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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 ‘manufacturability’ (or ‘realisability’) and ‘control’ algorithms were introduced to accommodate the batch-size-of-one production of highly customisable...
In this paper we present the Smart Manufacturing And Reconfigurable Technologies (SMART) demonstrator, an example of an integrated environment for the Evolvable Assembly Systems project, which demonstrates the application of adaptive agent control to transform a static legacy manufacturing system into a reconfigurable manufacturing system capable of addressing the 'batch-size-of-one' problem.
Driven by market trends towards highly-personalised products, the manufacturing industry is facing a variety of challenges that require systems to be adaptive, robust, resilient, and responsive. Collective adaptive systems have the potential to provide solutions to a wide variety of these problems. This paper has two main aims: to highlight shared problems between industry and the collective adaptive...
Unconventional computing is an area of research in which novel materials and paradigms are utilised to implement computation. Previously we have demonstrated how registers, logic gates and logic circuits can be implemented, unconventionally, with a biocompatible molecular switch, NitroBIPS, embedded in a polymer matrix. NitroBIPS and related molecules have been shown elsewhere to be capable of modifying...
Research into molecular computation offers exciting possibilities for interfacing computation with biological systems. This could be achieved using light to switch photochromic molecules between states. For example, 6-Nitro-BIPS2 can be switched from a Spiropyran (SP) state to a Trans-Merocyanine (MC) state using UV photons while visible light switches from MC to SP. The MC state is also fluorescent...
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