Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Advanced Topics in Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing

Code

9083

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica

Credits

6.0

Teacher in charge

Luís Manuel Camarinha de Matos

Weekly hours

1

Total hours

45

Teaching language

Português

Subject matter

Unit 1: Agile and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

  • Motivation and determining factors
  • Architectures
  • Current challenges

Unit 2: Agent Based Manufacturing

  • Revision of MAS concepts
  • SoA of MAS applied to Manufacturing

Unit 3: Intelligent Supervision and Self-healing systems

  • Execution supervision and system supervision
  • Machine learning
  • Self-healing systems

Unit 4: Collaborative networks of machines and sensors

  • Principles of collaborative networks
  • Examples of collaborating machines
  • Sensor networks

Unit 5: Self-Organization and Emergence to Support Evolvable Production Systems

  • Bio-inspired mechanisms
  • Self-organization and Emergence
  • Current solutions and challenges

Unit 6: Autonomous intelligent robots

  • Modeling approaches
  • Service robots

Unit 7: Human-machine interaction

  • Ergonomic aspects
  • Balanced automation systems
  • Human-machine interface
  • Virtual reality and extended reality
  • Affective computing

Bibliography

Unit 1: Agile and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

-          Babiceanu, R.F., & Chen, F.F. (2006). Development and Applications of Holonic Manufacturing Systems: A Survey. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 17(1), 111-131.

-          Barata, J. (2005). Coalition Based Approach For ShopFloor Agility. Edições  Orion, Amadora - Lisboa.

-          ElMaraghy, H.A. (2006). Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Paradigms. International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems 17(4), 261-276.

-          Bi, Z.M., Lang, S.Y.T., Shen, W., & Wang, L. (2008). Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: the state of the art. International Journal of Production research 46(4), 967-992.

 

Unit 2: Agent Based Manufacturing

-          Barata, J. (2005). Coalition Based Approach For ShopFloor Agility. Edições  Orion, Amadora - Lisboa.

-          Monostori, L., Váncza, J., & Kumara, S.R.T. (2006). Agent-Based Systems for Manufacturing. CIRP Annals 55(2).

-          Olsen, S., Wang, J., Ramirez-Serrano, A., & Brennan, R.W. (2005). Contingencies-based reconfiguration of distributed factory automation. Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing 21, 379-390.

-          Jammes, F., & Smit, H. (2005). Service-oriented paradigms in industrial automation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 1(1), 62-70.

  

Unit 3: Intelligent Supervision and Self-healing systems

-          Amin, M. (2001).Toward self-healing energy infrastructure systems. Computer Applications in Power, IEEE, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, pp 20-28.

-          Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (2008). Intelligent Supervision – course notes, UNL.

 

Unit 4: Collaborative networks of machines and sensors

-          Akyildiz, I. F.; Su, W.; Sankarasubramaniam, Y.; Cayirci, E. (2002).A Survey on Sensor Networks. IEEE Communications Magazine • August 2002, pp 102-114.

-          Kitano, H.; Asada, M.; Kuniyoshi, Y.; Noda, I.; Osawa, E. (1997).RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative. Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents, Marina del Rey, California, USA, Pages: 340 – 347.

-          Camarinha-Matos, L. M. (2008). Advances in collaborative networked organizations. Proceedings of BASYS’08, 23-25 Jun 08, Porto, Portugal,  Innovation in Manufacturing Networks (A. Azevedo, Ed.), Springer, pp. 3-16.

-          Dekkers, R. (2009). A Co-evolutionary Perspective on Distributed Manufacturing. In “Distributed Manufacturing - Paradigm, Concepts, Solutions and Examples” (H. Kühnle, Editor), Springer.

 

Unit 5: Self-Organization and Emergence to Support Evolvable Production Systems

-          Pfeifer, R., Lungarella, M., & Iida, F. (2007). Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics. Science 318, 1088-1093.

-          Kari, L., & Rozenberg, G. (2008). The Many Facets of Natural Computing. Communications of the ACM 51(10), 72-83.

-          Tharumarajah, A. (2003). A Self-organising View of Manufacturing Enterprises. Computers in Industry 51(2), 185-196.

-          Deguet, J., L. Magnin, et al. (2007). "Emergence and Software development Based on a Survey of Emergence Definitions." Studies in Computational Intelligence 56: 13-21.

-          De Wolf, T. (2007). Analysing and Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Applications. Computer Science Department, Kath. Univ. Leuven. PhD Thesis.

 

Unit 6: Autonomous intelligent robots

-          Brooks, R. (2008). I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot. IEEE Spectrum 45(6): 68-71

-          GM., Edelman.  2007.  Learning in and from brain-based devices. Science.318(5853):1103-5.

-          Franceschini, N., Ruffier, F. & Serres, J. (2007). A Bio-Inspired Flying Robot Sheds Light on Insect Piloting Abilities. Current Biology 17(4): 329-335

-          Pfeifer, R., Lungarella, M., & Iida, F. (2007). Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics. Science 318, 1088-1093.

-          Kari, L., & Rozenberg, G. (2008). The Many Facets of Natural Computing. Communications of the ACM 51(10), 72-83.

-          Pfeifer, R., & Scheier, C. (2001). Understanding intelligence. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

-          Roy, N.; Baltus, G.; Fox, D.; Gemperle, F.; Goetz, J.;  Hirsch, T.; Margaritis, D.; Montemerlo, M.; Pineau, J.; Schulte, J.; Thrun,. S. (2000). Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly. Workshop on Interactive Robots and Entertainment (WIRE). Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Unit 7: Human-machine interaction

-     Kennedy, P., Andreasen, D., Ehirim, P., King, B., Kirby, T., Mao, H. & Moore, M.(2004). Using human extra-cortical local field potentials to control switch. J Neural Eng 1(2): 72-7.

-     Mikhail A. Lebedev, Miguel A.L. Nicolelis.  2006.  Brain–machine interfaces: past, present and future. Trends in Neurosciences . 29(9).

-     Picard, R. W.  (2003). Affective computing: challenges. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 59, Issues 1-2, July 2003, Pages 55-64.

-     Pantic, M.; Pentland, A.; Nijholt, A.; Huang, T.S. (2007). Human Computing and Machine Understanding of Human Behavior: A Survey. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4451/2007, pp 47-71.

-     Fong, T.; Nourbakhsh, I.; Dautenhahn, K. (2003). A survey of socially interactive robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 42, Issues 3-4, pp 143-166.

  

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