2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)最新文献

{"title":"Toolchain for semantically enriched device development of flexible profile conform field devices","authors":"Stefan Matzler, M. Wollschlaeger","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733604","url":null,"abstract":"Field devices are offering more and more functionality to automation systems. This leads to a complexity increase of such devices, and to a rise in engineering effort. Additionally, the demand for semantic annotations of many device information is growing. Nowadays, profiles provide a solid base for device functions and structure. However, the current way of realizing a profile-based device is far away from becoming a reality due to the demand for reducing expenses in device manufacturing. The paper presents a toolchain approach for a profile based and semantically enriched field device development. The application function of such devices is generated from several device profile specifications. The semantic information form the device profile is annotated to the generated functional elements and to the device descriptions that have to be delivered with a field device.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82192810","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":"Wireless handover performance in industrial environments: A case study","authors":"J. Haxhibeqiri, M. Mehari, Wei Liu, E. D. Poorter, W. Joseph, I. Moerman, J. Hoebeke","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733578","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless communication is an enabling technology for industrial automation. For mobile industrial devices operating in large areas, the performance of the wireless handover process is crucial. For the welfare of industrial processes short time communication outage must be ensured, especially for time-critical traffic. This paper assesses the handover performance for three industrial real-life use cases with different requirements. It covers handover performance under heavy interference, its impact on time-critical traffic and on broadcast traffic latency, followed by lessons learned and opportunities for further research.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"58 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81451241","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 concept for self-configuration of adaptive sensor and information fusion systems","authors":"Alexander Fritze, Uwe Mönks, V. Lohweg","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733637","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, new research questions arise because of the paradigms of Industry 4.0, which aims to bring together mechatronic systems and information technologies. Its general idea is to create an Internet of Things consisting of communicating machines, which implement concepts for self-configuration, -diagnosis, and -optimisation. The realisation of these functionalities is in focus of current research and gains in importance not only in the industrial sector. The overall goal is to equip technical systems with intelligence to enable for autonomous behaviour. Therefore, tasks like information processing, extensive networking, or system monitoring using sensor and information fusion systems have to be reconsidered. This contribution focuses on the design and maintenance of sensor and information fusion systems and presents a preliminary evaluation of a design concept for such applications. The concept is developed to automatically configure sensor and information fusion systems, which is a time-consuming and complex task when carried out manually. It reduces the perceived complexity of the application and supports the designer during design and maintenance of the sensor and information fusion system.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81669230","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":"Enhancing safe human-robot collaboration through natural multimodal communication","authors":"I. Maurtua, Izaskun Fernández, Johan Kildal, L. Susperregi, A. Tellaeche, A. Ibarguren","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733573","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a semantic multimodal interaction approach between humans and industrial robots to enhance the dependability of the collaboration in real industrial settings. Although this generic approach can be applied in different industrial scenarios, this paper explains in detail how it is implemented in a real case to enhance the accuracy of requests interpretation in order to achieve a more efficient, easy to scale and maintain collaboration between humans and robots.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82408388","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":"Safe tasks: Run time verification of the RTFM-lang model of computation","authors":"Marcus Lindner, Andreas Lindner, P. Lindgren","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733550","url":null,"abstract":"Embedded systems for critical applications are typically specified with requirements on predictable timing and safety. While ensuring predictable timing, the RTFM-lang (Real-Time For the Masses) model of computation (MoC) currently lacks memory access protection among real-time tasks. In this paper, we discuss how to safely verify task execution given a specification using the RTFM-MoC. Furthermore, an extension to the RTFM-core infrastructure is outlined and tested with use cases of embedded development. We propose a method for run time verification exploiting memory protection hardware. For this purpose, we introduce memory resources to the declarative language RTFM-core allowing compliance checks. As a proof of concept, compiler support for model analysis and automatic generation of run time verification code is implemented together with an isolation layer for the RTFM-kernel. With this verification foundation, functional run time checks as well as further overhead assessments are future research questions.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78892807","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":"Sensors data fusion to navigate inside pipe using Kalman Filter","authors":"Everson Siqueira, R. Z. Azzolin, S. Botelho, V. Oliveira","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733540","url":null,"abstract":"Pipelines have been used to convey products such as oil, gas, chemicals and water. It means that problems with pipelines would indicate money waste and environment damages. To avoid those problems, inspections are realised periodically. The technology improvement has made possible employing robots and mobile platforms to inspect pipes. The focus of this work is to implement a strategy to acquire the pose of robot or platform inside pipe. The method consists in the use of a technique to fuse information from a low cost IMU and encoder. Simulations are realised using Matlab software.