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ATEMC01 Energy Monitoring System Using Sensor Networks in Residential

Houses

The energy consumption of consumer electronics has been increasing over the past half century. Due to the growing importance of energy saving, many researches about the energy savings of information and communication technology have been presented. Providing residents with information on their energy use has become a feasible option to promote energy savings in the residential sector. In this paper, a home energy management system, particularly an energy monitoring system using sensor networks, is described. The authors designed and developed a smart power strip sensor network and evaluated its accuracy and energy saving efficiency.

Networking 2012

ATEMC02 Pricing mechanisms for cooperative state estimation

The conflict between cooperation in distributed state estimation and the resulting leakage of private state information (competitive privacy) is studied for an interconnected two regional transmission organizations (RTOs) model of the grid. Using an information theoretic rate-distortion-leakage (RDL) tradeoff model, each RTO communicates at a rate chosen to optimize an objective function that is dependent on two opposing quantities: a rate-distortion based pricing function that encourages cooperation, and a leakage function that impedes it. It is shown that strictly non-zero pricing incentives are required to achieve non-trivial target distortions

Signal Processing

2012

ATEMC03 ZigBee based energy efficient outdoor lighting control system

This paper presents user-centric energy efficient lighting control architecture for street lamps. The system utilizes ZigBee technology to implement wireless mesh network of street lamps. The coordinator, serving as gateway between ZigBee nodes and internet, relays information of interests to remote user. The proposed system comprises of LED lamps, gateway node, and management software that offer remote monitoring and control of the lamps. Each LED lamp is integrated with ZigBee

Advanced communica

tion

2012

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node, sensors and the Controller module along with ballast actuator. To realize effectiveness of proposed system, prototype has been installed inside University.

ATEMC04 Low cost weather station with remote control

This work describes use a PC to control home weather station and visualization measuring data via applications written in programming language C# with communications via USB or RS232. Weather station is capable of measure temperature up to five temperature sensors DS18B20, wind speed via measuring turbine with optical encoder, the intensity of illumination via light sensitive element and finally is able to detect an approaching thunderstorm by measuring atmospheric charge. The station also disposing eight galvanic separation switch outputs, whose function in the supplied software set to customer requirements. Visualization is done in the charts for each measured quantity and also in arranged the panel, depicting the actual situation

Applied Machine

Intelligence

2012

ATEMC05 Design optimization of TRIAC-dimmable AC-DC converter in

LED lighting

A LED lighting system becomes a promising alternative as a substitute of fluorescent and incandescent lights due to high light efficacy and long lifetime. The proposed AC-DC converter implements TRIAC dimming with smooth brightness control. While controlling TRIAC dimming, LED current is regulated by primary side regulation (PSR) to save BOM cost such as LED current sensing circuit and opto-coupler. Compact active damper is also applied to stabilize converter operation during dimmer firing with better efficiency and minimized components. The linear frequency control reduces conduction loss and guarantees DCM operation in the wide range of output voltage, which shows excellent power factor correction in single stage flyback topology. The proposed TRIAC-dimming PSR converter has been experimentally verified in 7W LED lighting system

Applied Power

Electronics

2012

ATEMC06 Design for Middle-Way of Intelligent Energy-Saving System

with Embedded System

The narrow of land and large population the resource of Taiwan mainly depended on import

Automation 2012


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from foreign countries and the ratio reaches to 99.39% [1], which was 5.38% more than that of last year. According to the 2010 statistics of Energy Bureau of Taiwan Ministry of Economy, [2], the energy consumption inner the island was about, 12.03 billion kiloliter oil, which was 6.40% more than that of last year. Meanwhile the electricity consumption was 10.3 Kilo-degree, which was 7.32% more than that of last year [3]. Nowadays Taiwan was stepping forward to WTO and Green Island, and it faced the continue progress of industry and more and more energy requirements, oil price instable, the limitation of electricity consumption in summer, and manage to the green house problem of earth, besides, the cost of developing green energy was too high, so how to get to energy-saving becomes one more important issue.

ATEMC07 The Design of the Steering Wheel with Anti-fatigue Driving for

Vehicles Based on Pattern Recognition

The paper described a design of steering wheel with anti-fatigue driving function. This design utilizes pattern recognition technology, was set transformer angular displacement sensor, GPS module and embedded system in the steering wheel. The transformer angular displacement sensor used to collect corner voltage changes of steering wheel. Then the embedded system executes pattern recognition to waveform that consisting by continuously varying voltage, in order to determine the driver fatigue. The system also uses changes of GPS data to determine the state in the vehicle such as stop or action, in order to control the algorithm periods of continuous driving time. Finally, the system provides early warning for fatigue driving combining these two parameters

Automation 2012

ATEMC08 Design of Distributed Greenhouse Big Awning Monitoring System

Based on Field-bus

In this paper, a kind of automatic monitor and control system of temperature and humidity parameter in greenhouse big awning based on CAN bus communication network and TMS320F2812 is designed, hardware architecture of CAN intelligence node and data acquisition system and software design are introduced. This node completed the real time measuring, long-range transmission and control

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of the temperature and humidity by CAN-bus interface

ATEMC09 Monitoring Roll Chock Temperature: A Wireless System

for a Tandem Cold Mill

Chock temperature control is an important issue in cold rolling mills. Traditional wired systems don't offer satisfactory results for practical use. Because of very low power consumption using Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) wireless technology, temperature sensors (up to 125 οC ) suitable for a tandem cold mill environment have been developed. The complete monitoring system includes repeaters, a base receiver with transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) gateway, and a maintenance software. The results obtained in the tandem mill are collected.

Automation 2012

ATEMC10 Multi-parameter monitoring system for coal mine based on

wireless sensor network technology

According to the characteristics of coal mine environment, in this paper we propose a multi-parameter wireless sensor network monitoring system based on Zigbee technology for coal mine tunnel. The system can real-time monitor the underground environment and production parameters and intelligently give early warning by using a variety of sensors and wireless sensor network. It is flexible to add sensors and enhance stability of monitoring computer software through RS-485 communication protocol and hardware modular. Experiments have proved feasibility and good stability of the system.

Automation 2012

ATEMC11 Autonomous Electric Vehicle: Steering and Path-following

Control Systems

This paper describes the ISRobotCar, an experimental autonomous electric vehicle that integrates Robot Operating System (ROS) and several sensors such as IBEO laserscanner, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), RTK-GPS, vision cameras, and magnet detectors for magnetic guidance. The development of a power steering controller and of a fuzzy path-following controller are particularly addressed. Finally simulations and experimental results of autonomous path-following control are presented.

Automation 2012

ATEMC12 Design and Development of Mamdani-Like Fuzzy Control

Algorithm for a Wheeled Human-

A wheeled human-conveyance vehicle (WHCV) with a low-level microprocessor is realized in

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Conveyance Vehicle Control this paper. WHCVs are environmentally friendly short-range transportation vehicles. This paper proposes a simple Mamdani-like fuzzy controller for self-balancing WHCV control. System stability is guaranteed by establishing sufficient conditions based on the Lyapunov stability analysis. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed Mamdani-like fuzzy control strategy can control the WHCV.

