The question of the benefits of autonomous control is more important than ever: production
managers, governments and society hope that the vision of smart and digital production …

Literature shows that reinforcement learning (RL) and the well-known optimization
algorithms derived from it have been applied to assembly sequence planning (ASP); …

This paper proposes and implements a novel pipeline for the self-reconfiguration of a
flexible, reconfigurable, CAD-based, and autonomous Vision Inspection System (VIS) …

As mass customization is being widely adopted, manufacturing companies are faced with an
increasing challenge of establishing and maintaining manufacturing systems with sufficient …

Production planning and control strategies have been changing in line with the constant
change on product and customer requirements, under the light of technological and …

There has been an increasing interest from industry in distributed architectures since they
promote a plug-and-produce and robust environment, where adaptability and fault tolerance …

The balance between assembly process optimality and their system's ability to adapt to new
requirements is a key to success for assembly companies. To increase SME's survivability …

Automation has been long used to increase productivity, quality, reproducibility and
reliability in production factories. This strategy has been fruitful in the presence of stable …

Current production paradigms and related biases concerning automation are an obstacle for
the technological development and subsequent application of intelligent assembly solutions …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are systems that comprises of integration of
computation and physical processes. In CPS, computation and communication involves …