{"title":"Fast image drift compensation in scanning electron microscope using image registration","authors":"Naresh Marturi, S. Dembélé, N. L. Fort-Piat","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653936","url":null,"abstract":"Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image acquisition is mostly affected by the time varying motion of pixel positions in the consecutive images, a phenomenon called drift. In order to perform accurate measurements using SEM, it is necessary to compensate this drift in advance. Most of the existing drift compensation methods were developed using the image correlation technique. In this paper, we present an image registration-based drift compensation method, where the correction on the distorted image is performed by computing the homography, using the keypoint correspondences between the images. Four keypoint detection algorithms have been used for this work. The obtained experimental results demonstrate the method's performance and efficiency in comparison with the correlation technique.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"18 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":"127212896","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 combinatorial auctions perspective on min-sum scheduling problems","authors":"Yunpeng Pan","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653895","url":null,"abstract":"In combinatorial auctions, prospective buyers bid on bundles of items for sale, including but not limited to singleton bundles. The bid price given by a buyer on a particular bundle reflects his/her perceived utility of the bundle of items as a whole. After collecting all the bids, the auctioneer determines the revenue-maximizing assignment of winning bidders to bundles subject to nonoverlapping of bundles. To accomplish this, the auctioneer needs to solve a winner determination problem (WDP). The exactly same way of thinking can be taken to the context of min-sum scheduling, where jobs can be viewed as bidders who bid on bundles of discrete time periods on machines. Particular problems often permit only a subset of bundles. By putting appropriate restrictions on the collection of permissible bundles, we can derive from the WDP, various integer programming (IP) formulations for nonpreemptive as well as preemptive min-sum scheduling problems. We thus obtain the well-known time-indexed IP formulation in the nonpreemptive case, and further, a new strong IP formulation in the preemptive case.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"34 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":"128118234","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}
Erick Nieves-Rivera, N. Xi, Yunyi Jia, C. Martínez, George Zhang
{"title":"Development of a position sensitive device and control method for automated robot calibration","authors":"Erick Nieves-Rivera, N. Xi, Yunyi Jia, C. Martínez, George Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces our novel calibration system approach potentially capable of automatically calibrating industrial robots. The proposed system consists of a camera and laser fixture attached to the robot tool center point (TCP), a PC-based interface, and a new position sensitive calibration device (PSCD). This wireless calibration device comprised of 2 fixed position sensitive detectors (PSD's) tilted with an angle between them to reflect the laser line from one PSD to another. Such device is capable of feeding back the movement information needed to localize the TCP frame relative to the device frame. The overall calibration system is designed to be faster, simpler and cheaper than any other methods. Throughout this paper we present and discuss our newly developed calibration device, the principle of our calibration system and the control approach needed to achieve automation of the entire system. Preliminary experiments demonstrated the feasibility of the developed calibration system including device hardware, software and calibration algorithms.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"54 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":"114599942","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":"Model-driven complex workflow automation for laboratories","authors":"Silke Holzmüller-Laue, Bernd Göde, K. Thurow","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653888","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the potential of model-driven workflow automation in R&D laboratories of life sciences. The presented approach takes up the notation standard BPMN 2.0 published in 2011 as the graphical modeling and automation language for any business processes. The challenges and goals of the work presented here focus the overall control integration of activities and subprocesses executed by automation systems as well as manually. For it BPM-based generic automation platforms will be evaluated by representative examples using several information systems, hierarchical automation components up to complex laboratory robot solutions. It can be summarized, that the modern BPM methods and tools open a new efficient way for overall process automation in hybrid heterogeneous systems environments, not only in case of life science automation. The BPM approach has been confirmed as an efficient method of cross control and integration to use mobile transfer robots for connecting automation islands in future labs.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"78 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":"116045453","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}
R. D. Vallam, C. Subramanian, Y. Narahari, Ramasuri Narayanam, Srinath Narasimha
{"title":"Topologies of stable strategic networks with localized payoffs","authors":"R. D. Vallam, C. Subramanian, Y. Narahari, Ramasuri Narayanam, Srinath Narasimha","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654013","url":null,"abstract":"There are numerous types of networks in the real-world which involve strategic actors: supply chain networks, logistics networks, company networks, and social networks. In this investigation, we explore the topologies of decentralized networks that will be formed by strategic actors who interact with one another. In particular, we analyze a network formation game in a strategic setting where payoffs of individuals depend only on their immediate neighbourhood. These localized payoffs incorporate the social capital emanating from bridging positions that nodes hold in the network. Using this novel and appealing model of network formation, our study explores the structure of networks that form, satisfying pairwise stability or efficiency or both. We derive sufficient conditions for the pairwise stability of several interesting network structures. We characterize topologies of efficient networks by applying classical results from extremal graph theory and discover that the Turán graph (or the complete equi-bipartite network) emerges as the unique efficient network under many configurations of parameters. We examine the tradeoffs between topologies of pairwise stable networks and efficient networks using the notion of price of stability. We identify several parameter configurations where the price of stability is 1 (or at least lower bounded by 0.5) in the proposed model. This leads to another key insight of this paper: under mild conditions, efficient networks will form when strategic individuals choose to add or delete links based on only localized payoffs. We study the dynamics of the proposed model by designing a simple myopic best response updating rule and implementing it on a customized network formation test-bed.