This document surveys existing research in emergent concepts and technologies supporting
the establishment of what are expected to be future automation systems. Multiagent systems …

With the advent of the Internet and the progressive development and consolidation of a wide
range of web standards and technologies as well as the advances in distributed artificial …

To cope with the intense global competition that is characterized by high product variety and
short life cycles, manufacturers need to share manufacturing systems across products and …

Current solutions for industrial manufacturing assembly systems do not suit the needs of
mass customization industry, which is facing low production volumes, many variants and …

The automatic grasping of objects previously unseen by a robotic system is a difficult task-of
which there is currently no robust solution. The research presented in this article improves …

We present a decision-support framework for speeding up the ramp-up of modular assembly
systems by learning from past experience. Bringing an assembly system to the expected …

To withstand future socio-economic challenges new approaches to industrial control have
emerged. These methodologies require however the underlying systems to be fully …

The automatic grasping of objects previously unseen by a robotic system is a difficult task-of
which there is no robust solution. In this paper, a 3-phase, learning-based methodology is …

A future adaptive and reconfigurable manufacturing system has to address, beside the
requirements for agile and fast reaction to sudden and unpredictable changes in production …

Modularity and embedded intelligence enable seamless shop floor reconfiguration
enhancing reactiveness and responsiveness to changing requirements. However the …