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Çevrimde Imza Doğrulama için Fpga Üzerinde Gerçek Zamanlı Sistem Tasarımı
(2020) Ayhan, Tuba; Orak, Remzi
Bu proje kapsamında, çevrimde imza doğrulama sistemi gerçeklenmiştir. Sistem dokunmatik ekran üzerinden imza (paraf ya da el yazısı bir karakter) alıp, belleğindeki imza öznitelikleri ile karşılaştırarak imzanın iddia edilen kişiye ait olup olmadığını göstermektedir. Orjinal imza resimleri bellekte tutulmadığından sistem imza hırsızlığına karşı bir miktar dayanıklıdır. Sistem dokunmatik ekran, Zynq-7000 geliştirme kartı ve dokunmatik ekran kaleminden oluşur. İmza atıldıktan 0.13 s sonra doğrulama sonucu ekranda verilir. Kullanım rahatlığı açısından atılan imzanın resmi ekranda da gösterilmektedir. Sistemin test ortamında sınıflama başarımı yetenekli taklitçi için %60 dolayında kalsa da sıradan taklitçi için %100?ü bulmaktadır. Proje kapsamında oluşturulup araştırmacılara açılan veri kümesinde tasniflenmiş 500 imza bulunmaktadır. Projenin tüm kaynak kodları github üzerinden açılmıştır. Proje ile ilgili bilgiler, kodlar, veri kümesi ve kısa video da proje sayfası (https://sites.google.com/mef.edu.tr/imza) üzerinde yayındadır.
Solving Xor In Spike Neural Network (SNN) With Component-off-the-shelf
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Cikikci, S.V.; Orek, E.; Ozgen, A.K.; Yavuz, A.; Ayhan, T.
This paper addresses the solution of the XOR problem with Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) in order to improve energy efficiency and computational performance as Moore's Law approaches its limits. SNN is capable of solving nonlinear problems while saving energy by mimicking the working principles of biological neurons. For this purpose, a SNN consisting of 12 neurons was implemented on a breadboard using the Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) model. In the input layer of the network, 50 Hz and 100 Hz signals are processed with frequency sensitive filters. With the help of bandpass and low-pass filters, additive and inverting operational amplifiers, the XOR problem is successfully solved. © 2024 IEEE.
A Resonator Design For Mutual Coupling Reduction Between Microstrip Antennas In Mımo Applications At 28 Ghz
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Gollu, A.A.; Polat, B.; Semerci, D.; Bilgin, E.
A simple resonator structure is proposed to reduce the mutual coupling between rectangular microstrip patch antennas positioned close to each other for MIMO applications at 28 GHz center frequency. Here, the frequency of 28 GHz is chosen because it is one of middle bands for 5G communication in USA. Two microstrip patch antennas with gaps using a common dielectric substrate and a ground plane are employed as antennas and the patches are closely placed with an edge-to-edge distance of 0.6 mm (approximately λ/18). In order to reduce the mutual coupling between these radiating elements and increase the isolation, a resonator is positioned between them and its parameters are optimized. In the simulations, it is observed that the proposed resonator reduces the coupling by approximately 10 dB. By this result, it can be concluded that the proposed structure may be suitable for tightly packed MIMO systems. © 2024 IEEE.
