Research

AR-CyMaN research will center around three thrusts:

Resilient Processes and Factory Floors

In designing for safety and resilience, we focus on the physical processes that will act as the base upon which we can build our proposed cyber-physical manufacturing network. The efforts of this thrust will provide information to the data layer and must preserve guarantees in performance even as the system adapts in the planning layer.

Adaptive Planning for Flexible Manufacturing

As the physical processes produce new data, this thrust will focus on the planning and decision-making that will empower the control layer that will feedback to improve the physical layer through insights from the data layer.

Cyber Infrastructure for Future Manufacturing

This thrust will provide the methods for storing, curating, and protecting the data from the physical layer, while interfacing with the planning and control layer. The focus of this effort will fall on infrastructure, implementation, and security for the proposed network.

Current Projects

Project 1: Cyber Infrastructure for Manufacturing Networks

Faculty: H. Wang and L. Yang (ZJUI), P. Ferreira and K. Driggs-Campbell (UIUC)

Students: Nicholas Toombs, Ricardo Toro (UIUC), and Zhenyu Zong (ZJUI)

 

Project 2: Automated Metrology for Resilient Manufacturing Processes

Faculty: Z. Liu (ZJUI), W. King and C. Shao (UIUC)

Students: Kuan-Chieh Lu and Hyeongkeun Kim (UIUC)

 

 

Project 3: Adaptive and Collaborative Shopfloors and Assembly Lines

Faculty: Hongwei Wang and Liangjing Yang (ZJUI), Katie Driggs-Campbell (UIUC)

Students: Haonan Chen (UIUC) and Mengxuan Li (ZJUI)

 

 

Project 4: Understanding Anomaly and Heavy-tailed Events in Manufacturing Processes

Faculty: Gaoang Wang (ZJUI), Klara Nahrstedt, Katie Driggs-Campbell (UIUC)

Postdocs: Hessam Moeini (UIUC)

 

Project 5: Planning and Optimization for Flexible Manufacturing Networks

Faculty: KD Schewe (ZJUI), Simon Hu (ZJUI), Xin Chen (UIUC), Srinivasa Salapaka (UIUC)

Students: Alisina Bayati and Zikun Ye (UIUC)