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- Damschen, Marvin, et al.
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Development and onboard assessment of drone for assistance in firefighting resource management and rescue operations
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report provides comprehensive information for deciding whether to pursue the deployment of adrone system for increasing safety on ship. The assessments of technical and legal feasibility as wellas usefulness of a drone system for surveying the open decks of a ro-ro ship are presented. The usecases of fire patrol, fire resource management and search & rescue operations are targeted. Aprototype drone system is detailed that is built on open standards and open-source software for highextensibility and reproducibility. Technical feasibility is assessed positively overall using a purpose-designed drone-control software, in-field tests and a demonstration onboard of DFDS PetuniaSeaways. The needs for further development, analysis and long-term tests are described. The legalfeasibility assessment gives an overview of applicable maritime and airspace regulations within theEU. It concludes that the drone system should be seen complementary to existing fire safety systemsand that operational authorization is best applied for in collaboration with a ship owner. Usefulnessis assessed using responses from maritime experts to an online questionnaire on the targeted usecases. Results are positive with two major challenges identified: achieving a reasonable selling priceand obtaining the ship operators’ and crews’ trust in the system. Finally, a SWOT analysis gives aconcise summary of the performed assessments and can be used as input to the strategic businessplanning for a potential drone system provider.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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Active Learning of Modular Plant Models
- 2020
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Ingår i: IFAC-PapersOnLine. - : Elsevier BV. - 2405-8963. ; 53:4, s. 296-302
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Model-based techniques are these days being embraced by the industry in their development frameworks. While model-based approaches allow for offline verification and validation of the system, and have other advantages over existing methods, they do have their own challenges. One of the challenges is to obtain a model describing the behavior of the system. In this paper we present the Modular Plant Learner (MPL), an algorithm that explores the state-space and constructs a discrete model of a system. The MPL takes as input a hypothesis structure of the system - called the PSH - and using this information, interacts with a simulation of the system to construct a modular discrete-event model. Using an example we show how the algorithm uses the structural information provided - the PSH - to search the state-space in a smart manner, mitigating the state-space explosion problem.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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Error handling within highly automated automotive industry: Current practice and research needs
- 2016
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Ingår i: IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA. - 1946-0759 .- 1946-0740. - 9781509013142 ; 2016-November, s. Art no 7733628-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fault tolerant systems, commonly found in literature, are implemented in various computer applications. Some of these methods have been studied and developed to aid manufacturing systems; however, they have rarely been integrated into the manufacturing process. Broadly, the problem seems to be integration of error handling procedures towards the end of physically building the manufacturing line, lack of a defined workflow, untested program logic and inadequately equipped personnel to name a few. To this end, a survey was conducted within the Swedish automotive industry to get an understanding of current error handling procedures and its shortcomings, and are presented here. Based on this data, and looking at the trends within the manufacturing industry, this paper also identifies research topics aimed towards defining methods to create next generation fault tolerant manufacturing systems.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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From factory floor to process models: A data gathering approach to generate, transform, and visualize manufacturing processes
- 2019
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Ingår i: CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology. - : Elsevier BV. - 1755-5817 .- 1878-0016. ; 24, s. 6-16
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The need for tools to help guide decision making is growing within the manufacturing industry. The analysis performed by these tools will help operators and engineers to understand the behaviour of the manufacturing stations better and thereby take data-driven decisions to improve them. The tools use techniques borrowed from fields such as Data Analytics, BigData, Predictive Modelling, and Machine Learning. However, to be able to use these tools efficiently, data from the factory floor is required as input. This data needs to be extracted from two sources, the PLCs, and the robots. In practice, methods to extract usable data from robots are rather scarce. The present work describes an approach to capture data from robots, which can be applied to both legacy and current state-of-the-art manufacturing systems. The described approach is developed using Sequence Planner - a tool for modelling and analyzing production systems - and is currently implemented at an automotive company as a pilot project to visualize and examine the ongoing process. By exploiting the robot code structure, robot actions are converted to event streams that are abstracted into operations. We then demonstrate the applicability of the resulting operations, by visualizing the ongoing process in real-time as Gantt charts, that support the operators performing maintenance. And, the data is also analyzed off-line using process mining techniques to create a general model that describes the underlying behaviour existing in the manufacturing station. Such models are used to derive insights about relationships between different operations, and also between resources.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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MIDES: A Tool for Supervisor Synthesis via Active Learning
- 2021
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Ingår i: IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. - 2161-8070 .- 2161-8089. ; 2021-August, s. 792-797
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A tool, MIDES, for automatic learning of models and supervisors for discrete event systems is presented. The tool interfaces with a simulation of the target system to learn a behavioral model through interaction. There are several different algorithms to choose from depending on the intended outcome. Moreover, given a set of specifications, the tool learns a supervisor that can help ensure the controlled system guarantees the specifications. Furthermore, the state-space explosion problem is addressed by learning a modular supervisor. In this paper, we introduce the tool, its interfaces, and algorithms. We demonstrate the usefulness through several case studies.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990
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On Supervisor Synthesis via Active Automata Learning
