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Changing manufacturing environment characterized by aggressive competition on a global scale and rapid changes in process technology requires creating production systems that are themselves easily upgradeable and into which new technologies and new functions can be readily integrated. In this paper the concept of Bionic Assembly System, as answer for these novel requirements, is presented. Bionic Assembly System is based on concepts of autonomy, co-operation and intelligence of its units. The system proposes use of autonomous mobile robots in production environment instead of using AGV’ s. Mobile robots are giving flexibility to the system and increase dynamics of the whole process. The paper presents different mobile robot types and focuses on transport mobile robots which are the backbone of a system and which serve as carrier of a palette on which product is going to be assembled. The most important ability of the system is possibility of constant reconfiguration in a self-organizing way. |
