{"title":"The experiment and analysis of torsion axle stiffness","authors":"Guoying Xu, Chuang Wang, Xinming Yao, Tao Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237453","url":null,"abstract":"Variation of tank torsion axle stiffness will appear along mileage increasing, and it will affect comfort and reliable durability of tanks. In this paper, the torsion axle stiffness is tested for two types of tank with various mileages, and the variation tendency of tank torsion axle stiffness is obtained.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133572532","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 vibration suppression optimization of electronic apparatus rack based on design of experiment method","authors":"Bo Yuan, Limei Xu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237874","url":null,"abstract":"The optimization of the mechanical reliability of the electronic rack is considered to be an important part of the product manufacture. In the present study, we used the FEA method to estimate the nature frequency and mode shape of the rack; in addition, the vibration experiment was used to validate the FEA model. The method of design of experiment (DOE) was then integrated into the optimization framework. Statistical analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were also employed to determine the relationship between experimental conditions and yield levels. The effects of influential factors on nature frequency, mass and dynamic stress were investigated. The systematical and analytical evaluation method of Taguchi quality engineering was introduced to evaluate the optimal experimental conditions and hence to achieve the highest dynamic performance and the best robustness of quality from the least number of the experimental plan. The product which was produced with the optimization level of the DOE experiment passed the durability test. The results show that the method presented is theoretical and practical, and this approach provides a powerful design tool for selecting combination of parameters for optimal anti-vibration performance of the rack.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130371712","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":"Characteristics of vision-based on-chip pressure sensor with different concentrations of sensing fluid","authors":"F. Hesse, C. Tsai, M. Kaneko","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237539","url":null,"abstract":"A microfluidic, vision-based pressure sensor is tested with three different concentrations of coloured solution, which serves as sensing fluid for the sensor. The sensor is based on the deformation of the a polymeric chamber, which causes the sensing fluid to flow in or out of the sensing area, resulting in a change of colour intensity. That change is recorded by a digital camera and the average darkness of the sensing area is calculated from each frame. Pressure and darkness value are highly correlated, with an absolute correlation of 0.9293 or higher. Thus, for each colour concentration a linear transfer function is determined. The different concentrations greatly differ by the correlation factor, which is defined as the slope on its darkness-pressure plot. The 30% solution's correlation factor is about 3 times lower than the 5% solution's factor, resulting in a 3 times finer resolution of 2.2 kPa on average.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130749436","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":"Measurement sensitivity comparison between cylindrical and rectangular coils above conductive plates","authors":"Siquan Zhang, Jiangfeng Tang, Weihua Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237490","url":null,"abstract":"Eddy current testing is an important non-destructive testing method in defect detection and material evaluation of conductor. In testing of multi-layer moving conductive plates, the excitation coil is cylindrical and parallel to the conductor, the cylindrical and rectangular coils are placed near the excitation coil serving as pick-up coil respectively. The accurate theoretical expressions of the induced voltage' variation of the pick-up coils are derived, and the coils' sensitivity in varied excitation frequency, conductor thickness and moving speed of conductor are compared, the results are verified with the method of FEM.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132563743","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":"Cognitive computing based manufacturing data processing for internet of things in job-shop floor","authors":"Chuang Wang, P. Jiang","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237883","url":null,"abstract":"The internet of things (IOT) technology is introduced to the job-shop floor to address the barriers between upper management system and the underlying field automation systems, but also brings new problems, namely, the production management data appears explosive growth. For solving this problem, a data processing methodology based on cognitive computing and cognitive informatics is presented. By simulating the human brain information processing to eye, ears, hands, nose, tongue and other sensory organs, the data of job-shop floor IOT is divided into seven layers from bottom to top, and those layers is classified to passive data acquisition layer and active data acquisition layer. Active data acquisition process consists of three phases. The manufacturing data, manufacturing information and manufacturing knowledge are respectively acquired in three phases, and stored in the corresponding type of database in order to realize the fast reading and updating in different ways. Manufacturing information and manufacturing knowledge based on different granularity are also divided into different levels to meet the job-shop floor IOT management requirements for quick and correct decision-making. This methodology not only effectively reduces the scale of job-shop floor IOT management data, but also gives out different judgments for manufacture problems according to different response time requirements. What's more, five key enabling technologies are described in detail, that is, layered reference model of data, the database function model, data processing stage division, manufacturing information acquisition model and manufacturing knowledge hierarchical model.