Smart manufacturing uses robots and artificial intelligence techniques to minimize human interventions in manufacturing activities. Inspection of the machine’ working status is critical in manufacturing processes, ensuring that machines work correctly without any collisions and interruptions, e.g., in lights-out manufacturing. However, the current method heavily relies on workers onsite or remotely through the Internet. The existing approaches also include a hard-wired robot working with a computer numerical control (CNC) machine, and the instructions are followed through a pre-program path. Currently, there is no autonomous machine tending application that can detect and act upon the operational status of a CNC machine. This study proposes a deep learning-based method for the CNC machine detection and working status recognition through an independent robot system without human intervention. It is noted that there is often more than one machine working in a representative industrial environment. Therefore, the SiameseRPN method is developed to recognize and locate a specific machine from a group of machines. A deep learning-based text recognition method is designed to identify the working status from the human–machine interface (HMI) display.

In the rapidly advancing field of 5G technology, efficient thermal management is essential for enhancing the performance and reliability of high-power-density integrated circuits (ICs). This paper introduces an innovative approach to cooling these critical components, significantly surpassing traditional methods. Our design optimizes heatsink and fan configurations through systematic experimentation, varying fin shapes, heatsink dimensions, and fan speeds. The results demonstrate that fan velocity is the most critical factor in reducing IC temperatures, as increased airflow dramatically lowers thermal output. Expanding the heatsink surface area further improves heat dissipation by enhancing airflow interaction, while a larger copper heatsink boosts thermal conduction, effectively reducing the final IC temperature. These optimizations streamline the cooling process, minimizing the need for more complex and expensive equipment. This research sets a new benchmark in thermal management, fostering the development of more efficient and reliable electronic systems in the era of advanced wireless communications. Our approach brings a new dimension to existing research by focusing on the optimization of heatsink and airflow designs specifically for ICs. While previous studies have explored broader thermal management strategies, our work addresses specific challenges in heat dissipation by refining geometric configurations and fan speed adjustments. These optimizations result in measurable improvements in both efficiency and scalability, particularly within the context of high-power 5G systems.

In coal mining operations, coalbed methane is one of the potential hazards that must be extracted to prevent an explosion of the accumulated gas and environmental pollution. One of the mechanisms is using microwave irradiation so that the thermal stress caused by microwave heating generates fractures. In this research, we investigated the most important parameters affecting the electric and thermal fields’ distribution in coal in order to identify the effective parameters that achieve the highest temperature increase rate and to reach the highest impact and efficiency of the system with the least amount of consumed energy. In this paper, using Maxwell equations, heat transfer, mass transfer and coupling them by COMSOL, we have simulated the radiation of electromagnetic field and heat in the cavity and coal, and we have also shown the temperature dispersion inside the coal. The parameters studied included the amount of coal moisture (type of coal), operating frequency, input power and heating time, location of the waveguide, the size of the waveguide and the location of the coal, and finally the parameters were re-examined in a secondary standard cavity to separate the parameters related to the size of the environment and the cavity from the independent parameters. The results of this study show that the most effective parameter on the electric and thermal fields’ distribution within coal is the size of the resonance chamber. Additionally, the results show that the moisture of 5%, the highest input power and cutoff frequency close to the operating frequency cause the highest average temperature inside the coal, but many parameters such as operating frequency, waveguide location and coal location should be selected depending on the chamber size.

Today, the use of mobile robots and autonomous vehicles has increased due to their use in various industries, and their performance and duration of operation largely depend on the amount of energy consumed and their batteries. One of the ways to increase the operation time of robots is the use of solar panels that can charge their batteries while moving, but the amount of energy received from solar panels reduces their efficiency due to factors affecting them, such as the angle of the sun, weather conditions, and their use in mobile robots alone is not recommended. In this research, we introduce an electric circuit with very low losses to increase the received power of solar panels and increase their efficiency, which is able to supply the power of the robot through solar panels when the sunlight and the angle of radiation are suitable and charge the batteries through the maximum power point controller (MPPC), and by reducing the amount of energy received from the panels by changing the energy source to the battery, the duration of the system’s dependence on the battery has decreased, which increases the duration of the mobile robots.

A control algorithm is proposed to efficiently control the state, position, and height of a nonlinear dynamic model of a quadcopter. Based on feedback linearization, a state space model is presented for the system with the controller with a two-loop control structure designed and implemented in it. The inner and faster controller is responsible for adjusting the quadcopter height and angles, and the outer and slower controller is responsible for changing the desired figures of roll and pitch angles to control the system position. Whenever a rotor of the quadcopter rotor fails, the status and position of the system are converged and the system is stabilized. Simulation results based on different scenarios indicate the proper performance of the control system whenever there are external disturbances. Note that the gyroscopic effects because of the propeller rotation were not considered.