Towards the deployment of cloud robotics at factory shop floors: A prototype for smart material handling

Ali Hussnain; Borja Ramis Ferrer; Jose L.Martinez Lastra

doi:10.1109/ICPHYS.2018.8387635

Towards the deployment of cloud robotics at factory shop floors: A prototype for smart material handling

Ali Hussnain
, Borja Ramis Ferrer
, Jose L.Martinez Lastra

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Abstract

The evolution of industries and their needs towards the implementation of Industry 4.0 based systems has brought both new technological challenges and opportunities. This article proposes the adoption and deployment of cloud robotics at factories to enhance the control and monitoring of processes, such as handling materials multiple assemblies in single cells. The ultimate research objective of this research is the offloading computation and integrating cloud robotics into an industrial scenario. However, the investigation of state of the art techniques, tools and technologies, and the development of functional prototypes is beforehand required. Then, this article presents a small-scale system as a prototype that employs the Google cloud vision API as a resource that, in turn, is used by networked agents for supporting the decision-making in the process of handling material commodities at factory shop floor. The overall concept as well as the interaction between the main actors of the prototype is detailed. Finally, further research directions are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, ICPS 2018
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	44-50
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538665312
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPHYS.2018.8387635
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2018
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems - Duration: 1 Jan 1900 → …

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
Period	1/01/00 → …

Keywords

Cloud Robotics
Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
Industry 4.0
Multi-Agent Systems
SOA

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Artificial Intelligence
Hardware and Architecture
Control and Optimization
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Towards the deployment of cloud robotics at factory shop floors: A prototype for smart material handling

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