Design and analysis of a dynamic scheduler for a flexible assembly system

Author

Huang, Tz-Shian ; Fu, Li-Chen ; Chen, Yung-Yu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

4

fYear

1997

fDate

20-25 Apr 1997

Firstpage

3334

Abstract

This paper proposes a rule-based dynamic scheduler for a flexible assembly system. We first introduce a flexible control system developed by the Intelligent Robot and Automation Laboratory in National Taiwan University. Based on that control system, the relationship between the control system and the scheduler is characterized. With focus on realization, hardware limitations such as long computation time and excessive memory-space usage are relaxed by incorporating several heuristic measures. The present work is applied to the simulated robotized flexible assembly system in our laboratory

Keywords

assembling; flexible manufacturing systems; industrial robots; inference mechanisms; knowledge based systems; object-oriented methods; production control; robots; search problems; flexible assembly system; flexible control system; hardware limitations; long computation time; memory-space usage; realization; robotized flexible assembly system; rule-based dynamic scheduler; Assembly systems; Automatic control; Control systems; Dynamic scheduling; Hardware; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Processor scheduling; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3612-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1997.606797

Filename

606797