R. Scholz, B. R. Bracio, M. Brutscheck, P. Trommler
{"title":"Non-invasive respiratory rate detection in spontaneous respiration by humidity measurement","authors":"R. Scholz, B. R. Bracio, M. Brutscheck, P. Trommler","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983620","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates an innovative, non-invasive and contactless approach for respiratory rate detection in spontaneous breathing by using an industrial standard humidity and temperature sensor controlled by a microcontroller. Hardware and software have been designed and manufactured and for a spontaneous respiration simulation two different test beds have been developed and evaluated. Results have been analyzed and statistically verified with special focus on accuracy and coverage of the broad frequency range in human respiration.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124603267","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 hardware-software WSN platform for machine and structural monitoring","authors":"David Rojas, J. Barrett","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983626","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional wired vibration and acoustic sensors used for machine and structural monitoring are currently being replaced by low-cost MEMS-based wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, existing platforms are lacking in computing capabilities and integration, as well as the necessary software features to manage wireless sensing experiments. In this paper, we present a novel hardware-software platform designed to monitor machinery in remote deployments and expedite collection of experimental data, which could also be used for structural monitoring. The hardware module is composed of a single PCB with an IEEE 802.15.4-compatible microcontroller, waterproof Micro-USB connector, battery, battery charger/monitor, humidity/temperature sensor, IMU, and a MEMS microphone. The software developed allows for wireless experiment control and data collection through a gateway node connected to a laptop. Additionally, the user interface supports the placement of the nodes in a 3D view of the environment, as well as visualisation of the collected data. The platform was tested in the laboratory in two different motor setups by measuring vibration and sound in normal operation, showing that the system can facilitate the execution of sensing experiments in rotating machinery and similar equipment.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"38 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120972552","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":"Board parasitic integration in the PCB verification process","authors":"W. Wessel, B. Hoppe","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983643","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate computer based methods for parasitic extraction in printed circuit board designs. We developed an automated flow for annotating functional designs without affecting design integrity.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122450445","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":"Optimal closed-loop transfer functions for non-standard performance indices","authors":"Padraig Basquel, Ronan Burke, P. Curran","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983614","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple indices are available for measuring the performance of closed-loop systems, some of which are explored in the seminal work of Graham & Lathrop in 1953. In their paper, a determination is made of closed-loop transfer functions for optimal performance relative to the non-standard performance indices ITSE and ISTSE. A new approach is presented to calculate such metrics using Lyapunov matrix equations, and is validated by reproducing previous results.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123079790","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":"Analysis, modeling and implementation of a new 1.8V fierce-gate crystal oscillator based on the constant cell in 28nm CMOS technology for automotive radar applications","authors":"Giuseppe Macera","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983604","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of analog and digital integrated circuits with built in crystal oscillator use the Gated Pierce design where the oscillator is built around a single CMOS inverting gate. In most applications that require a high level of precision and stability of the performances versus Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) variations, this design is not suitable. The inverter cell itself is very sensitive to PVT variations, negatively affecting the overall performances of a crystal oscillator. This paper shows a new Pierce-Gate crystal oscillator based on the constant gm cell, implemented in 28nm CMOS TSMC technology. The oscillator can work with any crystal frequency between 20 MHz and 100 MHz, the power supply is 1.8V and the output is a 50% duty cycle square waveform. Simulations and measurements show that the new designed crystal oscillator is superior in terms of phase noise performances (−123 dBc/Hz at 100 Hz offset at 60 MHz and −163 dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset at 60 MHz), phase noise variation over PVT, Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR), output frequency and output duty cycle stability, and input impedance with respect to the state of the art counterparts. The implemented crystal oscillator is very challenging and suitable for automotive radar applications.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130250378","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":"Artificial calf weaning strategies and the role of machine learning: A review","authors":"Sukumar Katamreddy, D. Riordan, P. Doody","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983634","url":null,"abstract":"Research in Machine Learning has increased dramatically over the past couple of decades, with applications greatly benefitting industry. These applications vary widely in the fields of space exploration technologies, transportation, robotics, agriculture, animal husbandry, medicine and finance. However, the agricultural and animal husbandry related applications are relatively few when compared to other fields. This paper reviews the past and present calf weaning strategies mainly focussing on the incorporation of Machine Learning techniques in classifying the behavioural responses in cattle and makes an attempt to extend the scope of machine learning classification applications related to calf weaning. This review further discusses the integration of relevant sensors (sensor fusion), deep learning and the improvement of prediction accuracy.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125452738","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}
