Governments around the world are investing significant resources in the development of logistics clusters. This paper develops a methodology for identifying them and applies it to answer several lingering questions in the context of the US. It contributes to a more general debate in the general industrial clusters literature: while many authors see industrial clusters growing, others see them d...

This letter gives an overview of classical iterative learning control algorithms. The presented algorithms are also evaluated on a commercial industrial robot from ABB. The presentation covers implicit to explicit model-based algorithms. The result from the evaluation of the algorithms is that performance can be achieved by having more system knowledge.

The article aims to investigate the presence of a correlation between eco-innovation and economic performance within industrial districts. The case analyzed in this article is based on a study concerning a sample of 54 Italian industrial clusters entitled "Eco-Districts" that has compiled a list of the most eco-efficient districts at the national level. After selecting two districts, this study...

This paper explores the determinants of export performance at the level of firms in respect of their characteristics and supply side constraints. The analysis is based on a survey of export-oriented firms in four major sectors. The results indicate a relationship between the better performance of foreign-owned firms to their better know-how and resources compared to the domestically owned firms...

The autonomous mobile robot was designed and implemented which was capable of navigating in the industrial environments and did a job of picking objects from variable height and delivering it to another location following a predefined trajectory. In developing country like Bangladesh industrial robotics is not very prevalent yet, due to the high installation cost. The objective of this project ...

In this paper, a finishing system with a mounted abrasive tool is proposed for finishing of metallic molds. The shape of the mounted abrasive tool is a ball-end type. When a metallic mold with curved surface is polished, the orientation of the mounted abrasive tool is not only fixed but also its revolution is locked. The motion of the mounted abrasive tool is feedforwardly controlled based on a...

This paper presents results of our educational experiments aimed to raise awareness of freshmen engineering and senior high school students on the importance of spatial skills and develop strategies for spatial learning through practice of remote operation and programming robot systems in automated manufacturing labs. In the first experiment senior high school students performed two assignments...

Developing circular economy is an important consideration for economic transformation. The resource-exhausted cities should pay more attention to circular economy development. The authors of this paper make a prompt attempt to develop an early warning system of circular economy through the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. In the first instance, the model determines the target value of circular e...

A compact model of torque disturbances in the brushless motors of an industrial manipulator is discussed and algorithms are given for the identification of model parameters. Thanks to its compactness, the model allows the implementation of a straightforward and effective technique for disturbance compensation. The compensation is adaptive as estimates of the parameters of the model are updated ...