Autonomous quality and productivity improvement by agent robot system for assembly operation

In this paper, we have discussed on the performance of the knowledge sharing for the multiple robot system which is equipped with the advanced telecommunication devices. This has enabled the mobile robots to perform advanced communication. This is not only for master´s or administrator´s command use but for the exchange of the knowledge obtained from the operation. Therefore, we propose the utilization of the knowledge sharing robot system at manufacturing scenes, and demonstrate the performance by a simplified simulation. In this simulation, a manufacturing line which is operated by several robot agents is proposed. Applying this knowledge sharing system, which helps to improve the balance of the line, the system´s improvement of productivity in the line was observed. Consequently, the cost reduction and improvement of the efficiency shall be expected by introducing more sophisticated algorithm of knowledge sharing and distribution.