{"title":"A Finite State Machine modeling language and the associated tools allowing fast prototyping for FPGA devices","authors":"Bertrand Vandeportaele","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945900","url":null,"abstract":"The VHDL hardware description language is commonly used to describe Finite State Machine(FSM) models to be implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA) devices. However, its versatility permits to describe behaviors that deviate from a true FSM leading to systems that are complex to prove, to document and to maintain.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130289627","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}
Daniel Maestro-Watson, A. Izaguirre, N. Arana-Arexolaleiba
{"title":"LCD screen calibration for deflectometric systems considering a single layer refraction model","authors":"Daniel Maestro-Watson, A. Izaguirre, N. Arana-Arexolaleiba","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945890","url":null,"abstract":"Techniques based on deflectometry provide absolute shape measurements on specular surfaces by displaying a series of patterns on an LCD screen and using a camera to observe their reflection on the surface. These techniques can provide accurate measurements, but are prone to calibration errors. The extrinsic calibration of the screen, a key element in the calibration process, is often based on a flat surface model, which does not account for the refraction that occurs in the transparent layers of the LCD screen. Several authors have shown that a single glass layer model can reduce measurement errors, but two parameters that are not always available are needed: the index of refraction and the thickness of the refractive layer of the LCD screen. The method presented in this work allows the experimental computation of both parameters, taking into account the non-flat shape of the screen. A series of markers are placed on the front surface of the LCD and a coordinate measuring machine is employed to obtain its shape. Additional virtual markers are displayed on the screen and observed with a calibrated camera from different positions and orientations. The captured images show view-dependent displacements of the displayed features due to the refraction. Photogrammetric techniques are applied to relate the displacements observed in the images and the measured front surface, and a mathematical minimization algorithm is employed to estimate the LCD screen parameters. Several simulation experiments are performed to evaluate the approach, including the influence of measurement errors. The results indicate feasibility of the method.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130013972","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}
Fatima Zohra Benhalouche, M. S. Karoui, Y. Deville, I. Boukerch, A. Ouamri
{"title":"Multi-sharpening hyperspectral remote sensing data by Multiplicative Joint-Criterion Linear-Quadratic Nonnegative Matrix Factorization","authors":"Fatima Zohra Benhalouche, M. S. Karoui, Y. Deville, I. Boukerch, A. Ouamri","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945884","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-sharpening consists in fusing a multispectral image with a hyperspectral one, to produce an unobservable image with the high spatial resolution of the former and the high spectral resolution of the latter. In this paper, a new fusion method, based on the spectral unmixing concept, is proposed. The proposed method, related to linear-quadratic spectral unmixing techniques, and based on linear-quadratic nonnegative matrix factorization, optimizes a new joint criterion by using new designed multiplicative update rules. This joint criterion exploits a spatial degradation model between the considered images. The proposed method is applied to synthetic data, and its effectiveness is evaluated with established performance criteria. Obtained results prove that the proposed method yields multi-sharpened hyperspectral data with good spectral and spatial fidelities. These results also illustrate that the proposed method outperforms the considered multi-sharpening literature approaches.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131935370","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":"Validation of RF communication systems for Industry 4.0 through channel modeling and emulation","authors":"V. Díez, A. Arriola, I. Val, M. Vélez","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945906","url":null,"abstract":"Industry 4.0 will be distinguished by the capacity of communication via IoT (Internet of Things) between machines to work in a decentralized way and to reach common decisions, resulting in what is called “smart factories”. The use of wireless communication systems will be essential to achieve it, but industrial environments present several challenges, such as: real time control, operation in environments with electromagnetic noise, and monitoring and synchronization of wireless nodes under the massive presence of metal elements in movement, which is a source of undesired wireless channel propagation effects like multipath, scattering, and shadowing. All these channel effects can be characterized carrying out measurement campaigns with channel sounders and obtaining channel models. Due to all of the above, an in-lab validation methodology of radio frequency (RF) communication systems is necessary to ensure a high availability and performance of the communication links. This can be achieved by the use of RF channel emulators, which allow different industrial channel models to be emulated in the laboratory, and therefore testing RF communication systems in realistic situations. Finally, by different metrics of the physical and media access control (MAC) layers, the behavior of RF communication systems can be assessed and even improvements can be suggested. In this paper, a validation methodology is presented which considers the previous aspects and provides essential know-how for the suitability of wireless communication systems for the future Industry 4.0 scenario.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129663630","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":"Electric energy monitoring for applying an energy storage systems in trolleybus DC traction","authors":"Pavel Jandura, J. Kubín, L. Hubka","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945904","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with practical implementation of modern energy monitoring system in Public Transport Company of Ústí nad Labem (PTCUL) city in the Czech Republic. The motivation for this project is based on the fact, that present configuration of traction lines, old-fashioned trolleybuses and traction substations do not allow for the effective use of recovered energy. The fundamental issue lies in the transfer of recovered energy back from the DC traction to the AC distribution network. In many cases, this is not a technical problem on the side of traction substation only, but the reverse flow of the electrical energy can cause problems even in the distribution network. The distributor of electrical energy lays down restrictive conditions for allowing the reverse transfer of energy. With the latest developments in the field of electrochemical energy storage systems and particularly by continuously declining their prices, a modern approach aims to use stationary or mobile energy storage systems for saving non-utilized energy from the DC railway and to re-use it for covering the consumption peaks. We have verified options for long range control of energy flows between substations and trolleybuses. Based on the long-term on-site measurement and performed data analysis in our dedicated software we have defined critical points for significant energy savings. Now we can precisely define energy flow at the AC input of substations, in the DC traction and in the trolleybuses, themselves. Those analyses have been used as a proposal for the fundamental design of trolleybus' onboard energy storage system.