Smartness versus embeddability: a tradeoff for the deployment of smart AGVs in industry.

Guillaume Demesure (1) , Damien Trentesaux (2) , Michael Defoort (2) , Abdelghani Bekrar (2) , Hind Bril (1) , Mohamed Djemai (2) , André Thomas (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

In order to deploy AGVs in industry, it is mandatory to consider the tradeoff between the smartness and the embeddability. This paper aims to make the manufacturing research community more sensitive about this tradeoff and its consequences. Nowadays, AGVs are widely chosen by manufacturers to implement flexible material-handling systems which are necessary to cover the industrial requirements. However, many issues, presented in this paper, must be tackled to deploy these AGVs. A tradeoff-oriented procedure is proposed by considering these issues in flexible manufacturing system applications. Then, an approach is proposed to illustrate this procedure by providing simulation and experimental results. This approach is also used to roughly describe the smartness/embeddability tradeoff.

Mots clés: Automated Guided Vehicles; Embeddability; Smartness; Flexible manufacturing systems

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Guillaume Demesure, Damien Trentesaux, Michael Defoort, Abdelghani Bekrar, Hind Bril, et al.. Smartness versus embeddability: a tradeoff for the deployment of smart AGVs in industry.. 7th Workshop on Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing, SOHOMA'17, Oct 2017, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-01643083⟩