Artificial Intelligence of Manufacturing Robotics Health Monitoring System by Semantic Modeling

Abstract

Robotics is widely used in nearly all sorts of manufacturing. Steady performance and accurate movement of robotics are vital in quality control. Along with the coming of the Industry 4.0 era, oceans of sensor data from robotics are available, within which the health condition and faults are enclosed. Considering the growing complexity of the manufacturing system, an automatic and intelligent health-monitoring system is required to detect abnormalities of robotics in real-time to promote quality and reduce safety risks. Therefore, in this study, we designed a novel semantic-based modeling method for multistage robotic systems. Experiments show that sole modeling is not sufficient for multiple stages. We propose a descriptor to conclude the stages of robotic systems by learning from operational data. The descriptors are akin to a vocabulary of the systems; hence, semantic checking can be carried out to monitor the correctness of operations. Furthermore, the stage classification and its semantics were used to apply various regression models to each stage to monitor the quality of each operation. The proposed method was applied to a photovoltaic manufacturing system. Benchmarks on production datasets from actual factories show the effectiveness of the proposed method to realize an AI-enabled real-time health-monitoring system of robotics.