Design Space Exploration for Wireless-Integrated Factory Automation Systems

Published

June 10, 2019

Author(s)

Jing Jeng, Honglei Li, Yongkang Liu, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Shuvra Bhattacharyya

Abstract

Recent years have brought significantly increased interest in integrating wireless communication capabilities within factory automation systems. Such integration motivates the study of interactions among the physical layout of factory workcells, wireless communication among the workcells, and overall factory system performance. In this paper, we develop methods for modeling and simulating these important kinds of interactions, and demonstrate the application of these methods to the experimental study of complex design spaces for factory automation systems. The proposed methodology for modeling, simulation, and design space exploration can be used to gain insight into approaches for improving the configuration (e.g., physical layout or wireless protocol settings) of existing factory systems, and for understanding trade-offs in the design of new systems. We concretely demonstrate our proposed design space exploration methods through extensive simulation experiments.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems

Conference Dates

May 27-29, 2019

Conference Location

Sundsvall, SE

Conference Title

IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

wireless, factory communication, simulation

Citation

Jeng, J. , Li, H. , Liu, Y. , Hany, M. , Candell, R. and Bhattacharyya, S. (2019), Design Space Exploration for Wireless-Integrated Factory Automation Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, Sundsvall, SE, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927490 (Accessed October 6, 2025)