ATEMC13 Volcanic Environments: Robots for Exploration and Measurement

The study of volcanic activity is important from a scientific point of view as it allows for a better understanding of one of the most spectacular geological phenomena and of the working principles that are at the basis of geophysics. Furthermore, there are numerous events that directly result from volcanic eruptions and that affect many populations. Therefore, improving the prediction methods of eruptive phenomena would be of great benefit. There are more than 1,500 potentially active volcanoes in the world, and roughly 10% of the world's population live in areas directly threatened by volcanoes. In all of these areas, volcanoes have a strong influence on many day-to-day activities. The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland in April 2010 caused the cancellation of more than 100,000 European flights and, consequently, left more than 10 million passengers stranded. Each year, on a graver note, many regions in the world are destroyed or heavily damaged by lava or pyroclastic flows, in some cases, resulting in numbers of casualties that could have been avoided with the improvement of early warning systems.

Automation 2012

ATEMC14 New Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Micro System for

Aircraft Propeller Blades

This presents work done on the project “Blade Parameters Recording Microsystem” funded by the French research program FUI. It resulted in a fully operational recorder that can be embedded on a plane. This system allows blade monitoring to be conducted using computing algorithms. Using a top-down modelling method, this recorder can be adapted to any kind of blade. Herein, recorder was devised for a Transall plane blade. This device was used to record data in order to subsequently compute

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a real-time blade monitoring algorithm. The algorithm takes several blade parameters into account. The top-down modelling easily allows the algorithm parameters to be adapted to various blades.

ATEMC15 Intelligent Traction Control Model for Speed Sensor Vehicles

in Computer-Based Transit System

In this paper, a real-time intelligent traction control model for speed sensor vehicles in computer-based transit systems is proposed. Using the Bayesian decision theory, the model analyzes speed sensor data to learn and classify the train traction conditions (i.e., spin/slip, normal, and slide) that are required for studying vehicle motion patterns. The patterns are applied on the sensor input in real-time format to classify train traction and reduce the error/risk of classification that may cause service interruptions and incidents. The model can enable us to manage a number of state natures (i.e., spin/slip, normal, and slide), features (i.e., delta speed and train speed), and prior knowledge traction conditions. This model engine can be implemented in any programming language in onboard or embedded computers. As a result, the impact of noisy sensors (inaccurate data) and its delays in such a hard real-time control system is mitigated. This conceptual model is applied to a case study with promising results for target and simulation systems

Automation 2012

ATEMC16 An Electronic Patch for Wearable Health Monitoring by Reflectance

Pulse Oximetry

We report the development of an Electronic Patch for wearable health monitoring. The Electronic Patch is a new health monitoring system incorporating biomedical sensors, microelectronics, radio frequency (RF) communication, and a battery embedded in a 3-dimensional hydrocolloid polymer. In this paper the Electronic Patch is demonstrated with a new optical biomedical sensor for reflectance pulse oximetry so that the Electronic Patch in this case can measure the pulse and the oxygen saturation. The reflectance pulse oximetry solution is based on a recently developed annular backside silicon photodiode to enable low power consumption by the light emitting components. The

Biomedical 2012


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Electronic Patch has a disposable part of soft adhesive hydrocolloid polymer and a reusable part of hard polylaurinlactam. The disposable part contains the battery. The reusable part contains the reflectance pulse oximetry sensor and microelectronics. The reusable part is 'clicked' into the disposable part when the patch is prepared for use. The patch has a size of 88 mm by 60 mm and a thickness of 5 mm

ATEMC17 Effective wireless transmission for Body Sensor Networks of

plant operators

This paper deals with the rapid growth in biomedical sensors, and power consumption of ZigBee module in different modes of operation. The wireless communications has enabled a new generation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN): the body area networks. These networks are composed of tiny, cheap, and low-power biomedical nodes, mainly dedicated for healthcare monitoring applications. The objective of these applications is to ensure a continuous monitoring of vital parameters of plant operators in bio-power plants, while giving them the freedom of motion and thereby better quality of healthcare. The monitored signals are then transmitted to the control module through ZigBee

Biomedical 2012

ATEMC18 Electronic Voting Machine - A Review

Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a simple electronic device used to record votes in place of ballot papers and boxes which were used earlier in conventional voting system. Fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis of democracy. All earlier elections be it state elections or centre elections a voter used to cast his/her favorite candidate by putting the stamp against his/her name and then folding the ballot paper as per a prescribed method before putting it in the Ballot Box. This is a long, time-consuming process and very much prone to errors. This situation continued till election scene was completely changed by electronic voting machine. No more ballot paper, ballot boxes, stamping, etc. all this condensed into a simple box called ballot unit of the electronic voting machine. Because biometric identifiers cannot be easily misplaced, forged, or shared, they are

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considered more reliable for person recognition than traditional token or knowledge based methods. So the Electronic voting system has to be improved based on the current technologies viz., biometric system. This article discusses complete review about voting devices, Issues and comparison among the voting methods and biometric EVM.

ATEMC19 Design a wireless capacitive sensor detection system with

power line communication for liquid volume of intravenous drip

measurement

U-healthcare industry has appeared and developed rapidly due to the development of the telecommunication and Health care technology, the increase of the needs of the Health care providers, and increment of the demands of the Health care users. The core factor of the U-Healthcare fields is the monitoring technique for the patients. In this paper, designed the system which was composed of power line communication (PLC) device and a telemetry intravenous (IV) drip monitoring device were proposed. An additional LAN network formation is not needed for data communication by using PLC and we were able to reduce the costs by using already formed power grid. In addition, the wireless capacitive sensor was used to detect the remaining amount of IV set, and microcontroller was used to transmit the results by using RF communications. According to the experiment results, using the power line for long distance communication is able to achieve the U-healthcare effect

Biomedical 2012

ATEMC20 Wireless black box using MEMS accelerometer and GPS tracking

for accidental monitoring of vehicles

In this work, wireless black box using MEMS accelerometer and GPS tracking system is developed for accidental monitoring. The system consists of cooperative components of an accelerometer, microcontroller unit, GPS device and GSM module. In the event of accident, this wireless device will send mobile phone short massage indicating the position of vehicle by GPS system to family member, emergency medical service (EMS) and nearest hospital. The threshold algorithm and speed of motorcycle are used to determine fall or accident in real-time. The system is compact and easy to install under rider seat. The system

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has been tested in real world applications using bicycles. The test results show that it can detect linear fall, non-linear fall and normal ride with high accuracy

ATEMC21 Low cost solar ECG with Bluetooth transmitter

Cardiovascular disease is the world's leading killer, accounting for 16.7 million or 29.2 per cent of total global deaths every year. The World Health Organization estimates that 60 per cent of the world's cardiac patients will be Indian by 2010. The reported prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in adult surveys has risen 4-fold over the last 40 years and even in rural areas the prevalence has doubled over the past 30 years. The Electrocardiograph (ECG) is a diagnostic instrument which measures the electrical activity of the heart, providing valuable information of cardiac disorders like infarction, Atherosclerosis, etc. ECG instruments used in hospitals are bulky, work on line voltage which makes the ECG waveform distorted and an isolation amplifier is needed for patient's safety making it expensive thus cannot be used in underdeveloped areas. We have developed an inexpensive portable solar powered ECG. 63% of all rural households in India do not have electricity and use fuel for lighting. Thus, being solar powered will eliminate its dependence on electricity and can easily be used in areas either with no electricity or with lots of load shedding. The electro-cardiogram will be free from the line frequency noise. Advantage of this equipment is the backup option of charging the batteries using a simple mobile charger. The device is capable of acquiring up to 34 hours of continuous electrocardiogram data at a sample rate of 500 Hz. The ECG is also transmitted to the patient's cell phone or a computer with the help of a Bluetooth transmitter.

