{"title":"High Elastic Bionic Based Robot and Gripper","authors":"J. Keskeny, A. Huba, I. Muka","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252531","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of our research activity is to analyse and develop several new types of compliant structures such as new types of flexible actuators and grippers made from silicone elastomers. Nowadays these materials offer new perspective for the construction because of their special mechanical, electrical, optical and chemical properties","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127197620","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 New Architecture to Execute CAs-Based Path-Planning Algorithm in Mobile Robots","authors":"A. Akbarimajd, C. Lucas","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252574","url":null,"abstract":"Several path-planning algorithms for mobile robots have been introduced. Proper architectures for mobile robots to implement the path-planning algorithms are also of interest. If the mobile robots are to perform complicated tasks including complex sensing and planning operations and have accepted performance, must be autonomous: capable of acquiring information and performing tasks without programmatic intervention. In this paper we employ a layered architecture for mobile robots to perform our previously introduced cellular automata based path planning technique. It employs an abstraction approach which makes the complexity manageable. The architecture has an important feature which is its internal artifacts; it has some beliefs about the world and these beliefs are represented in artifacts and most actions are planned and performed with respect to these artifacts","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124949693","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 granular-based method for position and reliability estimation in alarm systems","authors":"B. Cornel","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252562","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper is presented a method used in surveillance systems, formed with PIR detectors, for estimating the location and the heating surface of an intrusion object. Also, using the history of the movement is determined the reliability of the used sensors. This method has a sound background based on fuzzy relation and granularity assumption, with is suitable for infrared detectors","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126128226","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. Sarker, Chang Hwan Kim, Jeong-San Cho, Bum-Jae You
{"title":"Development of a Network-based Real-Time Robot Control System over IEEE 1394: Using Open Source Software Platform","authors":"M. Sarker, Chang Hwan Kim, Jeong-San Cho, Bum-Jae You","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252588","url":null,"abstract":"Network-based distributed processing and hard real-time requirement significantly increase the complexity of a robot hardware and software system. This paper describes the open and modular approach to design and implement a real-time robot control system using open source software (OSS) which include a Linux-based real-time operating system (RTOS), Xenomai (formerly known as the fusion branch of real time application interface, RTAI/fusion), real-time IEEE 1394 device driver and other middleware components. The real-time performance of our system has been evaluated in a mobile robot control platform and we have compared the performance of our system with that of a commercial RTOS, RTLinux Pro, based system using the same set of hardware. From the comparison it is seen that our system is also capable of satisfying the similar hard-real time requirements with a greater flexibility in overall implementation. In this work, the high performance IEEE 1394 serial bus is used as the field-bus of our robot control system. Though IEEE 1394 (also known as FireWire) is widely used in consumer electronics or home video network we have successfully adopted this emerging technology in robot control and as a side effect of our research, we have seen that IEEE 1394 can be used as a better alternative to the old generation slower filed-bus like CAN bus","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114576204","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":"Some problems and problematic solutions of secure hot-plug","authors":"N. Károly, L. Istvan","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252561","url":null,"abstract":"Communication layers underlying modern distributed systems have different advantages and disadvantages that are consequences of the different properties of the communication layer. One such property is \"hot-plug\" capability (the ability to dynamically and automatically reconfigure the system) of the communication layer and another one is security (in this context, authentication and encryption). The problem is that there is a hidden contradiction between the hot-plug capability and security, which leads us to the need of secure, hot-plug capable communication layers. This is crucial in wireless communication layers where security and hot-plug capabilities may be mandatory for the distributed system to succeed, even if the system is not as life-critical as an in-car wireless sensor network. In life-critical systems, such as systems analyzed by the authors, this contradiction is significant enough to risk the existence of the system. This article presents the underlying contradiction of logics for secure hot-plug and analyzes some of the currently available solutions to reduce risks while pointing out similarities and differences between the theoretical secure hot-plug wireless systems and the practically semi-secure semi-hot-plug Internet. The problems of the traditional approaches in life-critical wireless sensor systems such as medical sensor networks and in-vehicle wireless networks are presented and risk-reducing methods are shown","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126877713","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 Simulation Environment for Field Relevant Rollover Accidents","authors":"K. Hirsch, D. Schramm","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252509","url":null,"abstract":"To raise the occupant's and vehicle's safety in traffic, the automotive industry develops more and more safety systems which should assist the driver and protect the occupants, respectively. For the development and the improvement of these systems, a large number of accident scenarios have to be