Jack Chaplin

Contact

• workRoom B48 Advanced Manufacturing Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 748 4709
• Jack.Chaplin@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Jack C Chaplin is Assistant Professor in Manufacturing Systems at the University of Nottingham. His primary areas of research are digital and artificially intelligent manufacturing systems, and the control of complex, flexible, and agile manufacturing systems. He has over 30 publications in the manufacturing area, and currently participates in the Made Smarter Innovation Research Centre for Connected Factories (EP/V062123/1) , and manages the EPSRC Elastic Manufacturing systems projects (EP/T024429/1). He has a focus on skills and training, collaborating in the MSCA ITN DiManD (814078) training network, and developing the Erasmus+ Digit-T (2017-1-UK01-KA202-036807) training platform.

Teaching Summary

Dr Chaplin currently teaches as part of the following modules:

• MMME1024 Engineering Design and Design Project
• MMME3053 Flexible Automated Manufacture
• MMME3083 BEng Individual Project
• MMME3104 Aerospace Manufacturing: Airframe and Aeroengine
• MMME4086 MEng Individual Project
• MMME4088 Individual Postgraduate Project (Mech and HF)
• MMME4113 Digital Manufacturing (10)

Recent Publications

• MO, F., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D., MARTÍNEZ-ARELLANO, G. and RATCHEV, S., 2024. Semantic models and knowledge graphs as manufacturing system reconfiguration enablers: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 86,
• MO, F., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D., REHMAN, H. U., MONETTI, F. M., MAFFEI, A. and RATCHEV, S., 2023. A Framework for Manufacturing System Reconfiguration Based on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin
• MO, F., REHMAN, H. U., MONETTI, F. M., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D., POPOV, A., MAFFEI, A. and RATCHEV, S., 2023. A framework for manufacturing system reconfiguration and optimisation utilising digital twins and modular artificial intelligence: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 82,
• MO, F., MONETTI, F. M., TORAYEV, A., REHMAN, H. U., MULET ALBEROLA, J. A., REA MINANGO, N., NGUYEN, H. N., MAFFEI, A. and CHAPLIN, J. C., 2023. A maturity model for the autonomy of manufacturing systems: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

