2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference最新文献

{"title":"“PiezoPort” Energy harvesting on airport runway using piezoelectric devices","authors":"Shubham Agarwal, Abhinav S. Sharma","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877365","url":null,"abstract":"Exploiting ambient sources of vibration energy has become an emerging trend in the field of energy harvesting. There are several methods by which this can be achieved, out of which piezoelectricity has emerged as one of the efficient methods. For effective application of piezoelectric devices to harvest energy, it is important to recognise the sources or areas from where a large amount of vibration energy can be exploited. In this paper we present a multimorph piezoelectric device that would be employed to harvest vibrational energy from airport runways. We have explored the economical impact of our proposal by hypothetically employing our system on Heathrow Airport, London. Primarily the paper focuses on material selection, basic mechanical design and the economic impact of the piezoelectric harvester.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122899055","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 based camera navigation for virtual pancreatic cancer surgery: Whipple surgery simulator (VPanSS)","authors":"Doga Demirel, Alexander Yu, Tansel Halic, S. Kockara","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877375","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an preliminary design and development of a web based real-time virtual laparoscopy simulation for pancreticoduodentomy (Whipple Procedure). In this early stage, we primarily focused on virtual camera navigation to improve hand-eye coordination of a surgeon. Pancreticoduodentomy, pancreatic surgery, is one of most challenging laparoscopic surgeries. We examined whole Whipple procedure to identify its major tasks for the design of a virtual training simulator. Based on the tasks analysis, we found that one of the major challenges in Whipple surgery is accessing to the pancreas. Therefore, identification of the tumorous regions and tumor spread around pancreas become complicated. Surgeons need to carefully navigate laparoscopic camera to the pancreas and nearby tissues and locate the regions affected by the tumor. However, cameras navigation in laparoscopy is intricate due to different abdominal entry locations of camera and surgical tools. Therefore, we developed a real-time, web based, surgical simulation training platform for camera navigation task for Whipple procedure. The goal is to provide accessible, portable, ubiquitous, hardware independent training simulation platform unlike any other surgical simulators. In VPanSS, we developed and integrated a novel contact detection algorithm to continuously determine the camera-organ/tissue contacts during the laparoscopic camera navigation. We tested real-time performance of VPanSS on various platforms to understand its effectiveness and applicability.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114235177","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":"Robotics education in the liberal arts curriculum","authors":"J. Rogers, R. McVay","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877368","url":null,"abstract":"The United States Military Academy is offers a liberal arts curriculum. This paper describes how robotics topics are integrated where possible in that curriculum. The military leadership recognizes the need for its members to have knowledge of robotics in today's technological Army. Among soldiers and officers the depth of knowledge needed ranges from awareness of capability to a deep engineering understanding of design paired with hands-on skill. West Point educates young men and women who are to be future Army officers. This paper presents several methods used at West Point to build robotics knowledge according to the need of the individual. Robotics education is executed in spite of a crowded liberal arts curriculum. Methods include K-12 outreach, projects, internships, courses for non-engineering majors, and engineering degree programs. Knowledge is transferred not only by graduates, but also by the rotating officer faculty who return to serve in the Army at large after teaching at West Point.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130971317","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":"Characteristic of small-scale BESS for HOTT generation system","authors":"Mohammad Lutfur Rahman, Kazuki Nishimura, Kei Motobayashi, Shotaro Fujioka, Y. Shirai","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877363","url":null,"abstract":"Integrating a small-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) with a hybrid offshore-wind and tidal turbine (HOTT) generation system can smooth out the intermittent power generated by the offshore-wind turbine. In this system, tidal turbine is connected to an IGBT bi-directional converter and offshore-wind turbine is connected to a diode rectifier. They are connected at DC side. The power flow of tidal turbine is controlled by switching of the bi-directional converter and wind fluctuation is compensated by changing tidal turbine output. There are some problems to compensate the offshore-wind power fluctuation by the tidal output power. First, tidal turbine cannot change its output very fast because of its inertia. So there is some delay to control the output. Another problem is the loss of tidal turbine generated power due to change of the slip. However, the capacity and response speed of tidal turbine is inadequate to achieve good compensation. That's why it is required to integrate BESS with HOTT generation system to enhance reliability, increase throughput of existing grid infrastructure and yield various ancillary benefits such as to reduce system losses and improve power factor control. As a large-scale BESS is still an expensive option for renewable resources, an optimal control strategy is necessary for the use of small-scale feasible BESS. In this paper, BESS is connected to help tidal turbine to compensate fast fluctuations of offshore wind turbine. The effect of the battery is investigated through simulations. This is a small capacity simulation study which is prepared to use in our small experimental model HOTT system with BESS.