2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)最新文献

{"title":"Airplane-Quadcopter UAV Hybrid Incorporating Power Regeneration Technologies & Weight Minimization","authors":"Martin O'Connell, Raven A. Santos, Brianna Ho, Isaac S. Hasan, Joshua J. Kidwell, Lizbeth Gamino, Christian J. Corral, Diego E. Portillo-Gonzalez, Luis C. Ortiz Echeverria, Francesco S. Ruotolo, Ivan Sanchez, S. Dobbs, Jesus E. Rojas, Andrea Dominguez, Derek M. Mata, Dominic S. Sanqui, Mumen E. Abbas, Christian A. Ruvalcaba, Hanqing Zhao, Dylan, R. Godfrey, Michael Youssef, Alan R. Viernes, Christopher T. Hua, Steven Huynh, Peter Ayad, Christopher J. Watson, Anthony Damelio, Reynaldo Martinez Villalobos, Zhen Yu","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794156","url":null,"abstract":"This paper encompasses the developments by a California State Polytechnic University, Pomona student engineering team to increase the endurance and range of an airplane-quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hybrid via in-flight power regeneration and structural battery integration. Electric UAVs are commonly limited by low range and flight endurance, limiting the capabilities of an operator and affecting their mission. Increasing these parameters would allow a UAV to operate in both surveillance and inspection roles for extended periods of time in civilian and military capacities. Additionally, by combining the flight characteristics of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft with the hovering ability of a quadcopter, a UAV can become vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capable and can maneuver over points of interest more precisely. An off-the-shelf quadcopter and airplane are to be extensively modified by the team to create the hybrid craft, with structural batteries replacing conventional wing spars, solar cells replacing the upper wing skins, and wireless induction coils replacing the lower wing skins. A power management system will be used to efficiently control battery usage and balance generated power from flight along power distribution lines and robotic recharging stations with expended power from flight operations. These ground stations will be built to remotely swap drained batteries with fresh replacements, with the aircraft automatically returning to recharge, then launching again to resume autonomous flight.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115254111","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":"Novel Robotic Approach to Irrigation and Agricultural Land Use Efficiency","authors":"A. Hoppe, E. Jefferson, J. Woodruff, L. Mcmanus, N. Phaklides, T. McKenzie","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794265","url":null,"abstract":"Current industrial agricultural methods often use inefficient watering, fertilizing, and pest control practices, in part because they lack feedback systems. The prototype proposed combines current agricultural sensing and analysis research with a robotic platform to precisely monitor and care for crops. In this paper, we provide a proof of concept with a path to scalability such that the system may be implemented at an industrial scale.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122880694","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":"Aerial Drone use for Sustainable Development in India–A Content Blog Analysis","authors":"Isaac Lukambagire, R. Bhavani, J. Sophie von Lieres","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794169","url":null,"abstract":"India urgently requires technological solutions to resolve its pressing sustainability issues. The study, therefore, analyzed published blog content to explore how drones were being used to promote the United Nations sustainable development goals in India. Blog entries were retrieved through the Google search engine and screened to select 35 blogs, which contained sustainable drone applications and drone operation policies in India. Blogs published from 2016 to 2021 were analyzed through qualitative content analysis using a phenomenological approach. The study identified four themes and ten sub-themes related to drone use for sustainability in India. Themes included drone applications for sustainable management of natural resources, drone use for sustainable agriculture, drone implementation for other sustainability purposes, such as biodiversity conservation, and rules and regulations for drone use that enhance sustainability. The study recommends commercializing India’s drone industry to promote research on finding solutions to sustainability issues in various sectors.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128976113","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":"Analysis of Long-Term Sustainability Challenges & Optimization of Solar Thermal Lemongrass Essential Oil Extraction Systems","authors":"Aroun Clement Baudouin-van Os, M. Ramesh","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794167","url":null,"abstract":"Solar thermal lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) essential oil extraction is a potential sustainable livelihood for the Indian rural population. In this work, an extensive review of existing extraction techniques, their performances, fitness to the context, as well as sustainability and efficiency factors has been elaborated. While microwave assisted methods can reduce the extraction time and increase the yield, it is at the cost of added complexity and dependency on electric energy, which can be unfit for communities that experience scarce supply. It is required to measure the performance of the microwave hydrodiffusion and gravity (MHG), and microwave steam diffusion (MSDf) methods with the lemongrass genus to verify their advantage over steam distillation, which in the study’s context remains the favorite. The study has unveiled that four key factors need to be considered for ensuring the sustainability of the livelihood: (a) implementation price, (b) operational price, (c) energy consumption, and (d) extraction time. Essential oil extraction can be optimized by six different categories of efficiency factors: (a) post-harvesting drying, (b) plant rehydration, (c) plant chopping size, (d) water to grass ratio, solid loading or plant packing, (e) temperature, steam heat, pressure and airflow, and (f) microwave power.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121776762","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":"Does Immergence of ICT Focused Institutions Increase the Pace of Urban Development? A Provincial Case Study in Iran Using Data from the Ground and Above","authors":"Mohammad Tondro, M. Jahanbakht, S. B. Rabbani, M. Zaber","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794195","url":null,"abstract":"Information and communication technologies (ICT) is considered to be a key vessel for development, with a significant impact on urban development in developing countries. This study presents evidence of the positive catalytic role of the immergence of ICT-focused institutions on urban development as proxied by Night-time Lights (NTL) satellite data. We relied on a case study method of Alborz province in Iran and gathered in-depth data timeline attributes of all ICT-based enterprises and academic institutions and NTL satellite imagery within this region. We then analyzed the imagery and collected data to extract patterns, generate trends, and suggest the growth inducive trend of ICT-focused institutions.