{"title":"Improved load shifting and valley filling strategies in demand side management in a nano scale off-grid wind-PV system in remote areas","authors":"N. Tutkun, Furkan Ungoren, Bisar Alpagut","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000060","url":null,"abstract":"It is reported that residential buildings almost consumed around 30% of electricity generated among other sectors such as industry, commercial and public services etc. In developing countries considerable amount of people have no direct access to the national power grid or are encountered long power blackout. Therefore people in those countries are very limited to use of electricity for routine basic daily applications in their homes. In this study, power demand for those who live in such countries are met by a nano scale autonomous wind-PV system through the demand side management in order to reduce total daily energy cost to reasonable price as much as possible. The preliminary results indicated daily energy cost can be achieved to have competitive prices depending on renewable energy potential and sustainable energy production for 20–25 years of lifetime is also possible for emergency cases.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127136038","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}
F. Amato, Domenico Colacino, C. Cosentino, A. Merola
{"title":"Trajectory tracking control of a biomimetic exoskeleton for robotic rehabilitation","authors":"F. Amato, Domenico Colacino, C. Cosentino, A. Merola","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000096","url":null,"abstract":"The main impetus for the development of bioinspired robotic technologies stems from their applications to some tasks which require a safe interaction with human beings, e.g., during rehabilitation exercises. In this context, this work presents the mechatronic design and the tracking control of a robotic exoskeleton actuated by biomimetic and soft actuators. The exoskeleton can perform some tasks of physical rehabilitation, whereas the intrinsic and tunable compliance of the robot joints guarantees the safety specifications required for human-robot interactions. The steps of design and realization described in this paper involve the synthesis and the implementation of a trajectory tracking controller. A nonlinear control law, which compensates for the nonlinear dynamics of the actuators, is employed in combination with a PID control action. The designed control law, experimentally validated during some sessions of robotic rehabilitation, achieves the robust regulation of the tracking error to zero.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"53 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131578586","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}
Kai Wang, Xin-ping Yan, Yupeng Yuan, Xiaoli Jiang, G. Lodewijks, R. Negenborn
{"title":"PSO-based method for safe sailing route and efficient speeds decision-support for sea-going ships encountering accidents","authors":"Kai Wang, Xin-ping Yan, Yupeng Yuan, Xiaoli Jiang, G. Lodewijks, R. Negenborn","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000128","url":null,"abstract":"Maritime accidents and incidents, such as ship to ship collision or ship grounding, most often occur near ports due to the intensive water traffic and shallow water depth. The occurrence of those accidents place a port in a very dangerous situation, since the port could suffer from a high risk of blockage of port entry, and the consequent economic loss can be substantial. In the case of maritime accidents, it is of great significance for sea-going ships outside of the accident zone to determine a safe and smooth sailing route and efficient speeds at a busy port, thus to reduce the risk of blockage and the economic loss of the port, whilst not disturbing the current emergency logistic response system. In this regard, a decision-making method for safe and smooth sailing route and efficient speeds for sea-going ships encountering an accident can be very valuable. Because of the high nonlinearity of these decisions, PSO algorithm is used to search the safe and smooth sailing route and efficient speeds. The study results show that the proposed method can effectively achieve the safe and smooth sailing route and efficient speeds for ships encountering an accident, thus to be more economic and reduce the risky chance of blockage of the port entry.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123631384","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 two-stage no-wait hybrid flow-shop model for the flight departure scheduling in a multi-airport system","authors":"Ming Liu, Zhihui Sun, Xiaoning Zhang, F. Chu","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000142","url":null,"abstract":"To effectively alleviate the increasingly serious situation of airspace congestion and flight delays in a multi-airport system, we consider a scheduling problem for multi-airport departure flights in this paper. A mathematical model based on two-stage no-wait hybrid flow-shop is presented for sequencing departure flights in different airports within one terminal area. Moreover, some practical issues which affect the performance of the schedule are also carried out by the Constrained Position Shifting (CPS). Then a CPLEX program is developed and implemented to obtain reasonable solutions within acceptable computation time. Finally, we apply the proposed model and algorithm to a real case study of Shanghai Terminal Area with departure flights from Shanghai HongQiao International Airport and Shanghai PuDong International Airport. The computational results do prove the advantage of the proposed model and the algorithm. An efficient scheduling for departure flights can fully improve the utilization of critical resources and reduce the impact of traffic interaction between airports.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121161277","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":"Efficient and provably secure identity-based multi-signature schemes for data aggregation in marine wireless sensor networks","authors":"Lifei Wei, Lei Zhang, Dongmei Huang, Kaibo Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000158","url":null,"abstract":"Data aggregation is a significant issue for marine wireless sensor networks. However, marine sensors are always deployed far away from the security monitoring. Thus, the secure data aggregation for marine sensor networks emerges and attracts the researchers and engineers. Multi-signature enables the data aggregation with a single signature to authenticate the message under different signers. However, most of the previous multi-signature schemes rely on the technique of bilinear pairing involving in heavy computational overhead or the management of certificates which can not be afforded by the marine wireless sensors. Combined with the concept of identity-based cryptography, few identity-based multi-signature (IBMS) schemes have been designed based on the integer factorization problem and without the bilinear pairing. In this paper, we propose two efficient IBMS schemes under the cubic residue assumption, which is equal to the integer factorization assumption. We employ two different methods to calculate a cubic root for a cubic residue number during the signer's private key extraction. The algorithms are quite efficient compared to the previous work, especially for the algorithms of the multi-signature generation and its verification.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125368987","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}
