{"title":"Modeling of closed-loop flue gas path system for desulfurization in power plant under severe load changing conditions","authors":"Teerayuth Tongbarn, B. Kaewkham-ai, K. Uthaichana","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501324","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a mathematical modeling of the flue gas path system with closed-loop controller for wet desulfurization with lime in Mae Moh coal power plant, Thailand is presented. The modeling using various polynomial structures and the parameter identification of the plant, the controller and the sensor are performed with the emphasis on the plant. Since the goal is to predict the operating condition where the system is tripped and causing the disruption in electricity generation of the plant, the validation of the model is demonstrated against the hard conditions, where rapid changes of system load causing the system tripped events occurred. Due to the limitation on the existing data acquisition system causing the low resolution on the quality of the collected data, two data treatment processes are introduced and compared, i.e., the linear interpolation with delay and the Piecewise Cubic Hermits Interpolating Polynomial (PCHIP) technique for the best performance selection. The model parameters are estimated and compared based on a least squares criteria. The controller is configured based on the adapted PI controller of the actual system. The performance of proposed system models are given in terms of root-mean-square error (RMSE). Based on the simulation results, it is found that the 2nd-order polynomial model with linear interpolation with delay is the most promising and delivers us the satisfactory performance under both normal load changing and during the tripped event.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121113557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Rink, Simon Kriegel, Jakob Hasse, Zoltán-Csaba Márton
{"title":"On-the-fly particle filter registration for laser data","authors":"C. Rink, Simon Kriegel, Jakob Hasse, Zoltán-Csaba Márton","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501379","url":null,"abstract":"This work is focused on streaming particle filter registration of surface models such as homogeneous triangle meshes and point clouds. Part of the approach is a streaming curvature feature calculation. The investigated approach utilizes a particle filter to incrementally update pose estimates during data acquisition. The method is evaluated in real data experiments with a high-precision laser striper system attached to an industrial robot. During the laser scan, the data is integrated on-the-fly in order to calculate features and based on these to estimate the object's pose. Experiments show the method's competitiveness in accuracy and reliability compared to state-of-the-art offline algorithms.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126167396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymptotic stability study of induction motor sensorless vector control systems with MRAS observer","authors":"O. Stoicuta, T. Pana","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501325","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to study the stability of equilibrium points of a sensorless vector control systems with contain in the loop a MRAS observer (Model Reference Adaptive System). In the article are presented and the formulas for controllers tuning, from the composition of the speed vector control system.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127477200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy PID control of lower limb exoskeleton for elderly mobility","authors":"Ghasaq Al-Rezage, M. Tokhi","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501310","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents investigations into the development of an assistive device for elderly mobility. An exoskeleton is designed as an assistive device, to enhance the lower extremity and provide supporting torque to augment the torque of hip and knee during the walking cycle. A humanoid and actuated exoskeleton frame are designed in solid works and then imported to Visual Nastran 4D virtual environment. Fuzzy PID Control algorithm uses to control the actuated exoskeleton. Simulated walking tasks are performed with a humanoid wearing the exoskeleton. It is assumed that the humanoid representing an elderly person, is able to provide 60% of the whole torque required to complete the gait cycle, and the assistive device providing 40% of the overall torque.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126573684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MPC advanced control of dissolved oxygen in an activated sludge wastewater treatment plant","authors":"G. Harja, G. Vlad, I. Nascu","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501329","url":null,"abstract":"A hierarchical model predictive control for the biological treatment process of an activated sludge wastewater treatment plant is presented. On the basis of a previously developed PI control for the dissolved oxygen concentration and air pressure in the aeration system, an improved optimization strategy based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) is added. The MPC based control loop keeps the output substrate concentration under the legal imposed limitation and computes the optimal reference for the dissolved oxygen concentration. The closed loop performances are improved by choosing the linear prediction model using a gain-scheduling technique. The controllers are designed and simulated on the mathematical model of the WWTP of Romanofir, Talmaciu.