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Khabbazi, M. R., Danielsson, F., Massouh, B. & Lennartson, B. (2024). Plug and Produce: a review and future trend. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 134, 3991-4014
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Plug and Produce: a review and future trend
2024 (English)In: The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, ISSN 0268-3768, E-ISSN 1433-3015, Vol. 134, p. 3991-4014Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article presents a systematic literature review on the Plug and Produce concept in advanced automated manufacturing control systems. Over recent decades, this concept has evolved significantly, with researchers focusing on enhancing its applicability and improving its conceptual, logical, and physical aspects across various sub-areas such as system design, methodologies, and supporting tools within the Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 frameworks. The review offers technical insights on the research domain of Plug and Produce accompanied by an analytical schematic outlining five key evolving research streams ranging from system design framework, and functionality features, up to the empirical application. Additionally, the article discusses important issues surrounding the evolution of Plug and Produce in alignment with emerging trends within Industry 5.0 automation. By analyzing the literature and current trends in industrial automation, the article highlights critical key development directions for shaping the future of manufacturing systems focusing on smart, circular, and human-centric solutions using Plug and Produce. © 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024
Keywords
Flexibility and reconfigurability; Future trends; Modular production system; Module-based; Module-based / modular production system; Plug & produce; Plug and produce; Reconfigurability; Reconfigurable manufacturing system; Systematic literature review; Smart manufacturing
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Manufacturing, Surface and Joining Technology Computer Sciences
Research subject
Production Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-22490 (URN)10.1007/s00170-024-14379-w (DOI)001312019000006 ()2-s2.0-85204092263 (Scopus ID)
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CC-BY 4.0

Available from: 2025-01-14 Created: 2025-01-14 Last updated: 2025-01-14
Glorieux, E., Riazi, S. & Lennartson, B. (2018). Productivity/energy optimisation of trajectories and coordination for cyclic multi-robot systems. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 49, 152-161
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Productivity/energy optimisation of trajectories and coordination for cyclic multi-robot systems
2018 (English)In: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, ISSN 0736-5845, E-ISSN 1879-2537, Vol. 49, p. 152-161Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The coordination of cyclic multi-robot systems is a critical issue to avoid collisions but also to obtain the shortest cycle-time. This paper presents a novel methodology for trajectory and coordination optimisation of cyclic multi-robot systems. Both velocity tuning and time delays are used to coordinate the robots that operate in close proximity and avoid collisions. The novel element is the non-linear programming optimisation model that directly co-adjusts the multi-robot coordination during the trajectory optimisation, which allows optimising these as one problem. The methodology is demonstrated for productivity/smoothness optimisation, and for energy efficiency optimisation. An experimental validation is done for a real-world case study that considers the multi-robot material handling system of a multi-stage tandem press line. The results show that the productivity optimisation with the methodology is competitive compared to previous research and that substantial improvements can be achieved, e.g. up to 50% smoother trajectories and 14% reduction in energy consumption for the same productivity. This paper addresses the current lack of systematic methodologies for generating optimal coordinated trajectories for cyclic multi-robot systems to improve the productivity, smoothness, and energy efficiency.

Keywords
Robot systems, Multi-robot coordination, Trajectory optimisation, Energy minimisation
National Category
Robotics and automation
Research subject
Production Technology; ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-11263 (URN)10.1016/j.rcim.2017.06.012 (DOI)000412957500014 ()2-s2.0-85021743164 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Region Västra Götaland, PROSAM+ RUN 612-0208-16Vinnova
Available from: 2017-08-02 Created: 2017-08-02 Last updated: 2025-02-09Bibliographically approved
Glorieux, E., Svensson, B., Danielsson, F. & Lennartson, B. (2017). Constructive cooperative coevolution for large-scale global optimisation. Journal of Heuristics, 23(6), 449-469
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Constructive cooperative coevolution for large-scale global optimisation
2017 (English)In: Journal of Heuristics, ISSN 1381-1231, E-ISSN 1572-9397, Vol. 23, no 6, p. 449-469Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper presents the Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary ( C3C3 ) algorithm, applied to continuous large-scale global optimisation problems. The novelty of C3C3 is that it utilises a multi-start architecture and incorporates the Cooperative Coevolutionary algorithm. The considered optimisation problem is decomposed into subproblems. An embedded optimisation algorithm optimises the subproblems separately while exchanging information to co-adapt the solutions for the subproblems. Further, C3C3 includes a novel constructive heuristic that generates different feasible solutions for the entire problem and thereby expedites the search. In this work, two different versions of C3C3 are evaluated on high-dimensional benchmark problems, including the CEC'2013 test suite for large-scale global optimisation. C3C3 is compared with several state-of-the-art algorithms, which shows that C3C3 is among the most competitive algorithms. C3C3 outperforms the other algorithms for most partially separable functions and overlapping functions. This shows that C3C3 is an effective algorithm for large-scale global optimisation. This paper demonstrates the enhanced performance by using constructive heuristics for generating initial feasible solutions for Cooperative Coevolutionary algorithms in a multi-start framework.

