Fredrik Danielsson

A Classification of Different Levels of Flexibility in an Automated Manufacturing System and Needed Competence

Mass customization has become more attractive but requires a transformation towards more flexible solutions in contrast to dedicated manufacturing...

A conceptual model for multi-agent communication applied on a plug & produce system

Today, multi-agent systems are still uncommon in the industry because they require more time to be implemented than traditional manufacturing...

A Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithm Applied to Press Line Optimisation

Simulation-based optimisation often considers computationally expensive problems. Successfully optimising such large scale and complex problems...

A faster collision detection method applied on a sheet metal press line

Geometrical collision detection is a time and resource consuming simulation task. In order to decrease time and resources, a general method...

A faster collision detection method applied on a sheet metal press line

Geometrical collision detection is a time and resource consuming simulation task. In order to decrease time and resources, a general method has bee...

A Flexible Lean Automation Concept for Robotized Manufacturing Industry

This paper describes a general virtual manufacturing concept for industrial control systems. Our virtual manufacturing concept provides a distinct...

A flexible lean automation concept for robotized manufacturing industry

Due to constant changesin the market there is a need for low-cost and low-volume manufacturing.Usually this type of production is difficult to...

A Framework for Hazard Identification of a Collaborative Plug&Produce System

Plug&Produce systems accept reconfiguration and have the attribute of physical and logical flexibility. To implement the Plug&Produce system in a...

A General Virtual Manufacturing Concept for Programming, Verification and Optimisation of Complex Control Functions

This paper describes a general virtual manufacturing concept for industrial control systems. Our virtual manufacturing concept provides a distinct...

A genetic algorithm with shuffle for job shop scheduling problems

Job shop scheduling problems are computationally complex combinatorial optimization problems. Genetic algorithms have been used in various forms an...

A Method for Configuring Agents in Plug & Produce Systems

Multi-agent technology, used for implementing Plug & Produce systems have many proposed benefits for fast adaption of manufacturing systems. Howeve...

A new Combined Optimisation Algorithm for Sheet-Metal Press Line Tuning

This paper shows how a new combined optimisation algorithm can improve the efficiency in simulation-based parameter tuning of sheet-metal press...

A Simulation-Based Optimization Approach for Holonic Manufacturing Systems

Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS) is an integrated multi-agent technology that represents the developing direction in the automation field. HMS ca...

A Virtual Manufacturing Approach for Integrating Fixture Design with Process Planning

Computer Aided Process Planning has received more attention recently due to considerable progress in the aspects of both technology and theory....

A Virtual Real-Time Model for Control Software Development : applied on a Sheet-Metal Press Line

An Adaptable Process Planning Tool : A Tool for Information, Communication, and Interaction in a Robot Cell

This study presents work in progress on how to develop a process-planning tool to handle interaction between human operators and robots within a...

An efficient algorithm for press line optimisation

Automated manufacturing processes such as automotive tandem press lines include time dependent complex control functions. All motions and critical...

An energy model for press line tending robots

Today most industries aim at reducing energy consumption to become sustainable and environment-friendly. The automotive industry, with mass...

Automated Generation of Discrete Event System Simulation Models for Flexible Automation

Flexible automation cells with rapid product changes are an important competitive advantage for industries today. These cells can increase a...

Automated Path Planning for Plug Produce in a Cutting-tool Changing Application

In this paper, a path planning algorithm is designed and tested with a real robot for a Plug & Produce demonstrator. The demonstrator is divided in...

Automation of a robotised metal deposition system using laser melting of wire

This paper presents a system for full automation of free-form-fabrication of fully dense metal structures using robotized laser melting of wire. Th...

Collaborative Robots to Support Flexible Operation in a Manufacturing System

Collaborative robotic systems where human(s) and robot(s) cooperate in performing a common task is an attractive solution to introduce automation...

Computer Aided Robotics combined with a Finite Element Analysis for Process Simulation of Welding

Conceptual framework of scheduling applying discrete event simulation as an environment for deep reinforcement learning

Increased environmental awareness is driving the manufacturing industry towards novel ways of energy reduction to become sustainable yet stay...

Constructive cooperative coevolution for large-scale global optimisation

This paper presents the Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary ( C3C3 ) algorithm, applied to continuous large-scale global optimisation problems....

Constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimisation for interacting production stations

Optimisation of the control function for multiple automated interacting production stations is a complex problem, even for skilled and experienced...

Control system verification by emulation : an application to off-line pressline throughput rate orpimization

This study is part of a research project aims at off-line programming and verification of industrial control systems. In this paper, an off-line...

Customization and flexible manufacturing capacity using a graphical method applied on a configurable multi-agent system

This article proposes a Plug & Produce and goal-oriented configurable multi-agent system that admits adding and removing resources to balance the...

Efficient geometrical simulation and virtual commissioning performed in stamping

In order to  perform efficient geometrical simulation and virtual commissioning in stamping, three fields are investigated namely: simulation...

Energy Consumption Model for 2D-Belt Robots

Production that incorporates robotics consumes energy and the trend today is to reduce consumed energy not only to lower the cost but also to be a...

Energy model for motion planning of 2D-belt press line tending robots

A current trend in production is to reduce energy consumption where possible not only to lower the cost but also to be a more energy efficient...

Flexible Robotized Automation in Manufacturing Systems

Due to constant changes in the market there is a need for low-cost and low-volume manufacturing. Usually this type of production is difficult to...

General Time Synchronisation Method for PLC Programs Aiming at Virtual Verification and Development

The latest state-of-the-art Computer Aided Production Engineering (CAPE) simulation technology offers OPC integration for PLC verification. A...

Goal-Oriented Process Plans in a Multiagent System for Plug & Produce

This article presents a framework for Plug & Produce that makes it possible to use configurations rather than programming to adapt a manufacturing...

Identification of resources and parts in a Plug and Produce system using OPC UA

This paper describes a method together with an implementation for automating the detection, identification and configuration of newly added resourc...

Improved Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary Differential Evolution for Large-Scale Optimisation

The Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is widely used for real-world global optimisation problems in many different domains. To improve DE's...

Improving Performance in Flexible Manufacturing by a P-sop Approach

This paper present a Part oriented Sequence of Operation (P-SOP) approach that address flexibility, robustness and deployment in manufacturing cell...

Integration of humans into a multi-agent system

The aim of this paper is to describe on-going work in the integration of humans in automated manufacturing systems. The intention is to achieve a...

Methods for Reliable Simulation-Based PLC Code Verification

Simulation based PLC code verification is a part of virtual commissioning, where the control code is verified against a virtual prototype of an...

Multi-objective constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimization of robotic press-line tending

This article investigates multi-objective optimization of the robot trajectories and position-based operation-coordination of complex multi-robot...

Off-Line Optimisation of Complex Automated Production Lines : Applied on a Sheet-Metal Press Line

This paper presents a successful off-line optimisation case study of a sheet-metal press line for the automotive industry. The proposed off-line...

Off-Line Parameter Tuning of a Sheet-Metal Press Line

Anautomotive sheet-metal press line is an excellent example of an automatedmanufacturing system with time dependent complex control functions. The...

Off-line programming of robots for metal deposition

Metal Deposition (MD) is a rapid prototyping technique to build parts by depositing metal in a required fashion. When a complex-shaped part is to b...

Off-line programming, verification and optimisation of industrial control systems

Online Path Planning in a Multi-agent-Controlled Manufacturing System

In recent years the manufacturing sectors are migrating from mass production to mass customization. To be able to achieve mass customization,...

Optimisation of Interacting Production Stations using a Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary Approach

Simulation-based optimisation carries the burden of computationally expensive fitness calculations. It is very often used to tackle large-scale...

Optimised Control of Sheet Metal Press Lines

Determining the control parameters for sheet metal press lines is a large scale and complex optimisation problem. These control parameters determin...

Optimized Online Path Planning Algorithms Considering Energy

Plug and produce demonstrators handles multiple processes in the industry, appropriate path planning is essential and at the same time there is an...

Optimized Path Planning by Adaptive RRT* Algorithm for Constrained Environments Considering Energy

Optimized path planning of robots are necessary for the industries to thrive towards greater flexibility and sustainability. This paper proposes an...

P-SOP -€“ A multi-agent based control approach for flexible and robust manufacturing

In a truly flexible manufacturing system the description of the control strategy must be updated every day. Hence, a new way to handle changes in t...