Abstract The manufacturing industry is exposed to various challenges: Increasing competition from companies abroad, the growing unpredictability and volatility of markets, rising customer demands forcing manufacturers be highly flexible offer low-cost products. Using simulation tools, productions systems can planned analyzed before deployment in field, reducing commissioning named avoiding cost...

Motivation The motivation for Rectangular Partitioning comes from my work. The application I help create has forms that can be designed by third parties, and it also has a layout engine that makes it easy to change the layout of a form based on the size of the form and its contents. The layout engine takes as it’s input a table of cells and their contents, along with attributes specifying how a...

The flexible manufacturing system (FMS) facility layout problem (FLP) involves the positioning of cells within a given area so as to minimize the material flow costs between cells. The FLP design includes specifying the spatial coordinates of each cell, the orientation of each cell in either a horizontal or vertical position, and the position of each cell’s pickup and dropoff points. The layout...

Executive Summary Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming more prevalent in digital systems and are used to implement a wide range of applications – from telecommunications switching systems to wireless interfaces. This project investigates the feasibility of a tool to automate the process of producing the transistor-level layout of an FPGA. This will reduce the design cycle time wh...

This article reviews basic servo systems and development of the fault-tolerant feedback systems for servo systems. Controller receiver circuit design, proper PC-board receiver circuit layout, and the encoder's signal cable and termination are discussed. Additionally, various types of industrial feedback encoders are presented, along with the various types of faults that can develop in a servo f...

The appearance model is an important issue in the visual tracking community. Most subspace-based appearance models focus on the time correlation between the image observations of the object, but the spatial layout information of the object is ignored. This paper proposes a robust appearance model for visual tracking which effectively combines the spatial and temporal eigen-spaces of the object ...

This paper analyzes the performance of a base station layout for a UMTS network in a densely populated city. The study is carried out using snapshot simulations of an actual city (Barcelona, Spain) with specific traffic and propagation profiles. A first layout is proposed in order to guarantee good coverage with a minimum number of base stations. This layout is approached taking into account th...