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Due to pursuance along expand within measure accidents the death sum is increasing but it is a main subject than absolute can’t imaging. The rationale for street accidents are the driver’s potation consumption. The death dimension excellent according to bust and pressure is in excessive amongst rate splendid of conformity over such especially among nations as like India. So a dictation is proposed in conformity with become aware of the alcohol content fabric board atop the driver. The proposed job explores the possibility in conformity with discover wine at without a doubt previous utilizes concerning technology. The leader can't start the vehicle circumstance the potation content material cloth is upstairs the outset value. The delivered purposes in imitation about that regulation is the alcohol sensors trip solely the individual insertion within the driver’s foundation afterward desire no longer soak up into estimate touching the equalize passenger. It is additionally lower back in imitation including music the rebate regarding the automobile postulate into so much location the use on the mum or dad mark attention technique. This is done with the aid about measures of the sensors related in imitation of the Node MCU Arduino micro khan the region so much is programmed in consequence along assign a buzzer answer consequently the leader is below the affect concerning wine yet switch among pursuance along the vehicle.

This paper focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs engage with place and community. Drawing on the ideas of embeddedness and transferring value across spheres, we develop insight about how the relationship between entrepreneurs and communities influences entrepreneurial practices and outcomes. Employing an ethnographic perspective including participant observation, we explored the situated practices of entrepreneurs in two depleted communities in the Northwest of Ireland. We found that entrepreneurs not only drew on the community in running their business, but were also involved in a wide range of "other" activities that engaged, involved and worked with the community. This entrepreneurship produced a range of projects that addressed social and economic issues (unemployment, employability and emigration) and the depleted sense of place which was adversely affecting these communities. We show how social bonds and an affinity to community enable entrepreneurship to create, renew and reify a positive identity of place by combining understanding with entrepreneurial purpose.

A prototype system is being developed based on a mobile Smart-phone linked via Web Server to an ARM kit which has a temperature sensor and a gas sensor to enable analysts to self-manage their own industry. It deals with the robust and reliable evaluation of Temperature with a Smart-phone. The objectives of the work are to design the system around a chemical industry. The key principle in design is to make the system accessible to the analyst in the simplest manner. The device available to measure the temperature is LM35 and that to detect the presence of LPG is MQ-6. The system will show the output in a digital manner on an LCD of the kit. These values are sent over the web domain to the Android-based device. The main purpose of the project is to help analyst obtain their industry environment at home and to keep a record of their measurements. Temperature can vary throughout the day depending on activity. One or two measurements taken at different times are not enough to properly define the environment temperature. It is preferable to take numerous measurements. It is in your interest to carry out a large number of measurements. In our project we are successfully integrating temperature sensor IC LM35 and gas sensor MQ-6 with the ARM kit LPC2148 from where the readings are successfully transferred to the mobile device.

The genre of interactive narratives in computer games has been researched extensively in the past. However, it still seems that there is a potential for investigating how a narrative can be conveyed solely through environmental storytelling. This paper reports an experimental study which examines the understanding of a pre-written story which is mediated without the use of characters, dialogue, or words and only through the environment in the prototypical game 'Aporia'. The evaluation of the story construction in Aporia analyses and quantifies written open-ended answers and compares them to the pre-defined elements of the story. The findings indicate that Aporia mediates a narrative potential, which generates emergent narratives among users rather than mediating an embedded and evoked narrative.

The probabilistic visual tracking methods using color histograms have been proven to be robust to target model variations and background illumination changes as shown by the recent research. However, the required computational cost is high due to intensive image data processing. The embedded solution of such algorithms become challenging due to high computational power demand and algorithm complexity. This paper presents a hardware/software co-design architecture for implementation of the wellknown kernel based mean shift tracking algorithm. The design uses color histogram of the target as tracking feature. The target is searched in the consecutive images by maximizing the statistical match of the color distributions. The target localization is based on gradient based iterative search instead of exhaustive search which makes the system capable of achieving frame rate up to hundreds of frames per second while tracking multiple targets. The design, which is fully standalone, is implemented on a low-cost medium-size field programmable gate array (FPGA) device. The hardware cost of the design is compared with some other tracking systems. The performance of the system in terms of speed is evaluated and compared with the software based implementation. It is expected that the proposed solution will find its utility in applications like embedded automatic video surveillance systems.