Biomedical 2012

ATEMC22 Evaluation of a Smartphone Platform as a Wireless Interface Between Tongue Drive System

and Electric-Powered Wheelchairs

Tongue drive system (TDS) is a new wireless assistive technology (AT) for the mobility impaired population. It provides users with the ability to drive powered wheelchairs (PWC) and access computers using their unconstrained tongue motion. Migration of the TDS

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processing unit and user interface platform from a bulky personal computer to a smartphone (iPhone) has significantly facilitated its usage by turning it into a true wireless and wearable AT. After implementation of the necessary interfacing hardware and software to allow the smartphone to act as a bridge between the TDS and PWC, the wheelchair navigation performance and associated learning was evaluated in nine able-bodied subjects in five sessions over a 5-week period. Subjects wore magnetic tongue studs over the duration of the study and drove the PWC in an obstacle course with their tongue using three different navigation strategies; namely unlatched, latched, and semiproportional. Qualitative aspects of using the TDS-iPhone-PWC interface were also evaluated via a five-point Likert scale questionnaire. Subjects showed more than 20% improvement in the overall completion time between the first and second sessions, and maintained a modest improvement of ~9% per session over the following three sessions.

ATEMC23 Development of a wearable ZigBee sensor system for upper

limb rehabilitation robotics

This paper presents a new tool for assessment and therapy in post-stroke upper-limb rehabilitation and a new wireless sensor technology to enhance rehabilitation robotics based on the ZigBee network of wearable Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and Surface Electromyography (sEMG) sensor nodes. These sensor nodes will allow the measurement of kinematic and electrical muscle activity of patients in continuous therapy motion over all body segments as a Body Sensor Network (BSN). The IMU Sensor design was based on a direction-cosine-matrix DCM. The system validation was achieved with an optical motion tracking system in which cameras and IMU sensors recorded upper limb positions simultaneously during a standard gesture of reaching and grasping. The comparison between elbow flexion-extension angle in reaching and grasping movements obtained from both techniques shows equivalence. The

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analysis of IMU data signals for several movements demonstrates high repeatability intra and inter-subjects.

ATEMC24 A Smart Health Monitoring Chair for Nonintrusive Measurement of

Biological Signals

We developed nonintrusive methods for simultaneous electrocardiogram, photoplethysmogram, and ballistocardiogram measurements that do not require direct contact between instruments and bare skin. These methods were applied to the design of a diagnostic chair for unconstrained heart rate and blood pressure monitoring purposes. Our methods were operationalized through capacitively coupled electrodes installed in the chair back that include high-input impedance amplifiers, and conductive textiles installed in the seat for capacitive driven-right-leg circuit configuration that is capable of recording electrocardiogram information through clothing. Photoplethysmograms were measured through clothing using seat mounted sensors with specially designed amplifier circuits that vary in light intensity according to clothing type. Ballistocardiograms were recorded using a film type transducer material, polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF), which was installed beneath the seat cover. By simultaneously measuring signals, beat-to-beat heart rates could be monitored even when electrocardiograms were not recorded due to movement artifacts. Beat-to-beat blood pressure was also monitored using unconstrained measurements of pulse arrival time and other physiological parameters, and our experimental results indicated that the estimated blood pressure tended to coincide with actual blood pressure measurements. This study demonstrates the feasibility of our method and device for biological signal monitoring through clothing for unconstrained long-term daily health monitoring that does not require user awareness and is not limited by physical activity.

Bio Medicine 2012

ATEMC25 Research on an Improved PWM Control Mode of DC Motor

In this paper, an improved pulse width modulation (PWM) mode of Direct Current (DC) Motor is proposed to solve the weak points of

Communication Systems

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common control mode. The new mode designs an adjustable dead time to improve reliability of the control system. If the dead time is smaller, armature current is continuous; if the dead time is larger, armature current is intermittent. When armature current is continuous, the new mode not only has the advantages of bipolar mode, but also prevents the same side MOSFETs from direct connection. When armature current is intermittent, motor has quicker response than controlled by limited Single polarity mode. Theoretical analysis and experimental research show that the new mode is practical and feasible.

ATEMC26 An Enhanced ZigBee Indoor Positioning System With an

Ensemble Approach

This paper presents a framework for ZigBee indoor positioning with an ensemble approach. This approach exploits the complementary advantages of various algorithms, weights the estimation results, and combines them to improve accuracy. This is achieved by dynamically analyzing the diverse patterns of inputs and combining base positioning algorithms with spatial dependent weights. The experiments were conducted in a realistic ZigBee sensor network. Results demonstrated that the proposed approach apparently achieves more accurate location estimation than the compared methods including the gradient-based search, linear squares approximation, multidimensional scaling, fingerprinting method, and a multi-expert system.


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ATEMC27 An Analytical Energy Consumption Model for Packet Transfer over Wireless Links

We provide a detailed analytical model for estimating the total energy consumed to exchange a packet over a wireless link. Our model improves many of the current models by considering details such as consumed energy by processing elements of transceivers, packet retransmission, reliability of links, size of data packets and acknowledgments, and also the data rate of wireless links. To develop the model, we use experimental results based on IEEE 802.15.4 devices to show that consumed energy for receiving erroneous packets is comparable to the consumed energy for


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receiving error-free packets.ATEMC28 Speech codecs for high-quality

voice over ZigBee applications: Evaluation and implementation

challenges

The ZigBee standard is designed to enable the deployment of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor and control networks based on the IEEE 802.15.4 physical radio standard. Despite the low data rates of ZigBee, its use for transmission of voice has been proven to be feasible. This article presents the evaluation and implementation of a voice codec performed in the framework of the Z-Phone project, which targeted the development of a low-cost, ultra-low-power, long-range, ergonomic wireless headset using ZigBee technology to transmit voice in full-duplex mode for use with leading PC VoIP programs. In particular, it presents all the criteria taken into account in selecting the most suitable codec, and also the details and performance of its implementation.


2012

ATEMC29 Detection System Design of Traffic Flow Color Video Based

on ARM9

The traffic flow is one of the important parameter of intelligent traffic system. Traffic flow detection system was introduced based on S3C2410, the basic principle of hardware, software and algorithm of traffic flow detection system were clarified. This paper presents an embedded image collection and processing system based on S3C2410 and SAA7111. The design procedure of software and hardware was given in detail. We have tested about a large number of image arrays under the environment of real road. Good result was achieved.


2012

ATEMC30 Smart Solar Home System with Safety Device Low Voltage Alert

For many reasons Bangladeshi people are now using renewable energy. So, solar energy is the best renewable energy till now, in respect of Bangladesh. So using of solar system is common nowadays. Bangladesh Government has taken some steps to make solar system compulsory. In this paper we discussed about importance of solar home system for domestic application. Here we will also discuss a safety device of solar home system. This paper also focused safety device with a practical experiment. We implement a low voltage alert

Computer Modelling

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circuit and low voltage indicator circuit for better performance of solar home system.

ATEMC31 Real time smart car lock security system using face detection and

recognition

An improved face detection and recognition method based on information of skin color is proposed in this paper. Color is a powerful fundamental cue of human faces. Skin color detection is first performed on the input color image to reduce the computational complexity. Morphological operations are used and it gives a prior knowledge for face detection. Face is detected by Adaboost algorithm. AdaBoost learning is used to choose a small number of weak classifiers and to combine them into a strong classifier deciding whether an image is a face or not. Then, by using principal component analysis(PCA) algorithm, a specific face can be recognized by comparing the principal components of the current face to those of the known individuals in a facial database built in advance.

