Smart Manufacturing and Reconfigurable Technologies: Towards an Integrated Environment for Evolvable Assembly Systems

Abstract

In this paper we present the Smart Manufacturing And Reconfigurable Technologies (SMART) demonstrator, an example of an integrated environment for the Evolvable Assembly Systems project, which demonstrates the application of adaptive agent control to transform a static legacy manufacturing system into a reconfigurable manufacturing system capable of addressing the 'batch-size-of-one' problem.