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Scalable QoS-aware Mobility for Future Mobile Operators
Telecom operators and Internet service providers
are heading for a new shift in communications
paradigms. The forthcoming convergence
of cellular and wireless data networks is often
manifested in an âall IP approachâ in which all
communications are based on an end-to-end IP
protocol framework. The approach to network
design becomes user and service-centered, so
that continuous reachability of mobile users and
sustained communication capabilities are default
requirements for a prospective architecture. In
this article, we describe a network architecture
which is able to provide seamless communication
mobility, triggered either by the user or by the
network, across multiple technologies. The architecture
allows for media independent handovers
and supports optimized mobility and resource
management functions. The main focus of the
article is on major technical highlights of mobility
and quality-of-service (QoS) management subsystems
for converged networks.Publicad
Towards Social Autonomous Vehicles: Efficient Collision Avoidance Scheme Using Richardson's Arms Race Model
Background Road collisions and casualties pose a serious threat to commuters
around the globe. Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) aim to make the use of technology
to reduce the road accidents. However, the most of research work in the context
of collision avoidance has been performed to address, separately, the rear end,
front end and lateral collisions in less congested and with high
inter-vehicular distances. Purpose The goal of this paper is to introduce the
concept of a social agent, which interact with other AVs in social manners like
humans are social having the capability of predicting intentions, i.e.
mentalizing and copying the actions of each other, i.e. mirroring. The proposed
social agent is based on a human-brain inspired mentalizing and mirroring
capabilities and has been modelled for collision detection and avoidance under
congested urban road traffic.
Method We designed our social agent having the capabilities of mentalizing
and mirroring and for this purpose we utilized Exploratory Agent Based Modeling
(EABM) level of Cognitive Agent Based Computing (CABC) framework proposed by
Niazi and Hussain.
Results Our simulation and practical experiments reveal that by embedding
Richardson's arms race model within AVs, collisions can be avoided while
travelling on congested urban roads in a flock like topologies. The performance
of the proposed social agent has been compared at two different levels.Comment: 48 pages, 21 figure
Preparation of NiO catalyst on FeCrAI substrate using various techniques at higher oxidation process
The cheap nickel oxide (NiO) is a potential catalyst candidate to replace the
expensive available platinum group metals (PGM). However, the current methods to
adhere the NiO powder on the metallic substrates are complicated. Therefore, this
work explored the development of nickel oxide using nickel (Ni) on FeCrAl
substrate through the combination of nickel electroplating and oxidation process for
catalytic converter application. The approach was started with assessment of various
nickel electroplating process based on the weight gain during oxidation. Then, the
next experiment used the best process in which the pre-treatment using the solution
of SiC and/or Al2O3 in methanol. The specimens then were carried out to short term
oxidation process using thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) at 1000
o
C. Meanwhile,
the long term oxidation process was conducted using an automatic furnace at 900,
1000 and 1100
o
C. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used for surface
analysis in nanometer range scale. Meanwhile, roughness test was used for roughness
measurement analysis in micrometer range scale. The scanning electron microscope
(SEM) attached with energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) were used for surface and cross
section morphology analysis. The specimen of FeCrAl treated using ultrasonic prior
to nickel electroplating showed the lowest weight gain during oxidation. The surface
area of specimens increased after ultrasonic treatment. The electroplating process
improved the high temperature oxidation resistance. In short term oxidation process
indicated that the ultrasonic with SiC provided the lower parabolic rate constant (kp)
and the Al2O3 and NiO layers were also occurred. The Ni layer was totally
disappeared and converted to NiO layer on FeCrAl surface after long term oxidation
process. From this work, the ultrasonic treatment prior to nickel electroplating was
the best method to adhere NiO on FeCrAl substrate
Intelligent In-Vehicle Device Based on ARM-Linux Techniques
A new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is introduced and some ideas about instruction trigger position (ITP) are presented. The design of terminal devices based on an embedded ARM-Linux system in vehicles is presented in detail, including the design and development of both hardware and software
Reconfigurable Mobile Multimedia Systems
This paper discusses reconfigurability issues in lowpower hand-held multimedia systems, with particular emphasis on energy conservation. We claim that a radical new approach has to be taken in order to fulfill the requirements - in terms of processing power and energy consumption - of future mobile applications. A reconfigurable systems-architecture in combination with a QoS driven operating system is introduced that can deal with the inherent dynamics of a mobile system. We present the preliminary results of studies we have done on reconfiguration in hand-held mobile computers: by having reconfigurable media streams, by using reconfigurable processing modules and by migrating functions
Development of an intelligent object for grasp and manipulation research
KÔiva R, Haschke R, Ritter H. Development of an intelligent object for grasp and manipulation research. Presented at the ICAR 2011, Tallinn, Estonia.In this paper we introduce a novel device, called iObject, which is equipped with tactile and motion tracking sensors that allow for the evaluation of human and robot grasping and manipulation actions. Contact location and contact force, object acceleration in space (6D) and orientation relative to the earth (3D magnetometer) are measured and transmitted wirelessly over a Bluetooth connection. By allowing human-human, human-robot and robot-robot comparisons to be made, iObject is a versatile tool for studying manual interaction.
To demonstrate the efficiency and flexibility of iObject for the study of bimanual interactions, we report on a physiological experiment and evaluate the main parameters of the considered dual-handed manipulation task
An EMG Gesture Recognition System with Flexible High-Density Sensors and Brain-Inspired High-Dimensional Classifier
EMG-based gesture recognition shows promise for human-machine interaction.
Systems are often afflicted by signal and electrode variability which degrades
performance over time. We present an end-to-end system combating this
variability using a large-area, high-density sensor array and a robust
classification algorithm. EMG electrodes are fabricated on a flexible substrate
and interfaced to a custom wireless device for 64-channel signal acquisition
and streaming. We use brain-inspired high-dimensional (HD) computing for
processing EMG features in one-shot learning. The HD algorithm is tolerant to
noise and electrode misplacement and can quickly learn from few gestures
without gradient descent or back-propagation. We achieve an average
classification accuracy of 96.64% for five gestures, with only 7% degradation
when training and testing across different days. Our system maintains this
accuracy when trained with only three trials of gestures; it also demonstrates
comparable accuracy with the state-of-the-art when trained with one trial
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