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Flexible Assemby TestBed

The K.U.Leuven/PMA flexible assembly system (FAS) is used as a research prototype on Holonic Manufacturing Systems [1]. It consists of six workstations and a transport system. The transport between the workstations in the FAS is performed by a conveyer belt driven pallet transport system, providing random routing within the FAS. When needed, also the human worker can be used for transport. Four workstations are robotic workstations. There also is one manual workstation for loading/unloading, for repair and inspection work. A magazine workstation is also available to store non-used pallets. When needed, the transport system can control the magazine for traffic regulation, and the manual workstation has an interface towards the global transport system. Each workstation has its set of resources, like robots, buffers, tools, component trays, bowl feeders, etc. There are some shared resources, that cannot be considered as (permanently) belonging to a specific workstation, like pallets, human operators, or transportable tools.

A description of the implemented software will be added in the future. (See also Functional Model )

References

[1] P. VALCKENAERS, H. VAN BRUSSEL, L. BONGAERTS and F. BONNEVILLE "Programming, Scheduling, and Control of Flexible Assembly Systems", Computers in Industry, V26, N3, pp. 209-218, Aug. 1995
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