The factory of the future is the Wireless Factory fully programmable, nimble and adaptive to planned mode changes and unplanned faults. Today automotive assembly lines loose over $22,000 per minute of downtime. The systems are rigid, difficult to maintain, operate and diagnose. Our goal is to demonstrate the initial architecture and protocols for all-wireless factory control automation. Embedde...

The factory of the future is the Wireless Factory fully programmable, nimble and adaptive to planned mode changes and unplanned faults. Today automotive assembly lines loose over $22,000 per minute of downtime. The systems are rigid, difficult to maintain, operate and diagnose. Our goal is to demonstrate the initial architecture and protocols for all-wireless factory control automation. Embedde...

Completing a project on time and budget are essential factors for the success of any project. One technique that allows predicting final cost is earned value management (EVM). In this technique, different mathematical methods have been proposed over last 30 years. These formulas make use activities’ actual costs durations as progresses. EVM widely used by many professionals. However, very few s...

To store low-temperature heat below 100 ◦C, novel composite sorbents were developed by impregnating LiCl into expanded vermiculite (EVM) in this study. Five kinds of composite sorbents were prepared using different salt concentrations, and the optimal sorbent for application was selected by comparing both the sorption characteristics and energy storage density. Textural properties of composite ...

We describe and demonstrate experimentally a method for photonic mixing of microwave signals by using a silicon electro-optical Mach-Zehnder modulator enhanced via slow-light propagation. Slow light with a group index of ~11, achieved in a one-dimensional periodic structure, is exploited to improve the upconversion performance of an input frequency signal from 1 to 10.25 GHz. A minimum transmis...

We experimentally assess compression with scalar and vector quantization for fixed-mobile convergent networks. We show that four-dimensional vector quantization allows 73% compression compliant with 3GPP EVM recommendations for transmissions over 25 km SSMF with 1:16 split ratio.

This paper argues that software testing can be less thorough yet more efficient if applied in a well-managed, empirical manner across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). To ensure success, testing must be planned and executed within an Earned Value Management (EVM) paradigm. A specific example of empirical software testing is given: the Empirical Bayesian Stopping Rule (EBSR). Th...

This paper focuses on the current developments on the estimation/reconciliation modules of a novel framework for integrated decision support of process systems (IDSoPS). Built on the initial conceptual definition, a generic and versatile error-invariables (EVM) was implemented and tested for both off-line and on-line applications using a state-of-the art modeling tool. The IDSoPS has the capabi...

Abstract-A six-port receiver can restore the original modulated signal by calculating the detected envelopes and system parameters of the six-port circuit. The system parameters have been determined at each frequency in advance. The six-port receiver has an advantage in the point that the user can select the frequency arbitrarily, but there is a problem of nonlinear distortion in the detector b...