{"title":"Received Signal Strength Based Localization of Wireless Sensors in a Complex Environment: a Comparative Study","authors":"N. Zaarour, N. Hakem, N. Kandil","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194203","url":null,"abstract":"Localization in harsh and complex environments, such as industrial, confined or underground mines, is paramount. This paper presents a comparative localization study of wireless sensors in a complex environment, an underground mine, based on the received signal strength (RSS). Three estimation algorithms are tested to localize sensors in this harsh environment; the maximum likelihood estimation (ML), the two-step weighted least squares estimation (TWLS), and the generalized total least squares estimation (GTLS). The propagation model used in this work is obtained from conducted experimentation in a real mine environment. To the best of our knowledge, no comparative study was done between different localization algorithms in a mine environment. The aim of this work is to show the importance of the suitable choice of localization technique in difficult propagation conditions, allowing afterwards use and enhancing it depending on propagation parameters.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123095449","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":"On the Intermediate-Field Blast Wave Shielding Effect of a Porous Wall","authors":"Gérard-Philippe Zéhil","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193988","url":null,"abstract":"Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) simulations are designed and executed in this work to explore the blast wave shielding effect of a porous spatially-periodic wall in the intermediate field of a large-scale explosion. To this aim, the incident peak average overpressure and the average specific positive impulse are determined over virtual planes located at various distances behind rigid walls of different porosity levels. A resulting manifold of high-cost high-fidelity numerical solutions is then used to devise simplified and more computationally-efficient data-driven surrogate analytical and machine-learning predictive models.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117111126","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 Multi-Criteria Framework for Building Automation Systems Design Evaluation – Case Study","authors":"M. Jradi","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193984","url":null,"abstract":"Due to its significant contribution to global energy consumption and the associated share of carbon emissions, the construction sector is a crucial part of energy efficiency and environmental plans and efforts. These objectives, as well as the development towards the digitalization of the building portfolio, have prompted the need for more intelligent, adaptable, and proactive buildings. In light of this, a building automation and control system (BACS) which is well-designed, built, and run properly is essential for attaining environmental and energy efficiency goals, as well as for delivering high levels of comfort and providing the building's occupants with the needed valuable information. In this study, the design functions and services offered by the automation and control system are assessed using an innovative platform called IBACSA for BACS assessment and building smartness evaluation. The platform evaluates eight different technical building domains that span 60 major building services, reports the rating and performance of each domain, and considers various impact criteria into account. Three Danish buildings of various types, sizes, and uses are considered as a case study to implement IBACSA. In each instance, the BACS design and functions are assessed and graded, and recommendations for improvement are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124851089","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":"Mitigation of UHI Effect with the Incorporation of PCM in Concrete Pavement-Case Study: City of Rotterdam","authors":"T. Salem, Louise Bichara","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193898","url":null,"abstract":"The Urban Heat Island Effect, defined as more elevated temperatures in urban areas with respect to the surrounding areas, is accentuated by concrete pavement. These temperatures are raising cooling costs and leading to power outages worldwide. Phase Change Materials, known as PCM, if incorporated correctly in the concrete pavement mix, can lead to the mitigation of UHI by lowering surface and air temperatures. In this paper, a case study of a busy street in Rotterdam city, with an area of over 60% pertaining to concrete pavement, was simulated using Envi-Met software. The thermal properties of the resulting mix were used. The results were promising, showing a decrease in the surface temperature of almost two degrees Celsius during the day. As it is known that every one degree lowering of temperature is equivalent to 6% to 10% of electrical energy savings, then the effect of PCM incorporation also alleviates CO2 emissions and yields cost savings.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126778138","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":"Modeling and Simulation of the Potential of four Grounding Electrodes Using the Finite Element Method","authors":"Zouhair Ben Zaied, F. Slaoui-Hasnaoui, S. Georges","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194160","url":null,"abstract":"The choice of electrode geometry in the design of grounding systems is very important for the high-voltage transmission and telecommunications networks. The resistance of these electrodes plays a key role in dissipating the fault current into the ground. The objective of this paper is to calculate this resistance for different soil configurations using the finite element method. A grounding system composed of four vertical cylindrical rods in a homogeneous and heterogeneous soil was used. The obtained results show the distribution of the voltage in the ground as well as the computed value of the resistance of the electrodes. In addition, the values of the resistance obtained by simulation for simple shapes were compared with those calculated analytically for validation.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130638030","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}
Elias Feghali, Joey Abi Rizk, Layla Dina, Rachid Klaimi
