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Statistics in Austria show a significantly higher unemployment rate of people with migration background compared to those without such a background. This situation is further aggravated by the increased application of modern technologies that replace jobs with automated systems. People with migration background in Austria tend to have a lower qualification and corresponding jobs that are in higher...
Robotics is considered to be a powerful tool for teaching STEM especially when employing white-box platforms to build and program robots. In this context, programming environments should be simple and understandable for increasing the learning success and for easing the entry for teachers with non-informatics background. Furthermore, many robotics applications can also benefit from flexibility in...
Robots are getting increasingly sophisticated and complex and need more simple and intuitive ways for supervision and programming. Simultaneously, smartphones are becoming more innovative, are easier to use and equipped with features and accessories that are capable of offering easier robot control and enhancing user experience. This facilitates a broad range of possibilities for programming, supervision,...
Mobile robots get increasingly important in the implementation of adaptive production systems. In order to gain the most benefit from mobile robots they need at the one hand efficiently cooperate with the overall production system and on the other hand provide their functionality (e.g., pick and place of parts) fast and with a high precision. Semantic enhanced multi-agent systems have proven to serve...
Mobile robots can be used as a motivating and interesting tool to perform laboratory experiments within the context of mechatronics, microelectronics and control. Considering the disassembly as a vital and prospective industry domain, we use the mobile robots to automate the disassembly process. In our system, each mobile robot has particular skills and is supervised by an agent with related objectives...
This paper presents a decentralized approach for the local reconfiguration of control software, which is based on a multiagent system with ontology-driven reasoning. We apply this approach to a transportation system and demonstrate improvements on efficiency, fault tolerance and stability with several experiments. One key element to achieve these results is the use of ontologies to ensure the consistency...
Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology for improving flexibility and agility in a complex manufacturing environment. In such systems, an ontology is a crucial element for knowledge representation of the external environment or the agent's domain of application as well as for ensuring interoperability between agents. The agent's decision component uses this world representation...
To succeed on the ever-changing conditions on the global market, companies are required to rely on flexible production systems. This applies to numerous domains including batch process automation that relies on flexible multipurpose facilities. In this paper we introduce an agent-based approach for batch process automation showing an architecture for a multi-agent system that provides such flexibility...
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