P. Tobin, L. Tobin, R. G. Blanquer, M. McKeever, J. Blackledge
{"title":"One-to-cloud one-time pad data encryption: Introducing virtual prototyping with PSpice","authors":"P. Tobin, L. Tobin, R. G. Blanquer, M. McKeever, J. Blackledge","doi":"10.21427/D77R67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21427/D77R67","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine the design and application of a one-time pad encryption system for protecting data stored in the Cloud. Personalising security using a one-time pad generator at the client-end protects data from break-ins, side-channel attacks and backdoors in public encryption algorithms. The one-time pad binary sequences from modified analogue chaos oscillators initiated by noise encoded client data locally. Specific “one-to-Cloud” storage applications give control to the end user but without the key distribution problems associated with one-time pad encryption. Development of the prototype was aided by “Virtual Prototyping” in the latest version of Cadence OrCAD PSpice®. This addition allows the prototype simulation schematic to be connected to an actual microcontroller in real time using device model interface for bi-directional communication. using device model interface.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122366648","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":"MAV based SLAM and autonomous navigation: A view towards efficient on-board systems","authors":"P. Murray, M. Schukat","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983597","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of autonomous drone or micro air vehicle (MAV) research, much of the existing literature focuses on novel approaches to MAV automation and navigation. Whilst discovering these new approaches has scientific merit, these works rarely focus on the impact that the deployment of such systems have in terms of the operational time, power consumption or efficiency of the MAV. This work sets out to review the parallel tracking and mapping algorithm (PTAM) as applied to MAV control systems. Through experimentation, the limits of this algorithm are found in an attempt to determine the minimum computational and power requirements for a computer to have, in order to run PTAM effectively. This work demonstrates that it is feasible with current available technology, to operate PTAM on a 5 watt computer by limiting the parameters that add computational overhead to the system.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131237740","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":"Continuous affect prediction using eye gaze","authors":"J. O'Dwyer, R. Flynn, Niall Murray","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983611","url":null,"abstract":"In recent times, there has been significant interest in the machine recognition of human emotions, due to the suite of applications to which this knowledge can be applied. A number of different modalities, such as speech or facial expression, individually and with eye gaze, have been investigated by the affective computing research community to either classify the emotion (e.g. sad, happy, angry) or predict the continuous values of affective dimensions (e.g. valence, arousal, dominance) at each moment in time. Surprisingly after an extensive literature review, eye gaze as a unimodal input to a continuous affect prediction system has not been considered. In this context, this paper evaluates the use of eye gaze as a unimodal input to a continuous affect prediction system. The performance of continuous prediction of arousal and valence using eye gaze is compared with the performance of a speech system using the AVEC 2014 speech feature set. The experimental evaluation when using eye gaze as the single modality in a continuous affect prediction system produced a correlation result for valence prediction that is better than the correlation result obtained with the AVEC 2014 speech feature set. Furthermore, the eye gaze feature set proposed in this paper contains 98% fewer features compared to the number of features in the AVEC 2014 feature set.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133144543","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":"Application of multiple change point detection methods to large urban telecommunication networks","authors":"Andrew Shields, P. Doody, T. Scully","doi":"10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2017.7983608","url":null,"abstract":"An integral enabler of the smart city vision is the ability to effectively model collective population behaviour. The realisation of sustainable smart mobility is underpinned by the effective modelling of the spatial movements of the population. Furthermore, it is also crucial to identify significant deviations in collective behaviour over time. For example, a change in urban mobility patterns would subsequently impact traffic management systems. This paper focuses on the issue of modelling the collective behaviour of a population by utilizing mobile phone data and investigates the ability to identify significant deviations in behaviour over time. Mobile phone data facilitates the inference of real social networks from their call data records (CDR). We use this data to model collective behaviour and apply change-point detection algorithms, a category of anomaly detection, in order to identify statistically significant changes in collective behaviour over time. The result off the empirical analysis demonstrate that modern change point detection can accurately identify change points with an R2 value of 0.9633.","PeriodicalId":170320,"journal":{"name":"2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC)","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116490198","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}