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our society's reliance on computer-controlled systems is rapidly growing. Such systems are found in various devices, ranging from simple light switches to safety-critical systems like autonomous vehicles. In the context of safety-critical systems, safety and correctness are of utmost importance. Faults and errors could have catastrophic consequences. Thus, there is a need for rigorous methodologies that help provide guarantees of safety and correctness. Supervisor synthesis, the concept of being able to mathematically synthesize a supervisor that ensures that the closed-loop system behaves in accordance with known requirements, can indeed help. This thesis introduces supervisor learning , an approach to help automate the learning of supervisors in the absence of plant models. Traditionally, supervisor synthesis makes use of plant models and specification models to obtain a supervisor. Industrial adoption of this method is limited due to, among other things, the difficulty in obtaining usable plant models. Manually creating these plant models is an error-prone and time-consuming process. Thus, supervisor learning intends to improve the industrial adoption of supervisory control by automating the process of generating supervisors in the absence of plant models. The idea here is to learn a supervisor for the system under learning (SUL) by active interaction and experimentation. To this end, we present two algorithms, SupL*, and MSL, that directly learn supervisors when provided with a simulator of the SUL and its corresponding specifications. SupL* is a language-based learner that learns one supervisor for the entire system. MSL, on the other hand, learns a modular supervisor, that is, several smaller supervisors, one for each specification. Additionally, a third algorithm, MPL, is introduced for learning a modular plant model. The approach is realized in the tool MIDES and has been used to learn supervisors in a virtual manufacturing setting for the Machine Buffer Machine example, as well as learning a model of the Lateral State Manager , a sub-component of a self-driving car. These case studies show the feasibility and applicability of the proposed approach, in addition to helping identify future directions for research.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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Real-time Visualization of Robot Operation Sequences
- 2018
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Ingår i: IFAC-PapersOnLine. - : Elsevier BV. - 2405-8963. ; 51:11, s. 576-581
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Evaluation of manufacturing systems requires large amounts of accurate data from the factory floor. This data is then processed to calculate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), evaluation metrics used within the manufacturing industry by engineers and managers in order to make data-driven decisions. Mechanisms to capture large scales of usable data, which is both reliable and scalable is, more often than not, scarce. In this paper, we provide an approach to capture data from robot actions, which can be applied to both legacy and current state-of-the-art manufacturing systems. By exploiting the robot code structure, robot actions are converted to event streams that are transformed into a higher usable abstraction of data. Applicability of this data is demonstrated, primarily, by visualizations. The described approach is developed in Sequence Planner - a tool for modeling and analyzing production systems - and is currently implemented at an automotive company as a pilot project to visualize and examine what goes on on the factory floor.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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Synthesis of Supervisors for Unknown Plant Models Using Active Learning
- 2019
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Ingår i: IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. - 2161-8070 .- 2161-8089. ; 2019-August, s. 502-508
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes an approach to synthesize a discrete-event supervisor to control a plant, the behavior model of which is unknown, so as to satisfy a given specification. To this end, the $L^{*}$ algorithm is modified so that it can actively query a plant simulation and the specification to hypothesize a supervisor. The resulting hypothesis is the maximally permissive controllable supervisor from which the maximally permissive controllable and non-blocking supervisor can be extracted. The practicality of this method is demonstrated by an example.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990
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Towards Automatic Generation of Formal Models for Highly Automated Manufacturing Systems
- 2018
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The manufacturing industry is undergoing a digital revolution, often referred to as Industry 4.0. The aim of this revolution is to transform the factories into, so called, smart factories . These smart factories will be modular, decentralized, and interconnected, to achieve higher level automation and flexibility. Additionally, a smart factory will have a digital twin , a virtual replica that allows testing, monitoring, and visualization of the factory behavior. As these factories are aimed to be completely automated, ensuring correctness and safety of the control logic in each sub-system of the factory is of utmost importance. The need for having digitalized tools that support operators and engineers was identified in a survey that was conducted to understand the problems faced during maintenance of manufacturing systems. To this end, this thesis provides an architecture that can be applied on old legacy systems as well as new state-of-the-art systems to collect data from the factory floor. The data obtained can be visualized in the form of Gantt charts to help operators keep track of the execution of the station. Furthermore, a model that captures the behavior of the system can be created by applying Process Mining algorithms to the collected data. Model-based techniques have shown to be beneficial in developing control logic for highly automated and flexible manufacturing systems, as these techniques offer tools to test and formally verify the control logic to guarantee its correctness. These formal tools operate on such a model of the behavior of the system. However, manually constructing a model on which these tools can be applied is a tedious and error prone task, seldom deemed to be worth the effort. Thus, supporting engineers to build models will improve the adoption of formal tools within the manufacturing industry. In order to obtain a formal model during the early development phase of the manufacturing system, this thesis studies the possibility to automatically infer a model of a system by interacting with its digital twin. The suggested L+ algorithm, an extension of the well-known L* algorithm, shows that it is possible to automatically build formal models in this way. Additionally, certain shortcomings are identified and need to be addressed before being able to these methods in a practical setting.
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- Farooqui, Ashfaq Hussain, 1990, et al.
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Towards Automatic Learning of Discrete-Event Models from Simulations
- 2018
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Ingår i: IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. - 2161-8070 .- 2161-8089. ; 2018-August, s. 857-862
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Model-based techniques are, these days, being embraced by the manufacturing industry in their development frameworks. While model-based approaches allow for offline verification and validation before physical commissioning, and have other advantages over existing methods, they do have their own challenges. Firstly, models are typically created manually and hence are prone to errors. Secondly, once a model is created, tested, and put into use on the factory floor, there is an added effort required to maintain and update it. This paper is a preliminary study of the feasibility of automatically obtaining formal models from virtual simulations. We apply the foundational algorithm from the active automata learning community to study the requirements and enhancements needed to be able to derive discrete event models from virtual simulations. An abstract model in the form of operations is learned by applying this algorithm on a simulation model composed of discrete operations. While a major bottleneck to be solved is the generation of counterexamples, the results seem promising to apply model learning in practice.
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