{"title":"Fault detection and localization in solar photovoltaic arrays using the current-voltage sensing framework","authors":"Masoud Alajmi, I. Abdel-Qader","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535257","url":null,"abstract":"Photovoltaic (PV) electrical power generation is an important and promising research area because there is high demand for renewable energy systems. In order to improve the performance of PV array systems so that these energy systems might be better understood and made more readily available, further research needs to be done on various means of detecting faults on PV array and system monitoring. In this paper, we present a new technique for fault detection using current and voltage values in comparison to maximum measured signal values obtained during normal operation conditions. We identify specific detection zones to determine the precise faulty zone. To test and validate the proposed model, MATLAB/Simulink software was used to simulate it and in this work we present the results under the worst-case-scenario of fault which is the case when all branches are faulty simultaneously. The model presented is a robust model and uses fewer voltage sensors than current models.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133240259","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":"Gait design for a Tetrahedral Worm","authors":"Korey Cook, Miguel Abrahantes","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535310","url":null,"abstract":"Tetrahedral robots come from a family of crawling and tumbling robots. They operate by changing their shape. This could be a more functional way to move than a wheeled rover because it can crawl or tumble over rough terrain and obstacles. The current tetrahedral robot (an 8-TET), which was developed by our team, moves by tumbling or rolling. This is a problem because it constantly is changing its orientation due to the fact that it is rolling and each part is upside down at some point. A new robot was to be designed that does not change its orientation. The idea of the Tetrahedral Worm (TET Worm) came about as a possible alternative for the current robot. The TET Worm moves by crawling rather than tumbling. By doing this movement, it holds a constant orientation. The new robot could be designed, tested, and controlled using SimMechanics, which is a package of MATLAB. After the robot is designed and a control system is constructed on the program, several Gaits (the way that the robot will move) must be designed for the TET Worm. The Gaits can then be compared to one another to test which is the best for controllability, force on the struts, and speed.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133565111","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":"Cyber-physical systems in smart transportation","authors":"D. Möller, H. Vakilzadian","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535338","url":null,"abstract":"Cyber-physical systems offer a new approach to the application of information technology to improve the performance of a transportation system. This paper focuses on transportation system processes and the information technology requirements for applying cyber-physical systems to on-road transport systems. Traffic flow simulation studies consisting of vehicles and roads were conducted in order to understand real world transportation system dynamics. The requirements of cyber-physical systems in transportation are introduced as the basis for smart transportation systems applications and their development. Therefore, the paper also focuses on modeling cyber-physical environments that provide fidelity, while the components of such systems increasingly combine physical and digital subsystems, as shown in the use case example.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133883831","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":"PTM Tracker: A system for determining trends of PTM modification sites relative to protein domains","authors":"Oliver Bonham-Carter, D. Bastola","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535288","url":null,"abstract":"Post-translational modifications (PTMs) increase protein functional diversity by modifying an amino acid at specific locations called modification sites (MSs) in protein. It is believed that domains are being influenced by PTMs at interacting MSs to determine the unique functional changes in protein and, in this scenario, it is likely that the exact position of the MS, relative to the domain, plays a major part in structural changes by PTM influence. In this study, we present a system called “PTM Tracker”, built from two main parts to study the general distances of MS amino acids which are relative to protein functional domains. In the first part, we apply our system to illustrate that unique organisms appear to have distinguishing locations where PTMs may be found in the proteome. These crowded locations of MS sites (called, “neighbourhoods”) are relative to protein domains. We describe how these MS neighbourhoods may be a conserved extension of the already-conserved domain. Since specific protein domain types may be found in diverse proteins, the second part of our system studies MS neighbourhood clusters, relative to user-selected domains. From the study of many different proteins containing the same domain type, we conclude trends to suggest that MS neighbourhoods have specific locations in protein, relative to the domains (where-ever the domain occurs naturally), with which they are likely to interact. We conclude that the study of these distances may help to understand interaction mechanisms and describe types of protein folding requirements.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114237673","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":"Object distance detection using a joint transform correlator","authors":"Alexander Layton, R. Marsh","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535326","url":null,"abstract":"Computer stereo vision makes heavy use of object distance detection. The primary method to detect object distance is to compare two images of the same scene taken from different vantage points. The necessity of comparing two images naturally leads us to investigate optical correlators. Since the Fourier transform, on which optical correlators are based, is lossless, we suppose that distance information encoded in a stereo image pair is preserved through the correlation process. We then try to recover that distance by investigating the location of the correlation peaks. Initial data indicates that we may plausibly extract distance information from a correlation result. However, this data was gathered under very specific and controlled conditions, and further research is necessary to derive a more general result.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124854522","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}
C. Chiu, Yuh-Jiun Liu, Sheng-Yi Chiu, Hsing-Chien Chang, Chia-Lun Hsu
