License plate recognition (LPR) by using morphology has the advantage of resistance to brightness changes; high speed processing, and low complexity. However these approaches are sensitive to the distance of the plate from the camera and imaging angle. Various assumptions reported in other works might be unrealistic and cause major problems in practical experiences. In this paper we considered ...

In this study a simulation analysis is applied to address the change in banks liquidity demand due to a shift in settlement method brought about by adopting Real Time Gross Settlement System. At the first stage of this research, we use a data generator model along with some information on the time distribution of coded cheques over a working day in order to produce intraday flow of payment...

abstract- a real-time, site-specific, machine-vision based, inter-row patch herbicide application system was developed and evaluated. the image resolution was 640 × 480 pixels covering a total area of 350 mm x 240 mm of a field composed of four quadrants of 350 mm x 60 mm each. the image frames were processed by labview® and matlab®. the developed algorithm, based on weed coverage ratio and seg...

we propose a novel approach for detecting precursors to epileptic seizures in intracranial electroencephalograms (ieeg), which is based on the analysis of system dynamics. in the proposed scheme, the largest lyapunov exponent of the discrete wavelet packet transform (dwpt) of the segmented eeg signals is considered as the discriminating features. such features are processed by a support vector ...

The POSIX standard promotes portability of applications across different operating system platforms. This is especially important for applications designed for longevity, where the hardware and software infrastructure may change during the application’s life cycle. However in real-time systems, where predictability and low overhead are important, portability is often sacrificed. In this paper w...

In a companion paper [HVV04], we have investigated the deficiency of existing design approaches in supporting predictability for real-time control system development. A design approach is then introduced with an adequate support for efficient and consistent design and code generation. In this paper, this design approach is illustrated by a case study of a rail-road crossing system. The developm...

In real-time computing is essential the accurate characterization of the performance and determinism that a particular real-time operating systehardware combination can provide for real-time applications. This issue is not properly addressed by existing performance metrics, mainly due to the lack of completeness and generalization. In this paper we present a set of comprehensive, easy-to-implem...