{"title":"The Design and Realization of a Gait Rehabilitation Training Robot with Body Supporting Mechanism","authors":"W. Ni, J. Zhang, W. Tao, T. Liu","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.18","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing number of people who have problems with their walking, a new type of gait rehabilitation training robot has been put forward and designed. In order to meet the requirements of the gait rehabilitation training, the whole mechanical structure and control system have been designed, and the model machine for gait rehabilitation training robot has been made. Using the human gait analysis system of the INSENCO, a large number of experiments on human bodies have been carried out, and human gait parameters have been measured and recorded. As has been shown in the experiments, the designed robot has achieved the goal of free movement and weight-reducing; the weight-reducing device is flexible in height and pull, which has accomplished the aim of rehabilitation training. doi: 10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.18","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"41 1","pages":"1314-1318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87737844","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 Hybrid Machine Learning Method for Intrusion Detection","authors":"H. Hemati, M. Ghasemzadeh, C. Meinel","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.09","url":null,"abstract":"Data security is an important area of concern for every computer system owner. An intrusion detection system is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations. Already various techniques of artificial intelligence have been used for intrusion detection. The main challenge in this area is the running speed of the available implementations. In this research work, we present a hybrid approach which is based on the “linear discernment analysis” and the “extreme learning machine” to build a tool for intrusion detection. In the proposed method, the linear discernment analysis is used to reduce the dimensions of data and the extreme learning machine neural network is used for data classification. This idea allowed us to benefit from the advantages of both methods. We implemented the proposed method on a microcomputer with core i5 1.6 GHz processor by using machine learning toolbox. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we run it on a comprehensive data set concerning intrusion detection. The data set is called KDD, which is a version of the data set DARPA presented by MIT Lincoln Labs. The experimental results were organized in related tables and charts. Analysis of the results show meaningful improvements in intrusion detection. In general, compared to the existing methods, the proposed approach works faster with higher accuracy.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"22 1","pages":"1242-1246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81609669","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":"EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF IRWEC1, A NOVEL OFFSHORE WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER","authors":"R. Alamian, R. Shafaghat, M. Farhadi, R. Bayani","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the innovative offshore point-absorber wave energy converter (WEC), IRWEC1, under development by the Hydrodynamics, Acoustics and Marine propulsion Group at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology. Totally enclosed in an outer shell, with no external moving parts, IRWEC1 is completely sealed which make it a robust and trustable system. Important motion for this WEC is the pitch motion, so, a pendulum is designed for transferring this motion to the PTO. In this paper, the WEC is evaluated for a wide range of waves in the wave tank. The wave characteristics are presented by which the system had appropriate pitch motion and acceptable extracted electrical energy.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"24 1","pages":"1292-1299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85919542","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":"OPTIMIZED FUZZY LOGIC FOR NONLINEAR VIBRATION CONTROL OF AIRCRAFT SEMI-ACTIVE SHOCK ABSORBER WITH INPUT CONSTRAINT (TECHNICAL NOTE)","authors":"A. Toloei, M. Zarchi, B. Attaran","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.16","url":null,"abstract":"Landing impact and runway unevenness have proximate consequence on performance of landing gear system and conduce to discomfort of passengers and reduction of the pilot’s capability to control aircraft. Finally, vibrations caused by them result in structure fatigue. Fuzzy logic controller is used frequently in different applications because of simplicity in design and implementation. In the present paper, this control approach is performed by minimum error criteria procedure and bees algorithm as the optimization technique for the model of semi-active suspension system that chooses damping performance of shock absorber at touchdown to be the purpose of control on landing gear and its efficiency is evaluated with the competence of passive control. Results of numerical simulation by matlab/simulink software indicate that the force induced to body and the vertical vibration of fuselage have important improvement )60% and 50%( for fuzzy intelligent method optimized by bees algorithm compared to passive approach which lead to increase in quality of landing, easiness of passengers and structure’s fatigue life in various operation conditions.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"132 1","pages":"1300-1306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85663505","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":"Energy Resources Consumption Performance in Iranian Manufacturing Industries by Using Cost/Revenue Efficiency Model","authors":"M. Rezaee, T. Ghanbarpour","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.14","url":null,"abstract":"Industries are one of the main sources of pollution in the world. Besides, the levels of energy resources consumption including water, electricity, and fossil fuel are very different among industries. On the other hand, Iranian government pays a large amount of energy subsidy to manufacturing units. Because of it, the government wants to know which of manufacturing industries are efficient, produce less environmental pollutions, and hence, must be supported. Besides, manufacturing industries are classified into various groups. In this paper, the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) model has been extended to multi-group state for evaluating manufacturing systems. The main feature of the proposed model is that it takes into consideration inputs/outputs prices (cost/revenue). In the other words, we propose a linear multi-group cost/revenue efficiency model. The data of 59 Iranian manufacturing industries are grouped under 23 classes to demonstrate the model. The inputs are energy resources such as the amount of fossil fuel, water and electricity consumption as well as a non-energy resources such as the number of employees. The results show that the efficiency scores and energy consumption performance are greatly changed when each industry is evaluated in its own group.