analyzed in respect of the influence of such systems to the accident. Since the vehicle rollover is amongst the most dangerous accident and responsible or serious injuries or even fatal cases, this scenario has to be investigated and analyzed for the development of so-called passive safety systems, like airbags, belt pretensioners and rollover bars, with the help of computer simulations. Therefore, the vehicle dynamic has to be mapped. A special focus of this paper is on the modeling of the ground contact during the touching of the vehicle underbody in case of embankment maneuvers. Therefore, detailed contact models are developed. Simulation results with and without consideration of the ground contact are compared","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"34 46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116215372","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":"Human-Oriented Design of Autonomous Navigation Assisted Robotic Wheelchair for Indoor Environments","authors":"C. Kuo, H.H.W. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252530","url":null,"abstract":"Wheelchair is one of the most important mobility aids for the disabled people and elders. In this paper, we propose the human-oriented robotic wheelchair design and implementation based on the considerations of convenient driving in narrow space with non-straight paths, active collision avoidance, autonomous navigation, real-time user joystick command justification, intelligent fusion of user joystick command and autonomous navigation systems, and remote monitoring and control. Therefore, this work emphasizes the human-centered manipulations instead of fully autonomous operations of the wheelchair. The developed software components are desired to further detect and avoid mistakes from wrong manipulations of users. In addition, the controllability and comfortability of the wheelchair can be also improved. Especially, the omni-wheeled mechanical platform significantly increases the driving mobility when the robotic wheelchair moves in narrow spaces of indoor environments. Finally, the mechanical platform, closed-loop motion controller, power drives and intelligent software components are all developed in laboratory. The robotic wheelchair was successfully tested. The experimental results validated the proposed robotic wheelchair, and they were discussed in this paper","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114806001","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-Board Payload Identification for Commercial Vehicles","authors":"W. Kober, W. Hirschberg","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252512","url":null,"abstract":"Roll over accidents of vehicles belong to the most dangerous vehicle accident scenarios on our roads. In particular, heavy commercial vehicles allow enormous changes of loads and often the drivers are confronted with unknown load conditions, e.g. container freight. This causes a persistent overturning hazard. Due to the varying load situations, the drivers of commercial trucks are therefore requested to permanently adapt their driving style in relation to the actual driving and roll dynamics of their vehicles, in order to provide sufficient driving safety. This paper therefore deals with methods to identify the payload parameters of air-sprung vehicles on different levels. Special attention is spent to examine the described onboard-identification methods for application to truck-semitrailer combinations. The online-identified relevant payload parameters are the load mass, the position of its centre of gravity and especially the height of its centre of gravity above ground. The aim of this paper is on the one hand to develop an identification approach to be able to provide more driver information about the actual overturning limit of the vehicle and on the other hand to deliver additional information about the current loading conditions of the vehicle as an input to any advanced driver assistance system or to enhanced vehicle-dynamics controllers, which take the payload height into consideration","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114838251","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":"System Configuration of Tri-pole Magnetic Bearings","authors":"Ping-Ho Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252506","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the whole system configuration for a tri-pole VMB (vertical magnetic bearing) especially focused on the key issue of eccentricity at high rotation speed. To simplify the complexity of the tri-pole VMB, system modeling is developed together with current reduction, power stage reduction and commutation reduction. To meet the six-region control algorithm, methods regarding the intelligence approaches are employed rather than the traditional PID compensation. The three developed controllers by intelligence approaches are introduced, i.e. 1) NFIS (neuro-fuzzy integrated system) 2) ANN (adaptive neuro network) model controller and 3) ANN optimal controller. This paper presents various intelligence controllers for the VMB control based on an entire analysis on the system modeling in the sequence of mechanical field, magnetic field, dynamic field and control. The whole approach provides a technical thinking whenever facing a challenging of a new magnetic bearing system, and is helpful for the engineers to implement it","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128181467","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}
G. Takács, G. Patkó, G. Hegedűs, T. Csáki, A. Szilágyi
{"title":"Development of Mechatronic Systems at the Institute for Mechatronics at the University of Miskolc","authors":"G. Takács, G. Patkó, G. Hegedűs, T. Csáki, A. Szilágyi","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2006.252548","url":null,"abstract":"The Institute of Mechatronics including the Department of Machine Tools and the newly established Robert Bosch Department of Mechatronics started up on 1 July 2005 within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Miskolc. The main objective of the Institute is the dissemination of the latest technologies and know-how covering the fields of research, professional educational programs and widespread application of mechatronics in terms of machining centres. This article presents brief summaries of some problems worked out by the Institute for partners from the industry","PeriodicalId":187202,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132375539","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}