{"title":"Keynote talk 2: The primitive streak: — An interface between technology, embryology and morality","authors":"Guojun Sheng","doi":"10.1109/atc52653.2021.9598274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/atc52653.2021.9598274","url":null,"abstract":"The primitive streak is a transitory structure in human embryonic development where the earliest signs of pluriopotency loss and tissue differentiation are observed. Its appearance is viewed by government regulatory bodies as the beginning of human individuality in ethical and moral debates. Technological advances in ES/iPS cell biology have made it easy to revert terminally differentiated cells back to this peri-pluripotent/primitive streak state, bringing modern biology to an unchartered territory with equal promises and challenges. In this talk, I will give an embryological overview of the primitive streak and of how it turns pluripotent epiblast cells into mesoderm cells (bones, muscles and blood). I will also present our recent data on generating ectopic primitive streak and creating conjoined twins using animal models. Finally, I will discuss how future technological improvement can maximize social benefits and minimize moral dilemma of breakthroughs in biological research.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115004162","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":"Motion sickness due to vibration on water massage bed","authors":"Akihito Seki, Zhiwei Luo","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776705","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, water massage bed which can provide full body massage effect is often used in physiotherapy. Compared to other physiotherapy equipment, water massage bed is particularly useful in the fact that it can directly massage the destined area on the subject, thus leads to improvement in relieving muscle strain and provides a psychological relaxation effect. However, motion sickness symptoms such as dizziness or nausea have been reported as side effects after using the bed. In this study, we evaluate the massage effect on the human body by measuring and analyzing the mechanical movements of the body during the massage using an accelerometer and a laser range finder.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"10 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":"127476902","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":"Automatic classification of seabed sediments based on HLAC","authors":"Yasuhiro Tan, J. Tan, Hyoungseop Kim, S. Ishikawa","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776651","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the distribution of seafloor sediment using a side-scan sonar is very important to grasp the distribution of seabed resources. This task is traditionally carried out by a skilled human operator. However, with the appearance of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, automated processing is now needed to tackle the large amount of data produced and to enable on the fly adaptation of the missions and near real time update of the operator. We propose in this paper a method that applies a subspace method and higher-order local auto-correlation feature to the acoustic image provided by the side-scan sonar to classify seabed sediment automatically. In texture classification, the proposed method outperformed other methods such as gray level co-occurrence matrix and Local Binary Pattern operator. Experimental results show that the proposed method produces a consistent map of a seafloor.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"137 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":"124948859","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":"Application of rough set method to the weightings of high temperature creep factors of boiler water wall","authors":"Mei-Li You, Kun-Li Wen, Wei-Ling Liu, Chen-En Lin","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776605","url":null,"abstract":"At the high temperature state or the applied stress is less than the yield strength, general metal itself will generate slow plastic deformation until fracture, which is called creep rupture. Under room temperature, general alloy will have creep phenomenon, but it is not obvious. However, under high temperature environment, the creep rupture becomes very important. It is not only very important to predict the components' life, but to assess the remaining life of the equipment components during the operation to applications. Hence, it becomes hot topic in recent years. In the past, we always use the anti-creep steel generated from experiments to extend the creep deformation data of steel life plans, and is called stress and strain. But it needs substantial funds and time to obtain the data, so, it is limited to the direct analysis of the small data. Based on this, the paper uses the significant in rough set to find the each weighting of influence factor on creep life. Through different discrete methods, we found that the factor of strain is more important than stress, the results are not only in line with the traditional regression results, but they are also corresponding to the actual situation.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","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":"122521072","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}
Lawrence K. F. Wong, Zhiwei Luo, N. Kurusu, K. Fujino
{"title":"Cervical spine simulation model for traction therapy analysis","authors":"Lawrence K. F. Wong, Zhiwei Luo, N. Kurusu, K. Fujino","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776747","url":null,"abstract":"This research describes the construction of a biomechanical simulation model of the cervical spine for traction therapy analysis. By building a 3D computer model of the musculoskeletal cervical spine region using a physics-based software environment, we were able to calculate and visualize the changes of the cervical vertebrae and intervertebral discs due to external traction applied during a traction therapy. Since the mechanical parameters of the simulation, such as bone sizes and masses, can be easily adjusted in the computer model, it allows us to match the simulation based on actual data from patient in the traction therapy.