C. Panagiotou, J. Gialelis, S. Koubias, D. Serpanos
{"title":"An agent based middleware imposing intelligence over critical infrastructures utilizing Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"C. Panagiotou, J. Gialelis, S. Koubias, D. Serpanos","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641081","url":null,"abstract":"A modular architecture for power constrained embedded devices which leverages an agent based middleware in order to impose intelligence over critical infrastructures which require real time actions is always desirable in the case of Wireless Sensor Networks. The main objective of such architecture is the integration of a Wireless Sensor Network with the internet. This objective indicates the need of Ipv6 ready devices as well as the utilization of newly emerged standards such as the 6lowpan which forms an abstraction layer between the Medium Access control and the IP layers.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121710811","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":"Online identification and compensation of the force estimating error in sensor-less bilateral control system","authors":"Dapeng Tian, K. Ohnishi","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641240","url":null,"abstract":"To solve the problem of force estimating error in reaction force observer based sensor-less bilateral control, the online identification and compensation method is proposed based on the recursive least squares algorithm with discontinuous projection mapping. The proposal can identify the system parameters in a fixed bounded range, which guarantees that good performance of the system are not influenced by the compensation. Besides, the force estimating error caused by the parameters mismatch can be canceled. According to experimental results, validity of the proposal is confirmed.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124982312","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":"WEB 2.0 control architecture for industrial robots","authors":"J. Zubía, I. Trueba","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641269","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new generation of warehouse robots [1] based on micro-servers and web 2.0 technologies [2]. This new technology provides a total integration with ERP software systems and with a real-time Ethernet network [3], which transports all the communications among the robots. Furthermore, micro-servers turn field devices into intelligent ones, decentralizing all the system and making accessibility and remote configuration of the robot easier, because it does by native way. This novel technology offers a faster, more robust and ecologic service than the classic solutions. A robotic industrial installation has been built, installed and checked successfully. The supervisory and control software is free and based on Web 2.0 technologies. This paper presents a new paradigm for classic architecture applied for robot control [4] and general automations.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"193 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127558741","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. Dvoryanchikova, A. Lobov, A. Capanji, J. Lastra
{"title":"Edwards-Venn Diagrams for knowledge representation and reasoning in industrial systems","authors":"A. Dvoryanchikova, A. Lobov, A. Capanji, J. Lastra","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641281","url":null,"abstract":"Edwards-Venn Diagrams (EVD) were introduced to facilitate knowledge representation and reasoning in connectionistic approach for modeling industrial systems. Semantic descriptions are seen helpful in solving the challenges of mass customization due to capability to capture knowledge interpretable both for humans and machines. However modern knowledge technologies could not provide required flexibility in expressing the semantics of dynamical nature of events and processes which are essential for industrial systems. This motivates further research for flexible yet formal tools for knowledge representation and reasoning. In order to provide flexible semantic descriptions to dynamic qualities of industrial systems, a connectionistic knowledge model — connectionistic concept grid (CCG) — was introduced, which was inspired by natural knowledge structure derived from connectionism approach to natural cognition. EVD were found useful to represent relations among different sets of concepts in CCG and to provide structural reasoning in the models.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127561244","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 constant-time region-based memory allocator for embedded systems with unpredictable length array generation","authors":"Jordi Sánchez, G. Benet, José-Enrique Simó-Ten","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5640956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5640956","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an implementation of a region-based memory manager that performs the allocation and deallocation in constant-time. Also, aditional functionality for generating arrays which can grow arbitrarily has been implemented. Thus, external fragmentation is overcomed, and the appearance of memory leaks has been considerably reduced. All these features make this allocator particularly useful for computer vision applications. The main goal has been to replace the general purpose allocator on some critical places in order to remove fragmentation and improve performance. The use of Regions also reduces programmer burden. The main disadvantage of this method is that it leads to a higher memory consumption peaks than general-purpose allocators. System developers need to stablish an upper bound for the maximum memory that can be allocated at once. In this paper, the performance of our approach has been compared against an architecture-optimized general purpose memory allocator in a real-time vision application.