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Svensson, Andreas. "Automatic Generation of Control Code for Flexible Automation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-84412.
Full textTrelinski, Michael. "Heijunka Automation." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2016. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/434.
Full textMengana, Bashar, and Fredrik Raak. "Building Automation." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektro- och systemteknik (EES), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-199263.
Full textGorban, Je S., and L. V. Simonchuk. "Automation systems." Thesis, КНУТД, 2016. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/5015.
Full textStutz, Peter. "Office automation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17222.
Full textOffice automation systems have become an essential tool for the operation of the modern office. With the emphasis of a modern office being placed on efficiency and ease of communication, office automation systems have become the backbone of successful businesses. COSNET is a prototype office automation system designed and implemented at the Department of the University of Cape Town and runs on Personal Computers that are linked to a NCR UNIX TOWER, which acts as the host. This dissertation investigates the different facilities supported by some of the office automation systems compared in this thesis, and describes the COSNET features. This prototype office automation system supports many of the facilities that are supported by large office automation systems. COSNET allows the user to define any MS-DOS based editor or word processor, and uses a simple editor for the creation of mail. The electronic filing facility allows documents to be created, filed, retrieved and deleted, and thus provides the users with the necessary features for document exchange. A user may set access permissions to each of his documents and may grant other users either read or write access to a specific document. The mail facility lets the user read, file, forward, delete and print a message, and supports classification of mail. A calendar facility is used as an electronic diary and stores all the user's schedules. These schedules may be viewed in either daily, weekly and monthly display modes. Read and write access to the calendar can be set by the user, in order to allow other users to manipulate his schedules. Any MS-DOS based application software can be added to COSNET. This facility allows the COSNET user to configure the office automation system to simulate the office environment. COSNET thus supports most of the necessary features required by an office automation system.
Cizner, Pavel. "Procurement Automation." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359252.
Full textGewriye, Kristian. "Automatisering av kvalitetsinspektion vid storskalig fordonsproduktion : En fallstudie vid Scania CV." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-79993.
Full textLindholm, David. "Economics of Test Automation : Test case selection for automation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Programvara och system, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-154941.
Full textBorndalen, Philip. "Automation and Improved control of Bundle pusher : Automation control." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353933.
Full textMakarechi, Shariar. "Automation Performance Index." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14063.
Full textHådén, Thor. "IPv6 Home Automation." Thesis, KTH, Kommunikationssystem, CoS, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-91502.
Full textHemautomation handlar om att styra och övervaka vanliga funktioner i hemmet såsom belysning, värme, persienner samt apparater såsom vitvaror och hemelektronik. Denna rapport beskriver hur man kan styra och övervaka sådana apparater över IPv6 genom att använda existerande hemautomationssystem och en internetansluten gateway. Det finns många tillgängliga hemautomationssystem men dessa är ofta tillverkarspecifika och/eller bara designade för väldigt specifika syften. Syftet med detta projekt är att bana väg för att få apparater i hemmet att kommunicera via IP och göra dem internetanslutna. På så sätt kan apparaterna styras både inom hemmet men även från andra platser. Genom att göra varje apparat internetansluten krävs ingen central internetansluten styrenhet, vilket skulle göra hemautomation enklare och bidra med ytterligare en bra anledning att implementera IPv6 på större skala. Målet för detta projekt har varit att skapa en virtuell, användbar prototyp av ett hemautomationssystem för IPv6. Detta har gjorts genom att använda existerande hårdvara för hemautomation och en PCbaserad gateway som översätter kontrollkommandon från IPv6 till det hemautomationssystem som används. Detta innebär att överföra data mellan olika länk- och fysiska lager. Genom att använda denna plattform kan man skapa nya applikationer där apparaterna kommunicerar mellan varandra utan att förlita sig på en central styrenhet. Denna rapport beskriver också grunderna för hur ett datorgränssnitt kan överföra information från anslutna apparater i hemmet till Internet.
Rowen, Christopher William. "Fast food automation." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/18903.
Full textVestin, Alexander. "Automation och Standardisering." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Maskinteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-27012.
Full textMård, Mathias. "Automation i Distributionsnät." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för elektro- och automationsteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4119.
Full textДядечко, Алла Миколаївна, Алла Николаевна Дядечко, Alla Mykolaivna Diadechko, Олег Борисович Берест, Олег Борисович Берест, and Oleh Borysovych Berest. "Automation in brief." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16830.
