P. Lalanda, Stéphanie Chollet, C. Escoffier, D. Morand
{"title":"Dynamic collection of data in complex, physical environments","authors":"P. Lalanda, Stéphanie Chollet, C. Escoffier, D. Morand","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005206","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a distributed and autonomic mediation framework named Cilia, dedicated to complex physical environments like manufacturing plants, electrical infrastructures or smart buildings. We detail a motivating example in these fields and we explain how autonomic features are absolutely necessary in domains characterized by important environmental dynamism and by evolving needs of decision-makers. We also present in detail the main principles of Cilia, including its autonomic abilities. We believe that these autonomic behaviors are necessary to deal with Big Data in industrial contexts. Cilia has been validated in collaborative projects with Orange and Schneider Electric.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89322141","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":"Performance optimization of a UWB-based network for safety-critical avionics","authors":"Dinh-Khanh Dang, A. Mifdaoui","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005191","url":null,"abstract":"To reduce the aircraft weight and maintenance costs while guaranteeing system performance and reliability, an alternative avionic communication architecture based on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and TDMA protocol is proposed to replace the back-up part of safety-critical avionics network. The analysis and performance optimization of such a proposal is tackled as follows. First, appropriate system modeling and timing analysis, using Network Calculus and Integer Linear Programing (ILP) approach, are provided to evaluate the end-to-end delays and verify system predictability. Then, an optimization approach to find the optimal TDMA cycle duration, which minimizes the end-to-end delays, is proposed. Finally, the efficiency of our proposal to enhance the system performance is validated through a realistic avionic case study.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89552691","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":"Design of discrete-time finite-gain resonators in AFC control","authors":"Marcos Orellana, R. Griñó","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005192","url":null,"abstract":"The control technique based on infinite-gain resonators also called Adaptive Feedforward Cancellation (AFC) has been used for some years, mainly in continuous time. In this article, finite-gain resonators in discrete time are analyzed and the advantages for their use in practical applications are discussed, from the perspectives of dynamical behavior and computational implementation. The existing design rules for optimizing system robustness are generalized to any kind of resonator, whether of infinite or finite gain. Nowadays, because most practical implementations are carried out by means of digital systems, such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), working directly in discrete time is justified, avoiding any problems that may appear when the resonant controllers are discretized by means of approximations from continuous time.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84020718","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":"Implementing the Green Batch: A case study: Continuous statistical evaluation to achieve the most energy efficient and reliable process","authors":"K. Leahy, K. Bruton, D. O’Sullivan","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005313","url":null,"abstract":"Manufacturers often experience different process performance from one batch to the next on the same equipment in the same process (e.g. energy use, lead time and downtime). In most cases, poor energy performance of a batch process is analysed retrospectively, and the root cause of the decline in performance/output must be manually identified In the concept of the Green Batch, process performance is continuously monitored against a best-performing batch. This paper proposes a methodology for implementing the Green Batch on an existing process.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86586675","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}
S. Biffl, O. Kovalenko, A. Lüder, Nicole Schmidt, Ronald Rosendahl
{"title":"Semantic mapping support in AutomationML","authors":"S. Biffl, O. Kovalenko, A. Lüder, Nicole Schmidt, Ronald Rosendahl","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005276","url":null,"abstract":"In production system engineering, the machine-understandable definition of relations between engineering information views is important to enable automating dependency checking between these views. Unfortunately, in automation engineering there is no standardized representation of relations and dependencies, which makes it difficult to automate consistency checking. In this paper we derive requirements for describing relations and dependencies in the semantics of typical engineering models. We investigate the emerging data exchange standard AutomationML regarding the representation of semantic mapping types that represent relations and dependencies between engineering models. Major result is the identification on how semantic mapping types are modeled in AutomationML to find similarities and differences, which can help to improve the machine-understandable modeling of the dependencies in AutomationML to enable the automation of engineering processes.