Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) manage critical infrastructures by controlling the
processes based on the “physics” data gathered by edge sensor networks. Recent …

The groundbreaking transformations triggered by the Industry 4.0 paradigm have
dramatically reshaped the requirements for control and communication systems within the …

The industrial communication market is dominated by Ethernet-based fieldbus systems.
Although they share similar requirements and market segments, their implementations and …

Image auto-annotation is an important open problem in computer vision. For this task we
propose TagProp, a discriminatively trained nearest neighbor model. Tags of test images …

OPC UA is a client-server communication protocol for industrial use cases without hard
realtime requirements. The new PubSub extension of OPC UA adds the possibility of many …

Wireless networks are ever more deployed in the industrial control scenario, thanks to the
numerous benefits they can bring, especially in terms of costs and flexibility. However, some …

Ethernet is emerging as the preferred industrial communication platform upon which a
multitude of protocols and solutions specially targeted at industrial communication …

Setting up real-time hardware communication for applications such as precise motion
control can be time consuming and confusing. Therefore, this tutorial introduces the …

Communication networks have been traditionally employed in motion control applications,
especially within factory automation systems. While in the past they were merely used to …

The Ethernet standard is a standard solution for interconnecting industrial devices despite its
intrinsic drawbacks, particularly its nondeterministic medium access method. Many Ethernet …