Full textOhlsson, Johannes, and Oliver Robertsson. "Automation av svets." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42694.
Full textFisher, Joseph E. "Telescope Automation Project." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1239734605.
Full textChalla, Dinesh Kumar. "Vehicle highway automation." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2338.
Full textDring, Joshua. "Pilot plant automation." Thesis, Dring, Joshua (2012) Pilot plant automation. Other thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/13114/.
Full textBRINGHENTI, DANIELE. "Network Security Automation." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2973798.
Full textMishev, Grigor. "Analysis of the Automation and the Human Worker, Connection between the Levels of Automation and Different Automation Concepts." Thesis, Jönköping University, JTH, Industrial Engineering and Management, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9748.
Full textManufacturing is becoming a crucial part of now-a-days fast growing economies and increase of earth’s population. Recently manufacturing is changing rapidly, different manufacturing strategies are being implemented, the conceptual understanding for manufacturing is changed, and new ways of producing products are showing up. Automation has been the essential term regarding the modern manufacturing processes. The humanmachine sharing is playing a major role in the production systems, and the most elegant thing is to create and design the appropriate level for interaction between them depending on the desired outcome in the production area. Technological innovation is the implementation of new more efficient production method by achieving qualitative improvements of the goods and services in a specific area in this paper’s case is a production system. This paper is regarding the importance of the correct production system being chosen for an organization regarding the right level of automation (LoA) being used, which is a way of controlling the overall effectiveness of the system. Different approaches and methods are going to be used for demonstrating the choice of the exact and right level of automation and the possibility of changing it by introducing and implementing the ongoing DYNAMO research on a different conceptual solutions for a foundry application in Factory-in-a-Box. The main objective of the research is to develop a method and system for supporting sustainable flexible and reconfigurable production system providing competitive industrial characteristics in the fast developing world.
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Pedale, Anna. "Study and design energy-efficient home automation systems." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/243047.
Full textUn insieme di elettrodomestici (ad esempio lavatrice, lavastoviglie, forno, frigorifero, caldaia) e sottosistemi (ad esempio per il riscaldamento, per aria condizionata), che sono collegati da una rete di comunicazione, costituiscono un Home Automation Systems (HAS). Ogni sistema appartenente a tale ambiente condivide una risorsa comune (energia elettrica, ma anche acqua e gas) per raggiungere i propri compiti, in base alle esigenze dell'utente. Dal momento che le risorse sono limitate, nel senso che il loro consumo non può superare dei limiti fissati (legati ai costi, le regole del contratto o direttive del fornitore), la concorrenza tra gli elementi del sistema genera conflitti interni. Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di descrivere un approccio alla modellazione e studio di sistemi domotici, basato sulla teoria MAS, che consente di introdurre una formalizzazione rigorosa e definire strumenti pratici per l'analisi delle prestazioni del sistema. Il comportamento di tali modelli è caratterizzato dalle reti di Petri. Essi si compongono di due dinamiche, una guidata dal tempo e l’altra dagli eventi. Il primo componente (chiamato BEHAVIOR) modella il comportamento funzionale dell'elettrodomestico, mentre il secondo componente (chiamato PLUG) modella l’interazione con la risorsa condivisa. Per ottimizzare il funzionamento della casa occorre un ampio studio dell'intero ambiente e del profilo di carico reale di ciascun elettrodomestico come suo modello di consumo di energia elettrica. Inoltre è richiesta un'analisi sulle competenze e proprietà che ogni dispositivo possiede, caratterizzandoli come agenti cognitivi e reattivi, in grado di comunicare la propria richiesta e di rispondere alle esigenze degli utenti. Tale comunicazione è realizzata per mezzo di una lavagna condivisa di informazioni e un web service in grado di condividere e controllare il comportamento dei singoli dispositivi domotici per soddisfare il desiderio dell’ utente.
Carnbo, Linda. "Framtagning av en utvecklingsprocess för automation - baserat på konceptet Lean Automation." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-15298.
Full textCorrado, Joseph R. "Robust fixed-structure controller synthesis." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/12945.
Full textQuiroz, Marco Antonio. "Simulation of a microload automated storage/retrieval system." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24574.
Full textHaglund, Kristoffer. "Automation of support service using Natural Language Processing : - Automation of errands tagging." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96891.