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131684658","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":"Study of Cascading Failure Duration in Power Grid using Historical Outage Data and Simulation Model","authors":"Saikat Das, Zhifang Wang","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794272","url":null,"abstract":"Cascading failures in an interconnected system like a power grid can result in a large number of line outages and even blackouts. In this paper, we have studied the duration of cascading failures using historical utility outage data and simulated data. We have estimated the distribution function of cascading failure duration and determined the average duration of a cascading failure process. We have incorporated a cascading failure simulation model with ac power flow to compare our empirical results with the simulated result using two 500 bus synthetic grid test cases, one of which has been generated using AutoSynGrid - a Matlab-based toolkit with a similar connection topology of the utility system. We have also analyzed the effect of different loading levels on cascading failure duration. The results were in good agreement for both cases which validate the distribution of cascading failure duration and also the simulation model.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124663172","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":"The Impact of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (SCSR) on Employees’ Perceived Job Security and Resilience in SMEs: The Moderating Role of Humble Leadership","authors":"Stavroula Mavrommatidou, Georgios N. Theriou, D. Chatzoudes","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794222","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (SCSR) constitutes a basic approach that incorporates holistically Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within a firm’s core operations and allows high performance in combination to social value for long term. Although CSR’s strategic role is well acknowledged, there seems to be very limited understanding on the effects of SCSR on employees’ attitudes. To fill this gap, the present paper tries to figure out the relationship between SCSR and employees’ perceived work security and resilience. It also elaborates the moderating role of humble leadership on the above-mentioned relationship and proposes a new research model that needs further exploration and research. In this way, organizations could realize the impact of SCSR implementation and appropriate leadership on employee’ attitudes, and adopt relative practices in the core processes of their business.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127061846","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 Means for Tuning Primary Frequency Event Detection Algorithms","authors":"Sean Keene, Landon Hanks, R. Bass","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794189","url":null,"abstract":"Power system balancing authorities are routinely affected by sudden frequency fluctuations. These frequency events can precipitate cascading outages and cause damage to both customer-owned and utility equipment. In this document, we describe an Algorithm Evaluation Environment that uses a suite of metrics to evaluate an algorithm and quantify its efficacy. Using the Algorithm Evaluation Environment, a detection algorithm can be tuned to best match the definition of a frequency event as defined by experts within the context of their own balancing area. We demonstrate the utility of the Algorithm Evaluation Environment using a regression-based frequency event detection algorithm. This algorithm can detect frequency events within a short period of time after the onset of an event. The algorithm has four parameters that can be adjusted, making it highly tunable and therefore suitable for demonstration of the Algorithm Evaluation Environment.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127088252","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":"Deferrable Irrigation Load Optimization in Rural Microgrid Clusters","authors":"Rohitaa Ravikumar, Manasvini Venkatraman Srinivasan, Raj Vignesh Karunakaran, A. Srikanth, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794162","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a design optimization strategy for improving irrigation load servicing in existing standalone rural microgrids in the Indian village Dharnai. The Deferrable Load Servicing Grid (DLSG) consists of Clustered Microgrid Architecture (CMA), where irrigation and domestic standalone microgrid entities are integrated. The Deferrable Load Servicing Algorithm (DLSA) treats the irrigation load as a deferrable load to utilize excess energy effectively. The model is further designed to satisfy the socio-economic conditions of the village by proposing two optimized systems, namely, Efficiency Optimized System (EOS) and Cost Optimized System (COS). The EOS and COS designs optimize efficiency and lifetime costs, respectively. Comparing both designs to the currently operating CMA, the EOS provides an efficiency gain of 6.35% while maintaining the lifetime cost. In contrast, COS provides an 18% relative decrease in total lifetime cost while preserving the irrigation and domestic efficiency.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123084005","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":"An Innovative Enhanced Construction Planning Technique: Analytic & Collaborative Approach","authors":"Qais Amarkhil, E. Elwakil, B. Hubbard","doi":"10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794266","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an innovative enhanced planning technique and method. The proposed method consists of three phases: Master, Measured, and Production. This technique proactively assesses the inherent delay risk on a work schedule. Selecting the most suitable alternate option calculates the project schedule's time, location, and inherent criticalities indices. This method also can benchmark the project schedule's criticality and productivity internally within the phases of a project and externally between projects. Thus, the proposed technique helps improve productivity and mitigate delay risk through the project team's collaboration and assessing inherent delay risk. In addition, enhanced planning is integrable with other scheduling techniques to improve productivity and timely complete work. Applying this technique reduces wastes by streamlining work and decreasing unnecessary inventory on-site.","PeriodicalId":434652,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115269260","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}