Keywords
Evolutionary optimisation, Cooperative coevolution, Algorithm design and analysis, Large-scale optimisation
National Category
Robotics and automation
Research subject
Production Technology; ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-11264 (URN)10.1007/s10732-017-9351-z (DOI)000414074300002 ()2-s2.0-85024487069 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Region Västra Götaland, PROSAM 612-0974-14
Available from: 2017-08-02 Created: 2017-08-02 Last updated: 2025-02-09Bibliographically approved
Glorieux, E., Svensson, B., Danielsson, F. & Lennartson, B. (2017). Multi-objective constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimization of robotic press-line tending. Engineering optimization (Print), 49(10), 1685-1703
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Multi-objective constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimization of robotic press-line tending
2017 (English)In: Engineering optimization (Print), ISSN 0305-215X, E-ISSN 1029-0273, Vol. 49, no 10, p. 1685-1703Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article investigates multi-objective optimization of the robot trajectories and position-based operation-coordination of complex multi-robot systems, such as press lines, to improve the production rate and obtaining smooth motions to avoid excessive wear of the robots’ components. Different functions for handling the multiple objectives are evaluated on realworld press lines, including both scalarizing single-objective functions and Pareto-based multi-objective functions. Additionally, the Multi-Objective Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary (moC3) algorithm is proposed, for Pareto-based optimization, which uses a novel constructive initialization of the subpopulations in a co-adaptive fashion. It was found that Paretobased optimization performs better than the scalarizing single-objective functions. Furthermore, moC3 gives substantially better results compared to manual online tuning, as currently used in the industry. Optimizing robot trajectories and operation-coordination of complex multi-robot systems using the proposed method with moC3 significantly improves productivity and reduces maintenance. This article hereby addresses the lack of systematic methods for effectively improving the productivity of press lines.

Keywords
Multi-objective optimization, coevolutionary optimization, press tending, multi-robot coordination
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Robotics and automation
Research subject
ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering; Production Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-10341 (URN)10.1080/0305215X.2016.1264220 (DOI)000408952800003 ()2-s2.0-85006124128 (Scopus ID)
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Kolla upp ScopusID

Available from: 2016-12-19 Created: 2016-12-19 Last updated: 2025-02-05Bibliographically approved
Glorieux, E., Svensson, B., Danielsson, F. & Lennartson, B. (2016). Improved Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary Differential Evolution for Large-Scale Optimisation. In: Computational Intelligence, 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on: . Paper presented at 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence SSCI 8-10 December 2015 Cape Town, South Africa (pp. 1703-1710). IEEE, Article ID 7376815.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Improved Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary Differential Evolution for Large-Scale Optimisation
2016 (English)In: Computational Intelligence, 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on, IEEE, 2016, p. 1703-1710, article id 7376815Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is widely used for real-world global optimisation problems in many different domains. To improve DE's performance on large-scale optimisation problems, it has been combined with the Cooperative Coevolution (CCDE) algorithm. CCDE adopts a divide-and-conquer strategy to optimise smaller subcomponents separately instead of tackling the large-scale problem at once. DE then evolves a separate subpopulation for each subcomponent but there is cooperation between the subpopulations to co-adapt the individuals of the subpopulations with each other. The Constructive Cooperative Coevolution (C3DE) algorithm, previously proposed by the authors, is an extended version of CCDE that has a better performance on large-scale problems, interestingly also on non-separable problems. This paper proposes a new version, called the Improved Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary Differential Evolution (C3iDE), which removes several limitations with the previous version. A novel element of C3iDE is the advanced initialisation of the subpopulations. C3iDE initially optimises the subpopulations in a partially co-adaptive fashion. During the initial optimisation of a subpopulation, only a subset of the other subcomponents is considered for the co-adaptation. This subset increases stepwise until all subcomponents are considered. The experimental evaluation of C3iDE on 36 high-dimensional benchmark functions (up to 1000 dimensions) shows an improved solution quality on large-scale global optimisation problems compared to CCDE and DE. The greediness of the co-adaptation with C3iDE is also investigated in this paper.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2016
Keywords
Benchmark testing Collaboration Complexity theory, Evolutionary computation, Optimization Partitioning, algorithms
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
Production Technology; ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8900 (URN)10.1109/SSCI.2015.239 (DOI)000380431500232 ()2-s2.0-84964940225 (Scopus ID)978-1-4799-7560-0 (ISBN)
Conference
2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence SSCI 8-10 December 2015 Cape Town, South Africa
Available from: 2016-01-18 Created: 2016-01-18 Last updated: 2020-02-20Bibliographically approved
Lennartson, B., Bengtsson, K., Wigstrom, O. & Riazi, S. (2016). Modeling and Optimization of Hybrid Systems for the Tweeting Factory. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 13(1), 195-205
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Modeling and Optimization of Hybrid Systems for the Tweeting Factory
2016 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ISSN 1545-5955, E-ISSN 1558-3783, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 195-205Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, a predicate transition model for discrete-event systems is generalized to include continuous dynamics, and the result is a modular hybrid predicate transition model. Based on this model, a hybrid Petri net including explicit differential equations and shared variables is also proposed. It is then shown how this hybrid Petri net model can be optimized based on a simple and robust nonlinear programming formulation. The procedure only assumes that desired sampled paths for a number of interacting moving devices are given, while originally equidistant time instances are adjusted to minimize a given criterion. This optimization of hybrid systems is also applied to a real robot station with interacting devices, which results in about 30% reduction in energy consumption. Moreover, a flexible online and event-based information architecture called the Tweeting Factory is proposed. Simple messages (tweets) from all kinds of equipment are combined into high-level knowledge, and it is demonstrated how this information architecture can be used to support optimization of robot stations.

