Smart Manufacturing Systems Laboratory

Research Topics

Human-Machine-AI Collaborative Manufacturing

Immersive & Interactive Cyber-Physical System (I2CPS)

  • Virtual Reality (VR) interface for robotic manufacturing [Paper]
  • To visualize machine data and environments for intuitive decision making
  • To digitalize human skills and develop AI
  • To transfer virtual works to robot’s automation, enhancing flexibility
  • Application #1: Exo-skeleton for wider working range of humans [Paper]
  • Application #2: Robotic finishing to transferring virtual manual works into a robot’s automation

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Autonomous Robotic Bin Picking

  • Finding the most pickable object with machine vision and machine learning (ML)
  • Solutions for flexible machine tending in automation devices (e.g. machine tools)
  • Human demonstration for fast training of ML [Paper #1] [Paper #2]

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Digital Twin for Robotic Manufacturing

Robot learning

  • Path planning of manipulators via digital twin
  • Reinforcement learning for industrial manipulators
  • Toward planning of collaboration with multiple manipulators via ML

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Generation of synthetic 2D/3D images

  • Building virtual environment with high speed and accuracy
  • Pre-training AI with synthetic data [Challenges]

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Virtual commissioning

  • Running robot script virtually
  • Collision prediction from given robot script
  • Implementing robot calibration to virtual model

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Manufacturing AI

Condition-based Monitoring (CBM)

  • Introducing new data processing and ML technologies to CBM
  • Understanding complex manufacturing processes [Paper #1] [Paper #2]
  • In-situ prediction of productivity [Paper] and anomalies [Paper]
  • Tool Condition Monitoring (TCM) [Challenges]

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Visual Quality Inspection

  • Combination of image processing and ML
  • Synthetic data to overcome limited amount of data and unbalances [Paper #1] [Paper #2]
  • Auto labeling of training data [Paper]
  • Explainable AI for reliabile usage of ML in industry [Paper]

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Investigating Manufacturability

  • ML-based Computer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP) [Paper]
  • Assessment of manufacturability from generative design
  • Converting generative design to manufacturable drawings

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