All Outputs (6)

Process Plan Controllers for Non-Deterministic Manufacturing Systems (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Felli, P., De Silva, L., Logan, B., & Ratchev, S. (2017). Process Plan Controllers for Non-Deterministic Manufacturing Systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1023-1030). https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/142

Determining the most appropriate means of producing a given product, i.e., which manufacturing and assembly tasks need to be performed in which order and how, is termed process planning. In process planning, abstract manufacturing tasks in a process... Read More about Process Plan Controllers for Non-Deterministic Manufacturing Systems.

Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems (2017)
Journal Article
Bakker, O. J., Chaplin, J. C., de Silva, L., Felli, P., Sanderson, D., Logan, B., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems. Procedia CIRP, 63, 521-526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.03.159

The automation and flexibility of production systems is a key step towards improved profitability and competitiveness in high labour cost areas, when producing high-complexity, low-volume products. In the Evolvable Assembly Systems (EAS) project, the... Read More about Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems.

Variation analysis of automated wing box assembly (2017)
Journal Article
Bakker, O. J., Popov, A. A., & Ratchev, S. M. (2017). Variation analysis of automated wing box assembly. Procedia CIRP, 69, 406-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.02.034

Manufacturing process variability is a major issue of concern in high value industries. Manufacturing small batches and in some cases batches of one is a very expensive process with specific requirements for manufacturing operations, tooling and fixt... Read More about Variation analysis of automated wing box assembly.

Synthesising industry-standard manufacturing process controllers (2017)
Conference Proceeding
de Silva, L., Felli, P., Chaplin, J. C., Logan, B., Sanderson, D., & Ratchev, S. (2017). Synthesising industry-standard manufacturing process controllers. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017) (1811-1813)

Flexible robot sealant dispensing cell using RGB-D sensor and off-line programming (2017)
Journal Article
Maiolino, P., Woolley, R., Branson, D. T., Benardos, P., Popov, A. A., & Ratchev, S. (in press). Flexible robot sealant dispensing cell using RGB-D sensor and off-line programming. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2017.04.004

In aerospace manufacture the accurate and robust application of sealant is an integral and challenging part of the manufacturing process that is still performed by human operator. Automation of this process is difficult and not cost effective due to... Read More about Flexible robot sealant dispensing cell using RGB-D sensor and off-line programming.

Redesign methodology for mechanical assembly (2017)
Journal Article
El-Nounu, A., Popov, A., & Ratchev, S. (in press). Redesign methodology for mechanical assembly. Research in Engineering Design, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00163-017-0255-6

Design for assembly is the concept of carrying out critical thought early in the design stage to create assembly easement at the production stage. In the aerospace industry, products have very long lives, frequently being optimised rather than introd... Read More about Redesign methodology for mechanical assembly.