{"title":"Analytic standard uncertainty evaluation of polynomial in normal/uniform random variables","authors":"Y. Kuang, M. Ooi, Arvind Rajan","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717958","url":null,"abstract":"The standard uncertainty evaluation is very important in instrumentation and measurement industry because it is used to communicate, compare and combine uncertainty generated by various components in a system. The analytical evaluation of uncertainty has been recognized to be important and carries many advantages from theoretical perspective. Due to perceived complexity and feasibility of mathematical operation, the current practice of analytic uncertainty evaluation is confined to linear or linearized measurement equations, although the linearization is not always justifiable. A simple yet exact analytical method to evaluate standard uncertainty for polynomial nonlinearity was proposed by the authors, but the complexity of the method is high due to comprehensive and complete nature of the method. This paper presents a simplified procedure for normal and uniformly distributed random variables by taking advantage of the symmetry and simplicity of the functional forms. These two types of distributions are the most commonly used distributions in uncertainty analysis either through central limit theorem or maximal entropy principle. The effectiveness of the procedures is demonstrated using documented cases.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130906716","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":"Development and application of a portable 3-axis transient magnetic field measuring system based on AMR sensor","authors":"Xiaohua Wang, Qi Huang, Youliang Lu, Mo Du","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717914","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of smart substations, much attention has been focused on the transient magnetic field (TMF) generated during switching operation in substations. In order to study the TMF, a portable integrated system based on Anisotropic Magneto-resistive (AMR) sensor has been developed. The system mainly consists of magnetic probe, sampling card, and industrial computer. A GPS has also been brought in to stamp the TMF events time. This system can record TMF across a bandwidth from DC to 5MHz and a dynamic range from 20mGs to 6Gs for at least 50ms continuously. Laboratory tests show that the system linearity is greater than 97%, the measuring error is less than 3% and the verified rising time of input magnetic field reaches 6.4μs. Field applications are presented at last, they show that the TMF is very complex but regular to some extent, and the stable magnetic fields are in conformity with operation theory. In conclusion, the proposed system is high sensitivity, wide dynamic and relatively wide bandwidth, and it is qualified to most applications in substations.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131398265","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":"Process controllability for air temperature oven system using open-loop Reformulated Tangent Method","authors":"N. Hambali, Z. Janin, N. S. Samsudin, A. A. Ishak","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717963","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the effect of various control tuning methods to the controllability of air temperature oven system. The simplest open loop test on actual plant has been performed using a Reformulated Tangent Method (RTM). Three PID tuning rules namely Ziegler Nichols (Z-N), Cohen Coon (C-C), and Chien, Hrones & Reswick (CHR) are used in this work. The plant is connected to Distributed Control System (DCS). The performance of these control tuning rules are evaluated in term of their closed loop characteristics such as percent overshoot (% OS), settling time (Ts), rise time (Tr) and integral absolute error (IAE). The results of this study showed that Cohen-Coon tuning method give best performance to the controllability of air temperature oven system as compared to the other rules.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114399570","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}
Zhihang Xue, Qi Huang, Chang-Hua Zhang, Yongxing Cao, Ran Zhang
{"title":"Icing monitoring system based on Fiber Bragg Grating sensor for overhead transmission lines","authors":"Zhihang Xue, Qi Huang, Chang-Hua Zhang, Yongxing Cao, Ran Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717918","url":null,"abstract":"Online monitoring of power devices' state is a very important part of the Smart Grid (SM) building plan. Icing on the overhead transmission lines cause great accidents and vast economic loss. In China, icing monitoring technology and relative research is a hot point. The current operating icing monitoring systems based on electrical measurement do not work efficiently because it cannot solve the problem of electromagnetic interference with power supply. The fiber optic sensors, with light as the measurement media, solve those problems perfectly. In this paper, an icing monitoring system based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors is proposed. The system architecture design, the sensors fixing methods, and the development of the monitoring software, are introduced in detail.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130398453","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}
