{"title":"Perceived mental workload and operator performance of dexterous manipulators under time delay with master-slave interfaces","authors":"Daniel J. Cannon, M. Siegel","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158613","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic manipulators that use joystick interfaces for telemanipulation take time and effort to master and lack an intuitive basis for human robot interaction. These factors can hamper operator performance, increase cognitive workload, and limit overall user effectiveness on highly dexterous tasks. Master-slave interfaces (MSIs) used in the fields of animatronics, telesurgery, and hazardous materials handling are intuitive and improve operator performance, but are limited because they typically operate in a controlled environment and lack robustness. When Master Slave (MS) controllers use forcefeedback errors can accumulate and create instabilities due to the synchronous bilateral communication between the remote and local systems. Instability can be mitigated and errors reduced in these systems by separating the bilateral communication into a dual-unilateral (DU) asynchronous communication. This research focused on comparing and analyzing current MSI controllers with a new DU control method that reduces or eliminates MSI issues such as latency, error, and information loss while providing the user with accurate forcefeedback capability and transparency during operation. It used a simulation-based approach to determine which selected MSI controllers provide users with robust control of dexterous manipulators under time delay. Users performed a variety of dexterous force-feedback tasks with different controllers and the study measured objective task performance and completion time success along with cognitive workload related to user perceived task interaction and mental demands through subjective ratings on the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Task Load Index (TLX). The research findings will help to develop MSI controllers designed to provide operators robust and intuitive interfaces for low-level control of dexterous manipulators.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130896080","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}
Chi He, Long Ma, Yongchong Wu, Guangling Dong, Qiang Li
{"title":"Application of VI technology in DSO measurement system with GPIB interface","authors":"Chi He, Long Ma, Yongchong Wu, Guangling Dong, Qiang Li","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158614","url":null,"abstract":"Digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) is, with applied far going, high sampling frequency and measuring accuracy, a common testing instrument in signal acquisition and processing. While many DSOs are used together to measure multi-channels of signals, there exist some problems in synchronous comparing, acquisition, storage and plots of different signals. In order to solve these problems, the features of three LeCroy DSOs with GPIB interface were analyzed and a DSOs measurement system was constructed by Virtual instrument (VI) technology. Software design and user interface of the measurement system were discussed with emphasis. The system had been used in test of some position servo system, whose results indicated that the software took on rational design concept and flexible operation. Beside, measuring accuracy and reliability of the system satisfied the requirements of design technical specifications.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129691916","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":"Virtual measurement of spacecraft solar array power loss in partially shaded condition","authors":"Yang Yang, Donglai Zhang, Wei-Wen Guo","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158630","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the impact of partially shading on the electrical performance of solar array is investigated. With small amount of the solar cells are shaded, the output power degradation could be much more. This is critical for space applications because the partially shading cause by the spacecraft is usually unavoidable and the output power degradation of solar array might cause safety problem. A method for measuring the power loss in virtual environment is proposed. The contour of spacecraft is modelled in virtual environment to generate the shadow graphs on solar arrays. Based on the shadow graphs, the characteristics of solar arrays are calculated to measure the power loss. The implement bases on parallel computing. Compared to the conventional implement, the parallel implement is faster and introduce not accuracy degradation.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124375047","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}
Tharindu Fernando, Harshala Gammulle, C. Walgampaya
{"title":"Fuzzy logic based mobile robot target tracking in dynamic hostile environment","authors":"Tharindu Fernando, Harshala Gammulle, C. Walgampaya","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158609","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing number of applications, mobile robots are required to work under challenging conditions where the environment is cluttered with moving obstacles and hostile regions. In this paper we propose a fuzzy logic based control system for mobile robot target tracking and obstacle avoidance in a dynamic hostile environment. Given the existing body of research results in the field of obstacle avoidance and path planning, which is reviewed in this context, particular attention is paid to integrate computer vision based sensing mechanisms to robust fuzzy logic based navigation control method. Depth and colour information for both navigation and target tracking are to be captured using a Asus Xtion PRO sensor, which provides RGB colour and 3D depth imaging data. The fuzzy logic based navigation control algorithm is implemented to control obstacle avoidance, hostile region avoidance and target tracking. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was verified through several experiments, which demonstrates the feasibility of a fuzzy target tracker as well as the extensible obstacle and hostile region avoidance system.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129113534","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}
Xiangpeng Fu, K. Feng, Changzhong Wang, Junxing Zhang
{"title":"Improving fingerprint based access control system using quick response code","authors":"Xiangpeng Fu, K. Feng, Changzhong Wang, Junxing Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158611","url":null,"abstract":"Access control systems have been widely used in physical security to authenticate the passing people and control their entrance. The existing systems can be classified into the fingerprint based system, the proximity card based system, etc. according to the adopted authentication techniques. However, proximity cards are easy to lose, while fingerprints also become less reliable because they can be copied to make fakes. It appears access control systems relying on only one single authentication technique can be really risky. In this paper, we improve the traditional fingerprint based access control system with an additional authentication process and a remote authorization scheme, both of which are based on Quick Response Code (QR code). The second authentication process leverages the one-time password (OTP) and the personalized response to a challenge contained in the QR code to enhance security. The authorization scheme assists a remote manager to grant temporary access to otherwise unauthorized personnel using the time-stamped authorization information stored in the QR code. We have implemented the prototype of the proposed system in the .NET framework. Our experiments show the prototype takes about 77 ms to offer more rigorous authentication and 134 ms to provide both strengthened authentication and authorization.