{"title":"Long-term estimation of human spatial interactions through multiple laser ranging sensors","authors":"Amir Salarpour, Hassan Khotanlou, N. Mavridis","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828349","url":null,"abstract":"For robots to be able to naturally co-habitate human spaces, as well as to interact with single humans or groups of humans, they should be able to navigate in ways that are human-friendly, and appropriate to human spatial interaction social norms, such as keeping personal spaces. For that purpose, we are developing a special theory which extends path planning, which we call social path plan, which allows humans or groups as obstacles or goals. In order to provide tuning for our simulation results, we are acquiring a natural human interaction dataset, through measurements from multiple laser ranging sensors positioned at a cross-roads indoor space. We thus describe our system consisting of spatial and temporal alignment algorithms for multiple laser sensors, as well as foreground detection, sensor data fusion, segmentation, tracking, two-legged position and pose estimation, and event detection. The method presented can be easily extended to larger spaces and applied for many other application domains beyond our main goal of learning optimal spatial interaction behaviours for human-robot interaction.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127510594","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":"Close loop performance analysis of under-actuated two-link robot over networked control system","authors":"S. Hussain, M. Kadri, Ayesha Rab","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828354","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on stability of under-actuated two-link robot implemented over network control Systems. The proposed control system stabilizes and balances the robot in erect position. This paper differentiates synchronous and asynchronous actuation. Smith predictor has been used to handle dead time and control closed loop over asynchronous actuation. The simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"464 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125822088","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 analysis of proactive and reactive protocols in mobile Ad-hoc networking: A simulation based analysis","authors":"Mazhar Hmalik, Qasim Awais, M. Jamil, Arun Dhyani","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828333","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is the self-governing network which consists of the mobile nodes connected through the wireless link and each node is end node along with functionality of the router which enables to send the data to other nodes. The nodes in the network are free to move and due to this reason it changes the position so frequently and they are free to move whenever and where they want. The main classes of the routing protocols are proactive and reactive. Proactive strategy of routing is also called the on demand routing which is the most popularly strategy for the wireless Ad-hoc network while reactive protocols are AODV, DSR which are based in the route discovery mechanism and create the route on the demand of the route. To measure the performance of the network, OPNET is use to make the comparative analysis between the proactive and reactive routing protocols for MANETs.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115457825","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}
Zain Murtaza, Noaman Mehmood, Mohsin Jamil, Y. Ayaz
{"title":"Design and implementation of low cost remote-operated unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)","authors":"Zain Murtaza, Noaman Mehmood, Mohsin Jamil, Y. Ayaz","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828335","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proceeds with first presenting a review on unmanned ground vehicles (UGV); discussing some design approaches for implementation of a UGV according to the application perspectives. The main purpose of this paper is to design and develop a low cost remote operated ground vehicle. Various sensors such as Camera, Global Positioning System (GPS), ultrasonic range finder, digital compass, motion sensor, infrared sensor are installed on UGV for the operator to understand the environment and behavior of UGV. The data is presented on a graphical user interface (GUI) for the operator who controls the UGV from some remote location. XBEE modules are used to implement the wireless communication which are low cost, offers a reliable communication and widely used in research projects nowadays. The platform is suitable for many applications like surveillance and for military exploration purposes.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128309341","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":"Subspace based widely linear frequency estimation in sustainable energy systems","authors":"Ammar Ahmed, K. Zia, M. Tufail","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828381","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency estimation has become a great challenge in power systems for sustainable provision of energy. Renewable energy systems like wind turbines and solar energy offer variable power output and are highly unpredictable. Smart grid systems, which incorporate several renewable energy resources, have varying topology and frequent switching between the main grid and micro-grids take place due to supply-demand mismatch. This results in frequent variation in system frequency. Thus, effective frequency estimation is necessary to control the future state of the power system. In this paper, we have presented subspace based techniques for real-time frequency estimation in balanced and unbalanced power systems by exploiting widely linear modeling. Comparison has been performed with recently developed CLMS and ACLMS techniques. It was observed that subspace based methods demonstrate significantly better performance compared to CLMS and ACLMS techniques in terms of accuracy and time resolution.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128458151","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}
