Self-Powered Sensing and Data Science for Smart manufacturing

PROJECT LEADS: Penn State University

PARTNERS: Texas A&M University, University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley

PROBLEM STATEMENT: This proposal addresses the fundamental problem of establishing the foundations of self-powered sensing and data science in smart manufacturing. Specifically, we are interested in developing algorithms for learning and inferencing from sensor data from IIoT; developing energy-harvesting sensors from vibration sensing; identifying context and decision making in manufacturing with use cases from specific industrial settings and processes and designing, developing and implementing data science algorithms ; studying the trade-off between edge, cloud, and hybrid computing and designing, developing and implementing opportunistic computing algorithms.

PROJECT GOAL: Enhance the SM capabilities of CESMII SM platform

TECHNICAL APPROACH:

Formal specification of a sensor wrapper to identify sensors and actuators needed to collect information and respond to actions for machines including legacy machines.
Development of novel self-powered sensors, cloud and edge-based communication and computation architecture, sensor-based models and algorithms for real-time control and scheduling.
Development of a test-bed with these advanced real-time sensing using energy-harvesting sensors, analytics and optimization capabilities to demonstrate and enhanced process-wide energy efficiency (by 15%).

KEY TASKS AND MILESTONES:

T1. Machine status sensing
- Milestone: Complete the testing of sensors, IoT communication, MS Azure, and cloud/edge computing
T2. Machine service and tasks scheduling
- Milestone: software packages are ready for demonstrations
T3. Self-powered sensing, and sensor wrapper development
- Milestone: Self-powered IoT sensing system is ready for demonstration
T4. Self-powered sensor wrapper testing and data analytics for SM
- Milestone: Sensor-wrappers software packages, as well as recurrence network algorithms
T5. Self-organizing manufacturing networks with autonomy
- Milestone: Demonstration of new concepts on self-organizing manufacturing networks with autonomy
T6. Implementation at a business legacy machine testbed
- Milestone: Demonstration of new concepts and performance benchmarks

POTENTIAL IMPACT: The main impact of the proposed effort is in reducing the costs of adopting SM into small and medium enterprises. Over 70% whose manufacturing equipment in the machine shops of these enterprises lack interfaces to connect to advanced web services, although many of these are beginning to collect data about energy usage at fine granularities. This project would establish a framework of self-powered IIoT sensing and analytics for SM. This will substantially enhance energy productivity to extract valuable data, as well as reduce maintenance costs and equipment downtime. Also, integration of advanced sensing of machines and manufacturing processes, and leveraging of the generated big data, essential for SM, will be realized.

BENEFITS: The technology developed in this proposal will improve the global competitiveness of American companies. It is essential to unlock huge opportunities for energy reduction especially to accelerate the translation of growing SM tools and platforms. Also, we will build the foundation for machine resource sharing and composition via marketplace, and process optimization. With rigorous theoretical approaches, formal (verifiable) specification and scalable optimization methods, product delivery will be much enhanced and energy efficiency will be improved. The project will also provide CESMII with key testbed infrastructure components that provide test and evaluation capabilities for additional extensions of the SM Platform reducing deployment costs.

Member % Cost Share	CESMII % Cost Share	Duration
50.04%	49.96%	18 Months

Self-Powered Sensing and Data Science for Smart manufacturing​​