Cloud Robotics Towards a CPS Assembly System

Modern manufacturing industry calls for a new generation of production system with better interoperability and new business models. As a novel information technology, Cloud provides new service models and business opportunities for manufacturing industry. In this chapter, recent cloud manufacturing and cloud robotics approaches are reviewed. Function block-based integration mechanisms are presented to integrate various types of manufacturing facilities. A cloud-based manufacturing system is introduced to support ubiquitous manufacturing, which provides a service pool maintaining physical facilities in terms of manufacturing services. The introduced framework and mechanisms are evaluated by both machining and robotics applications. In practice, it is possible to establish an integrated manufacturing environment across multiple levels with the support of manufacturing cloud and function blocks. It provides a flexible architecture as well as ubiquitous and integrated methodologies for the cloud manufacturing.

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