{"title":"Low-complexity acquisition of 180-degree panoramic video using early data reduction","authors":"J. Duarte, P. Assunção","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861587","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low-complexity video acquisition system based on multiple cameras and processors for generating panoramic images with spatial resolutions beyond ultra-high definition and field of view (FoV) of 180 degrees. The UHD 180-degree images are formed by stitching nine high-definition images captured from individual cameras, mounted in regular geometric structure, covering a FoV of 180 degrees around the acquisition viewpoint. An experimental study is carried out to reduce the computational complexity required by feature extraction and matching which are the most complex tasks in the image stitching process. Based on an early data reduction approach, it is shown that good quality stitching can be achieved with low computational complexity. Overall the proposed system is capable of capturing 180-degree panoramic images of ultra high definition using low-cost cameras and processors, which makes it suitable for applications with highly demanding resolution requirements.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125517721","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":"Perceptual Quality Evaluation for Exposure Fusion Image","authors":"Borivoje e Tasikj, T. Kartalov, Z. Ivanovski","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861987","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new approach for automated perceptual quality evaluation for pyramid-based exposure fusion is presented. A machine learning method, using neural network training is used. The obtained results are verified using both established objective measures, and subjective evaluation of the same set, acquired by mean opinion score survey on multiple human subjects. The main advantage of the proposed approach is that it can grade the perceptual quality of the fused image even prior to the completing of the fusing process, in the stage of pyramid decomposition. This also allows implementation of a mechanism that could stop the pyramid decomposition in the most optimal pyramid level, in order to achieve the highest quality output image.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122694969","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}
I. Isakov, V. Vasic, D. Jerkan, D. Reljic, Ivan Todorović
{"title":"Multi-phase Induction Machine Speed Estimation Method Using Rotor Slot Harmonics","authors":"I. Isakov, V. Vasic, D. Jerkan, D. Reljic, Ivan Todorović","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861970","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-phase machines are becoming more popular due to their good performances and are progressively suppressing classical three-phase machines in some applications. Additionally, sensorless control of electrical machines has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades in order to lower the costs associated with the speed sensors used in electrical drives and increase the reliability of the drive. In the literature, rotor slot harmonics were intensively inspected to obtain information about rotor speed and position. In this paper, a speed estimation technique based on rotor slot harmonics in a multi-phase induction machine was proposed, based on the familiar approaches. It relies on the spectral analysis of the stator current. The most important benefit of the method introduced in the paper is lack of any type of the filter for extracting the specific rotor slot harmonics from the current spectrum. Simulation results that verify the effectiveness of the method proposed were obtained using MATLAB/Simulink.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122855755","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}
Vladimir Zdraveski, P. Krstevski, Jovica Vuletic, J. Angelov, A. Mateska, M. Todorovski
{"title":"Analyzing the Impact of Battery Electric Vehicles on Distribution Networks Using Nondeterministic Model","authors":"Vladimir Zdraveski, P. Krstevski, Jovica Vuletic, J. Angelov, A. Mateska, M. Todorovski","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861984","url":null,"abstract":"As the penetration of electric vehicles (EV) and plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) increases, the requirement of the charging infrastructure will have an impact on the distribution network parameters and components, especially with the growth of sale of such vehicles. In order to estimate this impact, probabilistic load flow method based on Monte-Carlo simulation has been developed. The variables that depend on the vehicles driving cycle have been obtained with data extraction from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). In addition, general household load has also been considered in the simulation. Simulation results show which network components could not withstand the simulated penetration level and what measures can be taken.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114148204","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. Milojevic, Miša Tomić, H. Handroos, Ž. Ćojbašić
{"title":"Novel Smart and Compliant Robotic Gripper: Design, Modelling, Experiments and Control","authors":"A. Milojevic, Miša Tomić, H. Handroos, Ž. Ćojbašić","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861561","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a further investigation of a novel adaptive soft robotic gripper with integrated active elements, i.e. sensors and actuators. In many contemporary robotic applications, there is a great need to grasp differently shaped and sized objects as well as objects of different stiffness or soft objects. Grippers based on classical rigid-body mechanisms cannot safely manipulate with such a wide variety of objects, as they are stiff and not adaptive. Adaptive gripper proposed here is based on elastic active compliant mechanisms. Via integrated sensors, and actuators active smart gripper changes the shape of its grasping surface and adapts to the object of unknown shape. Concept of a two-finger gripper and a functional prototype of one gripper finger are presented. Sensors are formed by using conductive graphite foam. The machine learning models of tactile foam sensors are presented. Actuators are formed by using a shape memory alloy wire nitinol. It is demonstrated that developed soft gripper concept with integrated active elements can realize multiple grasping patterns. Many potential applications in robotics are foreseen for the novel smart adaptive gripper.