{"title":"A skyline detection algorithm for use in different weather and environmental conditions","authors":"C. Chiu, Yuh-Jiun Liu, Sheng-Yi Chiu, Hsing-Chien Chang, Chia-Lun Hsu","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535321","url":null,"abstract":"Skyline detection plays an important role in unmanned aerial vehicle visual flight control systems. Many studies assume that the skyline in the image is a straight line with clear edge features, but this assumption is not necessarily true under different weather and environmental conditions. For example, when it is cloudy or foggy the contrast and brightness of the image becomes weaker and the skyline is not obvious. The edge features of skyline are hard to be found in these cases. When an aircraft is flying at low altitudes, mountains, woods, or buildings become part of the skyline. Because of this, the contour of the skyline is not a straight line anymore, and the assumptions contradict the actual situation. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes an algorithm that can detect the contour of a curving skyline in an image under different brightnesses and contrasts. Experiments are conducted using 40 images taken in different weather and environmental conditions. The proposed algorithm can achieve stable skyline results in different weather and environmental conditions. The results can be used as a reference for unmanned aerial vehicle flight in order to determine flight attitude.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121729502","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. Khorbotly, J. Yoder, E. Baumgartner, Timothy R. Chaffin
{"title":"An RGB vision system for the automatic calibration of industrial robots","authors":"S. Khorbotly, J. Yoder, E. Baumgartner, Timothy R. Chaffin","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535228","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic vision is widely used to provide feedback for the calibration and operation of autonomous robots. In many situations, the automation of the robot requires tracking one or more points of interest on the robot or in its surroundings. In this work, we developed and tested a camera-based vision system that can detect multiple points of interest and discriminate them into up to three groups. This is achieved by exploring the Red, Green, and Blue color layers in a single video feed. The experimental results show the proposed system's ability to accurately locate and distinguish three points of interest mounted on an industrial robot.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121742095","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":"Project based teaching of power electronics in undergraduate power system course","authors":"M.M.A. Rahman","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535240","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents how power electronics concepts are utilized to teach the topics in power system analysis course. Power system analysis is one of the multiple core courses on power engineering in almost all Electrical Engineering programs around the world. At Grand Valley State University, it is the only course in power engineering offered to Electrical Engineering students during a twelve-week summer semester in junior year. This course covers the fundamental concepts and their applications in all three sections of a complex power system namely generation, transmission, and distribution systems. In recent years, there has been a significant change in the role and application of power electronics in modern power systems. However, at GVSU power electronics is a graduate course and it is also taken by some senior students with deep interest in it as an elective. Hence, attempts have been made to get all Electrical Engineering students, not only the willing seniors, introduced to power electronics and its applications in all three sections of a power system. These include teaching some power system concepts with applications of power electronics and administering power converter based course projects. This paper presents the design of the course to implement power electronics concepts and the implementation of course projects in power system analysis course. The pedagogical challenge is to enhance students' learning of modern power system. This paper shows how it enhanced and changed students' perception about the scope of power engineering.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130252258","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":"Propagation factors affecting the performance of 5G millimeter wave radio channel","authors":"M. Ahamed, S. Faruque","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535329","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter wave spectrum becomes the frontier for 5G cellular network due to the availability of massive bandwidth in 30-300GHz radio spectrum which can be used for cellular communications and backhaul services. But the free space propagation loss is larger in the millimeter wave bands because of the higher carrier frequency. This paper describes different propagation factors that affect the performance of the 5G millimeter wave radio channel and shown the effect of frequency selective fading in the millimeter wave band by 2-ray and 3-ray multipath signal analysis. It is also shown that the performance of the radio channel greatly varies with the operating frequency of the radio channel, user mobility, and the surrounding objects (i.e., fixed or moving) that create indirect rays with differential path delays.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130875031","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":"Model-based verification of PLC programs using Simulink design","authors":"Nannan He, Victor Oke, Gale Allen","doi":"10.1109/EIT.2016.7535242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2016.7535242","url":null,"abstract":"Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) have been widely applied in safety-critical industrial processes. Automated verification of PLC programs is a challenging task for control system engineers. A method of mutation-based verification of Simulink design models for verifying PLCs programs is proposed. In this work, PLC programs coded in the Structured Text (ST) language are assumed to be automatically generated from Simulink models using the tool Simulink PLC Coder from Mathworks. We utilize Simulink diagrams as system design models. Simulink is a powerful design tool for developing complex event-driven applications. To formally verify the functional properties of the design models, a verifying model compiler called Gene-auto is applied to automatically translate Simulink models to C code. The properties to be checked are also translated as C assertions, which are inserted into the translated C code. Then, the generated C code instrumented with assertions is formally verified with a bounded model checking tool for C program called CBMC. The approach is experimentally assessed on a water control system case study. Compared with the previous approach of translating a PLC program to a timed automata and verifying by the use of a model-checking tool, our approach is significantly more scalable to verify non-timing related functional properties.","PeriodicalId":333489,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130313738","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}