Plan Generation for Flexible Assembly Systems

摘要

The work described in the thesis primarily concerns the generation of plans forflexible assembly systems. Aspects of the work are technical feasibility of a plan, optimization of a plan and the roles that time and uncertainty play during plan generation. It should be stressed that the work in the thesis applies to a class of flexible assembly systems, and that the functional concept of DIAC, as introduced above, is one of the flexible assembly systems that falls into this class. Manual assembly and high volume dedicated assembly are not covered in the thesis.