A. Burgio, D. Menniti, A. Pinnarelli, N. Sorrentino, P. Vizza, N. Tutkun
{"title":"Prosumers with a photovoltaic-battery system: Comparison of two stategies for imbalance reduction","authors":"A. Burgio, D. Menniti, A. Pinnarelli, N. Sorrentino, P. Vizza, N. Tutkun","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000061","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of grid-connected prosumers with an integrated photovoltaic-battery system, imbalance is the difference between the hourly net energy measured at the point of delivery and the associated forecast. Besides contributing with the increasing of the self-consumption, batteries can also compensate for imbalances if opportunely operated. This paper proposes two strategies to operate batteries so to compensate for imbalances. Proposed strategies are compared each other in term of state of charge of the batteries and their lifetime expectation.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"41 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114131899","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}
Libo Zhang, Pingping Gu, Jiubing Liu, Xianzhong Zhou, Huaxiong Li
{"title":"A man-machine collaborative classification mechanism based on humanware","authors":"Libo Zhang, Pingping Gu, Jiubing Liu, Xianzhong Zhou, Huaxiong Li","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000181","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays the machine-based classification model has made great progress, but there is still a large gap in dealing with the complex problems when compared with human beings. In addition, most existing classification models pursue high accuracy without consideration of the cost in the decision-making process. To address these issues, a man-machine collaborative recognition mechanism based on humanware system is proposed. By dividing the workspace of experts and machines reasonably, machines handle the samples that are easy to be distinguished, and leave the confusing samples to the experts. According to the proposed man-machine collaborative mechanism, the support vector machine (SVM) is modified. Finally, the effectiveness of the improved SVM model is verified by the experiments on Caltech 256 dataset.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128178504","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}
L. Andrade, Ricardo Rios, T. Nogueira, Cássio V. S. Prazeres
{"title":"Applying classification methods to model standby power consumption in the Internet of Things","authors":"L. Andrade, Ricardo Rios, T. Nogueira, Cássio V. S. Prazeres","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000149","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach that combines Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and classification methods to improve efficient usage of power consumption. We focused on energy use of electronic devices on standby mode, which represent from 5 to 26% of power consumption in a home. The proposed approach aims at predicting situation in which devices on standby can be turned off, reducing power consumption. In summary, our approach uses motion and current sensors connected to an IoT infrastructure to build a profile about the presence of people at home. Results obtained from our approach present a reduction of the electric energy consumption by applying Machine Learning methods on Internet of Things scenarios.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126779865","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}
M. Amadeo, A. Molinaro, S. Y. Paratore, Albino Altomare, Andrea Giordano, C. Mastroianni
{"title":"A Cloud of Things framework for smart home services based on Information Centric Networking","authors":"M. Amadeo, A. Molinaro, S. Y. Paratore, Albino Altomare, Andrea Giordano, C. Mastroianni","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000099","url":null,"abstract":"Today, the novel Cloud of Things (CoT) paradigm, where Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are merged together, is foreseen as a promising enabler of many real-life application scenarios, like the smart home. However, several issues are still debated in the design of CoT systems, including how to effectively manage the heterogeneity of IoT devices and how to support robust and low-latency communications between the cloud and the physical world. In this paper, we present a novel CoT platform that solves such challenges in the smart home domain by leveraging two groundbreaking concepts: Information Centric Networking (ICN) and Fog Computing. The proposal, called ICN-iSapiens, is a three-layered architecture where an intermediate (Fog) layer, consisting of smart home servers (HSs), is introduced between the physical world and the remote cloud, to support real-time services and hide the heterogeneity of IoT devices. Communication at the physical layer consists of name-based ICN primitives, which facilitate the network configuration and enable simple and effective interactions between HSs and IoT devices. As proof of concept, an experimental testbed is presented and some application examples are described to showcase the advanced capabilities of ICN-iSapiens.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125601117","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}
L. Yang, Wenfeng Li, Yun Luo, Ying Duan, G. Fortino
{"title":"A social-D2D architecture for People-centric Industrial Internet of Things","authors":"L. Yang, Wenfeng Li, Yun Luo, Ying Duan, G. Fortino","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000183","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread deployment of smart phone and smart object technologies have fostered the rise of People-centric Internet of Things. People-centric Internet of Things is the direct motivation and drive for agile and social manufacturing applications in future Industry 4.0. However, it is challenging for human to organize services around with crowdsourced, open, decentralized smart objects. In this paper, we propose a service-oriented architecture for People-centric Industrial Internet of Things, and define a reference middleware for both smart phone and smart objects. In addition, a social activities component and a physical activities component of the middleware are presented to trigger interoperations among services, and contain several features of natural intention between humans. Finally, a use case is illustrated how the proposed architecture supports people-centric manufacturing applications.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133865550","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}