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The concept of renewable energy is increasing day by day because the electrical applications are moving towards utilization of renewable sources and due to this factor electric power is also gaining ground and new type of converters are modelled in order to get high utilization of renewable sources. In this paper, two types of multiport…

In the recent years LepidaSpa created Sensornet platform for the control of the Emilia-Romagna territory managing heterogeneous environmental sensor networks distributed all over the region. LepidaSpa decided to integrate into Sensornet a brand-new family of sensors measuring indoor environmental parameters inside public buildings, in order to monitor energy consumption on one hand and workers’ wellbeing…

This paper discusses a step climbing strategy using a wheelchair and a teleoperated care robot that avoids collisions between the wheelchair’s front wheels and the step wall. In our method, the two vehicles are connected and use the velocity difference between them to climb steps. Since the wheelchair’s front wheels, or another part of the…

In order to increase the diagnosis accuracy of schizophrenia (SCZ) disease, it is essential to comprehensively employ complementary information from multiple types of data. It is well known that a network is a general method for analyzing relationships between patients, with its nodes representing patients and its edges showing relationships between them. In this study,…

The sector of telecommunications is experiencing a large growth and rapid change in developing applications due to the variety of technologies, to increase the number of users and to arrival services varied from the high demand of the service quality such as streaming, web navigation. In this regard, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) organization…

The Static Var Compensator (SVC) is used to improve the stability of the power system because of its role in injecting or absorbing the reactive power in the electrical transmission lines. The Power System Stabilizer (PSS) is also a control device which ensures maximum power transfer and thus the stability of the power system enhancement.…

Small animal modeling is an exciting research field where human pathogenic frameworks can be replicated in a controlled environment. Accurate Imaging is in high demand when modeling abnormalities and, magnetic resonance imaging plays a vital role due to its demonstrated lowest intrusion when compared with other imaging methods. However, the required high-resolution yields low-quality images…

In this paper, a delay-dependent controller based on the sliding mode concept is proposed to stabilize a networked robotic system in a decentralized synchronization scheme. In addition to being affected by communication time-delays between agents, and seen that external disturbances obviously affect any physical and dynamic system, an unsettling action resulting from measurement errors affects…

Traceability for some people, is merely a tool to keep a history over something important that happened in the past. For others, is has no added value to their actual processes or products. In fact, it is becoming more and more valued. Traceability is still a vast area of research and an undiscovered field that…

This paper presents the development and design of a methodology based on fuzzy logic to control an indoor mobile robot for a complete navigation in an unknown environment. The methodology incorporates two basic behaviors, namely: reaching the goal and avoiding obstacles. The obstacle avoidance behavior is treated using wall-following scheme based on an Interval Type-2…

This paper describes a system to gather information from a stationary camera to identify moving objects. The proposed solution makes only use of motion vectors between adjacent frames, obtained from any algorithm. Starting from them, the system is able to retrieve clusters of moving objects in a scene acquired by an image sensor device. Since…

An effective communication among the road users is crucial for safety precautions. Nowadays, a light emitting diode (LED) are commonly installed on a motor vehicle as the lighting system. The LED lights are more reliable and flexible in terms of the design and power adjustments. To further utilize the LED applications in a vehicular system,…

This paper studies the design of supervisory controllers with a minimum number of monitor places for Manufacturing System modeled as safe Petri Nets. The proposed approach considers a class of safety specifications known as Behavioral Constraints with a restricted syntax. The set of Behavioral Constraints are represented as predicate logic formulas in normal conjunctive form.…

This paper is an extension of work originally presented and published in IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET). This work presents a design and implementation of a moving human tracking system with obstacle avoidance. The system scans the environment by using Kinect, a 3D sensor, and tracks the center of mass of a…

This paper presents the synthesis of a dynamic space vector modulation for power matrix converters so that it is possible to implement a universal modulator that provides a control algorithm dynamically optimized according to the requirements for the matrix converter.

In this study, a control system of a feedback device of temperature sensation for myoelectric prosthetic hand users was improved. The device is mounted on a user’s upper arm in contact with the skin, and transfers the temperature sensation in the upper arm corresponding to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor at the fingertip…

This paper presents a Release Management model to support requirements management. Requirements development and management can be integrated with a release-planning approach to achieve lesser Requirements spillover problems which is an innovative way to capture, control and evolve the user requirements based on integer linear programming.

Zika virus (ZIKAV) is a flavi-virus, first isolated in 1947 in the Zika Forest of Uganda. ZIKAV is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. ZIKAV is made up of two noncoding regions (5′ and 3′ ) that verge an open reading frame, which put into code a polyprotein smote into the capsid, precursor of membrane, envelope,…

At Microarchitectural level, multi-core processor, as a complex System on Chip, has sophisticated on-chip components including cores, shared caches, interconnects and system controllers such as memory and ethernet controllers. At technological level, architects should consider the device types forecast in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). Energy simulation enables architects to study two important…

This manuscript presents a prototype and design implementation of an advance home automation system that uses Wi-Fi technology as a network infrastructure connecting its parts. The proposed system consists of two main components; the first part is the server, which presents system core that manages and controls user’s home. Users and system administrator can locally…

This paper extends some of our research results disseminated in the most recent awarded international conference paper concerning the implementation in real time of a sliding mode observer state estimator. For the same case study developed in the conference paper, more precisely a DC servomotor angular speed control system, we extend the proposed concept of…

High Frequency Signal Injection based techniques are robust and well proven to estimate the rotor position from stand still to low speed. However, Injected high frequency signal introduces, high frequency harmonics in the motor phase currents and results in significant Output Torque ripple. There is no detailed analysis exist in the literature, to study the…

Recently, with the rapid progress in image processing and three-dimensional (3D) technologies, stereoscopic images are available not only on television but also in theaters and gaming consoles. Asthenopia and visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) are well-known phenomena experienced by users while viewing video clips, playing immersive video games, and other such activities. In previous studies,…

Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is a high effective learning algorithm for the single hidden layer feed forward neural networks. Compared with the existing neural network learning algorithm it solves the slow training speed and over-fitting problems. It has been used in different fields and applications such as biomedical engineering, computer vision, remote sensing, chemical process…

This work discuss two different intelligent controllers: Online Neuro Fuzzy Controller (ONFC) and Proportional-Integral-Derivative Neural Network (PID-NN). They were applied to maintain the equilibrium and to control the position of a two-wheeled robot prototype. Experiments were carried out to investigate the equilibrium control and movement of the two-wheeled robot first on flat terrain, then in…