Cognitive Factories: Modeling Situated Entropy in Physical Work Carried Out by Humans and Robots

Entropy in factories is situated. For example, there can be numerous different ways of picking, orientating, and placing physical components during assembly work. Physical components can be redesigned to increase the Information Gain they provide and so reduce situated entropy in assembly work. Also...

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Main Authors: Stephen Fox, Adrian Kotelba, Ilkka Niskanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/9/659