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123977708","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":"Personalized intelligent software responses for engineering students","authors":"E. Sichel, B. Woolf, Mark Floryan","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877367","url":null,"abstract":"We developed and evaluated tutoring software called CIRCE that supports students through introductory circuit analysis laboratories and provides immediate feedback and adaptive support. The software addresses many issues with laboratory-based learning, such as students receiving feedback a week or more after the lab. Tutoring help is available at “teachable moments” during the lab and intelligent models of the student support hands-on learning and keep students on task with immediate feedback, real-time error correction and final student grades. Students perform their usual hands-on experiments using physical circuitry while submitting data to the computer in real time. For example, students sketch oscilloscope waves into the software, plot graphs or record data in tables, receiving feedback about whether their data is within or outside the expected range. We provide results of the software and its effect on student learning and affect. Quantitative and qualitative studies show that the software leads to improved learning, verbalization and conceptual knowledge; it also relieves teachers' workload. Results showed improved student ability as measured by lab grades.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116096595","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":"MoMiReS: Mobile mixed reality system for physical & occupational therapies for hand and wrist ailments","authors":"Tansel Halic, S. Kockara, Doga Demirel, M. Willey, Kyle Eichelberger","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877376","url":null,"abstract":"The MoMiReS is a mobile mixed reality system aimed at physical and occupational therapies. The goal of the system is to engage therapy patients by involving them in a fun to play 3D game environment through physical interactions with a wireless sensor glove. Our system offers a solution for rehabilitation of the hand, wrist originated problems with a smartphone based mobile mixed reality game that will be used in conjunction with traditional rehabilitation programs such as home treatment. The key factor in the success of the home treatment is compliance of patients to the given therapy instructions. However, therapists report that patients do not carry on their home-exercises and activities. The main reason is the lack of motivation and boredom for the given activities. These activities require patients to carry out set of repetitive movements. The lack of motivation in exercises causes discontinuity and increases the recovery time and eventually increases the cost of the treatment. Therefore, we propose a complete framework by reducing the drawbacks of the traditional therapy. Our framework has three components; hardware, smartphone game, and cloud for data storage and processing. A sensor glove was developed with plug and play motion sensors streamed in real-time to the mobile phone with Bluetooth connection. The glove is used for tracking finger pressures and motion of the fingers. The patient side smartphone based interactive game verifies compliance of the motions for assigned exercises by occupational/physical therapist. The cloud side aims at ensuring patients that the assigned exercises are carried out and also monitors patient in real-time. Cloud application keeps the record of the patients' progresses for further analysis by therapists. In order to understand the effectiveness of the proposed system, we developed games specifically for treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. The usability and effectiveness of the systems are surveyed among the occupational therapy students. Survey results show that 92% approval rate of the system.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132839585","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":"Unleashing innovation through internal hackathons","authors":"Bard Rosell, Shiven Kumar, J. Shepherd","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877369","url":null,"abstract":"Hackathons have become an increasingly popular approach for organizations to both test their new products and services as well as to generate new ideas. Most events either focus on attracting external developers or requesting employees of the organization to focus on a specific problem. In this paper we describe extensions to this paradigm that open up the event to internal employees and preserve the open-ended nature of the hackathon itself. In this paper we describe our initial motivation and objectives for conducting an internal hackathon, our experience in pioneering an internal hackathon at AT&T including specific things we did to make the internal hackathon successful. We conclude with the benefits (both expected and unexpected) we achieved from the internal hackathon approach, and recommendations for continuing the use of this valuable tool within AT&T.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"416 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116043453","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":"Strong ties despite decentralized network design: An automotive case","authors":"P. Muller, Garnet Kasperk, A. Kampker, C. Deutskens, Felix Weyand, C. Ihl","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877370","url":null,"abstract":"In the automotive industry alternative powertrains cause a wide spread of knowledge and a growing importance of varied disciplines. Consequently, research unveils a disruption of established relations and an emergence of new kinds of decentralized developments encouraging our research. This paper introduces a networked development project which has attracted considerable attention in science and practice as it has realized the homologation of an electric vehicle within less than three years of development applying an uncommon network approach. In this project a decentralized consortial network has been implemented to accomplish the development of certain modules. We argue that despite a modular architecture these modules are still highly interdependent and thus corresponding technical interfaces need to be managed and implemented in the organizational structures. A relatively new facet of hypothesis-based research on these dependencies is the mirroring hypothesis which states that technical ties have to correspond to the communicational ones. Accordingly, we combine and enhance measurements from different fields and thereby provide a solid approach to assess the strength of technical and organizational ties. The corresponding strength values are captured in matrices enabling the test of the mirroring hypothesis. While there are qualitative findings on the performance implications of mirroring in literature, we present a quantitative approach which should provide a stronger empirical underpinning for the qualitative research in this field.