{"title":"Experimental investigation of EMI on RFID in manufacturing facilities","authors":"Chen-Yang Cheng, V. Prabhu","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234152","url":null,"abstract":"RFID applications have been broadly used in manufacturing fields, such as inventory control and logistics. RFID, which functions like a bar code, provides a unique identifier for objects. The most significant advantage of RFID over the bar code is that it is not a line-of-sight technology over a range of 20 feet. The presence of electromagnetic interference (EMI) can affect tags' detectability and range in manufacturing facilities that have heavy electrical equipment. In this paper we report results from an experimental study of the effect of EMI generated by CNC machining centers typically used in manufacturing facilities on RFID range. These experiments were conducted in a lab at Penn State University, which is equivalent to a medium-sized machine shop. Results show that EMI generated by CNC machines can reduce range of RFID by 20 to 40%. These findings may be useful for designing manufacturing facilities which use RFID.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130497428","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}
Vishnu Vardhan Makkapati, Ravindra Agrawal, R. Acharya
{"title":"Segmentation and classification of tuberculosis bacilli from ZN-stained sputum smear images","authors":"Vishnu Vardhan Makkapati, Ravindra Agrawal, R. Acharya","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234173","url":null,"abstract":"Quality of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis by manual observation varies depending on the quality of the smear and skill of the pathologist. To overcome this problem, a method for diagnosis of TB from ZN-stained sputum smear images is presented in this paper. Hue color component based approach is proposed to segment the bacilli by adaptive choice of the hue range. The bacilli are declared to be valid or invalid depending on the presence of beaded structure inside them. The beaded structure is segmented by thresholding the saturation component of the bacilli pixels. Clumps of bacilli and other artifacts are removed by thresholding the area, thread length and thread width parameters of the bacilli. Results presented for several images taken from different patients show that the scheme detects the presence of TB accurately.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133423826","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}
B. Archer, Shivakumar Sastry, Anthony G. Rowe, R. Rajkumar
{"title":"Profiling primitives of networked embedded automation","authors":"B. Archer, Shivakumar Sastry, Anthony G. Rowe, R. Rajkumar","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234124","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in wireless technologies allow us to deeply embed novel sensors, actuators, computation, and communication devices to enhance automation systems. It is important to understand predictability and safety issues that are inherent in these enhanced systems. We propose a set of primitives that are suitable for developing composable automation systems that are regulated by embedded devices interacting over wireless links. We present an architecture and design that helps to realize these primitives. Using a robust platform called FireFly, we profile the performance of these primitives. Preliminary experimental results demonstrate that the latency and jitter associated with these primitives are promising and useful for a class of automation systems. In the future, this work can be extended to larger scale systems with tighter temporal constraints.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127024001","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":"Safety design and development of human-robot collaboration in cellular manufacturing","authors":"J. T. Tan, F. Duan, Ye Zhang, R. Kato, T. Arai","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234120","url":null,"abstract":"The key challenge of this work is to research the safety design and development of a close range active human-robot collaboration system in which no governing safety standards and regulations are currently present. Active robot assistance in a human-centered cellular manufacturing system is very promising proposal, however safety is the uppermost consideration before this idea can be materialized. In this development, five main safety designs in both hardware and control levels have been proposed and discussed in this work. In the prototype system development, human area and robot area are setup as safe working areas but border crossing is allowed and monitored for safety. At the close region of collaboration, three safety robot working zones are defined by light curtains to control the behavior of the robot based on the collaboration requirements. The assisting mobile robot manipulators system is designed with additional safety control strategies in term of robot gripper speed and travel area to minimize the collaboration risks. Vision system by IP cameras is developed to monitor the human operator safety conditions by measuring the body posture and position. The overall control system is developed to coordinate the collaboration flow between the human operator and mobile robot manipulators system to ensure the safety of the assembly operation. Risk assessments are conducted to make evaluations before and after implementation of safety design into the prototype system. Various safety improvements are observed and discussed. It has proven that the safety designs can reduce the potential collaboration risks in the system.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125994745","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":"MDP based active localization for multiple robots","authors":"Jyotika Bahuguna, Balaraman Ravindran, K. Krishna","doi":"10.1109/coase.2009.5234142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/coase.2009.5234142","url":null,"abstract":"In environments with identical features, the global localization of a robot, might result in multiple hypotheses of its location. If the situation is extrapolated to multiple robots, it results in multiple hypotheses for multiple robots. The localization is facilitated if the robots are actively guided towards locations where it can use other robots as well as obstacles to localize itself. This paper aims at presenting a learning technique for the above process of active localization of multiple robots by co-operation. An MDP framework is used for learning the task, over a semi-decentralized team of robots hereby maintaining a bounded complexity as opposed to various multi-agent learning techniques, which scale exponentially with the increase in the number of robots.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121853177","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}
