{"title":"A heuristic algorithm for minimizing total absolute deviation from distinct due dates on a single machine","authors":"You Li, Zhibin Jiang, Wenyou Jia","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653966","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a heuristic algorithm for minimizing total absolute deviation from distinct due dates on a single machine. First, several dominance properties related are established using proof by adjacent pairwise interchanges. Then, a detailed procedure of the proposed algorithm is given. The proposed algorithm is tested on a set of randomly generated problem instances. Results of numerical experiments show that the heuristic algorithm is computationally efficient, and it can obtain a good enough solution within an acceptable time.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128803419","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 of an advanced manufacturing cloud for machine tool industry based on AVM technology","authors":"Min-Hsiung Hung, Yu-Chuan Lin, Hsien-Cheng Huang, Min-Hsuan Hsieh, Haw-Ching Yang, F. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654048","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a cloud manufacturing platform, called AMC (Advanced Manufacturing Cloud), is introduced. The AMC provides several manufacturing-related cloud services to facilitate the users to conduct supporting activities for machine tools and offers intelligent devices which can be plugged in various prediction models for performing predictive applications on machine tools. We first describe the architecture design of the AMC and then present methodologies to how to build cloud services and key mechanisms in the AMC. Finally, we construct a paradigm AMC and practically deploy its cloud services and intelligent devices in a public cloud platform and a factory of our cooperative machine tool company, respectively. We also conduct integrated tests to illustrate the efficacy and merits of the AMC.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115927089","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":"Managing demand response for manufacturing enterprises via renewable energy integration","authors":"T. Jin, J. Jimenez, Zhigang Tian","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653961","url":null,"abstract":"Large manufacturing firms usually sign a specific demand response contract with the utility provider, and agreed to curtail the load upon request. Both the curtailment time and the reduction level are uncertain prior to the contingency call. In response, manufacturing firms could turn off the machines or slow down the production under the revenue losses. In this paper, we propose a new demand response scheme in which the manufacturer adopts wind and solar energy as the power reserve to achieve the load reduction compliance. We leverage the well-known newsboy inventory model to determine the optimal capacity of renewable generating units with the goal to maximize the manufacturer's electricity savings.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114278765","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 sensor-based dual-arm tele-robotic manipulation platform","authors":"Daniel Kruse, R. Radke, J. Wen","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel telerobotic framework for human-directed dual-arm manipulation. Current telerobotic systems typically involve a single robot arm commanded by human through a joystick or a master arm. In contrast, our system involves a dual-arm robot manipulating a held object through human gestures without any mechanical coupling. Our experiment involves an industrial robot consisting of a torso, two seven degree-of-freedom arms, and two three-finger hands. We use the existing industrial robot controller, and only modify the position setpoint in the outer loop. The human interfaces to the robot using a set of gesture vocabulary. During object manipulation, the human gesture is interpreted as the desired configuration of the object. The robot performs autonomous vision-based target identification and alignment, grasp selection and force control, to ensure stable and robust object manipulation, with no demand on human for stable grasping. The heterogeneous components of the system are integrated through Robot Raconteur, a distributed communication and control software system. The system interfaces easily to powerful analysis and visualization tools, facilitating rapid algorithm development and prototyping. We envision that the integrated architecture will serve as the foundation for versatile, robust, and safe human-robot collaboration in increasingly complex sensing and manipulation tasks.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127170205","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 Markov chain approach to study flow disruptions on surgery in emergency care","authors":"Xiufeng Shao, Jingshan Li, D. Wiegmann","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654059","url":null,"abstract":"The work flow of surgical operations in emergency department can be interrupted due to various disruptions. Reducing such disruptions is of significant importance to ensure successful operations. In this paper, we introduce a continuous time Markov chain model to analyze the disruptions and their impacts. Analytical formulas have been derived to evaluate the probabilities of normal operations and disruptions. A continuous improvement method has been developed to identify the disruption that impedes surgical operation in the strongest manner. Such a disruption is referred to as the bottleneck disruption (BN-d). Reducing the interruption time of the BNd can lead to the largest improvement in normal operation. An application of the method at an emergency department of a large academic medical center is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the model and the improvement approach. It is discovered that the disruption due to coordination problem is the system bottleneck.