Reconfigurable manufacturing systems offer quick adjustment of production capacity and functionality in response to unpredictable market changes as being systems designed at the outset for rapid change in system configuration, its machines and controls. During the production process, out-of-ordinary events occur dynamically and unpredictably both at the system (machine breakdowns, change in job...

The manufacturing industry is distinguished by regionalization and individualization of products accompanied by varying customer demands, faster time to market, short innovation cycles and product life cycles. The introduction of new materials, new processes as well as struggle to achieve economic and efficient use of resources has raised complexities to achieve quick and optimal configuration ...

Dynamic materials have been widely studied for regulation of cell adhesion that is important to a variety of biological and biomedical applications. These materials can undergo changes mainly through one of the two mechanisms: ligand release in response to chemical, physical, or biological stimuli, and ligand burial in response to mechanical stretching or the change of electrical potential. Thi...

Sustainability should be supported by modern software engineering methods to guarantee reliability of the running systems. Dynamic reconfiguration is an important technology implementing the sustainability goal. However, building dynamic reconfigurable software system cost-effectively and in a predictable manner is a major engineering challenge. Aiming at solving this problem, this paper combin...

This paper provides a tutorial introduction to reconfigurable control and surveys recent advances on this topic. Control reconfiguration is an important method of fault-tolerant control that uses the results of a fault diagnosis component to restructure the control loop and to adapt the controller to the faulty plant. This paper describes recent approaches that are suitable for on-line applicat...

Fig. 6 One-step reconfiguration by copying the states and doing structural modifications13 Fig. 7 Activity diagram of the RM for the one-step reconfiguration from mode 1 to 2, when the GSC does a synchronous reconfiguration.. Fig. 8 Activity diagram of the RM for the one-step reconfiguration from mode 2 to 1, when the GSC does a asynchronous reconfiguration .. Fig. 9 Activity diagram of the RM ...

Network reconfiguration is an operation to modify the network topology. The implementation of network reconfiguration has many advantages such as loss minimization, increasing system security and others. In this paper, two topics about the network reconfiguration in distribution system are briefly described. The first topic summarizes its impacts while the second explains some heuristic optimiz...