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With the rapid development of power electronic devices and microprocessor chips, the engineers and researchers have come to pay more attentions to the feasibility of the control and drive for the switched reluctance motor. This motor has lots of advantages of low-cost, high efficiency, high stability and high hot emissive. And, it can be well operated under high temperature environment. In this paper, A newly control and monitor system is proposed with DSP-based driver system and the user-friendly LabVIEW software. The TMS320C240 chip-set is applied to construct the motor-driving system and to produce the PWM signal for the switched motor. The graphic user interface (GUI) is designed by using LabVIEW. The functions of the proposed human/machine interface (MMI) system includes the multi-channel digital I/O acquisition, the voltage/current signal acquisition,and the protocol setting.

With the rapid development of Internet and computer technology, users can already have many applications with remote Control and Monitoring ¡]CM¡^capability, including the CM on hardware power devices. Form the state-of-the-art Internet Technology the server-side computer can be used to integrate all client-side CM devices with distributive process and unified management to realize the development of distributed power CM system with Internet integration, which is also the goal of this thesis. The Internet based distributed power control and monitoring system was proposed in this thesis by the use of 8051 Micro-controller to develop a low cost, high stability, and user-friendly CM devices for home and factory uses. LabVIEW language was used to develop the Man-Machine Interface (MMI), and DataSocket tool was used to share the information on net. The MMI¡¦s designed for the CM devices are Multi-channel digital Input/Output acquisition system, Voltage/Current acquisition system and Temperature acquisition System. In this thesis, we used newly developed Internet technology and standards, also developed ActiveX control by using programming-language tools. So the ActiveX control will be embedded in the web browsers. Using ASP (Active Server Page) and Dynamic HTML for development, this research also built a web database system on Internet.

The design and implementation of LabVIEW-aided power system SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) for industrial applications is presented in this thesis. The system includes some sensors¡Bcontrol hardware, and two fore-microprocessors; and it runs in the environment of popular windows by personal computer, using LabVIEW between human and machine. The mainframe computer can get the electrical power parameters (such as voltage¡Bcurrent and power factor )from the fore-microprocessor via RS-485 communication interface. All of the power parameters and control signals are transmitted upon the network, so it can also command the remote controllers to detect the status and control the switching gear of the remote equipments. These data can be recorded and stored simultaneously in the LabVIEW environment and displayed on the screen. The design accomplishes function of signal acquisition and data transmission features low cost¡Bhigh stability, with remote controller, and easy expansion. It can mange and control the conventional household or industrial electric equipment, to achieve the goal of energy conservation.

