Factory Automation

Javier Silvestre-Blanes

Open access peer-reviewed Edited volume

Factory Automation

Factory automation has evolved significantly in the last few decades, and is today a complex, interdisciplinary, scientific area. In this book a selection of papers on topics related to factory automation is presented, covering a broad spectrum, so that the reader may become familiar with the various fields, and also study them in more depth where required. Within various chapters in this book, special attention is given to distributed applications and their use of networks, since it is one of the most relevant subjects in the evolution of factory automation. Different Medium Access Control and networks are analyzed, while Ethernet and Wireless networks are looked at in more detail, since they are among the hottest topics in recent research. Another important subject is everything concerning the increase in the complexity of factory automation, and the need for flexibility and interoperability. Finally the use of multi-agent systems, advanced control, formal methods, or the application in this field of RFID, are additional examples of the ideas and disciplines that experts around the world have analyzed in their work.

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Factory AutomationEdited by Javier Silvestre-Blanes

Published: March 1st 2010

ISBN: 978-953-307-024-7

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43 Crossref Citations

32 Web of Science Citations

86 Dimensions Citations

chapters		Downloads
Open access peer-reviewed 1. Engineering Processes for Decentralized Factory Automation Systems By Thomas Wagner, Carolin Hausner, Jurgen Elger, Ulrich Lowen and Arndt Luder		2558
Open access peer-reviewed 2. Wireless Technologies in Factory Automation By Aurel Buda, Volker Schuermann and Joerg F. Wollert		2301
Open access peer-reviewed 3. A Real-Time Wireless Communication System Based on 802.11 MAC By Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda, L. Alfredo Grieco and Giammarco Zacheo		2300
Open access peer-reviewed 4. When the Industry Goes Wireless: Drivers, Requirements, Technology and Future Trends By Simon Carlsen and Stig Petersen		1874
Open access peer-reviewed 5. Rapid Application Development for Wireless Sensor Networks By Mohammad Mostafizur Rahman Mozumdar and Luciano Lavagno		2319
Open access peer-reviewed 6. VAN Applied to Control of Utilities Networks - Requirements and Capabilities By Javier Silverstre-Blanes, Victor-M. Sempere-Paya and Teresa Albero-Albero		1219
Open access peer-reviewed 7. Wireless Sensor Networks for Networked Manufacturing Systems By L. Q. Zhuang, D. H. Zhang and M. M. Wong		2779
Open access peer-reviewed 8. Wired and Wireless Reliable Real-Time Communication in Industrial Systems By Magnus Jonsson and Kristina Kunert		1672
Open access peer-reviewed 9. A Perspective on the IEEE 802.11e Protocol for the Factory Floor By Lucia Lo Bello, Emanuele Toscano and Salvatore Vittorio		1981
Open access peer-reviewed 10. Wireless Sensor Networks in Industrial Automation By Marko Paavola and Kauko Leiviska		4081
Open access peer-reviewed 11. Analysis of Switched Ethernet for Real-Time Transmission By Joan Vila-Carbo, Joaquim Tur-Massanet and Enrique Hernandez-Orallo		2155
Open access peer-reviewed 12. Token Passing Techniques for Hard Real-Time Communication By Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo and Tullio Facchinetti		1944
Open access peer-reviewed 13. Performance and Reliability of Fault-Tolerant Ethernet Networked Control Systems By Ramez M. Daoud, Hassanein H. Amer and Hany M. ElSayed		1948
Open access peer-reviewed 14. Study of Event-based Sampling Techniques and Their Influence on Greenhouse Climate Control with Wireless Sensors Network By Andrzej Pawlowski, Jose L. Guzman, Francisco Rodriguez, Manuel Berenguel, Jose Sanchez and Sebastian Dormido		2083
Open access peer-reviewed 15. 3D RFID Simulation and Design - Factory Automation By Wei Liu and Ming Mao Wong		3092
Open access peer-reviewed 16. Robustness Enhancement of Networked Control Systems By Michal Morawski and Antoni Zajaczkowski		1265
Open access peer-reviewed 17. The Role of Business-to-Control Agents in Next Generation Automation Enterprise Systems By Francisco P. Maturana and Eugene Liberman		1269
Open access peer-reviewed 18. A Multiagent Architecture Based in aFoundation Fieldbus Network Function Blocks By Vinicius Ponte Machado, Dennis Brandao, Adriao Duarte Doria Neto and Jorge Dantas de Melo		1633
Open access peer-reviewed 19. Production System’s Life Cycle-Oriented Innovation of Industrial Information Systems By Dencovski Kristian, Lowen Ulrich, Holm Timo, Amberg Michael, Maurmaier Mathias and Gohner Peter		2278
Open access peer-reviewed 20. Asynchronous Analogue-to-Digital Conversion Techniques By Nikos Petrellis, Michael Birbas, John Kikidis and Alex Birbas		3624
Open access peer-reviewed 21. Implementation of the Delay Compensator Approach By Ana Antunes, Fernando Dias, Jose Vieira and Alexandre Mota		1365
Open access peer-reviewed 22. Control of Robot Interaction Forces Using Evolutionary Techniques By Jose de Gea, Yohannes Kassahun and Frank Kirchner		1658
Open access peer-reviewed 23. Formal Methods in Factory Automation By Corina Popescu and Jose L. Martinez Lastra		1870
Open access peer-reviewed 24. Adaptive Implementation of Discrete Event Control Systems based on Sequential Function Charts By Ramon Piedrafita and Jose Luis Villarroel		1779
Open access peer-reviewed 25. Automated Production Monitoring and Control System Engineering by Combining a Standardized Data Format (CAEX) with Standardized Communication (OPC UA) By Miriam Schleipen		2835
Open access peer-reviewed 26. Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Using Potential Field for a Nonholonomic Vehicle By Hiroaki Seki, Yoshitsugu Kamiya and Masatoshi Hikizu		1732
Open access peer-reviewed 27. Developing FPGA-based Embedded Controllers Using Matlab/Simulink By T. Barlas and M. Moallem		7713
Open access peer-reviewed 28. Model Reference Control of Human-Operated Mobile Robot for Object Transportation By Naoki Uchiyama and Tatsuhiro Hashimoto		1173
Open access peer-reviewed 29. Diagnosis of Intermittent Faults and its dynamics By A. Correcher, E. Garcia, F. Morant, E. Quiles and L. Rodriguez		1276
Open access peer-reviewed 30. Easy-Implementable On-line Identification Method for a First-Order System Including a Time-Delay By Satoshi Suzuki and Katsuhisa Furuta		1482

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