Intelligent design of an unconstrained layout for a flexible manufacturing system

Authors:
Mirko Ficko;Simon Brezovnik;Simon Klancnik;Joze Balic;Miran Brezocnik;Ivo Pahole
Affiliations:
University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory, Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory, Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory, Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory, Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory, Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering Institute, Intelligent Manufacturing Laboratory, Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia
Venue:
Neurocomputing
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The presented research removes common constraints regarding the design of layout of flexible manufacturing system, and the subsequent search for a good solution is left solely to artificial intelligence. The proposed system is composed of a creative subsystem which can use different evolutionary optimization methods, and a subsystem for evaluating layouts. In the presented work the subsystem for creation uses a particle swarm optimization method for the creation/modification of solution sets. Evaluation of solution quality is made using intelligent search of the shortest travel paths within the layout. This system has proved to be innovative since it proposes very good solutions which are oriented to the main task of the system and are not simplified because of human limitations.