The robustness of the systems with fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) has lately focused the attention of researchers in relation with the expansion of their industrial application. The contemporary complex, nonlinear, time varying processes with time delay and various disturbances and the high demands for their control require to account for system stability and robustness in the FLC’s design. The ...

In the early years of robotics, an industrial robot was developed, but in these days, an entertainment robot is emerging as a new type of a robot. The design methodologies for industrial robots were based on the task or the function of the robots. However, because the purpose of an entertainment robot is to stimulate people’s emotion rather than to provide function, it is needed to be designed ...

In this paper a new Experimental and Explorative Research (EER) research strategy is proposed. It combines experimental software engineering with exploratory research of new technologies. EER is based on several years experience of using and developing the approach in research of future mobile applications. In large international projects explorative application research includes quite often bo...

Industrial software systems are large and complex, both in terms of the software entities and their relationships. Consequently, understanding how a software system works requires the ability to pose queries over the design-level entities of the system. Traditionally, this task has been supported by simple tools (e.g., grep) combined with the programmer’s intuition and experience. Recently, how...

Industrial biotechnology involves the utilization of cell factories for the production of fuels and chemicals. Traditionally, the development of highly productive microbial strains has relied on random mutagenesis and screening. The development of predictive mathematical models provides a new paradigm for the rational design of cell factories. Instead of selecting among a set of strains resulti...

The emerging Unified Modelling Language has been touted as merging the best features of existing modelling languages, and has been adopted by leading companies and vendors as a universal software modelling language. Some researchers are also looking to UML as a basis for formal methods development. A less known approach is BON (the Business Object Notation), which is based on the principles of ...

For professionals at the beginning of the 21st century, much of the conventional wisdom on business management and engineering is founded in the 20th century industrial / manufacturing paradigm. In developed economies, however, the service sector now dominates the manufacturing sector, just as manufacturing prevailed over the agricultural sector after the industrial revolution. This chapter pro...

In the past years researchers at the California Institute of Technology (and in few other research institutions worldwide) have been concentrating their efforts on the design and implementation of analog VLSI neuromorphic systems. Today this emerging technology seems to be mature enough for use in industrial applications. In this paper we give an overview of some of the neuromorphic vision circ...

Our interest in the techno-mathematical literacies employees need in their jobs has led us to do case studies in different industrial sectors and to design learning opportunities for improving employees’ techno-mathematical literacies. We conceptualise the learning opportunities not as training or transfer, but as forms of ‘boundary crossing’ between employees from a company and us as researche...