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Today's research projects propose a modular manufacturing environment for production sites, which adapt itself autonomously and makes manufacturing decisions without human interaction. Therefore, it is necessary that the next generations of production lines, especially the intralogistics transportation systems, are designed more adaptable and flexible. The object in this paper is a cyber-physical...
This work presents the major characteristics and lessons learned by the development and prototype implementation of an event-oriented and cloud-based SCADA system that is constructed using a microservice architecture. The microservices are then utilized to propose an approach for implementing product-driven production systems under the RAMI4.0 specification.
Synchronous Dataflow (SDF), a popular subset of the dataflow programming paradigm, gives a well structured formalism to capture signal and stream processing applications. With data-parallel architectures becoming ubiquitous, several frameworks leverage the SDF formalism to map applications to parallel architectures. But, these frameworks assume that the Synchronous Dataflow graphs (SDFGs) under consideration...
We present in this paper a security analysis of electronic devices which considers the lifecycle properties of embedded systems. We first define a generic model of electronic devices lifecycle showing the complex interactions between the numerous assets and the actors. The method is illustrated through a case study: a connected insulin pump. The lifecycle induced vulnerabilities are analyzed using...
We use the Hierarchical and Distributed Cognitive Radio Architecture Management (HDCRAM) inherited form cognitive radio as a generic framework for smart grid management. This architecture is an efficient tool which can be used for the design of decision making algorithms in complex systems. We apply this architecture on the smart grid and we identify both intelligent entities and communication networks...
The European innovation project PERFoRM (Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery) is aiming for a harmonized integration of research results in the area of flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems. Based on the cyber-physical system (CPS) paradigm, existing technologies and concepts are researched and integrated in an architecture which is enabling the application...
The world is moving towards to the fourth industrial revolution, usually linked with the Industrie 4.0 initiative, enables the digitization of manufacturing factories by using Cyber-Physical Systems and emergent technologies like Internet of Things and Internet of Services. The seamless reconfiguration of these complex industrial cyber-physical systems is an important challenge for the complete implementation...
The industrial world is currently undergoing changes due to increasing digitalization and computerization in companies (Industry 4.0). Existing control and management components and systems located within the upper layers of an enterprise's structure are connected to the shop floor. With the current paradigm shift in manufacturing, the need for more collaboration between personnel with different fields...
Although that Cloud infrastructures are nowadays available, there is a lack ofadoption by companies. While big companies with large computing devisionsadopted the Cloud paradigm, small and midsize enterprises (SME) with a limitednumber of computer experts were scared by the complexity of the technology and by the huge investement to move to Cloud. But even for SMEs, the migration to Cloud infrastructure...
High-performance computing (HPC) systems are increasingly being used for data-intensive, or "Big Data", workloads. However, since traditional HPC workloads are compute-intensive, the HPC-Big Data convergence has created many challenges with optimizing data movement and processing on modern supercomputers. Our collaborative work addresses these challenges using a three-pronged approach: (i)...
The power production from a photovoltaic module depends on environmental factors such as radiation, air temperature, wind speed and direction and relative humidity. This study aimed to predict some atmospheric indicators which may affect upon the power production from a single axis (East-West) tracking PV module by using Artificial Neural Network architecture. The novelty side of this research is...
In the last few years, the strong decentralization of energy production, fostered by the adoption of small renewable energy plants directly connected to the grid, has been placing the end user at the center of the electrical system management. Indeed, the end user has become at the same time producer and consumer of electricity. In addition, groups of end users are encouraged to form the so-called...
Regarding current Oil&Gas production places, an important challenge is to deal with the increasing complexity of shop floor level data on existing production processes and, beyond that, allowing their possible vertical integration. In order to reach this goal, an integration of smart cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) into the automation production systems could be a solution. In the last...
The platform we're proposing will be the main actor of the upcoming paradigm shift from representative governance to self governance, the architecture, functionality and interface of the platform was modelled after the human anatomy. Human decision making efficiency is dependent upon the governance system of the deciding agents and the roles they play. Aligning the context in which a decision impacting...
We present an original concept for patch generation: we propose to do it directly in production. Our idea is to generate patches on-the-fly based on automated analysis of the failure context. By doing this in production, the repair process has complete access to the system state at the point of failure. We propose to perform live regression testing of the generated patches directly on the production...
Growing concerns about increasing world population and limited food resources have been leading researchers to utilize advanced computing technology to improve the efficiency of agricultural fields. Computing technology is expected to increase the productivity, contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between environmental factors and healthy crops, reduce the labor costs for farmers...
The increment of distributed energy resources such as small photovoltaic plants or microcogeneration systems, together with the increase of electric vehicles connected to the grid, is bringing new challenges to distribution system operators (DSOs). In order to support DSOs to face such new challenges, this paper proposes a new solution based on a framework for the implementation of substation automation...
Cyber-physical Production Systems (CPPS) are one of the technical driving forces behind the transformation of industrial production towards "digital factory of the future" in the context of Industry 4.0. Security is a major concern for such systems as they become more intelligent, interconnected, and coupled with physical devices. For various security activities from security analysis to...
Anthropocentrism is an innate socio-cultural trait of human behavior, which influences our everyday activities and social interactions. For this reason, it is reasonable to assume that anthropocentrism also influences software design. We define anthropocentrism in software design as viewing and interpreting every software design aspect in terms of human experience and values. This phenomenon becomes...
The Catapult project has brought the power and performance of FPGA-based reconfigurable computing to Microsoft’s hyperscale datacenters, accelerating major production cloud applications such as Bing web search and Microsoft Azure, and enabling a new generation of machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Catapult is now deployed in nearly every new server across the more than a million...
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