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78973804","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":"Towards automatic visual sea grass detection in underwater areas of ecological interest","authors":"A. Burguera, F. Bonin-Font, J. Lisani, A. Petro, G. Oliver","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733594","url":null,"abstract":"In areas of ecological interest, the detection and control of seaweed such as Posidonia Oceanica is usually performed by divers. Due to the limited capacity of the scuba tanks and the human security protocols, this task involves several short immersions leading to poor temporal and spatial data resolution. Thus, it is desirable to automate this task by means of underwater robots. This paper describes a method to autonomously detect Posidonia Oceanica in the imagery gathered by an underwater robot. The proposed approach uses a set of Gabor filters to characterize an image. This characterization is used to detect the regions containing seaweed by means of a Support Vector Machine. The experiments, conducted with an Autonomous Underwater Robot in several marine areas of Mallorca, show promising results towards the automated seafloor classification from extended video sequences.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"101 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88238643","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":"Fault injection for IEC 61499 applications","authors":"Bernd Glatz, H. Schuster, M. Horauer, T. Rauscher, R. Obermaisser","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733676","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed control systems relying on IEC 61499 are a common engineering approach for various application domains ranging from industrial control to the management and control of modern buildings. In this paper we propose a generic fault-injection concept to support the verification of applications. A potential use-case therefore is, for example, to stress measures that aim to improve their reliability.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"70 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89004652","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":"Usability study to qualify a dexterous robotic manipulator for high radiation environments","authors":"R. French, H. Marin-Reyes, E. Kourlitis","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733521","url":null,"abstract":"Based at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. From 2025, the LHC will be upgraded to allow it to achieve a factor of 10 higher luminosity, which increases the rate of collisions, essential for probing new physics phenomena in the future. The route to high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) involves various detector upgrades and requires significant infrastructure changes. Recent measurements by CERN Radiation Protection, verifying previous calculations by The University of Sheffield (UoS), has raised awareness about the need to restrict human activity in the HL-LHC experimental, construction and maintenance areas due to exposure from high levels of radiation. Examining the case of the ATLAS detector upgrade, the collaborative partnership between UoS and UK industry is developing state-of-the-art robotic instrumentation, capable of tolerating high radiation levels. The main object of this research is a feasibility study with a TRL (technology readiness level) of three, to determine how materials and sub components of dexterous robotic systems behave after exposure to high levels of radiation. This is evaluation uses novel robotic irradiation equipment, techniques and test methods housed in the Birmingham University (UK) Irradiation Facility. One finger of an unmodified Shadow Robot Company “Hand”, a highly dexterous robotic manipulator, was exposed to specific doses of high radiation in a temperature controlled thermal chamber. Cooled by a liquid nitrogen evaporative system, the irradiation system moves samples continuously through a homogeneous proton beam. Movement is provided by a radiation hard pre-configured XY-Axis Cartesian Robot. The methods and techniques developed as a result of this TRL3 research will further aid the application and deployment of robotic and autonomous systems into highly radioactive environments. Based on preliminary findings it has been concluded that finger materials and basic electrical components can tolerate hazardous radiation environments, with careful selection and substitution of a minimal amount of materials, radiation hardness is also possible. Further work is scheduled for the irradiation of a fully instrumented and powered robotic hand to determine working hour tolerance.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"89 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79104429","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":"Transformation of the NAMUR MTP to OPC UA to allow plug and produce for modular process automation","authors":"Sachari Wassilew, L. Urbas, J. Ladiges, A. Fay, T. Holm","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733749","url":null,"abstract":"Modularization is considered as one enabler for flexible and highly reconfigurable process plants. These characteristics are needed to overcome deficiencies regarding market volatility and shorter product innovation cycles. Current standardization activities aim at the specification of Module Type Package (MTP) files as a semantic description of modules for fast and efficient integration into process control systems. To increase the plug and produce character of the approach, online discovery for modules has to be enabled. OPC UA is considered as a suitable industrial communication technology for the communication between modules and process control systems. Therefore, this paper presents an approach for the representation of MTPs in OPC UA in order to enable the online discovery of process modules.","PeriodicalId":6483,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)","volume":"85 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88544165","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}