In this paper, the functions that can be automated in distribution systems can be classified into two categories, namely, monitoring functions and control functions. Monitoring functions are those needed to record meter readings at different locations in the system, the system status at different locations and events of abnormal conditions. The data monitored at the system level are not only us...

1Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano 20133, Italy 2Department of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, 33101 Tampere, Finland 3O3neida Inc., 135 Dunbarton Court, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1K 4L6 4O3neida Europe, 42 rue de l’Eglise, 1150 Brussels, Belgium 5Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, Private B...

This report discusses the Martin Marietta Intelligent Task Automation Project (ITA). The purpose of the ITA project is to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) task planning, path planning, vision, and robotics technologies into a system designed to autonomously perform manufacturing tasks in dynamic or unstructured environments. The application domain chosen for primary demonstrations is dime...

The Intelligence Community has systems that deal with overwhelming numbers of events that have to be analyzed in real time. Ideally these systems predict malicious events and aberrant human behavior far enough in advance so that appropriate action can be taken. The challenge is that events come from various real time sources and various databases and do not fit together well. The Intelligence C...

We present an outline of an intelligent routing environment developed for design automation of aircraft electrical wiring harness and pipe routing. The system interfaces with domain experts for capture of engineering knowledge and rules. System users specify only a few parameters to define individual routing problems. Geometry obstacles are specified using a discrete Finite Element (FE) mesh. R...

HfS’ inaugural Intelligent Automation Blueprint has outlined the state of the nation in Intelligent Automation and drawn very distinctive lines into the sand. We are seeing the exponential growth of the deployments setting in. However, this growth occurs largely below the radar as the market communication and stakeholder management around the notion of automation remain unusually coy. This is l...

An approach to intelligent process automation based on distributed planning agents is presented in this paper. According to this approach a higher-level agent-based automation layer supervises an ordinary process automation system. The purpose of the agent layer is to monitor the operation of the lower-level automation system and semi-autonomously reconfigure its control logic when needed. The ...

Ovex the past decade, artificial intelligence conceptsand techniques have been applied to many aspects of manufacturing, ranging from product and process development, to production management, o process diagnosis and quality control. Planning technology will play an important role in the future of intelligent manufacturing, especially in factory automation systems. Drawn from our experiences on...

Intelligent environment research has resulted in many useful tools such as activity recognition, prediction, and automation. However, most of these techniques have been applied in the context of a single resident. A current looming issue for intelligent environment systems is performing these same techniques when multiple residents are present in the environment. In this paper we investigate th...