Ethical Industry 4.0: Embedding Legality, Integrity and Accountability in Digital Manufacturing Ecosystems

道德工业 4.0：将合法性、诚信和责任融入数字制造生态系统

• 批准号: 2412678
• 负责人: Hongyue Sun
• 金额: $ 56.58万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-12-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2412678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ethical; Industry; 4.0; Embedding; Legality

This project is centered around the creation and validation of an innovative digital framework to foster an ethical manufacturing ecosystem where machine ethics, including legality, integrity, and accountability, is mandated throughout the product design-fabrication-service life cycle. In the era of Industry 4.0, manufacturing systems are enhanced with advanced technologies and interconnectivity. While this evolution significantly expands the functionalities and accessibility of manufacturing machinery, it also introduces unprecedented ethical challenges in manufacturing regulation, such as malicious use of customizable fabrication (e.g., counterfeit goods and 3D printed weapons). This project pioneers the exploration of ethical Industry 4.0 and anchors principles of legality, integrity, and accountability as fundamental components in the digital manufacturing ecosystem. Specifically, the team designs and implements a set of computational methods and digital tools to provide ethical assurances spanning each stage of the design-fabrication-service life cycle from design, to fabrication, to service. By leveraging existing research platforms and local manufacturing partners, the ethical framework can be integrated and validated within real-world manufacturing testbeds. This project has multi-dimensional educational and societal impacts. The project can necessitate the inclusion of ethics and regulation compliance promotion within Industry 4.0. Moreover, the project also contributes significantly to the education of the future manufacturing workforce, promotes public awareness of manufacturing ethics, and brings benefits to the US manufacturing sector and general society.This research project explores principles of ethics as new functional components and constructs a digital framework that tackles technical obstacles in ethical Industry 4.0, including intellectual property (IP) protection, data security and privacy, regulation, and compliance. The team investigates and develops an ethical cyber layer, incorporating a set of computational algorithms, architecture, and software, to enhance the legality, integrity, and accountability of the digital manufacturing system. The technical thrusts in this project are threefold: (1) an efficient and robust ethical design checking mechanism using nonlinear matching algorithms for complex 3D digital models imported to manufacturing machines to avoid IP theft and malicious design; (2) ethical fabrication monitoring tools for manufacturing machines via secure computation with high privacy needs, limited annotated samples, and diverse operation conditions; and (3) ethical product tracking to analyze product texture fingerprint and assist the forensics of source machine identification with illegal and non-integrity usage. The validated resources and tools, including advanced models, algorithms, software and test benches, and educational materials, will be publicly available.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目围绕创新数字框架的创建和验证，以促进一个道德制造生态系统，在该生态系统中，在整个产品设计制作服务范围内，都要求机器道德（包括合法性，完整性和问责制）在内。在工业4.0时代，高级技术和互连性增强了制造系统。尽管这种进化大大扩大了制造机械的功能和可及性，但它也引入了制造法规中前所未有的道德挑战，例如恶意使用可定制的制造（例如，伪造的商品和3D印刷武器）。该项目开创了对道德行业4.0的探索，并将合法性，完整性和问责制的原则作为数字制造生态系统中的基本组成部分。具体而言，团队设计并实施了一组计算方法和数字工具，以提供跨越设计 - 制造服务生命周期的每个阶段的道德保证，从设计，制造，再到服务。通过利用现有的研究平台和本地制造合作伙伴，可以将道德框架集成和验证，并在现实世界中的测试床内进行验证。该项目具有多维教育和社会影响。该项目可能需要在行业4.0范围内纳入道德和法规合规性促进。 Moreover, the project also contributes significantly to the education of the future manufacturing workforce, promotes public awareness of manufacturing ethics, and brings benefits to the US manufacturing sector and general society.This research project explores principles of ethics as new functional components and constructs a digital framework that tackles technical obstacles in ethical Industry 4.0, including intellectual property (IP) protection, data security and privacy, regulation, and compliance.该团队研究并开发了道德网络层，并结合了一组计算算法，体系结构和软件，以增强数字制造系统的合法性，完整性和问责制。该项目中的技术推力是三倍：（1）使用非线性匹配算法的复杂3D数字模型进口到制造机器，以避免IP盗窃和恶意设计的复杂3D数字模型； （2）通过高隐私需求，有限的带注释样本和多种操作条件的安全计算，用于制造机器的道德制造监控工具； （3）道德产品跟踪，以分析产品纹理指纹并通过非法和非综合用法来协助源机识别的取证。经过验证的资源和工具，包括高级模型，算法，软件和测试台以及教育材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估来获得支持的。