Programming and control of Flexible Assembly Cells

Contributions to programming and control of Flexible Assembly Cells composed of several robots, sensors and auxiliary device: Hierarchical control architecture allowing online decision and refinement of actions. A selection of papers and some illustrative examples.

A failure recovery scheme for assembly workcells.
E. Lopez-Mellado and R. Alami,
1990 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 702-707.

The analysis of repetitive sequencing at the workcell level: from workcell tasks to workcell cycles.
P. Freedman and R. Alami,
International Journal of Production Research, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1195-1213, June 1990.

Repetitive sequencing: from workcell tasks to workcell cycles.
P. Freedman and R. Alami,
1990 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,, pp. 1962-1967.

Representation and propagation of positioning uncertainties through manipulation robot programs-integration into a task-level programming system,.
I. Mazon and R. Alami,
in Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 1989, pp. 646-652.

NNS, a knowledge-based on-line system for an assembly workcell.
H. Chochon and R. Alami,
in Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, California, USA, April 1986, pp. 603-609.

Programming of flexible assembly cell: Task modelling and system integration.
R. Alami and H. Chochon,
in Proceedings of the 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, March 1985, pp. 901-907.

NNS: A Lisp-based environment for the integration and operating of complex robotics systems.
R. Alami,
in Proceedings of the 1984 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 1984, pp. 349-353.

Programming and control of a Flexible Assembly Cell (1986)