支持笔输入的乐谱编辑器

设计并实现了一个支持笔输入的乐谱编辑器,用户使用笔和书写板输入乐谱手势符号,利用基于网格编码的单笔划手势识别算法识别手势符号,生成与输入相应的乐谱,具有实时播放的功能。与传统交互界面的乐谱编辑器相比较,该系统的交互方式更加符合人们对乐谱的书写和认知习惯,使乐谱的输入过程变得简单、自然、高效。     

Myoelectric arm using artificial neural networks to reduce cognitive load of the user

Today’s multiple degree-of-freedom myoelectric prosthesis relies only on direct control by the processed electromyographic signal. However, it is difficult for the wearer to learn unnatural muscle contractions in order to wield more than three DoFs of the arm. This makes it almost impossible to use more complex prostheses with a larger number of actuators. Methods based on sensor–actuator loop and artificial intelligence may reduce cognitive load of the user by removing low level control, and an intelligent control system would make it needless to micromanage every action. For this purpose, sensor system for body segments motion capture was developed, as well as sensor system for prosthetic limb’s environment motion capture. Neural networks were designed to process data from the sensor systems. For the identification of the knee angle, orientation trackers were used. Neural network predictor of arm positions predicts the shoulder angle using the information about movement of the lower limb. In the case of the periodic/cyclic movements of the legs, such as walking, the control unit uses typical movement patterns of the healthy upper limb. Ultrasonic range sensors are used to create 3D map of objects in the environment around the arm. Neural network predictor of object positions predicts collisions. If the potential collisions are identified, the control unit stops arm movement. The new methods were verified by MATLAB and are designed as a part of assistive technology for disabled people and are to be understood as an original contribution to the investigation of new prosthesis control units and international debate on the design of new myoelectric prostheses.

     

Maximizing microelectromechanical sensor and actuator sensitivity by optimizing geometry

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) typically consist of sensor and/or actuator units. In many cases these units are made of beams (modeled as springs) and plates that are subject to external pressure fields, such as electric, magnetic, acoustic or hydrodynamic. Frequently, it is possible to find MEMS devices that can be divided into springs, which control the movement of the device, and an active region, where the sensing or actuating takes place. The overall dimension of a device is often constrained to a small area. In this case it is necessary to find the optimal division between the springs and the active region, which occupy this area, in order to maximize the sensitivity of the device. This paper discusses the relations between the sensitivity of area-constrained MEMS devices and their geometry. The analysis is presented for devices in five different measuring modes, capacitance, tunneling, MOS, piezoresistive and piezoelectric, for a fixed-fixed configuration.     

基于嵌入式Linux系统的掌上Emap的设计

本文对基于嵌入式Linux系统下不同的图形用户界面(GUI)进行了综合的介绍和比较,并根据Emap的工作原理,提出了在嵌入式Linux系统下的掌上PDA上运行Emap的一种实现模型,具有较强的实用价值。     

Role of laser sensor systems in automation and flexible manufacturing

New industries and production plants require a flexible system, which is capable of picking up objects of various shapes, weights, and colors with arbitrary position and orientation. Such a system also needs recognition and guiding sub-systems. The recognition system includes target function for the recognition sub-system and relation between object characteristics and recognition target. The laser sensor system can be used for such object recognition. Wire-based telemetry and control systems can cause many problems in shop floors and factories, and so there has been a strong growth of interest in wireless guidance like vehicles equipped with laser guiding and navigation systems. For the continuous measurements of parameters such as temperature, etc. optical laser sensor technology seems to become more applicable at this stage. This article describes the operational principles and the use of the most advanced laser sensor systems for quantity measurements, guiding, navigation, pattern recognition, and vision systems for inspection purposes. A variety of laser-based sensors, which can be used as sensing devices in manufacturing, and production technology, are described in this study. Adaptive cruise control systems that can be used in automobile industry to monitor distance and speed are described in this report. As a typical example, the principal operation of a laser guided mobile robot using a laser navigation system is also described.     

Towards a model-driven approach for multiexperience AI-based user interfaces

Software and Systems Modeling - Software systems start to include other types of interfaces beyond the “traditional” Graphical-User Interfaces (GUIs). In particular, Conversational User...     

