Coalition based approach for shop floor agility – a multiagent approach

Dissertation submitted for a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, speciality of Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaThis thesis addresses the problem of shop floor agility. In order to cope with the disturbances and uncertainties that characterise the current business scenarios faced by manufacturing companies, the capability of their shop floors needs to be improved quickly, such that these shop floors may be adapted, changed or become easily modifiable (shop floor reengineering). One of the critical elements in any shop floor reengineering process is the way the control/supervision architecture is changed or modified to accommodate for the new processes and equipment. This thesis, therefore, proposes an architecture to support the fast adaptation or changes in the control/supervision architecture. This architecture postulates that manufacturing systems are no more than compositions of modularised manufacturing components whose interactions when aggregated are governed by contractual mechanisms that favour configuration over reprogramming. A multiagent based reference architecture called Coalition Based Approach for Shop floor Agility – CoBASA, was created to support fast adaptation and changes of shop floor control architectures with minimal effort. The coalitions are composed of agentified manufacturing components (modules), whose relationships within the coalitions are governed by contracts that are configured whenever a coalition is established. Creating and changing a coalition do not involve programming effort because it only requires changes to the contract that regulates it

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Modelação e integração em sistemas flexíveis de produção

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática,pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaEsta tese trata da modelação e integração em sistemas flexíveis de produção, com vista à construção de uma plataforma de suporte ao desenvolvimento de supervisores inteligentes. Faz-se uma apresentação sumária dos aspectos de modelação importantes para a construção de plataformas de integração, usando paradigmas de modelação com potencial para descreverem sistemas flexíveis de manufactura: programação orientada por objectos e "frames". Analisam-se as diferentes questões importantes relacionadas com a modelação estrutural e comportamental dos componentes que participam numa célula; propõem-se diversas taxonomias e uma metodologia para ligar os controladores locais à sua "imagem" (modelo). De seguida, descreve-se um trabalho de concepção/implementação de dois sistemas flexíveis de manufactura, concebendo/desenvolvendo a plataforma integrada de um dos sistemas. Mostram-se os servidores utilizados para integrar os diversos controladores locais, recorrendo ao paradigma cliente-servidor e realçam-se as dificuldades de integração surgidas com as arquitecturas fechadas da maioria dos controladores locais. Construiu-se ainda um modelo do sistema, usando as técnicas apresentadas, suportando a ligação com os controladores locais. Finalmente apresenta-se um método para a síntese de sistemas de supervisão, a partir de redes de Petri, descrevendo-se resultados experimentais resultantes da aplicação da metodologia a uma célula de montagem do sistema em estudo

A DIN Spec 91345 RAMI 4.0 Compliant Data Pipelining Model: An Approach to Support Data Understanding and Data Acquisition in Smart Manufacturing Environments

Today, data scientists in the manufacturing domain are confronted with various communication standards, protocols and technologies to save and transfer various kinds of data. These circumstances makes it hard to understand, find, access and extract data needed for use case depended applications. One solution could be a data pipelining approach enforced by a semantic model which describes smart manufacturing assets itself and the access to their data along their life-cycle. Many research contributions in smart manufacturing already came out with with reference architectures like the RAMI 4.0 or standards for meta data description or asset classification. Our research builds upon these outcomes and introduces a semantic model based DIN Spec 91345 (RAMI 4.0) compliant data pipelining approach with the smart manufacturing domain as exemplary use case. This paper has a focus on the developed semantic model used to enable an easy data exploration, finding, access and extraction of data, compatible with various used communication standards, protocols and technologies used to save and transfer data.publishersversionpublishe

Perfil morfológico, maturacional, funcional e técnico de jovens futebolistas Brasileiro