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124733569","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":"Developing critical thinking, creativity and innovation skills","authors":"B. Shoop","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877362","url":null,"abstract":"A desirable goal of engineering education is to teach students how to think critically and be creative and innovative. However, the speed of technological innovation and the continual expansion of disciplinary knowledge leave little time in the curriculum for students to formally study innovation, particularly at the undergraduate level. At West Point we have developed a novel upper-division interdisciplinary undergraduate engineering course that simultaneously develops the critical thinking, creativity and innovation of our students. This course is structured as a deliberate interactive engagement between students and faculty that employs the Socratic Method to develop an understanding of disruptive and innovative technologies and a historical context of how social, cultural, and religious factors impact the acceptance or rejection of innovation. The course begins by developing the background understanding of what disruptive technology is and a historical context about successes and failures of social, cultural, and religious acceptance of technological innovation. To develop this framework, students read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn, The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin, and The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow. For each class meeting, students also read current scientific and technical literature and come prepared to discuss current events related to technological innovation. Each student researches potential disruptive technologies and prepares a compelling argument of why the specific technologies are disruptive so they can defend their choice and rationale. During course meetings students discuss the readings and specific technologies found during their independent research. As part of this research, each student has the opportunity to interview forward thinking technology leaders in their respective fields of interest.","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115554217","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":"Preventing recreational boating fatalities and serious injuries with: The ANN (Assistant Naval Navigator) System Enterprise","authors":"C. Rogers","doi":"10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOTEK.2014.6877371","url":null,"abstract":"Because of the significant increase in motor vehicle fatalities due to texting while driving, several US States are implementing or drafting laws that will outright ban the use of handheld devices (“I” and cell Phones, pads, business communicators, etc.) while operating a motor vehicle. At the same time, US recreational boaters already are burdened with high numbers of fatal and injurious accidents, and are being encouraged to navigate using Internet-based APPs that require texting. Our analyses of trends in recent US Coast Guard's (USCG's) Boating Statistics1 seem to support that accidents due to inattention are on the rise. Specifically, owner/operator inattention is causing a higher number of collisions with other recreational boats and these are accompanied by a related rise in fatalities per collision. This observation is in-line with the US Dept. of Transportation findings that texting while driving leads to more violent accidents; therefore, more fatalities/accident. Review of recent years of USCG Boating Statistics (2004 thru 2012, subsequent to the beginning of the fuel crisis) yielded several interesting conclusions. Using data 2012 as a benchmark, there were 4,515 recreational boating accidents resulting in 651 fatalities. In 73% of these fatal accidents, the owner/operators had no USCG approved instruction. Also alarming, in 13% of the 4515 accidents the cause was owner/operator inattention. Add to this, in 1010 accidents of the 4,515, these involved a collision with another recreational boat! (That's over 22% of the total accidents). It's shocking to realize that the number of moms, dads, young men and women and children that are dying and seriously injured per year, while enjoying this recreational activity, was nearly equaled the yearly US troop losses and serious injuries during the Iraq war. Over 10 years ago we began our design effort by assembling a team of experts having experience with on-water Emergency Response, and marine-related technologies. By then, the author and his direct associate had accumulated more than 70 years of successful installation and start-up of computer-based control systems for very large and small processes. The applications included major metals, chemical, plastics, ore-processing, underground coal mining industries, as well as, a medical enterprise application. We envisioned how the vessel navigation process may be adapted to feedforward/feedback control system architecture in real time. Proceeding on this basis, our team met frequently with system integrators, boat and engine manufacturers, Boat Owners Association of the US (BoatUS) Execs, towing station owner/operators and US Coast Guard Certified “A” Captains and pilots. In these meetings, our goal continued to focus on a plan for applying advanced control theory to enhance marine vessel navigation. This plan is now in readiness for productization - a viable, developed and US Patented 2 system with primary missions of life-saving and/serious inju","PeriodicalId":217120,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Innovations in Technology Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131250571","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}