Petri net controlled virtual commissioning – A virtual design-loop approach

Illmer, Benjamin; Karkowski, Martin; Vielhaber, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2020.02.162

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“…Refinement Action Engine). To optimize and validate the model, the standardized control system can be coupled to a simulation environment (see [13] for more details). This enables a fast adaptation and validation of the system behavior before the mechanical setup.…”

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Generic Modeling Technique for Flexible and Highly Available Assembly Systems

Müller¹,

Karkowski²

2022

Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics 2021

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To face the major challenges posed by the increasing product variants with shortening life cycles and fluctuating market conditions, modular and adaptable assembly systems are used. Their strong dependency on software creates a new void in the planning and implementation processes of these assembly systems. Usually, the programmer fills this void based on his knowledge, which leads to frequent and large adaptations of the code base. This is rather counter-productive. To address this challenge, we developed a generic user-friendly graphical API (Application Programming Interface) for a process owner in our previous work (Müller et al, Proc CIRP 81:730–735, 2019, [1]). This API can describe any assembly system and the associated task and is used to get the boilerplate code needed to execute the process on a programmable logic controller (PLC)—the standard hardware used in the industry. In this paper, the virtual description of an assembly system used by the API is extended to include a goal-oriented task description by defining the process and the structure. We believe that this extension provides the proper abstraction needed by the process owner. In addition, this extension significantly reduces the modeling effort.

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Section: Previous Workmentioning

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Generic Modeling Technique for Flexible and Highly Available Assembly Systems

Müller¹,

Karkowski²

2022

Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics 2021

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“…Despite the increase in popularity of VC nowadays, the rise of the industry 4.0 revolution and cyber-physical production systems led to the decentralization of many functions to the field level and intelligent plant components, unveiling an additional challenge of validation and testing (Glock et al, 2018). The growing adoption of VC for the verification and validation (V&V) of these systems types highlights the need for frameworks to increase efficiency and reduce the elaboration time of V&V methodologies (Illmer et al, 2020).…”

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“…To summarize all the work realized in this area, we extended Illmer et al (2020) classification criteria of CPPS virtual commissioning literature by distinguishing agent-based CPPS types validations (see Table 1) and highlighting the provided VC frameworks. Either high-level control or low-level control is included in the framework.…”

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A framework for an effective virtual commissioning of agent-based cyber-physical production systems integrated into manufacturing facilities

Bendjelloul

Mihoubi

Gaham

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The rise of the fourth industrial revolution and the interest in autonomous production led to increased adoption of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) in the industry. Due to the significant suitability of Multi-Agent Systems in building cyber-physical production systems compliant with the Reference Architectural Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0), more CPPS are being realized using Industrial Agents. Because of their complexity, guidelines for conducting virtual commissioning of agent-based CPPS are required. This paper proposes a novel framework for the virtual commissioning of agent-based CPPS. The framework contributions reside in incorporating both high-level and low-level control verification and validation (V&V) and employing two combined SIL and HIL approaches during the virtual commissioning of agent-based CPPS. The feasibility of the framework was demonstrated during the V&V of an agent-based CPPS on an industrial-scale laboratory robotized production cell. The framework had a significant impact on reducing the cost and efforts of the agent-based CPPS virtual commissioning.

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