Optimisation of factories, a cornerstone production engineering for the past half century, relies on formulating challenges with limited degrees freedom. In this paper, technological advances are reviewed to propose “daydreaming” framework factories that use their cognitive capacity looking into future or “foresighting”. Assessing and learning from possible eventualities enable breakthroughs ma...

Digitalisierung, Industrie 4.0, Smart Factories: Termini wie diese sind immer öfter in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen und Medienberichten präsent. Sie verdeutlichen, dass die heutige Arbeitswelt unmittelbar mit digitalen Veränderungen verknüpft wird. Häufig wird betont, wie tiefgreifend Digitalisierungsprozesse in gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Strukturen eingreifen und dass umfangreiche T...

. . . A lot of sensors nowadays are embedded in smart factories which generate massive real-time data about the functional conditions of the manufacturing equipments. Complex Event Processing(CEP) systems are involved to analyze continuous behavior of these machines, detect undesired patterns and give alerts in case of anomalies. In this thesis, we introduce an architectural design and concrete...

Ambient Intelligence aims to enhance the way people interact with their environment to promote safety and to enrich their lives. A Smart Home is one such system but the idea extends to hospitals, public transport, factories and other environments. The achievement of Ambient Intelligence largely depends on the technology deployed (sensors and devices interconnected through networks) as well as o...

A new generation of sensor rich, massively distributed, autonomous systems is being developed that has the potential for unprecedented performance, such as networks of smart buildings, reconfigurable factories, spacecraft constellations and remote earth ecosystem monitoring. To achieve high performance these immobile robots will need to use their sensors to accurately model themselves and their...

Reconstruction of skilled humans sensation and control system often leads to a development of robust control for the robots. We are developing an unscrewing robot for the automated disassembly which requires a comprehensive control system, but unscrewing experiments with robots are often limited to several conditions. On the contrary, humans typically have a broad range of screwing experiences ...

Ambient Intelligence is a multi-disciplinary approach which aims to enhance the way environments and people interact with each other. The ultimate goal of the area is to make the places we live and work in more beneficial to us. Smart Homes is one example of such systems but the idea can be also used in relation to hospitals, public transport, factories and other environments. The achievement o...

In smart connected factories, manufacturing machines are capable of generating vast amounts of process data generated internally from within its control systems or from sensors coupled with the process. This streaming data must be stored and queried to perform data analytics or closed loop control to improve manufacturing processes. Currently, structured data schemas are ineffective in handling...