Keywords
Automata, Collision avoidance, Mathematical model, Optimization, Petri nets, Production facilities, Discrete events, energy optimization, factory automation, hybrid systems
National Category
Control Engineering
Research subject
ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8705 (URN)10.1109/TASE.2015.2480010 (DOI)
Available from: 2015-12-01 Created: 2015-11-24 Last updated: 2019-03-13Bibliographically approved
Glorieux, E., Danielsson, F., Svensson, B. & Lennartson, B. (2015). Constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimisation for interacting production stations. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 78(1-4), 673-688
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimisation for interacting production stations
2015 (English)In: The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, ISSN 0268-3768, E-ISSN 1433-3015, Vol. 78, no 1-4, p. 673-688Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Optimisation of the control function for multiple automated interacting production stations is a complex problem, even for skilled and experienced operators or process planners. When using mathematical optimisation techniques, it often becomes necessary to use simulation models to represent the problem because of the high complexity (i.e. simulation-based optimisation). Standard optimisation techniques are likely to either exceed the practical time frame or under-perform compared to the manual tuning by the operators or process planners. This paper presents the Constructive cooperative coevolutionary (C3) algorithm, which objective is to enable effective simulation-based optimisation for the control of automated interacting production stations within a practical time frame. C3 is inspired by an existing cooperative coevolutionary algorithm. Thereby, it embeds an algorithm that optimises subproblems separately. C3 also incorporates a novel constructive heuristic to find good initial solutions and thereby expedite the optimisation. In this work, two industrial optimisation problems, involving interaction production stations, with different sizes are used to evaluate C3. The results illustrate that with C3, it is possible to optimise these problems within a practical time frame and obtain a better solution compared to manual tuning.

Keywords
Manufacturing automation, metaheuristic optimisation algorithm, optimised production technology, interacting production stations, sheet metal press line
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-7586 (URN)10.1007/s00170-015-7012-7 (DOI)000359835000055 ()2-s2.0-84939260196 (Scopus ID)
Note

Published online 2 April 2015

Available from: 2015-05-07 Created: 2015-05-07 Last updated: 2019-05-14Bibliographically approved
Sikström, F., Christiansson, A.-K. & Lennartson, B. (2015). Model based feedback control of gas tungsten arc welding: An experimental study. In: Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on: . Paper presented at 11th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2015; Elite Park Avenue HotelGothenburg; Sweden; 24 August 2015 through 28 August 2015 (pp. 411-416). IEEE conference proceedings
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Model based feedback control of gas tungsten arc welding: An experimental study
2015 (English)In: Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, IEEE conference proceedings, 2015, p. 411-416Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In order to obtain high structural integrity and joint performance in welding a transient heat conduction model has been utilized to design a model based feedback controller.Gas tungsten arc welding of work-pieces of austenitic steel have been simulated by the finite element method. The basis for controller design is a low order model obtained from parametric system identification. The identification has been performed both on the finite element simulation and on physical welding. The low order model responses show a good agreement with both the finite element simulation result and the physical process response. An experimental study has been performed to verify the approach. This study also explores what experiments are needed for a successful design. It is shown that model based control successfully mitigates perturbations that occur during welding.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE conference proceedings, 2015
National Category
Manufacturing, Surface and Joining Technology
Research subject
ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8299 (URN)10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294113 (DOI)000380453000066 ()2-s2.0-84952778514 (Scopus ID)
Conference
11th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2015; Elite Park Avenue HotelGothenburg; Sweden; 24 August 2015 through 28 August 2015
Note