{"title":"Novel Reactor Design Strategies for Synthesis Gas Production from Natural Gas","authors":"Elias Feghali, Joey Abi Rizk, Layla Dina, Rachid Klaimi","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194038","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes a design for non-catalytic isothermal synthesis gas production from natural gas using two different types of reactors: equilibrium reactor and plug-flow reactor (PFR). The process design was developed using Aspen HYSYS simulations. The obtained results showed that a significant hydrogen purity of 66 mol% can be obtained using equilibrium reactor with recycle compared to 50 mol% using plug-flow reactor. The proposed PFR design was also compared to a similar work in literature involving catalytic operations. As a result, the effectiveness of conventional reactors in the non-catalytic production of synthesis gas with significant hydrogen purity has been proven, presenting an advantage over the catalytic processes represented by the avoidance of the challenges associated with catalytic reactions, such as pressure drop and catalysts deactivation.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131515099","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":"Schwarz-Christoffel analysis of polygonal linear material objects","authors":"E. Huijer, J. Malkoun","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194123","url":null,"abstract":"In this short note, we explain a complex-analytic numerical algorithm using the Schwarz-Christoffel mapping, for estimating the fields in physical objects of a linear material with polygonal boundary and finite constitutive parameter inside an applied field, by numerically solving the corresponding matching conditions. Examples of such linear materials are linear magnetic or dielectric materials and conductive materials. The formalism of linear magnetic problems is used to develop the methodology.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131587978","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":"Deep Learning-based Anomaly Detection for 5G Core Mobility Management","authors":"Ali Issa, N. Kandil, N. Hakem","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194147","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning is becoming an increasingly critical tool in next-generation telecommunications ecosystems. Effective anomaly detection tools are more necessary than ever as mobile solutions continue to become more complex, with an array of features designed to enhance network capabilities. This article presents a novel approach to detect anomalies and forecast traffic for 5G core networks, aiming to prevent severe outages and reduce traffic impact, especially for mission-critical services. By collecting 5G network functions (NFs) metrics, we developed an unsupervised learning model utilizing Autoencoder architecture with bidirectional LSTMs. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique on a 5G network, showing promising potential for future applications.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124117926","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":"Characterization and Analytical Evaluation Based on the 3- Layer Approach of Smart Buildings","authors":"Mohamdi Hamid, M. Belarbi, Chahrazed Adda, Houari Athmani, Benaissa Trari, Abdelkader Safa","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10194127","url":null,"abstract":"This article is concerned with characterizing and analytical evaluation of the intelligence of buildings. After a brief reminder of the definition of the concept, the authors explain how necessary it is to evaluate the intelligence of a building based on it functions, in order to define an intelligence profile. The suggested evaluation method aims at qualifying three levels (layers) of intelligence from passive behavior (communication layer) to representative layer (physical) and predictive behavior (scheduling layer). These levels should be interpreted through 3 dimensions: time, space and energy. The analytical evaluation used SPSS from the intrinsic data of the building extracted by ArcGIS software in order to make buildings intelligent based on dynamic scheduling or optimization algorithms. We illustrate the approach by applying approach to the technological Hall of the University of Tiaret (THUT).","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128505638","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}
Mohammad Mansour, Houssein Hajj Hassan, A. Cheery, H. Wehbi, M. Hajj-Hassan
{"title":"PID Model for Real-Time Measurement of Tissue Thickness in Bariatric Surgery","authors":"Mohammad Mansour, Houssein Hajj Hassan, A. Cheery, H. Wehbi, M. Hajj-Hassan","doi":"10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACTEA58025.2023.10193986","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the development of PID controller for real-time measurement of tissue thickness in bariatric surgery. The measured thickness is utilized to instantly modify stapling and cutting depths. Bariatric surgery is intended to help people with obesity to lose excess weight and reduce your risk of potentially life-threatening weight-related health problems. This surgery must be safe and completed quickly in order to reduce the risk of developing and experiencing possible side-effects that can sometimes be fatal. Due to this, the linear stapler endocutter, which is the surgical tool used to conduct the surgery, must accurately measure the height of the tissues to be sleeved to ensure a perfect b-shape staple has been put in place. This helps to prevent any dangerous and risky blood leakage, thus allowing a short recovery stay at the hospital. In this paper, we report a PID model of a digital caliper to be embedded in linear staplers currently available in the market to ensure a correct measurement of tissue thickness is taken and consequently an appropriate staple fitting the height of the tissue has been used. The digital caliper will work to stop the firing of the stapler in case the measurements are not correct fit thus preventing any further damage to the tissues from the extra staples and preventing the need for additional firing with the staples.","PeriodicalId":153723,"journal":{"name":"2023 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127543196","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}