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Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory Paderborn University & Atos 2016

P-ALE

Plug’n’Produce Assembly LinEs

Bernd Kleinjohann

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Motivation Industry 4.0: Enabling Intelligent Factories (“Smart Factory”)

• Adaptability / flexibility within assembly lines

(“Plug’n’Produce”)

• Customer-specific production

(“Mass Customization”)

• Resource efficiency

Self-X in Cyber Physical Production Systems

CQP3 – Intelligent Networking

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Main Control

Assembly Station

Electric 3-Axes Gantry Robot with Buffer Store

Turning Center EMCO E25

ABB 6-Axes Robot KUKA 6-Axes Robot Handling Unit Montech Portal Milling Center EMCO E350

Assembly Line Scenario Assembly Line for Mechatronic System Production

• Order management by central database
• Autonomous transport system for

material flow

• Interacting transport units and

production stations

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Your Job

Station Station Wired Connection Interface

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What has to be done Realize Plug’n’Produce, i.e.,

• adding/removing new stations, transport units, track sections,
• self-description for on-the-fly self-registration,
• automatically adapt the state of the entire system (backend),
• update the interface (frontend) accordingly,
• rescheduling of transport units,

based on…

• autonomous (mainly reactive) behaviour of BeBots,
• detection of lines and landmarks (image processing),
• “Hardware” stations (e.g., Raspberry PI), bus communication

between stations (CAN)

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During your work on

• the realization of an automated and reconfigurable assembly line,

you will…

• learn to work in a self-organized fashion in a team,
• program different embedded systems (BeBot, SBC),
• design image processing applications,
• use C/C++, Python, HTML, JavaScript, etc., in practice,
• internalize our basic motto: Understanding by making things work,
• but also experience that reality sucks, and
• have a lot of fun in a friendly and cooperative working environment.

What you can expect

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… there is still your master thesis!

• Behaviour-based, Autonomous Robotics in

Cyber Physical Production Systems

• Self-Organization for

Plug’n’Produce

• Real-time Scheduling
• Computer Vision (Image Processing, Image Understanding)
• Analysis of Complex Sensor Networks for Internet of Things
• Service-oriented Cyber Physical

Production Systems All good things must end, but…

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Organization Further Information

Bernd Kleinjohann FU.214 / 60-6101 bernd@c-lab.de

Date of first meeting will be announced via e-mail! Homepage with additional information will be available soon. Questions to: pale@c-lab.de

Alex J. Jan Sven Alex P. Peer