{"title":"A Web-based Intelligent Virtual Learning Environment for Industrial Continuous Improvement","authors":"Xuesong Chi, T. Spedding","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275771","url":null,"abstract":"Training in an industrial context is becoming more dynamic and time consuming due to the daily emergence of new technologies and the onset of globalization. People from higher education institutions and industries have applied various heuristic teaching methods in order to inspire students to acquire knowledge in a manufacturing and industrial context. Artificial intelligence techniques has been used for many years in educational systems, however the presentation of domain knowledge is one of the most concerning issues which stems the evolvement of the industrial training systems development. In this paper we present a Web-based intelligent virtual learning environment which is designed for the training of industrial continuous improvement techniques. Emphasis is placed on neural network and multi-agent techniques to build state-of-art domain knowledge models which demonstrate realistic industrial environments.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"12 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133668926","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":"Enhanced Text Entry and Transmission Scheme in Mobile Communication","authors":"S. Rajeev, A. Subramanian, R. Kumar, V. Ganesen","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275824","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce an enhanced and efficient dictionary based algorithm for single keystroke text input that can be used in various mobile communication devices. We also extend this approach for text transmission through short message service (SMS) servers to have a reduced overload on the underlying network The algorithm presented minimizes the search time to generate all valid words from a given set of key sequences; it also minimizes the time taken to find all words that begin with a given prefix. This technique proposed will not only be used for text entry, but can also has enhanced features that could be used in the wireless/mobile service provider's servers to reduce the overall traffic of SMS messages.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133992366","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":"Scheduling Landside Operations of a Container Terminal Using a Fuzzy Heuristic","authors":"W. Ng, Yanchao Ge","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275660","url":null,"abstract":"In port container terminals, yard cranes and trucks are the commonly used for handling containers in the landside. This paper studies the problem of scheduling trucks and yard cranes in the landside operations of a container terminal to optimize the terminal performance. As the scheduling problem is very complicated, a fuzzy heuristic is proposed for solving the problem. The effectiveness of the fuzzy heuristic is evaluated by comparing its performance with that of some popular scheduling rules using simulation. The simulation results show that the fuzzy heuristic outperforms the scheduling rules.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134590671","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":"A New Motion Control Approach for Jerk and Transient Vibration Suppression","authors":"H. Li, Z. Gong, W. Lin, T. Lippa","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275642","url":null,"abstract":"In precision motion stages, jerk limitation is important to suppress transient vibration and to reduce the settling time, as well as to improve the machine speed and accuracy. In this paper, a novel motion control method is presented which aims to reduce jerk and transient vibration for linear motion stages. In this approach, the acceleration profile is designed based on a level-shifted cosinoidal function to obtain a smoother movement without any corner. The velocity and the displacement profiles are calculated by integration. To implement the proposed motion profile on a DSP-based motion controller, a table look-up and linear interpolation method is used to relieve the calculation burden to the DSP controller in real-time. The values between the look-up table steps are linearly interpolated using the DSP. A voice coil motor driving motion stage with a fixed-point DSP controller is used as the testbed, where a point-to-point linear motion task is designed and implemented to test the proposed motion profile. Experimental results have showed that by using the new profile, the motion induced vibration on the stage frame can be greatly reduced.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130327244","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":"Development of an Experimental Model of BACnet-based Lighting Control System","authors":"T. Park, S. Hong","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275745","url":null,"abstract":"Lighting control system provides various benefits in building management such as operational convenience, energy saving and peak demand control. BACnet(building automation and control networks) is an international standard communication protocol for building automation and control networks. In this study, we developed an experimental model of BACnet-based daylighting and fluorescent lighting dimming control system. The experimental model consists of lighting control system and a mockup of indoor fluorescent lighting facility, which are interconnected using BACnet protocol. Using the experimental model, we evaluated the performance of BACnet-based lighting control system. Results from the experimental model show that the energy consumption for lighting can be reduced up to 40%.