{"title":"A Computer Aided Design for an Air Washer and a Dehumidifier Tested against Two Graphical Solutions for Their Applications","authors":"A. Saraei, S. Moujaes","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.11","url":null,"abstract":"A MATLAB code is developed to simulate design criteria used for designing an air washer that operates as a humidifier for air, as well as a dehumidifier. These results, which are based on two practical design examples for the air washer and dehumidifier, are based on previously solved examples using a manual graphical approach as presented in the literature. In the first example, a case of a parallel-flow air washer is used to heat and humidify the outgoing air. In the second example, a counter-flow spray dehumidifier of the air is accomplished where the air is cooled and dehumidified from its initial conditions. The error of the results obtained by this code compared with the manually obtained graphical data is less than 0.24 % and shows the potential use of this computer-based approach for educational purposes so that students can change different parameters and see the outcome of their design criteria on the performance of the air washer and the dehumidifier. With an increase in the number of numerical steps needed to reach the desired design it is shown that the accuracy will increase accordingly.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127952151","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":"Flexible Semi-Automatic Arm Design for Minimally Invasive Surgery","authors":"Uddhav Bhattarai, A. Alouani","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.64","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the design of a flexible multisensor surgical manipulator to be used in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). The proposed system constitutes intrinsically actuated flexible arm, drive mechanism, and control system. Flexibility is achieved by connecting and actuating varying length discrete rigid links with micromotor equipped with rotary encoder. Comprehensive design details are presented on the basis of choice of micromotor, torque requirement, and degree of freedom achievement. The design was tested with dynamic simulation. The proposed system provides infrastructure for semi-automatic control using multivariable control theory to help the surgeon to follow a predetermined surgical path. Furthermore, it accounts for the limitations of existing MIS manipulators. It is believed that the result of the paper will have practical impacts on making flexible surgical arms more accurate and user friendly than its existing counterparts.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123096095","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}
Francisco Das Chagas Da Silva, Josenalde B. Oliveira, A. Araújo
{"title":"Robust Interval Adaptive Pole-Placement Controller Based on Variable Structure Systems Theory","authors":"Francisco Das Chagas Da Silva, Josenalde B. Oliveira, A. Araújo","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.73","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a robust pole placement control scheme that can be used to control a wide class of linear and time invariant systems with unknown parameters, including nonminimum phase systems, using only plant input and output signals. We assume that the unknown plant parameters has known bounds, i.e., the control scheme is designed for an interval plant whose coefficients are closed intervals. The main objective is to locate the closed-loop poles within a region specified by the roots of an interval characteristic polynomial, which is chosen based on performance requirements and whose stability is guaranteed by Kharitonov's Theorem. A Nonlinear Programming (NLP) problem is then constructed to find a closed interval for each controller parameter, i.e., we aim to form an interval control law that meets exactly the pole placement control objective. The unknown plant parameters are estimated on-line by using switching laws based on the Variable Structure Adaptive Pole Placement Control (VS-APPC). This control strategy gives a fast and non-oscillatory transient, smooth control signal and robustness to large model parameter variations, as well as it guarantees that the closed-loop performance requirements are satisfied. To illustrate the properties of the proposed technique, a simulation result is presented for a nonminimum phase plant.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114456679","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}
Lukasz Falas, Patryk Schauer, P. Swiatek, Rafał Trzaska
{"title":"Practical Implementation of Internet of Things Service Systems Architecture","authors":"Lukasz Falas, Patryk Schauer, P. Swiatek, Rafał Trzaska","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.57","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) which lately was perceived as emerging paradigm is now becoming an important field for innovation-based companies who are developing and deploying solutions tailored to their clients' needs. Despite the fact that there were numerous IoT models which were proposed in research papers, many of them were lacking practical architecture examples and empirical studies providing guidelines for practitioners implementing such systems and proving their usefulness and adjustment to real life requirements. The goal of this article is to provide IoT researchers and developers with a practical service-based architecture for IoT devices, which is focused on solving key challenges related to distributed IoT systems deployment. The article will describe research works in this field and key challenges, description of IoT device model which was a base for this research, a practical implementation of IoT device architecture utilizing this model and our results from empirical studies.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114568511","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":"Improved Data Storage Confidentiality in Cloud Computing Using Identity-Based Cryptography","authors":"H. Guesmi, L. Saïdane","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.32","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the users' need to trust the commercial cloud providers and the security issues related to data storage in a cloud storage service. The cloud storage is one of the prominent services offered in cloud computing. Data stored over cloud in the plain text format represents a security threat. Thus, in this paper, we propose a method relying on the Identity Based Cryptography (IBE) for cloud storage that allows user to store and access the data securely. It also guarantees that only the authenticated client can access the data. This method provides security and privacy for data stored in public servers.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123490734","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}
