ICMR2024 Special session
Organiser: Prof. Costas A. Charitidis
Institution: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Organiser: Dr. Radu-Robert Piticescu
Institution: National Research and Development Institute for Non-ferrous and Rare Metals, Romania
Organiser: Dr. Erfu Yang, Prof. Jorn Mehnen, Dr. Yashar Javadi, Dr. Tariq Masood
Institution: Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management, The University of Strathclyde, UK
Organiser: EU FAST-SMART Project Consortium (Co-ordinated by Prof. Yi Qin and Dr. Maddalena Rostagno)
Institution: 14 EU Project Partners
Organiser: Prof. Xichun Luo
Institution: Centre for Precision Manufacturing, Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Advancements in Manufacturing Lightweight Structures
This session aims to explore the latest innovations and breakthroughs in the manufacturing processes of lightweight structures, especially with composite materials. It will focus on the advanced materials, design methodologies, and fabrication techniques that contribute to the development of lightweight yet robust structures across various industries. The session will feature presentations from the experts and researchers and promote discussions and collaborations on the emerging materials and future trend in this rapidly evolving field.
High Entropy Alloys Coatings: Obtaining, Characterisation, Modelling and Applications
High Entropy Alloy Coatings are an emerging field of science and manufacturing engineering which offers many possibilities to innovate coatings that meet specific application requirements and performance which could overtake some of the existing conventional coatings. The proposed session aims to create a platform promoting information exchanges and collaborations in the field of material design, synthesis, coating process development and component manufacturing, being supported by advanced numeric modelling, machine learning, characterisation, life-cycle performance prediction and sustainability assessments.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems for Advanced Manufacturing
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) play important roles in advanced manufacturing. There have been significant progresses made in both academic research and industrial applications over last decade. This special session aims to highlight the latest research and innovations around the RAS technologies for their applications in advanced manufacturing with the focus to address the related challenges and discuss the potential solutions. The topics include, but not limited to system design, modelling and simulation, dynamics and control, sensing and perception, AI and machine learning, path planning and navigation, human-robot collaboration, use cases for advanced manufacturing such as in-process inspection, repair, flexible assembly and disassembly etc.
Development of Smart Materials, Structures and Systems for Energy Harvesting Applications
This special session aims to present latest research results from the EU FAST-SMART project that develops smart materials, structures and systems for energy harvesting applications, which deal with life-cycle process improvements of the energy harvesting products, including the processes of product design, material synthesis, component manufacturing, product construction, testing and characterisation, material recycling, etc. It concerns manufacturing of/with high-quality nano-structured less rare-element dependence materials, nano-manufacturing technologies, innovative energy-harvesting product designs to deliver novel but also economically viable approaches of harvesting, storing and using the energy (kinetic/mechanical, thermoelectric (TE) and hybrid PV/TE energy harvesting).
Digital Twin-driven Smart Manufacturing
The special issue aims at presenting the latest research development work from an UK EPSRC Future Manufacturing Systems project - “A multiscale digital-twin driven smart manufacturing system for high-value added products (EP/T024844/1)”. The presentations will cover several topics spanning from the explainable artificial intelligence enabled fingerprint framework, digital twin-driven hybrid machining, in-line metrology, assembly systems for smart manufacturing, digital twin life cycle assessment framework, and multiscale digital twin business modelling for smart manufacturing.