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115196065","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":"Indoor Localization with Low Complexity in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"F. Reichenbach, Dirk Timmermann","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275737","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous localization of nodes in wireless sensor networks is essential to minimize the complex self organization task consequently enhancing the overall network lifetime. Recently, precise indoor localization is impeded by multi path propagation of signals due to reflections at walls or objects. In this paper we partly overcome some of these problems by methods like frequency diversity and averaging multiple measured data. Received radio signal strength (RSS) in combination with weighted centroid localization, featuring low communication overhead and a low complexity of O(n), is our basis of a localization on the energy constrained sensor nodes. We first analyze the RSS-characteristics on a specific sensor node platform in different rooms. Next, we describe methods to improve these characteristics to reach best localization results at minimized complexity. Finally, in a practice indoor localization we achieve a small localization error of only 14% for 69% of all test-points that was enhanced to at least 8% in average by simple optimizations. For that, no hardware modifications as well as time consuming RSSI-maps or complex signal propagation models are required.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"390 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117091801","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. Sunder, Alois Zoitl, M. Rainbauer, B. Favre-Bulle
{"title":"Hierarchical Control Modelling Architecture for Modular Distributed Automation Systems","authors":"C. Sunder, Alois Zoitl, M. Rainbauer, B. Favre-Bulle","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275710","url":null,"abstract":"Modern design approaches for manufacturing system organize the control architecture in the same way as the functional structure of the plant. This leads to a modular approach that is based on composition of automation components. This paper introduces a hierarchical architecture that is based on a generic internal structure of automation components. This includes logic, diagnostics as well as human machine interface (HMI). The HMI architecture is again organized in the same way as the functional structure of the plant. This results in a clear modelling process enabling reduced engineering effort and simple maintenance. It can also serve as a basic architecture for reconfiguration approaches.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115387704","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":"Jointed Decision Model on Ordering and Pricing for a Short-Life-Cycle Product under Stochastic Multiplicative Demand","authors":"Bin Liu, Sifeng Liu","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275597","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the jointed decision question on ordering and pricing for a short-life-cycle product under stochastic multiplicative demand depended selling price. According to the marketing practices, which retailers sell their products in different periods with the different marketing policies, we depict the jointed decision question with a stochastic dynamic programming model from the view of the centralized system. Then, we prove that the expected profit function are concave on decision vectors respectively, and develop the decision method for ordering and pricing. Lastly, we design iterative search algorithm to find the optimal decision vectors.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123238194","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":"Multi-modal Sensing for Machine Health Monitoring in High Speed Machining","authors":"H. Zeng, T. B. Thoe, Xiang Li, Junhong Zhou","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275812","url":null,"abstract":"Optimum performance of machining process relies on the availability of the information about process conditions for process monitoring and feedback to the process controller. Tool condition is the most crucial and determining factor to machine tool automation, hence online tool condition monitoring is of great industrial interest. A research work of tool condition monitoring for high speed machining is introduced in this paper. It employs multi-modal sensing which includes accelerometer, acoustic emission (AE) sensor and dynamometer, and advanced signal processing to monitor a high speed milling process. The results show that the frequency bands of wavelet decomposition which cover the frequency of cutter revolution are the most important bands among the spectrum. The energy distribution of signal shifts from low frequency to high frequency while tool wear develops. Wavelet analysis has the advantages of going deeper to the nature of physical phenomenon. The results based on time-frequency domain analysis are not so easy to be influenced by the noise and the cutting parameters which has always been a big problem for time-domain analysis.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123317739","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":"Time and Supervisory Control of Manufacturing Systems: a Flexible Manufacturing Cell experience","authors":"D. Rodriguez","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2006.275701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2006.275701","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present work is, firstly, to model, then control the operation times and finally to obtain performance measures for the flexible manufacturing cell under study. This cell is located in the robotics and automation laboratory in the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Department of the University of Zaragoza. The first part of this work presents the formal modelling of the flexible manufacturing cell. Using the Petri net paradigm (D. Rodriguez, 2004), the behaviour of the system is modelled, starting from the PLC programs in charge of controlling the manufacturing system. This modelling part take into account some production policies implemented in an intermediate storage station. A second task considers the possible failure and blocking situations what helps improving the raw model of the FMC. This work shows also an implementation of all these elements in commercial SCADA software and also some timing results help concluding some arguments for the inclusion of a certain production policy under certain production configurations.","PeriodicalId":120426,"journal":{"name":"2006 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123987145","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}