{"title":"An Efficient Multi-AMR Control Framework for Parcel Sorting Centers","authors":"Chee-Henn Ch’ng, S. Liew, C. Wong, B. Ooi","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220043","url":null,"abstract":"With the growth of eCommerce activities, there is an urgent need for robust logistics solutions to ensure mass and speedy parcel delivery. Upon the parcels are collected, one of the main issues is how to sort a large number of parcels efficiently. One of the solutions is to automate the sorting process in sorting centers by using autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). This paper investigates this solution and studies the multi-AMR control framework for automated parcel sorting centers. In the literature, various frameworks have been proposed for controlling multiple mobile robots under different scenarios. However, most of these existing frameworks may not be well-suited to the automated sorting center environment because the automated sorting center might contain a considerable number of robots moving at high speed. Thus, the routing decision of each robot and the traffic control would need to be done in real-time in order to alleviate congestion to increase the throughput. In this paper, an efficient framework is proposed for automated sorting centers in order to support many high-speed robots. In particular, the proposed framework uses two-layer hierarchical architecture, where all AMRs are considered as the clients of a centralized server. However, unlike traditional server/client architecture, the decision modules in the proposed framework are distributed between the server and clients. Such a design can shift some computationally expensive algorithms from the server-side to the client-side, and thus it is more scalable. The simulation results show that the proposed framework can achieve excellent results. For example, in a sorting center with an area of 2025m2, 410 robots are deployed, and they can handle nearly 30,000 parcels in an hour with our proposed framework. Finally, this paper also explores the various possibilities to enhance the framework further.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129551002","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}
Innocent Mpawenimana, A. Pegatoquet, Valérle Roy, Laurent Rodriguez, C. Belleudy
{"title":"A comparative study of LSTM and ARIMA for energy load prediction with enhanced data preprocessing","authors":"Innocent Mpawenimana, A. Pegatoquet, Valérle Roy, Laurent Rodriguez, C. Belleudy","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220021","url":null,"abstract":"Energy load prediction plays a central role in the decision-making process of energy production and consumption for smart homes with systems based on energy harvesting. However, forecasting energy load turned out to be a difficult problem since time series data used for the prediction involve both linear and non-linear properties. In this paper, we proposed a system which can predict a daily future energy load in a smart home based on LSTM and ARIMA models. To improve the energy load forecasting accuracy, we propose a new data preprocessing algorithm called STDAN (Same Time a Day Ago or Next) to fill the missing values. This technique is compared with well-known techniques using previous or mean values. A comparison between LSTM and ARIMA is provided for short and medium-term load forecasting. Results show that LSTM outperforms ARIMA in all cases. Finally, we also evaluated our training model based on LSTM with a new data set and the model provides an around 80% accuracy.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937731","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. S. Bhattacherjee, Shreeshan S, G. Priyanka, A. Jadhav, P. Rajalakshmi, J. Kholová
{"title":"Cloud based Low-Power Long-Range IoT Network for Soil Moisture monitoring in Agriculture","authors":"S. S. Bhattacherjee, Shreeshan S, G. Priyanka, A. Jadhav, P. Rajalakshmi, J. Kholová","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220017","url":null,"abstract":"The intervention of sensors and wireless networks has transformed cliched agricultural practices. Internet of Things (IoT) has penetrated various verticals, with agriculture being one of them. The application of IoT in agriculture is primarily focused on field parameter monitoring and automation, which aims to help farmers increase crop yield. Long-range and low-power devices, convenient installation, and cost-efficiency are the primary factors to be considered for deploying an IoT network in real-time. In this paper, we proposed a low-power long-range IoT network for monitoring of soil moisture. We have selected LoRa as the communication interface, which uses 868 MHz ISM band for signal transmission. The soil-moisture sensor and the LoRa nodes are designed in-house. Accuracy of the sensor nodes is tested by placing two nodes in the same sector. All the data collected are stored in the server and are available online.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123201821","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":"Phase based Time Resolved Reflectance Spectroscopy using Time-of-Flight Camera for Fruit Quality Monitoring","authors":"M. Sarkar, M. Assaad, N. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220081","url":null,"abstract":"Time-resolved phase-based reflectance spectroscopy has been used for the nondestructive assessment of the internal quality of the fruits in this work. The time taken by the incident light to backscatter and reach the detector placed at a distance from the camera relates to the penetration depth or mean free path of the light into the apples. The mean free path changes due to chemical pigmentation changes in apples during storage and ripening. Therefore, the scattering characteristics changes. The phase changes in the backscattered light are correlated to the stage of ripening or storage. The degree of linear polarization is used to quantify the changes in the reflected phase with increasing storage time. The proposed optical instrumentation is simple in construction and computationally less intensive and therefore, provides an affordable solution for a handheld compact fruit monitoring device.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122809229","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 RGB/Infra-Red camera fusion approach for Multi-Person Pose Estimation in low light environments","authors":"Viviana Crescitelli, Atsutake Kosuge, T. Oshima","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220059","url":null,"abstract":"Enabling collaborative robots to predict the human pose is a challenging, but important issue to address. Most of the development of human pose estimation (HPE) adopt RGB images as input to estimate anatomical keypoints with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DNNs). However, those approaches neglect the challenge of detecting features reliably during night-time or in difficult lighting conditions, leading to safety issues. In response to this limitation, we present in this paper an RGB/Infra-Red camera fusion approach, based on the open-source library OpenPose, and we show how the fusion of keypoints extracted from different images can be used to improve the human pose estimation performance in sparse light environments. Specifically, OpenPose is used to extract body joints from RGB and Infra-Red images and the contribution of each frame is combined by a fusion step. We investigate the potential of a fusion framework based on Deep Neural Networks and we compare it to a linear weighted average method. The proposed approach shows promising performances, with the best result outperforming conventional methods by a factor 1.8x on a custom data set of Infra-Red and RGB images captured in poor light conditions, where it is hard to recognize people even by human inspection.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127677892","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}