Full textJohnson, Jason D. "Type of automation failure the effects on trust and reliance in automation /." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11222004-141527/unrestricted/johnson%5Fjason%5Fd%5F200412%5Fmast.pdf.
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Zia, Muhammad Irfan, and Mora Felipe Cortés. "Automation of packing process." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-1251.
Full textThe design work that precedes the automation of a process is not an easy job. Each one of the variables and possible risks involved in process must be carefully considered before implement the final design as well the requirements in performance and cost. However automate a dangerous, inefficient or just uncomfortable task entails many benefits that make up for the long period of design process. A well automated line will benefit the production with quality, productivity and capacity among other profits. In this project the immediate objective is to automate the “SANDFLEX Hacksaw blades” packaging process in the plant that SNAEurope owns in Lidköping. Actually the packing is completely manual. One operator packs the blades into the boxes meanwhile one more operator loads and unloads the packing station with empty and full boxes respectively. The task is both, tiring and uncomfortable for the operators as well inefficient for the company since the production rate is limited.
Analyzing and observing carefully product and process, different theories and strategies to achieve the goal were developed. Three are the possible solutions to solve the problem, with different levels of automation and technologies. The robotic solution uses an articulated robot to perform all the tasks; the hybrid solution uses pneumatic devices to pack the blades and an articulated robot to support the station loading and unloading the boxes. Finally the pneumatic solution uses only pneumatic devices, which hold, open and close, push box and blades using airpower; a few sensors detect positions and states, since a PLC coordinates and controls all process. By means of discussing these solutions with the company’s engineers and workers, after a deep literature study and two test of performance, was it possible to select the most suitable solution to accomplish the packaging task. The pneumatic solution is cheap and simple, but at the same time robust and reliable. This design performs the packaging task efficiently and fast. And more important, the operator passes from pack manually the blades to monitor the process.
Malm, Anders, and Fredrik Mjörning. "Home Automation Using Elvin." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-475.
Full textHome automation systems of today tend to be external solutions to an existing product that enable rather complex and expensive communications equipment to be attached to existing products. This is because it would not be economically defendable to implement the communications hardware internally in the products, due to a high increase of the cost for the product. This thesis tries to solve this problem by introducing a low-cost product-embedded solution for home automation. By using the Elvin protocol together with low-cost communication solutions, such as the RS232 protocol and Open/Closed circuits, communications could be embedded into products and device interaction could be implemented without increasing the cost of already existing products too much. Furthermore this thesis will discuss an implementation of an Elvin router that will act as a bridge between RS232, Open/Closed circuits and the Ethernet network that contains an Elvin server.
林旭明 and Yuk-ming Lam. "Automation in soil testing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31209774.
Full textDidier, Jon. "Art, avoidism, and automation." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1400.
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Hanke, Michael. "Automation and airline pricing." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285303.
Full textAnderson, James Robert 1972. "Automation of inventory management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34723.
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Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions (QWBS) provides communication equipment and services used to track trucking fleets and other capital assets via satellite. Order fulfillment and inventory management practices in QWBS were non-uniform and manually intensive. Buyers used their own intuition and rules-of-thumb to decide how many parts to order and how many parts should be held in stock to buffer against unexpected demand fluctuations. Non-uniform, manual inventory management practices resulted in higher inventory levels, lower customer service, and higher operational costs than can be achieved with uniform, formal management practices. This thesis describes the design and implementation of an automated inventory management system that optimizes inventory levels and alleviates manual effort. Benchmarking was used to show how a similar firm used inventory management techniques to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Quantitative analysis was used to develop an inventory management simulator that allowed alternative management strategies to be tested before implementing changes to the real system. Simulation results showed that QWBS inventories for fiscal year 2001 (FY01) could have been reduced by 40% had an automated inventory management policy been in place. In addition, automation would have reduced the manual effort of buyers by about 32%. Results from the simulator motivated the formation of the Automated Inventory Manager (AIM) project team. AIM is designed to automate order fulfillment and inventory management tasks and allow procurement's human resources to be redirected from low level transaction processing tasks to more value-added tasks. AIM is expected to liberate $700K in working capital and save approximately $240K per year in ongoing inventory and labor cost reductions, representing a 1-year ROI of 200%. However, AIM represents only the first step in a recommended cost reduction program to streamline the fulfillment of customer orders and reduce organizational redundancies.
by James Robert Anderson.
S.M.
