August 30, 2022
Successful employment of data-driven solutions, particularly based on deep learning approaches usually requires a big amount of data. However, due to various limitations in the acquisition of data from the real process, its availability is still a major challenge. For instance, the Industry 4.0 factory implies frequent reconfiguration which reduces the time intervals available for […]
August 25, 2022
The two most well-known and widespread machine learning paradigms are unsupervised and supervised learning. However, in the last three decades, another paradigm of machine learning called reinforcement learning has attracted significant attention in the research field. What is reinforcement learning? When we think about the nature of learning, the first thing we have in mind […]
April 18, 2022
Industrial Control System (ICS) represents a common term that relates to different types of control systems which usually include the devices, systems, and networks used to operate and/or automate industrial processes. Today, ICSs are fully employed in many industrial sectors and critical infrastructures such as manufacturing, energy, and transportation. According to the control principles, ICSs […]
April 8, 2022
Manufacturing environments are inherently unstructured and unexpected changes can significantly reduce efficiency and increase overall manufacturing time. Thereupon, the ability of manufacturing entities, such as mobile robots, to adapt to these changes and stochastic processes in a highly dynamic manufacturing environment is of utmost importance. Mobile robots should be equipped with a robust vision system […]
March 8, 2022
Throughout the years, mobile robotic systems have shown time and time again their irreplaceable role in modern society. Firstly, they were only utilized for research purposes and employed within manufacturing or storage environments. However, nowadays, mobile robots started infiltrating the everyday human environments such as hospitals, hotels, and even personal houses. Vacuum cleaning mobile robot […]
November 25, 2021
Semantic segmentation represents the process of labeling every pixel in the image with the pixel’s class. Therefore, the image is no longer defined with RGB values but with the semantic map when the semantic segmentation process is performed. Moreover, the image is divided into segments whichrepresent meaningful objects for humans (see Fig. 1), e.g., tables, […]