Vladimir Kuts

Vladimir Kuts
Tallinn University of Technology | TTU · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

PhD - Mechanical Engineering

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Introduction
The main research topic is human-robot interaction VR, AR interfaces development for safety evaluation through Digital Twin real-time simulations. Also part of Smart Industry and Autonomous vehicles research groups.

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Publications (53)
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As a digital twin case study, a self-driving electrical vehicle propulsion system was used. In this article, which employs a case study using adaptive funnel control with integration gain, a lower error margin compared to a standard PID controller is reached.
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The current digital transformation in manufacturing has a strong impact on the competencies needed by manufacturing companies. This leads to evolving requirements for digital training in industrial engineering courses. The concept of virtual labs in academic environments can be instrumental in teaching new digital skills through practical experienc...
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Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is an approach to robot programming where the machine aims to replicate the task presented by a human without being explicitly programmed to execute this task. While being an effective way to create complex robot routines even for users without coding skills, most LfD implementations heavily rely on sensors for the...
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Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) experiences are being developed by a large global community using diverse game engines and frameworks. Each research laboratory or private company is developing its own solutions, and there is a common tendency to re-implementing basic Extended Reality (XR) tools that have already been developed by other people...
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This paper introduces a novel concept of interconnecting components of Digital Twins using ROS2 and micro-ROS frameworks. Authors of the research argue that middleware implementation plays the most important role in the performance of Digital Twins and its robustness must be ensured for reliable real-time operation between components of Digital Twi...
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The Digital Twin (DT) in the manufacturing domain is already the everyday tool for visualizing the various industrial systems, equipment, and produced products. When designing a new manufacturing unit or enlarging an existing factory, it is important to do so without affecting the manufacturing process flow itself. There are opportunities through s...
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Conceptualization of the Smart Factory started with introducing the Industry 4.0 paradigm and its nine pillars, which it stands. The paradigm itself is automation and robot-centric focused, which means less and less involvement of the humans on the manufacturing shop floor. However, even robots and simulation aspects of the factories are the most c...
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Hybrid mobile robots are able to function in a number of different modes of locomotion, which increases their capacity to overcome challenges and makes them appropriate for a wide range of applications. To be able to develop navigation techniques that make use of these improved capabilities, one must first have a solid grasp of the constraints impo...
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Timber industry is one of the most relevant economic sectors in Estonia. Automatization of forestry management and harvesting processes optimization are realities also in this specific domain. As much as in other industrial fields adopting the Industry 4.0 paradigm and core technologies, forestry management, log harvesting and the wood processing i...
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Continuous change in manufacturing requires robotization, requiring a skilled workforce with robotic skills. It is also important for a manufacturing company to be able to transform its production process quickly. But now it is a long and complex process. The paper presents the simulation of the movement of an industrial robot in a digital environm...
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The adoption of Digital Twin (DT) solutions for industrial purposes is increasing among small- and medium-sized enterprises and is already being integrated into many large-scale companies. As there is an increasing need for faster production and shortening of the learning curve for new emerging technologies, Virtual Reality (VR) interfaces for ente...
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One of the most promising technologies that is driving digitalization in several industries is Digital Twin (DT). DT refers to the digital replica or model of any physical object (physical twin). What differentiates DT from simulation and other digital or CAD models is the automatic bidirectional exchange of data between digital and physical twins...
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The concept of Digital Twin is creating and maintaining a digital representation of the real physical entity and supporting its performance utilizing simulation and optimization tools, which are fed with the real data obtained from the physical equipment. Development and implementation of the Digital Twin technology are one of the main challenges f...
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The growing relevance of digitalization in production requires the enhancement of human skills and competences in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Higher education has to cope with this need by providing the necessary ICT skills to future industrial engineers, so that they have a good understanding of the complexity of i...
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As autonomous vehicle development continues at growing speeds, so does the need to optimize, diagnose, and test various elements of autonomous systems under different conditions. Since such processes should be carried out in parallel, it may result in bottlenecks in development and increased complexity. The trend for Digital Twins offers a promisin...
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Extended Reality (XR) interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) allow for safe and flexible control and programming of advanced industrial systems and integrate the operator as part of the Digital Twins (DT) interfaces of real collaborative systems. These technologies already show their potential in real-life scenarios by providing valuable trai...
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Industry 4.0 concept enables connecting a multitude of equipment to computer simulations through IoT and virtual commissioning, but using conventional interfaces for each separate piece of equipment for control and maintenance of Digital Twins is not always an optimal solution. Industrial Digital Twins software toolkits usually consist of simulatio...
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A Digital Twin is the concept of creating a digital replica of physical models (such as a robot). This is similar to establishing a simulation using a robot operating system (ROS) or other industrial-owned platforms to simulate robot operations and sending the details to the robot controller. In this paper, we propose a Digital Twin model that assi...
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The new paradigm of digital manufacturing and the concept of Industry 4.0 has led to the integration of recent manufacturing advances with modern information and communication technologies. Therefore, digital simulation tools fused into production systems can improve time and cost-effectiveness and enable faster, more flexible, and more efficient p...
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Variable applications and methodologies are used in the Digital Twin technology. Digital Twin as a trending technology is also a general topic of many industry-oriented research projects. To develop and implement a novel technology, a detailed study of any single part of a system is required. This paper presents a development case study of the para...
