Autonomous Planning of Industrial Processes for the Internet of Production

The Cluster of Excellence “Internet of Production” is a huge interdisciplinary project with more than 25 institutes at the RWTH. The KBSG is part of that cluster and is involved in all kind of decision support for production processes. That includes modelling and planning of processes, and using AI techniques to optimize these processes. Among other things the used methods might be logic-based knowledge representation; the robot programming language Golog based on the situation calculus; automated planning methods, including classical planning, decision-theoretic planning, numerical planning, planning under uncertainty; goal reasoning; verification of robot programs; execution monitoring and plan repair; high-level robot control; informed search and machine learning.

The offered Bachelor’s Thesis is about modelling production processes as an AI planning problem, in the context of carbon fibre preforming at ITA. Therefore, you should develop a planning tool which autonomously plans a process for a given production goal.