Computer Communicati

on

2012

ATEMC32 Bus Monitoring System Based on ZigBee and GPRS

Presently, public traffic system mainly depends on driver's manual operation, which will inevitably encounter many problems such as punctuality of the bus's arrival on bus station. Paper proposes an supervisory system based on GPRS and ZigBee technology, to improve the operation efficiency of bus monitoring system and realize intelligent transportation system. Paper introduces the bus monitoring system from the aspect of both hardware design and software design. System takes it into accounts for the respective advantages and disadvantages of GPRS and ZigBee, and designs a feasible solution successfully, of practically significant.

Computer Distributed

Control

2012

ATEMC33 In-building lighting management system with wireless

communications

Smart Grid refers to the next generation power grid in which the electricity distribution and management are upgraded by incorporating advanced communications and capabilities for improved control, efficiency, reliability and safety. Among all fields covered by the term Smart Grid such as renewable energies, smart metering, electric vehicles, etc. lighting control in home and building facilities is one of the

Consumer Electronics

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Smart Grid aspects which is still using very inefficient technologies. The energy consumption in lighting can be heavily decreased by applying the new information and communication technologies. This paper focuses on the development of a lighting management system making use of wireless sensor networks and implemented using commercial electronic ballast with DALI communication protocol. The approach consists of integrating into the master controller device a wireless sensor network in which any DALI ballast is controlled by a network node. Experimental results about consumption and the system performance are presented and discussed.

ATEMC34 Design of a hexapod robot This paper introduces a new hexapod legged robot that can autonomously adapt to a variety of terrain; its wheel leg designs specially to make it has a good obstacle surmounting capacity. This robot uses the modularized design method, using the interrupt to detect the position of the wheel leg, PWM to control motor speed, Bus to control motor, gait program to control the robot motion, wireless data transmission to control the robot's gait, host computer to real-time monitor the robot status. The host computer or user handheld devices can regulate the state of the robot, at the same time the host computer can monitor the state of the robot. Finally, the principle demonstrator verifies the feasibility of the software design and hardware design method, thus ensuring the validity and reliability of the robot design.


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ATEMC35 System identification and energy-aware processor utilization

control

Minimization of power consumption is essential for battery-powered computing systems. This paper proposes an innovative solution for the processor power management problem. The proposed technique does not require accurate power consumption and performance model of the processor. The proposed solution exploits feedback control principles and the controller design is optimized for a given workload. Experimental results obtained from a case



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study are presented demonstrating, usefulness and the feasibility of the proposed solution

ATEMC36 Realization of intelligence monitoring system based on remote sensor technology

With the continuous improvement of living standards, people's demands on security also grow with each passing day. In order to achieve safety monitoring on important places or valuables, a new intelligence monitoring system was designed and implemented. It took the wireless sensor technology and the embedded control technology as the foundation. At the same time, it realized the wireless remote communication with GSM mobile communication technology. The structure, function and working principle of the wireless remote monitoring system were introduced. The hardware and software of the system were all designed and realized. It achieved wireless remote monitoring on important places and valuables finally. Experimental results show that the wireless remote monitoring system works well and has the stable data collection and transmission quality. It has a high value for practical application.


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ATEMC37 Magic mirror table for social-emotion alleviation in the smart

home

In this paper, we propose a prototype of smart furniture for the smart home-a magic mirror table. The proposed system has a camera to capture the viewer's facial expression. By analyzing the expressions, the system is able to determine the emotion of the viewer. If the viewer is in a negative emotion, the system then speaks positive sentences and plays the viewer's favorite music to alleviate his/her emotion. The experimental results confirm that the system is able to relieve the sad mood of the viewer. In addition, the proposed system can serve as a calendar for event reminding


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ATEMC38 Design of Blood Pressure Measurement with a Health

Management System for the Aged

In this paper we propose a design using a guiding system, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), IEEE 802.15.1 short-range wireless transmission technology and the Internet to fabricate a blood pressure measurement (BPM) which works in cooperation with a health management system. Our design has many


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advantages, including being easy to use by the aged, low cost and wireless connectivity. It allows the early detection of high blood pressure and provides a doctor with a means for observing a patient's health over a long period. The guiding system provides video guide features for the measuring steps, reminds the patient of the measurement results and makes suggestions. We propose here a new design to determine the BPM posture in order to increase the BPM reliability.

ATEMC39 Foodie: Play with Your Food Promote Interaction and Fun With

Edible Interface

This paper presents Foodie, a novel interactive system that promotes interactive entertainment using the real edible food, connecting digital playfulness with active participation in the food creation and eating experience. Through this system, people can not only create novel food media and share with remote family members or friends, but also serve them with the physical food. This system adds another natural and organic dimension - edible food with smell and taste, to enhance the lifelike feeling and enrich the play experience. We believe the actual manipulation of real food through digital drawings would increase the engagement and enjoyment even for remote people, extending the digital playfulness of food games with real life experience. Besides social entertainment, this intuitive interface also provides an attractive channel for kids to try out and learn about realistic cooking, in a safe, creative and playful way.


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ATEMC40 Design and Implementation of Intelligent Energy Distribution Management with Photovoltaic

System

As increasing power consumption is becoming a huge problem, renewable energy has been highlighted recently. Many companies and research centers study this new sustainable energy, and various products have appeared to the public. However, this kind of researches concentrates on the elemental technologies, and now a management system is needed to manage these technologies to maximize energy efficiency. In this paper, we propose the system of Intelligent Energy Distribution Management (iEDM) to monitor fast-changing environmental


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variables and manage solar power flexibly. Compared with normal utility interactive systems, the iEDM improves the energy efficiency up to 5.6 percent.

ATEMC41 Cooperative Wireless Sensor Environments Supporting Body

Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) in recent years have received significant attention, due to their potential for increasing efficiency in healthcare monitoring. Typical sensors used for WBAN are low powered single transceiver devices utilizing a single channel for transmission at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. However, performance of these devices usually degrades when the density of sensors increases. One approach to counter this performance degradation is to exploit multiple channels at the MAC layer, where optimal usage of the channels is achieved through cooperation between the sensor nodes. In this paper we propose a cooperative WBAN environment that supports multi-hop transmission through cooperation involving both environmental sensors and WBAN nodes. Our solution extends the cooperation at the MAC layer to a cross-layered gradient based routing solution that allows interaction between WBAN and environmental sensors in order to ensure data delivery from WBANs to a distant gateway. Extensive simulations for healthcare scenarios have been performed to validate the cooperation at the MAC layer, as well as the cross-layered gradient based routing. Comparisons to other cooperative multi-channel MAC and routing solutions have shown the overall performance improvement of the proposed approach evaluated in terms of packet loss, power consumption and delay.


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ATEMC42 Building Lighting Automation through the Integration of DALI with Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper focuses on the integration of Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) devices in wireless sensor networks. Since different manufacturers usually deal with one aspect of building automation - e.g. heating ventilation and air conditioning, lighting control, different kinds of alarms, etc. - final building automation system has different subsystems which are finally taken to an integrated building


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management system. The cost of this process is consequently increased due to additional hardware investment. Our main purpose is to provide the end consumer with an economical fully centralized system in which home appliances are managed by an IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless sensor network. Not only is it necessary to focus on the initial investment, but maintenance and energy consumption costs must also be considered. This paper explains the developed system along with a brief introduction to usual building automation protocols. Finally it presents future work in this field.

