Publication
Do Not Cancel My Race with Cyber-Physical Systems
Constantin B. Zamfirescu; Bogdan-Constantin Pirvu; Matthias Loskyll; Detlef Zühlke
In: The 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control. World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC-14), IFAC, 2014.
Abstract
To engineer the factory of the future the paper argues for a reference model that is not
necessary restricted to the control component, but integrates the physical and human components as well.
This is due to the real need to accommodate the latest achievements in factory automation where the
human is not merely playing a simple and clear role inside the control-loop, but is becoming a composite
factor in a highly automated system (“man in the mesh”). The concept is demonstrated by instantiating
the anthropocentric cyber-physical reference architecture for smart factories (ACPA4SF) in a concrete
case study that needs to accommodate the ongoing researches from the SmartFactoryKL facility (e.g.
augmented reality, mobile interaction technology, virtual training of human operators).