Orientador: João Maurico Rosario / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T12:49:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martins_MauricioPires_D.pdf: 8710691 bytes, checksum: 56d689278ea3902d6877db56e7475126 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um estudo da automação relativo ao planejamento do processo, monitoração de máquinas e equipamentos, fluxo de materiais, supervisão do sistema e redes de comunicação. No trabalho são desenvolvidos programas para monitoração de máquinas e equipamentos. São apresentados e implementados algoritmos e soluções para o uso de interfaces, utilizando-se como hardware básico, um microcomputador e como linguagem de programação, o Visual Basic. São apresentados exemplos de sistemas automatizados desenvolvidos e implementados no Laboratório de Automação, onde são feitos testes comparativos de programação em Diagrama de Relés e Grafcet. Baseado na hierarquia do planejamento de sistemas CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing), é implementado um sistema de supervisão ao ambiente experimental PIPEFA (Plataforma Industrial para Pesquisa Ensino e Formação em Automação), que simula um sistema integrado de produção. Utilizando-se de redes e interfaces de comunicação, o sistema de supervisão integra os diversos níveis da pirâmide CIM, fazendo a comunicação do nível administrativo com o de produção / Abstract: This work presents a study of automation relative to process planning, monitoring of machines and equipment, material flux, supervision of the system and communication network. In this work are developed programs to monitoring machines and equipments. Algorithms and solutions to the use of interfaces are presented and implemented, utilizing a microcomputer as basic hardware and Visual Basic as the programmation language. Examples of automated systems are presented. They are developed and implemented in the automation laboratory "Laboratório de Automação Integrada e Robótica", where comparative tests of programming in Ladder Diagram and Grafcet are made. Based on the hierarchy of planning of the CIM:systems, it is implemented a supervisory system to the experimental ambient PIPEFA (Industrial Platform to the Research, Education and Formation in Automation), that simulates a integrated system of production. Utilized by networks and interfaces af communication, the supervisory system integrates different levels of the CIM pyramid, making a communication of the administrative leveI with the productian ane, by Internet / Doutorado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica

In current production systems, automation and handling of workpieces is often solved by use of vacuum technology. Most production systems use vacuum ejectors which generate vacuum from compressed air by means of the Venturi effect. However, producing vacuum with compressed air is significantly less efficient than using other principles. To minimize the energy costs of pneumatic vacuum generation or to make full use of the energy available, it is important that the inner contour of the nozzle is shaped precisely to suit the specific application - also the system\'s flow conduction needs to be optimal and the flow losses have to be minimized. This paper presents a method for optimally designing pneumatic vacuum generators and producing them economically even at very low lot sizes in order to keep the operation costs low and address other concerns (such as noise emissions) as well.

Rapid developments in the field of CAR T cells offer important new opportunities while at the same time increasing numbers of patients pose major challenges. This review is summarizing on the one hand the state of the art in CAR T cell trials with a unique perspective on the role that Europe is playing. On the other hand, an overview of reproducible processing techniques is presented, from manual or semi-automated up to fully automated manufacturing of clinical-grade CAR T cells. Besides regulatory requirements, an outlook is given in the direction of digitally controlled automated manufacturing in order to lower cost and complexity and to address CAR T cell products for a greater number of patients and a variety of malignant diseases.

An emulator is a computer program that mimics the behavior of a production facility as seen by the control program. Emulation has been used as a tool for dynamic, off-line testing of control software for automated manufacturing systems. However, research efforts in emulation have focused mainly on controllers for equipment, AGVS, and workstations. This research focuses on emulation for testing shop control software. Though conceptually simple, emulator development efforts tend to be ad hoc in nature and lack a strong conceptual framework. Currently, the effort involved in developing an emulation model may outweigh the potential benefits. The approach used in this research centers around adapting a detailed simulation model, i.e., used for testing control strategies, for emulation, i.e., control software testing. This approach promotes software reuse and thus limits the emulation development task. Due to the limitations of conventional simulation languages and modeling techniques, a simulation model is not readily adapted for emulation. The main problems lie in turning off the control logic in a simulation and interfacing the model to the actual controller. An object-oriented modeling methodology was developed for systematically transitioning from simulation to emulation. Basically, the method calis for encapsulating manufacturing control logic into controller objects and modeling the system from the perspective of exchange of messages among controllers. The developed method also promotes the rapid development of a driver for verification and validation of the emulation model. A prototype system was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the emulation development method. The MODSIM II language for object-oriented simulation was used to implement the object classes. The second issue addressed is the ability to use emulation to test shop control system in faster-than-real-time (FRT) mode. Currently it is necessary to test the system in real-time, which makes it impractical to observe extended operation of the shop. The mixed-mode emulation method, which switches time-advance between real-time and next-event modes, was developed. Issues in implementing and using the mixed-mode and the delay-scaling technique for FRT emulation were discussed. Experimental results showed that mixed-mode emulation had the potential to reduce run-times by more than 50% over real-time emulation. / Ph. D.

