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Trends in the Development of Machinery and Associated Technology ” TMT 2008 , Istanbul , Turkey , 26-30 August , 2008 TRENDS IN AUTONOMOUS FLEXIBLE SYSTEMS FOR ASSEMBLY PROCESSES BASED ON ARTIFICIAL LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENT

The application of numeric control machines, robotic systems and computer integrated elements in manufacturing processes has been widely covered and it is accepted as a natural fact in a global industrial environment. However, the increasing claim for mass customisation of products has raised the interest for the materialisation of assembly systems that combine a high level of automation and autonomy with an outstanding degree of flexibility. In order to meet the requirements of the present and to be able to face successfully major challenges to come in the future, flexible manufacturing systems have to evolve to autonomous systems based on artificial learning that understand and take into consideration the evolvable situations in its environment. In accordance to this, the present work reviews over 20 years of studies and materialisations of intelligent assembly systems, agile manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence tools applied to highly reconfigurable assembly systems. The study goes over the birth of the concept of Agile Manufacturing, explores the key issues of rapid configuration systems, and unveils the trends on the development of highly autonomous flexible systems for assembly processes.