This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, held virtually in December 2020. The 16 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented together with 1 keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address topics such as assembly design and planning; assembly operations; assembly cells and systems; human centred assembly; and assistance methods in assembly.

This open access book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, held virtually in December 2020. The 16 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented together with 1 keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address topics such as assembly design and planning; assembly operations; assembly cells and systems; human centred assembly; and assistance methods in assembly.

Keynote Paper.- Augmented Reality in Assembly Systems: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.- Assembly Design and Planning.- Application of a Standardized Design Procedure in the Development of Automated Micro-Assembly Processes.- Towards the Automated Coverlay Assembly in FPCB Manufacturing: Concept and Preliminary Tests.- Resource Interface Matchmaking as a Part of Automatic Capacity Matchmaking.- Investigation on the Convergence of the Genetic Algorithm of an Aerodynamic Feeding System due to the Enlargement of the Solution Space.- Assembly Operations.- Indirect System Condition Monitoring using Online Bayesian Changepoint Direction.- Strategies for Dealing with Problems in Robotised Unscrewing Operations.- Improving Automated Insertion Task in Robotics by Reducing Registration Error.- Assembly Cells and Systems.- Development of a Sensitive Winding Application Based on a Serial Robot and Integrated Torque Sensors.- High-Load Titanium Drilling using an Accurate Robotic Machining System.- Application of Advanced Simulation Methods for the Tolerance Analysis of Mechanical Assemblies.- Development of a Low-Cost, High Accuracy, Flexible Panel Indexing Cell with Modular, Elastic Architecture.- Context-Aware Plug and Produce for Robotic Aerospace Assembly.- Data Capture and Visualisation on a Shoestring: Demonstrating the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project.- Digital Innovation Hubs for Enhancing the Technology Transfer and Digital Transformation of the European Manufacturing Industry.- Plenoptic Inspection System for Automatic Quality Control of MEMS and Microsystems.- Human Centred Assembly.- Automated Information Supply of Worker Guidance Systems in Smart Assembly Environment.- Towards Human and Robot Collaborative Ergonomic Handling of Long Parts with a Loose Grip.- Human and Workcell Event Recognition and its Application Areas in Industrial Assembly.- Cognitive Acceptance to Support Maintenance and Assembly Tasks: Results on Technology Acceptance of a Head-Mounted Device.- Usability Study of Learning-Based Pose Estimation of Industrial Objects from Synthetic Depth Data.- Assistance Methods in Assembly.- Assistance Needs in Production Environments: A Contextual Exploration of Workers' Experiences and Work Practices.- Attention Analysis for Assistance in Assembly Processes.- Live Video Assistance Systems for Assembly Processes.- Orchestration and Situation Awareness in an Assistance System for Assembly Task.- Safety as Bad Cop of Physical Assistance Systems?.- The Consideration of Job Satisfaction in the Design of Assistance Systems in Production.

Micro-assembly is a key enabling technology for cost effective manufacture of new generations of complex micro products. It is also a critical technology for retaining mdustrial capabilities in high labour cost areas such as Europe since up to 80% of the production cost in some industries is attributed directly to assembly processes. With the continuous trend for product miniaturisation, the scientific and technologi cal developments in micro-assembly are expected to have a significant long-term economic, demographic and social impact. A distinctive feature of the process is that surface forces are often dominant over gravity forces, which determines a number of specific technical challenges. Critical areas which are currently being addressed include development of assembly systems with high positional accuracy, micro gripping methods that take into ac count the adhesive surface forces, high precision micro-feeding techniques and mi cro-joining processes. Micro-assembly has developed rapidly over the last few years and all the pre dictions are that it will remain a critical technology for high value products in a number of key sectors such as healthcare, communications, defence and aerospace. The key challenge is to match the significant technological developments with a new generation of micro products that will establish firmly micro-assembly as a core manufacturing process.

The development of smart cities is one of the most important challenges over the next few decades. Governments and companies are leveraging billions of dollars in public and private funds for smart cities. Next generation smart cities are heavily dependent on distributed smart sensing systems and devices to monitor the urban infrastructure. The smart sensor networks serve as autonomous intelligent nodes to measure a variety of physical or environmental parameters. They should react in time, establish automated control, and collect information for intelligent decision-making. In this context, one of the major tasks is to develop advanced frameworks for the interpretation of the huge amount of information provided by the emerging testing and monitoring systems. Data Analytics for Smart Cities brings together some of the most exciting new developments in the area of integrating advanced data analytics systems into smart cities along with complementary technological paradigms such as cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT). The book serves as a reference for researchers and engineers in domains of advanced computation, optimization, and data mining for smart civil infrastructure condition assessment, dynamic visualization, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), cyber-physical systems, and smart construction technologies. The chapters are presented in a hands-on manner to facilitate researchers in tackling applications. Arguably, data analytics technologies play a key role in tackling the challenge of creating smart cities. Data analytics applications involve collecting, integrating, and preparing time- and space-dependent data produced by sensors, complex engineered systems, and physical assets, followed by developing and testing analytical models to verify the accuracy of results. This book covers this multidisciplinary field and examines multiple paradigms such as machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, high performance computing, and expert systems. The book explores new territory by discussing the cutting-edge concept of Big Data analytics for interpreting massive amounts of data in smart city applications.

This book presents a collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art of research efforts in the area of smart devices and novel machine design, as well as their practical applications to enable advanced manufacturing. The first section presents a broad-based review of several key areas of research in smart devices and machines. The second section is focused on presenting an in-depth treatment of a particular device or machine. The book will be of interest to a broad readership.

This book is a collection of papers presented at XIV International Scientific Conference “INTERAGROMASH 2021”, held at Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, during 24–26 February 2021. The research results presented in this book cover applications of unmanned aerial systems, satellite-based applications for precision agriculture, proximal and remote sensing of soil and crop, spatial analysis, variable-rate technology, embedded sensing systems, drainage optimization and variable rate irrigation, wireless sensor networks, Internet of things, robotics, guidance and automation, software and mobile apps for precision agriculture, decision support for precision agriculture and data mining for precision agriculture.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2018, held in Chamonix, France, in January 2018. The 20 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address topics such as machine vision and metrology for assembly operations, gripping and handling technologies, numerical methods and planning in assembly, digital technologies and Industry 4.0 applications, precision assembly methods, assembly systems and platforms and human cooperation, and machine learning. They are organized in the following topical sections: design and deployment of assembly systems; human robot cooperation and machine vision; assembly methods and models; digital technologies and industry 4.0 applications; and gripping and handling solutions in assembly.

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