Conceptual design study for an advanced cab and visual system, volume 2

The performance, design, construction and testing requirements are defined for developing an advanced cab and visual system. The rotorcraft system integration simulator is composed of the advanced cab and visual system and the rotorcraft system motion generator, and is part of an existing simulation facility. User's applications for the simulator include rotorcraft design development, product improvement, threat assessment, and accident investigation

Information Outlook, October 2004

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Application of wireless technologies to forward predict crop yields in the poultry production chain

Average bird weight is the primary measure of crop yield and is the basis for calculating payment for the grower by the wholesaler. Furthermore the profit per bird is very small. Thus very tight control of growing process is essential to ensure average bird weight is maximised. The important factors (air temperature, air humidity, Carbon Dioxide concentration and Ammonia concentration) that affect the intake of feed and water must be kept at their optimum during the progress of the growing cycle. These factors can be influenced by activating burners and opening the vents on walls of the growing house. It then follows that the burning and venting strategy will be influential on the average bird weight of the crop. Currently the burning and venting strategy is based on notional ideal levels and data from wall mounted sensors. This suffers from two fundamental problems; firstly the strategy is determined by ideals that may not be suitable for all growing houses and secondly the data is not measured from the chickens own airspace. Thus the management strategy is based on a model that may not reflect reality and on data that may not reflect reality  The “BOSCA” project addresses these problems by placing wireless environmental sensors into the chickens own airspace. This provides for direct measurement of the air experienced by the chickens and reports the recorded data in near real-time to a cloud based data management system. The sensor data is merged with the data from the growing house weighing scales in the cloud repository so a predictive model of average bird weight from the measured environmental data can be calibrated and validated. Furthermore, a timeshift can be applied to the environmental data during model calibration and validation so the average bird weight can be forward predicted by 72 hours (r2 up to 0.89 with neural networks). This gives the grower advance notice of a deviation from ideal feeding and watering conditions and the likely consequences of failing to take remedial action such as turning on the burners or venting the house

Medical equipment planning and construction of a interventional neuroradiology suite

New York-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the most comprehensive university hospitals in the world, with leading specialists in every field of medicine. It is composed of two renowned medical centers, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The hospital\u27s strategic planning group identified the need to expand the Interventional Neuroradiology service that the hospital provides. This brought upon the need to form a committee to plan the construction of an Interventional Neuroradiology. The problem statement of this thesis is to prepare a best practices guideline from a clinical engineering perspective on constructing the three Interventional Neuroradiology suites to meet the project deadline. The clinical engineer\u27s role is to apply all sorts of engineering, business, financial, and entrepreneurship knowledge to meet the demands of its customers, the healthcare providers. The three main stages of deployment in a large institute include Planning, Acquiring and Deploying. In these three stages, the clinical engineer plays a key role and is typically the critical path towards planning the suite around the equipment selection. The equipment selection process requires a thorough assessment of the current condition of equipment as well as a replacement proposal. The replacement proposal would include a technology assessment of the currently available technologies, conducting a needs assessment in the hospital, selecting appropriate vendors based on market share and product evaluations, preparing bid specifications and analyzing vendor responses. Finally, the clinical engineer is responsible for scheduling equipment delivery and installation and training for all the clinicians and support staff as well as biomedical technicians who are responsible of maintaining the equipment

Application of binaural recording in the video game industry

The video game industry is one of entertainment technologies\u27 largest growing industries. There are thousands of games in the market covering a variety of different genres. There is also a high level technical sophistication in current games along with the game console that runs it. Games are realistic with astonishingly life like graphics. The backing audio and music tracks are performed by leading orchestras and written by renowned composers. Great technological strides have been made in the areas of graphic and audio design. The end user expects the very best and the video game industry is constantly improving software and hardware technology. The dissertation will discuss the research, experimentation and ongoing development of the audio technology in the video game industry, specifically the opportunities offered by binaural recording and spacialisation of video game soundtracks and effects. Different adaptations, applications and integration of audio technologies in the gaming arena will be studied with a focus on recording and playback techniques. The research into binaural applications aims to provide the game user with life-like audio and levels of realism surpassing the current technology commercially available. It explores ways of delivering spacially accurate audio to the gamer with headphones. This reduces the need for multiple speakers and also integrates with the user\u27s current hardware. It also aims to provide new tools for music composers and sound designers to express their ideas. The end user will be exposed to the most spacially accurate audio through headphone playback

Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science Bits and PCs newsletter, Volume 9, Number 10, December 1993

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/bits_pcs/1156/thumbnail.jp

Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science Bits and PCs newsletter, Volume 9, Number 10, December 1993

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/bits_pcs/1156/thumbnail.jp

Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science Bits and PCs newsletter, Volume 9, Number 10, December 1993

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/bits_pcs/1156/thumbnail.jp