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. If it must be economically viable, the same platform should implement a variety of missions with little reconfiguration time and overhead. This paper presents a middleware-based architecture specially suited to operate as a flexible payload and mission controller in a UAV. The system is composed of low-cost computing devices connected by network. The functionality is divided into reusable services distributed over a number of nodes with a middleware managing their lifecycle and communication. Some research has been done in this area; yet it is mainly focused on the control domain and in its realtime operation. Our proposal differs in that we address the implementation of adaptable and reconfigurable unmanned missions in low-cost and low-resources hardware.

"It's a Microcontroller Based DIY Electronics Project. Named Wireless RF Module Using PIC Microcontroller. The RF module is a small electronic circuit used to transmit, receive, or transceive radio waves on one of a number of carrier frequencies. RF modules are widely used in consumer applications such as garage door openers, wireless alarm systems, industrial remote controls, smart sensor applications, weather monitoring system, RFID, wireless mouse technology and wireless home automation systems. They are often used instead of infrared remote controls as they have the advantage of not requiring line-of-sight operation. Thanxx.
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IEEE 2017 Embedded Project Titles for ECE, EEE, CSE, IT | Final Year IEEE Project Titles on Embedded System 2018
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
A System for Monitoring Hand Hygiene Compliance based-on Internet-of-Things
Agricultural Crop Monitoring using IOT- A Study
An Autonomous Wireless Body Area Network Implementation Towards IoT Connected Healthcare Applications
Analysis of Three IoT-Based Wireless Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
Child Safety Wearable Device
Connecting physical things to a SmartCity-OS
Decentralized Configuration of Embedded Web Services for Smart Home Applications
Design of Online Monitoring Device for COD Parameter in Industrial Sewage Based on Soft Measurement Method
Developing Portable Instrument Based on Internet of Things for Air Quality Information System
Efficient Low Cost Supervisory System for Internet of Things Enabled Smart Home
EMACS: Design and Implementation of Indoor Environment Monitoring and Control System
Energy Autonomous Wireless Valve Leakage Monitoring System With Acoustic Emission Sensor
First step towards an IoT implementation of a wireless sensors network for environmental radiation monitoring
Health Care Monitoring System in Internet of Things (loT) by Using RFID
Internet-of-things based Smart Tracking
Real-Time Signal Quality-Aware ECG Telemetry System for IoT-Based Health Care Monitoring
Room Temperature Control and Fire Alarm/Suppression IoT Service Using MQTT on AWS
We-Care: An IoT-based Health Care System for Elderly People
Worldwide Auto-mobi: Arduino IoT Home Automation System for IR Devices
EMBEDDED WITH ANDROID
A Low Cost Automated Fluid Control Device using Smart Phone for Medical Application
Data Monitoring and Hardware Control for App Android by Bluetooth Communication for Laboratory Teaching in Electrical Engineering Courses
Design of Smart Neonatal Health Monitoring System using Sensor Mobile Cloud Computing
Mining Human Activity Patterns from Smart Home Big Data for Healthcare Applications
Real-time Traffic Light Recognition Based on Smart Phone Platforms
EMBEDDED
A Real Time Street Lighting Control System
A Two-level Traffic Light Control Strategy for Preventing Incident-Based Urban Traffic Congestion
A Unified Framework for Vehicle Rerouting and Traffic Light Control to Reduce Traffic Congestion
Automatic Detection of Red Light Running Using Vehicular Cameras
Body and Fall Detection System with Heart Rate Monitoring
Design and Implementation of Low Cost ECG Monitoring System for the Patient using Smart Device
Economic Feasibility Of Solar Powered Street Lighting System In Libya
Handover in Outdoor Visible Light Communication System
Intelligent Home Automation System using BitVoicer
LED Projection Module Enables a Vehicle to Communicate with Pedestrians and Other Vehicles
On Detecting Acceptable Air Contamination in Classrooms using Low Cost Sensors
Reverse Engineering the Communications Protocol of an RFID Public Transportation Card
RFID-Based Attendance Management System
Syncretic Use of Smart Meters for Power Quality Monitoring in Emerging Networks
Towards Intelligent Arabic Text-to-Speech Application for Disabled People
Tuning of a Stigmergy-based Traffic Light Controller as a Dynamic Optimization Problem
Wheel Therapy Chair: A smart system for disabled person with therapy facility
BIOMETRIC
Anti-theft Protection of Vehicle by GSM & GPS with Fingerprint Verification
Design and Implementation of a Fingerprint Based Lock System for Shared Access
Flexible Microdisplacement Sensor for Wearable/Implantable Biomedical Applications
Indoor Localization Framework with WiFi Fingerprinting
SecureHouse: A Home Security System Based on Smartphone Sensors
ROBOTICS
An Android Based Human Computer Interactive System with Motion Recognition and Voice Command Activation
Low-Cost, Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Robots
Mine Detecting Robot Prototyping
Mobile Quad-Controlled Wireless Robotic Arm
Robotic Testing of Mobile Apps for Truly Black-Box Automation
WIRELESS
A Real-Time Flood Alert System for Parking Lots
A Smart Meter Design and Implementation Using ZigBee Based Wireless Sensor Network in Smart Grid
A Study of the Mesh Topology in a ZigBee Network for Home Automation Applications
Design and Implementation of Real Time Transformer Health Monitoring System Using GSM Technology
E-health Acquistion, Transmission &Monitoring System
Electrical Appliances Control Prototype by Using GSM Module and Arduino
Energy-Efficient Localization and Tracking of Mobile Devices in Wireless Sensor Networks
Improvement in Multiple Access Channel Allocation for Sensor Node Configuration Based on RFID Communication
Lightweight Mashup Middleware for Coal Mine Safety Monitoring and Control Automation
Microcontroller based Digital Meter with Alert System using GSM
Realisation of a Smart Plug device based on Wi-Fi technology for use in Home Automation systems

International Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications (IJESA) is a quarterly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Embedded Systems and applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Embedded Systems and establishing new collaborations in these areas.

ABSRACT Motor vehicles are the prime source of transportation where vehicles with A/C play a major part. This paper designs an embedded system for a vehicle cabin, which senses the gases like carbon-monoxide and oxygen and displayed at each and every second. If the level of the CO increases than the normal level (30ppm) or the level of the oxygen decreases than the normal level (19%) then an alarm is generated automatically and also ventilation is provided immediately. A warning message is sent to the authorized user via GSM. The advantage of this system is proper detection and faster response time leading to faster diffusion of the situation, compared with the manual methods.

Using robots to assist rescue personnel in mine rescue missions is an active area of research. We are going to develop a robot to send it into the mine to gather information about the environment inside a mine and to search for victims. Coal mine is a dangerous place in which many fatal factors are dangerous for human life, especially when blasts occur. Rescue persons usually don't know the actual situation of the mine tunnel under such circumstances. Therefore it can be very dangerous for rescuers to go into mine tunnels to search survivors without detecting environmental information beforehand. To solve this problem, the coal mine detect and rescue robot can be developed for assisting people to do the rescue work. The coal mine detect and rescue robot is used for detecting the explosion environment of coal mine and rescuing miners who are trapped in the underground coal mine after gas explosion. We will develop prototype of a fully autonomous robot which can be used to indicate presence of harmful gases inside a mine for mine rescue operations in case of emergencies caused by natural calamities such as explosion. Coal mine rescue robot is a kind of mobile robot. It can go into explosion environment and detect gas content. This paper designs a coal mine detect and rescue robot. It has many characters suitable to mine tunnel. It is composed of mechanical, electrical, computer, control, communication, sensor, etc. There are three major parts in constructing the robot and they are mechanical, electronic and software design. In this paper, the implementation of embedded control system based on the microprocessor is presented. The embedded control system can achieve many tasks of the robot, such as motion control, environmental information acquisition communication with the remote control system and executing complex control algorithms.

