Modular control system with expert scheduling for flexible manufacturing

Author

Heikkilä, Ari ; Virtanen, Timo ; Majapuro, Reijo

Author_Institution

Control Eng. Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland

fYear

1994

fDate

24-26 Aug 1994

Firstpage

1751

Abstract

A flexible manufacturing cell with vision has been provided with a modular control system based on microcomputers and local area network. The development tool, the shop floor control software, with its basic architecture is overviewed. The control system implementation is presented including the corresponding control modules. An expert routine and scheduling system using rule based simulation is presented. The pilot system described is used to demonstrate flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) technology. It can also be used as a test bed when developing different control methods and algorithms to reach an optimal behaviour of FMS. The current development efforts are concentrated on refining the knowledge based methods to increase the system flexibility and to respond better to various disturbances in the production

Keywords

control systems; flexible manufacturing systems; knowledge based systems; microcomputer applications; production control; FMS; computer vision; expert routine; expert scheduling; flexible manufacturing systems; knowledge based systems; local area network; microcomputers; modular control system; rule based simulation; shop floor control software; Control systems; Flexible manufacturing systems; Knowledge based systems; Manufacturing scheduling; Microcomputer applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1872-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1994.381291

Filename

381291