Papers
7
Total Citations
247
H-Index
6
About
Regina Frei is a distinguished researcher whose work sits at the intersection of complexity engineering, self-organizing systems, and adaptive manufacturing technologies. Her most celebrated contribution, "Self-healing and self-repairing technologies" (2013), has garnered over 100 citations, establishing her as a leading authority on systems capable of autonomous recovery and maintenance — a frontier area with profound implications for robotics, materials science, and industrial design. Frei has made substantial contributions to the emerging field of complexity engineering, co-authoring two influential 2011 papers — "Concepts in complexity engineering" and "Advances in complexity engineering" — that collectively demonstrate how principles from complexity science can transcend the limitations of traditional engineering methods when applied to complex adaptive systems and autonomous agents. These works have helped bridge theoretical complexity science and practical engineering applications. Her earlier research laid important groundwork in evolvable and self-organising assembly systems, exploring how agentified, modular manufacturing components can dynamically respond to production demands with flexibility and resilience. Papers on ambient intelligence, formal specification using Maude, and self-awareness in robotic assembly modules reveal a coherent research vision: creating manufacturing systems that are intelligent, adaptive, and increasingly autonomous. Frei's body of work collectively advances a future where engineered systems can sense, adapt, and heal themselves with minimal human intervention.
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Top Papers
- 1Self-healing and self-repairing technologies104 citations · 2013
- 2Concepts in complexity engineering50 citations · 2011
- 3Advances in complexity engineering44 citations · 2011
- 4An architecture for self-managing evolvable assembly systems20 citations · 2009
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- 6Self-organising assembly systems formally specified in Maude9 citations · 2012
- 7Self-awareness in agile assembly systems2 citations · 2012