Kim, Hyung-Jun. "Automation of soft lithography." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38290.
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This dissertation is a final documentation of the project whose goal is demonstrating manufacturability of soft lithography. Specifically, our target is creating micron scale patterns of resists on a 3 square inch, relatively large area in case of soft lithography, flexible substrate using microcontact printing in order to forming electronic circuit patterns for flexible displays. At first, the general principles and characteristics of soft lithography are reviewed in order to provide the snapshot of soft lithography technologies, and the key factors that affect the productivity and quality of microcontact printing are discussed because such factors should be understood in advanced to develop current lab-based microcontact printing science into plant manufacturing technology. We proposed a prototype for automated of microcontact printing process adopting a continuous reel-to-reel design, ideal for mass production, as well as printing-side-up design in order to minimize the distortion of relief features of PDMS stamp. The machine we created not only demonstrated the manufacturability of microcontact printing, our initial project goal, but also high scalability for mass production. The machine can print micron scale patterns on a 7 square inch plastic sheet, four times bigger than initial target area, at once.
by Hyung-Jun Kim.
M.Eng.
A, Elhassan Amro. "Building automation and control." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektro- och systemteknik (EES), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-199311.
Full textFernandes, Bernardo Nobre. "Automation and labor displacement." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21154.
Full textEsta dissertação analisa a forma como o progresso tecnológico influencia o mercado laboral. Foi criado um modelo teórico com base na "routine-biased technical change", assim como uma análise empírica que avalia a forma como o conteúdo rotineiro de tarefas numa dada ocupação é afetado pela adoção de tecnologia no trabalho. Adicionalmente também foi estimado o efeito da adoção tecnológica na polarização dos rendimentos.
This dissertation addresses the way technological progress affects the structure of labor market. A theoretical framework based on the routine-biased technical change hypothesis was constructed. The empirical analysis evaluates how the routine task content of occupations is impacted by the adoption of technology at work using a linear model with a fixed-effects estimator. Additionally, the effects of technological adoption at work on the polarization of income were estimated using an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition.
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Santini, Tommaso. "Three Essays on Automation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673325.
Full textLos avances recientes en las capacidades tecnológicas suscitan la preocupación de que una fracción considerable de las ocupaciones actuales corren un alto riesgo de ser automatizadas en un futuro próximo. Hay muchos estudios en la literatura que sostienen que esta es una posibilidad concreta. Lo que estos artículos hacen en la práctica es, en primer lugar, comprender lo que la tecnología es capaz de hacer hoy y lo que podrá hacer en un futuro próximo, según los expertos en tecnología. Luego, relacionan esta información con las tareas que realizan hoy los trabajadores en sus ocupaciones. Si bien existe un efecto directo que tiende a disminuir la demanda de dichos trabajadores, existen otros efectos de equilibrio general asociados con la adopción de tecnología de automatización que tienden a aumentar la demanda de mano de obra. De hecho, a pesar de que se ha producido una automatización masiva en el pasado, la mano de obra no se volvió "redundante". A pesar del conocido beneficio del progreso tecnológico sobre el crecimiento económico y el nivel de vida, también se ha identificado como una de las principales razones de la disminución de las perspectivas de ingresos y empleo para grupos específicos de población. Comprender la automatización significa diseñar mejores políticas que puedan maximizar los beneficios de los avances tecnológicos incentivando la innovación y reasignando recursos a los hogares más frágiles. Además, la pandemia de coronavirus podría aumentar aún más el incentivo para adoptar tecnologías que sustituyan la mano de obra, ya que las máquinas no se infectan ni enferman. Comprender las condiciones que fomentan la adopción de la tecnología de automatización y el efecto general de la automatización en los ingresos y el empleo es el enfoque de esta tesis doctoral.
Recent advances in technological capabilities raise concern that a sizable fraction of today's occupations is at high risk of being automated in the near future. There are many studies in the literature arguing that this is a concrete possibility. What these papers do in practice is first to understand what technology is able to do today and what will be able to do in the near future according to technology experts. Then, they match this information with the tasks that are performed today by workers in their occupations. While there is a direct effect that tends to decrease the demand for such workers, there are other general equilibrium effects associated with the adoption of automation technology that tend to increase the demand for labor. Indeed, despite massive automation has happened in the past, labor did not become "redundant". Despite the known benefit of technological progress on economic growth and living standard, it has also been identified as one of the major reasons for the decrease in the earning and employment prospects for specific groups of populations. To understand automation means to design better policies that can maximize the benefits of technological advances by incentivizing innovation and reallocating resources to the most fragile households. Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic could further increase the incentive to adopt labor-substituting technologies, as machines do not get infected and sick. To understand the conditions that foster the adoption of automation technology and the overall effect of automation on earnings and employment is the focus of this doctoral thesis.
