Mobile robots are extensively used to complete repetitive operations in industrial areas such as intelligent transportation, logistics, and manufacturing systems. This paper addresses the path planning problem of multi-type robot systems with time wi...
Complex and customized manufacturing requires a high level of collaboration between production and logistics in a flexible production system. With the widespread use of Internet of Things technology in manufacturing, a great amount of real-time and m...
Simulation is a powerful process for perfectly planning and dimensioning web systems. However, a successful analysis using a simulation model usually requires variable load intensities. Furthermore, as the client’s behavior is subject to freque...
The mechatronic industry is currently subject to huge changes challenging it to offer products matching individual customer requirements at competitive prices. The design of such products calls for sophisticated and complex components integration fol...
The high reliability of modern engineering systems is achieved by performing predictive maintenance. Mathematical models based on stochastic timed colored Petri nets are an effective tool for developing complex production processes for Industry 4.0....
Decisions made during the design phase of mechatronic systems have a considerable influence on their entire life cycle. The persistent calls for environmental protection are driven by global megatrends promoting sustainability. Hence, opting for eco-...
The transport sector is responsible for about 60% of emissions in the atmosphere due to the exhaust-polluting gases of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. An effective solution to this issue is the electrification of the transport means, which...
Natural disasters may require that the residents of the affected area be evacuated immediately using a potentially damaged infrastructure. In this paper, we developed a mesoscopic simulation modeling approach for modeling traffic flow over a large ge...
The service of sensor device in Emerging Sensor Networks (ESNs) is the extension of traditional Web services. Through the sensor network, the service of sensor device can communicate directly with the entity in the geographic environment, and even im...
Waterway tunnels, a novel type of infrastructure designed for inland waterways in mountainous gorge regions, have seen rapid development in recent years. However, their unique structural characteristics and specific shipping activities pose significa...
Agent-based intelligent manufacturing control systems are capable to efficiently respond and adapt to environmental changes. Manufacturing system adaptation and evolution can be addressed with learning mechanisms that increase the intelligence of age...
The invention of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) has created a challenging problem: how to quickly and effectively modify an RMS to address dynamic changes in a manufacturing system, such as processing failures and rework, machine breakdo...
The Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem is an extension of the famous Traveling Salesman Problem. Finding an optimal solution to the Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP) is a difficult task as it belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. The pr...
Certificates are integral to the security of today’s Internet. Protocols like BlockVoke allow secure, timely and efficient revocation of certificates that need to be invalidated. ACME, a scheme used by the non-profit Let’s Encrypt Certifi...
Flight delay identification is an important way to coordinate the operation time of airport ground service providers and improve the efficiency of airport operations. By analyzing the flight turnaround operation process, considering the randomness an...
The Data Distribution Service (DDS) for real-time systems is an industrial Internet communication protocol. Due to its distributed high reliability and the ability to transmit device data communication in real-time, it has been widely used in industr...
Aircraft boarding is one of the most essential handling processes carried out at an airport. Its importance derives from the fact that it is part of the critical path; that is, the time of its completion determines the aircraft’s departure time...
Maintainability is a critical design characteristic of products. Maintainability evaluation plays an important role in maintainability design. Existing maintainability evaluation approaches neglect logistic effects on system maintainability. In this...
For train control systems, the accuracy of positioning tracking is essential for ensuring the safety and efficiency of operations. Multi-source information fusion techniques can improve positioning accuracy, but the computational limitations of onboa...
In the post-cloud computing era, edge computing as a distributed computing paradigm, integrating the core capabilities of computing, storage, network, and application, provides EIS (edge intelligence service), such as real-time business, data optimiz...
Power consumption in wireless sensor networks is high, and the lifetime of a battery has become a bottleneck, restricting network performance. Wireless power transfer with a ground mobile charger is vulnerable to interference from the terrain and oth...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the M/HypoK/1/m queuing model to evaluate the performance of marshaling yards in freight rail classification systems. The model effectively captures the complex, multi-phase nature of service and repair...
With the rapid development of new-generation cyber–physical system (CPS) technologies, the smart operation and management of the broad bean harvesting system are enabled. This paper proposed a smart broad bean harvesting system (SBHS) and a sel...
Federated cyber–physical systems (CPSs) present unique security challenges due to their distributed nature and the need for secure communication between components from different administrative domains. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) offer...
Fire risks during the construction phase remain one of the most critical challenges in the construction industry, often leading to property losses, casualties, project delays, and long-term reputational damage. To address these issues, this study pro...
Today, increasing Internet of Things devices are deployed, and the field of applications for decentralized, self-organizing networks keeps growing. The growth also makes these systems more attractive to attackers. Sybil attacks are a common issue, es...
With the rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles, the increase in vehicle functional requirements has led to the continuous increase in complex electronic systems, and the in-vehicle network is extremely vulnerable to network attacks. The contr...
During an urban flooding scenario, Healthcare Critical Infrastructure (HCI) represents a critical and essential resource. As the flood levels rise and the existing HCI facilities struggle to keep up with the pace, the under-preparedness of most urban...
In the post-cloud era, edge computing is a new computing paradigm with data processed at the edge of the network, which can process the data close to the end-user in real time and offload the cloud task intelligently. Meanwhile, the decentralization,...
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) technology can improve connectivity while minimizing reliance on traditional ground-based transportation systems. However, the rapid growth in eVTOL adoption brings challenges in managing landing pad oper...
EnOcean, a commonly used control protocol in smart lighting systems, provides authentication, as well as message integrity verification services, and can resist replay attack and tamper attack. However, since the device identity information transmitt...