{"title":"Technology for concrete pipe manipulator","authors":"Bin Li, Dan Wang, R. Lin","doi":"10.1117/12.858444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858444","url":null,"abstract":"The pipe manipulator is a developing mechatronic system to enhance productivity and protects workers from cave-ins in the trench while excavating and laying pipe. The pipe manipulator is for installing concrete pipe into the trench. It is an optical-electro-mechanical system. The mechanism is make up of two parts, the upside and underside. The upside is for lifting the equipment by backhoe and rotating the underside mechanism. It includes rigidity lift beams, holding pad, four-bar linkages, hydraulic cylinder, rotating support, and rotating mechanism. Holding pad will press the bucket back to keep the bucket hooking the pipe man safely and stably. The underside mechanism is for lifting, holding and adjusting the pipe section's stance. The underside mechanism includes support trolley, and lift fork. The support trolley is driven by hydraulic cylinder for moving the fork forward or backward while laying a pipe into trench. The fork is with a self-lock mechanism for preventing the pipe from slide out of the prongs. A new photoelectric locating system is developed for auto-measuring the installing pipe section's stance within the work area. The laser target has been developed as a key part in the photoelectric locating systems. The photoelectric target is a rotating polar coordinate. Photodiodes are used for making the polar radius. There is an angular displacement sensor sitting on the heart-axis of the target for measuring angle of the target rotating. The pipe manipulator can be located by the system, and the locating methods have been presented at last of the paper.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116901414","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":"A kind of on-off control method based on EEG dimension complexity detection","authors":"Hong Wang, Chunsheng Li, Haibin Zhao, Chong Liu","doi":"10.1117/12.858434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858434","url":null,"abstract":"Some studies show that Environment Control System (ECS) improves severe disabled people life, one of which is based on analyzing alpha wave following eye closure. This paper proposes a method for detecting the difference of dimension complexity between eye opening and eye closure. By modifying Grassberger and Procaccia algorithm for calculating correlation dimension, this improved method can process overlapped data segment effectively. The value, calculated by this method, is called EEG dimension complexity, which indicates the variability of brain function. Experiments show that EEG dimension complexity is suitable and precise to distinguish two states between eye opening and closure. New method decreases computational cost, and its application shows that this method can be used to control light switch on and off.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122557031","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":"Brain-computer interface design using alpha wave","authors":"Haibin Zhao, Hong Wang, Chong Liu, Chunsheng Li","doi":"10.1117/12.858115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858115","url":null,"abstract":"A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a novel communication system that translates brain activity into commands for a computer or other electronic devices. BCI system based on non-invasive scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) has become a hot research area in recent years. BCI technology can help improve the quality of life and restore function for people with severe motor disabilities. In this study, we design a real-time asynchronous BCI system using Alpha wave. The basic theory of this BCI system is alpha wave-block phenomenon. Alpha wave is the most prominent wave in the whole realm of brain activity. This system includes data acquisition, feature selection and classification. The subject can use this system easily and freely choose anyone of four commands with only short-time training. The results of the experiment show that this BCI system has high classification accuracy, and has potential application for clinical engineering and is valuable for further research.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126833490","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":"Fluid structure interaction in electrohydraulic servovalve: a finite element approach","authors":"S. Hiremath, M. Singaperumal","doi":"10.1117/12.858189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858189","url":null,"abstract":"Electrohydraulic servovalves (EHSV) promise unique application opportunities and high performance, unmatched by other drive technologies. Typical applications include aerospace, robotic manipulators, motion simulators, injection molding, CNC machines and material testing machines. EHSV available are either a flapper/nozzle type or a jet pipe type. In the present paper an attempt has been made to study the dynamics of jet pipe EHSV with built-in mechanical feedback using Finite Element Method (FEM). In jet pipe EHSV, the dynamics of spool greatly depends on pressure recovery and hence the fluid flow at spool ends. The effect of pressure recovery on spool dynamics is studied using FEM by creating the fluid-structure-interaction. The mechanical parts were created using general purpose finite elements like shell, beam, and solid elements while fluid cavities were created using hydrostatic fluid elements. The analysis was carried out using the commercially available FE code ABAQUS. The jet pipe and spool dynamics are presented in the paper.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130523166","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":"Identification and feed forward control of a flexible stacker crane","authors":"M. Sasaki, Takahiro Murota","doi":"10.1117/12.859299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.859299","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates that filtered inverse system can be used effectively for the feed forward control of a flexible stacker crane. A numeric model for the crane is developed from the experimental input and output data. From this model, a feedfoward controller based on an inverse system was developed and simulated. We applied the feedforward control to an actual stacker crane. Validity of the proposed control method was verified from the numerical simulation and the experiment. The numerical simulation and experimental results show the good control performance.