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Digital Twins in Construction Automation

edited by

Bonyong Koo

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 520 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction automation; operaional management of construction site; construction project planning; asset management and decision making; virtual testing; human robot cooperation and safety; machine– soil interaction; autonomous cooperative work; vision and path planning; cybersecurity

Automation: 5th Anniversary Feature Papers

edited by

Eyad H. Abed

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4785 | Submission Open

Keywords: automation; control theory; optimization algorithms

Inventory Monitoring and Control Through High-Level Coordination of Drone Swarms

edited by

Simon Tomažič

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: drone swarms; inventory monitoring; predictive control algorithms; path planning; environmental mapping; anomaly detection; cooperative localization; energy-efficient mission planning; secure communication protocols; AI-driven decision-making

Smart Remanufacturing

edited by Zude Zhou, Quan Liu, Wenjun Xu, F. Javier Ramírez,

and

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15850 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– robot collaborative disassembly of cores; smart sorting and inspection of components; automated product re-assembly; flexible tooling for assembly and disassembly; intelligent disassembly planning and autonomous re-planning; product condition monitoring and remaining useful life prediction; digital twin modelling and control of remanufacturing operations; case studies in smart remanufacturing

Next-Generation Cybersecurity Solutions for Cyber-Physical Systems

edited by Abbas Yazdinejad and

Quanyan Zhu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2818 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyber-physical systems; next-generation cybersecurity; artificial intelligence; blockchain; quantum computing; federated learning; threat intelligence; quantum machine learning; anomaly detection

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