Song Gao, Zening Zhao, Ting Wang, Chao Zhang, Jiandong Wang, Yingkun Han
{"title":"Performance assessment of primary frequency regulation based on static characteristics","authors":"Song Gao, Zening Zhao, Ting Wang, Chao Zhang, Jiandong Wang, Yingkun Han","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859907","url":null,"abstract":"Regulation deadband and speed governor droop are two important performance indicators in the primary frequency regulation of thermal power unit. Coal quality, operation mode, and non-linearity of a regulating valve may cause the deviation between the frequency modulation performance index and the set value. In this paper, a static frequency characteristic curve is obtained from the daily operation data of the generator unit, and the method of estimating the deadband and the speed governor droop is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by industrial examples.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130441804","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}
Genji Tanaka, Tetsuta Takamura, Yukie Shimura, Kazuhiro Motegi, Y. Shiraishi
{"title":"Development of Simulator and Analysis of Walking for Hexapod Robots","authors":"Genji Tanaka, Tetsuta Takamura, Yukie Shimura, Kazuhiro Motegi, Y. Shiraishi","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859942","url":null,"abstract":"The control of legs for hexapod robot is complicated and it has been attracted many researchers' concern. Recently, such unmanned electric vehicles as automatic guided vehicles, drones with many rotors, and mobilities with crawlers, etc. are rapidly put into practical use. However, hexapod robots are far from the practical use although some toy robots are available. The hexapod robot would be much more useful for walking on wasteland, muddy land or slippery land, etc. and it is required to design the large-scale hexapod robot with optimized control of legs. A simulator for the walking of hexapod robot is developed for the first time and the walking behaviors are analyzed. The application of Model Based Design method to the development of simulator and the straight walking stability is discussed.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133213053","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":"Distributed Control for Group Assignment of Multi-agent Systems","authors":"K. Sakurama, H. Ahn","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859894","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address a group assignment problem, which is a new concept of control of multi-agent systems in multiple groups. In this problem, for multiple groups of reference states, each group of agents is allowed to achieve any group of reference states. In addition, agents have to determine which reference states they achieve by themselves. This is more difficult than conventional assignment problems because both the assignment of groups and that of reference states have to be determined simultaneously. In this paper, a distributed controller to solve this problem is designed through the gradient-flow approach. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through simulations.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127378151","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":"Harmonious Safety - Collaboration, Cooperation and Coordination between Workers, Machines and Environments","authors":"H. Kanamaru, Hiroyuki Ogihara","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859830","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of IoT, AI and ICT technology, the working style of field persons is changing. For example, there are a collaborative working robot in which a human and a machine coexist, and a power assist suit that supports care work. When introducing such new technologies, conventional safety technology and occupational safety and health management (OSHM) concepts are not enough, thus new safety concepts are needed. Focusing on the workers, machines, and management environment that make up the workplace, we must reconsider the collaboration between workers and machines, the cooperation between workers and the environment, and the coordination between machines and the environment. With the use of ICT, these relationships can be realized precisely, quickly and completely. In order to achieve a more advanced safety technology and culture, it is necessary to harmonize people, machines and the environment. In this paper, we propose the concept of “harmonious safety” and its technical aspects.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122039796","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. Keerativittayanun, Kittikom Sangrit, Pattanun Srisukanun, Pitisit Dillon, Jessada Karnjana
{"title":"Image Enhancement Technique Based on Human Visual Perception and Multi-exposure Fusion for a Landslide-prone Area Monitoring System","authors":"S. Keerativittayanun, Kittikom Sangrit, Pattanun Srisukanun, Pitisit Dillon, Jessada Karnjana","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859933","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new technique for enhancing image quality and generating a representative image from a set of input images taken from a landslide-prone area monitoring camera at different times of a day. Thus, less-visible areas in the input images are different from one another. First, the proposed technique enhances each input image by deploying a scaling function based on human visual perception. Then, it fuses all input images and all enhanced images by using Gaussian and Laplacian pyramid-based blending. Experimental results show that the resulting image can improve the visibility of some shadowed details and that the objective evaluation results regarding image enhancement metric, universal image quality index, and perceptual similarity index are satisfying.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116552841","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":"Path Planning for Robot Manipulator based on Obstacle-Guided Path Refinement","authors":"Mohamed G. B. Atia, Omar Salah, A. Fouly","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859846","url":null,"abstract":"The Path planning is essential in the field of robotics as robots require a fast algorithm to develop not only the shortest path but also free of collision with any obstacles. Therefore, this paper describes a novel path planning algorithm based on Obstacle-Guided Path Refinement (OGPR). To illustrate the benefits and performance of the new algorithm, a comparison is established between OGPR and A* based on implementation of the two algorithms with SCARA robot model. The results of this comparison show that OGPR algorithm over advantage A* in terms of the path length and the computational time.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114672078","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}
