A High-Speed, Wireless Network for Ship-to-Ship and Ship-to-Shore Data Exchange

Author(s):  
Nathan D. Potter ◽  
Timothy J. Cowles
Author(s):  
Tina Mirfakhraie ◽  
Ramiro Liscano ◽  
Shenjin Zhu ◽  
Yuping He

This paper presents an active trailer steering (ATS) system using a wireless communication link to facilitate exchanging information among vehicle units of articulated heavy vehicles (AHVs). A challenge for developing and implementing the wireless-communication-based ATS system is to address the problems of delay and packet-loss. Embedding wireless communication transceivers on an AHV may introduce delays for data exchange, and the transmitted data may be lost. Many reasons may lead to the delay and packet-loss, e.g., channel fading, noise burst, interference, etc. The proposed ATS system may prevent unstable motion modes of AHVs if the sensor data reach the controllers/actuators in real-time with an acceptable level of delay and packet-loss. In order to ensure the performance of the ATS control, a Kalman-filter-based estimator is introduced. The estimator uses the available dynamic data to estimate the current states of the AHV in case some sensor information is not available due to a delay or an outage in the wireless communication link. To investigate the effect of the time delay due to the wireless communication on the performance of the ATS control, co-simulations are conducted. The wireless network is modeled using TrueTime toolbox, the ATS controller is designed in SimuLink package, and the AHV model is constructed in TruckSim software. Integrating the wireless network modeled in TrueTime, the ATS controller designed in SimuLink, and the AHV model constructed in TruckSim leads to the co-simulation platform. Under the emulated double lane-change test maneuver, the effects of the wireless communication with two schemes on the direction performance of the AHV are examined.


Author(s):  
T. Frederking ◽  
R. Gadow

Abstract Total quality management requires definite process control as well as online diagnostics, if applied in industrial surface refinement by thermal spraying. A concept for integrated online diagnostics for the high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) flame spray process is presented using Siemens S7-300 programmable logic controller and PC-based Siemens WinCC (Windows Control Center) visualization software. The standard functionality of the WinCC programming environment can be extended by C-scripts. The integrated database allows to protocol the relevant process parameters periodically for total quality assurance. Also particle flux imaging software tools can be implemented to adjust online process parameters and for process diagnostic purposes. The Siemens bus system hierarchy thereby provides high speed communication skills for field bus level data exchange and for supervising system components, e.g. CCD-cameras. The interconnection between S7-300 PLC, 6-axis-robot and a novel WinCC software tool enables definite automatic changes of recipes during the coating process to generate functionally graded coatings.


Automatika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
M. Devanathan ◽  
V. Ranganathan ◽  
P. Sivakumar

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuyang Zhang ◽  
Tao Zheng ◽  
Ping Dong ◽  
Hongbin Luo ◽  
Zhibo Pang

Greater demands are being placed on the access bandwidth, stability, and delay of network because of the quickening rhythm of life and work, especially in mobile scenario. In order to obtain a stable network with low latency and high bandwidth in mobile scenario, taking advantage of the wireless heterogeneous network in parallel is a good choice. Nowadays, people are increasingly concerned about the network quality under the mobile scenario. Some scholars have done the relevant measurements. However, all of those measurements mainly investigate part of the network parameters or part of mobile scenarios. In this paper, we make the following contributions. Firstly, in high-speed mobile scenario, the wireless network qualities of different vendors are measured synthetically. Secondly, we analyze the benefits of taking advantage of the different vendors. Thirdly, we deploy the replication link mechanism in high-speed mobile scenario and propose an algorithm to remove the duplicate packet in high-speed mobile scenario. And the algorithm can also be used in another multipath schedule algorithm to improve the reliability.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2157
Author(s):  
Yousef Almadani ◽  
David Plets ◽  
Sander Bastiaens ◽  
Wout Joseph ◽  
Muhammad Ijaz ◽  
...  

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a short-range optical wireless communication technology that has been gaining attention due to its potential to offload heavy data traffic from the congested radio wireless spectrum. At the same time, wireless communications are becoming crucial to smart manufacturing within the scope of Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is a developing trend of high-speed data exchange in automation for manufacturing technologies and is referred to as the fourth industrial revolution. This trend requires fast, reliable, low-latency, and cost-effective data transmissions with fast synchronizations to ensure smooth operations for various processes. VLC is capable of providing reliable, low-latency, and secure connections that do not penetrate walls and is immune to electromagnetic interference. As such, this paper aims to show the potential of VLC for industrial wireless applications by examining the latest research work in VLC systems. This work also highlights and classifies challenges that might arise with the applicability of VLC and visible light positioning (VLP) systems in these settings. Given the previous work performed in these areas, and the major ongoing experimental projects looking into the use of VLC systems for industrial applications, the use of VLC and VLP systems for industrial applications shows promising potential.


2010 ◽  
Vol 143-144 ◽  
pp. 1406-1409
Author(s):  
Dong Lu ◽  
Jian Guo Dai

Moves the multimedia studies is one kind of new study form. Today which in the Internet high speed development, the multimedia technologies renew unceasingly, use wireless network merit, constructs the transportable multimedia digital classroom, by “scientific style” the way helps the school solution training facilities to reform the question, has enlarged the school educational reform step.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Wang ◽  
Alan E. Willner

Data exchange, namely bidirectional information swapping, provides enhanced flexibility compared to the unidirectional information transfer. To fulfill the rapid development of high-speed large-capacity optical communications with emerging multiplexing/demultiplexing techniques and advanced modulation formats, a laudable goal would be to achieve data exchange in different degrees of freedom (wavelength, time, polarization), for different modulation formats (OOK, DPSK, DQPSK, pol-muxed), and at different granularities (entire data, groups of bits, tributary channels). Optical nonlinearities are potentially suitable candidates to enable data exchange in the wavelength, time, and polarization domains. In this paper, we will review our recent works towards robust data exchange by exploiting miscellaneous optical nonlinearities, including the use of cSFG/DFG in a PPLN waveguide for time- (groups of bits) and channel-selective data exchange and tributary channel exchange between two WDM+OTDM signals, nondegenerate FWM in an HNLF for phase-transparent data exchange (DPSK, DQPSK), bidirectional degenerate FWM in an HNLF for multi-channel data exchange, and Kerr-induced nonlinear polarization rotation in an HNLF for tributary channel exchange of a pol-muxed DPSK OTDM signal. The demonstrated data exchanges in different degrees of freedom, for different modulation formats, and at different granularities, open the door for alternative approaches to achieve superior network performance.


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