This paper describes the design and implementation of a man machine interface software for the ABB IRB-2000 industrial robot. The main aim of this software is to provide features which would facilitate on-line/off-lin...
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This paper describes the design and implementation of a man machine interface software for the ABB IRB-2000 industrial robot. The main aim of this software is to provide features which would facilitate on-line/off-line programming of the robot. The software would provide a three dimensional graphical simulation of the robot and its environment, which also allows loading custom designed objects into the simulated environment. The software also offers collision detection capability between graphically simulated objects, an interpreter/editor to interpret/write robot programs in BASIC like language enhanced with robot commands. The facility to control the actual robot through the computer's serial communication port is also provided.
This paper describes a pocket-PC based electronic travel aid (ETA) that helps a blind individual navigate through indoor environments. The system detects surrounding obstacles using ultrasonic range sensors and the tr...
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This paper describes a pocket-PC based electronic travel aid (ETA) that helps a blind individual navigate through indoor environments. The system detects surrounding obstacles using ultrasonic range sensors and the travel direction using an electronic compass. The acquired information is processed by a pocket-PC to generate a virtual acoustic environment where nearby obstacles are recognizable to the user. This virtual environment is played back through stereo headphones, so that the user can perceive surrounding obstacles and the direction of the Earth's magnetic North, using spatialized 3D sounds. The paper describes the instrumental and computational aspects of the design and presents the results, demonstrating the improvement in blind travel achieved with the system.
digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds (DVB-H) is the latest DVB standard from the DVB Group targeting handheld, battery powered devices such as mobile telephones, PDAs(Personal digital Assistants). etc. DVB-H enabl...
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digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds (DVB-H) is the latest DVB standard from the DVB Group targeting handheld, battery powered devices such as mobile telephones, PDAs(Personal digital Assistants). etc. DVB-H enables IP data services including low definition TV services to be received on battery powered handheld terminals. Time Division Multiplexing (TOM, is the technology that is usually used in computer and telecommunication systems for resoursce allocation. Time slicing is based on TDM and is one of the characteristics of DVB-H. This paper presents a basic model for predicting the power saving achieved by the time slicing algorithm used in DVB-H followed by analysis of the performance of the algorithm based on simulations using Matlab and Opnet; The simulations required the writing of Matlab and Opnet code to model the effect of time slicing. The model and simulations presented illustrate the significant power savings that can be achieved by time slicing.
This paper presents a delay constraint power minimization technique for logic incorporating dual supply voltages. The power is reduced by selecting supply voltage according to switching activity of the subunits. The t...
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(纸本)0769520979
This paper presents a delay constraint power minimization technique for logic incorporating dual supply voltages. The power is reduced by selecting supply voltage according to switching activity of the subunits. The technique employs energy and delay models of arithmetic units with array structure. The supply voltage is selected to reduce power consumption while maintaining propagation delay constraint. The model characterization is done with Verilog simulation where subunits are designed with Cadence and HSPICE using 0.35/spl mu/m CMOS process. We applied the technique on multiplier of general purpose DSP processors and CORDIC. The results obtained from the proposed method are discussed.
Modern VLSI designs in deep submicron technologies constitute a new type of ESD protection challenge. Increasing complexity of modem digital and mixed signal designs demands for simulation and verification methods tha...
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Modern VLSI designs in deep submicron technologies constitute a new type of ESD protection challenge. Increasing complexity of modem digital and mixed signal designs demands for simulation and verification methods that guarantee, that ESD protection concepts and rules are correctly implemented and brought to silicon. A simulation approach and analysis method is presented that allows to address a class of ESD fails caused not by specific design or layout errors, but rather by an unfavourable setup of the chip supply concept and I/O cell ring. The high complexity of chip-level ESD networks is handled with a Monte-Carlo like, permutational approach. The integration of this method in the chip concept engineering and design flow is discussed.
This paper presents the current status of hard disk drive (HDD), three key mechanical components, their common features of positioning mechanism, and various nanodynamic problems to be studied for the development of a...