Driving Automotive User Interface Research

Cars offer an interesting but challenging microcosm for pervasive computing research and, in particular, for interaction with pervasive computing systems. Increasingly, researchers are looking at interactive applications in the car and investigating human-car interaction from a computer science—rather than an ergonomics or mechanical engineering—perspective. This article reports on the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, wherein participants shared presentations on topics such as aesthetics, user interaction and distraction, safety, and driver monitoring.     

A proposal of ubiquitous fuzzy computing for Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence is considered as the composition of three emergent technologies: Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous Communication and Intelligent User Interfaces. The aim of integration of aforesaid technologies is to make wider the interaction between human beings and information technology equipment through the usage of an invisible network of ubiquitous computing devices composing dynamic computational-ecosystems capable of satisfy the users requirements. Many works focus the attention on the interaction from users to devices in order to allow an universal and immediate access to available content and services provided by the environment. This paper, vice versa, focuses on the reverse interactions, from devices to users, in order to realize a collection of autonomous control services able to minimize the human effort. In particular, by merging computational intelligence methodologies with standard Web technologies we show how ubiquitous devices will be able to find the suitable set of intelligent services in a transparent way.     

IMMIView: a multi-user solution for design review in real-time

IMMIView is an interactive system that relies on multiple modalities and multi-user interaction to support collaborative design review. It was designed to offer natural interaction in visualization setups such as large-scale displays, head mounted displays or TabletPC computers. To support architectural design, our system provides content creation and manipulation, 3D scene navigation and annotations. Users can interact with the system using laser pointers, speech commands, body gestures and mobile devices. In this paper, we describe how we design a system to answer architectural user requirements. In particular, our system takes advantage of multiple modalities to provide a natural interaction for design review. We also propose a new graphical user interface adapted to architectural user tasks, such as navigation or annotations. The interface relies on a novel stroke-based interaction supported by simple laser pointers as input devices for large-scale displays. Furthermore, input devices such as speech and body tracking allow IMMIView to support multiple users. Moreover, they allow each user to select different modalities according to their preference and modality adequacy for the user task. We present a multi-modal fusion system developed to support multi-modal commands on a collaborative, co-located, environment, i.e. with two or more users interacting at the same time, on the same system. The multi-modal fusion system listens to inputs from all the IMMIView modules in order to model user actions and issue commands. The multiple modalities are fused based on a simple rule-based sub-module developed in IMMIView and presented in this paper. User evaluation performed over IMMIView is presented. The results show that users feel comfortable with the system and suggest that users prefer the multi-modal approach to more conventional interactions, such as mouse and menus, for the architectural tasks presented.     

Design and evaluation of lightweight middleware for personal wireless body area network

This paper presents a lightweight middleware to be used for wireless medical body area networks. The middleware is designed to reside in mobile devices, and acts as a gateway to receive sensor data as well as to control a set of sensor devices attached to the wearer. The main essence of the middleware is to simplify and accelerate the development of wireless healthcare applications by providing highly reusable codes. The architecture of the middleware including its main functions such as data acquisition, dynamic plug-and-play capabilities, on-the-fly sensor reconfiguration, and resource management (i.e., sensor sleep/wake-up, critical self-wake) will be discussed. A security feature as a means to protect critical sensor data from malicious/unauthorized parties has also been incorporated in our proposed middleware. The prototype system of the middleware has been built and is presented in this paper together with its performance measurements.     