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"37 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117020962","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":"Natural Language Processing for Associative Word Predictions","authors":"N. D. Grujić, Vladimir M. Milovanović","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861547","url":null,"abstract":"A potential of natural language processing to predict words based on their associative relations is assessed on a Serbian language dataset. The approach investigated is to use a number of different written materials, and see if a neural network can extract word associations just by reading regular texts. Evaluation is performed using ready made, publicly available games of association. The final result exceeds 70% certainty of a correct solution within 100 most probable words in a vocabulary of over 150,000. Results are evaluated using different dataset sizes and preparation techniques with the idea of identifying impact of a particular approach.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114211161","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}
Mirza Batalovic, Halid Matoruga, S. Berberovic, Mirza Matoruga
{"title":"Investigation on Partial Discharge Activity inside the Cable Accessories due to Improper Installation of Power Cable Joints","authors":"Mirza Batalovic, Halid Matoruga, S. Berberovic, Mirza Matoruga","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861893","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents investigation on partial discharges (PD) activity inside the components of cable accessories. Due to the improper installing (poor workmanship) of cable joints, various types of defects could appear. The epilogue of such condition is the resulting risk for the long or even short term behavior of the insulation system, which exactly depends on the type, form, size and location of the defect. Defect site mostly results in field enhancement and generates partial discharge activities. Investigation is done through the simulation evidences using contemporary software tool COMSOL Mph. to perceive the field enhancement due to the presence of defects. Also, laboratory testing for two artificially induced defects, in order to validate the simulations from the aspect of PD occurrence at defect site, are provided in this paper.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116205893","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}
Ceren Gulra Melek, Elena Battini Sonmez, S. Albayrak
{"title":"Object Detection in Shelf Images with YOLO","authors":"Ceren Gulra Melek, Elena Battini Sonmez, S. Albayrak","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861817","url":null,"abstract":"Object detection in shelf images can solve many problems in retails sales such as monitoring the number of products on the shelves, completing the missing products and matching the planogram continuously. This study aims to detect object in shelf images with deep learning algorithms. Firstly, object detection algorithms and datasets are examined in the literature. Then, experimental study is performed using Coca Cola images obtained from Imagenet and Grocery dataset with YOLO (You Only Look Once) algorithm. Results of the study are discussed from different sides such as number of classes, threshold values and numder of iteration.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"547 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116506793","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}
Marko Vasiljevic-Toskic, V. Rajs, J. Bajić, Milan Bozic, Aleksandar Hasovic, Milan Sovic
{"title":"Wireless Weather Station with No Moving Parts","authors":"Marko Vasiljevic-Toskic, V. Rajs, J. Bajić, Milan Bozic, Aleksandar Hasovic, Milan Sovic","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861947","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is the realization of the wireless weather station without any moving parts. The main goal is the measurement of the wind speed and direction using sophisticated methods based on ultrasonic anemometer. Using ESP32 development board and sensors, weather station can measure temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, direction and wind speed. Collected data are transmitted to the WEB server using wireless communication and displayed on the WEB application. Numerous tests were made and it was concluded that the ultrasonic anemometer can obtain decent measurement results, with a small deviation from the measurement of the reference device. The main advantages of this measuring system are wireless communication, mobility, small dimension and the fact that it does not require regular maintenance.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"312 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131944799","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":"Optimal Strategy for Reliability Improvement in Distribution Networks","authors":"Z. Popovic, S. Knezevic, B. Brbaklic","doi":"10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861736","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the mixed integer linear programming based approach for determining the optimal reliability improvement strategy in distribution networks. The proposed approach defines the optimal number, type and location of remotely controlled and supervised automation devices to be installed in the network by considering the different types of devices simultaneously. Simultaneously, it defines the optimal relocation of the existing automation devices as well as the optimal number, type and location of the network elements to be replaced by the new elements with lower failure rates. The presented numerical results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and the importance of simultaneous consideration of individual strategies in determining the optimal reliability improvement strategy in distribution networks.","PeriodicalId":232097,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134005150","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}