Orientador: João Mauricio Rosario / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-22T16:01:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hervella_Cassio_M.pdf: 6637417 bytes, checksum: a9b3d4d37dcc1eba14ccf5bd3013af19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 / Resumo: Neste trabalho foi projetado, desenvolvido e implementado um sistema de controle programável flexível, para aplicação principal no controle de manipuladores e robôs industriais. Como método de abordagem global de um problema de controle automático, podemos dividí-lo em quatro partes principais, a primeira sendo a medição, aquisição e tratamento das grandezas a controlar, a segunda sendo o algoritmo de controle e o sistema de acionamento, a terceira sendo a automatização via programação e simulação de trajetórias e tarefas, e finalmente, a quarta parte sendo a interface homem-máquina. Sendo assim, subdividiu-se o sistema de controle desenvolvido em quatro módulos principais, sendo eles, o módulo de Monitoramento e Supervisão, o módulo de Controle e Acionamento, o módulo de Programação e Simulação e o módulo de Interface com o Usuário; por sua vez, estes módulos são compostos por vários sub-sistemas modulares, que foram projetados, desenvolvidos e testados separadamente, para que fossem flexíveis e confiáveis, tendo sido integrados em seguida, de várias maneiras, de modo a atender às características específicas de cada aplicação. Dentre os sistemas desenvolvidos, temos, por exemplo, interfaces de interface de entrada e saída de dados digitais, interfaces de supervisão de posição, interfaces de acionamento de potência, interfaces de decodificação de sinais de encoders; programas de testes para as interfaces desenvolvidas, programa de interface gráfica para utilização pelo usuário, e outros. Numa aplicação típica, no controle de um robô industrial, podemos ter diversos tipos de atuadores, sensores, mecanismos e arquiteturas do sistema mecânico a controlar, assim, com a substituição de alguns módulos, obtêm-se uma integração flexível que atende as necessidades de cada caso, sem que seja necessário um sistema de controle completamente novo, tomando a automação mais simples, eficiente e rápida. Por exemplo, na automação de um robô, podem ser necessários dois computadores, para que as cargas de processamento de dados de controle e a carga de processamento da interface gráfica com o usuário possam ser divididas entre estes; porém, numa aplicação, como o posicionamento de uma câmera de vídeo, a simplicidade do sistema mecânico, permite a utilização de um único computador, ou mesmo, uma interface dedicada, sendo mantida toda a estrutura global do sistema de controle / Abstract: In this work, it has been designed, developed and implemented a programmable flexible control system, for main application in the control of manipulators and industrial robots. As a global approaxing method for an automatic control problem, we can divide it in four main parts, the first beeing the measument, aquisition and treatment of the variables to control, the second beeing the control algorithm and the actioning system, the third beeing the automation throw programming and simulating of jobs and trajectories, and finally,the fourth beeing the man-machineinterface. Thus, we divided the developed control system in four main modules, which are, the Monitoring and Supervising module, the Actioning and Control module, the Simutation and Programming module and the User's Interface; which are compound by various modular subsystems, that were designed, developed and tested separately, so that they would be dependable and flexible, beeing then integrated, in many ways, to full-fill the specific caracteristics of each application. Within the developed systems, we have, for example, digital data input and output interface boards, position supervising boards, power driving boards, encoder sinal decodifying boards; test programs for the developed boards, graphics interface program to be utilized by the user, and others. In a tipical application, in controlling an industrial robot, we can have many diferent types of actuators, sensors, mechanisms and architectures of the mechanical system to control, thus, by substituting a few modules we can obtain a flexible integration that answers to the needs of each case, without the need of a completely new control system, making the automation more simple,eficient and fast. As an example, in the automation of a robot, may be neccessary two computers, so that the data processing loads of control and the user's graphics interface processing load can be divided between these, but, in an application, like a vídeo camera positioning, the simplicity of the mechanical system, enables the use of only one computer, or even, a dedicated board, beeing keept the global structure of the control system / Mestrado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Orientador: Paulo Roberto Gardel Kurka / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T02:13:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MenezesJunior_LuizFerreira_M.pdf: 3960270 bytes, checksum: 542b501adbaca7fc3d8ff80120fab0d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um método de controle automatizado de scanners de luz baseado no posicionamento dos projetores. É desenvolvida ainda uma estratégia de posicionamento dos focos de luz, através de acionamento sincronizado por sinais de áudio. Todos os modos de controle desenvolvidos são incorporados a um software de gerenciamento. No processo de controle toma-se necessário também a construção de uma interface de dados baseada no protocolo PC-DMX512. O trabalho contempla ainda uma descrição detalhada de tal protocolo e do hardware construído. O resultado final é ilustrado através de exemplos e do manual de operação do software de controle / Abstract: The work presents a method for automatically positioning of the light beam scanners. A strategy for synchronizing their positions based on the audio signals is also developed All control modes developed are incorporated into a managing system software. The controlling process requires the construction of a digital data interface to the hardware on the basis of the DMX512 protocol. The work includes a detailed description of the DMX512 protocol and the implemented hardware. Final results are illustrated through examples and operation manual / Mestrado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Engineering problems have characteristics such as a large number of variables, non-linear, computationally expensive, complex and black-box (i.e. unknown internal structure). These characteristics prompt difficulties for existing optimisation techniques. A consequence of this is that the required optimisation time rapidly increases beyond what is practical. There is a needfor dedicated techniques to exploit the power of mathematical optimisation tosolve engineering problems. The objective of this thesis is to investigate thisneed within the field of automation, specifically for control optimisation ofautomated systems.The thesis proposes an optimisation algorithm for optimising the controlof automated interacting production stations (i.e. independent stations thatinteract by for example material handling robots). The objective of the optimisation is to increase the production rate of such systems. The non-separable nature of these problems due to the interactions, makes them hard to optimise.The proposed algorithm is called the Constructive Cooperative CoevolutionAlgorithm (C3). The thesis presents the experimental evaluation of C3, bothon theoretical and real-world problems. For the theoretical problems, C3 istested on a set of standard benchmark functions. The performance, robustness and convergence speed of C3 is compared with the algorithms. This shows that C3 is a competitive optimisation algorithm for large-scale non-separable problems.C3 is also evaluated on real-world industrial problems, concerning thecontrol of interacting production stations, and compared with other optimisation algorithms on these problems. This shows that C3 is very well-suited for these problems. The importance of considering the energy consumption and equipment wear, next to the production rate, in the objective function is also investigated. This shows that it is crucial that these are considered to optimise the overall performance of interacting production stations.