Machado, César Costa. "XHA: eXtensible Hyper-Automation." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/3469.
Full textRuppert, John R. Jake. "Office automation migration strategy." Master's thesis, Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46351.
Full textEldh, Philip, and Olliver Närsten. "Färskvaror, automation och framtiden." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20751.
Full textThere’s currently a strong demand, national and international, for a more effective use of resources and perishable goods, among those behind this demand is the Swedish government, the UN and the daily grocery business interest group, Svenskt Näringsliv. At the same time the environmental protection agency in Sweden reports that 1.3 million tons of food are thrown away yearly and that 40% of this originates from the end consumer and the daily grocery business. This problem occurs even though the daily grocery business operates with automated ordering systems (AOS). With this as a starting point the authors have, using evidence-based management methods, interviews and observations, studied the current stat of the Swedish grocery chain Axfood’s AOS, called Autoorder (AO) from an inventory management-based perspective. This resulted in a simple prototype model, where the dynamic modelling of inventory management took center, to act as a foundation for future research within AOS.
Ruppert, John R. 'Jake'. "Office automation migration strategy /." This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232009-020121/.
Full textLam, Yuk-ming. "Automation in soil testing /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12973233.
Full textHsu, Kevin Li-en. "INSERT INSTALLATION AUTOMATION SYSTEM." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192493.
Full textBiester, Lars. "Cooperative automation in automobiles." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15935.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation is to systematically develop a continuative concept of driver-automobile cooperation, to evaluate its suitability on the basis of empirical data, and to value its provable potential in relation to existing approaches.Assumptions and premises regarding the human-machine interaction constitute the starting point of this work. The decisive altercation and notional differentiation of cooperation are explained in just this context, leading logically to a definitional demarcation of existing approaches, the demand of a specific role understanding of the interaction as well as the derivation of conceptual basic conditions. The structural and procedural characteristics of this specific interaction are then elaborated upon and used to identify the general attributes of cooperation between driver and automobile. In the following, such indicators are derived by which the implied profit as a result of cooperation between driver and automobile can be controlled and valued. Within the framework of several preliminary investigations, those driving situations were identified that would profit most from a cooperative interaction between driver and automobile. As a result, the two driving scenarios "Overtaking on Highways" and "Turning Left on Urban and Country Roads with Oncoming Traffic" were utilized in the experiments. Both single scenarios have been compared in independent experiments with regard to alternative system variants. The prove of specific hypotheses was embedded in the prototypical surroundings of a driving simulator. Finally, the possibility of establishing and embedding this interaction concept into the overall socio-technical context will be presented, and future perspectives will be discussed.
Vallance, Robert Ryan. "Precision connector assembly automation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38433.
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Telecommunication systems, network servers, mainframes, and high-performance computers contain several printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are mounted in card-cage assemblies. Level-3 connectors, often called board-to-board connectors, transmit signals between the primary backplane PCB and the daughter card PCBs. These connectors are customized for each PCB by configuring modules along the length of the connector. Hence, the connector's assembly system must flexibly accommodate the connector configurations. Prior to this research, the assembly of daughter card connectors was a manual process. This thesis presents the conceptual design of an assembly cell, and thoroughly presents the selected concept, a flexible assembly system. In the flexible assembly system, the connector is fixtured on a pallet and transferred to assembly stations on a conveyor. The pallet must be precisely located at each station, to minimize the relative errors between the new component and the connector on the pallet. Kinematic couplings deterministically locate one rigid body with respect to another. Therefore, a pallet system was developed that uses split-groove kinematic couplings between the pallets and machines. Experiments demonstrated that the split-groove kinematic pallet was approximately O1X more repeatable than conventional pallet location methods. The design is evident in the fabrication and operation of the first automated machines for the connector assembly system. In automated machinery, kinematically coupled bodies are often subjected to ranges of disturbance forces. This thesis presents new methods for analyzing the static equilibrium, errors due to contact deformation, and contact stresses that result from disturbance forces. In addition, the manufacturing errors within individual pallets and machines combine to cause system-wide, variability in pallet location. Two methods are presented for estimating the system-wide variability in the position and orientation of the pallets.
by Robert Ryan Vallance.
