Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistic transport
systems in today's industry. They are used on a large scale, especially in Europe, for over a …

Numerous path-planning studies have been conducted in past decades due to the
challenges of obtaining optimal solutions. This paper reviews multi-robot path-planning …

Robotic applications nowadays are widely adopted to enhance operational automation and
performance of real-world Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) including Industry 4.0 …

This paper presents a hybrid evolutionary algorithm, cultural-particle swarm optimization (C-
PSO), which is inspired by the cultural algorithm and the particle swarm optimization …

The Internet of Intelligence is conceived as an emerging networking paradigm, which will
make intelligence as easy to obtain as information. This paper provides an overview of the …

Purpose In the digitalization era, supply chain processes and activities have changed
entirely, and smart technology impacts each sustainable supply chain movement. The …

Goal: The purpose of this study is to analyze how the elements of industry 4.0 relate to
Supply Chain Management (SCM) by identifying mechanisms that promote or include these …

This paper proposes a new concept in which a digital twin derived from a digital product
description will automatically perform assembly planning and orchestrate the production …

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are now very often used as basic equipment in
transportation systems. The efficiency of such systems depends on many factors. One of the …

At the operational level of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), several research works
have developed solutions not fully realizable considering the operational constraints, which …