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"217 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":"114575013","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":"Turn control of a three-dimensional quasi-passive walking robot based on forced entrainment","authors":"Ying Cao, Soichiro Suzuki, Y. Hoshino","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776718","url":null,"abstract":"A turn control strategy was proposed in order to enable a quasi-passive walking robot to turn on flat ground by utilizing a mechanical oscillator based on forced entrainment. The target trajectory of the mechanical oscillator was determined by online planning of its period, phase, amplitude and angle of the central axis of oscillation. The turn radius can be controlled by adjusting the inclination angle of the central axis of the mechanical oscillator movement. The control method was numerically and experimentally examined. The results show that the robot can turn with different turn radius and it is possible for the robot to walk in various environments.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","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":"129525949","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 new preprocessing algorithm and local binary pattern based facial expression recognition","authors":"Yao Qian, F. Ren, Changqin Quan","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776757","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new preprocessing algorithm with local binary pattern for facial expression recognition. Firstly, we establish the skin color model to extract the face region, and then we use the cumulative projection to obtain the completely face region. Secondly, we rotate the inclined faces, normalize all the images, and remove the effect of light to get the required experimental samples. Finally, we use rotation invariance uniform local binary pattern operator to get the facial expression features, and then the support vector machine classifier is used for expression classification. The algorithm is implemented with Matlab and experimented on Indian male facial expression database. The proposed method obtained an accuracy of 72.75% which shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"10 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":"128451958","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":"Integrating monitor functions of physiological data into the robotics service grid","authors":"Chi-Chih Yu, Toru Yamaguchi, Y. Takama","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776716","url":null,"abstract":"Population aging has been the world trend, especially in the developed countries. With the advances in information technology and fast growth of converged mobile devices, elderly care services become more important and more mature. Therefore, focusing on the elderly care services, this study aimed at building the robotics system related to heath care application and architecture. Detecting physiological data usually requires special-designed instruments, which are often expensive, rare, and complicated. Thus, we tried to utilize products available in the market to read the physiological data, and integrate the functions into our existing robotics service grid. We successfully developed the middleware that collected physiological data on the converged mobile devices. This is a RT-middleware component that connects to and read data from consumer sensors, like heart rate monitor, temperature sensor, and so on. Through the capability of mobile devices, the middleware can upload all physiological data periodically to the service grid. Therefore, the service can analyze the data, provide statistics, create personal profiles, and give good recommendations to users.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"128 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":"128461118","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}
Kimitoshi Yamazaki, T. Nishino, Kotaro Nagahama, K. Okada, M. Inaba
{"title":"A vision system for daily assistive robots using character information in daily environments","authors":"Kimitoshi Yamazaki, T. Nishino, Kotaro Nagahama, K. Okada, M. Inaba","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776727","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a vision system that is for using character information for robots working on daily environments. It is mainly composed of image-based recognition module that detects character candidates by taking particular note of closed contour in an image. In addition, to cope with tiny or distant characters, a camera system with mechanical gaze adjustment is collaborated with the image processing. By combining the detection result with OCR (Optical Character Reader), applications to daily assistance by an autonomous robot were introduced.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","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":"129236471","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":"Calibration method for extending single-layer LIDAR to multi-layer LIDAR","authors":"Chien-Chou Lin, Yan-Deng Liao, Wun-Jhih Luo","doi":"10.1109/SII.2013.6776618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2013.6776618","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses a single-layer LIDAR system mounted on a pan-tilt unit to obtain multi-layer information. A calibration method for extending the single-layer information to multi-layer information is proposed. In order to obtain multi-layer information from single-layer LIDAR, the LIDAR system has to tilt the scanning plane at various angles and integrate those scanning planes to construct a three-dimensional model. Ideally, the tilt axis should pass through the center of the scanner. However, since the LIDAR system is mounted on a pan-tilt unit, the tilt axis passes through the motor of the pan-tilt unit, rather than the center of the LIDAR scanner. The positions of the scanning center form a circle. A calibration scheme for transforming all scanning data with respect to one scanning center is proposed. Experimental results show that with the proposed method, the shift error is reduced significantly and the standard deviation of measured distances is reduced to 17% of that for uncalibrated results.","PeriodicalId":424583,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration","volume":"51 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":"123323712","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}