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The concept of energy sustainability has been recently introduced in complex cyber-physical systems innovation studies. Previous empirical studies have only focused on the coordination of systems in a large system, but less research has been done on energy efficiency and management towards sustainability. We argue that in terms of energy consumption, a system comprising variety of technologies and...
A straight line motion is a common application in engineering design and manufacture. The Peaucellier mechanism generates exact straight lines, meeting some restrictions among their links dimensions and the input angle. The mechanism has eight links, but due to those initial restrictions, only requires to find relations among three of its eight links and rotation angle. This paper explains the process...
Virtual agents are artificial intelligent artifacts that mimic natural conversations with users. The media equation posits that human-agent interaction mirrors the social cues prevalent in human-to-human relationship. As such, personality adaptation-convergence (similarity-attraction) and divergence (complementary-attraction) in human-agent interaction have been explored, particularly in the context...
The article provides an original method for obtaining kinematic models of solar panel deployment mechanisms, which is based on the principle of formalised description of mechanisms kinematics. The method is aimed at automation of the derivation of solar panel deployment kinematic equations both in numerical and analytical forms. This method can be successfully applied to various types of deployable...
Thermal convection and fluid flow in porous media has gained increasing research interest in recent years due to the presence of porous media in many engineering applications. Rough set theory has been regarded as a powerful feasible and effective methodology in the performance of data mining and knowledge discovery activities. This paper introduce a method for building knowledge for the rate of heat...
Provides an abstract for each of the plenary presentations and a brief professional biography of each presenter. The complete presentations were not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.
One of the main problems in minimum invasive robotic surgery is effective control of the tracking error due to hand tremor. In this paper we review issues of hand tremor using surgical robot and propose a novel technique using wavelet transform with minimum coefficients to get a tremor free signal. In the parameter learning phase the error is minimized with minimum wavelet compression and as time...
We present the first decentralized multi-copter flock that performs stable autonomous outdoor flight with up to 10 flying agents. By decentralized and autonomous we mean that all members navigate themselves based on the dynamic information received from other robots in the vicinity. We do not use central data processing or control; instead, all the necessary computations are carried out by miniature...
In this paper, a dynamic model is proposed for a carangiform-like robotic fish swimming both forwards and backwards. The robotic fish, which consists of a streamlined head, a flexible body and a caudal fin, is able to propel itself by generating a traveling propulsive wave traversing its body. We first modify the classical body wave function suggested by Lighthill to fit our robotic fish. Then we...
Marine phenomena such as algal blooms can be detected using in situ measurements onboard autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), but understanding plankton ecology and community structure requires retrieval and analysis of water specimens. This process requires shipboard or manual sample collection, followed by onshore lab analysis which is time-consuming. Better understanding of the relationship between...
In the centenary year of Turing's birth it is appropriate to explore the relationship between Computational and Human Intelligence along the path that he proposed over 60 years ago. In many way, he saw clearly what the issues were, although there were some that he missed or underestimated. We approach the problem of Human-level Computational Intelligence from two perspectives: the aspects of human...
In applications of the navigation and control of unmanned ground vehicles in a cross-country environment and tele-driving a rover on the unknown lunar surface for scientific exploration, human-computer interactive path planning and planned path tracking is a significant way of teleoperation. In this paper, we use the method based on Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees (RRTs) to solve the robot path planning...
This paper introduces the problem of computing the shortest Euclidean path of a plural number of sequenced spherical balls in 3D. Based on the author's previous works and the technique of pair-wisely local optimization, a heuristic algorithm was proposed to solve the problem. Empirical results are competing with random selection and the nearest neighbor search algorithm. The experiments have shown...
Based on industry surveys (2007–2009) conducted by the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD), approximately 50% of all electric power utility engineers will be eligible for retirement in the next five years. Meanwhile, the number of full-time undergraduate students enrolled in electrical and computer engineering has declined by 27% over the last several years (2002–2009). Will we have enough...
This paper applies the theory of information space for a study of dialogue management in major approaches, ranging from the classical approach based upon finite state machine to the most recent approach using partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). After identifying the problems of current approaches, this paper proposes a modified approach of POMDP-based dialogue management. This new...
This paper describes the hardware and software of the avionics for a mini-helicopter robot called Colibrí, which provides the instrumentation, intelligence, and energy to the autonomous navigation. The paper describes the function of each electronic device in the navigation system and explains the tools for rapid software prototyping. This programming environment uses a high-level graphical language...
Recent research in orthopedic surgeries indicates that computerassisted robotic systems have shown that robots may improve the precision and accuracy of the surgery which in turn leads to better long-term outcomes. An orthopedic robotic system called OrthoRoby and an intelligent control architecture that will be used in bone cutting operations were developed. In this paper, a medical user interface...
In this article data glove and mechanical arm are connected by RS-232 serial port line, so mechanical arm and data glove are very critical in the data transmission among computers. Under windows serial port communication can be realized in the two methods below: making use of ActiveX control and API communication function. In this passage the advantages and shortcomings of the realization of the two...
In this article we discuss a decentralized totally asynchronous realization of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, which is suitable for parallel implementation. The proposed method has important differences from the PSO implementations considered in the literature. In the proposed method the particles are allowed to exchange information and to update their estimates at totally independent...
The art of computer-based game production is an aspiring goal and a challenging task. It involves many different activities, expertise and skills into many different areas such as: game theory, programming skills, multimedia, 2D/3D graphics and animation, sound engineering, story writing, project design and management, physics, logic design, interface programming, artificial intelligence (AI) and...
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