An EU-funded project Fit-4-AMandA aims to establish a technological roadmap to scale-up from less than hundred stacks/year (manual assembly) to 50,000 stacks/year (automated assembly) in 2020 and beyond. Existing membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) and stack were redesigned/adapted for manufacturability and automation. The technology and machine system for the automated assembly of polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stacks were developed, manufactured and are currently being tested. Fast in-line non-destructive quality-assurance methods for automated production of MEAs and stack assembly are being developed and implemented. For the final period of the project, a validation of the designs, hardware, tools and software for the automated production of MEAs and stack assembly as well as an integration of one of the prototype stacks manufactured by the automated processes into a light-commercial vehicle followed by a field-testing are scheduled. / Die breite Markteinführung von wasserstoffbasierten Antriebssystemen verlangt zunehmend nach einer kosteneffizienten und serientauglichen Produktion von Brennstoffzellenstacks. So sehen die Ziele der Europäischen Union vor, die Herstellung von aktuell unter 100 Stacks pro Jahr auf 50.000 Stacks pro Jahr bis zum Jahr 2020 zu erhöhen. Um dies zu erreichen, sollen im Rahmen des vom Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) der europäischen Union geförderten Projektes Fit-4-AMandA automatisierte Anlagen für solche Stückzahlen befähigt werden. Der Beitrag beschreibt, wie die bereits verfügbare Membran-Elektroden-Einheit (MEA) und der Stack bezüglich Herstellbarkeit und Automatisierung konstruktiv umgestaltet und angepasst wurden. Die neu entwickelte Technologie und das Maschinensystem für die automatisierte Montage von PEM-FC-Stacks sowie Verfahren der INLINE-Qualitätssicherung und der zerstörungsfreien Prüfung werden mit ihren Implementierungsmöglichkeiten in die automatisierte Fertigungsstrecke vorgestellt. Ein Ausblick gibt eine Übersicht über die weiteren Entwicklungsschritte wie die Validierung der Entwürfe, der Hard- und Software für die automatisierte Produktion der MEAs und Stacks. Eine vorgesehene spätere Integration der so gefertigten Stacks in ein Fahrzeug und die damit verbundenen Feldtests zur Untersuchung der Reproduzierbarkeit und Zuverlässigkeit der Stacks werden abschließend dargestellt. Die Förderung des Projektes erfolgt im Rahmen der Finanzhilfevereinbarung Nr. 735606 des FCH JU der EU.

<p>A thesis study investigating the development and evaluation of a computer vision (CV) system for a manufacturing assembly task is reported. The CV inference results are compared to a Manufacturing Process Plan and an automation method completes a buyoff in the software, Solumina. Research questions were created and three hypotheses were tested. A literature review was conducted recognizing little consensus of Industry 4.0 technology adoption in manufacturing industries. Furthermore, the literature review uncovered the need for additional research within the topic of CV. Specifically, literature points towards more research regarding the cognitive capabilities of CV in manufacturing. A CV system was developed and evaluated to test for 90% or greater confidence in part detection. A CV dataset was developed and the system was trained and validated with it. Dataset contextualization was leveraged and evaluated, as per literature. A CV system was trained from custom datasets, containing six classes of part. The pre-contextualization dataset and post-contextualization dataset was compared by a Two-Sample T-Test and statistical significance was noted for three classes. A python script was developed to compare as-assembled locations with as-defined positions of components, per the Manufacturing Process Plan. A comparison of yields test for CV-based True Positives (TPs) and human-based TPs was conducted with the system operating at a 2σ level. An automation method utilizing Microsoft Power Automate was developed to complete the cognitive functionality of the CV system testing, by completing a buyoff in the software, Solumina, if CV-based TPs were equal to or greater than human-based TPs.</p>