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133922844","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":"Reconfigurable control of pipe-laying vessels after sensor faults","authors":"Mingyu Fu, Mingyang Li, Lingling Yu, Chenglin Ni","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237762","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for the control reconfiguration of pipe-laying vessels after sensor faults is described. The pipe-laying vessel is a kind of special operation vessel coordinated with dynamic positioning system. The new reconfiguration approach uses a virtual sensor as a reconfiguration block that permits to keep the nominal controller in the loop. A systematic procedure for virtual sensor design is presented that guarantees Lyapunov stability theory. The feasible and effective of the proposed approach is experimentally verified in the simulation of a pipe-laying vessel.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123027476","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 CMOS turbidity to frequency converter with calibration circuits for detecting turbidity applications","authors":"C. Chiang, Shih-ming Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237515","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a CMOS turbidity to frequency converter with calibration circuits for detecting turbidity applications is newly proposed. A calibration technique is proposed in this work. Another innovation is that the outputs of the proposed chip are directly digitized, they could be easily sent over a wide range of transmission media, such as PSN, radio, optical, IR, ultrasonic, and etc. Before performing the proposed calibration circuits, the maximum linear error is 25.82%. After calibration, the maximum linear error is reduced to 0.89%. The turbidity ranges from 1.5 to 992 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU), and its corresponding output frequency range is 24.875 to 18.214 kHz. The chip area is 1.01 × 1.01 mm2. The proposed chip is suitable for devices of measuring water turbidity.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124082408","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":"An H∞ filter based approach for battery SOC estimation with performance analysis","authors":"Yuehang Chen, Dagui Huang, Daiwei Feng, Kai-Yuan Wei","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237726","url":null,"abstract":"State of charge(SOC) estimation is key to the battery management system used on electric vehicles. Recent studies often focus on the extended Kalman filter method for its theoretically optimal estimation property, but its effectiveness heavily depends on the priori information of noises and high precise battery models, therefore it is unable to deal with complex noises, and tend to fail on extreme environments. A new SOC estimation method using H∞ filter algorithm is presented to estimate SOC online. The algorithm is implemented on a computer, where its performance under different parameters is analysed, and a comparison with Kalman filter showed its robustness against colored noise.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"282 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127920527","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":"Improved dark channel prior dehazing approach using adaptive factor","authors":"C. Cheng-tao, Z. Qiuyu, L. Yanhua","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237742","url":null,"abstract":"Image has important applications in many fields such as marine surveillance, environment monitoring and so on. The scattering effects of the atmospheric particles in the air play a main role of resulting in contrast reduction and color fading. For dealing with this challenging but imperative issue, there are numerous researchers have strove for this scientific field and published a plenty of findings about restoring the foggy image. In generally, the foggy image always includes the sky and non-sky regions while the pixel values in this two distinguished regions is extremely different. The dark channel prior algorithm has been considered as one effective dehazing approach which only employs one constant factor for the overall image regardless of the scene pattern. This imprudent procedures always leads to more darkness image color and fails to achieve excellent results. For dealing with this challenging but imperative issue, we propose one improved dark channel prior dehazing approach using adaptive factor. In our algorithm, the foggy image is segmented into sky region and non-sky region respectively, the critical parameters i.e. light intensity and transmission ratio are obtained based on different factors. Some comparative experiments have also been conducted for validating dehazing performance of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128926861","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":"Modelling and analysis of the damping force for the master manipulator of the robotic catheter system","authors":"Yang Yu, Jian Guo, Shuxiang Guo, Lin Shao","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2015.7237569","url":null,"abstract":"Vascular Interventional Surgery (VIS) is the common but conventional method to cure the vascular disease. Teleoperation, a promising surgery is used to protect the surgeon from X-ray radiation as well as to solve the problem of lacking experienced surgeons in remote rural areas. In this paper, a mathematical model of the damper has been built to get the relationship between the current of the coil and the damping force. According to the mathematical model, a PID control algorithm was designed to improve the accuracy of force feedback. The slave manipulator detect the force of catheter when being inserted into the blood vessels, then the master manipulator produce an equal damping force by a damper based on magnetorheological fluids. The comparison experiments between control mode with the PID algorithm and control mode without PID algorithm have been done to verify the performance. The result shows that the error with the PID control algorithm is small, which indicates the PID algorithm can improve accuracy of the force feedback.","PeriodicalId":286366,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129080960","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}