WORLD AUTOMATION CONGRESS Control and Automation Track

Marketing smart home products successfully

new solutions for intelligent homes at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and the Mobile World Congress (MWC). In the USA in particular, both the telecommunications giant AT&T with their "digital life" products and the start-up SmartThings are causing a stir. Both providers are banking on a trend that promises the greatest growth in the digital home segment over the next few year...

ISBN : CFP 12496 - PRT 978 - 1 - 4673 - 1397 - 1 2012 10 th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation ( WCICA 2012 ) Beijing , China 6 – 8 July 2012

"Assembly System 4.0": From workstation to assembly line design, from part logistics to information flow management for smart assembly systems in the Industry 4.0 era

The radical changes which distinguished the market during the last decade force to configure assembly systems as flexible assembly lines able to face demand fluctuation, high volumes and continuous customer driven development of new products. Thus, the optimal design and management of assembly systems is crucial to achieve production efficiency, product quality and customer satisfaction. A rema...

Sequence-of-Events-Driven Automation of the Deep Space Network

In February 1995, sequence-of-events (SOE)-driven automation technology was demonstrated for a Voyager telemetry downlink track at DSS 13. This demonstration entailed automated generation of an operations procedure (in the form of a temporal dependency network) from project SOE information using artificial intelligence planning technology and automated execution of the temporal dependency netwo...

A Marvelous Extended Transaction Processing Model

A key flaw in previous software development environment research is the lack of a transaction model supporting fault tolerance, concurrency control, consistent publication of changes and user control of commit and abort for software development activities. The atomicity properties of the classical transaction model make it unsuitable for industrial software development efforts. We sketch an ext...