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TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Intelligent Component-Based Automation of Baggage Handling Systems With IEC 61499
Airport Baggage Handling is a field of automation systems that is currently dependent on centralised control systems and conventional automation programming techniques. In this and...
Geoff Black, Valeriy Vyatkin
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Analytic Calculus of Response Time in Networked Automation Systems
--This paper presents a novel approach to evaluate the response time in networked automation systems (NAS) that use a client/server protocol. The developments introduced are derive...
Boussad Addad, Said Amari, Jean-Jacques Lesage
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Coverage of a Planar Point Set With Multiple Robots Subject to Geometric Constraints
This paper focuses on the assignment of discrete points among K robots and determining the order in which the points should be processed by the robots, in the presence of geometric...
Nilanjan Chakraborty, Srinivas Akella, John T. Wen
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Surface Patch Reconstruction From "One-Dimensional" Tactile Data
This paper studies the reconstruction of unknown curved surfaces through finger tracking. A patch can be generated from tactile data points along three concurrent surface curves un...
Yan-Bin Jia, Jiang Tian
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Product Sequencing With Respect to Quality in Flexible Manufacturing Systems With Batch Operations
Abstract--In many flexible manufacturing systems, batch production is often adopted to improve product quality. For example, in automotive paint shops, vehicles with same colors ar...
Junwen Wang, Jingshan Li, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Bi...
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Automated Selection and Placement of Single Cells Using Vision-Based Feedback Control
Abstract--We present a robotic manipulation system for automated selection and transfer of individual living cells to analysis locations. We begin with a commonly used cell transfe...
Y. H. Anis, Mark Holl, Deirdre R. Meldrum
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A Collaborative Multiagent Taxi-Dispatch System
This paper presents a novel multiagent approach to automating taxi dispatch that services current bookings in a distributed fashion. The existing system in use by a taxi operator i...
Kiam Tian Seow, Nam Hai Dang, Der-Horng Lee
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Optimization of Group Elevator Scheduling With Advance Information
Group elevator scheduling has received considerable attention due to its importance to transportation efficiency for mid-rise and high-rise buildings. One important trend to improv...
Jin Sun, Qianchuan Zhao, Peter B. Luh
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Sensor Placement for Triangulation-Based Localization
Robots operating in a workspace can localize themselves by querying nodes of a sensor-network deployed in the same workspace. This paper addresses the problem of computing the min...
Onur Tekdas, Volkan Isler
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Robust Calibration for Localization in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks
This paper presents a robust calibration procedure for clustered wireless sensor networks. Accurate calibration of between-node distances is one crucial step in localizing sensor n...
Jung Jin Cho, Yu Ding, Yong Chen, Jiong Tang