Total Vehicle Technology

Total Vehicle Technology
Author: Peter R. N. Childs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001-11-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781860583247

Streamline technological integration with updated design The automotive industry is consistently confronted with new challenges in design and manufacturing. Total Vehicle Technology: Challenging Current Thinking highlights the ways in which current methods are evolving in the face of new technology, new legislation, and new consumer demands. Integrating the latest technology into new designs requires consideration of cost, comfort, safety, environmental effects, and more; this book offers real-world solutions based on both new and established practices to provide insight for forward-looking automotive engineers.

Advances in Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation

Advances in Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation
Author: Vassil Sgurev
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2021-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030781240

This book represents the experience of successful researchers from four continents on a broad range of intelligent systems, and it hints how to avoid anticipated conflicts and problems during multidisciplinary innovative research from Industry 4.0 and/or Internet of Things through modern machine learning, and software agent applications to open data science big data/advance analytics/visual analytics/text mining/web mining/knowledge discovery/deep data mining issues. The considered intelligent part is essential in most smart/control systems, cyber security, bioinformatics, virtual reality, robotics, mathematical modelling projects, and its significance rapidly increases in other technologies. Theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, mathematical and non-classical logic also are rapidly developing.

Intelligent Systems and Applications

Intelligent Systems and Applications
Author: Kohei Arai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030551903

The book Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2020 Intelligent Systems Conference is a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wider range of topics in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and their applications to the real world. The Conference attracted a total of 545 submissions from many academic pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, students from all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer review process. Of those 545 submissions, 177 submissions have been selected to be included in these proceedings. As intelligent systems continue to replace and sometimes outperform human intelligence in decision-making processes, they have enabled a larger number of problems to be tackled more effectively.This branching out of computational intelligence in several directions and use of intelligent systems in everyday applications have created the need for such an international conference which serves as a venue to report on up-to-the-minute innovations and developments. This book collects both theory and application based chapters on all aspects of artificial intelligence, from classical to intelligent scope. We hope that readers find the volume interesting and valuable; it provides the state of the art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real world problems along with a vision of the future research.

Intelligent Systems and Applications

Intelligent Systems and Applications
Author: Yaxin Bi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1327
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030295133

The book presents a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics in the areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence, and their real-world applications. It gathers the proceedings of the Intelligent Systems Conference 2019, which attracted a total of 546 submissions from pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer-review process, after which 190 were selected for inclusion in these proceedings. As intelligent systems continue to replace and sometimes outperform human intelligence in decision-making processes, they have made it possible to tackle a host of problems more effectively. This branching out of computational intelligence in several directions and use of intelligent systems in everyday applications have created the need for an international conference as a venue for reporting on the latest innovations and trends. This book collects both theory and application based chapters on virtually all aspects of artificial intelligence; presenting state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems, along with a vision for future research, it represents a unique and valuable asset.

Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Author: Honghai Liu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2015-08-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319228765

This three volume set LNAI 9244, 9245, and 9246 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2015, held in Portsmouth, UK, in August 2015. The 61 papers included in the second volume are organized in topical sections on man-machine interaction; robot design, development and control; navigation and planning; robot motion analysis and planning; medical robot; prototyping; and manufacturing.

Innovations in Materials Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Environmental Safety

Innovations in Materials Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Environmental Safety
Author: Mel Schwartz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420082167

When people make a call on a cellphone, drive a car, or turn on a computer, few truly appreciate the innovations in material selection, technology, and fabrication that were required to make it all possible. Innovations in Materials Manufacturing, Fabrication, and Environmental Safety explores expected developments in analysis, design, testing, and

Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing

Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Author: Vladimír Mařík
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2011-08-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642231802

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2011, held in Toulouse, France, August 29-31, 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on industrial agents, simulation and modelling, planning and scheduling, smart technical systems, and MAS for unmanned aerial vehicles.

Distributed Intelligence Systems 1991

Distributed Intelligence Systems 1991
Author: International Federation of Automatic Control
Publisher: Pergamon
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1992-04-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Containing 41 papers, this volume focuses on recent advances in the field of intelligent systems.