SVMT: A MATLAB toolbox for stereo-vision motion tracking of motor reactivity

This article presents a Matlab-based stereo-vision motion tracking system (SVMT) for the detection of human motor reactivity elicited by sensory stimulation. It is a low-cost, non-intrusive system supported by Graphical User Interface (GUI) software, and has been successfully tested and integrated in a broad array of physiological recording devices at the Human Physiology Laboratory in the University of Granada. The SVMT GUI software handles data in Matlab and ASCII formats. Internal functions perform lens distortion correction, camera geometry definition, feature matching, as well as data clustering and filtering to extract 3D motion paths of specific body areas. System validation showed geo-rectification errors below 0.5mm, while feature matching and motion paths extraction procedures were successfully validated with manual tracking and RMS errors were typically below 2% of the movement range. The application of the system in a psychophysiological experiment designed to elicit a startle motor response by the presentation of intense and unexpected acoustic stimuli, provided reliable data probing dynamical features of motor responses and habituation to repeated stimulus presentations. The stereo-geolocation and motion tracking performance of the SVMT system were successfully validated through comparisons with surface EMG measurements of eyeblink startle, which clearly demonstrate the ability of SVMT to track subtle body movement, such as those induced by the presentation of intense acoustic stimuli. Finally, SVMT provides an efficient solution for the assessment of motor reactivity not only in controlled laboratory settings, but also in more open, ecological environments.     

ECCbAS: An ECC based authentication scheme for healthcare IoT systems

Smart technology is a concept for efficiently managing smart things such as vehicles, buildings, home appliances, healthcare systems and others, through the use of networks and the Internet. Smart architecture makes use of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, and cloud computing. The Smart Medical System (SMS), which is focused on communication networking and sensor devices, is one of the applications used in this architecture. In a smart medical system, a doctor uses cloud-based applications such as mobile devices, wireless body area networks, and other cloud-based apps to provide online therapy to patients. Consequently, with the advancement and growth of IoT and 6G wireless technology, privacy and security have emerged as two of the world’s most important issues. Recently, Sureshkumar et al. proposed an authentication scheme for medical wireless sensor networks (MWSN) by using an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) based lightweight authentication protocol and claimed that it provides better security for smart healthcare systems. This paper will demonstrate that this protocol is susceptible to attacks such as traceability, integrity contradiction, and de-synchronization with the complexity of one run of the protocol and a success probability of one. Furthermore, we also propose an ECC based authentication scheme called ECCbAS to address the Sureshkumar et al. protocol’s vulnerabilities and demonstrate its security using a variety of non-formal and formal methods.     

电网调度控制系统中的应用商店设计

随着现代电网调度控制系统的发展,大量人机云终端存在安装应用的需求,但是目前应用软件管理面临诸多问题,如应用软件发布、升级、维护自动化程度低,软件部署之后缺乏信息反馈回路,后期维护成本高,难以满足目前的需求.另外,在电网系统中网络的分区隔离让应用传输也面临跨网络分区分发问题,从使用角度看,应用上传和下载遇到大文件时传输速度慢严重影响用户体验.为了这一系列的问题,本文提出一种用于电网调度控制系统的应用商店设计方案,主要用以解决软件的自动化发布、升级、维护问题,并且解决应用分发过程中的网络传输问题,以达到提升软件质量和易用性的目的,除此之外还可以通过分析用户行为等信息对用户提供推荐功能.应用的全生命周期管理及对其的跟踪分析都由应用商店完成.     

Improved Key Agreement Based Kerberos Protocol for M-Health Security

The development of wireless sensor network with Internet of Things (IoT) predicts various applications in the field of healthcare and cloud computing. This can give promising results on mobile health care (M-health) and Telecare medicine information systems. M-health system on cloud Internet of Things (IoT) through wireless sensor network (WSN) becomes the rising research for the need of modern society. Sensor devices attached to the patients’ body which is connected to the mobile device can ease the medical services. Security is the key connect for optimal performance of the m-health system that share the data of patients in wireless networks in order to maintain the anonymity of the patients. This paper proposed a secure transmission of M-health data in wireless networks using proposed key agreement based Kerberos protocol. The patients processed data are stored in cloud server and accessed by doctors and caregivers. The data transfer between the patients, server and the doctors are accessed with proposed protocol in order to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of authentication. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is compared with the existing protocols. For computing 100 devices it consumes only 91milllisecond for computation.     

An object-oriented manufacturing control system

This paper presents the development of an event-driven control architecture and its implementation in a physical simulator of a computerized manufacturing system using object-oriented techniques. The architecture was developed to improve the efficiency of handling concurrent control events in the DOS environment. In the implementation, the control system of the physical simulator consists of four distinct layers of control devices: a PC/386 computer, a microcontroller, I/O modules and the system's control devices such as motors, solenoids and sensors. A control program residing in the PC/386 coordinates system-level tasks such as event scheduling, while a BASIC program running on the microcontroller handles all low-level control tasks such as sensor monitoring and motion control. The concepts and developments presented in this paper should help in implementing an efficient control system for both CIM systems and their physical simulators.     