Robotic Learning of Haptic Skills From Expert Demonstration for Contact-Rich Manufacturing Tasks
(IEEE, 2024) Hamdan, Sara; Aydın, Yusuf; Oztop, Erhan; Basdogan, Cagatay
We propose a learning from demonstration (LfD) approach that utilizes an interaction (admittance) controller and two force sensors for the robot to learn the force applied by an expert from demonstrations in contact-rich tasks such as robotic polishing. Our goal is to equip the robot with the haptic expertise of an expert by using a machine learning (ML) approach while providing the flexibility for the user to intervene in the task at any point when necessary by using an interaction controller. The utilization of two force sensors, a pivotal concept in this study, allows us to gather environmental data crucial for effectively training our system to accommodate workpieces with diverse material and surface properties and maintain the contact of polisher with their surfaces. In the demonstration phase of our approach where an expert guiding the robot to perform a polishing task, we record the force applied by the human (Fh) and the interaction force (Fint) via two separate force sensors for the polishing trajectory followed by the expert to extract information about the environment (Fenv = Fh - Fint). An admittance controller, which takes the interaction force as the input is used to output a reference velocity to be tracked by the internal motion controller (PID) of the robot to regulate the interactions between the polisher and the surface of a workpiece. A multilayer perceptron (MLP) model was trained to learn the human force profile based on the inputs of Cartesian position and velocity of the polisher, environmental force (Fenv), and friction coefficient between the polisher and the surface to the model. During the deployment phase, in which the robot executes the task autonomously, the human force estimated by our system ( <^>Fh) is utilized to balance the reaction forces coming from the environment and calculate the force ( <^>Fh - Fenv) needs to be inputted to the admittance controller to generate a reference velocity trajectory for the robot to follow. We designed three use-case scenarios to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed system. The presented use-cases highlight the capability of the proposed pHRI system to learn from human expertise and adjust its force based on material and surface variations during automated operations, while still accommodating manual interventions as needed.
Çok Düşük Enerji Tüketen Taşınabilir Kullanıma Uygun Yapay Sinir Ağlarının Donanım Gerçeklemeleri
(2023) Kumbasar, Tufan; Altun, Mustafa; Ayhan, Tuba
Yapay sinir ağları (artificial neural networks, ANN) ile ilgili literatürde yer alan araştırmalar ve bunların endüstriyel uygulamaları son yıllarda hızlı bir şekilde artmaktadır. Buradaki temel motivasyon, geleneksel yöntemler ile yüksek doğruluklu olarak çözülmesi zor problemlerin ANN?ler ile çözülebilmesidir. Diğer taraftan, ANN?lerin kullanımı geleneksel yöntemlere göre, başta enerji olmak üzere, çok daha fazla donanımsal kaynak gerektirmektedir. Örnek vermek gerekirse, 16×16 boyutunda 256 adet piksel içeren oldukça küçük bir görüntünün her bir pikselinin ve ANN ağırlıklarının 8-bitlik girişler ile temsil edildiğini varsayalım. Bu durumda, tek bir yapay nöron, 256 adet 8-bitlik çarpma işlemi, bu çarpım sonuçlarının toplanması için minimum 16-bitlik 255 adet toplama işlemi ve bu toplam sonucunun normalize edilmesi için bir aktivasyon fonksiyonu gerektirir. Görece küçük büyüklükteki bir ANN?de bu nöronlardan yüzlerce olduğu düşünülürse, bu kadar ağırlığın bellekte tutulmasının ve yapılacak aritmetik işlemlerin, özellikle enerji tüketimi açısından, oldukça maliyetli olacağı açıktır. Bu durum ANN?lerin taşınabilir cihazlarda kullanılabilmelerini fazlasıyla kısıtlamaktadır ve bu çalışmanın temel motivasyonlarından biridir. Önerilen çalışmada, çok düşük enerji tüketen ANN?ler önerilen yeni sayı hibrit gösterimi kullanılarak tasarlanmıştır, donanım optimizasyonları yapılmıştır ve nesne takibi uygulamalarında kullanılmıştır. Yapılan çalışmalar aşağıdaki üç ana başlıkta değerlendirilebilir. Bu üç ana başlık çalışmanın desteklediği 119E507 Nolu TÜBİTAK projesinde üç iş paketi olarak yer almaktadır. ? ANN enerji tasarrufu için yeni sayı gösterimlerinin sunulması ve devre bloklarının tasarımının yapılması. ? Enerji odaklı ANN donanım tasarımları ve optimizasyonunun yapılması. ? Nesne takibi yapan ANN tasarımlarının özel tümleşik devreler (application specific integration circuits, ASIC) ve alanda programlanabilir kapı dizileri (field programmable gate arrays, FPGA) tasarım platformlarında gerçeklenmesi.
