The need for flexible production has turned manufacturing’s attention to integrate fast and uncomplicated solutions. Collaborative robots (cobots) have been considered the most impactful technology due to their versatility and human-robot interaction ...

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 ...

We propose an adaptive run-time failure recovery control system for quadcopter drones, based on remote real-time processing of measurement data streams. Particularly, the measured RPM values of the quadcopter motors are transmitted to a remote machine ...

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 ...

The proliferation of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SCPS) is increasingly blurring the boundaries between physical and virtual entities. This trend is revolutionizing multiple application domains along the whole human activity spectrum, while pushing the ...

With the advancing digitisation of society and industry we observe a progressing blending of computational, physical, and social processes. The trustworthiness and sustainability of these systems will be vital for our society. However, engineering modern ...

Due to the increased complexities and operating speeds of today’s and tomorrow’s system-of-systems (SoS) architectural configurations for digital enterprises, the design of new domain architecture management systems is required. A key element of these new ...

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 ...

Though cloud data center is highly adapted for flexible, scalable and highly available computing and storage resources, it is vulnerable to failures. Predicting the occurrence of server failure and taking appropriate preventive measures are essential in ...

Increased competition in the global market has forced companies to diversify their product ranges to meet the customers’ changing needs and adopt product development strategies for “mass customization”, which requires designing modular products. Product ...

Cloud-based design and manufacturing is a dynamic service-oriented network where a set of CAD products is manufactured in virtual digital cells under certain constraints. This paper assumes that these CAD products can be modelled by a set of holonic fuzzy ...

Conventionally, a technical system is defined in the design phase and considers all important requirements and aspects. The expected operations and the circumstances of operations are to be known in advance. If these are known, then the designed system ...

Hazard-intense applications of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), such as the evacuation of a building on fire, require personalized informing on the basis of a real-time assessment of dynamic context. In this paper, a context-dependent message construction ...

We propose a supervisory control design process that merges descriptions at the level of the system architecture with specific design methods related to supervisory control synthesis. The advantages of this proposal are a better integration of the ...

Visual control of manipulators provides significant advantages when working with targets with unknown positions. Among all visual servoing categories, the stereo visual servoing has shown to be very effective when dealing with unstructured environments. ...

We present a case for the process of including “Quantum Information Systems” as a course (or equivalent material) in the Computer Science and Engineering and in the Electrical Engineering curricula We suggest a challenging outline for an integrated ...