Guest Editorial Focused Section on Sensing and Perception Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing (SPIM)

The 11 papers in this special section focus on sensing and perception systems for intelligent manufacturing. This new industrial revolution calls for solutions to embedded intelligence, networked environment, interaction, autonomous, and high performance computing. The manufacturing industry is at the center of this wave of innovation with sensing and perception in focus. The papers included in this section examine the methodologies developed are all based on processing data generated by complex sensing devices acting on certain kind of physical fields, such as vision and temperature field, in order to render 2-D or 3-D information of fields. This kind of field sensing and perception development is the key to facilitate the intelligent operation of manufacturing systems in practices.