Xinmin Zhang, M. Kano, M. Tani, Junichi Mori, J. Ise, K. Harada
{"title":"Poisson mixture model for defects prediction in steelmaking","authors":"Xinmin Zhang, M. Kano, M. Tani, Junichi Mori, J. Ise, K. Harada","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859940","url":null,"abstract":"The modern steel industry adheres to providing high standard product quality. However, defects are always occurring due to variations during the manufacturing process. Thus, it is crucial to predict the occurrence of defects in real time. However, traditional probability models are inappropriate to model the observed defect data because they exhibit the unique characteristics of nonnegative integers, high-overdispersion, and heterogeneity. To deal with these problems, this work proposes an online defects prediction system based on the Poisson mixture model. Poisson mixture model consists of the component-specific models and mixing probability models. Each component-specific model captures the characteristics of that component while the mixing probability model takes the different sources of heterogeneity of the defect data into account. Compared to the standard Poisson model, Poisson mixture model is more flexible in dealing with extra-dispersion and heterogeneity problems in the defect data. The application results on the real steelmaking process have validated that the Poisson mixture model performs better than the PLS, Poisson, and negative binomial models in prediction accuracy.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114767405","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":"Biomolecular Switch Circuits for Molecular Robots using a DNA Strand Displacement Mechanism","authors":"Keisuke Watanabe, T. Nakakuki","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859901","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in nanoscale bioengineering have recently been focusing on molecular robots established by combining biomolecular devices. In this study, we aimed to create a DNA switch circuit to alter the states of a molecular robot. The primary goal was to activate the actuator for a fixed period. The merit of the design detailed in this study was the sole use of strand displacement reactions under mild environmental conditions, contributing to practical use within the molecular robot. Although undesirable reactions often occur due to the nature of the switch circuit, mismatched base pairs were used to try to avoid this. The correct behavior of the switch circuit has been proven by both the simulation and experiment.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130037109","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":"Hand Gesture Recognition System for In-car Device Control Based on Infrared Array Sensor","authors":"S. Tateno, Yiwei Zhu, Fanxing Meng","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859832","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, with the development of automotive industry, more and more functions and devices are assembled in cars to improve driving experience. Meanwhile, traffic accidents are increasing in recent years. Operations of in-car device human machine interface (HMI) will cause lack of concentration, which is a major cause of the accidents. Common in-car device HMI systems are based on optics, acoustics, and so on, which are faced with environment limitations such as influenced by illumination conditions. In order to deal with these limitations, in this paper, an infrared array sensor is applied to construct a hand gesture recognition system for in-car devices control. The proposed system can overcome disadvantages of other systems and has a wider application. In the system, seven different shapes of hand and movement toward four directions are combined to achieve the aim of device operations. In data processing, convolutional neural network (CNN) is applied to realize recognition. Simulated experiments are conducted to verify the feasibility of this system.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130510589","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":"Room Impulse Response Estimation with Kernel-Based Regularization","authors":"Y. Fujimoto, Fumika Abe, M. Nagahara","doi":"10.23919/SICE.2019.8859837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE.2019.8859837","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the identification of the room impulse response, which is an acoustic model of the sound reflection along the room. In particular, we consider the case where the input sound lacks some frequency elements. Such a situation occurs due to the transfer characteristics of the speaker, and it leads to overfitting behavior. To avoid this overfitting, we use the kernel-based regularization which enjoys a priori knowledge on the target system. Room impulse responses are much longer than the ones considered in the existing kernel-based regularization methods, thus we use orthonormal basis function expansion to reduce computational burden. We show a numerical study with the impulse response measured in a real concert hall, and confirm that the kernel-based regularization improves the identification accuracy than the least square method.","PeriodicalId":147772,"journal":{"name":"2019 58th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128209464","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}