Advanced Technologies for Industrial Applications

This book provides information on advanced communication technology used in Industry 4.0 and 5.0. The book covers a variety of technologies such as signal processing, system designing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence and explains their benefits, usage, and market values in Industry 4.0 and 5.0. The authors present technological tools for industrial applications and give examples of their usage of system design, modeling, artificial intelligence, internet of things and robotics. This book covers the impact of these technologies in various industrial applications and provides future technological tools that will be helpful in future planning and development. The book is pertinent to researchers, academics, professionals, planners, and student’s interest in Industry 5.0.

Dr. Rohit Thanki is a senior IEEE member and currently working as Data Scientist at Krian Software, Wolfsburg, Germany. Before this, he worked as R & D Head and Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Prognica Labs, Dubai, UAE. Also, he associated with Ennoventure Technologies Private Limited, Bengaluru, India as a software consultant. He received his Ph.D. from C. U. Shah University, Surendranagar, Gujarat, India, in 2017, with outstanding research contributions in biometric security and data encryption. He has more than 8 years of research experience along with 4 years of teaching experience in various engineering institutes such as MBIT (Vallabh Vidyanagar), Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science (Rajkot), Saurashtra University (Rajkot), and Government Polytechnic (Rajkot). His research interests are medical image analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, digital watermarking, image & video processing, biometrics, content security, compressive sensing, signal processing, and industrial applications. He has written over 15 technical books and published with respected publishers such as Springer and CRC Press. Also, he has more than 50 research publications in various international journals and international conferences that index in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. In addition, he has delivered many expert talks on computer vision and artificial intelligence topics. He has been invited as a reviewer in various reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Natural Language Processing, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Access, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Pattern Recognition, Computers, and Electrical Engineering, Informatics in Medicine, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, IET Biometrics, and IET Image Processing.

Purva Joshi is PhD student in Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Her research title is bilateral teleoperation using beyond 5G network. Shewas a research scholar at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, She completed her bachelor’s study in instrumentation and control engineering, at Government Engineering College, Gandhinagar, India. After graduation, she joined the Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India, for her post-graduation in instrumentation and control engineering. She got the first rank in class and earned a gold medal. She worked as Assistant Professor at Marwadi University, Rajkot, India from 2018 to 2019. At Marwadi University, she arranged two days of the hands-on workshop for final year students as "LabVIEW and its application." She encouraged students to know about hardware interfacing and its programming and played a mentor role for the team, selected for the National level Mitsubishi Electric Cup Competition. She also worked as Assistant Professor in electronics and communication engineering at Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad, India. In 2020, she joined Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India as a junior research fellow and worked on the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) project. The project developed a satellite network simulator using features like uplink power control (ULPC) and Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM). Her research interests are Robotic teleoperation, beyond 5G communication network, Industry 5.0 and haptic devices.