İnsan-robot Dokunsal (haptik) Etkileşimi için Makine Öğrenme Tabanlı Admitans Kontrolü
(2021) Başdoğan, Çağatay; Patoğlu, Volkan; Niaz, Pouya Pourakbarian; Aydın, Yusuf; Necipoğlu, Serkan; Şirintuna, Doğanay; Çaldıran, Ozan
Yakın gelecekte, fabrika, ev, hastane gibi farklı ortamlarda, insanlar ve robotların birlikte çalışarak, fiziksel etkileşim gerektiren görevleri ortaklaşa yerine getirebilmeleri beklenmektedir. Fiziksel insan-robot etkileşimi konusundaki önemli araştırma konularından birisi, ortaklar arasında doğal bir iletişimin kurulmasıdır. İnsan-robot etkileşimi konusunda hali hazırda çeşitli sayıda çalışmalar bulunmasına rağmen, ortaklar arasındaki fiziksel etkileşimi, bilhassa dokunsal (haptik) tabanlı iletişimi inceleyen çalışmalar sınırlı sayıdadır ve bu tip sistemlerdeki etkileşim hala doğal insan-insan etkileşimine kıyaslandığında yapay kalmaktadır. Bu projede, insanla beraber ortak görevler yapabilecek işbirlikçi bir robot için kesir dereceli ve uyarlamalı (adaptif) bir admitans kontrolcü geliştirildi. Bilgimiz dahilinde kesir dereceli bir admitans kontrolcü insan-robot fiziksel etkileşimi için daha önce kullanılmamıştır. Kesir dereceli kontrolcülerin en önemli özelliği, tamsayı olmayan türev ve integralin kullanılabilmesidir ki bu da bize birleşik sistemin (insan-robot) dinamiğinin modellenmesinde ve denetlenmesinde, tam sayılı bir kontrolcüye göre, esneklik sağlamıştır. Ayrıca, kesir dereceli bir admitans kontrolcünün makine öğrenmesi algoritmaları vasıtasıyla uyarlanabilir şekilde kullanıldığına dair bir örnek literatürde mevcut değildir. Makine öğrenmesi algoritmaları, bizim görev sırasında insanın niyetini anlamamızı ve buna göre görev performansını optimize edecek şekilde kontrolcü parametrelerini seçmemizi sağladı. Projede geliştirilen yöntemlerin etkinliğini sınamak için laboratuvar ortamında, insan ve robot arasında fiziksel etkileşim gerektiren kontrollü deneyler 12 adet denekle yapıldı. Bu deneylerde, denekler, robot koluna bağlanmış bir matkap aracılığıyla dik ve düz tahta bir yüzey üzerinde delikler açtılar. Makina öğrenmesi teknikleri kullanılarak kullanıcın hangi alt-görevi (textit{Bekleme, Serbest Hareket, ve Temas}) yerine getirdiği gerçek zamanlı olarak tespit edildi ve buna göre kontrolcünün parametreleri uyarlandı. Bu sayede, robotun insan tarafından yönlendirilip delik açılacak noktaya yaklaştırılırken (textit{Serbest Hareket}) insana düşük direnç (şeffaflık), delme sırasında (textit{Temas}) ise oluşacak titreşimleri azaltarak sistemi daha kararlı ve güvenli hale getirecek şekilde yüksek direnç göstermesi sağlandı. Bu deneylerden elde edilen sonuçlar, insan-robot etkileşimi için, uyarlamalı ve kesir dereceli bir kontrolcünün tam sayılı ve sabit parametreli bir kontrolcüye göre, görev performanı açısından, çok daha etkili olduğunu gösterdi. Son olarak, projede geliştirilen sistemin endüstriyel ortamda geçerliliğini sınamak için, endüstriyel ortağımız olan As-Metal şirketinden 3 adet işçi laboratuvarımıza davet edildi ve eğrili (curved) bir tahta yüzeyde delik açma deneyleri yapıldı. İşçilerden yüzey üzerinde 3 farklı noktada ve 3 farklı açıda delik açmaları istendi. İşçiler bu görevi yerine getirirken hem işbirlikçi robotumuzdan hem de bir artırılmış gerçeklik arayüzünden destek aldılar. Deneylerden sonra, işçilerden geliştirilen sistem hakkında fikirlerini iletebilecekleri bir anket doldurmaları istendi. Bu anket ve işçilerle yapılan kişisel görüşmeler vasıtasıyla robotun güvenirliği, kullanım kolaylığı ve görevi gerçekleştirmesindeki katkısı ölçüldü. Bu anketten elde edilen sonuçlar bize geliştirilen bu insan-robot etkileşim sisteminin endüstriyel uygulamlar için uygun, kolay, ve etkili olduğunu gösterdi.
