- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Product Development and Customization
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
- Advanced machining processes and optimization
- Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
- Optimization and Packing Problems
- Service and Product Innovation
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Advanced Machining and Optimization Techniques
- Supply Chain and Inventory Management
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
- Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Robot Manipulation and Learning
- Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Guangdong University of Technology
2017-2025
City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute
2019-2022
City University of Hong Kong
2019-2022
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2021
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of 3D Printing Equipment and Manufacturing
2020
Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
2020
Xi'an Jiaotong University
2013-2018
University of Hong Kong
2008-2009
Various new national advanced manufacturing strategies, such as Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet, and Made in China 2025, are issued to achieve smart manufacturing, resulting the increasing number of newly designed production lines both developed developing countries. Under individualized designing demands, more realistic virtual models mirroring real worlds essential bridge gap between design operation. This paper presents a digital twin-based approach for rapid hollow glass line. The twin...
Under a mass individualisation paradigm, the individualised design of manufacturing systems is difficult as it involves adaptive integrating both new and legacy machines for formation part families with uncertainty. A systematic virtual model mirroring real world system essential to bridge gap between its operation. This paper presents digital twin-driven methodology rapid designing automated flow-shop system. The twin merges physics-based modelling distributed semi-physical simulation...
Blockchain is a new generation of secure information technology that fueling business and industrial innovation. Many studies on key enabling technologies for resource organization system operation blockchain-secured smart manufacturing in Industry 4.0 had been conducted. However, the progression promotion these blockchain applications have fundamentally impeded by various issues scalability, flexibility, cybersecurity. This survey discusses how systems can overcome potential cybersecurity...
The growth of individualized product demands drives high flexibility manufacturing processes, which requires large-scale deployment Industrial Internet Things (IIoT). Since centralized control IIoT suffers from poor in coping with disturbances and changes, a decentralized organization structure is better choice, permissioned blockchain-driven can enable partially self-organization thus offload accelerate the optimization upper-level planning. A novel iterative bi-level hybrid intelligence...
Blockchain, an emerging paradigm of secure and shareable computing, is a systematic integration 1) chain structure for data verification storage, 2) distributed consensus algorithms generating updating data, 3) cryptographic techniques guaranteeing transmission access security, 4) automated smart contracts programming operations. However, the progress promotion Blockchain have been seriously impeded by various security issues in blockchain-based applications. Furthermore, previous research...
Current mass individualisation and service-oriented paradigm calls for high flexibility agility in the warehouse system to adapt changes products. This paper proposes a novel digital twin-driven joint optimisation approach warehousing large-scale automated high-rise product-service system. A Digital Twin System is developed aggregate real-time data from physical then map it cyber model. model on how timely optimise stacked packing storage assignment of integrated System. Through perceiving...
The production control for the mass individualisation paradigm of R&D-stage products is challenging due to mix-flow and frequently-disturbed environment. With convergence sustainable development goals increasing individualised demands in products, resilient manufacturing envisioned Industry 5.0 proposition. Concerning that conventional centralised methods suffer from low stability inefficiency decisions under frequent disruptions, this paper establishes a blockchained smart contract...
In Industry 5.0 vision, machines are empowered with the interaction capability to autonomously make local decisions and coordinate each other as well humans. However, how form a group consensus on rapid self-organizing of manufacturing process is critical for achieving resilience under disturbances disruptions. Based our formerly developed system ManuChain (Leng et al., 2020), this article proposes blockchained smart contract (BSCS), named II, digital twin decentralized autonomous in 5.0. A...