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• MO, F., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D., MARTÍNEZ-ARELLANO, G. and RATCHEV, S., 2024. Semantic models and knowledge graphs as manufacturing system reconfiguration enablers: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 86,
• MO, F., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D., REHMAN, H. U., MONETTI, F. M., MAFFEI, A. and RATCHEV, S., 2023. A Framework for Manufacturing System Reconfiguration Based on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin
• MO, F., REHMAN, H. U., MONETTI, F. M., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D., POPOV, A., MAFFEI, A. and RATCHEV, S., 2023. A framework for manufacturing system reconfiguration and optimisation utilising digital twins and modular artificial intelligence: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 82,
• MO, F., MONETTI, F. M., TORAYEV, A., REHMAN, H. U., MULET ALBEROLA, J. A., REA MINANGO, N., NGUYEN, H. N., MAFFEI, A. and CHAPLIN, J. C., 2023. A maturity model for the autonomy of manufacturing systems: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
• TORAYEV, A., MARTINEZ-ARELLANO, G., CHAPLIN, J. C., SANDERSON, D. and RATCHEV, S., 2023. Online and Modular Energy Consumption Optimization of Industrial Robots: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 1-10
• REHMAN, H. U., CHAPLIN, J. C., ZARZYCKI, L., MO, F., JONES, M. and RATCHEV, S., 2022. Service Based Approach to Asset Administration Shell for Controlling Testing Processes in Manufacturing At: Nantes, FRANCE
• JIMENEZ, L. A. E., SANDERSON, D., CHAPLIN, J. C. and BARATA, J., 2022. Self-configuration of a Robotic Platform to support a self-organized Manufacturing Process
• MCNALLY, M. J., CHAPLIN, J. C., MARTÍNEZ-ARELLANO, G. and RATCHEV, S., 2021. Data Capture and Visualisation on a Shoestring: Demonstrating the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project
• SANDERSON, D., SHIRES, E., CHAPLIN, J. C., BROOKES, H., LIAQAT, A. and RATCHEV, S., 2021. Context-Aware Plug and Produce for Robotic Aerospace Assembly
• REHMAN, H. U., CHAPLIN, J. C., ZARZYCKI, L. and RATCHEV, S., 2021. A Framework for Self-configuration in Manufacturing Production Systems
• REHMAN, H. U., PULIKOTTIL, T., ESTRADA-JIMENEZ, L. A., MO, F., CHAPLIN, J. C., BARATA, J. and RATCHEV, S., 2021. Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-agent Production Systems
• REHMAN, H. U., CHAPLIN, J. C., ZARZYCKI, L., JONES, M. and RATCHEV, S., 2021. Application of Multi Agent Systems for Leak Testing
• SANDERSON, D., CHAPLIN, J. C. and RATCHEV, S., 2020. Affordable data integration approach for production enterprises
• MCNALLY, M. J., CHAPLIN, J. C., MARTINEZ-ARELLANO, G. and RATCHEV, S., 2020. Towards flexible, fault tolerant hardware service wrappers for the digital manufacturing on a shoestring project
• LAVINDRA DE SILVA, PAOLO FELLI, JACK C CHAPLIN, BRIAN LOGAN, DAVID SANDERSON and SVETAN RATCHEV, 2017. Synthesising industry-standard manufacturing process controllers In: Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (In Press.)
• OTTO JAN BAKKER, JACK C CHAPLIN, LAVINDRA DE SILVA, PAOLO FELLI, DAVID SANDERSON, BRIAN LOGAN and SVETAN RATCHEV, 2017. Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems In: Procedia CIRP. (In Press.)
• DE SILVA, L., MENEGUZZI, F., SANDERSON, D., CHAPLIN, J.C., BAKKER, O.J., ANTZOULATOS, N. and RATCHEV, S., 2016. Interfacing Belief-Desire-Intention agent systems with geometric reasoning for robotics and manufacturing Studies in Computational Intelligence. 640, 179-188
• DE SILVA, L., FELLI, P., CHAPLIN, J. C., LOGAN, B., SANDERSON, D. and RATCHEV, S., 2016. Realisability of Production Recipes. In: KAMINKA, G. A., FOX, M., BOUQUET, P., HULLERMEIER, E., DIGNUM, V., DIGNUM, F. and VANHARMELEN, F., eds., Ecai 2016: 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 285. Ios Press. 1449-1457
• SANDERSON, D., CHAPLIN, J. C., DE SILVA, L., HOLMES, P. and RATCHEV, S., 2016. Smart Manufacturing And Reconfigurable Technologies: Towards an Integrated Environment for Evolvable Assembly Systems: 2016 Ieee 1st International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (Fas*W) 2016 Ieee 1st International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (Fas*W). 263-264
• CHAPLIN, J. C., BAKKER, O. J., DE SILVA, L., SANDERSON, D., KELLY, E., LOGAN, B. and RATCHEV, S. M., 2015. Evolvable assembly systems: A distributed architecture for intelligent manufacturing
• SANDERSON, D., ANTZOULATOS, N., CHAPLIN, J.C., BUSQUETS, D., PITT, J., GERMAN, C., NORBURY, A., KELLY, E., RATCHEV, S.., ANTZOULATOS, N. and RATCHEV, S., 2015. Advanced manufacturing: An industrial application for collective adaptive systems Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2015. 61-67
• CHAPLIN, J.C., BAKKER, O.J., DE SILVA, L., SANDERSON, D., KELLY, E., LOGAN, B. and RATCHEV, S.M., 2015. Evolvable assembly systems: A distributed architecture for intelligent manufacturing IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline). 48(3), 2065-2070
• CHAPLIN, J.C., KRASNOGOR, N. and RUSSELL, N.A., 2014. Photochromic molecular implementations of universal computation BioSystems. 126, 12-26
• CHAPLIN, J.C., RUSSELL, N.A. and KRASNOGOR, N., 2012. Implementing conventional logic unconventionally: photochromic molecular populations as registers and logic gates Biosystems. 109(1), 35-51
• CHAPLIN, J.C, KRASNOGOR, N, RUSSELL, N.A, 2011. The effect of encapsulation on molecular computing efficiency 2011 Functional Optical Imaging, FOI 2011.