Catherine S. Salvador, Erick C. Valverde, Angeli Leano, J. R. Camacho, Janus So, S. Fenomeno
{"title":"Implementation of a Small-Scale Savonius Type Wind Turbine for Transmission Line Sensor Nodes","authors":"Catherine S. Salvador, Erick C. Valverde, Angeli Leano, J. R. Camacho, Janus So, S. Fenomeno","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.40","url":null,"abstract":"In smart-grid systems, sensor nodes are deployed on transmission structures to detect different forms of natural and malicious physical events that can adversely affect the performance of the grid. The operation of the sensor node is limited to its battery life. Usually solar, vibrational and thermal are used to power up these devices, but few only consider wind for this application. This paper focuses on the implementation of a small-scale Savonius wind turbine as an auxiliary supply to charge the battery of the sensor node. A wind enhancement device (WED) is designed and introduced to be able to utilize lower wind speeds for continuous operation. Its design was based on a typical open-circuit wind tunnel, and an optimum flange height for the diffuser section has been characterized using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Software to further improve the wind speed inside the WED. The performance of the Savonius wind turbine was compared with and without the WED to determine its effect on the speed of the turbine, and output voltage, current and power of the generator. The results demonstrate the increase in the efficiency of the generator through the use of WED.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124731733","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":"Using SDN Approach to Secure Cloud Servers against Flooding Based DDoS Attacks","authors":"H. Guesmi, L. Saïdane","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.31","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks represent major risks for the current cloud computing architecture. The rate of DDoS attacks in cloud is growing because of the essential characteristics of cloud computing. In this paper, we propose to use Software Defined Network (SDN) architecture and Fast Entropy approach in order to secure cloud computing environment from DDoS attacks in real time. Thus, we exploited the centralized control and programmable characteristics of SDN architecture to supervise cloud traffics. The provided architecture collects and analyzes flow tables from switches. It also detects DDoS attacks by the controller using Fast Entropy algorithms. Through the performed experimental tests, we evaluated the performance of our solution in defending Cloud computing infrastructure against Distributed Denial of Service attacks.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123901169","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":"CubeSats Passive Control Vibration Isolation Analysis Using Transfer Matrix Method","authors":"H. Hendy, Ahmed Khamis, D. Zydek","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.52","url":null,"abstract":"Vibration effects for space crafts has a great influence during the launching phase and also after launching. Active vibration isolation techniques have good results to protect such systems from vibration problems in wide frequency bands. But, these active systems increase the total weight of space craft. That will increase the need of power supplies, which may affect the mission life time due to batteries and solar cell charging consuming. Passive control for such problem is designed using Transfer Matrix Method for Multibody Systems (MSTMM) that can provide an easy method to analyze a passive vibration isolation technique with simple design. The main objective of this paper is to study the different models effect in isolation design using MSTMM and passive control techniques to conserve the power consumption for enlarging the power batteries life. That means longer mission intervals for such systems. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the offered technique","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125655585","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 Raspberry-Pi Prototype of Smart Transportation","authors":"Shahab Tayeb, Matin Pirouz, S. Latifi","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.25","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a prototype of a level 3 autonomous vehicle using Raspberry Pi, capable of detecting the nearby vehicles using an IR sensor. We make the first attempt to analyze autonomous vehicles from a microscopic level, focusing on each vehicle and their communications with the nearby vehicles and road-side units. Two sets of passive and active experiments on a pair of prototypes were run, demonstrating the interconnectivity of the developed prototype. Several sensors were incorporated into an emulation based on System-on-Chip to further demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed model.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125950616","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 Framework for Analyzing Online Customer Ratings","authors":"Karl Mesarosh, Fu-Shing Sun","doi":"10.1109/ICSEng.2017.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSEng.2017.19","url":null,"abstract":"We present our preliminary results on building a framework for analyzing online ratings. There are four major components constructed in this framework including data retrieval, data processing, data analytics, and data visualization. The data retrieval module is responsible for scraping or streaming online rating data. Cleaning, filtering, and parsing unstructured data are done in the data processing module. Once the data is ready for computation, the data analytics module computes the desired analytics, and finally the data visualization module displays the meaningful findings to the users. A testbed using popular online rating data is implemented and its results and findings are discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":202005,"journal":{"name":"2017 25th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng)","volume":"33 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128906879","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}