{"title":"OmniRide: A personal vehicle with 3 DOF mobility","authors":"T. Hoshino, S. Yokota, Taiki Chino","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733752","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a newly-developed personal electric vehicle, which is named OmniRide. It uses a single rubber sphere as its wheel and possesses the dynamic stability on the road surface of variety of slopes. Since it has asymmetric structure unlike similar mobile robots on a sphere, its complete dynamic model plays significant role in controller design; the major part of this paper is devoted to the description of OmniRide and development of the mathematical model. Linear state feedback controllers achieve the stabilization in experiments as well as numerical simulations, which validates the dynamic model.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116683891","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":"Control and monitoring of MSF-RO hybrid desalination process","authors":"B. Kumar, M. Dewal, S. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733692","url":null,"abstract":"The growing demand for making the seawater desalination process more and more cost effective call for the two leading desalination technologies namely Multi-Stage Flash brine recirculation (MSF-BR) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) to be hybridized at various levels to complement each other. This paper demonstrates development of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) based process control and instrumentation of the hybridized system. The hybridized system focuses on the use of MSF reject cooling seawater to feed reverse osmosis unit. FactoryTalk View Site Edition (SE), a real time platform for industrial automation by Rockwell Automation, is used for development and simulation of entire process. The entire process control and monitoring take place through human machine interface (HMI).","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122373916","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":"Smooth sliding mode controller design for robotic arm","authors":"Abhinav Sinha, R. Mishra","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733697","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to develop simple yet efficient modelling and control scheme for robotic manipulators in joint space wherein a control law is developed based on sliding mode that provides robustness against uncertainties and perturbations and a stability analysis guarantees the asymptotic stability of origin. Given the bounds of disturbance and a switching manifold that enforces trajectory tracking, a control algorithm is presented to drive the states on the switching surface quickly and maintain them thereafter. Further, the system is analyzed for stability and performances and efforts are made to design a controller with smooth characteristics.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124341048","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":"Integration of Active RFID and WSN for real time low-cost data monitoring of patients in hospitals","authors":"S. M. Rajesh","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733768","url":null,"abstract":"RFID has been around since World War II but was viewed as too limited and expensive in functionality for most of commercial use. With advancement in technology, cost of system components has reduced and capabilities have increased, making RFID more popular. The development of RFID since the 1970's has been remarkable and many such systems are available online for purchasing. Now-a-days there are sensors embedded inside the RFID tag which along with its unique identification can send the sensor value as well. But it is restricted to only sensing pressure, temperature of environment etc and much of the complex world analog signals are difficult to integrate with an RFID tag [1]. Especially the existence of such RFID systems in Healthcare doesn't seem to exist in real time inspite of several theories been proposed [2]-[5]. This paper proposes a low cost approach to the development of a system that can monitor the real time parameters of a patient using an Active UHF RFID system along with the respective parameter monitoring sensor. This is done so that there is a detailed record of the patient which can be used by the doctors to examine the condition later as well. The Real Time values are plotted on a graph using Visual Studio 10.Thus the integration of Health Monitoring sensors along with an RFID to uniquely distinguish each patient in a Ward with its measuring data is achieved. As the entire system is being autonomous an additional feature that has been added to this is the inclusion of a GSM module which will notify an emergency to the doctor in case if the optimum data fails to be received which in totality makes this project a smart e-healthcare solution for hospitals.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132480465","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 and environment-independent Peg-In-Hole search strategies","authors":"Kamal Sharma, V. Shirwalkar, Prabir K. Pal","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733716","url":null,"abstract":"Cylindrical Peg-In-Hole assembly has been the benchmark force-controlled robotic assembly. It involves two main stages. The first one aims at placing the peg center within the clearance region of the hole center, known as the search phase. The next step is to correct the orientational misalignment, known as the insertion phase. The insertion has been widely researched as compared to the search phase. Search is generally done by locating the hole center using a vision-sensor or by using blind search techniques. An intelligent search in which a neural network is trained with the moment-profile over the hole surface and then tries to infer the hole center based on the current moment values, works for a parallel peg only and also requires the moment profile over the complete hole and hence is not general. This paper generalizes this approach for the tilted peg case. Another intelligent strategy is precession-based hole search, but again, it requires the tilt of the peg and peg's center to be known to perform precession. We need a general-purpose intelligent search strategy that can work without any knowledge of the environment (like hole diameter, peg tilt, etc.). In this paper, we suggest search strategies using mathematical optimization techniques. These strategies do not require any a priori information about the working environment. Simulation results are presented.