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Autonomous robotic systems are one of the pillars of Industry 4.0, together with Digital Twin (DT) simulations and advanced Human Machine Interfaces (HMI). Customization requirements in modern manufacturing demand a closer collaboration between operators and automated technologies, leading to a novel Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) and interaction...
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The advent of industry 4.0 and the continuous digitalization of production ask for the enhancement of human skills and competences in the field of information and communication technology (ICT). Therefore, higher education has to keep pace with the global market needs for the necessary ICT skills and the overall understanding of the complexity of i...
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As autonomous vehicle development continues at growing speeds, so does the need for optimization, diagnosis, and testing of various autonomous systems elements, under different conditions. However, since such processes should be carried out in parallel, it may result in bottlenecks in development and increased complexity. The trend for Digital Twin...
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A modern trend for industry digitalization brings new demands for the development and application of the modeling and simulation approach. It is already not enough to have only a virtual representation of the object and run it independently from the physical object. The Digital Twin (DT) aspect indicates a connection between the physical object and...
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Reference implementation of Digital Twins for electrical energy conversion systems is an important and open question in the industrial domain. Digital Twins can predict the future performance, behaviour, and maintenance needs of a complex system. Today the concept of Digital Twins is not only an emulation or simulation of the physical object along...
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One of the primary verification criteria of the autonomous vehicle is safe interaction with other road users. Based on studies, real-road testing is not practical for safety validation due to its time and cost consuming. Therefore, simulating miles driven is the only feasible way to overcome this limitation. The primary goal of the related research...
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Industrial Digital Twins (DT) is the precise virtual representation of the manufacturing environment and mainly consists of the system-level simulation, which combines both manufacturing processes and parametric models of the product. As being one of the pillars of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, DT-s are widely integrated into the existing factories, e...
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Nowadays, data is not just a collection of static documents, but a continuous flow of information. Research projects are required not only to manage data efficiently but also to keep it safe to ensure that it can be later correctly interpreted and reused. The Data Management Plan (DMP) is a document that describes the data management life cycle for...
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The goal of the proposed concept is to develop a specialized unsupervised prognosis and control platform for electrical vehicle propulsion drive performance estimation. This goal requires the development of several subtasks and related objectives, therefore the state-of-the-art analysis of the current development in electric vehicle propulsion driv...
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The concept of Digital Twin is creating and maintaining a digital representation of the real physical entity and supporting its performance utilizing simulation and optimization tools, which are fed with real data. Development and implementation of Digital Twin technology is a hot topic in many industry-oriented research projects. However, more det...
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The recent shift in manufacturing paradigm in terms of reconfigurable automation technologies invites the involvement of industrial mobile robots, highly automated production systems and digital information models to support manufacturing. Therefore, in the future, manufacturers need to complete automated production lines to compete in the global m...
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A recent development in the area of digital manufacturing demands the manufacturing industry to adopt industry 4.0 technologies to be competitive in the global market. Product development processes are becoming complex as products are getting more versatile and product variations increase the trend of mass customization. Therefore, manufacturing pr...
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Modern Industrial Robot (IR) programming process is mainly performed by using three different methods — manual, offline, and online programming. Each of these methods has various advantages and disadvantages. Prominent automotive industries often use a combination of them, as there is no way to avoid one or another form of programming on one factor...
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Autonomous driving is no longer just an idea of technology vision, instead a real technical trend all over the world. The continuing development to a further level of autonomy requires more from energy optimization. The optimization of electric propulsion drive systems of self-driving electric vehicles by using autonomous and monitoring sensors are...
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Digital twin (DT) is the virtual clone of a factory representing its static and dynamic aspects (e.g., processes, systems, products, etc.) in detail. Among the significant challenges that manufacturing company has to face to implement the DT, one of the most demanding is applying an appropriate software infrastructure, which would enable synchroniz...
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During the years common understanding of the possibilities and perspectives of Virtual Reality (VR) usage has been changed. It is thought that VR is mainly used in entertainment purposes, but it is being used already for many years in different industries, and now with easier access to the hardware it became a helpful and accessible tool that could...
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The use of industrial robots in modern manufacturing scenarios is a rising trend in the engineering industry. Currently, industrial robots are able to perform pre-programmed tasks very efficiently irrespective of time and complexity. However, often robots encounter unknown scenarios and to solve those, they need to cooperate with humans, leading to...
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In the era of Industry 4.0, modern factories workers have to become resilient to the changing market conditions and to the complexity of new technologies involved in the production process. This means that workforce’s skills and competencies necessitate to be aligned to the changing needs of modern manufacturing companies. One of the promising para...
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In recent years, there has been a constant deficit of students in technical specialities in higher educational institutions. This problem is especially significant for industrial engineering area. To solve this issue, the authors initiated the joint project with participation of three universities in the Baltic region. This project aims to develop...
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Significant efforts of the current manufacturing companies are devoted to the implementation of the full synchronization between the real world at the shop-floor level and its digital counterpart (so-called Digital Twin). Indeed, a true reflection of the real factory can be exploited to monitor and simulate the factory performance, allowing to adju...
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Measuring and inspection works in production process using laser scanners attached to the robot manipulators are more and more used in different ways and purposes. The aim of this article is to study and analyze the usage of 3D measuring devices attached to the robot manipulator according to determine the range and the purpose of such industrial me...

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