Smart product recovery decision-making (SRDM) plays a critical role in the closed-loop
manufacturing chain. SRDM can facilitate the maximum reclamation of End-of-Life product …

Manual operations are still playing a pivotal role in the performance of product-based
industries due to the operator's ability to flexible learning. The operators are doing various …

Thanks to the advent of robotics in shopfloor and warehouse environments, control rooms
need to seamlessly exchange information regarding the dynamically changing 3D …

This work deals with the simulation of complex manipulation tasks in virtual environments.
Validating such complex tasks, possibly to be performed under strong geometric constraints …

Industry 4.0 requires a paradigm shift from the traditional manufacturing practices and work
environment to a dynamic workplace where humans and machines must work together as a …

An online rectangle based scheduling algorithm (RSA) is developed to improve autonomy of
multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to search a field of forest together. The purposes …

As technological advancements have led to the onset of industry 4.0, there must be a shift in
the organizational frameworks, wherein manufacturing propensities and the traditional …

The characterization of urban circuits for autonomous navigation is a crucial task for a fast
integration of this technology in the near future. The purpose of this article is to present a …

Earlier work has introduced ontologies to improve the performance of task and motion
planning. However, these approaches have not explicitly used first-order axiomatizations for …

This work deals with interactive motion planning processes intended to assist a human
operator when simulating industrial tasks such as assembly, maintenance or disassembly in …