The continuing miniaturization of technology coupled with wireless networks has made it feasible to physically embed sensor network systems into the environment. Sensor net processors are tasked with the job of handling a disparate set of interrupt driven activity, from networks to timers to the sensors themselves. In this paper, we demonstrate the advantages of a tiny multi-threaded microcontroller design which targets embedded applications that need to respond to events at high speed. While multi-threading is typically used to improve resource utilization, in the embedded space it can provide zero-cycle context switching and interrupt service threads (IST), enabling complex programmable control in latency constrained environments. To explore the advantages of multi-threading on these embedded problems, we have implemented in hardware a family of controllers supporting eight dynamically interleaved threads and executing the AVR instruction set. This allows us to carefully quantify ...

What determines the value an MNC's headquarters adds to its own affiliates? In this paper, we shed light on this question by linking the embeddedness view of the multinational corporation to the literature on parenting advantage. We test our hypotheses on an original dataset of 124 manufacturing subsidiaries located in Europe. Our results indicate that the external embeddedness of the MNC is an antecedent to headquarters' value creation. We find that headquarters' investments into their own relationships with the subsidiaries' contexts are positively related to the value added by headquarters. Furthermore, this relationship is stronger when the subsidiary itself is strongly embedded. We discuss implications for the MNC literature, embeddedness research, and the literature on parenting and headquarters' roles. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The present day Systems are operating in two or more frequency bands, requiring Dual or even triple band operation with narrowband antennas. This requirement is demanding a lot more of research in the field of antenna design. These include GPS, Satellite navigation system, wireless cellular system and LANs. Recent advances in the software defined and reconfigurable radio networks allow the multiple band operation of the systems. One of the specific advantage of the software defined reconfigurable radio network is that the operating frequency can be changed even after the device is manufactured. A multiband Microstrip patch antenna is simulated by meandering the slots to reduce the overall dimensions of the patch and to make the system much more embedded, the performance of the antenna is optimized and analyzed using the Ansoft high frequency structure simulator (HFSS). The antenna is designed to function satisfactorily in the radio band of L, S, C and X, Covering a wide range of radio frequency. Antenna has the six active frequency bands and the Centre frequency of the bands are 1850 MHz, 2910 MHz, 5580 MHz, 6880 MHz, 8340 MHz, 9430 MHz respectively. Out of frequency bands L and S are employed in mobile communication while the C and X band are used in the satellite communication purpose. The proposed antenna provides good return loss S11 and VSWR in the range of 1 < VSWR < 1.5 for all the operating band of frequencies.

TillS BOOK IS ABOUT linear controller design based on optimization of convex or quasi-convex performance criteria. It addresses the problem: "given a linear, finite dimensional time invariant, continuous time model, find if possible a controller (of the same class, linear, time invariant, finite dimensional, continuous time) to meet given design specifications.

Microarray technology has become an emerging trend in the domain of genetic research in which many researchers employ to study and investigate the levels of genes&#39; expression in a given organism. Microarray experiments have lots of application areas in the health sector such as diseases prediction and diagnosis, cancer study and soon. The enormous quantity of raw gene expression data usually results in analytical and computational complexities which include feature selection and classification of the datasets into the correct class or group. To achieve satisfactory cancer classification accuracy with the complete set of genes remains a great challenge, due to the high dimensions, small sample size, and presence of noise in gene expression data. Feature reduction is critical and sensitive in the classification task. Therefore, this paper presents a comprehensive survey of studies on microarray cancer classification with a focus on feature selection methods. In this paper, the tax...

Business-to-business firms are increasingly focusing on building long-term partnering relationships with key customers. Salespeople are often responsible for managing these
relationships. To be effective as relationship managers, salespeople need to be embedded in both their firm’s and customers’ organizations. They need to have extensive
knowledge of their customers’ business and also know and be able to leverage their firm’s resources to develop offerings tailored to their customers’ needs. Their companies
and sales managers need to use different approaches to manage and support salespeople in this new role. In this paper, we examine some issues affecting the interfaces between
elements of the embedded sales force and suggest some directions for future research and methods for examining these issues.