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126596041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High efficiency bi-directional DC-DC converter for charge balancing control of EV application-specific battery strings","authors":"F. Ciortea, Cătălin Gatea, M. Nemes","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501289","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sets forth the design of a soft-switched bi-directional DC-DC converter for charge balancing control of Electric Vehicle (EV) application-specific Li-ion battery strings. A high efficiency phase shifted full bridge converter steps down the pack voltage in order to charge one cell at a time, while a push-pull converter boosts the voltage of one individual cell to meet the charging voltage of the entire string. The resonant converter is designed to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS), whilst secondary synchronous rectification (SR) reduces even more the total power losses. The mathematical model is simulated and experimentally validated on a prototype board. Both simulation and real model measurements prove that the proposed topology attains a very high performance.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131902979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Muresan, M. Abrudean, M. Ungureșan, I. Clitan, T. Colosi
{"title":"Modeling of the 18O isotope separation process","authors":"V. Muresan, M. Abrudean, M. Ungureșan, I. Clitan, T. Colosi","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501388","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, some solutions for the 18O isotope separation process identification are proposed. In this context, both integer-order and fractional-order models are comparatively tested. Using the mean square error as quality indicator, the model considered as the identification problem solution is determined. Some interesting simulations are presented in the end of the paper, which prove both the determined model validity and generality at the input signal variation.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132536918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple control fault testing in digital systems with high-level decision diagrams","authors":"R. Ubar, S. Oyeniran","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501287","url":null,"abstract":"A new method of high-level test generation for control faults in digital systems is proposed. High-level faults of any multiplicity are assumed to be present, however, there is no need to enumerate them. A novel concept of test groups which has the goal to prove the correctness of a part of the system's functionality instead of keeping track of fault coverage during test generation as in the traditional case is elaborated. The method can be regarded as a generalization of the logic level test pair approach for identifying fault-free wires in gate-level networks to a high-level identification of fault-free functional blocks. To cope with the complexity of multiple fault masking mechanisms, high-level decision diagrams are used. A method for optimizing test length was developed with no negative impact on the immunity regarding possible fault masking, and the estimates of the gain in test length were given.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132734228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco Rossi, A. Benso, S. Carlo, G. Politano, A. Savino, P. Acutis
{"title":"FishAPP: A mobile App to detect fish falsification through image processing and machine learning techniques","authors":"Francesco Rossi, A. Benso, S. Carlo, G. Politano, A. Savino, P. Acutis","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501348","url":null,"abstract":"Food forgery is one of the most articulated socio-economic concerns, which contributed to increase people awareness on what they eat. Identification of species represents a key aspect to expose commercial frauds implemented by substitution of valuable species with others of lower value. Fish species identification is mainly performed by morphological identification of gross anatomical features of the whole fish. However, the increasing presence on markets of new little-known species makes morphological identification of species difficult. In this paper we present FishAPP, a cloud-based infrastructure for fish species recognition. FishAPP is composed of a mobile application developed for the Android and the iOS mobile operating system enabling the user to shot pictures of a whole fish and submit them for remote analysis and a remote cloud-based processing system that implements a complex image processing pipeline and a neural network machine learning system able to analyze the obtained images and to perform classification into predefined fish classes. Preliminary results obtained from the available dataset provided encouraged results.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"255 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133342500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a reference signal generator for an upper limb prosthesis myoelectric controller","authors":"S. Herle","doi":"10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AQTR.2016.7501312","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1950s, the surface electromyographic signals are used by most of the electrically powered prostheses. These signals are collected from the skin surface and used indirectly as reference signals for the controller of the prostheses. Due to the nature of these signals it is impractical to feed these signals as inputs directly into the controller. The signals should be processed first, by segmentation, features extraction and features processing. Since only a limited number of muscles are used (usually two or three) a one-to-one correspondence between a muscle and a joint of the prosthesis cannot be established. Thus, the myoelectric control is unnatural, requires long periods for training and involves a great mental effort for the patient. We propose a reference signal generator (RSG), which is an interface module that receives the movement intentions of the patient and generates the position and speed reference signals for the controller. By means of the RSG the burden of the patient is reduced drastically and in the same time the safety in using the prosthesis is increased.","PeriodicalId":110627,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115234343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}