P. Borgstrom, Brett L. Jordan, M. Batalin, G. Sukhatme, W. Kaiser
{"title":"Field-tests of a redundantly actuated cable-driven robot for environmental sampling applications","authors":"P. Borgstrom, Brett L. Jordan, M. Batalin, G. Sukhatme, W. Kaiser","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234181","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present results from a field-test of NIMS-PL, a redundantly actuated cable-driven robot for aquatic applications. We describe installation procedures that enable rapid deployability and present results demonstrating precise calibration capabilities. Detection and correction of positional drift, which is critical for long-term autonomous deployments, is demonstrated, and the rate of system drift is quantified. An example actuated sensing experiment is performed that accurately maps the spatiotemporal variation of the intensity of light incident on a swimming pool. Finally, we propose an upcoming, environmentally significant deployment in which we will map variations in aquatic phenomena such as salinity and pH through the confluence region of two rivers.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131299019","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":"Services innovation — digital ecosystem approach to dissemination and co-creation of knowledge for Indian Agriculture Extension Services","authors":"D. Pattanaik, J. Chatterjee","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234097","url":null,"abstract":"Indian agriculture is today at a cross road. Many new diseases, pests and weeds affect the crops. Some old techniques, such as the copious use of irrigation, have resulted in top soil impoverishment. There is a need for innovative practices to be introduced at every stage of the Indian agriculture value chain. The current practices within the Indian Agricultural Extension Service (IAES) focus on a top down approach to services. It largely depends on a traditional F2F service model. This model focuses on instructional model of imparting knowledge to the farmers at the village level. Our past studies across several districts of Uttar Pradesh in India show lack of innovation across the entire IAES system and ill effect of group think. Innovation at the grass root level does not spread across the value chain due to unidirectional approach of the current IAES. In this context ICT provides an opportunity to enhance the service dominant co-creation and delivery in the extension system by providing a set of tools and techniques that are interoperable and easy to use. This paper explores how digital technology deployment projects need to distinguish between organizing explicit knowledge from agricultural experts and researchers (Gyan Dhara) in knowledge repositories as opposed to acquisition of field knowledge from farmers, traders and other practitioners (Gana Gyan) through participative and circularity of communication.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125651827","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":"Verification of process operations using model checking","authors":"A. Voronov, K. Åkesson","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234103","url":null,"abstract":"In order to decrease time to market for products it is important to decrease the time for implementation and debugging of the control logic that are used to manufacture the products. In this paper, an approach based on a high-level specification of the relations between process operations and resources and the use of formal verification is presented. By using formal verification it is possible to find potential errors within the specification at an early stage in the development process. In this work it is shown how the high-level specifications may be translated into extended finite automata, and how these extended finite automata may be efficiently verified using the symbolic model checking tool, NuSMV. It is also shown how the presented approach is suitable for verification of general supervisory control properties like controllability and non-blocking.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129692181","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":"Heuristic for lane reservation problem in time constrained transportation","authors":"Yingfeng Wu, C. Chu, F. Chu, N. Wu","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234190","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a new transportation problem called lane reservation problem in time constrained transportation. It originates from large sportive events in a city or region where the travel time between sportive villages and stadium should fall in a strict time window. To guarantee the timely transportation in an already traffic saturated city, the problem consists in temporarily creating special lanes on roads in the transportation network. The objective is to minimize the total weighted cost of reserved lanes so as to minimize the traffic impact to the normal traffic situation. In this paper, this problem is formulated as an integer linear programming model. An efficient heuristic is presented to obtain near optimal solutions due to the complexity of the problem. Numerical results show that the average gap between solutions obtained by the proposed heuristic and that by a software package (Lingo 8.0) is less than 1.59% for small size instances, while the average computational time with the heuristic is less than one second. As a case study, the proposed heuristic is applied to the transportation planning in Guangzhou Asian Games.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"17 7-8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132757603","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":"Presentation and improvement of an AFM-based system for the measurement of adhesion forces","authors":"M. Rakotondrabe, P. Rougeot","doi":"10.1109/COASE.2009.5234182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2009.5234182","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is the presentation and improvement of an AFM-based system dedicated to measure adhesion forces. Because an AFM-lever presents a high linearity and a high resolution, it can be used to characterize forces that appears between two micro-objects when their relative distance is small. In this paper, an AFM is used to evaluate the adhesion forces versus the distance. Especially, the pull-off and the Van Der Waals forces can be quantified. Unfortunately, the presence of the hysteresis on the piezotube distorts the measurement and makes the whole system imprecise. Hence, a Prandtl-Ishlinskii hysteresis compensator is introduced. To show the efficiency of the improved measurement system, experiments on different materials where performed.","PeriodicalId":386046,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130764836","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}