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Communications in Computer and Information Science
th This volume contains the papers selected for the 13 FIRA Robot World Congress, held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Bangalore, India, September 15-17, 2010. The Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA – www.fira.net) is a non-profit organization that annually organizes robotic competitions and meetings around the globe. The robot soccer competitions started in 1996, and FIRA was...
Education system is going through a reform in terms of delivering lectures, with recent studies suggesting that shorter lectures help students to focus on the concepts thoroughly as well as effectively as they are found to be more engaging than the longer ones. However, making it a reality in traditional classroom settings is a big challenge. One possible alternative is to deliver lecture through...
One to three percentage of world's gross domestic product is being wasted due to automotive accidents and this figure will be increased further without any new commitments to prevent them. Automated driving system is one of the promising commitments and the road detection technology and the steering control technology are two essential technologies for realizing such a system. In this paper, a novel...
Advancements in telecommunication technologies have been instrumental for the past few decades in making human life easier. Development of telemedicine technology made access to better medical care for the rural population ever more possible. However, telemedicine systems for rehabilitation purposes which are designed to work under low-bandwidth network conditions are rare to find. This work focuses...
Use of telecommunication technology to tackle medical accessibility challenges, termed “Telemedicine”, is getting attention from researchers around the world. Realizing such a system in low bandwidth network is even more challenging; majorly due to the heavy data payload caused by video frames. This paper introduces some innovative features so that a regular video conferencing solution can be designed...
The high costs and inconvenience of visiting a doctor for medical advice have deterred a sizable number of elderly and needy from seeking proper medical treatment promptly and this may cause their conditions to deteriorate and possibly resulting in a more severe impact on their daily lives. Thus, this application is designed with the aim to bring more convenience and health care services to these...
Advances in networking technologies have led to an increasing number of control systems with remote access functionalities. However, key challenges arise and remain in remote control and monitoring applications such as the need to prioritize different data types being transmitted over the same network with limited bandwidth; balancing streaming parameters in data intensive transmissions such as video...
This work proposes the development of a supervisory control system in order to facilitate In Vitro Fertilization process. This medical procedure requires decision making for a series of discrete event, while one of its main components, fluid temperature control, is a continuous process. A programmable logic controller is used to receive desired settings from users and automatically closes these loops...
In this paper, we propose control approaches for air bearing stages. First, we consider the case in which air bearing system is a linear stage. A control scheme incoporated with eddy current braking is proposed, where two control inputs are introduced to handle the nonlinear air bearing system. Secondly, we consider the case in which air bearing system is a spherical stage. The control scheme involves...
This paper presents the development of a real-time response system to enhance student involvement in a class; by means of addressing the attendance and the participation of students. The system consists of student pads on an Android mobile platform, a lecturer pad, and an Apache Tomcat server hosting the software of the system. The system allows the lecturer to keep track of the attendance of every...
Tissue microarray (TMA) has been widely used for the study of tissue, which is applicable to research, diagnosis, and therapy. The ever-increasing usage of TMA even to the remote locations brings about the requirement of accessibility; which translates into the need for quality, portability, and affordability. This paper describes the work along this direction. The technology put forth in this paper...
This paper describes the development of a remote physiological monitoring (RPM) system named e-Guardian for the elderly living alone or patients having chronic diseases. e-Guardian is a home-based e-monitoring and notification system which is low-cost, small, extremely power saving, simple in design and operation, and robust in performance. The centerpieces of e-Guardian are wearable devices which...
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