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122513750","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":"Biogeography-based Optimization approach based on Predator-Prey concepts applied to path planning of 3-DOF robot manipulator","authors":"M. A. Silva, L. Coelho, R. Z. Freire","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641274","url":null,"abstract":"A fundamental problem in robotics consists in trajectory planning. The main task of path planning for robot manipulators is to find an optimal collision-free trajectory from an initial to a final configuration. Furthermore, trajectory planning is devoted to generate the reference inputs for the control system of the manipulator, so as to be able to execute the motion. Many important contributions to this problem have been made in recent years. Recently, techniques based on metaheuristics of natural computing, mainly evolutionary algorithms (EA), have been successfully applied to a large number of robotic applications, including the generation of optimized trajectories for robot manipulators. The aim of this paper is to evaluate a modified Biogeography-based Optimization (BBO) approach based on Predator-Prey concepts (PPBBO) to solve the trajectory planning of a robot manipulator. Simulation experiments are carried on a robot manipulator with three degrees of freedom (3-DOF) to illustrate the efficacy of the BBO approach. Biogeography deals with the geographical distribution of biological organisms. BBO is an optimization method which is motivated by the nature's way of distributing habitats. Similar to genetic algorithms, BBO is a population-based stochastic global optimizer. However, in BBO, problem solutions are represented as islands, and the sharing of features between solutions is represented as migration between islands. Results demonstrated that the proposed PPBBO approach converged to promising solutions in terms of quality and convergence rate when compared with the classical BBO.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122635235","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":"Multi-source sound localization using the competitive k-means clustering","authors":"Byoung-gi Lee, Jong-suk Choi","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641169","url":null,"abstract":"Sound source localization is an important part of intelligent robot auditory system. It makes a robot to respond naturally to human user's call. In the ordinary situations, there always exist multiple sound sources including user's call. Since localized outputs from each source are mixed in distribution, clustering is an important issue in the multi-source sound localization. In this work, we propose a new k-means clustering algorithm for unknown number of clusters, which is the competitive k-means. We compared its performance to the adaptive k-means++ algorithm and verified its effectiveness. Finally, we applied it to our sound source localization for multi-source sound localization and achieved satisfying results.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131104689","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":"Determination of the quality of error detection in communication by CRC concatenated with parity bits","authors":"T. Mattes, F. Schiller","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method to determine the residual error probability and the Hamming-Distance of a coding technique that applies CRC in combination with parity bits. Such a combination can be found in industrial communication where an application specific CRC is embedded in regular fieldbus communication with a parity mechanism. In a typical error detection analysis, usually only the CRC is considered for the determination of the residual error probability or the Hamming-Distance. The effect of the parity bits has not been exploited yet, since no methods for the calculation of the concatenation were at hand. The inclusion of the parity mechanism allows more realistic information about the quality of the error detection.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131359494","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":"An assessment of the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY immunity to WiFi interference","authors":"P. Bartolomeu, J. Fonseca","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641072","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of IEEE 802.15.4-based protocols has emerged over the last few years targeting industrial automation applications. One motivation for this is the IEEE 802.15.4 support of low-power communications, which enables deployments with stringent autonomy requirements (e.g., Wireless Sensor Networks). However, this feature may well be responsible for a degraded performance in scenarios where the medium is shared with higher range wireless technologies. This work presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research regarding the IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer immunity to the influence of standard IEEE 802.11 traffic. We find evidence that IEEE 802.15.4 communications experience a significant reliability degradation at the physical layer level in the presence of WiFi interference, even for low duty cycle WiFi transmission scenarios.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132602547","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 service oriented-based system for real time industrial applications","authors":"Ioakeim K. Samaras, J. Gialelis, G. Hassapis","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641366","url":null,"abstract":"The benefits of utilizing service oriented architectures (SOA) in industrial automation are well recognized. Nevertheless these architectures imply connection establishments and message exchanges with a large amount of overhead which is inappropriate when considering the real time characteristics of an industrial application. Furthermore, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which are often part of such applications cannot handle the need for continuously parsing and storing of SOA messages whose data volume is high. In this paper an innovative system approach is proposed capable of retaining all the interoperability issues that SOA provides. In this system a new bridge is used for mapping WSNs to IP systems and a novel compression technique is applied that reduces the size of the exchanged messages but nonetheless not prohibiting the usage of SOA standards. Finally a SOA-based technology is proposed which is embedded on wireless sensors motes and enables them to communicate with other devices regardless their implementation platform. Simulation results have shown that the proposed system can operate with real time responses when the number of sensors does not exceed a specific limit and the required sampling period is within particular time intervals in contrast with a classical SOA-based system.","PeriodicalId":201440,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 15th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2010)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114851348","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}