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"152 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":"121516811","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":"Synthesis and optimization of a Bayesian belief network based observation platform for anomaly detection under partial and unreliable observations","authors":"Wen-Chiao Lin, H. Garcia","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653914","url":null,"abstract":"Complex engineering systems, such as nuclear processing systems, need to be closely monitored to meet given operational requirements. Previous work has developed diagnosers for detecting and counting occurrences of anomaly patterns (e.g., physical faults, facility misuse) in such systems within discrete event dynamic system (DEDS) framework. This work illustrates the application of this general methodology for the design and optimization of a diagnoser based on Bayesian belief networks (BBNs). Two advantages of this approach are as follows. The first is that current monitoring implementations using BBNs, which is popular in the industry, can be easily expanded and optimized based on the BBN-based diagnosers developed here. The second is that BBN-based diagnosers for tracking anomaly patterns do not require as much computer memory and computation effort as DEDS-based diagnosers. For the BBN-based diagnosers designed here, an optimization problem for finding a sensor configuration that balances sensor cost and diagnoser performance is formulated and solved. Simulation results show that a BBN-based diagnoser performs well in detecting and counting the occurrences of anomalies, while sensor configuration optimization results indicate that improved sensor configurations can be found such that sensor cost is significantly reduced while maintaining acceptable monitoring performance.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"33 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":"127638413","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":"Improving patient length-of-stay in emergency department through dynamic resource allocation policies","authors":"Kar Way Tan, W. Tan, H. Lau","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653988","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we consider the problem of allocating doctors in the ambulatory area of a hospital's emergency department (ED) based on a set of policies. Traditional staffing methods are static, hence do not react well to surges in patient demands. We study strategies that intelligently adjust the number of doctors based on current and historical information about the patient arrival. Our main contribution is our proposed data-driven online approach that performs adaptive allocation by utilizing historical as well as current arrivals by running symbiotic simulation in real-time. We build a simulation prototype that models ED process that is close to real-world with time-varying demand and re-entrant patients. The experimental results show that our approach allows the ED to better cope with demand surges and to meet a service level desired by the hospital.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"57 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":"133353933","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}
Wim Devesse, Marcus Ramteen, Lei Feng, J. Wikander
{"title":"A real-time optimal control method for swing-free tower crane motions","authors":"Wim Devesse, Marcus Ramteen, Lei Feng, J. Wikander","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653933","url":null,"abstract":"Tower cranes are commonly used at construction sites all over the world. These cranes are prone to swinging of the cable suspended payload, resulting in unwanted payload oscillations that have severe effects on the safety on the site as well as on operational speed and accuracy of the payload delivery. The nonlinear nature of the rotating crane motion makes controlling these oscillations a complex task. In this paper, a time-optimal velocity control method is developed to enable fast and swing-free tower crane movements by applying Pontryagin's maximum principle on a set of decoupled payload pendulum equations. The controller is developed in a feedback form and is implementable in real-time. The performance of the controller is compared with other control methods such as notch filtering and input shaping. Simulations using a detailed tower crane model show that time-optimal swing-free movements can be obtained and payload vibrations are reduced to levels lower than those that can be achieved with the other control methods, while resulting in significantly faster rise times in slew velocity.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"60 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":"134030726","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":"Operation behavior modeling using relation identification and visualization algorithms","authors":"Kristofer Bengtsson, B. Lennartson","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654033","url":null,"abstract":"The behavior of a system can be described by a set of operations - sometimes called activities or tasks. The process to specify these operation seems to be a real challenge in various situations, for example when designing automation systems or keeping track of the work at an emergency department. In practice, operation behavior specification is often quite inflexible because every possible execution route is explicitly defined. In this paper, a modeling method and a relation identification and visualization algorithm is introduced that does not explicitly specify operation routes, where instead the operation behavior is specified using the execution restrictions in transition conditions for each operation. This enables the possibility to create multiple projections of the operation relations to enable better understanding.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"191 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":"132470524","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 of pure percussive drilling for autonomous robotic bridge decks rehabilitation","authors":"Fei Liu, M. Trkov, J. Yi, N. Gucunski","doi":"10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2013.6654053","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a dynamic model of pure percussive drilling for autonomous robotic rehabilitation for concrete bridge decks. We first describe the autonomous mobile manipulator-based concrete drilling system for bridge deck rehabilitation. A dry friction-based pure percussive drilling model is then presented to describe the drilling process characteristics and to capture the influence of drilling conditions and parameters on the penetration rate. One attractive property of the proposed model is the physical interpretation of the crushing/chipping effects in percussive drilling process. The model and its properties are validated and demonstrated through extensive drilling experiments.","PeriodicalId":191166,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)","volume":"25 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":"133252842","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}