Patent ID: 9037282
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: B64F,G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a tracking system configured to identify characteristics about a plurality of portable machines configured to perform a plurality of manufacturing operations on a workpiece, wherein the characteristics include information about multiple ones of the plurality of portable machines; and a controller in communication with the tracking system, wherein the controller is configured to control performance of individual ones of manufacturing operations on the workpiece using the characteristics about the plurality of portable machines identified using the tracking system, wherein, in response to a determination that ones of the plurality of portable machines is in a correct position relative to workpiece, the controller is configured to send at least one of a command and a program to ones of the plurality of portable machines to control the performance of the individual ones of manufacturing operations on the workpiece based on the characteristics such that an individual portable machine in the plurality of portable machines is controlled at least in part by information about another machine in the plurality of individual portable machines.