Adithya Ravisankar, A. Agarwal, Apurva Kulkarni, M. A. A. Kumar, B. Ram, S. Sivasubramaniam, B. Nair
{"title":"A GPS-less Navigation System","authors":"Adithya Ravisankar, A. Agarwal, Apurva Kulkarni, M. A. A. Kumar, B. Ram, S. Sivasubramaniam, B. Nair","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.58","url":null,"abstract":"GPS receivers have a major drawback: they don't work properly under multi-storey concrete structures, for e.g. in underground car parks, University buildings, shopping malls, factory complexes etc. A navigation system for such huge enclosed spaces, which does not rely on a GPS is very desirable for visitors to such places who do not know the layout of the place. This paper presents the design and development of a low-cost GPS-less navigation system based on TI Stellaris-LM3S3748, which could help visitors find their way around such places.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124176843","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":"Feasibility Study of Fault Tolerant Blac Motor Using PM Enhanced Sensing","authors":"A. Dwivedi, S. K. Singh, R. Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.45","url":null,"abstract":"BLAC motor operation requires the application of identical zero crossing higher voltage applied to its winding. This voltage should be greater than the motional induced EMF. It is possible to obtain a replica of motional induced EMF in its winding using Permanent Magnet (PM) enhanced sensing scheme. Any PM rotor having even number of N-S poles may be suitable for such a scheme. In this paper, the feasibility study of a fault-tolerant BLAC motor using PM enhanced has been experimentally investigated. In actual practice input voltage of PM motor contains larger number of harmonics due to switching action thereby making it quite cumbersome to estimate the EMF induced in its coil. In PM enhanced sensing, the replica of induced EMF is available for each coil under dynamic condition. The scheme introduced can be suitably implemented for fault tolerant motor where the motional induced EMF of each of the winding segment of auxiliary winding may be amplified using commercially available Power Operational amplifier (P-OPAMP). The amplified voltage is used to activate the respective winding segment on the main winding.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127798530","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. Simha, M. M. Kumar, Vishaal Nagaraja, T. V. Prabhakar, H. Jamadagni
{"title":"Infinite Coffee Cup","authors":"S. Simha, M. M. Kumar, Vishaal Nagaraja, T. V. Prabhakar, H. Jamadagni","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.22","url":null,"abstract":"Imagine you go to your favorite café house or a restaurant and the system recognizes your presence and alerts the waiter and caters to your favorite beverage you longed for the day. The main motivation to Infinite Coffee Cup is to detect the presence of a person and dynamically and non-Invasively estimate the amount of coffee in a circular cup on the table. One of the more popular devices used is Microsoft Kinect, which has cameras that capture both RGB and Depth data. Kinect is a low cost sensing device which provides two streams of images, 8 bit 3 channel RGB image and 11 bit single channel depth image. The system is fixed at the roof facing downwards and it takes a top view of the cup placed on the table. We use \"libfreenect\" [1] drivers which is an open source project, to stream data from kinect. We employ various image processing algorithms using Open CV (Open Source Computer Vision) which is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision. The algorithms are used to manipulate the data from kinect to, -Detect the circular coffee cups in the RGB image. -Overlay and correlate the depth values of cups in the depth image to get the height and amount of coffee in the cup.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"451 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127005902","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}
Deepak K. Srivatsa, B. Preethi, R. Parinitha, G. Sumana, A. Kumar
{"title":"Smart Street Lights","authors":"Deepak K. Srivatsa, B. Preethi, R. Parinitha, G. Sumana, A. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.25","url":null,"abstract":"Smart street lights is a project on intelligent illumination control of street lights to optimize the problem of power consumption and illumination of the streets, late in the night. Street lights today are being replaced by LED street lighting system, which reduces the power consumption. The other advantage of LED is that the intensity can be controlled easily. Hence, movement detection based street light control can be designed easily.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122095285","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}
Surya T. Theja, Manoj Desai, R. Bharadwaj, R. Belavadi, P. S. Gowra, Rajeshwari Hegde
{"title":"Minimal Usage of Water Resource for Car Washing Using Autonomous Robot","authors":"Surya T. Theja, Manoj Desai, R. Bharadwaj, R. Belavadi, P. S. Gowra, Rajeshwari Hegde","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.53","url":null,"abstract":"The primary aim of the project is to build a robot that is capable of reaching every point of a given cuboidal structure, without any human effort. In real world, structures with perfect planes are rarely encountered. Hence, to include the ability of traversing uneven surfaces, a legged robot is designed. As one of its many applications, we illustrate its use in washing a car, with minimal usage of water. This idea can be extended to design robots capable of reaching remote points in skyscrapers, for painting, cleaning and allied purposes, which eliminates the need to put human life at risk. Also, the application demonstrated in the project is expected to put an end to the problem of excessive usage of water that is associated with any technique of washing a car, available today.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125259703","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}
K. Bhuvanan, Abhiram Sai Krishna, Govardhan Golla, P. V. S. Rao