Validation of the Short Version (tls-15) of the Triangular Love Scale (tls-45) Across 37 Languages (oct, 10.1007/S10508-023-02702-7, 2023)
(Springer/plenum Publishers, 2024) Sorokowski, Piotr; Frederick, David A.; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Kowal, Marta; Dinic, Bojana M.; Sternberg, Robert J.; Gjoneska, Biljana; Demirtaş, Ezgi Toplu
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Design and Fpga Implementation of Uav Simulator for Fast Prototyping
(IEEE, 2023) Aydın, Yusuf; Ayhan, Tuba; Akyavaş , İrfan
As production and advances in motor and battery cell technology progress, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining more and more acceptance and popularity. Unfortunately, the design and prototyping of UAVs is an expensive and long process. This paper proposes a fast, component based simulation environment for UAVs so that they can be roughly tested without a damage risk. Moreover, the combined effect of individual component choices can be observed with the simulator to reduce design time. The simulator is flexible in the sense that detailed aerodynamic effects and selected components models can be included. In this work, the simulator is proposed, model parameters are extracted for a particular UAV for testing the simulator and it is implemented on an field programmable gate array (FPGA) to increase simulation speed. The simulator calculates battery state of charge (SOC), position, velocity and acceleration of the UAV with gravity, drag, propeller air inflow velocity. The simulator runs on the FPGA fabric of AMD-XCKU13P with simulation steps of 1 ms.
Live Demo: Design and Fpga Implementation of a Component Level Uav Simulator
(IEEE, 2023) Aydın, Yusuf; Ayhan, Tuba; Akyavaş , İrfan
In this work, we introduce a fast, component based simulation environment for UAVs. The simulator framework is proposed as combination of three sub-models: i. battery, ii. BLDC and propeller, iii. dynamic model. The model parameters are extracted for a particular UAV for testing the simulator. The simulator is implemented on an FPGA to increase simulation speed. The simulator calculates battery SOC, position, velocity and acceleration of the UAV with gravity, drag, propeller air inflow velocity. The simulator runs on the FPGA fabric of XilinxXCKU13P with simulation steps of 1 ms.
Differential Microwave Imaging of Cerebral Hemorrhage Via Dort Method
(IEEE, 2023) Dilman, İsmail; Bilgin, Egemen; Doğu, Semih
Bleeding in the brain tissues may cause fatal health conditions and continuous monitoring of the change in this blood accumulation becomes important in the first few hours after the incident. The continuous post-event monitoring aims to detect the variations in the size and the shape of the hemorrhage regions. To this end, the human head is illuminated by non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, and the scattered field is measured in different time instants. The decomposition of the time-reversal (DORT) method is then used as the microwave imaging algorithm to produce an indicator function. The performance of the proposed technique is assessed via numerical simulations involving a realistic human head phantom. The results suggest that the DORT method is capable of detecting the changes in multiple simultaneous cerebral hemorrhage regions successfully.
Cnn-Based Emotion Recognition Using Data Augmentation and Preprocessing Methods
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Toktaş, Tolga; Kırbız, Serap; Kayaoğlu, Bora
In this paper, a system that recognizes emotion from human faces is designed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNN is known to perform well when trained with a large database. The lack of large and balanced publicly available databases that can be used by deep learning methods for emotion recognition is still a challenge. To overcome this problem, the number of data is increased by merging FER+, CK+ and KDEF databases; and preprocessing is applied to the face images in order to reduce the variations in the database. Data augmentation methods are used to reduce the imbalance in the data distribution that still remains despite the increasing number of data in the merged database. The CNN-based method developed using database merging, image preprocessing and data augmentation, achieved emotion recognition with 80% accuracy.
