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A Generic Reconfigurable and Pluggable Material Handling System Based on Genetic Algorithm

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Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing (SOHOMA 2016)

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With the increasing customization of products there was a need to create new manufacturing systems that were able to satisfy these needs of the market. The Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) emerges as a more recent approach allowing the reconfiguration of the line and all the manufacturing systems. The balancing line is a common problem in the system reconfiguration but may not be enough, being also important to reconfigure the material handling system itself. Genetic Algorithms (GA) are one of the most known and used alternatives in optimization problems being widely used in shortest path problems like the travelling salesman. In this paper a solution that allows reconfiguring an agent based material handling system using a genetic algorithm is presented.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Andre Dionisio Rocha, Pedro Caetano & Jose Barata Oliveira

  2. UNINOVA institute, Centre for Technology and Systems, Caparica, Portugal

    Andre Dionisio Rocha & Jose Barata Oliveira

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  1. Fac of Automatic Control, Sector 6, University Politehnica of Bucharest Fac of Automatic Control, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania

    Theodor Borangiu

  2. LAMIH, UVHC LAMIH, Valenciennes, France

    Damien Trentesaux

  3. University of Lorraine , Epinal, France

    André Thomas

  4. Campus StaApolónia, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança Campus StaApolónia, Bragança, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

  5. Quinta da Torre, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - DEE Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal

    José Barata Oliveira

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Rocha, A.D., Caetano, P., Barata Oliveira, J. (2017). A Generic Reconfigurable and Pluggable Material Handling System Based on Genetic Algorithm. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., Leitão, P., Oliveira, J. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing . SOHOMA 2016. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51100-9_10

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