H. Mansor, Muhammad Helmy Abdul Shukor, Siti Sarah Meskam, Nur Quraisyia Aqilah Mohd Rusli, Nasiha Sakinah Zamery
{"title":"Body temperature measurement for remote health monitoring system","authors":"H. Mansor, Muhammad Helmy Abdul Shukor, Siti Sarah Meskam, Nur Quraisyia Aqilah Mohd Rusli, Nasiha Sakinah Zamery","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717956","url":null,"abstract":"Remote health monitoring system has been an interesting topic recently among medical practitioners, engineers as well as IT professionals. However, the application of remote health monitoring system where doctor's can monitor patients' vital signs via web is practically new in Malaysia and other countries. Remote health monitoring system is beneficial to the patients and society where the implementation of such system will save hospital bill, waiting time and reduce traffics in the hospital. The objective of this project is to design and develop body temperature measurement device that can be observe by the doctor in real time as well as history data via internet with an alarm/indication in case of abnormalities. In the proposed health monitoring system, heart rate and body temperature wireless sensors were developed, however this paper only focus on body temperature wireless monitoring system. The temperature sensors will send the readings to a microcontroller using Xbee wireless communication. To send the real-time data to health monitoring database, wireless local area network (WLAN) has been used. Arduino with Ethernet shield based on IEEE 802.11 standard has been used for this purpose. Test results from a group of voluntary shows the real-time temperature reading successfully monitored locally (at home) and remotely (at doctor's computer) and the readings are comparable to commercial thermometer.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128429628","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":"Flatbed scanner image and single ultrasonic rangefinder technique for composite laminates defect detection","authors":"M. F. Mahmod, M. Z. M. Pauzi, E. A. Bakar","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717929","url":null,"abstract":"Inspection of composite laminates in production line using Ultrasonic C-scan for NDT requires a competent and experience inspector in order to analyze the signal which involve various technical instruction. In this paper, two approaches had been used which are image based approach and signal based approach of ultrasonic C-Scan method for NDT of composite laminate are developed and applied, with the aim to compare and validate both techniques instead of surface defect percentage area. The idea is, to propose an image analysis technique which easy to handle by general worker either the defect percentage area between the image and signal analysis are acceptable range or not. Composite laminates 6 plies which produced in-house with geometry 280 mm length × 80 mm width × 2 mm thickness was drilled to consider as defect area. Then, further analysis was performed using image scanning and processing to calculate the percentage of the defect area before we proceeds to the ultrasonic signal based approach. This research had been successfully done with the maximum and the minimum yield percentage between image processing and ultrasonic signal based approach method are 17.12 percent and 8.52 percent.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125813953","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}
Nursabilillah Mohd Ali, Nur Maisarah Mohd Sobran, Syahar Azalia Ab Shukur, M. Ghazaly, Ahmad Fayeez Tuani Ibrahim
{"title":"Individual processing speed analysis for traffic sign detection and recognition","authors":"Nursabilillah Mohd Ali, Nur Maisarah Mohd Sobran, Syahar Azalia Ab Shukur, M. Ghazaly, Ahmad Fayeez Tuani Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2013.6717930","url":null,"abstract":"Of late, traffic sign detection and recognition are becoming very prevalent topic as it enhances drivers towards safety and alert them with precaution information. This study reports about processing time of the individual color detection and recognition of the partial occlusion traffic sign that have been previously implemented using HSV and RGB color ratio and ANN and PCA method respectively for detection and recognition. The data set for detection and classification process has been successfully created in various places in Malaysia that involved with degradation and out of planes rotated of the signs. There are three standard types of colored images have been used in the study namely Red, Blue and Yellow signs. In this study, we analyze the system processing speed of individual color detection and classification respectively using red, green and blue (RGB) and hue, saturation and value (HSV) color segmentation techniques, supervised feed forward artificial neural network (ANN) and principal component analysis (PCA). The experimental result shown that processing time of individual color detection during daytime and at night using HSV method is slightly faster than RGB technique. On the other hand, supervised feed forward neural network has reached almost 1s in recognizing traffic sign images rather than PCA with only 0.0238s.","PeriodicalId":182424,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116670899","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}