The objective of this research project is to explore the basis for a consistent software and hardware environment, and a flexible system that is capable of performing a variety of inspection and reverse engineering activities. In particular, we concentrate on the adaptive automatic extraction of some properties of the world to be sensed and on the subsequent use of the sensed data for producing reliable descriptions of the sensed environments for manufacturing and/or description refinement purposes.
We use an observer agent with some sensing capabilities (vision and touch) to actively gather data (measurements) of mechanical parts. Geometric descriptions of the objects under analysis are generated and expressed in terms of a Computer Aided Design system. The geometric design is then used to construct a prototype of the object. The manufactured prototype are then inspected and compared with the original object using the sensing interface and refinements made as necessary.
DEDS can be simply described as:
Dynamic systems (typically asynchronous) in which state transitions are triggered by discrete events in the system.It is possible to control and observe hybrid systems (systems that involve continuous, discrete and symbolic parameters) under uncertainty using DEDS formulations [16,20,21,22,26,30].
The applications of this work are numerous : e.g., automatic inspection of mechanical or electronic components and reproduction of mechanical parts. Moreover, the experience gained in performing this research allows us to study the subdivision of the solution into reliable, reversible, and an easy-to-modify software and hardware environments.