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Automation, Volume 3, Issue 1

2022 March - 11 articles

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Articles (11)

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
14,187 Views
19 Pages

Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Robots Pick-and-Place Applications: A Case Study

  • Natanael Magno Gomes,
  • Felipe Nascimento Martins,
  • José Lima and
  • Heinrich Wörtche

21 March 2022

The number of applications in which industrial robots share their working environment with people is increasing. Robots appropriate for such applications are equipped with safety systems according to ISO/TS 15066:2016 and are often referred to as col...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Robotics for Automation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,283 Views
26 Pages

16 March 2022

Digital Twins (DTs) are one of the disruptive technologies associated with the Industry 4.0 concept. A DT connects the physical manufacturing system with the digital cyberspace, via the synchronization of the simulation (i.e., physical configurations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twins, Sensing Technologies and Automation in Industry 4.0)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,489 Views
21 Pages

10 March 2022

Complex networks make an enticing research topic that has been increasingly attracting researchers from control systems and various other domains over the last two decades. The aim of this paper was to survey the interest in control related to comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,068 Views
23 Pages

Digital Twin of a Flexible Manufacturing System for Solutions Preparation

  • Tiago Coito,
  • Paulo Faria,
  • Miguel S. E. Martins,
  • Bernardo Firme and ,
  • Susana M. Vieira,
  • João Figueiredo and
  • João M. C. Sousa
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 March 2022

In the last few decades, there has been a growing necessity for systems that handle market changes and personalized customer needs with near mass production efficiency, defined as the new mass customization paradigm. The Industry 5.0 vision further e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twins, Sensing Technologies and Automation in Industry 4.0)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,003 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2022

In recent years, there has been growing interest in automated tracking and detection of sports activities. Researchers have shown that providing activity information to individuals during their exercise routines can greatly help them in achieving the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,579 Views
16 Pages

Predictive Performance of Mobile Vis–NIR Spectroscopy for Mapping Key Fertility Attributes in Tropical Soils through Local Models Using PLS and ANN

  • Mateus Tonini Eitelwein,
  • Tiago Rodrigues Tavares,
  • José Paulo Molin,
  • Rodrigo Gonçalves Trevisan and ,
  • Rafael Vieira de Sousa and
  • José Alexandre Melo Demattê
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 February 2022

Mapping soil fertility attributes at fine spatial resolution is crucial for site-specific management in precision agriculture. This paper evaluated the performance of mobile measurements using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (vis–NIR) to...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Robotics for Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,537 Views
21 Pages

28 January 2022

The closed-loop optimal control systems using the receding horizon control (RHC) structure make predictions based on a process model (PM) to calculate the current control output. In many applications, the optimal prediction over the current predictio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,815 Views
11 Pages

Phase Preserving Balanced Truncation for Order Reduction of Positive Real Systems

  • Zeinab Salehi,
  • Paknoosh Karimaghaee,
  • Shabnam Salehi and
  • Mohammad-Hassan Khooban

19 January 2022

This paper presents a new passivity-preserving order reduction method for linear time-invariant passive systems, which are also called positive real (PR) systems, with the aid of the balanced truncation (BT) method. The proposed method stems from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,277 Views
37 Pages

5 January 2022

This article presents the study of the stability of single-input and multiple-input systems with point or distributed state delay and input delay and input saturation. By a linear transformation applied to the initial system with delay, a system is o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,723 Views
20 Pages

Development and Performance Measurement of an Affordable Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)

  • Joga Dharma Setiawan,
  • Muhammad Aldi Septiawan,
  • Mochammad Ariyanto,
  • Wahyu Caesarendra and ,
  • M. Munadi,
  • Sabri Alimi and
  • Maciej Sulowicz
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 January 2022

Indonesia is a maritime country that has vast coastal resources and biodiversity. To support the Indonesian maritime program, a topography mapping tool is needed. The ideal topography mapping tool is the Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). This paper pro...

(This article belongs to the Collection Automation in Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,850 Views
26 Pages

A Muscle-Driven Mechanism for Locomotion of Snake-Robots

  • Marcela Lopez and
  • Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani

31 December 2021

This paper presents the concept of muscle-driven locomotion for planar snake robots, which combines the advantages of both rigid and soft robotic approaches to enhance the performance of snake robot locomotion. For this purpose, two adjacent links ar...

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