A Discrete Event
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The environment we eventually intend to design consists of three major parts: the sensing, design, and manufacturing modules (for reverse engineering applications.) The goal is to establish a computational model that is capable of recovering the structure of machine parts, inspecting and refining them, thus, allowing the creation of a flexible engineering environment that is extensible. The control flow will be from the sensing agent to the design module and then to the manufacturing module. Feedback is then re-supplied to the sensing agent in order to inspect manufactured parts, compare them to the original ones, and continue the loop until a certain tolerance is achieved. The system is intended to be as autonomous as possible. We intend to study what parts of the system can be implemented in hardware. Providing language interfaces between the different components in the inspection and/or reverse engineering control loop is to be addressed, too.