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Authors:
Amita Singh
Fabian Quint
Patrick Bertram
Martin Ruskowski
Keywords: human-centered CPS; assistance systems; adaptive automation; ontology; interoperability
Abstract:
With the advent of Industry 4.0 and human-in-the-loop paradigms, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are becoming increasingly common in production facilities, and, consequently, there has been a surge of interest in the field. In production systems, CPS which assist humans in completing tasks are called assistance systems. Most recent designs proposed for assistance systems in the production domain are monolithic and allow only limited modifications. In contrast, this work considers an assistance system to have a hybrid architecture consisting of a central entity containing the process description (or instructions) and one or more plug-and-play Cyber-Physical Systems to retrieve relevant information from the physical environment. Such a design allows the overall system capabilities to be adapted to the needs of workers and tasks. In this paper,a framework is presented for designing the CPS modules using Semantic Web technologies which will allow (i) interpretation of all data, and (ii)interoperability among the modules, from the very outset. Furthermore, a knowledge description model and ontology development of a CPS module is described. An approach is illustrated with the help of a use case for implementing the framework to design a module, data exchange among modules, and to build a sustainable ecosystem of ontologies which enables rapid development of third-party CPS modules. An implementation using Prot ́ege is provided and future direction of research is discussed.
Pages: 42 to 47
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018
Publication date: November 18, 2018
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4278
ISBN: 978-1-61208-676-7
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: from November 18, 2018 to November 22, 2018