Hafsah Ahmad, Abubakar Yamin, Aqsa Shakeel, S. O. Gillani, Umer Ansari
{"title":"Detection of glaucoma using retinal fundus images","authors":"Hafsah Ahmad, Abubakar Yamin, Aqsa Shakeel, S. O. Gillani, Umer Ansari","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828388","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an image processing technique for the detection of glaucoma which mainly affects the optic disc by increasing the cup size. During early stages it was difficult to detect Glaucoma, which is in fact second leading cause of blindness. In this paper glaucoma is categorized through extraction of features from retinal fundus images. The features include (i) Cup to Disc Ratio (CDR), which is one of the primary physiological parameter for the diagnosis of glaucoma and (ii) Ratio of Neuroretinal Rim in inferior, superior, temporal and nasal quadrants i.e. (ISNT quadrants) for verification of the ISNT rule. The novel technique is implemented on 80 retinal images and an accuracy of 97.5% is achieved taking an average computational time of 0.8141 seconds.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121647722","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":"Modeling, control of a two-wheeled self-balancing robot","authors":"Osama Jamil, Mohsin Jamil, Y. Ayaz, Khubab Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828364","url":null,"abstract":"Two wheeled self-balancing robot is based on an inverted pendulum system. This paper describes the development of kinematics model of a two wheeled self-balancing robot and its control using various control techniques. The analysis of the developed kinematic model can be divided into wheel and frame structure, after one is done with design and development of mechatronics system is finalized. The said test platform is two Degree of Freedom highly non-linear and unstable system. Main focus of this research is to develop an efficient controller required to enable the robot to act in real time and test different controllers to analyze their performance by the vertical balance, position, its control signal and disturbance rejection capabilities.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124268052","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. Hussain, Kunwar Faraz Ahmed Khan, Saad Malik, Noaman Mehmood
{"title":"Driving space detection for structured outdoor environment using monocular vision","authors":"S. Hussain, Kunwar Faraz Ahmed Khan, Saad Malik, Noaman Mehmood","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828340","url":null,"abstract":"Driving space detection is one of the basic steps for autonomous guidance of vehicles. In this paper a real time road segmentation algorithm is proposed for identifying driving space. The presented algorithm uses the concept of appearance based object detection (ABOD) to detect traversable area for vehicles. The input image is partitioned as road and off road and each individual pixel is classified as either traversable or non traversable. It uses Mean Shift Algorithm for road segmentation and then uses ABOD on segmented image to separate road and off road areas.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130903968","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}
Saeed Iqbal, Umair Iqbal, M. Khan, M. Saeed, A. Waqas
{"title":"Design, fabrication and analysis of solar parabolic trough collector for steam engine","authors":"Saeed Iqbal, Umair Iqbal, M. Khan, M. Saeed, A. Waqas","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828383","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about the design, fabrication and analysis of parabolic trough. Idea of research is to concentrate the solar energy at some focal point to generate enough temperature that can generate steam. That steam can be used to run a steam engine for production of electricity. In this research project a parabolic trough is designed and its efficiency is checked experimentally. Luminance and temperature on the focal point is measured. Overall this paper is about the mechanical design of parabolic trough and its experimental testing for its use in generating electricity using steam engine.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115672379","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":"Sensor less control of DC motor using Kalman filter for low cost CNC machine","authors":"Azfar Khalid, Amjad Nawaz","doi":"10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICREATE.2014.6828362","url":null,"abstract":"DC motor is a common component used in automated systems, almost in every industry. In this paper, the focus is on the machine tool and precision system control design as DC motors are used as prime movers for all the stages. Sophisticated CNC machine tools use high end closed or open architecture control and sensors to run complex CAM routines. Linear or rotary encoders and glass scales are commonly used for rate sensing as a feedback system in CNC machine tools. The intelligent control design is necessary to operate these flexible CNC machine tool systems to achieve high accuracies. To make such systems in low cost, it is necessary to build machine tool system with reduced number of sensors. In this paper, an intelligent speed control of DC motor in a sensor less environment is followed in order to avoid costly hardware. This is a stochastic estimation method for estimating DC motor angular rate and current without using any rate sensors in the closed loop feedback. In this simple and cost effective approach, we have used Kalman Filter (KF) for the speed control of DC motor where it is applied to stochastic time varying system. KF is found robust against external disturbances and has the ability to predict such states and parameters which are even not easy to measure through deployed sensors. The employed scheme uses the state estimation technique by analyzing the currents in the windings and re-constructs the states. This way, the machine tool can get high accuracies using low cost control alternative.","PeriodicalId":266159,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117246532","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}