{"title":"Identification, Location, and Reception of Low Earth Orbit Satellites (LEO) Signals","authors":"Jose Eduardo Oros, J. Trejo, A. Salcedo","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.25","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the conceptual design of ground stations used for monitoring low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, as well as a proposal for a preliminary proof of concept setup, which can be implemented before trying to build a completely functional station. As a result, the setup allowed to locate and monitor signals from known satellites using available and inexpensive, \"off the shelve\", commercial components. The encouraging results that were obtained are also described along the paper. The setup design that is presented can be easily replicated as an initial step, and then, scaled into an automated terrestrial station, with a more complex and precise communications system.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126252717","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. P. Merino, María Aurora Diozcora Vargas Treviño, S. Vergara Limon, María Aurora Diozcora Vargas Treviño
{"title":"Navigation control of a mobile robot","authors":"A. P. Merino, María Aurora Diozcora Vargas Treviño, S. Vergara Limon, María Aurora Diozcora Vargas Treviño","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.51","url":null,"abstract":"Kinematic and dynamic models of a mobile robot type Ackerman are developed in this paper, with the aim of implement a control system of trajectory tracking and we applied to the experimental platform of the HUMMER H2 mobile robot. For this purpose the predictive control is applied to dynamic model of the vehicle, to simulate its real plant response, considering the forces in the environment. On the other hand the kinematic model is used for obtain the location and direction of the mobile robot in a plane, considering the sensors information via radio frequency (RF) using ARDUINO, LABVIEW and XBEE platforms for data acquisition and processing. We present the experimental platform used.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123970249","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}
Gerardo Miramontes-de-León, C. Sifuentes-Gallardo, Arturo Moreno-Báez, Ernesto Garcia-Dominguez, R. Magallanes-Quintanar
{"title":"Time-Frequency Analysis of a Pulsed Excitation and Its Application in Randles Model","authors":"Gerardo Miramontes-de-León, C. Sifuentes-Gallardo, Arturo Moreno-Báez, Ernesto Garcia-Dominguez, R. Magallanes-Quintanar","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.20","url":null,"abstract":"Many electrochemical systems can be studied using equivalent circuit models. One simple model is the Randles circuit, which consists of a resistance connected in series with a parallel combination of a capacitance and another resistance. This second resistance is called polarization resistance, and for many practical applications, it is very important to estimate its value. Using a special form of a pulsed excitation, we show that it is possible to estimate a value for the polarization resistance with a very simple calculation. A time-frequency analysis of the proposed pulsed excitation showed not only the zero frequency content of the signal but also the time when this zero frequency occurs. Using Laplace analysis, we show also that the transient current through the capacitance is zero, when the frequency contents of the pulse is zero. In this way it is possible to estimate the value of the resistive component of an electrochemical cell. Experimental results show an approximation error of less than 0.5%. We conclude this is an alternative technique to estimate the polarization resistance.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116386865","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}
J. N. Alba-Juarez, R. Silva-Ortigoza, H. Taud, J. A. Rodriguez-Meza, V. Hernández-Guzmán
{"title":"Modeling and Simulation for a DC/DC Buck Power Electronic Converter -- DC Motor System","authors":"J. N. Alba-Juarez, R. Silva-Ortigoza, H. Taud, J. A. Rodriguez-Meza, V. Hernández-Guzmán","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.13","url":null,"abstract":"In order to drive both positive and negative directions in the shaft of a DC motor connected to a DC/DC Buck power electronic converter, this paper presents a new topology of the DC/DC Buck power electronic converter-DC motor system. To this end, a full-bridge converter is placed between the Buck converter and the DC motor. The deduction of the mathematical model step-by-step, from applying Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws is shown. Later, an analysis in steady-state is presented, obtaining the system equilibrium point. Finally, numerical simulations are performed through Matlab-Simulink, showing the viability of our proposal.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116296239","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. Vargas-Chable, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, S. Robles-Casolco, R. Cabello-Ruíz
{"title":"Structural Optimization of an Electrothermal Chevron V-Shape Microactuator Device","authors":"P. Vargas-Chable, M. Tecpoyotl-Torres, S. Robles-Casolco, R. Cabello-Ruíz","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.36","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the optimization of a chevron V-shape microactuator device to achieve higher actuation force and displacement is discussed. General information approach that includes the description of a physical model used in order to analyze the device behavior and the optimization of its design is considered. Shuttle and beams of a conventional electrothermal chevron V-shape microactuator device were modified. Pneumatic microactuators were implemented along the shuttle. The device was designed with silicon material. The device was characterized through a coupled electro-thermomechanical analysis using ANSYS-Workbench. Compared to the conventional chevron V-shape microactuator, the output work of the improved microactuator shows an increment of about 50% in displacement and 40% in actuation force, at the same maximum temperature source applied. A microgripper is developed are immediate application.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127342702","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}