Foundations of Neuroscience-Based Learning
(Springer International Publishing, 2022) Dorantes-Gonzalez, Dante Jorge
Traditional learning and teaching approaches such as problem-based or project-based learning, among others, do not explicitly consider emotional-enhanced learning, which is a well-known driver of engagement leading to long-term memory retention. On the other hand, existing brain-based learning methods do not provide structured and scientifically-based strategies for the formation of the learner’s emotional experience and engagement. The Neuroscience-based Learning (NBL) technique is a novel neuroeducational approach that explains and applies the implicit neurophysiological mechanisms underlying vivid and highly-arousal emotional experiences leading to long-term memory retention. The NBL is devised from a cybernetics and system approach perspective. It starts from the basis of the neurophysiological learning scheme, describing the relationships among the environment and the learner’s internal mental processes ranging from perceptions, comparison with previous experiences and memories, immediate sensations, reactions, emotions, desires, intentions, higher-order cognitive functions, and controlled actions to the environment. The scheme relates memory systems, non-associative and associative learning mechanisms, implicit and explicit learning subsystems, signaling chemicals, and their neural subsystems, as well as identifying the amygdala as a key sensor triggering and modulating implicit learning. The NBL method exposes the triggers for vivid and highly arousal emotional learning: novelty, unpredictability, sense of low control, threat to the ego, avoidance (aversion-mediated learning), and reward (reward-based learning) and devises the principles of NBL toward more didactic applications. The foundations for implementing NBL in education and recommendations for learning during the online and pandemic situations were proposed. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
Resolving Conflicts During Human-Robot Co-Manipulation
(IEEE Computer Society, 2023) Başdoğan, Çağatay; Küçükyılmaz, Ayşe; Hamad, Yahya M.; Aydın, Yusuf; Al-Saadi, Zaid
This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) approach to detect and resolve motion conflicts that occur between a human and a proactive robot during the execution of a physically collaborative task. We train a random forest classifier to distinguish between harmonious and conflicting human-robot interaction behaviors during object co-manipulation. Kinesthetic information generated through the teamwork is used to describe the interactive quality of collaboration. As such, we demonstrate that features derived from haptic (force/torque) data are sufficient to classify if the human and the robot harmoniously manipulate the object or they face a conflict. A conflict resolution strategy is implemented to get the robotic partner to proactively contribute to the task via online trajectory planning whenever interactive motion patterns are harmonious, and to follow the human lead when a conflict is detected. An admittance controller regulates the physical interaction between the human and the robot during the task. This enables the robot to follow the human passively when there is a conflict. An artificial potential field is used to proactively control the robot motion when partners work in harmony. An experimental study is designed to create scenarios involving harmonious and conflicting interactions during collaborative manipulation of an object, and to create a dataset to train and test the random forest classifier. The results of the study show that ML can successfully detect conflicts and the proposed conflict resolution mechanism reduces human force and effort significantly compared to the case of a passive robot that always follows the human partner and a proactive robot that cannot resolve conflicts. © 2023 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
Toward a Novel Neuroscience-Based System Approach Integrating Cognitive and Implicit Learning in Education
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023) Tsvetkova, Nadezhda; Çakar, Tuna; Veledinskaya, Svetlana; Babanskaya, Olesya; Dorantes-Gonzalez, Dante Jorge
Emotional-enhanced learning is a meaningful driver of engagement leading to long-term memory retention in learners, however, traditional approaches such as problem-based learning, and project-based learning, among others, do not consider brain-based learning guidelines concerning learner’s emotional experience design. The Neuroscience-based Learning (NBL) technique is a novel neuro-educational approach that applies the implicit neuro-physiological mechanisms underlying vivid and highly-arousal emotion-al experiences leading to long-term memory retention. The NBL is devised from a cybernetic system point of view, by explaining the novel neuro-physiological learning scheme describing the relation among the environment and the learner’s internal mental processes ranging from perceptions, comparison with previous experiences and memories, immediate sensations and reactions, emotions, desires, intentions, higher order cognitive functions, and controlled actions towards the environment. While explaining biological processes, the scheme also relates the types of memory systems with their non-associative and associative learning mechanisms, and the variables that modulate learning. NBL proposes the triggers for a vivid and highly-arousal emotional learning, which are novelty, unpredictability, sense of low control, threat to ego, avoidance (aversion-mediated learning), and reward (reward-based learning). © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
