SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925329
Marguerite McDaniel, Emma Sloan, William Nick, James Mayes, A. Esterline
{"title":"Ontologies for situation-based crime scene identities","authors":"Marguerite McDaniel, Emma Sloan, William Nick, James Mayes, A. Esterline","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925329","url":null,"abstract":"Our interests are in establishing the identity of agents in physical and cyber environments and determining how evidence in cases support identity judgments. Current work centers on physical evidence from a crime scene; however, what is presented is a computational framework that expands to the cyber world. Part of the project's foundation is based on Barwise's situation theory because it joins semantics for utterances and accounts of perceptions. Situations both support items of information and carry information about other situations. Specifically, an utterance situation contains information about a described situation. We provide an account of the support for an identity judgment (in an id-situation) that essentially builds cases (aligned to legal cases) called id-cases, because significant cases of identity can lead to various situations that impact the value of evidence. Our framework includes a situation ontology, upon which an id-situation ontology is built. While focusing on physical evidence, we also developed a physical biometrics ontology, which the physical features ontology supports. Additionally, there is a law enforcement ontology and several supporting stubs. We show how a specific case is encoded in RDF in alignment with our ontologies, and complement our id-situation ontology with SWRL rules to infer a culprit in a crime scene.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124269523","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925279
Mithun Yerra, A. Nasipuri, Heinz Duemmler
{"title":"Sequential state logic for pneumatic valve monitoring using piezo film sensors","authors":"Mithun Yerra, A. Nasipuri, Heinz Duemmler","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925279","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach to monitor actuation events of pneumatic valves using piezo film sensors. These sensors are very low-cost, flexible, wide-band, and are ideally suited to acquire acoustic signals non-intrusively from the valve. Event-specific signal signatures based on the envelope of the sensor signals are used to determine the behavior of the valves under operation. A sequential state logic is developed to detect the signatures for normal valve events. All design considerations are derived from experimental data obtained from a laboratory testbed. The performance results, including analysis of signals at various stages of the algorithm are presented using MATLAB.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"233 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124291375","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925345
Mohammad Habibur Rahaman, Md Saber Nazim, B. Kemp
{"title":"Radiation pressure on core-shell nanoparticles in Rayleigh regime","authors":"Mohammad Habibur Rahaman, Md Saber Nazim, B. Kemp","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925345","url":null,"abstract":"The radiation pressure to the single and multiple core-shell nanoparticles using Rayleigh scattering theory is presented. The force on a single core-shell nanoparticle with different material compositions for core and shell is demonstrated. The metal shell having frequency dependent permittivity gives plasmonic resonance at a certain frequency. The force in both resonance and off-resonance condition of silver and gold shell is also shown. The total force on single core-shell nanoparticle is also validated using Mie scattering theory. For the case of multiple core-shell nanoparticles, the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) was used. The approximate force calculation on aggregates of multiple core-shell nanoparticles can be useful for wide variety of applications.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116684257","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925293
Benjamin B. Rhoades, Jeremy P. Sabo, J. Conrad
{"title":"Enabling a National Instruments DaNI 2.0 robotic development platform for the Robot Operating System","authors":"Benjamin B. Rhoades, Jeremy P. Sabo, J. Conrad","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925293","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic research has recently undergone a paradigm shift as robots have switched from fixed factory floors to more mobile based platforms. This shift has presented many new challenges to the robotic research community. Development of novel robot bases, such as TurtleBot, in concert with the widespread use of robotic frameworks, such as Robot Operating System and MyRobotlab, has given researchers indispensable tools that allows for rapid development and deployment of new localization and mapping techniques. The goal of these new robot bases and frameworks is to ensure that progression in research is not hindered by the burden of lower abstractions, such as sensory setup or drive mechanisms and mechanics, but rather allows the researcher to focus on the complexity of executing higher level algorithms. This paper presents research on integrating the National Instruments DaNI 2.0 robot into the growing group of robot operating system ready mobile robot platforms. This paper presents the programming and developmental process of enabling the DaNI 2.0 robot to operate within the Robot Operating System framework and highlights the chief characteristics that separate the DaNI 2.0 from current Robot Operating System enabled robotic platforms.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126041922","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925341
MD Erfanul Alam, B. Samanta
{"title":"Empirical mode decomposition of EEG signals for brain computer interface","authors":"MD Erfanul Alam, B. Samanta","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925341","url":null,"abstract":"Motor imagery (MI) based brain-computer interface (BCI) systems show potential applications in neural rehabilitation. In MI-BCI systems, the brain signals from movement imagination, without actual movement of limbs, can be acquired, processed and characterized to translate into actionable signals that can be used to activate external devices. However, success of such MI-BCI systems, depends on the reliable processing of the noisy, non-linear, and non-stationary brain activity signals for extraction of characteristic features for effective classification of MI activity and translation into corresponding actions. In this work, a signal processing technique, namely, empirical mode decomposition (EMD), has been proposed for processing EEG signals acquired from volunteer subjects for characterizing MI activities and activity identification.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123289137","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925362
