To realise highly flexible production systems, various scientific concepts have been developed including human integration. The summary of the state of the current realisations and the corresponding XPRESS R&D challenges is shown below:
PABADIS resident agent technology
SIOUX knowledge base structure
PE intelligence
-Generic Manufactron situation analysis system
-TDD parser
-Feature generator
-Analysis system instances
-Generic Manufactron method search engine
-Sample space analyser / Metrics generator
-Similarity measurement
-Decision maker
-Search engine instances
-Manufactron knowledge base structure
PE functionality
-Manufactron data model
-Manufactron behaviour model
-Standard HMI
-Augmented and mixed reality HMI
-Person and tool tracking
-Situation graphs
Human Manufactron wrapper software
-Manufactron HMI concept
-Manufactron communication converter
-Manufactron interaction scheme converter
Worker activity understanding system
-Sensory system
-Human tracking system
-Tool tracking system
-Interpretation system
Integrative HMI concept and system
PABADIS mobile agent concept
Generic WM structure
-Realisation scheme of WM using agent technologies
WM agent data and agent methods to conform with WM functionality
-product tracking, UC communication, quality data gathering and assessment
Creation of WM knowledge base (where existing WMs are retrieved) according to XPRESS structure
WM execution system
Existing assembly planning products Delmia (Airbus), and possibly Tecnomatix
PABADIS agent factory based on Grasshopper MAS
-Generic CE structure using existing planning products based on PPR (Product, Process, Resources) model
-Extension with Manufactron knowledge structure
-Information demand gathering from Production Manufactrons
-Manufactron information supply and corresponding data access
-Optimisation control
-Integration of agent factory producing workflow managers