Blockchain and Internet of Things are supposed to have big impact on logistics. This study presents a prototypical smart contract using storage containers in order investigate the potential maturity for logistical processes. A container is developed connected an Ethereum-based contract. The based multi signature wallet three parties process payment arbitrate disagreements. Further research implications development contracts supply chains derived from experiences this prototype study.

Purpose – Maintaining and improving productivity of product design engineering processes has been a paramount challenge for design-driven companies, which are characterised high degree development products in order to meet particular customer requirements. Literature on this issue is fragmented dispersed concise systematic overview lacking. Hence, it remains unclear, methods applicable companies improve the limitedly available resources (a nations face currently). The purpose paper develop...

Purpose: The paper aims to show strengths, weaknesses and challenges in the application of Blockchain technology for aircraft maintenance, repair overhaul (MRO). analysis is based on a prototype permissioned maintenance documentation their components. Methodology: A prototyping approach used gain deeper understanding underlying problems proposed solutions applying MRO. open source platform 'Hyperledger Fabric' toolset Composer' are develop application. Based devised use cases validated...

Controlling a fleet of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) is complex problem optimization. Many approached have been conducted for solving this problem. They range from heuristics, which usually do not find an optimum, to mathematical models, are limited due their high computational effort. Machine Learning (ML) methods offer another potential trajectory such problems. The focus brief survey on Reinforcement (RL) as particular type ML. Due the reward-based optimization, RL offers good basis...

Despite their enormous potential, the use of indoor localization systems (ILS) remains seldom. One reason is lack market transparency and stakeholders' trust in systems' performance as a consequence insufficient test evaluation (T&E) methodologies. The heterogeneous nature ILS, influences, applications pose various challenges for design methodology that provides meaningful results. Methodologies building-wide testing exist, but mostly limited to associated competitions. In this work, T&E...

Despite their enormous potential the use of Indoor Localization Systems (ILS) remains seldom. One reason is lack market transparency and stakeholders’ trust in systems’ performance as a consequence insufficient Test Evaluation (T&E) methodologies. The heterogeneous nature ILS, influences, applications pose various challenges for design methodology that provides meaningful results. Methodologies building-wide testing exist, but mostly limited to associated indoor...

Kurzfassung In diesem Beitrag wird ein modulares Ladungsträgerkonzept für den manuellen Kleinteiletransport vorgestellt. Mehrere unabhängig voneinander einsetzbare Module können dabei gekoppelt werden und so einen äußerst flexiblen individuellen Ladungsträgerverbund bilden. Hierdurch lässt sich die Kapazität dem Transportvolumen anpassen vielfältiges Teilespektrum transportieren. Dies reduziert Bedarf an Logistikflächen führt zu schlankeren Prozessen.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are systems that contain digital embedded devices while depending on environmental influences or external configurations. Identifying relevant of a CPS as well modeling dependencies is difficult. We propose to learn these with decision trees in combination clustering. The approach allows automatically identify and receive data-related explanation system behavior involving the system's use-case. Our paper presents case study our method for Real-Time Localization...

Consumer grade depth cameras are important devices to enable robots and unmanned vehicles perceive their environments. Three major technologies relevant for those devices: Time-of-Flight, structured light stereo vision. Stereo in particular have conquered the market recent years, with Intel's D-series systems leading way. Besides from Intel, there many models other manufacturers, but it has not yet been investigated how these perform comparison. This paper proposes applies methods measure...

Various applications leverage location data to increase transparency, efficiency, and safety in intralogistics. There are several properties of data, such as the data's degrees freedom, system latency, update rate, or accuracy. To select a suitable indoor localization system, corresponding requirements must be derived by analyzing considered application. date, dependencies performance have not been satisfactorily described literature. Thus, no method exists adequately derive requirements....

Due to the increasing utilization of 3D development environments for industrial use cases by emerging topics like virtual reality, new challenges in conversion computer-aided-design (CAD) models have become visible.Particularly, kinematic constraints turns out be complex and requires extensive manual efforts.This paper discusses these with a focus on problems constraints.Further, approach is proposed validated regarding automated an exemplary CAD model.Thereby, this work contributes...