title: Ubiquitous Robotic Technology for Smart Manufacturing System.
abstract: As the manufacturing tasks become more individualized and more flexible, the machines in smart factory are required to do variable tasks collaboratively without reprogramming. This paper for the first time discusses the similarity between smart manufacturing systems and the ubiquitous robotic systems and makes an effort on deploying ubiquitous robotic technology to the smart factory. Specifically, a component based framework is proposed in order to enable the communication and cooperation of the heterogeneous robotic devices. Further, compared to the service robotic domain, the smart manufacturing systems are often in larger size. So a hierarchical planning method was implemented to improve the planning efficiency. A test bed of smart factory is developed. It demonstrates that the proposed framework is suitable for industrial domain, and the hierarchical planning method is able to solve large problems intractable with flat methods.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Wenshan
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0180-7044
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoxiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Liyu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Qixin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cao
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004560:Electricity; D006801:Humans; D066192:Manufacturing Industry; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012371:Robotics