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From Information Assistance to Cognitive Automation: A Smart Assembly Use Case

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Information assistance helps in many application domains to structure, guide and control human work processes. However, it lacks a formalisation and automated processing of background knowledge which vice versa is required to provide ad-hoc assistance. In this paper, we describe our conceptual and technical work towards this cognitive automation. We focus here on including contextual background knowledge to raise the worker’s awareness, guide, and monitor assembly activities. We present cognitive architectures as missing link between highly sophisticated manufacturing data systems and implicitly available contextual knowledge on work procedures and concepts of the work domain. Our work is illustrated with examples in SWI-Prolog and the Soar cognitive architecture which is part of the Plant@Hand assembly assistance system.

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This research has been supported by the German Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the European Social Fund under grant ESF/IV-BM-B35-0006/12.

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    Mario Aehnelt

  2. MMIS, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 22, 18059, Rostock, Germany

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Aehnelt, M., Bader, S. (2015). From Information Assistance to Cognitive Automation: A Smart Assembly Use Case. In: Duval, B., van den Herik, J., Loiseau, S., Filipe, J. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9494. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27947-3_11

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