Alkoholhaltiga drycker har konsumerats länge i Sverige, idag är öl en av de mest förekommande dryckerna. Med tanke på hur få ingredienser öl innehåller och att smaken trots detta kan varieras i det oändliga är det lätt att förstå att alla delsteg måste genomföras med precision. De olika delstegen i ölbryggningsprocessen är mältning, mäskning, lakning, humlekokning och jäsning. Ett försök till att bygga ett automatiserat bryggverk har gjorts. Komponenter till bryggverket har köpts in och bryggverket har byggts från grunden. Det var inte möjligt att göra alla delsteg i processen automatiserade, till exempel flödesstyrningar och tillsats av ingredienser. Detta gjorde att manuella insatser krävdes. För att styra bryggningen programmerades mikrokontrollerkortet Arduino Uno i programmeringsspråket C. Med hjälp av programmeringen har de delsteg av bryggningen, som går att automatisera, automatiserats. Vid testbryggningen uppstod praktiska problem som inte kunde förutsägas i teorin, exempelvis gick pumpen torrt ibland, reläerna fungerade inte som tänkt samt att en oväntad temperaturgradient uppstod. Dessa problem kan eventuellt lösas med ytterligare insatser i framtida försök. Vidare genomfördes tester innan bryggningen med endast vatten i kärlen för att undersöka temperaturregleringen. Det visade sig dock vara stora skillnader mellan vatten och mäsk, vilket gjorde att dessa tester inte kunde förutsäga alla problem. Trots detta resulterade bryggningen i en besk men drickbar öl.

To research the relationship between Childhood obesity and infant feeding patterns, the Electrical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University has designed a SmartBottle device attaching to the bottom of a baby bottle to monitor the infant feeding process. This project mainly focuses on the software and firmware design, as well as the neural network design of the SmartBottle device. The SmartBottle device is designed to identify infant feeding activities and to record related data for overweight and obesity research on children. This device includes a 6-dimensional inertial sensor that contains a 3-axis digital accelerometer and a 3-axis digital gyroscope. The measurement of this inertial sensor is passed into a neural network to identify drinking events and to measure the bottle-feeding angle. This device also includes a load sensor, a real-time clock, and an SD card to measure feeding amounts, record feeding time, and store real-time data. To obtain training data for the NN, device firmware was written to record feeding event data with the aid of a lab assistant familiar with typical feeding actions. Once a large set of data was collected, it was separated into two groups for neural network training and testing. The resulting neural network was repeatedly evaluated by lab assistants and rebuilt until it fully satisfied all the requirements. Finally, according to users’ preferences, the last step was to optimize the software and have it ready to be used for laboratory-based research.

This thesis aims to develop hardware for laboratory in courses such asSwitching Theory at Halmstad University which can help students tounderstand practical applications of the hardware they are studying atuniversity. To achieve this, a printed circuit board (PCB) that simulates trafficintersections has been designed, constructed, and tested.The project consists of four main phases. The first step is to create anequipment list to identify the components needed to meet our goals. Then, theschematic design phase is started using KiCad program for PCB design. Aprinted circuit board is manufactured, and all the components lists in theequipment inventory is carefully soldered. This step completes the secondstage, involving PCB fabrication and component placement. The next step isto program one intersection using an embedded system according to a statemachine and ensure the PCB works properly. For this purpose, a statemachine is developed to describe test conditions and program sequences.

Does capturing analog measurements with a computer sound like so much hocus pocus? In this episode, we will take a stab at lessening some of that mystic by showing how the Arduino platform can be used to perform this conversion.

The Fluorescence Scanning Thermal Microscope (FSTM v3.0), was designed to create an inexpensive, and easily manufactured, device for measuring the diffusivity of samples with microscopic locational precision. This was accomplished by using a Blu-ray device known as a PHR-803T, referred to in this work as a PHR. The optics in the PHR are nearly identical in function to conventional devices used in thermoreflectance microscopy, making the PHR extremely useful to integrate into the FSTM design. The focus of this thesis is the application of the FSTM as a confocal microscope using 3D printed components and various low-cost devices to operate with comparable sampling accuracy to existing confocal microscopes. The electronics and optical filters were then adapted to enable the measurement of thermal waves, particularly by detecting a linear relationship between phase delay and the spacing between heating and sensing lasers, as predicted by previous work on the FSTM.

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Yes / In this paper, a new fractional order chaotic system without equilibrium is proposed, analyti-cally and numerically investigated, and numerically and experimentally tested. The analytical and numerical investigation were used to describe the system dynamical behaviors including, the system equilibria, the chaotic attractors, the bifurcation diagrams and the Lyapunov expo-nents. Based on the obtained dynamical behaviors, the system can excite hidden chaotic attrac-tors since it has no equilibrium. Then, a synchronization mechanism based on the adaptive con-trol theory has been developed between two identical new systems (master and slave). The adaptive control laws are derived based on synchronization error dynamics of the state varia-bles for the master and slave. Consequently, the update laws of the slave parameters are ob-tained, where the slave parameters are assumed to be uncertain and estimate corresponding to the master parameters by the synchronization process. Furthermore, Arduino Due boards were used to implement the proposed system in order to demonstrate its practicality in real-world applications. The simulation experimental results are obtained by MATLAB and the Arduino Due boards respectively, where a good consistent between the simulation results and the ex-perimental results. indicating that the new fractional order chaotic system is capable of being employed in real-world applications.

Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka möjligheten att utveckla en testbänk som kan underlätta felsökning och testning till fem olika ECU:er. 93 utgångar, bland annat DAC:ar, digitala- och frekvensutgångar finns med i kravspecifikationerna. Dessa utgångar styrs utifrån paneler i CANalyzer med hjälp av programmering i Arduino och CANalyzers egna språk CAPL. Testbänken visar goda resultat och har fått positiv respons från företaget, den levererar de förväntade värdena på samtliga 93 utgångar med en felmarginal på max 3%. Det finns begränsningar med att bygga denna typ av testbänk kopplade till komponentval, tid och resurser.