Manufacturing systems are complex systems including control and programming
of individual machines, production cells, and complete manufacturing systems.
A key issue for Swedish industry is to achieve high productivity in such
systems. Technically, this means that both efficiency and flexibility should
be accomplished on different levels of the system. Together with our industrial
partners, ABB Robotics Products and ABB Corporate Research, we have investigated
the need for open modular controllers, which deserves a dedicated research
effort. This project will involve collaboration with other disciplines
such as Automatic Control, but the main focus is on the software aspects.
Experimental lab for industrial robots Program and robot visualization Hierarchical concurrent systems Java-to-C translator
NUTEK (Complex Systems program)
ABB Corporate Research ABB Robotics Products