A Robot Path Planning System for a CIM Environment

Abstract This contribution is on how to plan the paths of the mobile robots in a CIM environment. The original elements consist in using of some AI techniques: hierarchical and nonlinear planning, expert systems so that the different subsystems of the CIM environment may be served in time and with the collisions avoided. Though the results of the proposed architecture and of the designed software were validated only by simulation, it is expected that the system should operate in an industrial environment too, as a feedback was considered for the planning system, and some constraints on the robot movements were imposed.