Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549931
R. Lins, P. Kurka
This paper proposes the architecture of a multi-view cameras system with the purpose of online dimensional measuring of automotive components, specifically crankshafts. The introduction of a measuring vision system in a production line allows the dimensional quality control of all manufactured items, helping to optimize the process. The system consists of six digital cameras, positioned around the object, capturing different perspective images of the product. Processing of the images yields results of precise dimensional measurements of the product. The paper presents the ideas and algorithms used in the proposed measurement system, and virtual images simulation to access its operational and precision characteristics.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549877
Michael A. Garcia, J. Keller, J. Boughton
ITT Exelis has built and operates the Surveillance Broadcast Services (SBS) system to provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) target data in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The system requirements for significant coverage at low altitudes demands a dense laydown of radio stations such that at moderate and high altitudes there is an abundance of overlapping coverage from multiple radio stations. While such redundancy is generally a good attribute, the future expected growth in ADS-B equipage will place a large burden on the SBS network and servers because of that redundancy. In order to proactively mitigate that traffic growth, the SBS is designed with a number of traffic management features to control the amount of redundant reports from multiple radio stations. This paper summarizes a study that projects the impact of the growth in ADS-B equipped traffic on the SBS system, and evaluates the effectiveness and adequacy of existing and new candidate network traffic management features under consideration in the SBS.
ITT Exelis公司建立并运营监视广播服务(SBS)系统，为美国联邦航空管理局(FAA)提供美国国家空域系统(NAS)中的自动相关监视广播(ADS-B)目标数据。为了在低空地区实现广泛覆盖，系统要求密集地布置无线电台，以便在中等和高海拔地区有大量来自多个无线电台的重叠覆盖。虽然这种冗余通常是一个好的属性，但是ADS-B设备的未来预期增长将给SBS网络和服务器带来很大的负担，因为这种冗余。为了主动缓解流量增长，SBS设计了许多流量管理功能，以控制来自多个无线电台的冗余报告的数量。本文总结了一项研究，该研究预测了配备ADS-B的流量增长对SBS系统的影响，并评估了SBS中考虑的现有和新的候选网络流量管理功能的有效性和充分性。
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Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549924
D. S. D. Santos, C. Nascimento, W. C. Cunha
This article shows how the problem of autonomous navigation of a small boat was formulated and solved. The boat is a catamaran equipped with two water wheels driven by DC motors. A look-up table controller is used to turn on and off the DC motors. Firstly it is shown how the Kalman filter algorithm was applied to estimate in real-time the boat position and heading, using the measurements from a low-cost IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), a standard GPS receiver and a digital compass. Then a mathematical model of the boat and simulation results for the sensor integration problem and for the boat controller, are discussed. Finally, the article shows how the proposed solution for the autonomous navigation problem was implemented and tested using an embedded computer and the sensors (IMU, GPS receptor and digital compass) aboard the boat.
{"title":"Autonomous navigation of a small boat using IMU/GPS/digital compass integration","authors":"D. S. D. Santos, C. Nascimento, W. C. Cunha","doi":"10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549924","url":null,"abstract":"This article shows how the problem of autonomous navigation of a small boat was formulated and solved. The boat is a catamaran equipped with two water wheels driven by DC motors. A look-up table controller is used to turn on and off the DC motors. Firstly it is shown how the Kalman filter algorithm was applied to estimate in real-time the boat position and heading, using the measurements from a low-cost IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), a standard GPS receiver and a digital compass. Then a mathematical model of the boat and simulation results for the sensor integration problem and for the boat controller, are discussed. Finally, the article shows how the proposed solution for the autonomous navigation problem was implemented and tested using an embedded computer and the sensors (IMU, GPS receptor and digital compass) aboard the boat.","PeriodicalId":218073,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132558424","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}
Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549987
Peyman TalebiFard, H. Nicanfar, Victor C. M. Leung
Planet scale growth in deployment of mobile and interconnected devices interacting in a participatory sensing, collection and dissemination of information, have motivated interest in the Internet of Things. Therefore, the problem of information overload and big data becomes inherent. In this paper we intend to propose a methodology aiming at a lower processing overhead towards an energy efficient method for networking of information in larger systems. We consider a content-centric networking paradigm that is aimed at enhancing the dissemination of information and eliminating many problems of host based communication. The proposed method is based on a network coding approach which leverages the spectral characteristics of network topology. We argue that topology of interacting nodes within a cluster can influence the performance of network coding from a computational complexity perspective and therefore the overall energy consumption in a system. We propose an algorithm that takes an opportunistic strategy to utilize the social structure and spectral characteristics of the network topology based on our design of a multicast coding network that reduces the number of encoding nodes.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549912
K. Balázs, P. Soproni, L. Kóczy
This paper proposes a novel approach for cost-effective link failure localization in optical networks in order to improve the reliability of telecommunication systems. In such failure localization problems the optical network is usually represented by a graph, where the task is to form connected edge sets, so-called monitoring trails (m-trails), in a way that the failure of a link causes the failure of such a combination of m-trails, which unambiguously identifies the failed link. Every m-trail consumes a given amount of resources (like bandwidth, detectors, amplifiers, etc.). Thus, operators of optical network may prefer a set of paths, whose paths can be established in an easy and cost-effective way, while minimizing the interference with the route of the existing demands, i.e. may maximize the revenue. In this paper, unlike most existing techniques dealing with failure localization in this context, the presently proposed method considers a predefined set of paths in the graph as m-trails. This way the task can also be formulated as a special Set Covering Problem (SCP), whose general form is a frequently used formulation in a certain type of operations research problems (e.g. resource assignment). Since for the SCP task evolutionary algorithms, like Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), has been successfully applied in the operations research field, in this work the failure localization task is solved by using ACO on the SCP formulation of the described covering problem, which is a rather unique combination of approaches of different fields (telecommunication, operations research and evolutionary computation) placing our investigation in the multi-field scope of complex systems.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549872
