gasser@USC-CSE.ARPA (02/18/86)
From: gasser@usc-cse.arpa
USC DPS GROUP MEETING
Wednesday, 2/26/86
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Seaver Science Bldg. 319
Dong Xia (Ph.D. Student, USC) will speak on "An Approach To Planning and
Scheduling for Robotic Assembly Lines"
While extensive studies have been devoted to general robot problem solving
and planning techniques in artifical world in recent years, the progress
towards their practical applications in robotic manufacturing floor has
severely prohibiited by the lack of sound understanding of the assembly
process and an adequate method to deal with real time uncertainties. In
this talk, we are going to address two of the most fundamental and
interrelated problems, namely task planning and temporal action scheduling.
We study these problems in the context of multiple cooperative robots with
assumed perceptual capabilities which work in a highly shared and dynamic
mechanical environment in a coordinated fashion for a common or different
goal(s). In this presentation, a general system architecture and a hybrid
knowledge representation scheme for a class of assembly lines is proposed
and some important design concepts and problems of robot-based intelligent
assembly lines are identified and discussed. Finally a particular prototype
system, called Miniassembler, is given, which exhibits our concepts and
methods to cope with temporal uncertainty.
Questions: Dr. Les Gasser, USC (213) 743-7794
or Dong Xia (XIA@USC-CSE.ARPA).