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115330822","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":"Intelligent magnetostrictive measurement technology for loss rate of cross-sectional area of rectangular notch","authors":"Zhihui Zhou, Donglai Zhang, Jinping Sun, Enchao Zhang, Shimin Pan, Anshou Li","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158592","url":null,"abstract":"Because of loss of cross-sectional area of pipes and ropes caused by corrosion and mechanical damage, the maximum stress and structural strength of material will be greatly reduced. In order to avoid structural failure, it is important to intelligently measure the loss rate of cross-sectional area of material. The traditional methods of measuring the residual material thickness are based on contact measurement method, so the measuring efficiency is low and it is not suitable for long time intelligently health monitoring of structure. This paper proposes a novel method to solve this problem. Magnetostrictive sensors are used to excite guided wave and detect the signals reflected from defects. And then, the cross-sectional loss of the defects can be intelligently calculated by using the detected signals by monitoring computer. The calculated results will be helpful for structural health measurement. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can realize long range and non-contact intelligent measurement of cross-sectional loss of material.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"289 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115955772","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":"Content based image retrieval by IPP algorithm","authors":"Jia-Yin Song, Zunwen He","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158604","url":null,"abstract":"In order to realize the content-based image retrieval (CBIR), some characteristics of the images should be extracted like color, texture and shape. The extremely important thing in CBIR is to search the most similar database images to match the query image, which needs to improve the precision. This paper proposes an Improving Precision Priority (IPP) algorithm integrating vital features and the query method to improve performance. Proposed IPP algorithm has two phases. In the first phase, both of the query image and database images are divided into several blocks respectively. After that, we calculate the color histogram of each block. Then we take Euclidean distance to compare the similarities to complete the first round of retrieval. To calculate the distance, we allocate different blocks to different weights, the blocks of the central part always containing much useful information should be allocated more weight. And the surrounding part are allocated less and the corners have the smallest weight. All of the distances of the small blocks are accumulated together to be the distance of the whole image. In this phase we can retrieve some related images from the database denoting as result A. In the second phase, shape characteristics of result A are extracted using Hu moment invariants. After that, we calculate the invariant moments similarities between the query image and those of result A images. The most similar images are shown as the final result. IPP algorithm can increase the precision.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128204073","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":"Sharpness tracking algorithm for stereo microscope","authors":"A. Afanasjeva, A. Ignatenko","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158626","url":null,"abstract":"The part of modern research is closely connected with stereo technologies. In some cases people need working with complex objects difficult for visual perception. In such cases we need to create the special augmented reality adapted for stereo data. Among the different problems we face is an unfocused stereo data. The goal of the work is a special algorithm for sharpness tracking which can be applied to the real-time instruments. These instruments can increase the convenience of the system and help to control the sharpness. In the current work we formulate the sharpness definition for stereo stream. Parallel to the sharpness tracking problem we resolve the problem of sharpness area detection on the current frame. The proposed algorithm takes in attention the classical sharpness definition for mono images and also the features of human perception of stereo images. The quality realization of the algorithm provides the developing of the instruments for work in the augmented reality in a human-computer interface system. These tools significantly speed up the work with the stereo stream and significantly improve the quality of human perception as a result.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132916853","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":"Comparison of photometric stereo and spectral analysis for visualization and assessment of burn injury from hyperspectral imaging","authors":"Houzhu Ding, R. Chang","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158598","url":null,"abstract":"Burn wounds resulting from thermal insult to the skin are typically classified according to varying depth and therefore require differential levels of medical intervention. In this paper, two methods are proposed for assessing burn injury. The two methods compared are photometric stereo (PS) and spectral analysis. Firstly, PS represents a robust topography recovery algorithm that is implemented to reconstruct the burn and normal skin tissue from multiple hyperspectral images under different illumination conditions. This enabled the visualization of a 3D skin depth map which is used to assess the burn degree. Next, the hyperspectral measurement data of the skin are analyzed to assess partial thickness thermal injury with functional correlation through hemodynamic parameters related to tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery. Two dimensional principle component analysis (2DPCA) is used for noise reduction towards extracting features from the hyperspectral images within the wavelength range from 375 nm to 1050 nm. This is followed by applying the spectral analysis algorithm to calculate oxygen saturation fraction and concentration of total hemoglobin, where each parameter provided a biomarker of injured tissue. The two methods yielded alternative indicators for burn assessment that could be correlated with each other. Specifically, the spectral measurement result could be used as a reference value for the physical skin site depth map.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121546357","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}
A. Tjahjono, D. O. Anggriawan, A. Priyadi, M. Pujiantara, M. Purnomo
{"title":"Overcurrent relay curve modeling and its application in the real industrial power systems using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system","authors":"A. Tjahjono, D. O. Anggriawan, A. Priyadi, M. Pujiantara, M. Purnomo","doi":"10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIVEMSA.2015.7158610","url":null,"abstract":"Create an accurate model with over-current relays (OCRs) play an important role in the coordination of power system protection. Modeling of the OCR using methods like the direct data storage and software models gave only approximate models. Moreover, modeling based on mathematical models is not appropriate to deal with ill-defined and uncertain systems. Therefore, in this paper proposes modeling of OCRs using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). ANFIS is developed using different numbers and types of membership functions (MFs). Each MF is implemented using training and checking data. The load current and time of opening of the circuit breaker are used as input and output in the ANFIS training. ANFIS, which is developed in the OCR curve model using sample data from protection coordination, is implemented in Hess Indonesia Corporation. Different types of MFs are to obtain the optimal design of OCR curves. The result of ANFIS in the OCR curve modeling is accurate and encouraging; thus, the ANFIS model can be used in digital relays and applied successfully in the real systems. In all cases, ANFIS models using 30 Gbell-type MFs yields a very minimum average percentage error of 0.028419 %.","PeriodicalId":348918,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124536340","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}