The training of specialists in automation in Cuba is carried out through the career of Automation Engineering that has within its fundamental disciplines, the Control Systems discipline. For the development of laboratory practices, students work on physical or remote devices, in person or remotely, in the latter using Remote Laboratory Systems. The present investigation proposes a Remote Laboratory System for the practice of control of the Automatic Engineering career. A scale thermal process model is designed for experimentation. The main result was the availability of practices for system identification, controller design and controller execution in real processes. In addition, the implemented solution allows students to carry out studies of the behavior of the temperature variable, the controller's response in the designed process, the establishment times, among other variables.
Read MoreDoi: https://doi.org/10.54216/JCIM.010201
Vol. 1 Issue. 2 PP. 55-63, (2020)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly an authenticity today. Nevertheless, some key challenges still need to be given care so that IoT solutions further support the rising demand for connected devices and the facilities offered. Outstanding to the possible significance and sensitivity of facilities, IoT solutions should address the security and privacy worries nearby these devices and the data they assemble, generate, and process. Recently, Blockchain technology has increased much attention in IoT solutions. Its principal usage conditions are in the financial domain, where Blockchain creates a capable application world and can be leveraged to explain security and privacy issues. However, this developing technology has a great possibility in the most various technological areas and can significantly help achieve the Internet of Things view in different features, increasing the measurements of decentralization, facilitating communications, allowing new transaction models, and allowing independent coordination of the devices. The paper's goal is to provide the ideas about the structure and operation of Blockchain and, typically, analyze how the use of this technology can be used to deliver security and privacy in IoT.
Read MoreDoi: https://doi.org/10.54216/JCIM.010202
Vol. 1 Issue. 2 PP. 35-40, (2020)
In the recent years the importance of automatic traffic control has increased due to the traffic jams problem especially in big cities for signal control and efficient traffic management. The input video is processed and analyzed to detect an ambulance vehicle. This article introduces a robust approach for ambulance detection and traffic counting approach using novel fuzzy Bat swarm optimization and different image processing techniques. The fuzzy Bat based optimization algorithm is used to generate a template of ambulance from the abstracted frames obtained from predefined ambulance samples. This is done by using a collection of Gabor filters that have been particularly customized for the ambulance detection problem in which filter selection is achieved to group filters that have similar characteristics. The fitness criterion based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to evaluate the output filters. The proposed approach is composed of the following five fundamental building phases: Fuzzy Bat based optimization, image acquisition, object detection, counting the connected objects, and finally ambulance detection. One of the main advantages of the proposed approach is that key Gabor filters is obtained from the selected features (filters with highest membership values) which have a vital role in the ambulance detection phase. Experimental results show that the overall accuracy confirms that the performance of the proposed approach is high.
Read MoreDoi: https://doi.org/10.54216/JCIM.010203
Vol. 1 Issue. 2 PP. 41-54, (2020)