Dr. Zhibo Pang Senior Principal Scientist, ABB Corporate Research Adjunct Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Dr. Zhibo Pang, MBA & PhD, is currently a Senior Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at KTH. He is a Member of IEEE IES Industry Activities Committee, Vice-Chair of the TC on Cloud and Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications, and Co-Chair of the TC on Industrial Informatics. He is Associate Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE JBHI, and IEEE JESTIE. He was General Chair of IEEE ES2017, General Co-Chair of IEEE WFCS2021. He was awarded the “Inventor of the Year Award” by ABB Corporate Research Sweden, three times in 2016, 2018, and 2021 respectively. He works on enabling technologies in electronics, communication, computing, control, artificial intelligence, and robotics for Industry4.0 and Healthcare4.0.
Homepage: https://www.kth.se/profile/zhibo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhibopang/
Inspired by the fast evolution of 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the manufacturing industry are looking for new generation automation systems that can be deployed on open, flexible, and IT-style communication and computing infrastructures. However, major technical challenges must be solved in terms of determinism before the expected benefits are achievable, especially for field level regulatory control. In this presentation, I will share what we have done towards the vision of doing field level regulatory control over cloud and fog computing and wireless networks. I will show the significant improvements in the latency and reliability of the latest wireless technologies such as 5G and WiFi6, as well as the insufficiencies to support the real-time control tasks. More importantly, our preliminary progress suggests, it will be easier to solve the overall challenge if we can tune the control model according to the latency pattern of the networks. Despite its effectiveness in our specific use case, the generalizability of the proposed “latency-aware control” or “control-computing-communication co-design” is still a open research question. I hope to trigger more discussions on this topic by this talk.