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To determine the capabilities and limitations of human operators and automation in separation assurance roles, a human-in-the-loop study investigated allocation of air traffic control functions across three different conditions where amount of automation and controller tasks were varied. Participants worked a single sector with aircraft in different phases of flight. Scenarios included varying levels...
This paper presents a low-cost, re-configurable Modular Intelligent Node for Distribution systems (MIND). It can serve as a sustainable and general-purpose module for monitoring and automation of power distribution systems. MIND is designed and built with low-cost hardware, interconnectivity with other modules, and highly reconfigurable design of hardware and software to support newly added monitoring...
This paper presents the development framework for an energy management platform that is being developed within the AnyPLACE project. In order to ensure that end-users become active participants in services like demand response, a combined approach is necessary in terms of monitoring, automation, and user interfacing. The success in engaging the end-user, as the centerpiece of the energy management...
A key challenge in nowadays machinery applications is to guaranty availability and to increase productivity while reducing production costs. Companies, which are able to use their produced data (e.g., process values) to overcome this challenge, will have a significant competitive advantage. This paper shows how data-analytics approaches can be used to realize predictive maintenance solutions, taking...
Current trend in industrial systems is to make devices more intelligent and distribute the control into smaller components. The intelligent devices produce big amount of data which can be provided to plant personnel for maintaining the proper function and desired production performance. Large systems may contain hundreds of intelligent controllers, therefore, there is a need for a system that can...
Nowadays, the electric power systems play a fundamental role in our society, since the electric energy transport until the final consumer. Under this context, the substations are an essential component of these systems, because they operate as a point of interconnection between the electrical transport networks and the energy distribution systems. Due to the importance of this type of facilities,...
In this study, an FPGA based online monitoring system was developed for detection of power quality disturbances. The developed system has the capability to instantly detect commonly seen PQ disturbances such as voltage sag, voltage swell and interruption occurring on real-time three-phase voltage signals obtained from the electric power system. The data of the detected disturbance events are transferred...
The European Train Control System (ETCS) as part of the ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) is a train automation and control system, which has been introduced into the UK rail network, triggering a need to understand its impact on the train driving task and train driver behaviour. In particular, an industry requirement for Human Factors (HF) research and the necessity to understand the...
Building automation is more and more deployed in buildings. Economic reasons in the terms of savings and higher efficiency are obvious and have ever been a motivation for building owners. Especially the current developments in the fields of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) take their roles in the further investigation in today's building automation systems. The integration...
Data analysis and processing of manufacturing process is significant to ensure the stable production safety, maintain quality stabilization, and optimize production profit. Practical manufacturing process often has complex characteristics, such as multimode, nonlinearity, etc. Mode division can divide manufacturing process into multiple modes and is useful for subsequent process monitoring and scheduling...
The demand side management (DSM) is the specified set of methods for the modification of electrical networks in terms of better performance and devising. Mostly, the target of DSM is to inspire the electric consumers to utilize less available electric power during peak hours or to shift their time of energy utilization to off-peak times. The main challenges for implementation of DSM in Pakistan are...
The behavior recognition algorithm based on block matrix is proposed, which mainly includes six kinds of abnormal behavior of jumping, accelerated running, falling down, squatting, waving and bag. Firstly, inter frame difference method is applied to on video stream to extract contour features of the moving object and the mathematical morphology method was carried out to deal with it. Then block bilateral...
The growing dependence of our society on increasingly complex software systems, makes software testing ever more important and challenging. In many domains, such as healthcare and transportation, several independent systems, forming a heterogeneous and distributed system of systems, are involved in the provisioning of end-to-end services to users. However, existing testing techniques, namely in the...
Sudden Oak Death (SOD) has emerged rapidly and repeatedly in US and Europe, with devastating impact upon forest ecosystems and causing severe economic hardship to nursery operation. It has potential host vegetation with large spans in China which has similar environment and climate. Yunnan province was selected as typical study area here for EU and NA evolutionary lineage. It is assumed that there...
Maintenance of the water quality in swimming pools is a challenge for home owners with limited budgets. Existing pool automation systems are expensive and entry-level models can only control pH and chlorine levels. This paper presents a web-based swimming pool information system that is capable of taking various sensor measurements and interface with actuators to automate numerous elements of pool...
The design of conventional process plants is guided by the idea of structuring the process in functional units. Because of cost reduction this design is often neglected during the implementation phase. There is a huge potential in the re-modularization looking at the re-usability which directly effects the engineering efficiency when developing new plants. Furthermore, there is the possibility to...
The emergence of the Industrial Internet results in an increasing number of complicated temporal interdependencies between automation systems and the processes to be controlled. There is a need for verification methods that scale better than formal verification methods and which are more exact than testing. Simulation-based runtime verification is proposed as such a method, and an application of Metric...
Industrial production systems meet strict requirements regarding availability, process control and condition monitoring. As a key enabler of Industry 4.0, cyber-physical systems form the core of a modular, web-based framework, which delivers more efficient condition monitoring mechanisms for maintenance staff in production facilities. The present approach illustrates the potential of a decentralized...
In recent years there has been a great deal of academic and practitioner interest in the role of ‘benefits realisation management’ [BRM] approaches, as a means of proactively leveraging value from IT investments. However, as automated technologies are increasingly being introduced on the basis that they deliver more cost-efficient solutions than their human counterparts, important questions needs...
An energy-informatic-centric smart campus represents a viable structure addressing to different groups of users, like: students, teachers/educators, researchers and technical administrators, using information and communications technology system interface for accessing various services and requiring real time information regarding university buildings energy consumption and production, air quality...
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