Worker-robot cooperation and integration into the manufacturing workcell via the holonic control architecture

Cooperative manufacturing is a new field of research, which addresses new challenges beyond the physical safety of the worker. Those new challenges appear due to the need to connect the worker and the cobot from the informatics point of view in one cooperative workcell. This requires developing an appropriate manufacturing control system, which fits the nature of both the worker and the cobot. Furthermore, the manufacturing control system must be able to understand the production variations, to guide the cooperation between worker and the cobot and adapt with the production variations.Die kooperative Fertigung ist ein neues Forschungsgebiet, das sich neuen Herausforderungen stellt. Diese neuen Herausforderungen ergeben sich aus der Notwendigkeit, den Arbeiter und den Cobot aus der Sicht der Informatik in einem kooperativen Arbeitsplatz zu verbinden. Dies erfordert die Entwicklung eines geeigneten Produktionskontrollsystems, das sowohl der Natur des Arbeiters als auch der des Cobots entspricht. Darüber hinaus muss die Fertigungssteuerung in der Lage sein, die Produktionsschwankungen zu verstehen, um die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Arbeiter und Cobot zu steuern

Design and Implementation of an expert System for Monitoring and Management of Web-Based Industrial Applications Master Thesis

Human is an intelligent creature – intelligent in design and behaviour. From the human first second on the earth, he is trying to collect the knowledge and use it for surviving and extending his own kind. Human knowledge collection is all based on his observa-tions and discovering for his own environment, the information with time turns to be the human experience which is the main sort of his intelligence of dealing with different situations. Expert system is one branch of artificial intelligence science which the human in-spired from his own being. Human always tries to inherit his own experiences to the next generations. But with the vast wide spreading of the information in the present century, a new need imposed itself to emulate the human experience and behaviour in a similar way; from this point expert computer systems have been invented. Expert system is mainly transforming the human experiences into software forms. To act in a similar manner the human behaves. The expert system is always collecting a huge amount of information from its domain, and transform them to knowledge, using those rules the human assigned based on his own experiences. In industry we try to apply the same concept to have intelligent automated system, but for this purpose; all the information should be in an easy form of industrial language and follow a reliable industrial protocol to communicate in an efficient way. As the internet is the main source of the data on our planet currently, it was so con-venient to structure all the industrial data in same language the internet use and follow similar communication protocols. From industrial point of view a web based monitoring systems – should be the base of information for the mentioned expert system. During this master thesis we achieve this goal, by dividing the problem into two main sub problems. The first part is to implement a web based monitoring system on PLC controlled produc-tion line made by FESTO and used for teaching purpose in TUT - Tampere University of Technology – FASTory lab facilities. The second part is to design and implement a convenient industrial expert system to process this web based monitored information for managing from the business point of vie