Combined the method of magnetic beads with the characteristics of optical detection, this paper detected the blood coagulation time and overcame the shortcomings that optical method will get the abnormal sample interference easily to improve the system's anti-jamming performance. The system is designed based on ARM Cortex-M3 architecture chip STM32, and it mainly includes detection circuit, temperature control circuit, human-computer interaction circuit, and communication and storage hardware modules. And it used embedded real-time operating system µC / OS "as a platform to design the corresponding software. The experimental results showed that the accuracy and precision of this system are in line with industry standards

Instrumentation system for testing of conductive concrete material using four-electrode method has been built. The system can measure material resistivity under the influence of voltage-injection variable, temperature changing in the characterization reactor, as well as the duration of the material characterization. The system uses an ACS-172 electrical current sensor, a DS-1820 temperature sensor to measure the temperature of the material, a SHT-11 sensor to measure the temperature and humidity of the material characterization reactor, and a DS-1307 RTC (Real-Time Clock) system for timing system and reference for controlling the duration of the material testing. The standard method of instrument for measure has been developed based on four electrode method. The system of instrumentation can be measured to numerical value of electrical conductivity and resistivity on material. This instrumentation system which has a heating reactor for the material sample, uses AVR-ATmega-128 as the controller element, and also has an computer interface to connect with LabVIEW-National Instrument. This system can be operated in dual-mode, that is automatic and manual mode. The automatic mode can be generated standard configuration based on computer connection (this part can be displayed a numerical data and real-time graph, and also has to recording/saving a numerical data), whereas manual mode only displayed of data without computer connection. The system of instrument has been developed to measure of electrical resistivity/conductivity, temperature and humidity in reactor, electrical current injected, voltage injection and voltage load on sample, and also setting of real-time date/time for automatic control process of characterization with variation of voltage injection, temperature/humidity, and time for material characterization process.

Here it is proposed a conceptual model for geographic location of points in two dimensions, by the use of triangulation. The triangulation method here described operates on an Ultra-wideband (UWB) Timed-array module with center frequency of 4GHz. The technique consists in two arrays of planar antennas located at predetermined points, which serve as receptor for new portable UWB transmitter equipped with an omnidirectional planar antenna. The relative coordinates are then computed using proposed mathematical models. The transmitter circuit was designed using 180nm Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) – IBM (7WL_5LM_MA) process and the planar antennas were designed on FR-4 substrate. Post-Layout Spice circuit simulations show the generation of pulses with 94.5mVpp amplitudes and 514ps width. The consumption is around 677µW per pulse using a 1.8V power supply at 100MHz pulse repetition rate (PRR). 3D electromagnetic simulations were performed using CST Microwave Studio 2011, with an accuracy of less than 0.1m.

Operating at the intersection of multiple sensing and control systems designed for occupant comfort, performability and operational efficiency, modern buildings represent a prototypical cyber-physical system with deeply coupled embedded sensing and networked information processing that has increasingly become part of our daily lives. In this paper, we look at modern buildings entirely as a cyber-physical energy system and examine the opportunities presented by the joint optimization of energy use by its occupants and information processing equipment. This paper makes two contributions: one, a careful examination of different types of buildings and their energy use; two, opportunities available to improve energy efficient operation through various strategies from lighting to computing. Using a modern 150,000 sq feet office building as a closed system, we detail different strategies to reduce energy use from LEED certification to zero net energy use.

This chapter treats statistical methods for network evolution. It is argued that it is most fruitful to consider models where network evolution is represented as the result of many (usually non-observed) small changes occurring between the consecutively observed networks. Accordingly, the focus is on models where a continuous-time network evolution is assumed although the observations are made at discrete time points (two or more).

Computational social science and in particular agent-based social simulation continue to gain momentum in the academic community. Social network analysis enjoys even more popularity. They both have much in common. In agent-based models, individual interactions are simulated to generate social patterns of all kinds, including relationships that can then be analyzed by social network analysis. This chapter describes and discusses the role of agent-based modeling in the generative-analytical part of this symbiosis. More precisely, ...

