Procedure of specification optimization of heterogeneous robotic system

Abstract

Economic benefit of an industrial company depends on forethought deployment of an industrial production system. Robotic systems are used to increase effectiveness of the production system providing variety of automation approaches. The selection of robotic system for particular mission is considered based on options available on the market. The analysis on more detailed level opens opportunity to find better solutions within the domain of heterogeneous robot systems. Authors propose a functional decomposition method that allows the optimization of specification of heterogeneous multi robot system according to defined objective function. Paper describes steps of optimization procedure and provides analysis of practical example. Achieved results are used in development of solution evaluation method using heuristic algorithms. The framework for finding best configuration of the heterogeneous multi-robot system is provided by specification optimization procedure.