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most citedCapabilities and Skills in Manufacturing: A Survey Over the Last Decade of ETFA

31 citations · 42 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2025

Automated Validation of Textual Constraints Against AutomationML via LLMs and SHACL

Tom Westermann, Aljosha Köcher, Felix Gehlhoff

AutomationML (AML) enables standardized data exchange in engineering, yet existing recommendations for proper AML modeling are typically formulated as informal and textual constrai…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

Beyond Formal Semantics for Capabilities and Skills: Model Context Protocol in Manufacturing

Luis Miguel Vieira da Silva, Aljosha Köcher, Felix Gehlhoff

Explicit modeling of capabilities and skills -- whether based on ontologies, Asset Administration Shells, or other technologies -- requires considerable manual effort and often res…

cs.AI2025★ 3 cited

Capability-Driven Skill Generation with LLMs: A RAG-Based Approach for Reusing Existing Libraries and Interfaces

Luis Miguel Vieira da Silva, Aljosha Köcher, Nicolas König +2

Modern automation systems increasingly rely on modular architectures, with capabilities and skills as one solution approach. Capabilities define the functions of resources in a mac…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

Semantic Capability Model for the Simulation of Manufacturing Processes

Jonathan Reif, Tom Jeleniewski, Aljosha Köcher +3

Simulations offer opportunities in the examination of manufacturing processes. They represent various aspects of the production process and the associated production systems. Howev…

cs.AI2023

Automated Process Planning Based on a Semantic Capability Model and SMT

Aljosha Köcher, Luis Miguel Vieira da Silva, Alexander Fay

In research of manufacturing systems and autonomous robots, the term capability is used for a machine-interpretable specification of a system function. Approaches in this research…

cs.AI2022★ 3 cited

A Reference Model for Common Understanding of Capabilities and Skills in Manufacturing

Aljosha Köcher, Alexander Belyaev, Jesko Hermann +7

In manufacturing, many use cases of Industry 4.0 require vendor-neutral and machine-readable information models to describe, implement and execute resource functions. Such models h…

cs.AI2022★ 31 cited

Capabilities and Skills in Manufacturing: A Survey Over the Last Decade of ETFA

Roman Froschauer, Aljosha Köcher, Kristof Meixner +2

Industry 4.0 envisions Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) to foster adaptive production of mass-customizable products. Manufacturing approaches based on capabilities and ski…

cs.AI2021

A Research Agenda for AI Planning in the Field of Flexible Production Systems

Aljosha Köcher, Rene Heesch, Niklas Widulle +4

Manufacturing companies face challenges when it comes to quickly adapting their production control to fluctuating demands or changing requirements. Control approaches that encapsul…