Microarray technology has become an emerging trend in the domain of genetic research in which many researchers employ to study and investigate the levels of genes' expression in a given organism. Microarray experiments have lots of application areas in the health sector such as diseases prediction and diagnosis, cancer study and soon. The enormous quantity of raw gene expression data usually results in analytical and computational complexities which include feature selection and classification of the datasets into the correct class or group. To achieve satisfactory cancer classification accuracy with the complete set of genes remains a great challenge, due to the high dimensions, small sample size, and presence of noise in gene expression data. Feature reduction is critical and sensitive in the classification task. Therefore, this paper presents a comprehensive survey of studies on microarray cancer classification with a focus on feature selection methods. In this paper, the taxonomy of the various feature selection methods used for microarray cancer classification and open research issues have been extensively discussed.

Optically Coupled to a Silicon npn Phototransistor † Stresses beyond those listed under "absolute maximum ratings" may cause permanent damage to the device. These are stress ratings only, and functional operation of the device at these or any other conditions beyond those indicated under "recommended operating conditions" is not implied. Exposure to absolute-maximum-rated conditions for extended periods may affect device reliability. NOTES: 1. This value applies when the base-emitter diode is open-circulated. 2. Derate linearly to 100 °C free-air temperature at the rate of 2.67 mW/°C. 3. Derate linearly to 100 °C free-air temperature at the rate of 3.33 mW/°C. Copyright  1995, Texas Instruments Incorporated PRODUCTION DATA information is current as of publication date. Products conform to specifications per the terms of Texas Instruments standard warranty. Production processing does not necessarily include testing of all parameters.

2nd International Conference on Internet of Things & Embedded Systems (IoTE 2021) will provide an excellentinternational forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of IoT and Embedded Systems. Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Internet of Things and Embedded Systems.

Participants semantically categorized target words that contain subsets (Experiment 1; e.g., target = hatch, subset = hat) or that are parts of supersets (Experiment 2; e.g., target = bee, superset = beer). In both experiments, the targets were categorized in a congruent condition (in which the subset-superset was associated with the same response, e.g., Does hatch refer to a human body part?) and an incongruent condition (in which the subset-superset was associated with a conflicting response, e.g., Does hatch refer to a piece of clothing?). Responses were slower and less accurate in the incongruent conditions, suggesting that subsets and supersets were processed to the level of meaning. Congruency effects occurred regardless of the position of the subset or superset (e.g., hatch, drama, howl), and in Experiment 1, were obtained for subsets that maintained (e.g., card) and changed their pronunciation (e.g., crown). Congruency effects were only found when the subsets were of higher frequency than the target. The implications for theories of word identification are discussed.

URL: http:/mc.manuscriptcentral.com/drtech Email: [email protected] Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology TITLE: AsTeRICS: a new flexible solution for people with motor disabilities in upper limbs and its implication for rehabilitation procedures Purpose: To present the AsTeRICS construction set, and examine different combinations of sensors installed in the platform and how users interact with them. Method: 50 participants from Austria, Poland and Spain were included in the study. They had a heterogeneous range of diagnoses but as a common feature all of them experimented motor limitations in their upper limbs. The study included a 1-hour session with each participant where the user interacted with a personalized combination of sensors, based on a previous assessment on their motor capabilities performed by healthcare professionals. The sensors worked as substitutes for a standard QWERTY keyboard and a standard mouse. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain participants' opinions. All collected data were analyzed based on qualitative methodology.

This paper gives an overview of a holistic project dealing with the consistent design of embedded control systems falling into the first level of safety integrity requirements (SIL l) . It shows how existing methods can be adapted and reasonably employed, whenever possible, without having to resort to new innovations. Firstly, the hardware issues are dealt with and extensively elaborated, particularly the peripheral interfaces with integrated processing capabilities. Secondly, the proven correct real-time operating system executing on its own dedicated processor is briefly addressed, and finally, programming issues including descriptions of the specific programming language, time bounded handling of exceptions, and how to deal with temporal overload.

