Control and Scheduling Software for Flexible Manufacturing Cells

摘要

Industrial Robotics -Programming, Simulation and Applications are known to be NP-hard. First, we present a new concept of genetic operators for scheduling problems. Then, we present a developed software tool, called "HybFlexGA" (Hybrid and Flexible Genetic Algorithm), to examine the performance of various crossover and mutation operators by computing simulations of scheduling problems. Finally, the best genetic operators obtained from our computational tests are applied in the "HybFlexGA". The computational results obtained with 40, 50 and 100 jobs show the good performance and the efficiency of the developed "HybFlexGA" to solving scheduling problems in FMC. An FMC was developed, with industrial characteristics, with the objective of showing the potentialities of the developed software. The use of the "winRS232ROBOTcontrol", "winEthernetROBOTcontrol", "winMILLcontrol" and "winTURNcontrol" software allows the coordination, integration and control of FMC. With the "HybFlexGA" software we can solve scheduling problems in FMC. With the work described in this chapter we can: