Abstract
The increasing automation of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) demands flexible automated material handling and transport systems. New concepts of information processing of FMS are necessary in order to reach optimal economic results with complex production systems. The realization of a flexible transport system using a mobile robot is shown. A further development, also presented, leads to an autonomous mobile robot, which improves the flexibility for material handling processes and supports distributed control processing for an entire FMS.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Unknown Host Publication Title |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 1953-1959 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0818607874 |
| State | Published - 1987 |