Collaborative Industrial Automation

2008 ◽  
pp. 650-665
Author(s):  
Armando Walter Colombo ◽  
Ronald Schoop
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Application ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Industrial Automation ◽  
Virtual Factory ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Automation Technology

This chapter summarizes our latest results concerning the development and the industrial application of the emerging “collaborative industrial automation” technology and its powerful meaning for facilitating the integration of a dynamic reconfigurable shop floor into a virtual factory. It argues, in this respect, that having a conglomerate of distributed, autonomous, intelligent, fault-tolerant, and reconfigurable production units, which operate as a set of cooperating entities, is one promising platform to achieve both local and global manufacturing objectives. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the underlying scientific and technological background through the development and industrial application of the collaborative automation paradigm will not only inform the academic, research, and industrial world of an emerging control and automation paradigm, but also assist in the understanding of a new vision of the manufacturing system of the 21st century [a mix of collaborative units, i.e., people, software systems, processes, and equipment (hardware), integrated into a virtual factory].

Collaborative Industrial Automation

2011 ◽  
pp. 417-435
Author(s):  
Armando W. Colombo ◽  
Ronald Schoop
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Application ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Industrial Automation ◽  
Virtual Factory ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Automation Technology

This chapter summarizes our latest results concerning the development and the industrial application of the emerging “collaborative industrial automation” technology and its powerful meaning for facilitating the integration of a dynamic reconfigurable shop floor into a virtual factory. It argues, in this respect, that having a conglomerate of distributed, autonomous, intelligent, fault-tolerant, and reconfigurable production units, which operate as a set of cooperating entities, is one promising platform to achieve both local and global manufacturing objectives. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the underlying scientific and technological background through the development and industrial application of the collaborative automation paradigm will not only inform the academic, research, and industrial world of an emerging control and automation paradigm, but also assist in the understanding of a new vision of the manufacturing system of the 21st century [a mix of collaborative units, i.e., people, software systems, processes, and equipment (hardware), integrated into a virtual factory].

Embedding fault-tolerant properties in the design of complex software systems

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Perkusich ◽  
J.C.A de Figueiredo ◽  
S.K Chang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Software Systems

Telemetry-Based Depth Recovery for Virtual Factory Construction and Extension to Remote Facility Management

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Zetu ◽  
Pat Banerjee ◽  
Ali Akgunduz
Keyword(s):  
3D Models ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Virtual Manufacturing ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Virtual Factory ◽  
Depth Recovery ◽  
Camera Location ◽  
Virtual Manufacturing Environment ◽  
2D Images

Abstract The fast construction of a Virtual Factory model without using a CAD package can be made possible by using computer vision techniques. In order to create a realistic Virtual Manufacturing environment, especially when such a model has to be created in correlation to an existing facility, a reliable algorithm that extracts 3D models from camera images is needed, and this requires exact knowledge of the camera location when capturing images. In this paper, we describe an approach for depth recovery from 2D images based on tracking a camera within the environment. We also explore the extension of our telemetry-based algorithm to remote facility management, by tracking and synchronizing human motion on the shop floor with motion of an avatar in a Virtual Environment representing the same shop floor.

scholarly journals Importance of Coding Education and Robotic Applications For Achieving 21st-Century Skills in North Cyprus

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sezer Kanbul ◽  
Huseyin Uzunboylu
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
University Education ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Current Case ◽  
North Cyprus ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Robotic Applications

It is seen that coding education and robotic applications are integrated or being integrated into education system for students at early ages all around the world. Aim of this study is to reveal the importance of coding education and robotic applications for achieving 21st century skills in North Cyprus. This study is a descriptive study based on literature review. The obtained data were evaluated by the researcher to reveal the current case with a descriptive approach. It is really important for students to receive education on coding and robotics applications in order to be able to acquire 21st century skills, develop, produce and achieve “Informatics Island” vision of North Cyprus. In this research, it is seen that importance given to coding education and robotic applications in North Cyprus is insufficient. It is also revealed that there are effective robotic studies as a result of institutional efforts by universities. However, there is no attempt to integrate coding education into primary, secondary and university education programs and there is a little number of academic research related with coding education and robotic applications. It is expected that this study will be a guide for academicians who would like to conduct research in this field, provide information about the present condition and set an example.

Portable and fault-tolerant software systems

IEEE Micro ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Strumpen
Keyword(s):  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Software Systems

scholarly journals Industrial Automation using Zigbee Communication Protocol

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7240-7243
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Ieee 802.11 ◽  
Industrial Application ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Communication Protocol ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Industrial Automation ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Wired Communication

If we compare wireless communication over wired communication, wireless communication offer more advantages when compared to wired communication such as lower cost, fast deployment, higher flexibility & scalability and mobile nature of system communicated wirelessly. In Industrial automation, industrial communication has very challenging requirements like packet deadline, low transmission jitter, etc. In some places wired communication is only accepted and it cannot be replaced by wireless communication. Industrial applications also run more flexible requirements applications such as email, Video content or any other application. Those services are known as Best Effort (BE) services. In order to do both the industrial application and BE services we have proposed Zigbee communication together with the IEEE 802.11 standard in this article along with comparison between the two standards using physical layer solutions. This Zigbee communication is performed using a industrial automation design and it leads to less power consumption. Result and analysis in terms of real time services is left as a future work in this paper. It is proposed that through Zigbee solution it is possible to obtain better result in certain cases than those achieved using IEEE 802.11 standards.

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Architecture in Cloud Data Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 889-902
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. AlZain ◽  
Alice S. Li ◽  
Ben Soh ◽  
Mehedi Masud
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Byzantine Faults ◽  
Byzantine Fault ◽  
Cloud Data Management

One of the main challenges in cloud computing is to build a healthy and efficient storage for securely managing and preserving data. This means a cloud service provider needs to make sure that its clients' outsourced data are stored securely and, data queries and retrievals are executed correctly and privately. On the other hand, it may also mean businesses are willing to outsource their data to a third party only if they trust their data are not accessible and visible to the service provider and other non-authorized parties. However, one of the major obstacles faced here for ensuring data reliability and security is Byzantine faults. While Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) has received growing attention from the academic research community, the research done is generally from the distributed computing point of view, and hence finds little practical use in cloud computing. To that end, the focus of this paper is to discuss how these faults can be tolerated with the authors' proposed conceptualization of Byzantine data faults and fault-tolerant architecture in cloud data management.

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