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Dynamic and unified modelling of sustainable manufacturing capability for industrial robots in cloud manufacturing

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Industrial robots (IRs) are the important driving force to enable the production activities more automotive and highly efficient in modern manufacturing systems. However, in order to realize the effective employment and intelligent configuration of IRs in cloud manufacturing environment, it is required that the sustainable manufacturing capabilities of IRs can be described in a unified and formal manner. In this paper, a unified sustainable manufacturing capability (SMC) of the IR model is constructed in terms of functional attributes, structural information, activities and process condition. A hybrid logic description method integrating Ontology Web Language with dynamic description logic (DLL) is adopted to provide a semantical representation to both the static and dynamic characteristics of SMC. An interval-state description method is proposed to present energy consumption during the IR’s process in sections. Based on the constructed model, three types of rules are defined to reason the capability of IRs, including stability, energy consumption and production capacity. Finally, a cloud-based prototype system architecture is illustrated. An IR service platform is developed and implemented to verify the proposed model and the defined rules.

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  1. School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Yuanyuan Zhao, Quan Liu, Wenjun Xu, **ngxing Wu, Xuemei Jiang & Zude Zhou

  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Yuanyuan Zhao, Wenjun Xu & **ngxing Wu

  3. Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Quan Liu, Xuemei Jiang & Zude Zhou

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Duc Truong Pham

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Zhao, Y., Liu, Q., Xu, W. et al. Dynamic and unified modelling of sustainable manufacturing capability for industrial robots in cloud manufacturing. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 93, 2753–2771 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-0634-1

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