A robotized manufacturing cell of pre-fabricated GRC (Glass Reinforced Cement) panels for construction industry has been developed by DISAM for the Spanish construction company Dragados, S.A.The main contribution of the developed system is the automatic program~ ming and control of the whole plan. The architect's 3D-drawing of the building facade done on a CAD system serves as input. From the C...

We report results of resistivity sounding of eight locations in the Cerro Chasc on science preserve area. The soil resistivity near the surface was found to be 1000 m at the ve locations in the Pampa La Bola area. The values at the three locations in the Llano de Chajnantor area were much higher, exceeding 3500 m. This di erence probably re ects di erences in water content in the upper soil lay...

This research focuses on development of a generic agent-based intelligent control system designer for realtime distributed manufacturing environments. The paper first describes related research into distributed manufacturing and real-time control system, then reports on the intelligent control function design interface and automatic control code generation.

The large number of requirements and opportunities for automatic identification in manufacturing domains such as automotive and electronics has accelerated the demand for item-level tracking using radio-frequency identification technology. End-users are interested in implementing automatic identification systems, which are capable of ensuring full component process history, traceability and tra...

In the scope of control program development for manufacturing systems, information handling and information reuse are currently undeveloped areas. For example, the same control function is usually implemented several times in different stages in the development process, without much reuse of information from earlier stages in the process. To improve this situation, the sub-processes that genera...

As manufacturing processes have grown increasingly complex, demand for robust methods that automatically detect failures in these systems has skyrocketed. Undetected failures in a high-volume manufacturing process can result in tremendous cost if the failure is not detected in a timely manner. In this work, we address the problem of automatic excursion detection based on parametric tests. Contr...

A framework is proposed for support of design, task planning, and simulation of automated manufacturing systems. The framework establishes a hierarchy of method banks essential for improving the efficiency and cost effectiveness of manufacturing processes. The methods should support automatic generation of sequencing rules, design and configuration of the manufacturing facility and equipment, s...