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"47 8 1","pages":"1282-1291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90987722","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":"Look up Table Based Low Power Analog Circuit Testing","authors":"L. Maharana, T. Sarkar, S. Pradhan","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.10","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a method of low power analog testing is proposed. In spite of having Oscillation Based Built in Self-Test methodology (OBIST), a look up table based (LUT) low power testing approach has been proposed to find out the faulty circuit and also to sort out the particular fault location in the circuit. In this paper an operational amplifier, which is the basic building block in the analog circuit, is designed and is taken for testing purpose. Fault coverage is identified after fault modeling, fault injection and fault simulation. More than 93% fault coverage is achieved and there is a scope of increasing more fault coverage. Since analog testing prefaces the challenge of power dissipation during testing, some power minimization techniques like sleepy stack method and current correlation method have adhered during the testing process. Test power reduction up to 84 % is achieved in this work.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"929 1","pages":"1247-1256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77545774","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}
S. Junian, J. Sahari, M. Makmud, Y. Arief, M. U. Wahit
{"title":"Tensile and Physical Properties of Linear Low Density Polyethylene-natural Rubber Composite: Comparison between Size and Filler Types","authors":"S. Junian, J. Sahari, M. Makmud, Y. Arief, M. U. Wahit","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.11","url":null,"abstract":"Linear Low Density Polyethylene-Natural Rubber (LLDPE-NR) composites in the ratio of 70:20 were made with different loadings of nanosilica and micro-scale Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA). Linear Low Density Polyethylene grafted with maleic anhydride (LLDPE-g-MAH) of 10 wt% was added as a compatibiliser. The composites were produced by using two-roll mill machine. The tensile properties of the composites were determined by carrying out tensile test. From the test, it was found that the tensile strength of LLDPE-NR decreased with increasing weight percentages of POFA in the composition. Tensile strength of LLDPE-NR increased with increasing nanosilica content of the composition. The water absorption test was done on all samples, and it was found that water absorption of LLDPE-NR nanocomposites decreased with increasing nanosilica content. However, water absorption of LLDPE-NR microcomposites increased with increasing POFA content.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"6 1","pages":"1257-1262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79644580","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}
J. Namdar, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, N. Sahebjamnia, H. Soufi
{"title":"Designing a Reliable Distribution Network with Facility Fortification and Transshipment under Partial and Complete Disruptions","authors":"J. Namdar, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, N. Sahebjamnia, H. Soufi","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.13","url":null,"abstract":"This paper designs a reliability distribution network with limited capacity under partial and complete facility disruptions. To increase the reliability of the distribution network, a new mixed integer linear programing model is developed by considering multiple mitigation strategies including diversification, fortification, and transshipment. The distribution network constitutes of reliable distribution centers are more expensive, always available and not affected by disruption, and unreliable distribution centers. Thus, they might be fortified at any level of reliability. Several numerical examples with sensitivity analyses are conducted to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed model. Results demonstrate that the transshipment strategy is more effective than the other mitigation strategies on distribution network reliability and cost.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"20 1","pages":"1273-1281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72611613","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":"Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Real Waste Transformer Oil Using a Modified Household Microwave Oven in Presence of Sodium Hydroxide and Polyethylene Glycol","authors":"H. Asilian, A. Jonidi, B. Kamarehie, S. Mousavi","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.04","url":null,"abstract":"This research was carried out to assess the dechlorination and decomposition of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the real waste transformer oil using polyethylene glycol 1000/NaOH through a modified household microwave oven. To do so, the influence of polyethylene glycol (PEG) (1.5-7.5 g) and NaOH (0.3-1.5 g) under microwave (MW) power of 500 W on the dechlorination efficiency of PCBs, existed in real waste transformer oil, was investigated. The results showed that by increasing the PEG 1000 (1.5- 7.5g) and NaOH (0.3-1.5g) amounts, the dechlorination efficiency of PCBs increased from 35 to 99.99% under MV power of 500 W for the reaction time of 6 min. The optimum amounts of PEG and NaOH were 5 g and 1 g, respectively. The results indicated that the PCBs dechlorination rate followed first-order kinetic (k = 0.019, R2 = 0.91), and more than 90% of total PCBs were dechlorinated at the first 90 seconds of the reaction. After 90 seconds, the dechlorination rate decreased. Accordingly, results showed that MW has extraordinary influence on PCBs decomposition from waste transformer oil, and the reaction time substantially decreased compared to conventional heating.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"50 1","pages":"1208-1213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80772998","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}