Smart Robotic Systems for Customized Manufacturing

Research area of the project is new concept of manufacturing systems for customized manufacturing and possibilities for its implementation in Serbian industry. The key property of this concept is extreme flexibility which comes close or becomes equal to flexibility of human in manual systems. The key content of this concept is intelligence built into equipment and manufacturing system as a whole. Current state and trends in development of generic knowledge in AI domain show that building of intelligent manufacturing systems practically applicable in industrial conditions is not really feasible in near future. Within this project a transition solution-hybrid system realized trough symbiotic interaction of man and machine is researched. In this system robot or other automatic equipment performs repetitive routine tasks and man using his sensorial capabilities and superior intelligence provides autonomous functioning of the system. The concept will be studied in detail in the area of robotized assembly and robotized welding, and symbiotic interaction of robot and human carried out trough tutor function of man and new mechanisms for knowledge and skills transfer to robot. The key results and hypotheses will be experimentally verified trough building of demonstration installation at Faculty of Mech. Eng. and in manufacturing plants of consortium members and members of business interest group; basic content will be hybrid robotic system symbiotically coupled with man in task execut