A Framework for Automatic Generation of Spoken Question-Answering Data
(Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022) Manav, Y.; Menevşe, M.Ü.; Özgür, A.; Arısoy, Ebru
This paper describes a framework to automatically generate a spoken question answering (QA) dataset. The framework consists of a question generation (QG) module to generate questions automatically from given text documents, a text-to-speech (TTS) module to convert the text documents into spoken form and an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module to transcribe the spoken content. The final dataset contains question-answer pairs for both the reference text and ASR transcriptions as well as the audio files corresponding to each reference text. For QG and ASR systems we used pre-trained multilingual encoder-decoder transformer models and fine-tuned these models using a limited amount of manually generated QA data and TTS-based speech data, respectively. As a proof of concept, we investigated the proposed framework for Turkish and generated the Turkish Question Answering (TurQuAse) dataset using Wikipedia articles. Manual evaluation of the automatically generated question-answer pairs and QA performance evaluation with state-of-the-art models on TurQuAse show that the proposed framework is efficient for automatically generating spoken QA datasets. To the best of our knowledge, TurQuAse is the first publicly available spoken question answering dataset for Turkish. The proposed framework can be easily extended to other languages where a limited amount of QA data is available. © 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics.
Turkish Data-To Generation Using Sequence-To Neural Networks
(Assoc Computing Machinery, 2023) Demir, Şeniz
End-to-end data-driven approaches lead to rapid development of language generation and dialogue systems. Despite the need for large amounts of well-organized data, these approaches jointly learn multiple components of the traditional generation pipeline without requiring costly human intervention. End-to-end approaches also enable the use of loosely aligned parallel datasets in system development by relaxing the degree of semantic correspondences between training data representations and text spans. However, their potential in Turkish language generation has not yet been fully exploited. In this work, we apply sequenceto-sequence (Seq2Seq) neural models to Turkish data-to-text generation where the input data given in the form of a meaning representation is verbalized. We explore encoder-decoder architectures with attention mechanism in unidirectional, bidirectional, and stacked recurrent neural network (RNN) models. Our models generate one-sentence biographies and dining venue descriptions using a crowdsourced dataset where all field value pairs that appear in meaning representations are fully captured in reference sentences. To support this work, we also explore the performances of our models on a more challenging dataset, where the content of a meaning representation is too large to fit into a single sentence, and hence content selection and surface realization need to be learned jointly. This dataset is retrieved by coupling introductory sentences of person-related Turkish Wikipedia articles with their contained infobox tables. Our empirical experiments on both datasets demonstrate that Seq2Seq models are capable of generating coherent and fluent biographies and venue descriptions from field value pairs. We argue that the wealth of knowledge residing in our datasets and the insights obtained fromthis study hold the potential to give rise to the development of new end-to-end generation approaches for Turkish and other morphologically rich languages.
Mechanical Design of a Haptic Hand Exoskeleton for Tele-Exploration of Explosive Devices
(IEEE, 2023) Dorantes-Gonzalez, Dante Jorge
There are tasks such as remote exploration and manipulation of explosive objects where high dexterity, accuracy, and practicality are necessary. The proposed haptic hand exoskeleton design uses displacement sensors in both flexion-deflection as well as abduction-adduction to replicate the operator's main three fingers' motion and teleoperate a slave robotic hand for disassembling and disposal of explosive objects. The novel design, component selection, and computer-aided design of the haptic virtual prototype were developed and tested.
