The benchmark of several high-level control strategies is required during the design of flexible manufacturing systems. Virtual commissioning is a popular approach to test and validate the behavior of the target control system based on a virtual model. It can actually simulate and help study the behavior of electro-mechanical shop floor components, characterized by a physical layer and low-level control functions but it fails to simulate the behavior of high-level control functions, such as dynamic resource allocation and product routing. Thus, virtual commissioning of the flexible manufacturing system can be a complex task because it requires to model the low- and high-level control functions in different software environments and to connect them through a specific interface. Switching from “virtual” to “real” remains a challenging issue since it requires to connect the high-level control functions to the real system through the real interface. This article introduces and details the Arezzo-flexible manu...
['T. Berger', 'Dominique Deneux', 'T. Bonte', 'Etienne Cocquebert', 'Damien Trentesaux']
Arezzo-flexible manufacturing system: A generic flexible manufacturing system shop floor emulator approach for high-level control virtual commissioning