The machine and plant automation domain is faced with an ever increasing demand for
ensuring the adaptability of manufacturing facilities in context of Industry 4.0. Field level …

Various system architectures for a state machine-based, hybrid real-time control system, and
methods of operation thereof, are disclosed. In one embodiment of a system architecture for …

This work presents an approach for the application of artificial intelligence planning
techniques to the automatic generation of control sequences for manufacturing systems …

This paper presents an approach to the application of artificial intelligence planning
techniques to the generation of control sequences for manufacturing systems. These …

The design of the sequential control program for a manufacturing system is a difficult task
which is traditionally carried out by engineers. In this paper we present MACHINE, a …

A rule-based forward reference approach was proposed for the decision subsystem of the
intelligent robot to avoid the complex decision logic and difficulties in improving the …

GrafcetTool is a GRAFCET based tool for building sequential function charts in the G2 real-
time expert system environment. It supports the basic GRAFCET building blocks such as …

In the problem of parametric statistical inference with a nite parameter space, we study some
simple rules for de ning posterior upper and lower probabilities directly from the observed …

This project presents the implementation of an automated production line in the University of
Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. This line is dedicated to the manufacturing of penholders …