Perception capability assumes significant importance for human–robot interaction. The
forthcoming industrial environments will require a high level of automation to be flexible and …

Although digital technologies grant documented operational and economic benefits, they
can activate unwanted consequences for the environment and society. This research …

Featured Application This work aims to review the use of ROS2 as middleware to integrate
heterogeneous hardware and software components in order to enable fixed-base robots to …

Recent research provides limited knowledge about how and whether digital transformation
related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) affects the total factor productivity …

Abstract Industry 4.0 and 5.0 are currently pushing towards a reconciliation between
humans and the concurrent evolution of cyber-physical systems of systems. This constitutes …

Autonomic computing initiative aimed to develop computer systems capable of self-
management in order to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of computing systems …

The standard definition of the key performance indicators for the manufacturing operations
management level could not resist the incoming challenges and models of the 4 th industrial …

The co-transport (collaborative-transport) of deformable materials such as fabrics, composite
materials, cables or wires and so on, is a challenging task for robotic applications in industry …

A joint research between Politecnico di Torino and COMAU is going on, aimed at defining a
task oriented programming approach to allow soft skilled programmers to develop optimized …

This paper presents current research on automated synthesis in the context of the Holonic
Management Tree (HMT) technique. HMT has been currently challenged in robotics …