This paper describes our course design approach that successfully transformed an undergraduate Robotics Technology course from in-person teaching to online guided by the TASKS model. Our course redesign process includes identifying conflicts, generating ...

Trust is essential in the digital world. It is a critical task to build digital trust for the ongoing digital engineering transformation. Aiming at developing a blockchain-based digital trust mechanism for Cloud Manufacturing or Manufacturing-as-a-Service ...

Reliability allocation is a very important problem during early design and development phases of a system. There are several reliability allocation techniques which are used to achieve the target reliability. The feasibility of objectives (FOO) technique ...

Industry 4.0 proposes the incorporation of information technologies at all levels of the production process. By incorporating these technologies, Industry 4.0 provides new tools for production planning processes, allowing to address problems in an ...

This paper aims to examine the net effect of privacy fatigue of social media users on privacy protection disengagement behaviour, which is helpful to address the users’ privacy issue in the new stage of social media digitalization. Applying the Propensity ...

Healthcare delivery systems are evolving with the advances in health information technology (HIT) development and its applications to coordinated or guided care for polychronic conditions. The design features of artificial intelligence in healthcare ...

Atoms are considered basic building blocks of the material world. Computational modelling is a useful technique for studying and predicting natural events. Due to the complexity and wide scale range of particle systems, current computational modelling ...

Twenty-five years after the first conference of the Society for Design and Process Science, held in the emerging tech center of Austin Texas, its history remains a matter of lore, dwelling in the imagination of today’s young volunteers and in the brief ...

Communication Dynamics Theory, defined in a companion paper, offers a new approach to understanding Spacetime. In Communication Dynamics Theory, physical reality is assumed to arise from an anisotropic expansion of a one-dimensional communication network. ...

The development and evaluation of Mission Engineering Threads (METs) require an understanding of the operational context for which a system-of-systems (SoS) will be employed as well as an assessment that the performance of a complex SoS is effective and ...

The paper aims at presenting 4D printing as a research-intensive technology from a critical external perspective. It provides a comprehensive discussion on the possible future of this emerging domain and also highlights weaknesses and strengths of ...

In engineering, design decisions in one domain exhibit multiple consequences in other domains. These consequences result from the often more or less hidden coupling between the different design domains. In order to examine these consequences, models need ...

As sustainability becomes increasingly important, product design is taking a proactive role in producing products that are both useful and sustainable. This paper introduces and discusses a tool named Environment-based life cycle decomposition (eLCD) to ...

Robotic assembly of mating parts (peg-in-hole (PiH)) inevitably encounters misalignments. Although passive end-effector compliance is key to successful alignment during the assembly, the literature does not propose many solutions for large misalignments, ...

A mandatory requirement for the concept of intelligent systems and of digital or cyber-physical twins is the availability of high-quality data. Therefore, the authors investigate the possibility to integrate sensors, actuators and information technologies ...

Over the last decades, noticeable efforts have been made to construct design knowledge during the detailed geometric definition phase systematically. However, physical products exhibit functional behaviors, which explain that they evolve over space and ...

Charging network scheduling for battery electric vehicles is a challenging research issue on deciding where and when to activate users’ charging under the constraints imposed by their time availability and energy demands, as well as the limited available ...

Function-Based (FB) representations of complex systems play an important role in Biologically Inspired Design (BID) by easing the knowledge interchange among biologists, engineers and designers. Many representations have been proposed by scholars over the ...

This paper aims to addresses three questions related to conceptual design: 1) Why is environment important? 2) What is environment? and 3) How to analyze environment? Unlike product-, function (affordance)-, or user-centered methodologies, it is argued ...