ATEMC43 Design of Remote Intelligent Home System Based on ZigBee

and GPRS technology

In this paper, based on ZigBee technology and GPRS a wireless remote and detecting system for smart home is developed which realized the detecting of the home equipment and the state of home environment. The system consists of the host control centre and several sub function modules and software. The host control system includes MC39i module, CC2430 module and STC12C5410 MCU control center. The several sub function modules consists of the data acquisition module and CC2430 modules.


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ATEMC44 The house intelligent switch control network based on CAN

bus

In this paper a building lighting intelligent switch control network is presented, which is based on CAN bus. According to the safety, stability and real time, the digital signals are used for the control unit, and the CAN bus is used as a communication of a distributed control network. A 16-bit MCU msp430f169 is used as the control unit, and the communication between the nodes is based on CAN bus. This paper mainly introduces the design of the hardware and the software in detail. The experimental result shows this network system with high safety, stability and strong anti-jamming capability with practical significance and market value.

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ATEMC45 An effective pedestrian detection method for driver assistance

system

A driver assistance system typically adopts the wide-angle camera to obtain a wide-view image. However, the wide-angle camera often


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produces radial distortion. Since the conventional training-based pedestrian detection method uses distortion-free training samples, it is not suitable for distorted images. In this paper, we propose an effective pedestrian detection method that divides pedestrian training samples into several classes according to the amount of radial distortion, and trains each class separately. Likewise, a test image is divided into sub-regions and detection is performed for each sub-region separately. Experimental results show that our approach provides better performance compared to the conventional method.

ATEMC46 Design of intelligent home appliance control system based on

ARM and ZigBee

This paper introduces the intelligent home appliance control system, the system is developed through ARM microprocessor, embedded Linux operating system, ZigBee wireless communication technology and network technology. It gives the overall framework of hardware and software design, and describes ways to implement the system. User can control appliances through hand-held mobile terminal


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ATEMC47 Design of concealed alarm system based on GSM

Considering the characteristics of banks and other financial institutions, this paper aims at reforming conventional alarm system by the concealed GSM monitor and wireless alarm system, meanwhile, SMS and voice alarm can be send out by multi-regional remote control FM network. On receiving the alarm, the monitoring center can achieve real-time on-site monitoring, thus provide more efficient information for the incident handling


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ATEMC48 Development of Wireless Automatic Checking System for Emergency Lights via Internet

This paper develops a wireless automatic checking system for a number of emergency lights at the same time via Internet. The proposed system can check the status of emergency lights including the battery with charger using a Microprocessor-based Detector in a scheduled period. Every emergency light is assigned a respective identification number. Then, the Nearby Transmitter/Receiver Module can transmit the checking results to the

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Remote Transmitter/Receiver Module. Also, the Nearby Computer is linked with the Microprocessor-based Data Processor that connects with the Remote Transmitter/Receiver Module via RS232. Using TCP/IP, the Remote Computer can communicate with the Nearby Computer for a long distance via Internet. Accordingly, all checking outcomes received by the Nearby Computer can be transferred to the Remote Computer for monitoring and recording. Furthermore, the Remote Computer can send the control signals to the Microprocessor-based Detector for a remote real-time checking operation. Experimental results confirm that the proposed system design presents a good performance in term of robust, stable, and fast response.

ATEMC49 Leakage Fault Diagnosis for an Internet-Based Three-Tank

System: An Experimental Study

This paper investigates the leakage fault diagnosis problem for a physical Internet-based three-tank system (ITTS). Data from different devices locating at different places communicate with each other via Internet and, due to the limited bandwidth of communication channel, data suffer from delay and/or dropout phenomenon during the transmission. The resulting incomplete signals are utilized for the control and diagnosis purpose, giving rise to a networked control system (NCS). After linearization and discretization of the mathematical model of the three-tank system (TTS), the original nonlinear fault diagnosis problem is converted into a robust leakage fault detection and isolation problem for a linear system with uncertain parameters. The detection problem is then solved by using the robust H_ filter technique and the leakage faults of different tanks are isolated by using the idea of residual contributing degree (RCD). Experimental results are provided to show the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed techniques.

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ATEMC50 Exploring SoPC technology and RTOS issues for industrial motor

control

In this paper, an embedded control unit based on the System on Programmable Chip (SoPC) technology is designed, using advanced FPGA

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chip with embedded processors. Ready to use Intellectual Property (IP) modules including open-source cores are integrated into FPGA in hardware design. Furthermore, a modular idea based on a commercial and open-source Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is applied to software design. This co-designed RT control unit is validated on an electric motor. The implementation results demonstrate successfully the high level of flexibility of such advanced motor controller system with a deterministic response and an extended functionality. They also show the feasibility to use open-source SoPC for industrial motor control.

ATEMC51 Low-Cost Undergraduate Control Systems Experiments Using

Microcontroller-Based Control of a DC Motor

This paper presents low-cost experiments for a control systems laboratory module that is worth one and a third credits. The experiments are organized around the microcontroller-based control of a permanent magnet dc motor. The experimental setups were built in-house. Except for the operating system, the software used is primarily freeware or free for academic use. The objective of this module is that students—fresh from a first course in control systems theory, which introduces them to proportional-integral-derivative control and to design using Bode plots and root locus—learn how a simple modern control system is built. Student feedback and a 90-min end-of-semester practical exam show that, although the students find the experiments challenging, this module helps meet this objective. After having taken the first course and this laboratory module, the students feel that they can build control systems in addition to discussing them theoretically. This module is easy to set up and administer using the supporting material provided by the authors.

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ATEMC52 Ethernet Enabled Digital I/O Control in Embedded Systems

This paper presents very simple and economical way to provide Ethernet connectivity to microcontroller based embedded systems. This system uses ATmega328p microcontroller to store the main application source code, web pages and TCP/IP

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stack which is a vital element of the system software. An Ethernet controller chip, ENC 28J60 is used to handle the Ethernet communications and is interfaced with the host microcontroller using SPI pins. There are several I/O pins available at the microcontroller which are used to interface with sensors and relays for monitoring and controlling operations. Nowadays, Internet has spread worldwide and most of the internet connections use Ethernet as media for data transfer. In industries or in home appliances, most of the time we need to monitor and control different parameters using microcontrollers. Once we enable Ethernet interface to such systems, we can communicate with them remotely over the internet.

ATEMC53 Intelligent wireless street lighting system

We propose an innovative wireless street lighting system with optimized management and efficiency. Wireless communication uses ZigBee-based wireless devices which allow more efficient street lamp system management, thanks to an advanced interface and control architecture. It uses many sensors to control and guarantee the optimal system parameters; the information is transferred point-by-point using ZigBee transmitters and receivers and is sent to a control terminal used to check the state of the street lamps and to take appropriate measures in case of failure. The system allows substantial energy savings with increased performance and maintainability.

