Assembly systems (ASs) have moved into the era of mass customisation and Industry 4.0 (I4.
0). Mass customisation involves a shift from the production of high quantities of the same …

Smart manufacturing is a vision and major driver for change in today's industry. The goal of
smart manufacturing is to optimize manufacturing processes through constantly monitoring …

Abstract Recently, Internet of things (IoT) devices have been widely implemented and
technologically advanced in manufacturing settings to monitor, collect, exchange, analyze …

For path planning problems based on Rapidly exploring Random Trees (RRT), most new
nodes merely explore the environment unless they are sampled directly from the subset that …

Concepts such as Industry 4.0 and Cyber-Physical Systems may bring forward a new
industrial revolution. These concepts require extensive connectivity far beyond what is …

Data transmission for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) is crucial for industrial production,
especially in the Industry 5.0 era, where human–machine collaboration is increasingly …

As many robot applications become more reliant on wireless communications, wireless
network latency and reliability have a growing impact on robot control. This article proposes …

Abstract Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) is known as one of the recurring themes that
possess these promising characteristics with a synergistic combination of productivity …

Wireless networked control systems (WNCS) offer great potential for revolutionizing the
industrial automation by enabling wireless coordination between sensors, decision centers …

To facilitate Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, smart factories shall flexibly achieve mass
manufacture of on-demand individualized products. Reconfigurable multirobot system …