A digital photography framework enabling affective awareness in home communication

By transforming the personal computer into a communication appliance, the Internet has initiated the true home computing revolution. As a result, Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies are increasingly used in domestic settings, and are changing the way people keep in touch with their relatives and friends. This article first looks at how CMC tools are currently used in the home, and points at some of their benefits and limitations. Most of these tools supportexplicit interpersonal communication, by providing a new medium for sustaining conversations. The need for tools supportingimplicit interaction between users, in more natural and effottless ways, is then argued for. The idea of affective awareness is introduced as a general sense of being in touch with one's family and friends. Finally, the KAN-G framework, which enables affective awareness through the exchange of digital photographs, is described. Various components, which make the capture, distribution, observation and annotation of snapshots easy and effortless, are discussed.     

Investigating design issues in household environments

This paper argues that the current involvement of end users in the design of technological artefacts is too superficial. It is common to involve people in requirements generation, but rarely in product inception or design. A study is reported involving five households in central Scotland, who were each visited on three occasions, using a new investigative framework. Illustrative examples are provided of the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used. Despite the latter, it is demonstrated that the general public can both generate and critique design ideas and that valuable contributions to understanding people's relationships with technologies can be expected both from children and from the elderly. Electronic Publication     

基于通用家庭网关的智能家庭网络

本文先简要介绍了几种实现家度网络智能化的服务发现技术，分析了这几种技术在实现智能化家度网络时存在的弊端；其后针对这些弊端提出新的基于通用家庭网关实现智能家庭网络的方案，并重点研究了应用在通用家庭网关中的中间件技术。     

嵌套NEMO中的路由优化方案研究

针对嵌套NEMO中存在的乒乓路由和数据包多层封装问题进行深入分析,提出一种嵌套NEMO的优化方案,改变NEMO中传统的MR嵌套转发报文的做法,使得MR的HA能够将发送到MR的数据直接重定向到整个嵌套NEMO所连接的外地网络,减少了嵌套的次数,并使得小范围的切换更新报文能控制在NEMO内部,减少了切换时延。分析表明,与NEMO基本支持协议相比,方案有效地解决了NEMO路由优化问题,提高了数据包的传输效率。     

基于RFID的智能家居管理系统研究与实现

本文提出了一种基于MTK平台与RFID技术的智能家居控制系统,重点研究论述了智能家居管理系统的设计与实现。硬件部分的交互双方选择了NXP公司的PN532芯片以及符合Mifare One卡片规范的RFID标签,并根据相应的标准及传输协议编写了驱动接口。软件设计部分,抽象了一种家居生活环境中的箱体模型(BoxModel),并依据本模型,实现了基于J2ME的智能家居管理系统。     

智能家居系统中的短信收发程序设计

针对智能家居系统中安防报警信息实时收发及家电远程控制的需求,提出使用3G模块收发短信的方法,并设计了实现短信同时收发功能的软件架构。实验结果表明,该方法简单实用,能够满足智能家居系统的要求。     

基于V模式开发插电式混合动力汽车整车热管理控制策略研究

为解决目前的环境污染和能源消耗的问题,插电式混合动力汽车的推广是一个重要的解决方案。插电式混合动力汽车整车控制软件开发是一个重要的核心技术得到了企业的重视和投入。基于模型的V模式开发流程是目前主流的软件开发流程,介绍了该开发流程的步骤,优势,并基于该开发模式进行了整车热管理控制策略的开发。     

Game‐Based Valley‐Fill Charging Coordination for Large‐Population Plug‐in Electric Vehicles

Charging coordination of large‐population autonomous plug‐in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the power grid can be formulated as a class of constrained optimization problems. To overcome the computational complexity, a game‐based method is proposed for the charging problems of the PEV population, which is composed of homogeneous subpopulations, such that individuals update their best charging strategies simultaneously with respect to a common electricity price determined by the total demand. To mitigate the oscillation behavior caused by the greedy behavior for the cheap electricity by individuals, a deviation cost is introduced to penalize against the deviation of the individual strategy from the average value of the homogeneous subpopulation. By adopting a proper deviation cost and following a best strategy update mechanism, the game systems may converge to the socially optimal valley‐fill Nash equilibrium. Simulation examples are studied to illustrate the results.     

基于PC的智能家电无线红外遥控系统

基于PC的智能家电遥控系统是以单片机CC2530为核心驱动、以YS-IR01F为红外学习核心模块的控制系统,该系统包括三部分,分别为用户控制界面、网关模块以及底层红外驱动模块,该系统可以通过对家用红外遥控数据的学习进而实现利用PC用户界面控制包括电视、投影仪等普通家电,初步实现家电智能化。满足一般家庭对智能家居的要求,方便人们的生活。     

RUNA: a multimodal command language for home robot users

This article describes a multimodal command language for home robot users, and a robot system which interprets users’ messages in the language through microphones, visual and tactile sensors, and control buttons. The command language comprises a set of grammar rules, a lexicon, and nonverbal events detected in hand gestures, readings of tactile sensors attached to the robots, and buttons on the controllers in the users’ hands. Prototype humanoid systems which immediately execute commands in the language are also presented, along with preliminary experiments of faceto-face interactions and teleoperations. Subjects unfamiliar with the language were able to command humanoids and complete their tasks with brief documents at hand, given a short demonstration beforehand. The command understanding system operating on PCs responded to multimodal commands without significant delay. This work was presented in part at the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 31–February 2, 2008