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ATEMC54 Impact of Wireless Communication Delay on Load

Sharing among Distributed Generation Systems through

Smart Micro grids

Load sharing among distributed generation systems (DGS) is one of the most important topics in wireless-enabled smart microgrids, where a set of power inverters at different geographical locations work coordinately and collaboratively through wireless networks to meet the load requirement. Parallel power inverters operated in distributed generation systems rely on the underlying wireless communication channels to exchange power information among them for load sharing control. However, existing work in the area of

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load sharing has largely ignored the effect of wireless communication delay. Study has shown that the time-varying wireless communication delay may have a significant impact on the performance of power inverters. In this work, we aim to fill this gap and study the performance of distributed power inverters under the scenario of wireless-enabled smart microgrids. We first study the power inverter performance by taking into account the time-varying wireless communication delay. Then, we propose an optimal controller to overcome the delay problem and to provide a smooth load sharing performance. Both theoretical and simulation results show the effectiveness and responsiveness of the proposed controller design

ATEMC55 Optimal Power Management of Residential Customers in The

Smart Grid

Recently intensive efforts have been made on the transformation of the world's largest physical system, the power grid, into a “smart grid” by incorporating extensive information and communication infrastructures. Key features in such a “smart grid” include high penetration of renewable and distributed energy sources, large-scale energy storage, market-based online electricity pricing, and widespread demand response programs. From the perspective of residential customers, we can investigate how to minimize the expected electricity cost with real-time electricity pricing, which is the focus of this paper. By jointly considering energy storage, local distributed generation such as photovoltaic (PV) modules or small wind turbines, and inelastic or elastic energy demands, we mathematically formulate this problem as a stochastic optimization problem and approximately solve it by using the Lyapunov optimization approach. From the theoretical analysis, we have also found a good tradeoff between cost saving and storage capacity. A salient feature of our proposed approach is that it can operate without any future knowledge on the related stochastic models (e.g., the distribution) and is easy to implement in real time. We have also evaluated

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our proposed solution with practical data sets and validated its effectiveness.

ATEMC56 Embedded System Integrated Into a Wireless Sensor Network for Online Dynamic Torque and

Efficiency Monitoring In Induction Motors

The system proposed in this paper aims at monitoring the torque and efficiency in induction motors in real time by employing wireless sensor networks (WSNs). An embedded system is employed for acquiring electrical signals from the motor in a noninvasive manner, and then performing local processing for torque and efficiency estimation. The values calculated by the embedded system are transmitted to a monitoring unit through an IEEE 802.15.4-based WSN. At the base unit, various motors can be monitored in real time. An experimental study was conducted for observing the relationship between the WSN performance and the spectral occupancy at the operating environment. This study demonstrated that the use of intelligent nodes, with local processing capability, is essential for this type of application. The embedded system was deployed on a workbench, and studies were conducted to analyze torque and system efficiency.

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ATEMC57 ZigBee Based Energy Efficient Outdoor Lighting Control System

This paper presents user-centric energy efficient lighting control architecture for street lamps. The system utilizes ZigBee technology to implement wireless mesh network of street lamps. The coordinator, serving as gateway between ZigBee nodes and internet, relays information of interests to remote user. The proposed system comprises of LED lamps, gateway node, and management software that offer remote monitoring and control of the lamps. Each LED lamp is integrated with ZigBee node, sensors and the Controller module along with ballast actuator. To realize effectiveness of proposed system, prototype has been installed inside University.

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ATEMC58 Real-time Household Load Priority Scheduling Algorithm

Based on Prediction of Renewable Source Availability

We propose a real-time household load priority scheduling algorithm based on renewable source availability prediction to maximize the benefits of renewable sources and minimize the total cost of energy consumption with

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consumers' comfort constraints. Home appliances are assigned dynamic priority according to their different energy consumption modes and their corresponding status. Hour-byhour weather forecast is considered to predict the availability of the renewable sources. Based on the allocated priority, home appliances are scheduled according to the predicted output of renewable sources and the forecast electricity market price. In addition, to effectively schedule appliances according to the real-time output of renewable sources and the electricity market price changes, which generally deviate from the corresponding forecasting, an algorithm for realtime household load scheduling is proposed and its benefits on cost and energy efficiency are discussed as well.

ATEMC59 Rotational Machine Health Monitoring and Fault Detection

Using EMD-Based Acoustic Emission Feature Quantification

Acoustic emission (AE)-signal-based techniques have recently been attracting researchers' attention to rotational machine health monitoring and diagnostics due to the advantages of the AE signals over the extensively used vibration signals. Unlike vibration-based methods, the AE-based techniques are in their infant stage of development. From the perspective of machine health monitoring and fault detection, developing an AE-based methodology is important. In this paper, a methodology for rotational machine health monitoring and fault detection using empirical mode decomposition (EMD)-based AE feature quantification is presented. The methodology incorporates a threshold-based denoising technique into EMD to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the AE bursts. Multiple features are extracted from the denoised signals and then fused into a single compressed AE feature. The compressed AE features are then used for fault detection based on a statistical method. A gear fault detection case study is conducted on a notional split-torque gearbox using AE signals to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology. A fault detection performance

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comparison using the compressed AE features with the existing EMD-based AE features reported in the literature is also conducted

ATEMC60 Sensor Network Based Oil well Health Monitoring and Intelligent

Control

Most oil pumping units (OPUs) have been using manual control in the oilfield. This existing oil-pumping system, a high power-consuming process, has the incapability of OPU's structural health monitoring. In this paper, a sensor network based intelligent control is proposed for power economy and efficient oilwell health monitoring. The proposed sensor network consists of three-level sensors: (1) several types of basic sensors, such as load sensor, angular sensor, voltage sensor, current sensor and oil pressure sensor, which are the first level sensors (FLS), are used for oilwell data sensing; (2) our developed intelligent sensors (IS), which belong to the second level sensor, are designed mainly for an oilwell's data elementary processing, main fault alarm/indication, typical data storage/indication, data/status transmission up to the third level sensor (TLS), data/status transmission between IS, and command transmission down to the OPU motor; and (3) our developed software-defined (SD) control centers with an embedded database, i.e., the TLS, are designed for hundreds of oilwells data storage/management, data processing, malfunction detection, malfunction alarm/indication, stroke-adjustment command transmission down to a specific IS for power economy and the malfunction report to the maintenance staff via global system for mobile communications (GSM) short message service (SMS). Experiment results at the Chinese Petroleum's Changqing Oilfield demonstrate our proposed sensor network based system.

Electrical 2012

ATEMC62 A Reconfigurable Snake Robot Based on CAN-Bus

This paper introduces the project "Snake Robot" we made for our National Innovation Fund. This snake robot has the ability to creep and wriggle. It adapts reconfiguration in the design of mechanism, control and supervising software, and brings in CAN-Bus which makes it possible that snake robot can extend infinitely

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in theory. The trial outcome proves that the snake robot can control easily, move flexibly and finish serpentine and wriggle locomotion very well.

ATEMC63 Study on the Embedded CAN Bus Control System in the Vehicle

This paper introduces a system that uses ARM as the main controller and double gateway in a control computer within a car. This system makes full use of the high-performance of ARM, high-speed reduction of CAN bus communication control networks and instrument control so as to achieve full sharing of data between nodes and enhance their collaborative work. This system features efficient data transfer among different nodes in the practical applications.


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ATEMC64 Study on the Embedded CAN Bus Control System in the Vehicle

This paper introduces a system that uses ARM as the main controller and double gateway in a control computer within a car. This system makes full use of the high-performance of ARM, high-speed reduction of CAN bus communication control networks and instrument control so as to achieve full sharing of data between nodes and enhance their collaborative work. This system features efficient data transfer among different nodes in the practical applications.


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ATEMC65 The Design and Implementation of Remote Real Time Monitor System for Embedded Devices

Based on GPRS

We develop a remote monitoring system on environmental quality of Heihe river basin. The system consists of client and server, client is responsible for collecting data. We use multi-thread approach to develop server software, realizing online monitoring of sensor device, data management and log management and so on. Server uses Socket programming to communicate with client, the system has been running on the server.