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126235467","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 investigation and controller design of IPMC actuator","authors":"Lina Hao, Wenlin Chen","doi":"10.1117/12.858234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858234","url":null,"abstract":"Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMC) has great application prospects in military, aerospace, biomedical and other fields, and attracts more and more attentions in many countries. However, it works with complex mechanism and varies with circumstance and using times, and also is impressible to the preparation process, which limits its development and utilization. Firstly ,this paper developed a complete set of experimental platform for IPMC fabricated by ourselves to study experimentally the displacement response characteristic with different types, frequencies and amplitudes of stimulation signals. Then, a chirp signal with controllable frequency had been used as a input signal for identification, third-order ARX model as a model of IPMC structure, a multi-innovation least squares recursive (MILSR) identification algorithms as model parameters identification online. This paper gained a relatively accurate linear model through identification the model parameters. Thirdly, according to the linear model, both a PID controller and a LMI (Linear Matrix Inequality) based optimal H infinity (∞) controller had been designed. The simulation results show that the controller can effectively control the linear characteristics of IPMC and repeated experiments in the system are still valid. Through controlling two different model of using for 50 times fore-and aft, it has been proved that the optimal H infinity controller has good robustness.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128978911","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":"Perturbation method for reliability-based sensitivity analysis","authors":"Yimin Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.858315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858315","url":null,"abstract":"Techniques from perturbation method, reliability-based design theory, sensitivity approach are employed to present a practical and efficient perturbation method for the reliability-based sensitivity analysis. The theory formulae of reliability sensitivity are obtained. The respective program can be used to obtain the reliability sensitivity accurately and quickly. The numerical results demonstrate that the method presented is a convenient reliability sensitivity method.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"7500 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129510068","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":"The method design of coordinates mapping in PIV measurement system for flow field of impinging streams","authors":"Fubao Li, D. Wang, Q. Li","doi":"10.1117/12.858248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858248","url":null,"abstract":"In the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurement system for flow field of impinging streams, in order to realize the calculation of real flow field data from sequence image, the method of coordinates mapping applying neural network is designed. This method is to put a plat with normal pitch grid in the area of transparent Liquid-continuous impinging streams reactor, with the grid plan going through the cylinder axis of the reactor filled with water. Digital camera is fixed outside the container, with the light axis vertical to the grid plan. Software tool is utilized to obtain Educate vector collect for educating neural network. The network which finished training can counterchange the pixel coordinate of the measured plan in the liquid into real coordinate.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121663748","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":"Study on optimum maneuverability in horizontal manipulation of objects with power-assist based on weight perception","authors":"S. Rahman, R. Ikeura, M. Nobe, H. Sawai","doi":"10.1117/12.858442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858442","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a 1-DOF (horizontal forward-backward translational motion) power assist system (PAS) for manipulating objects in horizontal direction based on human operator's perception of object weight. We adopt a hypothesis that pertains to human's weight perception. The hypothesis means that the human must consider the mass parameter for the inertial force different from the mass parameter for the gravitational force when programming (feedforward) the load force (tangential to grip surfaces) for manipulating an object with a PAS because the perception and the reality regarding the object weight are different in this case. We simulated the system using Matlab/Simulink. Five subjects manipulated objects of three different sizes with the PAS during the simulation. Subjects subjectively determined the optimum values for the mass parameters of the inertial and the gravitational force components. Optimum mass parameters resulted in optimum maneuverability. Finally, we proposed using the findings to develop humanfriendly PASs for manipulating heavy objects in industries such as manufacturing and assembly, mining, logistics and transport, construction, disaster management, military operations etc.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"96 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131879394","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":"Research on the water quality forecast method based on SVM","authors":"Jian Cao, Hongsheng Hu, S. Qian, Gongbiao Yan","doi":"10.1117/12.858327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858327","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve and protect human being's environment, water resource should be effectively monitored and managed. The support vector machine (SVM) is an algorithm based on structure risk minimizing principle and having high generalization ability. It is strong to solve the problem with small sample, nonlinear and high dimension. In this paper, based on a lot of research fruits of water quality forecast methods at home and abroad, a water forecast method based on support vector machine is put forward, and a water quality multi-classification forecasting model based on time sequence's SVM is established. Its water quality of Tai Lake is aimed and researched by the forecast method of water quality. Its correct rate of SVM model can reach 84.62%, its correct rate of back-propagation neutral network (BPNN) model is 80.77%. The simulation results have proved that its training speed and testing accuracy of SVM are higher than back-propagation neutral network. From the experimental result, the water quality forecast model based on SVM can correctly predict its grade of water quality and provide a new way for forecast of water quality.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133844006","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}