There is a resurgence of interest in robot manipulation as researchers seek to push autonomous manipulation out of controlled laboratory settings and into real-world applications such as health care, generalized factory automation, domestic assistance, and space exploration. This workshop facilitated progress towards these goals by focusing on autonomous robot manipulation and the requisite sen...

The radio-based wireless data communication has made the realization of new technical solutions possible in many fields of the automation technology (AT). For about ten years, a constant disproportionate growth of wireless technologies can be observed in the automation technology. However, it shows that especially for the AT, conventional technologies of office automation are unsuitable and/or ...

New automation equipment containing mechanics, electronics and ICT are often complex, where new digitalization tools can increase the development speed quality. Here digital twins virtual commissioning play an important role in design, test phases. This paper introduces a structured approach for combining modelling, simulation, before physical implementation. The project is collaboration with S...

The factory of the future is the Wireless Factory fully programmable, nimble and adaptive to planned mode changes and unplanned faults. Today automotive assembly lines loose over $22,000 per minute of downtime. The systems are rigid, difficult to maintain, operate and diagnose. Our goal is to demonstrate the initial architecture and protocols for all-wireless factory control automation. Embedde...

The factory of the future is the Wireless Factory fully programmable, nimble and adaptive to planned mode changes and unplanned faults. Today automotive assembly lines loose over $22,000 per minute of downtime. The systems are rigid, difficult to maintain, operate and diagnose. Our goal is to demonstrate the initial architecture and protocols for all-wireless factory control automation. Embedde...

Customers increasingly want to have individual products with costs comparable to mass-produced goods. For manufacturers this leads to small batches and many variants associated and a high productivity at the same time. Therefore future production systems must be adaptive, resource-efficient and user friendly. Such a smart factory is an intelligent socio-technical production system based on info...

World factory instrumentation protocol (WorldFIP) is a fieldbus network protocol that provides a link between level zero (sensors/actuators) and level one (field controllers such as programmable logic controllers, etc.) in industrial automation systems. Accessing and connecting the WorldFIP remotely is important for monitoring, maintaining, and controlling devices in a factory in which asynchro...

years, with many major enhancements and extensions being announced as we go to publication. For the manufacturer, this places enormous pressures in terms of limitations on capital investment, requirements for changed machine and factory configurations, and the need to minimize stock levels. So who would be a manufacturer? Well, on a positive side, the world economy each year consumes a greater ...

Networks in the area of factory automation, named field-buses, have been developed to fulfill real-time requirements. However, they can only cover areas such as factory halls or buildings. This paper describes a model for a internetworking unit connecting field-buses via ATM networks, in order to break these limits. A remote bridge is used to span longer distances between field-bus components i...