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ATEMC66 Automatic detection and recognition of road sign for driver

assistance system

Automatic road-signs recognition is becoming a part of Driver Assisting Systems which role is to increase safety and driving comfort. This paper presents an efficient approach for detecting and recognizing road sign in traffic scene images acquired from a moving vehicle. The developed road sign recognition system is divided into two stages: detection stage to


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localize signs from a whole image, and classification stage that classifies the detected sign into one of the reference signs. The detection module segments the input image in the YCBCR colour space, and then detects road signs using a shape filtering method. The classification module determines the type of detected road signs using a Multi-layer Perceptron neural networks. An extensive experimentation has shown that the proposed approach is robust enough to detect and recognize road signs under varying translation, rotation and lighting conditions.

ATEMC67 Designing an Adaptive Acoustic Modem for Underwater Sensor

Networks

There is a growing interest in using underwater networked systems for oceanographic applications. These networks often rely on acoustic communication, which poses a number of challenges for reliable data transmission. The underwater acoustic channel is highly variable; each link can experience vastly different conditions, which change according to environmental factors as well as the locations of the communicating nodes. This makes it difficult to ensure reliable communication. Furthermore, due to the high transmit power, the energy consumed in transmitting data is substantial, which is exacerbated at lower data rates. The main challenge that we address in this article is how to build a system that provides reliable and energy efficient communication in underwater sensor networks. To this end, we propose an adaptive underwater acoustic modem which changes its parameters according to the situation. We present the design of such a modem and provide supporting results from simulations and experiments.


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ATEMC68 Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Traffic Sign in Video

Sequences for Autonomous Mobile Robot

In this paper, we discuss theoretical foundations and a practical realization of real-time traffic sign detection and tracking method for a autonomous vehicle (P3-AT mobile robot). Continuous adaptive mean shift (Cam-Shift) algorithm is efficient for object tracking with its high speed and insensitiveness to the rotation and scale of the target, but it is influenced by

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the background. In order to improve the tracking accuracy, we design a traffic sign probability model, and present a depth-first region search algorithm to remove the redundant background information, and then track the sign by Cam-Shift method. The experiments are conducted in a simulated urban environment with high fidelity. The experimental results show that the algorithm can improve the detection accuracy and tracking efficiency under the condition of traffic sign images with clutter background, or even partial occlusion. On the implementation side, with the core code implemented based on the OpenCV library, the results accomplish in real-time.

ATEMC69 Automatic Measurement and Reporting System of Water

Quality Based on GSM

The traditional method of water quality testing is to collect samples manually and then send them to laboratory for analysis. However, it has been unable to meet the demands of water quality monitoring today. So a set of automatic measurement and reporting system of water quality has been developed. The system consists of multiple sensors of water quality testing, single-chip microcontroller data acquisition module, information transmission module, monitoring center and other accessories. Various parameters of water quality are automatically detected under the control of single chip micro controller all day. The single chip gets the data, and then processes and analyzes them. After that, the data are instantaneously sent to monitoring center by GSM network in the form of SMS. If the water quality is abnormal, the data will be sent to monitoring center and management's mobile in the same way at the same time. It is convenient for management to take corresponding measures timely and be able to detect real-time situation of water quality remotely. The system has realized the automation of water quality monitoring, intelligence of data analyzing and networking of information transferring. It is characterized by advantages of shortcut, accuracy and using


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manpower and material resources sparingly. The system has widespread application value and can be extended and transplanted to other fields of automatic monitoring where needed.

ATEMC70 Positioning and Tracing System Study of All Terrain Forest Fire Patrolling and Fighting Vehicle

According to Chinese forested area feature and traffic conditions, as to forest fires happen characters, the positioning and tracing system for all terrain forest fire patrolling and fighting vehicle is designed in this paper. Using GPS for fire location and arrange fireman could get high precision and safety, and could detect position and range timely and quickly. Those could provide fire basis for interrelated department. Construction choosing of ATV and software design are introduced in this paper, then combination map with GPS to realize the tracing and positioning for ATV.


ATEMC71 SmartCharge: Cutting the electricity bill in smart homes

with energy storage

Market-based electricity pricing provides consumers an opportunity to lower their electric bill by shifting consumption to low price periods. In this paper, we explore how to lower electric bills without requiring consumer involvement using an intelligent charging system, called SmartCharge, and an on-site battery array to store low-cost energy for use during high-cost periods. SmartCharge's algorithm reduces electricity costs by determining when to switch the home's power supply between the grid and the battery array. The algorithm leverages a prediction model we develop, which forecasts future demand using statistical machine learning techniques. We evaluate SmartCharge in simulation using data from real homes to quantify its potential to lower bills in a range of scenarios. We show that typical savings today are 10-15%, but increase linearly with rising electricity prices. We also find that SmartCharge deployed at only 22% of 435 homes reduces the aggregate demand peak by 20%. Finally, we analyze SmartCharge's installation and maintenance costs. Our analysis shows that battery advancements, combined with an expected rise in electricity prices, have the potential to make the return on investment positive for the

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average home within the next few years.ATEMC72 - A Method of Remote Control

for Home Appliance Using Free Hand Gesture

We propose a method of robust and fully automated remote control for home appliance using free hand gesture. The performance of the proposed system is verified with a hardware embedded in an air conditioner.

Gesture Reg 2012

ATEMC73 Automatic Ambulance Rescue System

Traffic congestion and tidal flow management were recognized as major problems in modern urban areas, which have caused much thwarting for the ambulance. Moreover road accidents in the city have been incessant and to bar the loss of life due to the accidents is even more crucial. To implement this we introduce a scheme called AARS (Automatic ambulance rescue system). The main theme behind this scheme is to provide a smooth flow for the ambulance to reach the hospitals in time and thus minifying the expiration. The idea behind this scheme is to implement a ITS which would control mechanically the traffic lights in the path of the ambulance. The ambulance is controlled by the central unit which furnishes the most scant route to the ambulance and also controls the traffic light according to the ambulance location and thus reaching the hospital safely. The server also determines the location of the accident spot through the sensor systems in the vehicle which encountered the accident and thus the server walks through the ambulance to the spot. This scheme is fully automated, thus it finds the accident spot, controls the traffic lights, helping to reach the hospital in time.

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ATEMC74 Remote energy monitoring, profiling and control through

GSM network

This paper presents design and development of a GSM based energy monitoring, profiling and control system. Our system integrates digital energy meters installed at consumer unit with an electric supply company's energy monitoring system. Single phase or three phase digital electric meter can be used with indigenously developed add on transmission module, which takes the meter reading and utilizes the GSM network to transmit the energy usage reading using Short Message Service (SMS) back to the

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energy supplier. At the supplier end, an energy monitoring system is used to manage all received meter readings, compute the billing cost, update the database and maintain an energy consumption profile for each user. Various alerts and control can also be generated by the supplier. A simple, cost effective and reliable working prototype of complete system has been developed using digital energy meter manufactured by MicroTech Limited, Pakistan to demonstrate an efficient and transparent means of automatic meter reading, billing and notification through the use of GSM network.

