Two new families of intelligent power devices have been developed to address industry requirements for high reliability, low cost, motor controls with increased performance and smaller size. These new devices are the latest product of the continuos optimization of advanced technology that has characterized the evolution of Intelligent Power Modules (IPM's). This article will explain the design ...

It is shown that the “intelligent” controllers which are associated to the recently introduced model-free control synthesis may be easily implemented on cheap and small programmable devices. Several successful numerical experiments are presented with a special emphasis on fault tolerant control. Keywords— Model-free control, intelligent PID controllers, small programmable devices, estimation, i...

This paper proposes a soft-remote-control (soft-remocon) system based on EMG signals for the Intelligent Sweet Home. The proposed system is applied to Intelligent Sweet Home which was developed to help the independence living of the elderly and physically handicapped individuals. The goal of proposed system is to control home-installed electronic devices such as TV, air-conditioner, curtain and...

The dramatic changes in integrated-circuit technology over the last two decades have been of great benefit to countries such as Zimbabwe. High volume production of VLSI chips has produced a supply of intelligent, versatile electronic processing devices at very low cost. In particular the facilities of the microcontroller have steadily developed to the accompaniment of a reduction in price. Sinc...

The implementation of the Internet of Things will result in the connection of tens of billions of wireless devices to the Internet. These devices will form an intelligent substrate pervading all aspects of life. From intelligent home control to advanced city management systems, devices will sense their environment as well as interconnect and communicate with each other to form intelligent smart...

Tomorrow's ubiquitous computing environment will be filled with intelligent devices: on your person, in your office, car, and home, on the street, in stores, museums and restaurants, ..., just about anywhere you can think of. These devices could potentially talk to one another in ad-hoc networks. But what will they talk about? This paper describes a goal directed design paradigm within agent or...

Robot systems for supporting human life are desired recently. For that purpose, the robots need to recognize a human living environment that changes dynamically. However, it is difficult to achieve it only with the sensors carried in a stand-alone robot. Then, the research field on the intelligent environments based on the sensor network has been expanding [Sato], [MacDorman]. The intelligent e...