MSc in
Management Engineering
Prof.
Matteo Cesana, Paolo Rocco and Letizia Tanca
Thursday
14.15-18.15 (also online)
The goal of this course is to provide the students with a general view
of the current methods and tools offered by the Information Technology for the
smart factory. The course covers selected topics in the domains of industrial
automation, communication, and data management.
The course fits into the overall program curriculum pursuing some of the
defined general learning goals.In particular, the
course contributes the development of the following capabilities:
Understand
context, functions, processes in a business and industrial environment and the
impact of those factors on business performance
Identify
trends, technologies and key methodologies in a specific domain (specialization
streams)
Design solutions
applying a scientific and engineering approach (Analysis, Learning, Reasoning,
and Modeling capability deriving from a solid and rigorous multidisciplinary
background) to face problems and opportunities in a business and industrial
environment.
Specifically, at the end of the course, the student is expected to:
-understand the role of Information Technology tools and methods
for the smart factory;
-manage the production, exchange and elaboration of data in a
factory;
-identify the role of industrial robots in the factory, why and
where they should be used in the production systems;
-understand and master the new trends in industrial robotics,
like collaborative robotics;
-use software programs to simulate and to offline program the
robots;
-understand complex communication technologies for industrial IoT
systems;
-identify IoT system components and their relations;
-use prototyping platforms for the IoT;
-recognize the design space and its degrees of freedom that can
be exploited to define communication technologies for the IoT;
-identify the phases of Big Data management and analysis;
-perform the quality assessment of the data sources to be used
for data analysis;
-understand and use the principles of data source integration;
-identify and apply the most appropriate data analysis techniques
among the best known ones.
Course syllabus is
as follows:
1. Introduction: the industry 4.0 paradigm. Production, exchange and
management of data. The enabling technologies: robotics, internet of things,
big data and analytics.
2. Industrial automation: current and future scenarios of automation.
Process automation: the role of feedback control. Discrete automation: action
sequencing. The Programmable Logic Controller. Real time systems.
3. Industrial robotics: basic concepts and examples. Selection of a robot
based on the application. Elements of robot kinematics, motion planning and
control. Tools for robot motion programming.
4. Collaborative robotics: advantages in human-robot collaboration.
Safety standards. Examples and applications.
5. Introduction to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT):
building blocks and components.
6. Communication Technologies for IIot:
overview of the reference technologies for interconnecting industrial devices
and processes (WiFi, industrial Ethernet, ZigBee, ISA
100, WirelessHART, Field BUS, RFID).
7. Communication protocols for the IIoT:
overview of the reference protocols to provide services in industrial enviornments (OPC UA, MQTT, HTTP and COAP).
8. Management Platforms for the IIoT: hands on
activities with IoT prototyping platforms (NodeRed)
and cloud-based management platforms.
9. Introduction to the architectures of modern data management systems.
10. Basics of data integration: model heterogeneity, semantic
heterogeneity at the schema level, heterogeneity at the data level.
11. Dynamic data integration: the use of wrappers, mediators, meta-models,
ontologies, , etc.
12. Introduction to data analysis and exploration.
Prerequisites
The students should be aware of the
methodologies and main models for the management of data.
Bibliography
B. Siciliano, L. Sciavicco,
L. Villani, G. Oriolo: Robotics: Modelling, Planning and Control, 3rd Ed., Springer, 2009
B. M. Wilamowski, J. D. Irwin: Industrial
Communications Systems, 1st Ed. CRC Press, 2017
A. Doan, A. Halevy, Z. Ives: Principles
of Data Integration, 1st Ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 2012
Lecture notes are published during the
semester in the BeeP channel
Texts of exercises are published during the
semester in the BeeP channel
In order to participate in the lab activities, students need to bring
their own laptop with them.
You need to install your own copy of MATLAB/Simulink. Instructions how to
create a Matlab account and download and install your
free copy of MATLAB are available here:
http://www.software.polimi.it/en/software-download/students/matlab/
Make sure that the Control Systems Toolbox is included in your suite (it should
be, unless you deselect it on purpose).
You do not need any internet connection during the lab session.
In order to participate to the lab activities,
students shall bring their own laptops with the proper software installed and
running. See the following steps to get ready:
1) install node-js version 12.13.0: go to https://nodejs.org/en/ (if
the download section doesn't match with your current Operative System/Architecture,
go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and
choose the correct one).
2) install node-red: go to https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/local and
follow the instructions in section "Installing with npm".
3) check if everything is alright: type 'node-red' in the terminal/command
prompt (without the '). Something like:
"Welcome to Node-RED
===================
[info] Node-RED version: v1.0.2
[info] Node.js version: v10.16
.....
[info] Started flows.
[info] Server now running at http://127.0.0.1:1880/"
should appear.
If yes, open a browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:1880/. You
are on the node-red editor.
Detailed installation instructions are reported at:
Students will take a written examination,
consisting of open-ended questions.
Texts of exams will be published here.
Results of the exams will be notified to the
students through the online services.
Below you can find two examples of exams, with
solutions:
Example 1 of exams: text solution
Example 2 of exams: text solution