Abstract: Cloud computing (e.g., software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service) represents a newgeneration, serviceoriented business model in support of multiple companies for deploying and managing ...

Abstract: In human–robot collaborative assembly, robots are often required to dynamically change their preplanned tasks to collaborate with human operators in close proximity. One essential requirement of such an environment is ...

Abstract: Optimizing the energy consumption of robot movements has been one of the main focuses for most of today's robotic simulation software. This optimization is based on minimizing a robot's joint movements. In many cases, it ...

Abstract: Manufacturing technology changes with the needs of consumers. The globalization of the world economy has helped to create the concept of cloud manufacturing (CM). The purpose of this paper is to provide both an overview ...

Abstract: Service provider (SP) knowhows are essential in machining service (MS) encapsulation in the cloud. However, since the acquisition of the knowhows for complex parts machining requires investing considerable manpower and ...

Abstract: In human–robot collaborative assembly, leveraging multimodal commands for intuitive robot control remains a challenge from command translation to efficient collaborative operations. This article investigates multimodal ...

Abstract: Cloud manufacturing is a service-oriented networked manufacturing model that aims to provide manufacturing resources as services in an on-demand manner. Scheduling is one of the key techniques for cloud manufacturing to ...

Abstract: Sustainable management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has attracted escalating concerns of researchers and industries. Closer information linking among the participants in the products's lifecycle ...

Abstract: To guarantee the final assembly quality of the large-scale components, the assembly interfaces of large components need to be finish-machined on site. Such assembly interfaces are often in low-stiffness structure and made ...

Abstract: Assembly interface of aircraft vertical tail is a large thin-wall structure and made from titanium alloys, which causes easily machining vibration, deformation and undercutting in finish machining due to its low stiffness, ...