Arezzo: an emulator for the bench4star initiative

摘要

In the manufacturing and production shop floor control context, benchmarking is a popular means to test and compare several strategies, so as to make high level design decisions, to fix the main control choices and to adjust the control parameters. A benchmarking process involves experimentation. Several kinds of experiments can be performed, either in simulation or based on the real manufacturing system. An advantageous intermediary approach can be adopted, based on emulation. For this purpose, an emulator of the shop floor of the targeted manufacturing system is required. After defining the general benchmark context, the Bench4star initiative is introduced in this paper. Thereafter, the Arezzo emulator we have developed in Bench4star is described. Arezzo emulates the shop floor of the real AIP-Primeca Flexible Assembly Cell, located in the University of Valenciennes. It is implemented in NetLogo.