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international conference on information technology | 2006

Evolvable Assembly Systems Basic Principles

Mauro Onori; José Barata; Regina Frei

This paper addresses the underlying principles of Evolvable Assembly Systems. This paradigm was recently proposed as an answer to the requirements faced by assembly companies in the current world of business and technological changes. The basis for this new approach lies in a multi-disciplinary study of the needs and requirements, and shifts the technological focus from complex, flexible, multi-purpose systems to simpler, process-oriented, dedicated swarms of machine modules.


international symposium on industrial electronics | 2007

Evolvable Production Systems Context and Implications

Regina Frei; José Barata; Mauro Onori

Agility, reactivity and sustainability are key to cope with todays dynamic markets, as has been broadly recognized. Depending on the source, manufacturing systems are required to be modular, hierarchical or heterarchical, distributed, flexible or reconfigurable; companies can be represented using the bionic, fractal and holonic concepts. Evolvable production systems fulfill the majority of the requirements elaborated by the agile and reconfigurable approaches and take nature as a metaphor. Modularity of fine granularity and local intelligence allow truly process-specific system design. EPS provide mechanisms for fast reconfiguration at mechanical as well as control level. They apply the multi-agent paradigm, which is intrinsically suited for distributed systems. Inspired by biology, artificial intelligence and complexity theory, EPS open the doors for the production systems of the future: the aim is to implement advanced concepts such as self- organization, self-diagnose and self-healing. Coping with emergent behavior will be fundamental, and taking profit of emergent capabilities will open considerable potential for new solutions.


CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology | 2010

Evolvable production systems : An integrated view on recent developments

Luis Ribeiro; José Barata; Gonçalo Cândido; Mauro Onori

Evolvable Production Systems (EPS) is a fundamentally new paradigm to design, maintain and evolve industrial systems. It is a holistic approach supporting product/shop floor co-evolution and ensuring a tailored and balanced solution for sustainable enterprise development. Its core is engineered by distributed intelligence materialized in proactive and interacting shop floor assets. These intelligent building blocks include a wise interface design that ensures plug-ability and promotes system integration and bio-inspired interaction mechanisms (control and monitoring/diagnosis) to emerge a consistent self-organizing response to production disturbances. In this article a short survey on recent technical and theoretical developments supporting the EPS paradigm is held.


(ISATP 2005). The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning: From Nano to Macro Assembly and Manufacturing, 2005. | 2005

An architecture development approach for evolvable assembly systems

Mauro Onori; Henric Alsterman; José Barata

This concept of evolvable, process-oriented modular systems may be viewed as a new business model to sustain European competitiveness in micro and mini assembly. It is clear that this business model implies a high dynamic lifecycle for shop floors. The system will move from a static life cycle since the modules that create the different systems will live beyond the product lifecycle. This dynamicity imposes strong requirements on the way systems are designed, installed, operated, and reengineered. Re-configurability is not enough. These requirements will not only have an impact on the individual control architecture of the modules but also on, and this is very important, how the system is created, and several types of co-existing architectures


IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 2009

Evolvable Production Systems: Mechatronic Production Equipment with Process-Based Distributed Control

Mauro Onori; José Barata

Current major roadmapping efforts have all clearly underlined that true industrialsustainability will require far higher levels of systems’ autonomy and adaptability. In accordance withthese recomm ...


international conference on industrial informatics | 2005

A multiagent based control approach for evolvable assembly systems

José Barata; Luis M. Camarinha-Matos; Mauro Onori

The work presented in this paper intends to clarify how multiagents can be an adequate paradigm to solve the challenges imposed by evolvable assembly systems (EAS). The article therefore shows that a multiagent architecture based on coalitions of assembly modules (CoBASA) can be successfully used to implement the control architecture for EAS.


IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 1985

Robot Tactile Sensing : A New Array Sensor

B.V. Jayawant; Mauro Onori; J.D. MckWatson

Abstract The paper describes the design and evolution of a new, intelligent tactile sensor array for possible use in industrial robotics. In order to achieve a practical sensor system, special attention was given to flexibility, resolution, and reduction of physical size and hardware. The device is based on a new type of transducer element employs innovative scanning techniques, and is also capable of considerable miniaturisation. The paper discusses in detail the reasons for which these new techniques were adopted, and how the prototype 4 x 4 tactile sensor array was developed. The hardware and software modifications which will bring about the more sophisticated 32 x 4 sensor array, are also described. Performance, including a mention of the imaging process is discussed, along with an outline of the directions the work will take in the near future.


Assembly Automation | 2008

Evolvable assembly systems: coping with variations through evolution

Daniel Semere; Mauro Onori; Antonio Maffei; R. Adamietz

Purpose – The main features of evolvable systems include distributed control, a modularized, intelligent and open architecture, a comprehensive and multi-dimensional methodological support that com ...


Assembly Automation | 2010

Outlook report on the future of European assembly automation

Mauro Onori; José Barata Oliveira

Purpose – This roadmap is primarily concerned with the adaptive assembly technology situation in Europe, a topic of particular interest as assembly is often the final process within manufacturing operations. Being the final set of operations on the product, and being traditionally labour‐intensive, assembly has been considerably affected by globalisation. Therefore, unlike most technology roadmaps, this report will not focus solely on particular technologies, but will strive to form a broader perspective on the conditions that may come to influence the opportunities, including political aspects and scientific paradigms. The purpose of this paper is to convey a complete view of the global mechanisms that may come to affect technological breakthroughs, and also present strategies that may better prepare for such a forecast.Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes a technological roadmap.Findings – This paper provides a complete overview of all aspects that may come to affect assembly in Europe with...


conference of the industrial electronics society | 2011

Self-organization in automation - the IDEAS pre-demonstrator

Luis Ribeiro; José Barata; Mauro Onori; Christoph Hanisch; Johannes Hoos; Rogério Rosa

While the application of IT in automation gains traction, mostly motivated by the introduction of Service Orientated Approaches and Multiagent modelling, it is sometimes unclear to practitioners what is the full potential and boundaries of such concepts and technologies. The FP7 IDEAS project is focused in the design and development of Multiagent systems in a Mechatronic context which, to a great extent, implies that Mechatronic Agents must consider and respect mechanical/physical constraints while delivering the widely acknowledged (yet elusively demonstrated) characteristics that may render Agent-based control unique in respect to tolerance to disturbances, plug-ability and scalability. In this context, the present paper details the preliminary proof of concept prototype that validates the IDEAS Mechatronic Agent Architecture. The focus of this early demonstrator is to enlighten on how self-organization, inspired by the Evolvable Assembly System (EAS) Paradigm, can be exploited towards promoting the above mentioned characteristics. The main lessons learned, open points and future developing directions are distilled as the prototype is presented.

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José Barata

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Antonio Maffei

Royal Institute of Technology

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Hakan Akillioglu

Royal Institute of Technology

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Pedro Neves

Royal Institute of Technology

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Daniel Semere

Royal Institute of Technology

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Jan Wikander

Royal Institute of Technology

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Pedro Neves

Royal Institute of Technology

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Joao Dias Ferreira

Royal Institute of Technology

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João Dias-Ferreira

Royal Institute of Technology

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