This paper describes the results of a research study sponsored by the UK nuclear industry into methods of justifying smart sensors. Smart sensors are increasingly being used in the nuclear industry; they have potential benefits such as greater accuracy and better noise filtering, and in many cases their analogue counterparts are no longer manufactured. However, smart sensors (as it is the case ...

Reliability Centered Maintenance(RCM) is one of most widely used methods in the modern power system to schedule a maintenance cycle and determine the priority of inspection. In order to apply the RCM method to the Smart Grid, a precedence study for the new structure of rearranged system should be performed due to introduction of additional installation such as renewable and sustainable energy r...

Smart manufacturing technologies require a cyber-physical infrastructure to collect and analyze data and information across the manufacturing enterprise. This paper describes a concept for a product lifecycle test bed built on a cyber-physical infrastructure that enables smart manufacturing research and development. The test bed consists of a Computer-Aided Technologies (CAx) Lab and a Manufact...

increasing complexity and turbulence of the environment, is requires the quickly response and good reaction of organizations, this conditions has increased the need of organizations to think and act beyond their current issues have been solved. in today's competitive and changing environment, being smart and acting smart is the best guarantee for the success of any business. the present st...

this paper proposes a new smart antenna beamforming scheme based on electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (espar). the proposed method is capable of providing better capacity compared to the conventional espar. the termination of each antenna element in this structure comprises a pin diode in addition to a varactor. using pin diode besides the varactor provides more degrees of freed...

This paper features the mathematical modeling of a single input single output based Timoshenko smart beam. Further, this mathematical model is used to design a multirate output feedback based discrete sliding mode controller using Bartoszewicz law to suppress the flexural vibrations. The first 2 dominant vibratory modes is retained. Here, an application of the discrete sliding mode control in s...

In this paper, we treat pedestrian evacuation in emergency scenarios of networked smart spaces. Personal safety may be jeopardized due to natural catastrophes (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.) and/or adversarial actions of intentional enemies. During evacuation, the severity of emergency may increase causing partial or complete blockage of some evacuation routes. Thus, it is of the highest ...

Westside High School (WHS) of Omaha, Nebraska utilizes a sophisticated scheduling environment called “modular scheduling.”Modular scheduling empowers teacherswith the ability to design the structure of their classes by adjusting the frequency, duration, and location of each of their lessons. This paper presents a novel heuristic methodology, implemented as a computer program called the sequenti...

Applications utilizing smart materials are rapidly increasing and include high speed milling and hybrid motor design. Such application utilize magnetostrictive transducers operating in hysteretic and nonlinear regimes. To achieve the high performance capabilities of these transducers, models and control laws must accommodate the nonlinear dynamics in a manner which is robust and facilitates rea...

The objectives of this contribution are to demonstrate the results of case study that has been conducted to test the usability of Android and Apple Smartphone. This case study covers features such as operating system, applications, battery life, hardware structure, and online websites. Questionnaires were used to gather user responses on aforementioned features. Users provide their answers base...