Computer Vision-enabled HCPS Assembly Workstations Swarm for Enhancing Responsiveness in Mass Customization

Ling，Shiquan1; Guo，Daqiang1; Qian，Cheng2; Ao，Di3; Zhang，Tongda3; Rong，Yiming3; Huang，George Q.1

10.1109/CASE48305.2020.9216907

2020-08-01

2161-8070

2161-8089

978-1-7281-6905-7

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

2020-August

214-219

20-21 Aug. 2020

Hong Kong, China

Facing fierce competition in mass customization, rapid response to dynamic changes is strategically important for manufactures to increase opportunity of survival in high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) environment. The traditional dedicated manufacturing system for mass production is required to become modular, scalable and reconfigurable for increasing flexibility and responsiveness to cope with the changing market. Motivated by a hybrid assembly cell lines (HACL) in real-life, a distributed assembly cells system, inspired by swarm intelligence (SI) concept and swarm robotics, has been proposed, named swarm assembly system (SAS). In order to apply and reap the benefits of SI to SAS, three main components are designed by referring to swarm robot system and they are human-cyber-physical system holon (HCPS Holon), intelligent assembly workstation (iWorkstation) and operational framework of SAS. Computer vision technologies are employed to monitor and analyze real-time worker status and operation information within the iWorkstation for closed-loop adaptive control. The hybrid operational framework of SAS provides the basis for communication between iWrokstations and global decision making. Several scenarios are designed to show its potential benefits in robustness, reconfigurability and scalability, resulting in enhancing responsiveness in HMLV environment.

computer vision flexible assembly system human-cyber-physical system Mass customization swarm intelligence

其他

英语

EI

20204409422302

Cell culture ; Assembly ; Swarm intelligence ; Decision making ; Embedded systems ; Intelligent robots ; Computer aided manufacturing ; Computer vision

Artificial Intelligence:723.4 ; Computer Applications:723.5 ; Robot Applications:731.6 ; Vision:741.2 ; Management:912.2 ; Computer Aided Manufacturing:913.4.2

2-s2.0-85094175487

Scopus

1.University of Hong Kong,Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering,Hong Kong
2.Northwestern Polytechnical University,Department of Industrial Engineering,China
3.Southern University of Science and Technology,Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering,China

Ling，Shiquan,Guo，Daqiang,Qian，Cheng,et al. Computer Vision-enabled HCPS Assembly Workstations Swarm for Enhancing Responsiveness in Mass Customization[C],2020:214-219.