Topics in Artificial Intelligence Applied to Industry 4.0

13Designing a Quantum Computer to Gear up Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0

K. Pradheep Kumar¹, Neha Sharma², and Juergen Seitz³

¹ Department of CSIS, BITS Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

² Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, Maharashtra, India

³ Duale Hochschule Baden‐Württemberg, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Heidenheim, Germany

13.1 Introduction

With the explosion of huge volumes of data in the digital world, it has become essential to have technologies and hardware to process the data in a reliable and timely manner. However, the existing hardware and technologies pose numerous challenges to process the voluminous data. To add to this digital evolution, most of the applications to be used in Industry 4.0 require sophisticated hardware and processing algorithms to address several challenges that exist in routine activities. Despite providing several trade‐off optimizations in the hardware and also providing compiler‐based optimizations, either the reliability of the inference or timeliness of the inference for several critical applications poses a threat. Besides, with the increase in the number of computations, the processing hardware tends to get heated up or ultimately stop. This is evident from the fact that with decrease in the size of the components, the processing power also gets limited.

The aforementioned reasons are the motivation to design a quantum computer that relies on nanoscience technology. Currently, there is a need to have an advancement of nanoscience technology, ...