Article number 7294113

Available from: 2015-09-29 Created: 2015-09-29 Last updated: 2020-02-20Bibliographically approved
Hagqvist, P., Heralic, A., Christiansson, A.-K. & Lennartson, B. (2015). Resistance based iterative learning control of additive manufacturing with wire. Mechatronics (Oxford), 31, 116-123
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Resistance based iterative learning control of additive manufacturing with wire
2015 (English)In: Mechatronics (Oxford), ISSN 0957-4158, E-ISSN 1873-4006, Vol. 31, p. 116-123Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper presents successful feed forward control of additive manufacturing of fully dense metallic components. The study is a refinement of former control solutions of the process, providing more robust and industrially acceptable measurement techniques. The system uses a solid state laser that melts metal wire, which in turn is deposited and solidified to build the desired solid feature on a substrate. The process is inherently subjected to disturbances that might hinder consecutive layers to be deposited appropriately. The control action is a modified wire feed rate depending on the surface of the deposited former layer, in this case measured as a resistance. The resistance of the wire stick-out and the weld pool has shown to give an accurate measure of the process stability, and a solution is proposed on how to measure it. By controlling the wire feed rate based on the resistance measure, the next layer surface can be made more even. A second order iterative learning control algorithm is used for determining the wire feed rate, and the solution is implemented and validated in an industrial setting for building a single bead wall in titanium alloy. A comparison is made between a controlled and an uncontrolled situation when a relevant disturbance is introduced throughout all layers. The controller proves to successfully mitigate these disturbances and maintain stable deposition while the uncontrolled deposition fails.

Keywords
Additive manufacturing, Metal deposition, Automatic control, Resistance, Process measurement, Iterative learning control
National Category
Manufacturing, Surface and Joining Technology
Research subject
ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-7429 (URN)10.1016/j.mechatronics.2015.03.008 (DOI)000367772000013 ()
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Available online 10 April 2015. Ingår i avhandling

Available from: 2015-03-06 Created: 2015-03-06 Last updated: 2020-04-01Bibliographically approved
Glorieux, E., Svensson, B., Danielsson, F. & Lennartson, B. (2015). Simulation-based Time and Jerk Optimisation for Robotic Press Tending. In: Modellling and Simulation: The European simulation and modelling conference 2015, ESM 2015. Paper presented at The 29th annual European simulation and modelling conference 2015, Leicester, United Kingdom, October 26-28, 2015 (pp. 377-384). Ostende: ESM
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Simulation-based Time and Jerk Optimisation for Robotic Press Tending
2015 (English)In: Modellling and Simulation: The European simulation and modelling conference 2015, ESM 2015, Ostende: ESM , 2015, p. 377-384Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Increased production rate and robot motion smoothness in a sheet metal press line are essential. Smooth robot motions avoid unplanned production interruptions and excessive wear of the robots. Reaching high production rate and smooth motions requires tuning of the tending press robot control to minimise the cycle time and jerk. Doing this for a press line with multiple robots is a complex large-scale problem. To model such problems for the optimisation process, computer simulations become almost essential. This work presents simulation-based optimisation of the time and jerk of robotic press tending operations and investigates the importance of including the robot motion’s smoothness. An optimiser works in concert with a simulation model of a sheet metal press line and its parametrised control system. The effect of including jerk minimisation in the objective function is tested on a real-world problem concerning a sheetmetal press line. The results illustrate the importance of including jerk-minimisation as an objective in the optimisation.Furthermore, the performance of this approach is compared with manual tuning by experienced operators. The results show that the proposed simulation-based optimisation approach outperforms manual tuning.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Ostende: ESM, 2015
Keywords
Production, Optimization, Manufacturing, Automatic control, Industrial control
National Category
Robotics and automation
Research subject
Production Technology; ENGINEERING, Manufacturing and materials engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-8624 (URN)2-s2.0-84963512911 (Scopus ID)978-90-77381-90-8 (ISBN)
Conference
The 29th annual European simulation and modelling conference 2015, Leicester, United Kingdom, October 26-28, 2015
Available from: 2015-11-06 Created: 2015-11-06 Last updated: 2025-02-09Bibliographically approved
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