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This paper presents the current status of hard disk drive (HDD), three key mechanical components, their common features of positioning mechanism, and various nanodynamic problems to be studied for the development of a higher density and higher performance HDD. Then I show our recent study of the nanodynamics of a flying slider in a near-contact regime and interfacial adhesion forces caused by lubricant meniscus. In the head positioning mechanism, tracking error caused by disk flutter and flow-induced head arm/suspension system is described. We proposed a squeeze air damping plate to suppress the disk flutter, and a dynamic absorber design to suppress the flow-induced suspension vibration.
A new type of iterative decoder based on analog computing networks, which incorporates conventional BiCMOS or CMOS technologies, outperform its digital counterparts in terms of speed and/or power consumption. The pape...
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A new type of iterative decoder based on analog computing networks, which incorporates conventional BiCMOS or CMOS technologies, outperform its digital counterparts in terms of speed and/or power consumption. The paper presents the design and functionality of an all-analog turbo decoder taking advantage of the high-speed features of SiGe HBTs achieving throughput up to Gbits/s. Simulation results based on AMS 0.35 /spl mu/m SiGe BiCMOS technology demonstrate promising performance compared to existing designs.
engineeringdesign would be easier if a computer could interpret initial concept drawings. We outline an approach for automated interpretation of line drawings of polyhedra, and summarise what is already possible, wha...
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(纸本)9783905673166
engineeringdesign would be easier if a computer could interpret initial concept drawings. We outline an approach for automated interpretation of line drawings of polyhedra, and summarise what is already possible, what developments can be expected in the near future, and which areas remain problematic. We illustrate this with particular reference to our own system, RIBALD, summarising the published state of the art, and discussing recent unpublished improvements to RIBALD. In general, successful interpretation depends on two factors: the number of lines, and whether or not the drawing can be classified as a member of special shape class (e.g. an extrusion or normalon). The state-of-the-art achieves correct interpretation of extrusions of any size and most normalons of 20—30 lines, but drawings of only 10—20 lines can be problematic for unclassified *** successes, there are caseswhere the desired interpretation is obvious to a human but cannot be determined by currently-available algorithms. We give examples both of our successes and of typical caseswhere human skill cannot be replicated.
Over the years, we have seen an increase in the level of abstraction used in building software. Academic and practitioners' literature contains numerous but vague claims that software based on abstract conceptual ...
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Over the years, we have seen an increase in the level of abstraction used in building software. Academic and practitioners' literature contains numerous but vague claims that software based on abstract conceptual models (such as analysis and design patterns, frameworks and software architectures) has evolvability advantages. Our study validates these claims. We investigate evolvability at the analysis level, i.e. at the level of the conceptual models that are built of information systems (e.g. UML-models). More specifically, we focus on the influence of the level of abstraction of the conceptual model on the evolvability of the model. Hypotheses were tested with regard to whether the level of abstraction influences the time needed to apply a change, the correctness of the change and the structure degradation incurred. Two controlled experiments were conducted with 136 subjects. Correctness and structure degradation were rated by human experts. Results indicate that, for some types of change, abstract models are better evolvable than concrete ones. Our results provide insight into how the rather vague claims in literature should be interpreted.
Based on the FDTD simulations and the return loss measurement setup, a spiral-type microstrip antenna and planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) are optimized to operate in a human body at the biomedical frequency band and ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780383028
Based on the FDTD simulations and the return loss measurement setup, a spiral-type microstrip antenna and planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) are optimized to operate in a human body at the biomedical frequency band and their electric characteristics are compared in terms of physical dimension and radiation characteristics. Although the radiation patterns are similar to each other, the PIFA has advantages over a microstrip antenna, specifically smaller dimensions and higher radiation efficiency. The SAR calculation of two low profile antennas indicates that the dielectric layer used for the superstrate are useful to protect the skin tissue in front of the antenna and make it possible for the implanted antenna to deliver more than 25 /spl mu/W for short-range biomedical devices.
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