A new design for an immersive ground control station is presented that allows operators to monitor and control one or more semi-autonomous unmanned remote vehicles. This new ground station utilizes a virtual reality based visualization of the operational space and the graphical representation of multiple information streams to create a comprehensive immersive environment designed to significant...

Reservoir operation involves many critical decisions due to unpredicted circumstances, such as drought or flood. The reservoir water release decision is one of the challenging tasks for the reservoir operator since the decision to deal with many complicated decision variables and multipurpose operation. Typically, the water that flow into the reservoir comes from the upstream river network. The...

An emerging class of important applications uses ad hoc wireless networks of low-power sensor devices to monitor and send information about a possibly hostile environment to a powerful base station connected to a wired network. To conserve power, intermediate network nodes should aggregate results from individual sensors. However, this opens the risk that a single compromised sensor device can ...

The sizable electrical load of plug-in electric vehicles may cause a severe low-voltage problem in a distribution network. The voltage drop in a distribution network can be mitigated by limiting the power consumption of a charging station. Then, the charging station operator needs a method for appropriately distributing the restricted power to all plug-in electric vehicles. The existing approac...

This new electronic surveying instrument measures s/ope distance and zenith angle simultaneously, then computes and displays horizontal or vertical distance in feet or metres. /fs base measures horizontal angle. f N 1e70, WITH THE INTRODUCTION of the I saooA Distance Meter. Hewlett-Packard launched into the electronic measurement of distance. Since that time HP has become a major supplier of el...

In this paper an attempt is made to extend the capability of mobile phones for secure control of remote electrical devices using SMS services. The transmission of SMS in GSM network is not secure. It only provides the encryption between Mobile Station to Base Station Controller. The message transmitted between GSM operator networks is not encrypted and hence is not safe. Mobile SMS service has ...

In an ideal case telepresence achieves a state, where a human operator can no longer di erentiate between an interaction with a real environment or a technical mediated one. This state is called transparent telepresence. The applicability of telepresence to on-orbit servicing (OOS), i.e. an unmanned servicing operation in space, teleoperated from ground in real time, is veri ed in this paper. F...

Robots are used for the purpose of picking the object and placing it into another place. This robot runs with human guidance and communicates through blue tooth. The robot setup is controlled by the android mobile which is having the blue-control application. Tele-manipulation allows human to perform operations in a remote environment. This system provides human operators with the ability to se...

This paper examines different technologies that can be applied in the design and development of a ground control station for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with multimodal interfaces. Multimodal technologies employ multiple sensory channels/modalities for information transmission as well as for system control. Examples of these technologies could be haptic feedback, head tracking, audi...

The design of a work station generally prescribes a global movement pattern of the operator, but also leaving some degrees of freedom regarding movement strategy. For a specific order picking work station, we studied the movement strategies, the underlying factors and its impact on performance. Eight subjects performed a task comprising, the picking and placing of an object and pressing a butto...