Design for the Unexpected: From Holonic Manufacturing Systems towards a Humane Mechatronics Society - Tapa blanda

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Professor Valckenaers has a Master’s degree in engineering, specializing in computer science, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from KU Leuven. He has over 25 years of research experience, including participation in numerous international cooperative research projects. He has translated and applied the concept of a holonic execution system to multiple domains: manufacturing, logistics, networked production, fleet robotics, traffic and transportation, smart grids, integrated healthcare.

Professor Van Brussel is world-renowned for his research on robotics, mechatronics and holonic manufacturing systems. During his career of 40+ years, he has been active in the intersection zone between several disciplines: mechanical engineering, electronics and control engineering, information technology; a domain which is now called "mechatronics". He has held numerous positions and won many notable awards and honors during his career.

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Design for the Unexpected presents new, even revolutionary, ideas to managing production and production systems which may fundamentally shift the paradigm of manufacturing systems design. It provides guidelines for the design of complex manufacturing systems that can deal with unexpected disturbances and presents a decentralized control methodology that goes far beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that still prevails. The benefits are illustrated by a variety of examples and case studies from different fields

The well-established authors present Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) as the framework for the ‘factory-of-the-future’. Following on from the Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) program, launched in 1990 by Prof. H. Yoshikawa, Van Brussel and Valckenaers set up reference architectures and a design methodology for HMS, known as PROSA. They suggest that application of biologically inspired control paradigms can control complex manufacturing systems and that this has far wider applications than just pure manufacturing. They propose that this multi-agent control framework can be extended to other fields such as traffic, transport, services and health care, and as such this book is a must-read for researchers and professionals alike.

Key Features:

• A practical control system architecture that can be uniformly applied to various applications.
• Contains a wide range of sample problems and case studies from different engineering disciplines.
• Provides guidelines for the design of complex manufacturing systems that can deal with unexpected events.
• Provides a decentralized control methodology that goes beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that currently prevails.

Hendrik Van Brussel is world-renowned for his research on robotics, mechatronics and holonic manufacturing systems.

During his career of 40+ years, he has been active in the intersection zone between several disciplines: mechanical engineering, electronics and control engineering, information technology; a domain which is now called "mechatronics".

Paul Valckenaers has a masters in engineering, specialization computers science, and a PhD in engineering from the K.U.Leuven. He has over 25 years of research experience, including participation in 10 EU projects

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