Ubiquitous manufacturing: Current practices, challenges, and opportunities

T Chen, HR Tsai - Robotics and computer-integrated manufacturing, 2017 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous manufacturing (UM) features a “design anywhere, make anywhere, sell
anywhere, and at any time” paradigm that grants factories an unlimited production capacity …

The design of WiFi-based smart home communication hardware adapter

F Liu, H Zhao - 2015 Fifth International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of information technology, the Smart home element with information
electronic devices has found its way and adapted into daily life. However, the diversity of …

Cascading wireless industrial workcells

TK Refaat, RM Daoud, HH Amer - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the ever expanding implementation of Wireless Networked Control Systems in
industrial automation, there is a need to guarantee that several workcells utilizing such …

Fault-tolerant controllers in wireless networked control system using 802.11 g

TK Refaat, RM Daoud, HH Amer - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the 802.11 g standard is used without modification in a fault-tolerant networked
control system with two or three cascaded workcells. Samples are sent by sensors to an …

Reliable architecture for a two-wagon switched ethernet train control network

TK Refaat, HH Amer, RM Daoud - 2011 3rd International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a networked control system onboard of train wagons. The network uses
strictly switched Ethernet which is a shared backbone for both control and entertainment …

Fault-tolerant controllers in adjacent wireless networked control systems using 802.11

TK Refaat, EA Makled, RM Daoud… - … Congress on Ultra …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Networked Control Systems is an interesting research field for industrial
automation applications. A workcell model based on the 802.11 standard as a …

Multicasting for cascaded fault-tolerant wireless networked control systems in noisy industrial environments

YI El Faramawy, MA Ibrahim… - Proceedings of 2012 …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a Wireless Networked Control System based on IEEE's 802.11 b Wi-Fi
standard protocol consisting of two identical workcells with zero meter inter-cell distance. It is …

Improving Throughput and Efficiency for WLAN: Sounding, Grouping, Scheduling

X Ma - 2016 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
Wireless local area networks (WLANs) have experienced tremendous growth with the
proliferation of IEEE 802.11 devices in past two decades. Wireless operators are embracing …

[PDF][PDF] Wireless Fault-Tolerant Controllers in Cascaded Industrial Workcells Using Wi-Fi and Ethernet

TK Refaat, RM Daoud, HH Amer - Intelligent Control and Automation, 2013 - scirp.org
ABSTRACT A Wireless Networked Control System using 802.11 b is used to model fault-
tolerance at the controller level of an industrial workcell. The fault-tolerance study in this …

An investigation on the effects of wireless instruments on cascaded robots operation

H Eren, J Luo, M Salimpour - 2012 8th IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many applications, identical behavior units operate in one after another to form large and
complex systems, as in the case of automated vehicles on a track. Multiple units operating …