Application of Cognitve Robotics in Disassembly of Products

Abstract
Disassembly is a key step for the efficient treatment of End-of-Life (EOL) products which greatly benefits to the product’s value recovery and a reduction of the environmental impact. The automation has been introduced to perform this process due to economical feasibility, especially in developed countries, in comparison with the labour-intensive manual operation. However, majority of disassembly needs to be accomplished as a manual operation due to the uncertainties associated with the quality and the quantity of the product return, which has been the hindrance for the disassembly automation. The concept of “Cognitive robotics”, an autonomous robot equipped with the cognitive functionalities, including Reasoning, Execution monitoring, Revision, and Learning is proposed to use for resolving these problems in automation. As a result, the system expects to be capable of dealing with any product model in one product group regardless of their specific structure and geometrical detail. Various models of LCD screens are used as the case-study.