Future Technologies Conference Research Articles

Integration of prognostics at a system level: a Petri net approach

This paper presents a mathematical framework for modeling prognostics at a system level, by combining the prognostics principles with the Plausible Petri nets (PPNs) formalism, first developed in M. Chiachío et al. [Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference, San Francisco, (2016), pp. 165-172]. The main feature of the resulting framework resides in its efficiency to jointly consider the dynamics of discrete events, like maintenance actions, together with multiple sources of uncertain information about the system state like the probability distribution of end-of-life, information from sensors, and information coming from expert knowledge. In addition, the proposed methodology allows us to rigorously model the flow of information through logic operations, thus making it useful for nonlinear control, Bayesian updating, and decision making. A degradation process of an engineering sub-system is analyzed as an example of application using condition-based monitoring from sensors, predicted states from prognostics algorithms, along with information coming from expert knowledge. The numerical results reveal how theinformation from sensors and prognostics algorithms can be processed, transferred, stored, and integrated with discreteevent maintenance activities for nonlinear control operations at system level.

Political Welcome Address to Conference Participants

This video welcomes the participants to the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011, held May 4th through 6th in Budapest, Hungary.The European Future Technologies (FET) Conference and Exhibition aims to be the European forum for facilitating international cross-disciplinary dialogue and discussion on visions and challenges for frontier research in future and emerging information technologies.While there are a large number of scientific conferences targeted at specific scientific domains, the FET Conference focusses on bridging disparate disciplines and communities, and fostering the interplay between science, policy and society.FET funded projects increasingly rely on fresh synergies, cross-pollination and convergence with different scientific disciplines and with the arts and humanities. This transdisciplinary and high-risk research requires new attitudes and novel organisational models in research and education. The multidisciplinary creative process that is at the heart of future and emerging technologies is a constant challenge to conventional academic boundaries.More than a traditional scientific conference, the FET Conference is thus a unique intellectual event which aims at creating an atmosphere of excitement for the opportunities presented by FET-type research in Europe through its distinctive content and structure.

Awards Ceremony and Closing

The official awards and closing ceremony of the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, hosted by Aymard de Touzalin.

Opening of the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011

This video details the official opening ceremony of the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011, held May 4th through 6th in Budapest, Hungary.Following the first conference held in 2009 in Prague, FET11 was highly interactive and engaging a broad and multi-disciplinary community. It involved key policy makers, and features a mix of panel discussion, keynote speakers, scientific sessions, and posters sessions.A hands-on exhibition ran throughout, in parallel to the conference, showcasing the latest research developments in future and emerging information technologies.