulet-Dubonnet, O., Lind, M.: IceHMS: A Holonic Middleware (2010), https://launchpad.net/icehms/
Scholz-Reiter, B., Freitag, M.: Autonomous processes in assembly systems. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology 56(2), 712–729 (2007), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B8CXH-4R68JFX-6/2/ec99c919c6a575b5517be08b071155ee
Shen, W., Hao, Q., Yoon, H., Norrie, D.: Applications of agent-based systems in intelligent manufacturing: An updated review. Advanced Engineering Informatics 20(4), 415–431 (2006)
Tordivel, A.S.: Scorpion vision software® (2010), http://www.scorpionvision.com
Universal Robots: Manufacturer of small and light-weight industrial robots (2010), http://www.universal-robots.com/
Valckenaers, P., Van Brussel, H.: Fundamental insights into holonic systems design. In: Mařík, V., William Brennan, R., Pěchouček, M. (eds.) HoloMAS 2005. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 3593, pp. 11–22. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Van Brussel, H., Wyns, J., Valckenaers, P., Bongaerts, L., Peeters, P.: Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA. Computers in Industry 37(3), 255–274 (1998)
Van Brussel, H.: Holonic Manufacturing Systems The Vision Matching the Problem. In: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Holonic Manufacturing Systems. IFW-Hannover, Hannover (1994)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Roulet-Dubonnet, O., Ystgaard, P. (2011). An Application of the Holonic Manufacturing System to a Flexible Assembly Cell. In: Mařík, V., Vrba, P., Leitão, P. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23181-0_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23181-0_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-23180-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-23181-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)