A holonic fault tolerant manufacturing platform with multiple robots

To be competitive, manufacturing should adapt to changing conditions existing in the market. Besides the market-based challenges, manufacturing firms also need constantly to adapt to newly developed processes and technologies and to rapidly changing environmental protection regulations. Modern automated manufacturing systems need robotized material-conditioning systems capable of moving materials efficiently throughout the entire production area. The objective of this paper is to describe the design, implementing, testing and validation of a holonic, fault-tolerant manufacturing control platform integrating robots with Visual Guidance (VG) for on demand material conditioning and AVI.