Human operators often employ discontinuous or "bang-bang" control strategies when performing large-amplitude acquisition tasks. The current study applies Variable Structure Control (VSC) techniques to model human operator behavior during acquisition tasks. The result is a coupled, multi-input model replicating the discontinuous control strategy. In the VSC formulation, a switching surface is the mathematical representation of the operator's control strategy. The performance of the Variable Strategy Model (VSM) is evaluated by considering several examples, including the longitudinal control of an aircraft during the visual landing task. The aircraft landing task becomes an acquisition maneuver whenever large initial offsets occur. Several different strategies are explored in the VSM formulation for the aircraft landing task. First, a switching surface is constructed from literal interpretations of pilot training literature. This approach yields a mathematical representation of how a pilot is trained to fly a generic aircraft. This switching surface is shown to bound the trajectory response of a group of pilots performing an offset landing task in an aircraft simulator study. Next, front-side and back-side landing strategies are compared. A back-side landing strategy is found to be capable of landing an aircraft flying on either the front side or back side of the power curve. However, the front-side landing strategy is found to be insufficient for landing an aircraft flying on the back side. Finally, a more refined landing strategy is developed that takes into the account the specific aircraft's dynamic characteristics. The refined strategy is translated back into terminology similar to the existing pilot training literature. / Ph. D.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / In face of the characteristics of multiple data streams, high bit rate, variable data formats, complicated frame structure and changeable application environment, the programmable PCM telemetry system needs a new data processing system with advanced telemetry system architecture. This paper fully considers the characteristics of real-time telemetry data processing, analyzes the design of open system architecture for real-time telemetry data processing system(TDPS), presents an open system architecture scheme and design of real-time TDPS, gives the structure model of distributed network system, and develops the interface between network database and telemetry database, as well as telemetry processing software with man-machine interface. Finally, a practical and multi-functional real-time TDPS with open system architecture has been built, which based on UNIX operating system, supporting TCP/IP protocol and using Oracle relational database management system. This scheme and design have already proved to be efficient for real-time processing, high speed, mass storage and multi-user operation.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir o estado da arte e propor melhorias em uma área de grande potencial e de crescimento recente na computação: a análise do estado emocional do usuário de um sistema de informação e a aplicação dessa observação em cenários ricos de interação homem-máquina. Para foco em um escopo tratável, escolheu-se o estudo das técnicas atuais de captação afetiva através de três sensores diferentes (expressões faciais, expressões vocais e contexto semântico) e de como sua combinação poderia resultar em dados mais robustos sobre o estado emocional do usuário, em uma aplicação conhecida como Fusão Multimodal. Nesse sentido, o trabalho levanta não apenas a bibliografia recente sobre o estado da arte da aquisição de dados nas três áreas e em fusão, mas também aplica algumas das ferramentas existentes (tanto comerciais como abertas) para melhor compreensão do nível atual da tecnologia acessível ao público acadêmico. Dada a inexistência de uma aplicação facilmente disponível para análise de emoções no contexto semântico, desenvolveu-se uma ferramenta dedicada à pesquisa, nomeada emoCrawler, a qual utiliza redes sociais para avaliação do caráter emocional que palavras indiretamente podem acarretar em uma discussão. O emoCrawler busca avaliar as emoções evocadas em usuários de Twitter e as compara com um dicionário emocional conhecido, baseado em contribuições acadêmicas diversas, gerando um resultado quantitativo útil ao escopo do trabalho. Por fim, o trabalho lançou mão da ferramenta emoCrawler e das outras ferramentas selecionadas para análise de expressões faciais e vocais na criação de um sistema de fusão sensorial que aumente a confiabilidade global da emoção detectada. Para isso, inicialmente um corpus de áudio e vídeo disponível foi tratado e reduzido para o escopo da pesquisa. Em seguida, diferentes técnicas de fusão baseadas em algoritmos de classificação foram aplicadas (redes neurais, Naive Bayes e Support Vector Machine), com abordagens distintas de treinamento para busca de resultados melhores dos que os encontrados nas aplicações unimodais. Os resultados verificados de fato indicam para uma melhor taxa de detecção quando é aplicado o algoritmo de fusão. Nesse processo, a presença de dados fornecidos pelo emoCrawler parece ter contribuído positivamente. / This work aims at discussing the state of the art and proposing improvements in a field of great potential and recent growth in computing: the analysis of the emotional state of the user of an information system and the application of such observations in rich scenarios of human-machine interaction. In a tractable scope of research, this work evaluates the current techniques of affective observation applied on three different inputs (facial expressions, speech features and semantic context) and comprehends how their combination can result in more robust affirmations on the actual emotional status of the user an application called Multimodal Fusion. In this sense, the work presents not only the recent literature on the state of the art in data acquisition in the three aforementioned areas and in fusion, but also applies some of the existing tools (both commercial and open) for a better understanding of the current level of technology available to the academic audience. Given the lack of an application readily available for the analysis of semantic context in emotions, a dedicated piece of software to the research was developed, entitled emoCrawler, which uses social networks as a means to evaluate the emotional signature that words may leave in a discussion. emoCrawler aims at evaluating emotions evoked in Twitter users and comparing them with an emotion dictionary built around academic contributions, generating a quantitative result useful to this research. Finally, this work made use of emoCrawler and the other selected tools for both facial and speech expressions in the creation of a sensor fusion system to enhance the global reliability of the affective detection. To achieve this, an audiovisual database was initially processed and condensed. Then, different fusion techniques based on classification algorithms with distinct learning approaches (neural networks, naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machine) were applied in the pursuit of better outcomes than the unimodal applications. The final results indeed point to a better rate of detection when fusion algorithms are applied. In this process, the data provided by emoCrawler seems to have contributed positively.

Several recent maritime accidents suggest that modern technology sometimes can make it difficult for mariners to navigate safely. A review of the literature also indicates that the technological remedies designed to prevent maritime accidents at times can be ineffective or counterproductive. To understand why, problem-oriented ethnography was used to collect and analyse data on how mariners understand their work and their tools. Over 4 years, 15 ships were visited; the ship types studied were small and large archipelago passenger ships and cargo ships. Mariners and others who work in the maritime industry were interviewed. What I found onboard were numerous examples of what I now call integration work. Integration is about co-ordination, co-operation and compromise. When humans and technology have to work together, the human (mostly) has to co-ordinate resources, co-operate with devices and compromise between means and ends. What mariners have to integrate to get work done include representations of data and information; rules, regulations and practice; human and machine work; and learning and practice. Mariners largely have to perform integration work themselves because machines cannot communicate in ways mariners see as useful. What developers and manufacturers choose to integrate into screens or systems is not always what the mariners would choose. There are other kinds of ‘mistakes’ mariners have to adapt to. Basically, they arise from conflicts between global rationality (rules, regulations and legislation) and local rationality (what gets defined as good seamanship at a particular time and place). When technology is used to replace human work this is not necessarily a straightforward or successful process. What it often means is that mariners have to work, sometimes very hard, to ‘construct’ a cooperational human-machine system. Even when technology works ‘as intended’ work of this kind is still required. Even in most ostensibly integrated systems, human operators still must perform integration work. In short, technology alone cannot solve the problems that technology created. Further, trying to fix ‘human error’ by incremental ‘improvements’ in technology or procedure tends to be largely ineffective due to the adaptive compensation by users. A systems view is necessary to make changes to a workplace. Finally, this research illustrates the value problem-oriented ethnography can have when it comes to collecting information on what users ‘mean’ and ‘really do’ and what designers ‘need’ to make technology easier and safer to use.