P. Pavlasek, J. Rybar, S. Duris, B. Hucko, J. Palencár, M. Chytil
{"title":"Metrology in eye pressure measurements","authors":"P. Pavlasek, J. Rybar, S. Duris, B. Hucko, J. Palencár, M. Chytil","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220014","url":null,"abstract":"Measurements and their precision are crucial for many fields of industry and services that have a direct impact on the quality, safety and reliability of products and applications. One of the areas that have a particular effect on national finances and people is the medical sector. The reliability and precision of the measured quantities have a direct and significant effect on the final diagnosis of a patient. An unrepresentative measurement of subject’s true essential indicators like blood pressure, body temperature or heart rate could lead to false diagnosis and incorrect or unnecessary treatment. This can in most serious cases result in a decrease of a patients quality of life and even in shortened live span. The treatment brings of course financial and social aspects that all affects the country’s economy negatively. This paper focuses on the improvement of medical measurements by applying metrological procedures that enable a more precise and reliable measurements. The subject of these efforts is the measurement of eye pressure by non-contact means that are an initial diagnostic indicator for the development of eye glaucoma. The general problematic of the measurements together with the theoretical and practical solution by means of a standard is presented.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116697799","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":"Accurate Perception for Autonomous Driving: Application of Kalman Filter for Sensor Fusion","authors":"Yaqin Wang, Dongfang Liu, E. Matson","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220083","url":null,"abstract":"Object tracking is a foundation task for autonomous driving. An increasing amount of work applies the sensor fusion to facilitate the tracking results. However, sensor fusion alone still cannot reach a desirable accuracy in real road conditions, because of the sensor noises and complexity of the motion dynamics. Bearing this in mind, we propose a method that applies Kalman filter on the LiDAR and radar sensor fusion to improve the accuracy in object tracking for the autonomous driving system. We evaluate our approach on the Udacity dataset. Results demonstrate that the Kalman filter drastically improves the final measurement compared to using sensor measurement alone. The work verifies the effectiveness of employment Kalman filter to facilitate the performance of sensor fusion measurements for the autonomous driving system.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121423287","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}
Alexander Wiese, Ann DiGuglielmo, Jerico Mellet, Mckayla Rebillon, S. Mandayam, E. Brewer, Luke S. Austin
{"title":"A Radial Basis Function Technique for the Early Detection and Measurement of Hip Implant Loosening","authors":"Alexander Wiese, Ann DiGuglielmo, Jerico Mellet, Mckayla Rebillon, S. Mandayam, E. Brewer, Luke S. Austin","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220036","url":null,"abstract":"Hip implants are extremely common procedures that are performed to relieve pain and restore function to the hip joint. Historically, most implants would last for the duration of the patient’s life, approximately 15 years after implantation; however, due to medical advancements patients are living longer and outliving the life of their implant. The most common cause for implant failure is the failure of the bond between the implant and the bone, occurring due to the translation or rotation of the implant. Once an implant has failed, a very invasive, costly, and painful revision surgery is required. There is significant advantage in the early detection of implant loosening. This paper presents a radial basis function based image processing technique to detect minute 3-D rotations of a hip implant from 2-D X-ray images. Comparing these rotations for a particular hip implant over time can alert orthopedic surgeons of trends that might lead to impending gross loosening of the implant and enable early correction.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124085266","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}
B. Andò, S. Baglio, P. Fallica, V. Marletta, E. Ambra, Martina Pace, Francesco Salvatore Garozzo, V. Vinciguerra
{"title":"A PPG-ECG Combo System for the Monitoring of the Aging State of Arteries","authors":"B. Andò, S. Baglio, P. Fallica, V. Marletta, E. Ambra, Martina Pace, Francesco Salvatore Garozzo, V. Vinciguerra","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220015","url":null,"abstract":"Arterial hypertension is an indicator of cardiovascular pathologies. It causes arterial stiffness which worsens with aging. This paper presents a novel PhotoPlethysmoGraphy-ElectroCardioGraph (PPG-ECG) combo measurement system, using a dedicated signal processing methodology, which aims at the evaluation of the Pulse Wave Velocity in order to obtain clinical parameters of the aging state of the arteries (Arterial Stiffness). Preliminary experimental results are presented, which demonstrates the suitability of the proposed methodology.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126895278","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":"Detection of Mathematical Fluency Effects on Working Memory using Near Infrared Spectroscopy","authors":"W. Ung, N. Yahya, T. Tang","doi":"10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS48726.2020.9220070","url":null,"abstract":"The prefrontal cortex (PFC) not only plays a less mathematics-specific role in number processing and calculation but it is also responsible for working memory demands coping. Through functional near-infrared spectroscopy imaging, this study explored how differently the PFC of 31 subjects with contrasting mathematical fluency would respond to increasing working memory demands of mental arithmetic task. Area under the curve analyses of the oxygenated hemoglobin signals, hereinafter representing brain activation, were compared across levels and groups. Depending on task performance, the subjects were allocated to either normal performers (NP) or high performers (HP) group. Both groups showed sensitivity with regards to task performance (i.e., the number of problems attempted and accuracy) towards increasing working memory demands (level 1 to 3). With increasing task level, NP’s PFC activation increased while HP’s remained unchanged. NP also showed consistent greater PFC activation than HP in all three levels. These findings implied that the PFC plays a more auxiliary role to cope with working memory demands imposed by mental arithmetic on individuals who are less fluent in mathematics. This can potentially serve as a framework to monitor workload hemodynamics continuously and unobtrusively.","PeriodicalId":223737,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133501811","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}