ATEMC75 Automatic Measurement and Reporting System of Water

Quality Based on GSM

The traditional method of water quality testing is to collect samples manually and then send them to laboratory for analysis. However, it has been unable to meet the demands of water quality monitoring today. So a set of automatic measurement and reporting system of water quality has been developed. The system consists of multiple sensors of water quality testing, single-chip microcontroller data acquisition module, information transmission module, monitoring center and other accessories. Various parameters of water quality are automatically detected under the control of single chip micro controller all day. The single chip gets the data, and then processes and analyzes them. After that, the data are instantaneously sent to monitoring center by GSM network in the form of SMS. If the water quality is abnormal, the data will be sent to monitoring center and management's mobile in the same way at the same time. It is convenient for management to take corresponding measures timely and be able to detect real-time situation of water quality remotely. The system has realized the automation of water quality monitoring, intelligence of data analyzing and networking of information transferring. It is characterized by advantages of shortcut, accuracy and using manpower and material resources sparingly. The system has widespread application value

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and can be extended and transplanted to other fields of automatic monitoring where needed.

ATEMC76 Robust railway crack detection scheme (RRCDS) using LED-

LDR assembly

In India, most of the commercial transport is being carried out by the railway network and therefore, any problems in the same has the capacity to induce major damage to the economy-notwithstanding the societal impact of loss of life or limb. This paper proposes a cost effective yet robust solution to the problem of railway crack detection utilizing a method that is unique in the sense that while it is simple, the idea is completely novel and hitherto untested. The paper discusses the technical and design aspects in detail and also provides the proposed robust crack detection algorithm. The paper also presents the details of the implementation results of the RRCDS utilizing simple components inclusive of a GPS module, GSM Modem and LED-LDR based crack detector assembly. The proposed scheme has been modeled for robust implementation in the Indian scenario

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ATEMC77 Wireless black box using MEMS accelerometer and GPS tracking

for accidental monitoring of vehicles

In this work, wireless black box using MEMS accelerometer and GPS tracking system is developed for accidental monitoring. The system consists of cooperative components of an accelerometer, microcontroller unit, GPS device and GSM module. In the event of accident, this wireless device will send mobile phone short massage indicating the position of vehicle by GPS system to family member, emergency medical service (EMS) and nearest hospital. The threshold algorithm and speed of motorcycle are used to determine fall or accident in real-time. The system is compact and easy to install under rider seat. The system has been tested in real world applications using bicycles. The test results show that it can detect linear fall, non-linear fall and normal ride with high accuracy.

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ATEMC78 Automatic Ambulance Rescue System

Traffic congestion and tidal flow management were recognized as major problems in modern urban areas, which have caused much thwarting for the ambulance. Moreover road

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accidents in the city have been incessant and to bar the loss of life due to the accidents is even more crucial. To implement this we introduce a scheme called AARS (Automatic ambulance rescue system). The main theme behind this scheme is to provide a smooth flow for the ambulance to reach the hospitals in time and thus minifying the expiration. The idea behind this scheme is to implement a ITS which would control mechanically the traffic lights in the path of the ambulance. The ambulance is controlled by the central unit which furnishes the most scant route to the ambulance and also controls the traffic light according to the ambulance location and thus reaching the hospital safely. The server also determines the location of the accident spot through the sensor systems in the vehicle which encountered the accident and thus the server walks through the ambulance to the spot. This scheme is fully automated, thus it finds the accident spot, controls the traffic lights, helping to reach the hospital in time.

ATEMC79 Distributed and Remote Control - Based on Smart House

Under technological advancement, technology allows human life to be more convenient and safer. This study used LabView as the system development software and the computer on the server side, to develop an intelligent distributed monitoring system for monitoring household electronic appliances. Besides controlling the server-end, network and GSM system were used to construct remote control and monitoring capabilities. The communication between the server end and each control end was through ZigBee, thus achieving a wireless network.

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ATEMC80 Leveraging Smartphone Cameras for Collaborative Road

Advisories

Ubiquitous smartphones are increasingly becoming the dominant platform for collaborative sensing. Smartphones, with their ever richer set of sensors, are being used to enable collaborative driver-assistance services like traffic advisory and road condition monitoring. To enable such services, the smartphones' GPS, accelerometer, and gyro sensors have been widely used. On the

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contrary, smartphone cameras, despite being very powerful sensors, have largely been neglected. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative sensing platform that exploits the cameras of windshield-mounted smartphones. To demonstrate the potential of this platform, we propose several services that it can support, and prototype SignalGuru, a novel service that leverages windshield-mounted smartphones and their cameras to collaboratively detect and predict the schedule of traffic signals, enabling Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) and other novel applications. Results from two deployments of SignalGuru, using iPhones in cars in Cambridge (MA, USA) and Singapore, show that traffic signal schedules can be predicted accurately. On average, SignalGuru comes within 0.66 s, for pretimed traffic signals and within 2.45 s, for traffic-adaptive traffic signals. Feeding SignalGuru's predicted traffic schedule to our GLOSA application, our vehicle fuel consumption measurements show savings of 20.3 percent, on average

ATEMC81 Mobility Tracking using GPS, WiFi and Cell ID

Capability to track the mobility pattern of children and elders can enable many useful applications. Assisted GPS (AGPS) and Wi-Fi can be used to precisely calculate the location of a person, but AGPS consumes a lot of power and Wi-Fi coverage is often spotty. On the other hand, Cell ID offers ubiquitous coverage in most inhabited environments, low power consumption, but has the disadvantage of lower accuracy. This paper introduces an energy-efficient cellular and AGPS/Wi-Fi tracking system based on the construction of a mobility map from a person's historical location data. A location map consists of a set of crucial locations (CL), personal common locations (PCL), and routes. CL is a point that terminates several routes and PCL is a place where the person spends a lot of time in. The tracking process is divided into four parts: data collection, offline data processing, online tracking, and path reconstruction. With the use of the mobility map, AGPS fixes can be

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significantly reduced and a more accurate recognition of the person's location can be provided during the tracking phase

ATEMC82 Wheelchair Motion Control Guide Using Eye Gaze and Blinks

Based on Point Bug Algorithm

In this work, we propose a new approach alongside the typical method, to control the motorized wheelchair using EOG signals. The new approach grants the user to look around without restraint, while the wheelchair navigates automatically to the desired goal point. Only EOG signals are used to control the wheelchair; eye gazing and blinking. The user can still appoint to control the wheelchair using the typical manual method in case the surroundings and obstacle structures do not assist with the new developed auto navigation method. In the new auto navigation approach the microcontroller can attain the goal point direction and distance by calculating the gaze angle of the user. Bug2 algorithm is utilized to navigate the wheelchair in the auto controlling method. Experimental tests show slightly different results than theory, because the bug algorithms cannot continuously update the robot's position data in experiments

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ATEMC83 A real time traffic light control scheme for reducing vehicles

CO2 emissions

Global warming is a very serious problem which is becoming ever worse as the growth in the number of vehicles. This paper presents a real time traffic lights control scheme for reducing vehicles CO2 emissions based on the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) installed vehicles. Real time road conditions are obtained by wireless communication between the vehicles and the traffic lights based on the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology. A decision tree classification algorithm is used to calculate optimal average waiting time, then to calculate the CO2 reductions. Compared with fixed-time control, simulation results indicate that more than 26.9% idling time CO2 emissions can be reduced when traffic flow is heavy, meanwhile vehicles have a 0.07 higher probability to pass the intersection by non-stop when traffic flow is light

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ATEMC84 Remotely controlled communication and control

Design improvements to a remotely controlled e-Health Networking

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system for limited mobility individuals

system for patients with limited mobility are described. This system provides communication and control of the room environment with mouse control that can be adapted to the functional need of the user. Analysis is provided on the selection and integration of components within the system as well as an overview of the simulated access times for several key components. Transition to an open source Android operating system is discussed for long-term use in the home environment. Prototype configurations for use in the hospital and home environment are introduced.