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125459223","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 and development of self-reconfigurable open kinematic machinery systems","authors":"Riyadh Al Saidi, B. Minaker","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653921","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analysis and development of the model, dynamics and control of new self-reconfigurable machinery systems. These machinery systems combine as many properties of different open kinematic structures as possible and can be used for a variety of applications. The kinematic design parameters, i.e., their Denavit-Hartenberg (D-H) parameters, can be modified to satisfy any configuration required to meet a specific task. By varying the joint twist angle parameter (configuration parameter), the presented model is reconfigurable to any desired open kinematic structure, such as Fanuc, ABB and SCARA robotic systems. The joint angle and the offset distance of the D-H parameters are also modeled as variable parameters (reconfigurable joint). The resulting self-reconfigurable machinery system hence encompasses different kinematic structures and has a reconfigurable joint to accommodate any required application. Using the Newton-Euler (N-E) recursive approach, the dynamic parameters of a reconfigurable joint are calculated and presented. A nonlinear control law is developed for a general reconfigurable joint using Lyapunov second method achieving asymptotic stability and the required performance objectives. Automatic model generation of a 3-DOF reconfigurable machinery system is constructed and demonstrated as a case study which covers all possible open kinematic structures. This research is intended to serve as a foundation for future studies in reconfigurable control systems.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125938032","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}
Weiping Zhang, P. Passow, E. Jovanov, R. Stoll, K. Thurow
{"title":"A secure and scalable telemonitoring system using ultra-low-energy wireless sensor interface for long-term monitoring in life science applications","authors":"Weiping Zhang, P. Passow, E. Jovanov, R. Stoll, K. Thurow","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653979","url":null,"abstract":"A scalable telemonitoring system for secure long-term monitoring of signals in life-science applications is presented that enables unobtrusive remote patient monitoring with small and lightweight general-purpose sensor nodes. Sensor data are sent to a retail smartphone via the ultra-low-energy wireless ANT protocol and forwarded over 2G, 3G or Wi-Fi to the cloud-based IPM-mHealth Portal that provides services for administration, communication, live visualization and data analysis. Additional protocols improve reliability and flexibility of the ANT interface and all wireless transmissions are encrypted by either SSL or the computationally lightweight Hummingbird 2 (HB2) cipher. On-sensor data compression is applied to minimize communication energy. Experimental data show performance and energy balance of the ANT-based sensor interface and quantify the HB2 encryption overhead.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121950939","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}
A. Parisio, M. Molinari, Damiano Varagnolo, K. Johansson
{"title":"A scenario-based predictive control approach to building HVAC management systems","authors":"A. Parisio, M. Molinari, Damiano Varagnolo, K. Johansson","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2013.6654024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2013.6654024","url":null,"abstract":"We present a Stochastic Model Predictive Control (SMPC) algorithm that maintains predefined comfort levels in building Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems while minimizing the overall energy use. The strategy uses the knowledge of the statistics of the building occupancy and ambient conditions forecasts errors and determines the optimal control inputs by solving a scenario-based stochastic optimization problem. Peculiarities of this strategy are that it does not make assumptions on the distribution of the uncertain variables, and that it allows dynamical learning of these statistics from true data through the use of copulas, i.e., opportune probabilistic description of random vectors. The scheme, investigated on a prototypical student laboratory, shows good performance and computational tractability.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122646816","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":"DEPEND: Density adaptive power efficient neighbor discovery for wearable body sensors","authors":"Bin Li, W. Feng, Lin Zhang, C. Spanos","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653917","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable sensors are designed to monitor the individual user's activities or the social behaviors within a group. Due to the nature of their applications, the wireless transmission of the sensory data are subject to extremely stringent energy constraints. Also, due to user mobility, the network topology is frequently changing. Therefore, the design of efficient communication protocols for wearable sensor networks is technically challenging. As a fundamental building block of the communication protocol, the power-efficient neighbor discovery mechanism is important for the network to function well. We propose an asynchronous neighbor discovery algorithm, namely, DEPEND (Density-based Power Efficient Neighbor Discovery), which requires neither time synchronization nor carrier sensing, and thus is easy to implement on low cost hardware. DEPEND exploits traditional Quorum-based Power-Saving (QPS) scheme, and incorporates an adaptive mechanism to respond to dynamic node density so as to improve and balance the performance of power saving and neighbor discovery. Each DEPEND-enabled network node calculates the local node density and forecasts the probability that new neighbors enter its communication-range in the near future, and adjusts itself to the most suitable QPS mode to discover new neighbors. Analytical and experimental results show that DEPEND is able to improve the neighbor-discovery performance without consuming much more power, thus the discovery performance and the power efficiency are jointly enhanced.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131390192","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":"Machine control policies for energy saving in manufacturing","authors":"Nicla Frigerio, A. Matta","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2013.6653992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2013.6653992","url":null,"abstract":"Energy saving in production plants is becoming more and more relevant due to the pressure from governments to contain the environmental impact of manufacturing, and from companies to reduce costs. This work deals with the problem of saving energy in single machines visited by singlepart type with stochastic interarrival times. Specifically, several control policies are proposed for switching the machine off when production is not critical, and on when the part flow has to be resumed. The policy parameter that minimizes the machine energy request is provided analytically for exponentially distributed arrival times, and numerically for general distributions. A numerical comparison with the most common practices in manufacturing is also reported, together with a real case analysis from the automotive sector.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131506132","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}