About the Project
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.. _About the Project:

The Self-configurable Manufacturing Industrial Agent (SMIA) project represents the ongoing development of a solution that aims to achieve a  a proposal for the implementation of the concept of the I4.0 Component from the Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) as an AAS-compliant agent-based Digital Twin (DT). This development is performed within a PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), specifically in the Control and Systems Integration research group.

The website of the research group is available at `<https://ehu-gcis.org/>`_.

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.. important::

    At the moment there is no final version available for the SMIA. The project is currently under development. Therefore, SMIA is not a ready-to-use implementation. New features and bug fixes will be uploaded during development.

Contact
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The PhD student responsible of the project, and therefore the development lead, is Ekaitz Hurtado.

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    :octicon:`mail;1em` **E-mail:** `ekaitz.hurtado@ehu.eus <ekaitz.hurtado@ehu.eus>`_

    :octicon:`mark-github;1em` **GitHub account:** `<https://github.com/ekhurtado>`_