Distributed Smart Sensors and Actuators for Machining Control and Monitoring

Abstract The study of Smart Sensors/Actuators led, during the past few years, to the development of facilities which improve traditional Sensors/Actuators in a necessary way to automate production systems. In an other context, many studies were carried out aiming at defining a decisional structure for production activity control and the required reactivity led to the autonomisation of decisional levels close to the operational system. We suggest in this paper to study the natural convergence between these two approaches and we propose an integration architecture enabling the exploitation of Distributed Smart Sensors/Actuators in the decisional system dealing with machine tool monitoring and machining.