Intelligent Production Machines and Systems - 2nd I*PROMS Virtual International Conference 3-14 July 2006

Intelligent Production Machines and Systems - 2nd I*PROMS Virtual International Conference 3-14 July 2006
Author: Duc T. Pham
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080556345

I*PROMS 2005 is an online web-based conference. It provides a platform for presenting, discussing, and disseminating research results contributed by scientists and industrial practitioners active in the area of intelligent systems and soft computing techniques (such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and knowledge-based systems) and their application in different areas of manufacturing. Comprised of 100 peer-reviewed articles, this important resource provides tools to help enterprises achieve goals critical to the future of manufacturing.I*PROMS is an European Union-funded network that involves 30 partner organizations and more than 130 researchers from universities, research organizations, and corporations.* State-of-the-art research results * Leading European researchers and industrial practitioners * Comprehensive collection of indexed and peer-reviewed articles in book format supported by a user-friendly full-text CD-ROM with search functionality

The Digital Shopfloor- Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era

The Digital Shopfloor- Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era
Author: John Soldatos
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000795047

In today’s competitive global environment, manufacturers are offered with unprecedented opportunities to build hyper-efficient and highly flexible plants, towards meeting variable market demand, while at the same time supporting new production models such as make-to-order (MTO), configure-to-order (CTO) and engineer-to-order (ETO). During the last couple of years, the digital transformation of industrial processes is propelled by the emergence and rise of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry4.0). The latter is based on the extensive deployment of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies in the manufacturing shopfloor, as well as on the seamless and timely exchange of digital information across supply chain participants. The benefits of Industry 4.0 have been already proven in the scope of pilot and production deployments in a number of different use cases including flexibility in automation, predictive maintenance, zero defect manufacturing and more. Despite early implementations and proof-of-concepts, CPPS/IIoT deployments are still in their infancy for a number of reasons, including:• Manufacturers’ poor awareness about digital manufacturing solutions and their business value potential, as well as the lack of relevant internal CPPS/IIoT knowledge.• The high costs that are associated with the deployment, maintenance and operation of CPPS systems in the manufacturing shopfloors, which are particularly challenging in the case of SME (Small Medium Enterprises) manufacturers that lack the equity capital needed to invest in Industry 4.0.• The time needed to implement CPPS/IIoT and the lack of a smooth and proven migration path from existing OT solutions.• The uncertainty over the business benefits and impacts of IIoT and CPPS technologies, including the lack of proven methods for the techno-economic evaluation of Industry4.0 systems. • Manufacturers’ increased reliance on external integrators, consultants and vendors. • The absence of a well-developed value chain needed to sustain the acceptance of these new technologies for digital automation.In order to alleviate these challenges, three European Commission funded projects (namely H2020 FAR-EDGE (http://www.far-edge.eu/), H2020 DAEDALUS (http://daedalus.iec61499.eu) and H2020 AUTOWARE (http://www.autoware-eu.org/)) have recently joined forces towards a “Digital Shopfloor Alliance”. The Alliance aims at providing leading edge and standards based digital automation solutions, along with guidelines and blueprints for their effective deployment, validation and evaluation. The present book provides a comprehensive description of some of the most representative solutions that offered by these three projects, along with the ways these solutions can be combined in order to achieve multiplier effects and maximize the benefits of their use. The presented solutions include standards-based digital automation solutions, following different deployment paradigms, such as cloud and edge computing systems. Moreover, they also comprise a rich set of digital simulation solutions, which are explored in conjunction with the H2020 MAYA project (http://www.maya-euproject.com/). The latter facilitate the testing and evaluation of what-if scenarios at low risk and cost, but also without disrupting shopfloor operations. As already outlined, beyond leading edge scientific and technological development solutions, the book comprises a rich set of complementary assets that are indispensable to the successful adoption of IIoT/CPPS in the shopfloor. The book is structured in three parts as follows: • The first part of the book is devoted to digital automation platforms. Following an introduction to Industry 4.0 in general and digital automation platforms in particular, this part presents the digital automation platforms of the FAR-EDGE, AUTOWARE and DAEDALUS projects. • The second part of the book focuses on the presentation of digital simulation and digital twins’ functionalities. These include information about the models that underpin digital twins, as well as the simulators that enable experimentation with these processes over these digital models. • The third part of the book provides information about complementary assets and supporting services that boost the adoption of digital automation functionalities in the Industry4.0 era. Training services, migration services and ecosystem building services are discussed based on the results of the three projects of the Digital Shopfloor Alliance. The target audience of the book includes:• Researchers in the areas of Digital Manufacturing and more specifically in the areas of digital automation and simulation, who wish to be updated about latest Industry4.0 developments in these areas.• Manufacturers, with an interest in the next generation of digital automation solutions based on Cyber-Physical systems.• Practitioners and providers of Industrial IoT solutions, which are interested in the implementation of use cases in automation, simulation and supply chain management.• Managers wishing to understand technologies and solutions that underpin Industry4.0, along with representative applications in the shopfloor and across the supply chain.