Intelligent Control for Reconfigurable Manufacturing and Logistics 

 

 The research of the infoMechatronics and Industrial Automation lab is focused on information technologies enabling flexibility and re-configurability of manufacturing and logistics systems.

In the past 2 years more than 20 research projects have been completed that investigated novel ways of designing controls in flexible reconfigurable manufacturing.

  reconfiguration

The core flexibility-enabling idea is to control machines in a decentralized way, so each mechatronic unit becomes intelligent and negotiates with other units in order to achieve the production goal.
     
Each conveyor section is equipped with an experimental embedded controller directly executing intelligent agents in form of IEC 61499 function blocks.  

The modular mechatronic testbed is used to demonstrate the developed techniques in manufacturing environments with the changing layout of the factory floor.

   

 

 

Highlights of recent projects

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