The objectives of this study were to describe and compare the anthropometric profile, physical fitness and soccer-specific skills between under-15 and under-17 Brazilian soccer players, as well as to evaluate possible differences in these variables according to biological maturation in the age categories. The sample consisted of 245 male soccer players (under-15: n=161; under-17: n=84). Anthropometric measures included weight, height and skinfolds. Biological maturation was assessed based on pubic hair development. The following tests were used for functional assessment: static and countermovement jump, Yo-Yo intermittent endurance test (level 2), RAST, 5- and 30-meter running speed, and agility T-test. Soccer-specific skills were assessed using three tests: ball control, dribbling, and kick accuracy. Descriptive statistics, t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for statistical analysis. The results showed a larger body size (stature and body mass), longer sports experience (years of formal training) and better performance in most of the functional tests for under-17 soccer players compared to under-15 players. There were no significant differences in adiposity or soccer-specific skills between levels of competition. Significant differences as a function of maturation stage were observed in anthropometric and functional variables only in the under-15 category. In conclusion, the under-17 category differs from the under-15 category in terms of anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics. However, no difference was observed in two of the three soccer-specific skills. Physical fitness components and soccer-specific skills were associated with maturity only in the under-15 category.Foram objetivos deste estudo caracterizar e comparar o perfil antropométrico, funcional e das habilidades motoras específicas (HME) de jovens futebolistas Brasileiros brasileiros sub-15 e sub-17, assim como verificar possíveis diferenças nas variáveis referenciadas em função da maturação biológica nas categorias etárias. O efetivo da amostra foi constituído por 245 futebolistas do sexo masculino (sub-15, n=161; sub-17, n=84). As medidas antropométricas incluíram a massa corporal, a estatura e as dobras cutâneas. A maturação biológica foi acedida através do desenvolvimento da pilosidade púbica. O desempenho funcional foi realizado através dos testes: salto estático e com contra-movimento, Yo-Yo intermittent endurance test (nível 2), RAST, velocidade de 5 e 30 metros e teste T de agilidade. Nas HME recorreu-se a três testes: controle da bola, condução da bola e precisão de chute. Na análise dos dados para além da estatística descritiva foi utilizado o teste t de medidas independentes e a análise da variância de medidas independentes (ANOVA). Os resultados indicaram que os futebolistas sub-17 são mais altos e pesados e apresentam um desempenho superior na generalidade das provas funcionais. Adiposidade e duas das três HME não mostraram diferenças significativas em função da categoria. Foram observadas diferenças significativas em função do estágio maturacional apenas nos sub-15 em variáveis antropométricas e funcionais. Em conclusão, os futebolistas sub-17 diferem dos sub-15 nas características antropométricas e capacidades funcionais. No entanto as HME parecem não ser sensíveis à influência da idade

Digital transformation in service and computing oriented manufacturing

This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers which were presented at the sixth edition of the International Workshop “Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing—SOHOMA’16” organized on October 6–7, 2016 by the New University of Lisbon, Portugal in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis, France and the CRAN Research Centre for Automatic Control, Nancy of the University of Lorraine, France.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Identify of a tilapia pheromone released by dominant males that primes females for reproduction

Knowledge of the chemical identity and role of urinary pheromones in fish is scarce, yet necessary to understand the integration of multiple senses in adaptive responses and the evolution of chemical communication. In nature, Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) males form hierarchies and females mate preferentially with dominant territorial males which they visit in aggregations or leks

StemChecker: a web-based tool to discover and explore stemness signatures in gene sets

Stem cells present unique regenerative abilities, offering great potential for treatment of prevalent pathologies such as diabetes, neurodegenerative and heart diseases. Various research groups dedicated significant effort to identify sets of genes-so-called stemness signatures-considered essential to define stem cells. However, their usage has been hindered by the lack of comprehensive resources and easy-to-use tools. For this we developed StemChecker, a novel stemness analysis tool, based on the curation of nearly fifty published stemness signatures defined by gene expression, RNAi screens, Transcription Factor (TF) binding sites, literature reviews and computational approaches. StemChecker allows researchers to explore the presence of stemness signatures in user-defined gene sets, without carrying-out lengthy literature curation or data processing. To assist in exploring underlying regulatory mechanisms, we collected over 80 target gene sets of TFs associated with pluri- or multipotency. StemChecker presents an intuitive graphical display, as well as detailed statistical results in table format, which helps revealing transcriptionally regulatory programs, indicating the putative involvement of stemness-associated processes in diseases like cancer. Overall, StemChecker substantially expands the available repertoire of online tools, designed to assist the stem cell biology, developmental biology, regenerative medicine and human disease research community. StemChecker is freely accessible at http://stemchecker.sysbiolab.eu.Portuguese Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) [RH/BPD/96890/2013, SFRH/BPD/70718/2010, PTDC/BIA/GEN/116519/2010, IF/00881/2013, PTDC/BIA-GEN/116519/2010]; Programa Doutoral ProRegeM-Mecanismos de Doenca e Medicina Regenerativa [PD/00117/2012]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio