The reactivity of Networked Automation Systems (NAS) has direct influence on safety and quality aspects. It can be determined by a response time analysis, which itself can be calc...
While current manufacturing systems are built to avoid uncertainty, the increase of setup reconfiguration frequency and ever higher numbers of variants produced on the same syste...
This paper addresses questions of using wireless mesh networks (WMNs) in heterogeneous industrial infrastructures. This implies several problems like global addressing, handling o...
Current approaches to feature detection and matching in images strive to increase the repeatability of the detector and minimize the degree of outliers in the matching. In this pa...
Industrial and building automation systems are more and more important in industry and buildings. New services and novel fields of application call for dependable systems. Two ver...