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85439919","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":"Fully-automated strength, agility and endurance tests assessment: An integrated low cost approach based on an instrumented chair","authors":"José Gonçalves, Jose Batista, P. Costa","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005099","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper it is described the prototyping of an instrumented chair that allows to fully-automate the “Timed Up and Go”, the “30-Second Chair Stand” and the “Hand-Force ” tests assessment. The presented functional chair prototype is a low cost approach that uses inexpensive sensors and the Arduino platform as the data acquisition board, with its software developed in LabVIEW. The “Timed up and go test” consists in measuring the time spent in the task execution of standing up from a chair, walk three meters with a maximum speed without running, turn a cone and going back to the initial position. The “30-Second Chair Stand” test consists in counting the number of completed chair stands in 30 seconds. It are agility, strength and endurance tests easy to setup and execute although they lack of repeatability, whenever the measures are taken manually, due to the rough errors that are introduced. The “Hand-Force” test consists in measuring the hand strength, the relevant data are the peak and average values of several tests. The referred data is important in order to evaluate hand rehabilitation treatment results.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82203804","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 adaptive image processing system based on incremental learning for industrial applications","authors":"Yongheng Wang, M. Weyrich","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005346","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning has been applied in image processing system for object recognition, inspection and measurement. It assumes that the provided training objects are representative enough to the real objects. However in real application, new (unlearned) objects always emerge over time, which may deviate from the trained (learned) objects. The conventional image processing system using machine learning is not able to learn and then recognize these new objects. In this paper, an incremental learning based image processing system is presented. The overall system consists of three layers: execution, learning and user. The conventional image processing system is constructed in execution layer. In learning layer, adviser and incremental learning are applied to generate a new classifier. The incremental learning is differentiated into different methodologies: data accumulation and ensemble learning. Through the adviser, a proper methodology can be recommended. User is able to interact with the system via user layer. Comparing to the conventional image processing system, the proposed system is robust in industrial applications, since it deals with the classification problems dynamically.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82641101","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":"Versatility of power gyrator structures for energy processing in photovoltaic solar systems","authors":"H. Martínez, A. Grau-Saldes","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a classification of high efficiency switching power-gyrator structures and their use as cells for energy processing in photovoltaic solar facilities. Having into account the properties of these topologies presented in the article, their inclusion in solar facilities allows to increase the performance of the whole installation. Thus, the design, simulation and implementation of a G-type power gyrator are carried out throughout the text. In addition, in order to obtain the maximum power from the photovoltaic solar panel, a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is mandatory in the energy processing path. Therefore, the practical implementation carried out includes a control loop of the power gyrator in order to track the aforementioned maximum power point of the photovoltaic solar panel.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82761671","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}
David Gessner, J. Proenza, M. Barranco, P. Portugal
{"title":"Towards a reliability analysis of the design space for the communication subsystem of FT4FTT","authors":"David Gessner, J. Proenza, M. Barranco, P. Portugal","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005298","url":null,"abstract":"Fault Tolerance for Flexible Time-Triggered Ethernet-based systems (FT4FTT) is a project to devise an architecture for distributed embedded systems that provides both flexibility to changing real-time requirements and high reliability through fault tolerance. One of the key parts of such an architecture is the communication subsystem. When designing such a subsystem many decisions have to be made. To understand how such decisions impact the reliability of the final design, in this paper we present a framework to evaluate the reliability of a large number of potential designs. The approach is based on storing a finite subset of the design space for the communication subsystem of FT4FTT in an undirected graph and then generating a continuous-time Markov chain from the graph to evaluate the reliability of each design belonging to the subset.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80509933","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":"Identifying automation components in modular manufacturing systems: A method for modeling dependencies of manufacturing systems","authors":"T. Helbig, E. Westkämper, Johannes Hoos","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005131","url":null,"abstract":"Modularization aims to improve the flexibility and reconfigurability of manufacturing systems. But the effort and complexity required for the coordination of modules increases with the distribution of intelligence. One of the challenges is the identification of subsystems or automation components in modular manufacturing system which is the focus of this paper. The complete identification of a component includes information on the communication channel, the localization of the component and the related process step. As no single identification method is able to gather all aspects of identification, the Manufacturing System Dependency Model (MaSDeM) is introduced which models the dependencies between distributed automation components. This model is based on three layers representing the different perspectives on the system of the involved persons in the development process of a manufacturing system. With the help of this model one single identification fact is sufficient to deduce all the information on the component. This helps to reduce engineering time involved in modular manufacturing systems.","PeriodicalId":20477,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89980151","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}