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Norman, Christopher. "Systematic review automation methods." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASS028.
Full textRecent advances in artificial intelligence have seen limited adoption in systematic reviews,and much of the systematic review process remains manual, time-consuming, and expensive. Authors conducting systematic reviews face issues throughout the systematic review process. It is difficult and time-consuming to search and retrieve,collect data, write manuscripts, and perform statistical analyses. Screening automation has been suggested as a way to reduce the workload, but uptake has been limited due to a number of issues,including licensing, steep learning curves, lack of support, and mismatches to workflow. There is a need to better a lign current methods to the need of the systematic review community.Diagnostic test accuracy studies are seldom indexed in an easily retrievable way, and suffer from variable terminology and missing or inconsistently applied database labels. Methodological search queries to identify diagnostic studies therefore tend to have low accuracy, and are discouraged for use in systematic reviews. Consequently, there is a particular need for alternative methods to reduce the workload in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy.In this thesis we have explored the hypothesis that automation methods can offer an efficient way tomake the systematic review process quicker and less expensive, provided we can identify and overcomebarriers to their adoption. Automated methods have the opportunity to make the process cheaper as well as more transparent, accountable, and reproducible
Ström, David, and Carl Jensen. "Compact safety system for automatic flagpole : Flow sensor anemometer." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264448.
Full textAutomatisering av arbetsuppgifter och processer blir mer och mer vanligt både på företag och i vardagslivet. Detta projekt hade som mål att bistå företaget Hotswap med utvecklingen av ett säkerhetssystem för en befintlig automatisk flaggstång. Säkerhetssystemet ska kunna mäta vindstyrka och vindriktning och kommunicera den uppmätta datan till flaggstångens kontrollenhet. Rapporten beskriver och diskuterar de olika möjliga mekanismer och lösningar som finns för att mäta vindhastighet samt en möjlig implementering. En metod för mätning av vindhastighet där en hot-wire flödessensor valdes och en prototyp utvecklades sedan för att testa den implementerade metodens prestanda. Testen visade att användning av flödessensorn tillfredsställde de ställda kraven på prototypen gällande vindhastighetsmätning och mätprecision med en medelavvikelse på 0.19 m/s från referensvärdet. Lösningen diskuterades och jämfördes sedan med Hotswaps befintliga prototyp. Jämförelsen visade att prototypen var ett rimligt alternativ. Slutligen presenterades några förslag på vidareutveckling tillsammans med slutsatsen att prototypen är en konceptvalidering för en fullt realiserbar lösning.
Muratovic, Alan, and Poyan Azadan. "Automation and job protection : Does automation slow down when employment protection is strong?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85154.
Full textBellman, Markus, and Gustav Göransson. "Intelligent Process Automation : Building the bridge between Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263090.
Full textProcessautomation har potentialen att ge stora fördelar för företag och organisationer, speciellt i finansbranschen där företag är informationsintensiva och har stora dataflöden. Detta har huvudsakligen gjorts med Robotic Process Automation (RPA) men den ökade mognadsgraden av maskininlärning har snabbt förbättrat möjligheten att kombinera RPA med Artificiell Intelligens (AI) för att därmed möjliggöra Intelligent Process Automation (IPA). I övergången från RPA till IPA uppkommer däremot en del utmaningar och problem som företag måste hanteras innan potentialen med dessa nya tekniker kan förverkligas. Den här forskningen ämnar att identifiera de utmaningar som företagen kommer ställas inför samt ge vägledning för vilka förberedelser som företagen måste genomföra innan IPA kan implementeras fullskaligt i organisationen. Forskningen genomfördes som en teoribyggande fallstudie på en stor svensk bank. Den teoretiska grunden samlades in genom en omfattande litteraturstudie och en empirisk studie bestående av intervjuer med forskare samt automationsutvecklare och FoU på banken. Resultaten från litteraturstudien och empirin kombinerades och kondenserades till ett vägvisande ramverk för organisationer som vill implementera IPA.
Wang, Xiaoyu. "A data analytic approach to automatic fault diagnosis and prognosis for distribution automation." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2017. http://digitool.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28772.
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