Smartness Versus Embeddability: A Tradeoff for the Deployment of Smart AGVs in Industry

Guillaume Demesure (1, 2) , Damien Trentesaux (1) , Michael Defoort (1, 3) , Abdelghani Bekrar (1, 3) , Hind Bril (2) , Mohamed Djemai (1, 3) , André Thomas (2)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
3 INSA Hauts-De-France - INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France

In order to deploy AGVs in industry, it is mandatory to consider the tradeoff between smartness and embeddability. This paper aims at making 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; Flexible manufacturing systems; Smartness; Embeddability

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique; Systèmes embarqués

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. Theodor Borangiu; Damien Trentesaux; André Thomas; Olivier Cardin. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. Proceedings of SOHOMA 2017, 762, Springer International Publishing, pp.395-406, 2018, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 978-3-319-89257-3. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-73751-5_30⟩. ⟨hal-03411175⟩