Towards an intelligent distributed conveyor

Georgilas, Ioannis; Adamatzky, Andrew; Melhuish, Chris

Abstract

Manipulation, orientation and handling of components, subparts and finished products is an essential element of any industrial process, which attracts substantial portion of resources and infrastructure. A classic manipulation, e.g. robot arms, is not always efficient at the micro-scale and suffers in terms of scaleabil- ity. We proposed an alternative concept of manipulation based on an array of actuators. The proposed system rely on the natural concepts of scaleability and parallelism: ciliary motion and excitable media control.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: May 28, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 12, 2016
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
• Print ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7429
• Pages: 457-458
• Book Title: Advances in Autonomous Robotics
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/953064
• Contract Date: Apr 12, 2016