With the increased investment and deployment of embedded computing and communication technologies in the power system – the smart grid vision is shaping up into a reality. The future power grid is a large cyber physical system (CPS) which is vulnerable to cyber security threats. Among the three major subsystems of a power grid – generation, transmission and distribution – this survey focuses on...

IN THIS SECOND edition of the IEEE JSAC Smart Grid series, we continue to explore advances in communication technologies that have the potential for improving energy efficiency and realizing the smart grid vision. We have received a total number of 73 papers, and after a thorough review and careful deliberations, we have accepted 15 articles. This issue tackles important challenges with respect...

The achievements in system engineering in the analysis and control of power system reliability and security over the last three decades, accomplished by taking full advantages of advances in computer, communication, and control technologies, are truly remarkable. For example, the economic generation commitment and dispatch for large power systems are now routinely solved using efficient Lagrang...

Background Around 50 million people have dementia worldwide, with nearly 10 new cases every year. Diagnosis is complex and often relies on expensive invasive measures, most patients accessing medical support when they already experience symptoms. Method The Early Detection of Neurodegenerative diseases (EDoN) initiative, spearheaded by Alzheimer’s Research UK, brings together over 60 experts fr...

Introduction This paper describes an approach to solving insertion tasks by a robot that uses exploratory behaviors and proprioceptive feedback. The approach was inspired by the developmental progression of insertion abilities in both chimpanzees and humans (Hayashi et al. 2006). Before mastering insertions, the infants of the two species undergo a stage where they only press objects against ot...

This paper presents a summary of arsenic level statistics from air and wipe samples taken from studies conducted in fabrication operations. The main objectives of this study were not only to describe arsenic measurement data but also, through a literature review, to categorize fabrication workers in accordance with observed arsenic levels. All airborne arsenic measurements reported were include...

User fatigue is common with robot teleoperation interfaces. Mixed initiative control approaches attempt to reduce this fatigue by allowing control responsibility to be shared between the user and an intelligent control system. A critical challenge is how the user can communicate her intentions to the control system in an intuitive manner as possible. In the context of control of a humanoid robo...