{"title":"A Multi-camera Wireless Capsule Endoscopic System","authors":"K. Bhuvanan, Abhiram Sai Krishna, Govardhan Golla, P. V. S. Rao","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.19","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this project is to build an efficient multi camera wireless capsule endoscopic system, thereby trying to make the capsule have 360° angle of view. The primary idea is to address the problem of limited diagnosis caused due to the formation of blind areas while using a single camera. A multi camera approach helps to reduce the blind area. However increased image sensors cause increase in power consumption. In this work, a 4 camera wireless capsule system prototype was built which uses JPEG image compression to reduce the data size needed to be transmitted by the RF transmitter. Stellar is LM4F120 (ARM Cortex M4) micro controller performs the main task of image compression, EZ430-RF2500 to establish the wireless link and the cameras used are Omni vision's OV7760.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114898924","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. Abhishek, A. Poojary, M. V. A. Rao, S. Narayanan
{"title":"Low Power Portable EEG for Continuous Monitoring with Active Electrodes","authors":"B. Abhishek, A. Poojary, M. V. A. Rao, S. Narayanan","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.66","url":null,"abstract":"A low power and portable EEG with active electrodes for continuous monitoring of brain waves is presented. Main innovation in the project is the development of high performance dry active electrodes, which are more practical and wearable than the conventional wet electrodes. The device was built with discrete low power analog and digital integrated circuits provided by Texas Instruments, with minimal power consumption in mind. The results obtained shows that, the device performs similar or even better than the conventional EEG systems.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128944646","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":"Fast Response Search and Rescue Robot, Assisted Low Power WSN Net for Navigation and Detection","authors":"Siddhartha Kumar, V. Reddy, P. Prakash, P. Aparna","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.10","url":null,"abstract":"Our project is a remotely controlled robot capable of surveying disaster situations or act as a security countermeasure. It utilizes a stationary network of passive infrared sensor nodes interconnected through a multi-hop Zigbee network. The sensors are motion sensitive and using regional localization can be used for identifying the location of survivors or intruders based on the situation. The robot is controlled via a Wi-fi link which streams real time video back to the base station. The main processor is a TI Sitara AM335x ARM processor. It also acts as relay for the sensor data. Each node consists of three passive infrared detection circuits each covering a sector of 120 degrees and connects via the TI CC2530 ZNP chip. The raw PIR data is signal conditioned using an LM324 Op-amp. The nodes can be deployed easily due to their compact size. Their low power consumption and low cost makes them ideal for remote areas and can be deployed in large numbers.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124151250","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":"Designing a Central Control Unit and Soil Moisture Sensor Based Irrigation Water Pump System","authors":"Pulkit Hanswal, O. Dale, D. Gupta, R. Yadav","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.61","url":null,"abstract":"In this report the authors describe the design of a central control unit and soil moisture sensor based automated irrigation system. This project aims to provide a user friendly, reliable and automated water pumping system which sorts out the problem of over irrigation and helps in irrigation water optimization and management. Our project not only tries to modernize the irrigation practices and ensure the optimum yield by carefully tailoring the requirements of each field or crop specifically, but also ensures that water is not unnecessarily wasted. The same system can be used for different crops having different thresholds by setting of the potentiometer.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115655648","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":"Robotic Valet Parking System","authors":"Anuj Nayak, H. C. Akash, G. Prakash","doi":"10.1109/TIIEC.2013.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIIEC.2013.62","url":null,"abstract":"Due to influx of vehicles on the road, citizens inevitably combat traffic congestion on a daily basis. This is underlined by the lack of parking infrastructure and shoot up of vehicle to human population ratio. The Robotic Valet Parking System uses the robotic valets, which are the vehicle carriers and parks the vehicles compactly in a given space of the parking area once the driver loads his vehicle at the loading bay. Robotic Valet Automated Parking System (APS) provides solution for the parking problems without the need for special construction for automation. The conventional concrete garages can be transformed into an automated parking system with the use of robotic valets. Since the robotic valet APS requires concrete flooring, which provides the fire separation, builders consider it approvable. The number and the position of the occupied vehicles can be determined without the deployment of the sensors in each of the parking slots. The vacancy of the parking garage is displayed on the LCD screen which is of benefit to the costumer. The central processing unit wirelessly controls the locomotion of robotic valets and the arrangement of vehicles in the parking area. We shall prove the space efficiency, accuracy, operational speed, safety and cost effectiveness of the proposed parking system. A functional prototype of a robotic valet is built which parks the vehicle loaded. The Unified Technology Learning Platform (UTLP) Kit, which has TI (Texas Instruments) ARM CORTEX A-8 microprocessor unit embedded in the TI OMAP 3530 applications processor, is the control unit and this monitors the movement of the robotic valet wirelessly. On producing the parking slip at the exit the robotic valet automatically retrieves the vehicle to the costumer.","PeriodicalId":250687,"journal":{"name":"2013 Texas Instruments India Educators' Conference","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130905796","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}