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Cognitive Factory

Introducing new paradigm in manufacturing!

Research Topics

  • Plan-Based Control
  • Manufacturing
  • RPL
  • Cognition
  • Plan Optimization

Application Domain

  • Cognitive Factory

Project Details

The realization of comparable cognitive capabilities in production environments, therefore, is a step towards a Cognitive Factory that merges the advantages of automated and human operated production systems. In the Cognitive Factory, workflows are no longer rigid and hardwired. Instead, the system is equipped with its own online planning capability and may optimize its actions autonomously. Products and components in the Cognitive Factory perceive their own environment, store data and interact with other components of the production system. This will result in an improved quality assurance and true track & trace functionalities during production. Furthermore, the production system will improve its own production plans during runtime based on experience as well as by acquiring and continuously adapting internal system models. Process plans are then transformed online into control strategies, which realize the autonomous production for the momentary specifications. In the field of machining planning, a new feature-based grammar will be developed, that will help to enable the online generation of alternative process plans for a given part model and performance criteria. First test implementations have been made for an integrated Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS), which includes substantial parts and capabilities of an industrial production system. In the test bed, the autonomous production of a customized toy maze was demonstrated. The findings of the project will be applicable to a broad range of production systems in small and mid-size series.

 


Selected Publications

  • Dejan Pangercic , Radu Bogdan Rusu , Michael Beetz , 3D-Based Monocular SLAM for Mobile Agents Navigating in Indoor Environments, 2008, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18,
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  • Thomas Ruehr , Dejan Pangercic , Michael Beetz , Structured Reactive Controllers and Transformational Planning for Manufacturing, 2008, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18,
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