Hardeware-In-the-Loop simulation for product-driven conrol of a cyber-physical manufactoring system

Abstract

The Product driven system (PDS) is considered as distributed control system (DCS) in which the product plays a major role in decision­making. This project focuses on how to develop a cost­effective validation strategy of PDS applied to the highly auto­ mated flexible robotized assembly system based on hardware­in­the­loop simulation ap­ proach (HILS). An efficient Cyber­physical system (CPS) is developed for a discrete flex­ ible manufacturing system. Mainly, this proposed CPS employs a dynamic multi­agent scheduling mechanism (MAS) based on priority dispatching rules to manage, control the 3D discrete event simulation (DES) and initiate PDS paradigm. In the other side, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ­ as auto­identity ­ allows an effective real­time tracking and progress monitoring of each product across its lifecycle in the shop floor, the con­ troller (PLC, Arduino) is the heart of HILS approach which synchronizes the cyber space (decisional point) with the physical one.