Hardware in the loop simulation for product driven control of a cyber-physical manufacturing system

Cyber-physical system (CPS) is considered as a building block of industry 4.0. They are formulated as a network of interacting cyberspace and physical elements. Dealing with this new industrial context, distributed control systems (DCS) are increasingly involved because they permit meeting flexibility and adaptability requirements, which can give scope to CPS. The product driven control system (PDS) is considered as DCS in which the product plays a major role in decision-making. However, the PDS paradigm has not yet received sufficient attention within the CPS. Relying on multi-agents system as implementation framework, radio frequency identity as auto-identity technologies, and hardware in the loop simulation as a practical methodology, the paper proposes a validation and practical framework of PDS applied to the highly automated flexible robotized assembly system. An efficient CPS is developed for a discrete flexible manufacturing system.