Digital manufacturing technologies [1] are gaining more and more importance as key
enabling technologies in future manufacturing, especially when a flexible scalable …

This book discusses the IEC 61499 reference architecture for distributed and reconfigurable
control, and its adoption by industry. The text provides design patterns, application …

The heterogeneity of execution platforms and operating software in manufacturing machines
and robots, as well as various sensors and actuators, creates challenges for integration into …

We report a design for an orchestrator controlled robotic network that organises and
manages a set of activities through a task allocation model for the robotic nodes. The model …

This paper reports on the development of a" mobile production platform"(MPP), which
comprises a mobile robot with lifting capability and an ABB IRB14000 YuMI precision robot …

Robotics systems have special needs often related with their real-time nature and
environmental properties. Often, control and communication paths within the system are …

Most robotic systems tend to be complex to maintain and reuse because existing
frameworks are based mainly on code-driven approaches. This means the software …

ABSTRACT Purpose: The Modbus is the trusted name in the industrial automation
communication domain. It is a pretty simple protocol to implement and so very popular to the …

Digital manufacturing technologies are gaining more and more importance as key enabling
technologies in future manufacturing, in particular when flexible and scalable production of …

In this paper, we propose using an approach based on the system-level programming
language SystemJ extended with service oriented features, called SOSJ, to design dynamic …