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130247379","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":"Compression based class-specific target recognition using SAR images","authors":"Jumi Hazarika Kakoty, A. Mishra","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733762","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing complex targets with unknown pose and scale remains an unsolved problem even after half a century of research in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based automatic target recognition (ATR). Feature extraction and the high-dimension of the feature vectors are two major issues in the field of ATR. Class-specific classification algorithms address the dimensionality issue to some extent, but feature extraction is a problem with such classifiers. Compression can be used to extract the features of synthetic aperture radar image for classification, but has not been exploited much by the ATR community. Using compression for feature extraction not only avoids the problems associated with high-dimensional feature space but also minimizes the storage and computational overheads. However, the disadvantage of using compression based ATR is that classification performance suffers. The proposed technique, compression based class-specific ATR algorithm, is a modular classifier which uses class-specific compression for classification to circumvent the dimensionality problem and at the same time achieve optimal classification results.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132995817","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 comparative study of PI tuning methods for integrating processes","authors":"M. Ajmeri, Ahmad Ali","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733707","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a comparative study of the closed loop performances that can be achieved by the PI tuning methods reported in the literature for integrating plus time delay process models. Guidelines are provided to help the user for selecting the tuning strategy for servo and regulatory applications, respectively. The performance measures used for comparison are the integral of squared error in the controlled variable and the total variation of the manipulated variable. The maximum sensitivity is used to estimate the robustness of the control system.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115505419","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 computer vision based approach for detection of fire and direction control for enhanced operation of fire fighting robot","authors":"M. K. Rangan, S. Rakesh, G. Sandeep, C. S. Suttur","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733740","url":null,"abstract":"Fire fighting is always a risk involved mission. To facilitate the fire extinguishing operations, autonomous robots are being developed in recent days. In this paper, we propose a fire fighting robot which uses a modular design concept to implement Fire detection, Path directing and Extinguishing operations. The usual trend in the previous implementation is the use of smoke detectors and physical sensors for fire detection as well as depth manipulation. Generally most sensors have low range and are sensitive to environmental changes. In this paper, we propose a computer vision based algorithm for fire detection and for directing the robot towards the detected fire, thereby overcoming the above limitations. Color segmentation is used in initial detection. Correlation is used to extract the non-static property of fire. Temperature sensor and UV-TRON sensor are used to confirm the presence of fire along with depth mapping. Finally, a water sprinkler is used to extinguish the detected fire.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"105 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124228307","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. Vyas, G. Mishra, S. Tiwari, R. Upadhyay, P. Padhy
{"title":"Classification of two mental states using Electroencephalogram signals","authors":"A. Vyas, G. Mishra, S. Tiwari, R. Upadhyay, P. Padhy","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733769","url":null,"abstract":"Electrical activity of human brain changes with the human reactions to the situations, thoughts processing and with different mental states of mind. Brain Computer Interface uses different features of brain electrical activity to create a parallel communication pathway and replaces traditional pathway of nervous system to control numerous applications, by the patients suffering from severe motor disorders. Formation of a Brain Computer Interface is carried out in steps which include preprocessing, feature extraction and classification of Electroencephalogram signals to generate a meaningful command. As Electroencephalogram signals change with different alertness level of human brain, this can cause a false interpretation of Electroencephalogram signals as a patient's alertness may change severely due to medicines with high alcoholic content. A methodology is proposed in present work for feature extraction and classification of Electroencephalogram signals recorded from drowsy and controlled subject. The raw Electroencephalogram data is filtered to extract μ and β wavebands using Butterworth filter. Discrete wavelet coefficients are calculated from filtered data and further processed by Principal Component Analysis for dimensionality reduction. Statistical parameters calculated as features from reduced data set, are used to prepare the input feature vector to train the classifier. Support Vector Machine classifier classifies the two classes of data.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127549307","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 Levitation and control using two solenoids with their axes in a vertical plane","authors":"Ajinkya P. Dahale","doi":"10.1109/CARE.2013.6733728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CARE.2013.6733728","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic Levitation has found tremendous utility in fields like transport and tribology. It is also one of the classic experiments used in introductory courses in controls. This paper discusses a two-dimensional extension to this classic experiment. In this proposed setup, a diamagnetic object is to be levitated using the magnetic field strength of two solenoids with an iron core each located in two separate locations with their axes in the same vertical plane. The key feature of this new setup is the ability to levitate the object in any position within a portion of a plane as compared to a single line in the classical experiment. Using two currents in the coils as two inputs, the objective is to have a position and velocity control of the object. In order to do so, first, the analytical form of the magnetic field strength outside the two solenoids is determined. Then, the magnetic force acting on the sphere is evaluated. Using these expressions, equilibrium points are established based on the required position and the stability of these points is analysed. Further, a control system is implemented to achieve the aforestated objective.","PeriodicalId":413190,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099886","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}