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Self-organising Smart Components in Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Authors:
Rui Pinto
João Reis
Ricardo Silva
Vitor Sousa
Gil Gonçalves

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks; Intelligent Systems; Manufacturing Systems; Sensor Diagnostics and Validation; Sensor Location System.

Abstract:
Virtualization of shop-floor components as a way to foster easy access to machine information, collaboration among shop-floor components and task execution on demand are a few key aspects of latest trends related with Intelligent Manufacturing. This concept is being explored in an ongoing European commission funded project called Intelligent Reconfigurable Machines for Smart Plug&Produce Production (I-RAMP3). The goal is to shorten the ramp-up phase time by making manufacturing systems self-aware and self-diagnosable, increasing the reliability and responsiveness of production systems, and ultimately improving the European industry competiveness. To achieve this goal, a device virtualization was developed for industrial equipment, such as machines and sensors, called NETwork-enabled DEVices (NETDEVs). As a technological background, PlugThings Framework was used for easy sensor integration, together with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Architecture for device virtualization, enabling standardized communication, dynamic sensor location, collaboration and diagnostics. The main purpose of the present paper is to describe how the collaboration between a virtualized sensors network was implemented, and pinpoint all the advantages that come out of this.

Pages: 157 to 163

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: October 11, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4065

ISBN: 978-1-61208-437-4

Location: St. Julians, Malta

Dates: from October 11, 2015 to October 16, 2015