Abstract—In the world of high performance computing huge efforts have been put to accelerate Numerical Linear Algebra (NLA) kernels like QR Decomposition (QRD) with the added advantage of reconfigurability and scalability. While popular custom hardware solution in form of sys- ...

Despite its popularity, the development of an embedded real-time multisensor kinematic positioning and navigation system discourages many researchers and developers due to its complicated hardware environment setup and time consuming device driver development. To address these issues, this paper proposed a multisensor kinematic positioning and navigation system built on Linux with Real Time Application Interface (RTAI), which can be constructed in a fast and economical manner upon popular hardware platforms. The authors designed, developed, evaluated and validated the application of Linux/RTAI in the proposed system for the integration of the low cost MEMS IMU and OEM GPS sensors. The developed system with Linux/RTAI as the core of a direct geo-referencing system provides not only an excellent hard real-time performance but also the conveniences for sensor hardware integration and real-time software development. A software framework is proposed in this paper for a universal kinematic positioning and navigation system with loosely-coupled integration architecture. In addition, general strategies of sensor time synchronization in a multisensor system are also discussed. The success of the loosely-coupled GPS-aided inertial navigation Kalman filter is represented via post-processed solutions from road tests.

CHRIS DOBBYN1 and SUSAN STUART2 1Department of Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK; E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; E-mail: S.Stuart@philosophy. ...

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Knutas, A., Hämäläinen, H., Ikonen, J. and Porras, J. (2013), Implementation of an embedded mobile device based feedback system for real-time audience feedback. Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ., 21: E31-E40.

I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways of re-orienting our theoretic tools to guide us in a new direction: (1) adopt an ethics of responsibility; (2) explore the responsibilities of various kinds of actors and relationships among them; (3) expand the types of participants engaged in bioethics.

In the Embedded Systems and SoC (System-on-Chip) area, we defined a model-driven design methodology based on UML 2.0, UML profiles and SystemC. In this paper, we present the development process UPES (Unified Process for Embedded Systems) that we define to foster our methodology in a systematic and seamless manner according to the platform-based design principles.

In the Embedded Systems and SoC (System-on-Chip) area, we defined a model-driven design methodology based on UML 2.0, UML profiles and SystemC. In this paper, we present the development process UPES (Unified Process for Embedded Systems) that we define to foster our methodology in a systematic and seamless manner according to the platform-based design principles.

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling time sensitive messages on dual channel wireless sensor networks. Besides the bandwidth expansion, partitioning evenly the transmission time makes it possible to inherit the optimality of EDF scheduling scheme on the dual channels based on fixed-size time slots synchronized across the two channels. Slot rearrangement also maximizes the number of switchable pairs, so the allocation can be switched dynamically between the channels according to the current channel status, enhancing the reliability of timely message delivery. Simulation results show that the rearrangement scheme can generate 70 % of switchable pairs even when the utilization reaches the saturation point, improving the ratio of successful transmission by up to 18 % when the packet error rate exceeds 0.4, compared with global EDF or NCASP.

Eating routines are a compelling issue because recurring eating behaviors influence nutrition and health. As non-traditional and individualized eating patterns have become more common, new ways of thinking about routine eating practices are needed. This study sought to gain conceptual understanding of working adults' eating routines. Forty-two purposively sampled US adults reported food intake and contextual details about eating episodes in qualitative 24-hour dietary recalls conducted over 7 consecutive days. Using the constant comparative method, researchers analyzed interview transcripts for recurrent ways of eating that were either explicitly reported by study participants as "routines" or emergent in the data. Participants' eating routines included repetition in food consumption as well as eating context, and also involved sequences of eating episodes. Eating routines were embedded in daily schedules for work, family, and recreation. Participants maintained purposeful routines that helped balance tension between demands and values, but they modified routines as circumstances changed. Participants monitored and reflected upon their eating practices and tended to assess their practices in light of their personal identities. These findings provide conceptual insights for food choice researchers and present a perspective from which practitioners who work with individuals seeking to adopt healthful eating practices might usefully approach their tasks.