Smart Factory paradigms focus on Flexibility, Adaptability, and Digitization, while Industry 5.0 introduces broader systemic priorities focused on Human-Centricity, Sustainability, and Resilience. Although various enabling technologies exist, current...
An autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that follows a worker can reduce the physical burden on the worker, but stable navigation remains difficult in the narrow and cluttered spaces of a factory, where the conventional dynamic window approach (DWA) tends t...
Recommender Systems (RSs) have become essential for suggesting personalized recommendations to users across various fields, especially in tourism. Due to the rising popularity of mobile devices, mobile RSs have emerged as a potential research area. H...
The interactive and engaging nature of serious games (i.e., video games designed for educational purposes) enables deeper learning and facilitates behavior change; however, most do not specifically support the dissemination of national dietary guidel...
With the development of Industry 4.0, collaborative mobile robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in industrial settings, raising important safety considerations in human–robot interaction environments. This study examines the safety issues...
Research into integrating the concept of the internet of things (IoT) into smart factories has accelerated, leading to the emergence of various smart factory solutions. Most ideas, however, focus on the automation and integration of processes in fact...
Due to the perennial cold, uneven urban distribution, and the impact of the vegetable growing environment, it is difficult to achieve sustainable supply of vegetables in Nordic countries. Governments and enterprises need to take measures to ensure th...
This paper proposes a real-time method to carry out the monitoring of factory zone temperatures, humidity and air quality using smart phones. At the same time, the system detects possible flames, and analyzes and monitors electrical load. The monitor...
Proper working conditions must be one of the employers’ main concerns in any type of company but particularly in work locations where the employees are chronically exposed to hazardous compounds, like factories and production lines. Regarding t...
In the evolving landscape of Industry 4.0, the integration of advanced wireless technologies into manufacturing processes holds the promise of unprecedented connectivity and efficiency. In particular, the data transmission in a heavy industry environ...
Accurately docking mobile robots to various workstations on the factory floor is a common and essential task. The existing docking methods face three major challenges: intricate deployment procedures, susceptibility to ambient lighting, and incapacit...
This study deals with the technology of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and their implementation on the SmartFactory production line at the Technical University of Ostrava. The task of the mobile robot is to cooperate with the production line, take ov...
Partial discharge (PD) measurements are crucial for evaluating the condition of the insulation systems of medium-voltage (MV) cables and their accessories. However, identifying PD defect types from phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) patterns sti...
Smart manufacturing is pivotal in the context of Industry 4.0, as it integrates advanced technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation to streamline production processes and improve product quality, paving the way for a competitive in...
The mobile vision measurement system (MVMS) is widely used for location and attitude measurement in aircraft takeoff and landing, and its on-site global calibration is crucial to obtaining high-accuracy measurement aimed at obtaining the transformati...
The effect of a preliminary acid leaching for the recovery of gold by thiourea from printed circuit boards (PCBs) of spent mobile phones, was investigated. Preliminary leaching is aimed to recover copper in the leachate that would compete with gold i...
This paper addresses critical issues related to the structural design of a micro-factory housing a mobile 3D printing system for plastic recycling. Rather than a simple comparison, it quantifies the “modification penalty”, the structural...
Legacy contamination of soils and sediments with mercury (Hg) can pose serious threats to the environment and to human health. Assessing risks and possible remediation strategies must consider the chemical forms of Hg, as different Hg species exhibit...
The miniaturization and modularization of production capacity brings with it not only greater agility and efficiency, but also increased flexibility in the form of mobility. This flexibility allows production capacity to be moved when and where it is...
This research investigates the tension between trust and confidentiality in Mobile Supply Chains (MSCs), where a production asset that is owned by one of the partners is outsourced to another partner of the supply chain for the production of goods, c...
Transport emissions are a major contributor to global CO2 emissions, requiring interventions to promote sustainable travel behaviors. This study examines how behavior change techniques (BCTs), attitudinal and behavioral segmentation, and time pressur...
The digitization of industries enables a rapid transformation from mass production to individualized manufacturing. Communication plays an essential role in this digital transformation; in particular, wireless communication enables a high degree of f...
Prefabricated timber component-based systems are the most prevalent industrialised system used to build housing. Along with many other countries, the UK has invested in different types of factory-based prefabrication systems as a means of increasing...
This study presents the design, embedded implementation, and screening-level experimental terrain-performance evaluation of an RHex-inspired hexapod robot using a fixed encoder-assisted alternating-tripod state-machine gait. The work aims to provide...
Background: Universal accessibility is one of the most active lines of intervention for people with disabilities and older adults. This accessibility has become a topic of growing interest regarding home access and use. Therefore, the main objective...