Remote Interaction with Mobile Robots

This paper describes an architecture, which can be used to build remote laboratories to interact remotely via Internet with mobile robots using different interaction devices. A supervisory control strategy has been used to develop the remote laboratory in order to alleviate high communication data rates and system sensitivity to network delays. The users interact with the remote system at a more abstract level using high level commands. The local robot's autonomy has been increased by encapsulating all the robot's behaviors in different types of skills. User interfaces have been designed using visual proxy pattern to facilitate any future extension or code reuse. The developed remote laboratory has been integrated into an educational environment in the field of indoor mobile robotics. This environment is currently being used as a part of an international project to develop a distributed laboratory for autonomous and teleoperated systems (IECAT, 2003).     

基于序列模型的无线传感网入侵检测系统

随着物联网(IoT)的快速发展，越来越多的IoT节点设备被部署，但伴随而来的安全问题也不可忽视。IoT的网络层节点设备主要通过无线传感网进行通信，其相较于互联网更开放也更容易受到拒绝服务等网络攻击。针对无线传感网面临的网络层安全问题，提出了一种基于序列模型的网络入侵检测系统，对网络层入侵进行检测和报警，具有较高的识别率以及较低的误报率。另外，针对无线传感网节点设备面临的节点主机设备的安全问题，在考虑节点开销的基础上，提出了一种基于简单序列模型的主机入侵检测系统。实验结果表明，针对无线传感网的网络层以及主机层的两个入侵检测系统的准确率都达到了99%以上，误报率在1%左右，达到了工业需求，这两个系统可以全面有效地保护无线传感网安全。     

Multibody system dynamics simulator for process simulation of ships and offshore plants in shipyards

Since various existing simulation tools based on multibody system dynamics focus on conventional mechanical systems, such as machinery, cars, and spacecraft, there are some problems with the application of such simulation tools to shipbuilding domains due to the absence of specific items in the field of naval architecture and ocean engineering, such as hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and mooring forces. Thus, in this study, we developed a multibody system dynamics simulator for the process simulation of ships and offshore structures. We based the simulator on six kernels: the multibody system dynamics kernel, the force calculation kernel, the numerical analysis kernel, the hybrid simulation kernel, the scenario management kernel, and the collision detection kernel. Based on these kernels, we implemented a simulator that had the following Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs): the modeling, visualization, and report GUIs. In addition, the geometric properties of blocks and facilities in shipyards are needed to configure the simulation for the production of ships and offshore plants, so these are managed in a database and connected to a specific commercial CAD system in shipyards. We used the simulator we developed in various cases of the process simulation of ships and offshore plants. The results show that the simulator is useful for various simulations of operations in shipyards and offshore industries.     

Multiobjective optimization–based fault‐tolerant flight control system design

The loss of measurements used for controller scheduling or envelope protection in modern flight control systems due to sensor failures leads to a challenging fault‐tolerant control law design problem. In this article, an approach to design such a robust fault‐tolerant control system, including full envelope protections using multiobjective optimization techniques, is proposed. The generic controller design and controller verification problems are derived and solved using novel multiobjective hybrid genetic optimization algorithms. These algorithms combine the multiobjective genetic search strategy with local, single‐objective optimization to improve convergence speed. The proposed strategies are applied to the design of a fault‐tolerant flight control system for a modern civil aircraft. The results of an industrial controller verification and validation campaign using an industrial benchmark simulator are reported.     

On the stability problem caused by finite actuator dynamics in the collocated control of large space structures

As large space structures are basically distributed systems, serious consideration must be given to the very high order, and consequently very high bandwidth, of these systems. In particular, as practical active control devices such as sensors and actuators have finite bandwidth, great care must be exercised so that control of low-frequency modes does not destabilize the intermediate and higher-order modes. In this paper, the nature of these stability problems is investigated and a technique using position feedback is considered.