Brandon Parker, S. Blevins, Michael Facemire, K. Hatipoglu
{"title":"The effect of variable speed wind turbines on a 21 bus power system","authors":"Brandon Parker, S. Blevins, Michael Facemire, K. Hatipoglu","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925362","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of variable speed wind turbines (VSWTs) on a power system. The power system model used for this study is the IEEE 21 Bus System. Each system, one powered solely by the diesel powered synchronous generators (DPSGs), and the other powered by both VSWTs and a DPSG, were tested under different conditions including a three phase fault, line outage/break, and load changes. To be able to analyze and simulate these conditions the Power System Analysis Toolbox (PSAT) was used along with Matlab. This paper will begin by giving a brief introduction about variable speed wind turbines. Also, the advantages and disadvantages using wind turbines in the power grid will be discussed. The introduction will conclude by comparing VSWTs to their counterpart, constant speed wind turbines. Many conclusions could be drawn from the tested conditions stated above. When the system with VSWTs was faulted, it resembled the behavior of the diesel generator system. However, when a line outage was applied to the system with VSWTs, it did not behave as expected like the diesel generator system did. Also, when a load is dropped, the generator bus voltage tends to rise.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123677491","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925301
Addison J. Ford, W. Barott, Kevin M. Scott
{"title":"Progress on a testbed for time-modulated arrays","authors":"Addison J. Ford, W. Barott, Kevin M. Scott","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925301","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the development of a testbed for real-time experimental studies of time-modulated arrays. The proposed architectural design will be described, and the current state of progress will be presented through simulation and over-the-air tests conducted in a lab. The TMA antennas and radios are designed to operate at about 2.3 GHz for a target application of passive radar using XM Radio, in which the TMA capabilities will be targeted at multibeaming and interference suppression.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123025342","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925327
S. Sud
{"title":"Interference suppression using repeated reduced rank adaptive filtering in Fractional Fourier Transform domains","authors":"S. Sud","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925327","url":null,"abstract":"The Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) is a powerful tool that cancels interference and noise in non-stationary, real-world, environments to pull out a signal-of-interest (SOI). This requires estimation of the best rotational parameter ‘a’ to rotate the signal to a new domain along an axis ‘ta’ for filtering. The value of ‘a’ is usually chosen to give the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) between the desired SOI and its estimate. Recently, a technique was presented that uses repeated MMSE-FrFT filtering. This is done with a training sequence using mean-square error (MSE) as the metric by which to compute ‘a’ at each stage. This simple approach improves performance over conventional single stage MMSE-FrFT methods or methods based solely on filtering in frequency using an FFT. In this paper we apply repeated reduced rank adaptive filtering using a multistage Wiener filter (MWF). We show that the proposed MMSE-MWF-FrFT repeated filtering method significantly reduces the MSE over the repeated MMSE-FrFT method typically with just L = 1 or 2 stages and a nominal filter rank, D = 5, vs. L = 3 for MMSE. This is demonstrated by simulation using non-stationary channels as well as two types of non-stationary interference: chirp and Gaussian signals, at signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) as low as 0 dB and carrier-to-noise ratios (CIRs) also down to 0 dB. Reduction in MSE from 0.001 to 10−4 or 10−5, or lower, is observed.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129518870","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925305
Sam Shue, Lauren E. Johnson, J. Conrad
{"title":"Utilization of XBee ZigBee modules and MATLAB for RSSI localization applications","authors":"Sam Shue, Lauren E. Johnson, J. Conrad","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925305","url":null,"abstract":"Localization is an important attribute for wireless sensor networks. Received signal strength indicator (RSSI) can be used to estimate distance between transceivers. Using these estimated distances, location of nodes within a network can be determined using various localization algorithms, such as trilateration. For implementation and testing of localization techniques, utilizing a sensor network development platform reduces time and difficulty during the process. Here we present a platform based on XBee ZigBee wireless modules, Arduino, and MATLAB for algorithm testing and debugging. For validation of this platform, a trilateration localization method is implemented.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128383915","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}
SoutheastCon 2017Pub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2017.7925394
M. Chen, M. Steer, M. Zikry
{"title":"Significance of randomness in establishing hotspots in crystals","authors":"M. Chen, M. Steer, M. Zikry","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2017.7925394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2017.7925394","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave scattering in random mediums is known to result in localized energy concentrations known as hotspots. However, the mechanics behind this effect are not well understood. Abstractions are needed to manage the complexity required to develop understanding through simulation and lead to the establishment of the parameters for a microwave system to neutralize energetic materials. Here, two random contributions of rotation and translation are separately simulated. It is observed that the individual effects both contribute to localization, and the combined effect is greater than the sum of the individuals.","PeriodicalId":368197,"journal":{"name":"SoutheastCon 2017","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123456841","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}