Fabiola M. Villalobos-Castaldi, Nicolás C. Kemper, Esther Rojas-Krugger, Laura G. Ramírez-Sánchez
{"title":"A Block-Wise Deformation-Based Approach for Facial Expression Recognition","authors":"Fabiola M. Villalobos-Castaldi, Nicolás C. Kemper, Esther Rojas-Krugger, Laura G. Ramírez-Sánchez","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the recognition results about exploring the combination of an approach based on non-rigid deformation with a block-wise method to describe the facial deformation caused by the muscle contractions and expansions that are presented in facial expressions. The proposed feature extraction method takes advantage of the knowledge related to which parts of the face reflects the highest deformations, so we selected 4 specific facial regions at which the appearance descriptor were applied. The most common approaches used for feature extraction are the holistic and the local strategies. In this work we present the results of using a local appearance approach estimating the correlation coefficient of the 4 corresponding landmark-localized facial templates of the expression face related to the neutral face. The results let us prove how the proposed estimation of non-rigid deformation scheme with the dominant block based on computational correlation can simply and intuitively measure the deformation parameters for some of the most relevant facial regions and how these parameters together can be used to recognize facial expressions automatically. Using a Levenberg-Marquardt Back Propagation neural network, it was obtained as the highest successful classification accuracy 93.17%.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123405851","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}
M. Mejía-Lavalle, J. Ruiz, Joaquín O. Pérez, Marilu S. Cervantes
{"title":"Modified Neural Net for the Boolean Satisfiability Problem","authors":"M. Mejía-Lavalle, J. Ruiz, Joaquín O. Pérez, Marilu S. Cervantes","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.46","url":null,"abstract":"A modified Hopfield Artificial Neural Network is proposed to solve effectively and efficiently Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) NP-hard problems. The proposed Neural Network is compared against other traditional methods employed in this field, such as Greedy SAT and Genetic Algorithms for SAT. The results show that the proposed network represents a good alternative given their output quality and response time speed.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131233415","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}
C. A. Vazquez Rodriguez, M. M. Lavalle, Raúl Pinto Elías
{"title":"Modeling Student Engagement by Means of Nonverbal Behavior and Decision Trees","authors":"C. A. Vazquez Rodriguez, M. M. Lavalle, Raúl Pinto Elías","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.56","url":null,"abstract":"In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education. This paper is intended to automatically decide whether students are interested in the class or they are not; this information was obtained from their face expressions and behavior. Five attributes are defined for evaluating: the \"face\" attribute, the \"eyes\" attribute, the \"shoulders\" attribute, the \"mouth\" attribute and finally the attribute \"interested\" in which the others attributes are classified in \"interested\" \"uninterested\" and \"neutral\". 60 instances were stored from five different students and were classified using decision trees found in Weka software, among which were used: ID3, RANDOM TREE, C4.5, BFTREE, REPTree. Applying F-Measure metric we evaluate these decision trees in order to obtain the best of them. This work is part of a bigger project.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132476396","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}
Roy Flores-Flores, J. L. Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, R. Aguilar-Ponce, C. Torres-Huitzil
{"title":"Four Level Haar Transform Architecture for Feature Extraction","authors":"Roy Flores-Flores, J. L. Tecpanecatl-Xihuitl, R. Aguilar-Ponce, C. Torres-Huitzil","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.38","url":null,"abstract":"Biomedical Electronic Devices have been developed as aid in some neurological conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson. Those devices require low-power systems in order to guarantee portability and continuous operation from weeks to years. Therefore, the present work proposes a simplified architecture for Haar Wavelet Transform used as feature extraction in the spike sorting process. The architecture achieves a reduction of 46% on the number of multipliers needed in a direct architecture. As result of the reduction onmultiplication, the rounding off error in the proposed architecture is also reduced achieving zero error in spike sorting classification.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133096107","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}
José Rodrigo Espinoza-Bautista, D. Rodríguez-Saldaña, V. Kazakov
{"title":"Reconstruction Error Estimation of Gaussian Markov Processes with Jitter","authors":"José Rodrigo Espinoza-Bautista, D. Rodríguez-Saldaña, V. Kazakov","doi":"10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEAE.2015.22","url":null,"abstract":"The reconstruction error estimation of the Gaussian Markov process in the presence of jitter is investigated in this paper, taking into account mainly two samples in the analysis. Two different situations are considered. In the first situation, the position of the first sample does not have jitter, but it exists in the second sample. In the second condition, the two samples have the presence of jitter. The probability density functions of jitter are represented by the uniform and the Erlang distributions. The results are obtained by applying statistical averaging to the conditional mean rule with respect to the random variable of jitter. This rule defines the conditional variance function as reconstruction error function, which allows us to determine the reconstruction error of the Gaussian Markov process on the whole time domain.","PeriodicalId":226698,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automotive Engineering (ICMEAE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132517564","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}