Abstract
As opposed to highly centralized present systems, cellular-type machines were proposed. A cellular-type machine is a mechanical system composed of distributed autonomous intelligent units, called cells, of as few kinds as possible, and with no central control. In our most recent work, we have introduced the concept of movable cells (cells with the introduction of moving function) as a method to improve the robustness against faults and the flexibility of the previously developed system [3]. This paper describes the development of new cellular manufacturing system that is constructed with movable celsl by introducing its functional expandability with actual hardware prototyping results.
