This paper describes an proof-of-concept with the goal of providing new interactions for elevators. By connecting the control unit of the elevator to the ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC) middleware – the Universal Remote Console (UCH) – we show some examples of alternative and accessible User Interfaces. By this, we achieve not only accessible UIs, e.g., spoken language interfaces, ...

conclusions the study showed that elevator buttons could lead to transmission of pathogenic bacteria. it is necessary to clean and disinfect elevator buttons daily, especially in departments with high contamination potential such as laboratories, particularly in biological laboratories and pilot plant rooms. methods the study was a across sectional research. samples were taken from elevator but...

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. Timed 8-automata have been studied as a logical speci cation language of real-time behaviors. A general veri cation method has been proposed for checking whether a constraint net model satis es a timed 8-automaton speci cation. In this paper, we illustrate constraint net modeling and timed 8-auto...

In this study, a double-sided linear switched reluctance motor (LSRM) drive was investigated as an alternative actuator for vertical linear transportation applications such as a linear elevator door, hospital and subway doors which move linearly and where accurate position control and rapid response is requested. A prototype sliding elevator door that is focused on a home elevator with LSRMs is...

The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic is a bio-inspired approach for hard combinatorial optimization problems for stationary and non-stationary environments. In the ACO metaheuristic, a colony of artificial ants cooperate for finding high quality solutions in a reasonable time. An interesting example of a non-stationary combinatorial optimization problem is the Multiple Elevators Prob...

This paper discussed the implementation ideas and experimental procedures to solve an engineering related combinatorial problem using DNA computing approach. An elevator scheduling problem is chosen as a benchmark where all the elevator traveled paths are represented by DNA sequence of specific length that represent the elevator’s traveling time in a proportional way based on certain initial co...

The Automated Product Delivery System (APDS) was developed to address a need in industrial manufacturing for a simple way to transfer materials between areas of a manufacturing environment. At the moment, most equipment used for such a task consist of some type of fixed system, such as conveyor belts, elevators, etc. While adequate, they are not easily adaptable to any changes in their environm...

BACKGROUND Current professional guidelines recommend a maximum hang time for reprocessed duodenoscopes of 5-14 days. We sought to study the association between hang time and risk of duodenoscope contamination. METHODS We analyzed cultures of the elevator mechanism and working channel collected in a highly standardized fashion just before duodenoscope use. Hang time was calculated as the time ...

INTRODUCTION Subperiosteal preparation using a periosteal elevator leads to disturbances of local immunohistochemistry and periosteal histology due to a microtrauma. Usually soft-tissue damage can be considerably reduced by using piezoelectric technology. For this reason, the effects of a novel piezoelectric device on immunohistochemistry and periosteal histology were examined and compared to c...