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133670717","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":"Real-time ground marking analysis for safe trajectories of autonomous mobile robots","authors":"Marie-Anne Bauda, Cecile Bazot, Stanislas Larnier","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945887","url":null,"abstract":"Scene understanding is widely linked to the perception of it. Lane detection and tracking are commonly used in the context of autonomous transportation to estimate the drivable area on marked road. Real-time, accurate and efficient analyses are particularly critical when mobile robots are considered. Moreover, safe trajectories are of importance for those robotic vehicles evolving other vehicles or humans interactions. This paper proposes an unsupervised and robust vision-based approach that provides Lane Marking Detection (LMD) to help the positioning system. The approach is applied in two different environments of AKKA Research projects: Link & Go, an autonomous car; and AIR-COBOT, a collaborative mobile robot which inspects aircrafts during maintenance operations. The autonomous car has to travel on roads and to stay in its ego-lane. The mobile robot cooperates with human and has to circulate in the airport and in hangars. In both contexts, painted lanes on the ground could help the navigation system. We demonstrate the benefits of our proposal through an evaluation of the proposed approach on real datasets with appropriate metrics.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126742455","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":"Cross-spectral image patch similarity using convolutional neural network","authors":"Patricia L. Suárez, A. Sappa, B. Vintimilla","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945888","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to compare image regions (patches) has been the basis of many approaches to core computer vision problems, including object, texture and scene categorization. Hence, developing representations for image patches have been of interest in several works. The current work focuses on learning similarity between cross-spectral image patches with a 2 channel convolutional neural network (CNN) model. The proposed approach is an adaptation of a previous work, trying to obtain similar results than the state of the art but with a low-cost hardware. Hence, obtained results are compared with both classical approaches, showing improvements, and a state of the art CNN based approach.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132535070","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":"On the multidisciplinary control and sensing of a smart hybrid morphing wing","authors":"G. Jodin, Johannes Scheller, J. Rouchon, M. Braza","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945866","url":null,"abstract":"Morphing wing technology is of great interest for improving the aerodynamic performance of future aircraft. A morphing wing prototype using both surface embedded Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) and piezoelectric macro fiber composite (MFC) actuators has been designed for wind tunnel experiments. This smart wing is a mechatronic system that contains embedded sensors to measure the surrounding flow and control the actuators. This article will focus on the control of the cambering system which is achieved using a group of nested control loops as well as on the perspective of a novel control strategy using in-situ temperature measurements. It will be shown that by exploiting the inherent hysteretic properties of the SMAs cambering a significant reduction in power consumption is possible by appropriately tailoring the control strategy. Furthermore, by comparing the post-processed pressure signals recorded during the wind tunnel experiments to the aerodynamic performance gains a perspective for a novel in-situ control will be shown.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122434668","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":"Magnetic circuit of electromagnetic flow meter with capacitive electrodes","authors":"L. Slavík, M. Novák","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945903","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with analysis of magnetic circuit of electromagnetic flow meter with capacitive electrodes. There are several possibilities how to design magnetic circuit for creating preferably homogenous magnetic field with constant magnetic flux density. In the case of electromagnetic flow meter with capacitive electrodes, there is strong requirement to high level and homogeneity of magnetic flux density, because of very low level signal on the capacitive electrodes. One of possibilities how to create strong homogenous magnetic field is to use driving coil with ferrite magnetic circuit. There is analyzed shape and value of magnetic field flux density inside the pipe of designed magnetic circuit and simulated in ANSYS software in this paper. There are also compared characteristics of this design with ferrite circuit with characteristics of magnetic field with classical coils placed directly on the measuring pipe. Evaluated results from simulation software are compared with experimental measurement in final discussion.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115429187","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 commissioning: A tool to ensure effective system integration","authors":"H. Vermaak, J. Niemann","doi":"10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMSM.2017.7945899","url":null,"abstract":"South African industry today need to utilise the available technology across disciplines to compete globally. One of the latest trends in the system integration field is to use virtual commissioning. Virtual commissioning allow the developer to validate the complete operation of new systems before anything materialise in the physical environment. It does not only allow operation verification but also informs the validation of the physical layout and architecture of the system in development. Virtual commissioning even allow verification of system code and rectification of design flaws. The paper will show with a suitable case study how it is possible to predict the functionality of a system with early verification of system code from your desktop. This will give companies the competitive advantage due to complete system verification and validation before any mayor capital layout.","PeriodicalId":358140,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE International Workshop of Electronics, Control, Measurement, Signals and their Application to Mechatronics (ECMSM)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115498749","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}