Robot-Assisted Drilling on Curved Surfaces With Haptic Guidance Under Adaptive Admittance Control
(IEEE, 2022) Başdoğan, Çağatay; Niaz, Pouya P.; Aydın, Yusuf; Güler, Berk; Madani, Alireza
Drilling a hole on a curved surface with a desired angle is prone to failure when done manually, due to the difficulties in drill alignment and also inherent instabilities of the task, potentially causing injury and fatigue to the workers. On the other hand, it can be impractical to fully automate such a task in real manufacturing environments because the parts arriving at an assembly line can have various complex shapes where drill point locations are not easily accessible, making automated path planning difficult. In this work, an adaptive admittance controller with 6 degrees of freedom is developed and deployed on a KUKA LBR iiwa 7 cobot such that the operator is able to manipulate a drill mounted on the robot with one hand comfortably and open holes on a curved surface with haptic guidance of the cobot and visual guidance provided through an AR interface. Real-time adaptation of the admittance damping provides more transparency when driving the robot in free space while ensuring stability during drilling. After the user brings the drill sufficiently close to the drill target and roughly aligns to the desired drilling angle, the haptic guidance module fine tunes the alignment first and then constrains the user movement to the drilling axis only, after which the operator simply pushes the drill into the workpiece with minimal effort. Two sets of experiments were conducted to investigate the potential benefits of the haptic guidance module quantitatively (Experiment I) and also the practical value of the proposed pHRI system for real manufacturing settings based on the subjective opinion of the participants (Experiment II). The results of Experiment I, conducted with 3 naive participants, show that the haptic guidance improves task completion time by 26% while decreasing human effort by 16% and muscle activation levels by 27% compared to no haptic guidance condition. The results of Experiment II, conducted with 3 experienced industrial workers, show that the proposed system is perceived to be easy to use, safe, and helpful in carrying out the drilling task.
The Tuned Mass Damper as a Subject in Engineering Mechanics Dynamics
(IEEE, 2022) Dorantes-Gonzalez, Dante Jorge
The course of Engineering Mechanics Dynamics is one of the most challenging courses for both mechanical and civil engineering programs, among others. But few universities dare to introduce projects to enhance students' curiosity, interest, and engagement toward engineering by constructing do-it-yourself physical prototypes, making measurements, and calculations to compete for the best performance. The intention of this project is to introduce a complex multiple-degree-of-freedom vibration problem in an easy manner, namely, the topic of a tuned mass damper (TMD) applied to earthquake-like oscillations. This type of projects directly addresses all seven student outcomes recommended by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). The project develops critical thinking and inquiry skills by designing and constructing the prototype of a building-like structure and its corresponding TMD; conducting an experiment under certain constraints to test the attenuation after an initial displacement; applying an open-source freeware to plot and measure underdamped oscillations; calculating main vibration parameters; as well as comparing performance results with another teams. Students approach this complex tunning problem by trial-and-error of key TMD parameters, a strategy that sparks fun and gambling to the process and competition for the best performance in attenuation efficiency. Data from direct observation of students' performance, student surveys, reports, presentation videos, office hours, and interviews showed that students enthusiastically responded at all project stages, understood the TMD functioning, and appreciated the value of dynamics in engineering in a more meaningful way than it would be without this type of projects.
A Microwave Imaging Scheme for Detection of Pulmonary Edema and Hemorrhage
(IEEE, 2022) Ertek, Didem; Kucuk, Gokhan; Bilgin, Egemen
The microwave imaging systems have the potential to present a cost effective and less hazardous alternative to conventional medical imaging techniques. In this paper, a Contrast Source Inversion method based microwave imaging scheme is proposed and tested for the detection of pulmonary edema and hemorrhage. To this end, a realistic human torso phantom is used, and the electromagnetic parameters of the human tissues is determined via Cole-Cole model. The scattered field is simulated via Method of Moments at the operating frequency of 350 MHz, and a 50 dB white Gaussian noise is added to model a realistic measurement setup. The numerical tests performed with the proposed technique suggest that the method can be used to locate the pulmonary edema and hemorrhage, and it is capable of distinguishing these two medical conditions successfully.

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