Conventional virtual coupling is designed mainly for stabilizing the virtual environment (VE) and it thus may have poor performances. This paper proposes a novel adaptive virtual coupling design approach for haptic display in passive or time-delayed non-passive virtual environment. According to the performance errors, the virtual coupling can be adaptively tuned through some fuzzy logic based l...

The design of automated systems for the recognition of specific human activities is among the most promising research activities in Ambient Intelligence. The literature suggests the adoption of wearable devices, relying on acceleration information to model the activities of interest and distance metrics for the comparison of such models with the run-time data. Most current solutions do not expl...

42 A Hybrid PSO-LEVY Flight Algorithm Based Fuzzy PID Controller for Automatic Generation Control of Multi Area Power Systems: Fuzzy Based Hybrid PSO for Automatic Generation Control; Ajit Kumar Barisal, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, India Tapas Kumar Panigrahi, IIIT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Somanath Mishra, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odis...

* Department of Teacher Training in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical Education, King’s Mongkut Institute of Technology North Bangkok. Abstract This paper describes fuzzy sliding-mode control (FSMC), a fuzzy logic control based upon variable structure techniques. A variable structure approach is designed with guaranteed stability properties. A ball and beam system is used here as an ...

In today’s changing environment two properties are required to service namely good relation with customers and service quality. Nowadays no organization can get great achievement unless it can attract sufficient customers providing better service quality is important for service firms. This paper proposes a novel combined approach utilizing group decision making process to evaluate and rank cri...

In order to compete in the global environment, a manufacturing company has to keep developing new technologies. Selection of a right technology is a critical stage in a successful technology transfer process. However, technology selection is a complex multi-dimensional problem including both qualitative and quantitative factors, such as human resources, operational and financial dimensions, whi...