This paper presents a sampling of research in design of engineering systems in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recent activity in design principles for actively controlled and autonomous systems, normative decision based design theory and methodology, and bio-inspired compliant mechanisms and soft robotics is pre...

Many recent studies have been reported on the photodegradation of the organic compounds in industrial wastewater in the presence of TiO2 semiconductor as photocatalyst. Heterogeneous photocatalysts using Iron as a dopant metal, so far, have been reported for various environmental applications. This paper highlights the recent advances and applications of Fe-TiO2 photocatalysis for the degradati...

Industrial systems, like aircrafts or cars, are based on real-time distributed networks and require high level of robustness, reliability and adaptability. This paper first introduces our approach to implement a distributed monitor of real-time properties, and then introduce a new formalism, adaptive Petri nets, that will allow to model such complex, distributed and realtime systems. Keywords—D...

Industry 4.0 is a promising solution for the management of manufacturing processes, due to its potential to increase both energy saving and optimized production. Within this context, in this paper we propose the use of automated connected vehicles fleets for the autonomous handling of products among workstations in manufacturing processes. Numerical results confirm its effectiveness w.r.t a typ...

| The paper describes an approach to include vision control and neural networks in the assembly process of Surface Mounted Devices (SMD). The need of vision feedback is due to the decreasing size of SMD. The proposed approach includes image processing, estimation of positioning error by a neural network, and geometrical computations. The hardware implementation to achieve real time constraints ...

This study aims to design analog-to-digital converter based on successive approximations (SAR ADC), with very low power consumption, in an advanced CMOS technology (28 nm), following the industrial methodologies IC. This project was conducted in partnership with Synopsys, operating at a supply voltage of 0.5 V ± 10% with a resolution of 12 bits and 500 kS/s sampling frequency. Keywords— Analog-...

Manually assigned keywords provide a valuable means for accessing large document collections. They can serve as a shallow document summary and enable more efficient retrieval and aggregation of information. In this paper we investigate keywords in the context of the Dutch Folktale Database, a large collection of stories including fairy tales, jokes and urban legends. We carry out a quantitative...

Computer programming today is far too dependent on one particular natural language, namely English. Mathematics is not dependent on English, and programming should not be, either. In order to eliminate the dependence of programming on English, we have constructed a programming language in which the keywords are replaced by symbols available on standard keyboards. Each of these symbols is chosen...