Design for the Unexpected: From Holonic Manufacturing Systems towards a Humane Mechatronics Society - Softcover

Valckenaers, Paul; Van Brussel, Hendrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128036621 ISBN 13: 9780128036624

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015

Synopsis

Design for the Unexpected: From Holonic Manufacturing Systems Towards a Humane Mechatronics Society presents new, even revolutionary, ideas to managing production and production systems which may fundamentally shift the paradigm of manufacturing systems design. It provides guidelines for the design of complex systems that can deal with unexpected disturbances and presents a decentralized control methodology that goes far beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that currently prevails.

The benefits are illustrated by a variety of examples and case studies from different fields, with the book's  well-established authors presenting Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) as the framework for the ‘factory-of-the-future’, and suggesting that the application of biologically inspired control paradigms can control complex manufacturing systems, and that there are far wider applications for these systems than pure manufacturing. In addition, the book explores how this multi-agent control framework can be extended to other fields such as traffic, transport, services, and health care.

• Provides a practical control system architecture that can be applied to a wide variety of systems in manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and robotics
• Contains a wide range of case studies from different engineering disciplines
• Provides a decentralized control methodology that goes beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that currently prevails
• A must-read resource for researchers and professionals alike

About this title

About the Authors

Professor Valckenaers has a Master’s degree in engineering, specializing in computer science, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from KU Leuven. He has over 25 years of research experience, including participation in numerous international cooperative research projects. He has translated and applied the concept of a holonic execution system to multiple domains: manufacturing, logistics, networked production, fleet robotics, traffic and transportation, smart grids, integrated healthcare.

Professor Van Brussel is world-renowned for his research on robotics, mechatronics and holonic manufacturing systems. During his career of 40+ years, he has been active in the intersection zone between several disciplines: mechanical engineering, electronics and control engineering, information technology; a domain which is now called "mechatronics". He has held numerous positions and won many notable awards and honors during his career.

From the Back Cover

Design for the Unexpected presents new, even revolutionary, ideas to managing production and production systems which may fundamentally shift the paradigm of manufacturing systems design. It provides guidelines for the design of complex manufacturing systems that can deal with unexpected disturbances and presents a decentralized control methodology that goes far beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that still prevails. The benefits are illustrated by a variety of examples and case studies from different fields

The well-established authors present Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) as the framework for the ‘factory-of-the-future’. Following on from the Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) program, launched in 1990 by Prof. H. Yoshikawa, Van Brussel and Valckenaers set up reference architectures and a design methodology for HMS, known as PROSA. They suggest that application of biologically inspired control paradigms can control complex manufacturing systems and that this has far wider applications than just pure manufacturing. They propose that this multi-agent control framework can be extended to other fields such as traffic, transport, services and health care, and as such this book is a must-read for researchers and professionals alike.

Key Features:

• A practical control system architecture that can be uniformly applied to various applications.
• Contains a wide range of sample problems and case studies from different engineering disciplines.
• Provides guidelines for the design of complex manufacturing systems that can deal with unexpected events.
• Provides a decentralized control methodology that goes beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that currently prevails.

Hendrik Van Brussel is world-renowned for his research on robotics, mechatronics and holonic manufacturing systems.

During his career of 40+ years, he has been active in the intersection zone between several disciplines: mechanical engineering, electronics and control engineering, information technology; a domain which is now called "mechatronics".

Paul Valckenaers has a masters in engineering, specialization computers science, and a PhD in engineering from the K.U.Leuven. He has over 25 years of research experience, including participation in 10 EU projects

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Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128036621
• ISBN 13: 9780128036624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234