Vehicular communications have grown in interest over the years and are nowadays recognized as a pillar for the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) in order to ensure an efficient management of the road traffic and ...

The current importance of digital competence makes it essential to enable people with disabilities to use digital devices and applications and to automatically adapt site interactions to their needs. Although most of the ...

Tool condition monitoring have an important role in machining processes to reduce defective component and ensure quality requirements. Stopping the process before the tool breaks or an excessive tool wear is reached can ...

In the transition towards more sustainable ships, electric motors (EM) are being used in ship propulsion systems to reduce emissions and increase efficiency. The safe operation of ships is crucial, and prognostics and ...

Big data is defined as a large set of data that could be structured or unstructured. In manufacturing shop-floor, big data incorporates data collected at every stage of the production process. This includes data from ...

Modern manufacturing has to cope with dynamic and changing circumstances. Market fluctuations, the effects caused by unpredictable material shortages, highly variable product demand, and worker availability all require ...

The potential of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) systems is usually evaluated based on recent metocean data and assuming the stationarity of the MRE resource. Yet, different studies in the literature have shown long-term ...

In the growing wind energy sector, as in other high investment sectors, the need to make assets profitable has put the spotlight on maintenance. Efficient solutions which leverage from condition or performance based ...

The need to manufacture more competitive equipment, together with the emergence of the digital technologies from the so-called Industry 4.0, have changed many paradigms of the industrial sector. Presently, the trend has ...