Cities have grown in development and sophistication throughout human history. Smart cities are the current incarnation of this process, with increased complexity and social importance. This complexity has come to involve significant digital component...
9 September 2026
Depression is a common mental health issue among migrant workers. This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of a LINE-application-based PASS program on depression scores among Myanmar migrant factory workers in Samut Prakan, Thailand....
Robotic systems for research and development of factory automation are complex and unavailable for broad deployment in robotic laboratory settings. The usual robotic factory automation setup consists of series of sensors, robotic arms and mobile robo...
Due to their rapid development and wide application in modern agriculture, robots, mobile terminals, and intelligent devices have become vital technologies and fundamental research topics for the development of intelligent and precision agriculture....
Heavy metals such as cadmium (Cd) pollute the environment. Heavy metal pollution endangers the Nile River since it serves as an irrigation and freshwater source for the cities and farms that line its banks. Water and sediment samples from the Nile Ri...
The ongoing Industry 4.0 transformation places significant pressures on how businesses create and capture value. Technological advancements such as next-generation mobile communications are reshaping the business ecosystem of Industry 4.0, resulting...
This work reports a master-slave separate parallel intelligent mobile robot for the fully autonomous transportation of pallets in the smart factory logistics. This separate parallel intelligent mobile robot consists of two independent sub robots, one...
The use of wireless communications systems on the factory shop floor is becoming an appealing solution with many advantages compared to cable-based solutions, including low cost, easy deployment, and flexibility. This, combined with the continuous gr...
Along with the recent advance in wireless networking and data processing technologies, demands for low latency communication (LLC) are increasing in a wide variety of future-driven autonomous applications such as a smart factory, self-driving cars, a...
Inspection robots, which improve hazard identification and enhance safety management, play a vital role in the examination of high-risk environments in many fields, such as power distribution, petrochemical, and new energy battery factories. Currentl...
Our exploratory research focuses on the possible relations between tourism and the mobility of people, using short longitudinal data for mobility dimensions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of these is real-time, exhaustive type data, published by G...
This article presents the design, implementation and start-up of the first AIMW (Autonomous Industrial Mobile Warehouse) in the industry, in particular, in the factory located at Ford España S.L. in Almussafes (Valencia). This first version ha...
Mobile robots play an important role in smart factories, though efficient task assignment and path planning for these robots still present challenges. In this paper, we propose an integrated task- and path-planning approach with precedence constrains...
Guanylhydrazones are molecules with great pharmacological potential in various therapeutic areas, including antitumoral activity. Factorial design is an excellent tool in the optimization of a chromatographic method, because it is possible quickly ch...
This paper researches the mobility behavior of employees in the Special Economic Zone in Niepołomice in Poland. The survey compares transportation behavior of factory and office workers before, during, and after COVID-19 pandemic. Workers’...
12 December 2019
Industrial workers or factory workers, especially migrant workers, have been found to be vulnerable populations at risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, there has been a gap in literature regarding health behaviors of migrant facto...
With the continuous development of mobile communications and the Internet of Things technology, the enhanced network performance can be seen as one of the major challenges in the fourth industrial revolution context, where new services and applicatio...
Mobile robots play an important role in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); they need effective mutual communication between the cloud and themselves when they move in a factory. By using the sensor nodes existing in the IIoT environment as rel...
Digitalization and networking are taking on an increasingly important role in manufacturing. Fifth Generation mobile networks (5G) allow us to wirelessly connect multiple assets in factories with guaranteed quality of service (QoS). A 5G non-public n...
Physical activity is today a major global problem, since it is associated with physical, psychological, and social health risks. Promoting active mobility by using walking and cycling as modes of transportation has been proposed as one of the strateg...
This paper introduces the mechanical design and control system of a mobile robot for logistics transportation in manufacturing workshops. The robot is divided into a moving part and a grasping part. The moving part adopts the mecanum wheel four-wheel...
Due to their high mobility, mobile robots (MR) are widely used in intelligent manufacturing. Due to the perfect symmetry of the MR of the three-wheeled moving chassis, it can move quickly in a crowded and complex factory environment. Because it is po...
With the appealing ability of combining both mobility and manipulability, mobile robot manipulators have been applied to factory automation, telemedicine, warehousing, etc. Due to the high density of convenience stores in Taiwan, Asia, and other coun...
Micro-factories are characterized by high modularity, reconfigurability and mobility. To achieve this, the micro-factory needs a conveyor which is able to transport objects in as many degrees of freedom (DoF) as possible, executes optimal trajectorie...
Localization is a crucial skill in mobile robotics because the robot needs to make reasonable navigation decisions to complete its mission. Many approaches exist to implement localization, but artificial intelligence can be an interesting alternative...
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