Carlos Alvarez, Destin Smith-Norris, Ankur Agarwal
In the Biomedical Engineering field exist many issues with electronic medical devices repairing process especially when the problem is intermittent. In other words, the device works fine for some periods of time and it fails in other ones, which becomes challenge for biomedical departments to diagnose and fix the problems. When the device issues a constant and verifiable problem, technicians can rapidly proceed with the repairing of the unit, replacing bad components and performs the required tests before return the unit repaired to the customers. But, the most relevant issue, which is matter of this paper, is the event when a unit comes for repair with an intermittent problem issue stated. This is the case when, after a testing period of time, the failure is not verified in the biomedical workshop or in the lab, and then the biomedical device is returned to the customer (hospital, healthcare provider or medical center) with a diagnostic note stating “no problem found” (NPF). Once the returned unit is in the healthcare provider, it is available and ready for use; a doctor or practitioner request the unit for a medical procedure, and is when the intermittent problem show up again producing the obvious customer disgust. Then, the customer re-sends the unit to the repair center one more time for servicing, incurring a wasting of resources such as, labor time, shipping and handling costs, etc. and what is worst, bad customer satisfaction record. One of the solutions is be to have the biomedical device running continually for hours or maybe days and, at the same time one of the biomedical technician must be present until the issue be verified and confirm the problem; this is a no adequate solution, because mainly, it is so difficult to have a person at front of a device to monitor it by a long period of time. The other way is to do the same thing but in determined period of time, which could cause that the intermittent problem occurs exactly when the monitoring is missed and get a false NPF diagnostic again. Along this paper, we will describe our proposal with a valid solution to this problem, based on our experience in the biomedical engineering field and with the use of error codes which are internally generated for every biomedical device when they detect some type of failure. Our solution is developed to be used in a mobile device (Android technology) with the choice to be installed in other mobile technologies such as, iPhone, PDM, etc. Our solution to this problem is to provide a freely available database of medical devices, their error codes, what they mean, and how to fix the problems if there is one. This database will be populated with the data provided by the users, and will be approved by the administrator or moderator of the site to prevent malicious information. We believe that the benefits of having a global information source will be motivation for users of the site to take the time to add their knowledge when the site lacks it.
{"title":"Biomedical diagnostic system for device coding","authors":"Carlos Alvarez, Destin Smith-Norris, Ankur Agarwal","doi":"10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549872","url":null,"abstract":"In the Biomedical Engineering field exist many issues with electronic medical devices repairing process especially when the problem is intermittent. In other words, the device works fine for some periods of time and it fails in other ones, which becomes challenge for biomedical departments to diagnose and fix the problems. When the device issues a constant and verifiable problem, technicians can rapidly proceed with the repairing of the unit, replacing bad components and performs the required tests before return the unit repaired to the customers. But, the most relevant issue, which is matter of this paper, is the event when a unit comes for repair with an intermittent problem issue stated. This is the case when, after a testing period of time, the failure is not verified in the biomedical workshop or in the lab, and then the biomedical device is returned to the customer (hospital, healthcare provider or medical center) with a diagnostic note stating “no problem found” (NPF). Once the returned unit is in the healthcare provider, it is available and ready for use; a doctor or practitioner request the unit for a medical procedure, and is when the intermittent problem show up again producing the obvious customer disgust. Then, the customer re-sends the unit to the repair center one more time for servicing, incurring a wasting of resources such as, labor time, shipping and handling costs, etc. and what is worst, bad customer satisfaction record. One of the solutions is be to have the biomedical device running continually for hours or maybe days and, at the same time one of the biomedical technician must be present until the issue be verified and confirm the problem; this is a no adequate solution, because mainly, it is so difficult to have a person at front of a device to monitor it by a long period of time. The other way is to do the same thing but in determined period of time, which could cause that the intermittent problem occurs exactly when the monitoring is missed and get a false NPF diagnostic again. Along this paper, we will describe our proposal with a valid solution to this problem, based on our experience in the biomedical engineering field and with the use of error codes which are internally generated for every biomedical device when they detect some type of failure. Our solution is developed to be used in a mobile device (Android technology) with the choice to be installed in other mobile technologies such as, iPhone, PDM, etc. Our solution to this problem is to provide a freely available database of medical devices, their error codes, what they mean, and how to fix the problems if there is one. This database will be populated with the data provided by the users, and will be approved by the administrator or moderator of the site to prevent malicious information. We believe that the benefits of having a global information source will be motivation for users of the site to take the time to add their knowledge when the site lacks it.","PeriodicalId":218073,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129949858","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}
Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549948
Z. Seibold, T. Stoll, K. Furmans
To increase flexibility in intralogistics, decentralized controlled material handling systems have been developed. We investigate the suitability of one of these systems, the FlexConveyor, for sorting of goods. The FlexConveyor is a material handling system built out of multiple, identical modules, each equipped with a controller. By communicating with each other, the modules are able to cooperate and to transport goods from any source to its specific destination. For sorting of goods, densely connected layouts promise high throughput while requiring little space. To compare different layouts, to identify bottlenecks and to draw conclusion about algorithm optimizations, we do a layout analysis partially based on methods coming from the network analysis of national transportation networks. The results of this layout analysis are compared to experimental results of a discrete event simulation model.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549957
P. Sujit, D. Lucani, J. Sousa
Large scale data gathering from remote sensor networks is a key issue in many remote deployments. Manual data collection is difficult and sending ground robots to collect information can be complex due to uneven terrain. Alternately, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be used to collect data from sensor networks. The UAV will fly over the sensors gathering the data. However, to minimize the flight time of the UAV and maximize the network lifetime, a joint route optimization for UAV and sensor network must be carried out. Additionally, the UAV has kinematic constraints and communication range limitations. Determining solution with these constraints is difficult and computationally intensive. In this paper, we propose a heuristic solution by decoupling the problem into four sub-problems. The first is to determine clusters of sensors with communication range limitations. The second is to efficiently connect the clusters. The third is to design the route inside the cluster that will maximize the information collection and the fourth is to design a path planner for the UAV for data collection. We show the proposed solution through an example.
{"title":"Joint route planning for UAV and sensor network for data retrieval","authors":"P. Sujit, D. Lucani, J. Sousa","doi":"10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549957","url":null,"abstract":"Large scale data gathering from remote sensor networks is a key issue in many remote deployments. Manual data collection is difficult and sending ground robots to collect information can be complex due to uneven terrain. Alternately, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be used to collect data from sensor networks. The UAV will fly over the sensors gathering the data. However, to minimize the flight time of the UAV and maximize the network lifetime, a joint route optimization for UAV and sensor network must be carried out. Additionally, the UAV has kinematic constraints and communication range limitations. Determining solution with these constraints is difficult and computationally intensive. In this paper, we propose a heuristic solution by decoupling the problem into four sub-problems. The first is to determine clusters of sensors with communication range limitations. The second is to efficiently connect the clusters. The third is to design the route inside the cluster that will maximize the information collection and the fourth is to design a path planner for the UAV for data collection. We show the proposed solution through an example.","PeriodicalId":218073,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon)","volume":"454 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122491785","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}
Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549866
J. Anteroinen
This paper discusses contemporary military operations concepts, based on a systems approach. These concepts include the U.S. effects-based operations (EBO), NATO's effects-based approach to operations (EBAO) and comprehensive approach (CA) and Israel's systemic operational design (SOD). The paper describes the concepts, reviews the critique of these concepts and discusses the critique from the systems perspective. A systems engineering framework is used as a structure for discussion. The paper is an exploratory type of research which aims to provide fresh insights regarding the challenges and failings of the concepts under discussion. Hence, the contribution of the paper is contextual in nature. The findings of the paper suggest that the expectations for the systems approach to help solve the needs of the military community have perhaps been too ambitious. The chosen systems method, systems analysis and systems techniques for these concepts are probably too limited to be able to support the creation of a holistic understanding of the operational environment.
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Pub Date : 2013-04-15DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549851
M. Gepp, M. Amberg, T. Schaeffler, S. Horn, J. Vollmar
To remain competitive, industrial plant manufacturers need to increase their engineering performance. This requires an assessment of engineering performance first. Since engineering is connected in multiple ways to other disciplines, stages in the value-add chain and phases of the plant life cycle such an assessment proved to be difficult. This contribution presents a pragmatic model to systematize subjective interpretations of engineering performance in order to support plant manufacturers to achieve a holistic and comprehensive picture of engineering performance. It further aims to increase the awareness of plant manufacturers for weaknesses of current performance assessment approaches. The contribution is based on a literature review and qualitative indepth expert interviews, which results have been validated and prioritized in a web-based quantitative survey. Current economic considerations turned out to be not suitable to assess engineering performance, since they have been developed for physical goods or have a strong focus on costs. Based on best-practice sharing, case studies and expert interviews a model was developed which supports plant manufacturers to structure performance and to illustrate challenges and weaknesses of current assessments. The presented model breaks engineering performance down into three dimensions. The subjective interpretations of performance were considered by two perspectives.
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