A5006425653- Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
- Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Product Development and Customization
- Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Smart Grid Security and Resilience
- Advanced Control Systems Optimization
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Petri Nets in System Modeling
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Optimization and Packing Problems
- Quality and Supply Management
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Smart Parking Systems Research
- Traffic control and management
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
2012-2024
Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics
2018-2024
University of Kaiserslautern
2024
University of Minho
2015-2019
Siemens (Germany)
2019
Loughborough University
2019
Technische Universität Braunschweig
2019
Manufacturing Technology Centre (United Kingdom)
2019
INESC TEC
2017-2018
Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique Industrielles et Humaines
2013-2014
In the current manufacturing world, role of maintenance has been receiving increasingly more attention while companies understand that maintenance, when well performed, can be a strategic factor to achieve corporate goals. The latest trends leans towards predictive approach, exemplified by Prognosis and Health Management (PHM) Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) techniques. implementation such approaches demands structured architecture boosted through use emergent ICT technologies, namely...
The digital transformation that is on-going worldwide, and triggered by the Industry 4.0 initiative, has brought to surface new concepts emergent technologies. One of these Digital Twin, which recently started gaining momentum, related creating a virtual copy physical system, providing connection between real systems collect analyze simulate data in model improve performance system. benefits using twin approach attracting significant attention interest from research industry communities last...
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are expected to shape the evolution of production towards fourth industrial revolution named Industry 4.0. The increasing integration manufacturing processes and strengthening autonomous capabilities systems make investigating role humans a primary research objective in view emerging social demographic megatrends. Understanding how employees can be better integrated enable increased flexibility is prerequisite allow technological solutions, as well humans,...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Aberrant cellular glycosylation remains a key event that accompanies and actively sustains gastric neoplastic transformation. Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) have recently emerged as promising ex vivo model to study human disorders. Since the PDOs landscape unknown, this aims evaluate potential avatars of in tissue profiles context. METHODS: Fresh mucosa samples derived from non-tumoral obese patients (n=11), adjacent tumor (n=29), cancer (GC) (n=30) were used establish...
A violência obstétrica é uma violação dos direitos humanos que se manifesta por meio de práticas desrespeitosas, abusivas e negligentes durante o cuidado à gestante, parturiente puérpera. Este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar papel das políticas públicas na prevenção tratamento dessa forma no contexto brasileiro. Trata-se revisão narrativa da literatura, realizada análise artigos científicos, documentos oficiais diretrizes institucionais, publicados entre 2018 2024. Os resultados...
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are driving the way to design and engineer control solutions that exhibit flexibility, adaptation reconfigurability, which important advantages over traditional centralized systems. The understanding, testing of such distributed agent-based approaches, particularly those exhibiting self-*properties, usually a hard task. Simulation assumes crucial role analyse behaviour MAS during phase before its deployment into real operation. Particularly, Agent-Based Modelling...
The manufacturing industry is facing a technology paradigm change, as also captured in the Industrie 4.0 vision fourth industrial revolution. Future smart industries will require to optimize not only their own processes but use of products and resources, maintenance recycling. In this context strengths weaknesses two key concepts, namely Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Intelligent Product (IP) are discussed, it suggested that an integration these approaches meet introduced emergent requirements...
Cyber-physical systems concept supports the realization of Industrie 4.0 vision towards computerization traditional industries, aiming to achieve intelligent and reconfigurable factories. Standardization assumes a critical role in industrial adoption cyber-physical systems, namely integration legacy as well smooth migration from existing running new ones. This paper analyses some standards related fields presents identified limitations efforts for wider acceptance such by industry. Special...
The world is assisting to the fourth industrial revolution, with several domains of science and technology being strongly developed and, specially, integrated each other, allowing build evolvable complex systems. Data digitization, big-data analysis, distributed control, Industrial Internet Things, Cyber-Physical Systems self-organization, amongst others, are playing an important role in this journey. This paper considers best practices from previous successful European projects addressing...
Industrial agent technologies have been integrated in key elements coupling industrial systems and software logic, which is an important issue the design of cyber-physical systems. Although several efforts tried out over last decades to integrate agents with physical hardware devices, some commonalities can be observed among existing practices, there no uniform way overall. This work presents empirical survey practices three application area, namely factory automation, power & energy...
With the emergence of Industry 4.0 concept, or fourth industrial revolution, industry is bearing witness to appearance more and complex systems, often requiring integration various new heterogeneous, modular intelligent elements with pre-existing legacy devices. This challenge interoperability one main concerns taken into account when designing such systems-of-systems, commonly use standard interfaces ensure this seamless integration. To aid in tackling challenge, a common format for data...
This paper discusses the methodology for development of a strategic planning tool, and particularly architectural solution to be adopted, within an integrated ICT improvement scheduling systems manufacturing small production lots complex products. After analysis different possible solutions, proposes hybrid that combines existing solvers with multi-agent system principles. The proposed approach introduces several benefits, namely in terms flexibility, robustness, achievement exploratory...
To meet flexibility and reconfigurability requirements, modern production systems need hardware software solutions which ease the connection mediation of different heterogonous industrial cyber-physical components. Following vision Industry 4.0, H2020 PERFoRM project targets, particularly, seamless reconfiguration robots machinery. This paper describes implementation a highly flexible, pluggable distributed architecture solution, focusing on several building blocks, particularly middleware,...
Maintenance is a key factor to ensure the production efficiency, since occurrence of unexpected failures leads degradation system performance, causing loss productivity and business opportunities, which are crucial roles achieve competitiveness. The article aims propose reference architecture will improve way maintenance considered in current manufacturing world, by enabling an overall increase rates, while increasing operational equipment effectiveness decreasing impact needs. This...
Nowadays, many organizations intend to convert their existing production systems towards ones that are terized by adaptability, openness, flexibility and modularity. This requires a redesign of information processing especially related control, leading possibly cyber-physical (CPPS). However, the implementation new control technologies will have direct impact on normal operational status while engineers also face several challenges obstacles in adopting intelligent automation systems. New...
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) still are the state-of-the-art regarding industrial automation control, but Industry 4.0 advent is imposing new requirements, e.g., related to capability acquire and process data on realtime at edge computational layer. On other hand, current availability of cheaper more powerful processors opens windows develop low-cost advanced controllers aligned with principles. In this context, an important challenge improve PLCs by taking into consideration boards...
The 4th industrial revolution advent promotes the reorganization of traditional hierarchical automation systems towards decentralized Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).In this context, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can address new requirements through use data-driven and distributed problem solving approaches, such those based on Machine-Learning Multi-agent Systems.Although their promising perspectives to enable manage intelligent Internet Things environments, Cloud-based AI approaches are not...
This paper describes the development of a multiagent system (MAS) to support implementation zero-defect manufacturing strategies in multi-stage production systems. The MAS infrastructure, combined with on-line inspection tools, data analytics and knowledge generation, constitutes suitable approach integrate process quality control environments. will allow early detection product defects, adaptation operating condition changes optimisation processes. type integrated management structure is...
Agent-based systems, an approach derived from distributed artificial intelligence, have been introduced for designing large complex systems. They are also suitable to solve challenging problems in industrial environments, being appropriate technology realizing cyber-physical In such configuration, they need interface with automation and control devices. However, until now there is no widely accepted practice nor pattern the software agents functions. This work addresses this issue introduces...