Mobile robots, such as Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), are increasingly employed in automated manufacturing systems or automated warehouses. They are used for many kinds of applications, such as goods and material handling. ...

Specifically tailored industrial control systems (ICSs) attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, accentuating the need of ICS cyber security. The nature of these systems makes traditional IT security measures not ...

In machining of Ti-6Al-4V, it is commonly reported the appearance of segmented chip produced by adiabatic shearing (at high cutting speeds) and lack of ductility (at low cutting speeds). Moreover, machining is a manufacturing ...

Tribofinishing is one of the most popular polishing process in industry. The action of small abrasive media around parts enables to reduce significantly surface roughness and at the same time, to induce compressive residual ...

Surface integrity directly affects the mechanical behavior of the workpiece, which is especially relevant on fatigue behavior. To characterize the quality of the machined surface, aspects such as material damage, roughness ...

Electrochemical models are an incipient technique for estimation of battery cells internal variables, useful for cells design or state of function optimization. One of the non-trivial procedures that allow the use of this ...

Process stability and facility security are the two main purposes for measuring the force in sheet metal forming facilities. These two purposes look for guaranteeing the good health of the facility avoiding overloads and ...

Workflow management is implemented in manufacturing at many levels. The nature of processes variesat each level, hindering the use of a standard modeling orimplementation solution. The creation of a flexible ...

The measurement of fast voltage and current transients of Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices requires high bandwidth (BW) probes. Commercially available voltage and current probes can be expensive, and, in addition, the delay ...

Spherical gear couplings are a type of toothed coupling where the external spline usually requires highly crowned tooth surfaces to absorb high misalignments. The teeth of the external spline (or hub) may present cross ...