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Traditional methods of system verification call for the repeated exercise of that system in its intended environment to give confidence that it will operate as designed. Autonomous systems, however, are systems designed for sophisticated operation in stochastic environments that specifically handle the unexpected; testing all possible operational scenarios for such systems is intractably complex....
In the modern industry, human-robot collaboration is becoming more and more important. With the quick development of the small production, the demand of flexibility is growing heavily. Gesture recognition is important for the collaborative work of humans and robots. In industrial applications, the performance of such systems affects the safety of human workers and their manufacturing efficiency. In...
The decisional capability of robotic systems has expended significantly in recent years. Their validation typically implies expensive and laborious test campaigns in the field. Part of the validation could use simulation means, but there is currently no systematic method to test robots in virtual worlds. This work aims to provide such a method. We discuss the challenges regarding the definition of...
CPS engineers need to possess both technical and social skills to run CPS-engineering projects successfully. Especially social skills are crucial as the project fails are mostly caused because of lacking social skills of project members. Besides strong social skills, CPS engineers need to have a wide range of various technical skills as the products they deal with are getting increasingly complex...
With ever-increasing productivity targets in mining operations, there is a growing interest in mining automation. In future mines, remote controlled and autonomous haulers will operate underground guided by LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensors. We envision reusing LiDAR measurements to maintain accurate mine maps that would contribute to both safety and productivity. Extrapolating from a pilot...
The paper explores the features of functional modeling of the process of development of control and monitoring systems, using the example of the system of energy-saving control of technological objects.
In recent years, people's interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing. Systems with AI technology are developed to be applied to various fields. The study model to create AI whose function simulates a human's mind and feelings and the developments are in progress. We assume that it is impossible to express "human-like qualities" by algorithm for autonomous AI with learning...
The goal of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to transform any thing around us, such as a trash can or a street light, into a smart thing. A smart thing has the ability of sensing, processing, communicating and/or actuating. In order to achieve the goal of a smart IoT application, such as minimizing waste transportation costs or reducing energy consumption, the smart things in the application scenario...
The ability to navigate in diverse and previously unknown environments is a critical service of autonomous robots. The validation of the navigation software typically involves test campaigns in the field, which are costly and potentially risky for the robot itself or its environment. An alternative approach is to perform simulation-based testing, by immersing the software in virtual worlds. A question...
Heterogeneity of current software solutions for 5G is heading for complex and costly situations, with high fragmentation, which in turn creates uncertainty and the risk of delaying 5G innovations. This context motivated the definition of a novel Operating Platform for 5G (5G-OP), a unifying reference functional framework supporting end-to-end and multi-layer orchestration. 5G-OP aims at integrated...
The ongoing miniaturization in micro- and nanotechnology requires multi-physical characterization methods on the same small scale as the materials and components are. Although many characterizations systems exist, only few approaches allow to gather several different types of information collaboratively. Furthermore, functional building blocks and devices working on the nanoscale, have to be characterized...
In order to further expand the sustainability of maritime operations the use of autonomous vehicles has been employed at an increasing scale. This natural increase comes not only in the form of the multiplication of the numbers of the same vehicle model, but also in diversifying the vehicle composition setup in order to allow the exploitation of different types of payloads. Moreover, this use of heterogeneous...
A substantial part of rehabilitation tools are developed in the context of research projects, which rarely reach their target audience, in particular clinicians and patients. To address this challenge, the Open Rehab Initiative (ORI) emerged as an international independent online portal with the goal of connecting clinicians, scientists, engineers, game developers, and end-users to interact and share...
This paper describes the development of "Protoboy", an educational and fun alternative that applies aspects of Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) and gamification in order to motivate students during their education to gain knowledge about logic and computer programming. The software prototype built allows providing programming concepts and challenges that are fun and intuitive. The tests...
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) have made it possible for today's society to innovate and facilitate various areas of knowledge. With the advent of this evolution, interdisciplinarity arises between the areas of knowledge, which contribute to the evolution of technologies. In this aspect, the present work proposes to bring together the interdisciplinarity of computing...
In this paper we present the use of linear programming to systematically create control software for choreographed UAVs. This application requires the control of multiple UAVs where each UAV follows a predefined trajectory while simultaneously maintaining safety properties, such as keeping a safe distance between each other and geofencing. Modeling and incorporating safety requirements into the movement...
Vision is one of the most important senses that helps people interact with the real world. Commonly visually impaired develop their other senses to feel their surroundings, but in certain cases, this is not enough. The senses can be disturbed by noise or illness. For this reason, many artifacts have been developed to help this group of people. Artifacts such as white canes or guide dogs help sightless...
This article describes the development of a Distributed Manufacturing Systems (DMS) simulation platform. Current technological environments leave no space to faulty and un-optimized manufacturing processes. Being able to prevent these processes is crucial to keep manufacturing systems up-to-date and running smoothly. To ensure it, one can use a variety of methods, such as simulation. The simulation...
Traditionally, domestic water pump assembly is often carried out manually using dedicated fixed systems. These are inflexible, have long manufacturing lead time and can lead to capital bottlenecks. One way of introducing flexibility is by incorporating robots. Background literature suggested that there has been limited work on the use of flexible robot-based assembly applications. But they all required...
Dynamic Software Product Line (DSPLs) based Systems are capable of adapting inresponse to changes concerning their observations at runtime in order toexhibit appropriate behavior. The observation space and the variability in theconfiguration space is usually known at design time. However, running a set oftests with all combinations of configuration and observation from these spacesis likely to be...
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