{"title":"Experiments with new system identification tool based on Continuous Kernel Hough Transform","authors":"J. Turán, P. Filo, D. Siskovicova","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248228","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes parameter estimation of linear systems using a new approach - continuous kernel Hough transform. Definition of continuous kernel Hough transform, basics of parameter estimation and the system identification tool are presented. Parameters of linear models have been estimated in experiments and the experimental results have been compared with the well-known technique of estimation - the least square method.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121968118","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":"Authoring and assessing Physlet/spl reg/-based interactive curricular material","authors":"W. Christian, M. Belloni, M. Dancy, A. Cox","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247975","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of Internet standards such as HTML and the Java programming language enables the development and deployment of curricular material that can easily be adopted and adapted by others. Physlets, Java applets developed at Davidson College, are based on these standards and are now being used over half a dozen countries. Physlets communicate with a Web browser by employing, a scripting language such as JavaScript, thereby allowing one applet to be used in many different contexts. This feature makes it possible to use a modular approach for the design of curricular material. This paper describes Physlet-based material and presents examples of their use. Additional information is available on the Davidson Physlets site: http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets.html.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125037612","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":"Distributed message routing in unstructured P2P network overlays","authors":"M. Ciglarič, M. Pancur, M. Trampus, T. Vidmar","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248152","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an alternative message routing approach in unstructured peer-to-peer overlay networks. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems are loosely coupled, highly autonomous systems without hierarchy. Usually, flooding-based routing mechanisms are used for sending messages through the application layer overlay. Due to the limited scalability and high network load experiences, the paper suggests an improvement to reduce the traffic and overall performance: a peer remembers recently forwarded answers, so that he may route the next query messages with the same contents only to the relevant neighbor, not to all of them. Preliminary network simulations have shown promising results.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131625229","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 power flow method suitable for solving OPF problems using genetic algorithms","authors":"M. Todorovski, D. Rajičić","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248186","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new power flow method tailored for genetic algorithms application in solving optimal power flow problems. Generating units, the only controllable elements for which four variables are associated, were given special attention, since they influence to great extent both speed and robustness of any power flow method. In this paper, the standard procedure in which one sets the generator-bus active power output and voltage magnitude has been replaced by an innovative approach where generator-bus voltage magnitude and voltage angle are scheduled. The method relies on the bus admittance matrix, which due to applied bus ordering in layers has block tridiagonal sparse structure. A new technique for Gaussian elimination and back-substitution for such matrices has been developed. The results from five test systems have shown superiority in both time and robustness of the proposed method over the well-known fast decoupled power flow method.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125453886","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 promising paradigm shift in the use of computers for science instruction","authors":"Z. Fazarinc","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247972","url":null,"abstract":"The common practice of using mathematical models for teaching topics in sciences is contrasted with the unique opportunity offered by the power of modern computers. The countless mathematical equations describing the externally observed behaviors may be all embraced by a handful of first principles underlying these behaviors. Examples from natural sciences and from statistics are presented.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116594719","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":"Modular matrix based logic controller","authors":"A. Polic, A. Hace, K. Jezernik","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248041","url":null,"abstract":"Modern, technologically demanding and highly automated machines include a variety of control functions to enable efficient, safe, controllable and observable operation. Control functions are implemented on logic controller, which is a discrete event supervisory system for execution of parallel, synchronized and sequential control functions. To design a control logic of such a machine, appropriate specification and design methods have to be introduced. This paper introduces a matrix based modular logic controller design. The modular logic controller is specified and formalized using matrix representation of Petri Nets (PN). The matrix representation is supplemented with PN next-state function and discrete event controller equation which enables the simulation of the system and analysis of its performances before the target system is actually built. The target system in this paper is a cutting machine transport system. Using the proposed method, the properties of studied system are simulated and analyzed.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"741 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120849277","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":"Robotics in professional university program","authors":"A. Rojko, K. Jezernik, M. Spaner","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248047","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe an approach in teaching of robotics in the professional university program at University of Electrical Engineering Maribor, Slovenia. Developing a proper teaching method was not an easy task as the robotics is interdisciplinary, rapidly evolving field. The problem also is that the students often lacks in necessary mathematical and physical knowledge. We overcome the problem by introducing a set of demonstration exercises, simulations and laboratory exercises that are closely linked with the lectures. Our aim was to give students an engineering experience by practical work on the modern equipment as well as necessary theoretical knowledge in robotics.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120969247","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}
I. Hafner, B. Šimunič, V. Valencic, S. Djordevic, P. Stusek, G. Žnidarić
{"title":"Geometric model of muscle contraction","authors":"I. Hafner, B. Šimunič, V. Valencic, S. Djordevic, P. Stusek, G. Žnidarić","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1248184","url":null,"abstract":"We use a function transformation that leaves volume unchanged as the basis for geometric model of muscle contraction. The model is built after making an experiment on a frog leg muscle under single electrical stimulus.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123332293","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":"Design of 2-D linear-phase FIR filters with equiripple magnitude response","authors":"F. Wysocka-Schillak","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247982","url":null,"abstract":"In the paper, a new approach for the design of 2-D linear-phase FIR filters with the equiripple magnitude response is proposed. The design problem is solved by means of its transformation into an equivalent nonlinear optimization problem. The proposed approach is used to design filters that have centro-symmetric and quadrantally symmetric magnitude responses. Two design examples are included.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129914866","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":"Workplace for demonstration of frequency stabilization of laser using personal computer","authors":"B. Růžička, J. Lazar, O. Cíp, O. Wilfert","doi":"10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EURCON.2003.1247997","url":null,"abstract":"In this extended abstract, we describe a device which was developed to demonstrate frequency stabilization of semiconductor laser by linear absorption using personal computer. The usage of absorbents for frequency stabilization in metrology and telecommunications is very progressive. The device is equipped with Fabry-Perot laser beam spectral profile analyzer. This is the original solution and it is intended for practical teaching students of optoelectronics courses.","PeriodicalId":337983,"journal":{"name":"The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003. Computer as a Tool.","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133328608","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}