{"title":"Target object announcement by synchronous blinking of a robot and an object","authors":"Mitsuharu Matsumoto, S. Hata","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614662","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report the investigation about previous notice of the robot target to reduce scary emotions by synchronous blinking of a robot and an object. Although robots' previous notice is an important concept to secure users, it is difficult to plan previous notice because highly sophisticated robots are very complicated. To solve the problems, we have studied a single light based object announcement. In this paper, we especially focus on cooperative works between a user and a robot, and investigate a target object announcement by synchronous blinking of a robot and an object. Throughout the experiments, we confirmed that our approach can reduce scary emotions compared to the approach using only a light on the robot.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114839867","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":"Operation of battery power modules with bidirectional DC/DC converters","authors":"Tsung-Hsi Wu, C. Moo, Y. Hsieh, Chun-Ying Juan","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614706","url":null,"abstract":"A battery power system can be assembled by a number of battery power modules (BPMs) to higher voltage and current in addition to provide a higher sustainable energy. In which, the battery sets are equipped with associated power electronic converters to regulate the conversion power as well as the output voltage and current. When a bidirectional power converter is adopted in a BPM the battery set is charged and discharged through the same port. Three bidirectional dc-to-dc converters used for BPMs are analyzed. The charging and discharging operations are illustrated by an exemplar battery power source with four serial boost/buck type BPMs.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117107192","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 control design for nonlinear interconnected systems by transforming the interconnection into a weighting linear term","authors":"Wei Chang, Shan-Ju Yeh, Wen-June Wang, Ya-Ju Chang","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614632","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the H∞ control problem for a nonlinear interconnected system with nonlinear interconnections and disturbance. In the nonlinear interconnected system, each subsystem “without” nonlinear interconnections and disturbance is transformed into a T-S fuzzy system and the nonlinear interconnection corresponding to each subsystem is represented by a weighted linear term. In this study, some conditions are proposed to guarantee the existence of Parallel Distributed Compensation (PDC) type fuzzy controllers and then synthesize the controllers using Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) tool such that the H∞ control performance of the nonlinear interconnected system is achieved.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130380365","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}
Cheng-Pei Tsai, C. Chuang, Ming-Chih Lu, Wei-Yen Wang, S. Su, Shyang-Lih Chang
{"title":"Machine-vision based obstacle avoidance system for robot system","authors":"Cheng-Pei Tsai, C. Chuang, Ming-Chih Lu, Wei-Yen Wang, S. Su, Shyang-Lih Chang","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614673","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed a machine-vision based obstacle avoidance system for robot system by using single camera, it could accomplished an obstacle avoidance and path planning. The structure of this system is using a camera and two laser projectors fixed on same base. When robot get into a unknown environment, it will stop and capture an image, the system use several simple image process steps to recognize the obstacle. The system will rotate the base to project the laser points on obstacle, the distance measurement results calculated by IBDMS method, when the system calculated the distance between obstacle and robot, it could planned the path to achieve the autonomous patrol.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123341239","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":"About performance requirements set against consumer-grade geolocation technologies","authors":"F. Brachmann","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614681","url":null,"abstract":"With ever-newer forms of indoor geolocation coupled with the widely increasing number of location-based services, the requirements set towards consumer-grade geolocation technologies shows an ever broadening range. Typical consumer geolocation technologies are analyzed based on performance aspect for use with location-based services. The handling of challenges in RSSI-based technological solutions is elaborated. Based on findings of the analysis a comprehensive model for performance requirements of geolocation services is presented.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126302122","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 computer vision system for fast AR film thickness measurement of polysilicon solar cells","authors":"H. Yen, H. Hou","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614672","url":null,"abstract":"For increasing marketing competence, silicon solar cell manufacturers have adopted optical inspection techniques in production lines to perform product classification and statistical process analysis. The product classification is based on overall photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar cell itself. Two factors directly influence the overall photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar cell, i.e., composed materials and antireflection film coating on substrate. Since film thickness variation of the antireflection layer will induce color change on the surface of solar cell, a cost-effective computer vision measurement system is proposed to perform fast AR film thickness measurement of polysilicon solar cells. The proposed system first uses a color CCD to capture the red-green-blue color image of inspected polysilicon solar cell, and transforms it to hue-saturation-lightness (HSL) image format. And then the area and boundary of different hue-value images are calculated and sorted with the image thresholding and label operation. With the corresponding measurement procedure on specified hue-value regions of using a high accuracy optical film thickness measurement instrument, the regression equation between the hue value and antireflection film thickness is obtained, and then implemented into the proposed system to perform large area scanning antireflection film thickness measurement of polysilicon solar cells. Compared to the optical ellipsometry, the measurement speed of the proposed system is fast. It take only 0.1 second to finish the antireflection film thickness measurement of an image of 768×768 pixels (15 cm×15 cm), and the measurement accuracy of the proposed system can reach 3 nm.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126958673","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":"Morphogenetic evolution","authors":"G. Resconi","doi":"10.1109/icsse.2013.6614691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icsse.2013.6614691","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new operational method to generate convergent natural genetic evolution. We present a new convergent process for selection, mutation and cross over in natural genetic evolution process.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132707326","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":"Tackling climate change: A system of systems engineering perspective a research seminar by","authors":"K. Hipel","doi":"10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614641","url":null,"abstract":"An integrative and adaptive approach to Responsible Governance is put forward for addressing climate change based on a System of Systems (SoS) Engineering framework that reflects the values of stakeholders using a participatory approach and achieves desirable systems goals such as resilience, sustainability and fairness. Currently, the world is suffering from an “Atmospheric Tragedy of the Commons” in which every nation is knowingly releasing deadly greenhouse gases in order to selfishly maximize its own economic benefits at the expense of destroying the “Atmospheric Commons” and thereby causing severe climate change which will adversely affect all countries around the globe. To overcome this strategically unwise type of individual behavior, a cooperative approach to good governance is suggested which will benefit every nation economically in the long term and, more importantly, satisfy ethical systems objectives. More specifically, the “Fee and Dividend” concept devised by James Hansen and others is suggested as a truly insightful, yet simple, method for solving the tough strategic decision-making aspects of climate change via: (1) Taxing carbon at its source or point of first sale (Fee). (2) Distributing 100% of this tax uniformly to all citizens (Dividend). (3) Negotiating a level of tax for each nation (Liability). (4) Increasing the tax over time in combination with stricter regulations to bring atmospheric carbon accumulation to a stipulated level (Survival). When compared to other alternatives, such as Cap and Trade, the “Fee and Dividend” idea may form the basis of a feasible and sensible method for handling climate change in the same way that the 1987 “Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer”, and its extended versions thereof, constitute exceptional international agreements for cooperatively controlling the size of the ozone hole before it reached the point of no return. Indeed, the citizens of the world are most grateful to the truly remarkable scientists, consisting of Mario Molina, Paul Crutzen and Frank Rowland, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for explaining how CFCs created the ozone hole. In fact, responsible governance is not only needed in proactively combating climate change and the ozone hole but in many other highly interconnected complex SoS problems such as the failed American financial system, growing gap between the rich and poor, unfair medical systems, irresponsible energy production and usage, widespread pollution of both natural and societal systems, and unreliable aging infrastructure. Accordingly, extensive research is urgently needed for developing a comprehensive theoretical structure for System of Systems Science and Engineering for suitably solving current and emerging complex systems problems.","PeriodicalId":124317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133608374","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}