Socially assistive robotics aims at providing users with continuous support and personalized
assistance, through appropriate social interactions. The design of robots capable of …

The increasing size and complexity of cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) lead to an
increasing number of faults, such as broken components or interrupted connections …

Industry 4.0 is pushing forward the need for symbiotic interactions between physical and
virtual entities of production environments to realize increasingly flexible and customizable …

Abstract The diffusion of Human-Robot Collaborative cells is prevented by some barriers.
Classical control approaches seem not yet fully suitable for facing variability conveyed by …

Modern production systems are increasingly using artificial agents (eg, robots) of different
kinds. Ideally, these agents should be able to recognize the state of the world, to act …

Manufacturing is transitioning from a mass production model to a service model in which
facilities 'bid'to produce products. To decide whether to bid for a complex, previously unseen …

While it is well recognized in the literature that modularity is a very important enabler for
reconfigurability in manufacturing systems, there is very limited practical guidance on how …

One of the major advantages of modular architectures in robotic systems is the ability to add
or replace nodes, without needing to rearrange the whole system. In this type of system …

Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) are susceptible to various faults like failing
components or leaking connections. Even though CPPS have many possibilities to adapt to …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems are complex systems that are prone to malfunctions
and performance decay. Thus, such systems need to be safeguarded against quality issues …