Ingeniero Civil Eléctrico / Las redes vehiculares ad-hoc (VANets) son un nuevo paradigma en comunicación móvil que se plantea que podría permitir el despliegue de sistemas de transporte inteligente (ITS), más seguros, eficientes y amigables con el medioambiente. Se cuenta con el estándar DSRC de comunicaciones vehiculares pero no está comprobado que sea capaz de ofrecer la robustez y seguridad que necesitan los ITS. Las comunicaciones por luz visible (VLCs), son tecnologías de comunicación inalámbricas basadas en la modulación de intensidad de luz. Se realizan con dispositivos opto-electrónicos como diodos LED y foto-diodos. Se plantea que éstas podrían complementar a las radio-frecuencias (RF), como las del protocolo DSRC, por ejemplo, y permitir a las VANets entregar un mejor servicio, sobre todo en ambientes congestionados. En el presente trabajo, se realizó el desarrollo de una plataforma con herramientas para prototipado de enlaces VLC con aplicación en VANets bajo la hipótesis que las tecnologías existentes de illuminación en automóviles y señales de tránsito son una infraestructura que permite implementar VLCs en ambientes vehiculares. Primero se consultó el estado del arte de VANets y de VLCs, enfocado en entender el origen del interés por la implementación de redes vehiculares, así como sus desafíos y cómo las VLCs pueden mejorar el desempeño de dichos sistemas. Se estudiaron tecnologías aplicables a los sistemas de información y comunicaciones de las redes vehiculares con enfoque en las VLC. Un grupo fueron las plataformas de hardware programable como radios definidas por software (SDRs) y las placas Arduino. Otro tema fue la red de control interna de los vehículos y cómo existen interfaces para acceder a ella y obtener mediciones de los sensores e incluso dar instrucciones a los actuadores del auto. También, se revisaron los transductores de una red VLC: los diodos LED y fotodiodos, incluyendo la electrónica necesaria para su funcionamiento. Finalmente, se implementó un sistema de comunicaciones por VLC, basado en SDRs y optoelectrónica, y también un sistema adquisición de datos para la red de control del vehículo, basado en Arduino y un circuito integrado ELM327. Ambos sistemas se diseñaron modulares y se construyeron robustos. Se logró con ellos la transmisión de datos por luz y la lectura de datos del area de control del vehículo. Actualmente, el sistema desarrollado está en manos de un grupo de investigación que se dedica a estudiar las tecnologías de comunicación vehicular. También se está trabajando en una publicación con la evaluación de los sistemas implementados. / Este trabajo ha sido parcialmente financiado por ERANet-LAC Proyecto "RETRACT" Código ELAC2015/T10-0761, FONDECYT iniciación N° 11160517, FONDECYT Posdoctorado N° 3170021

This diploma thesis deals with system for visible light communication (VLC). There are described basic optical elements like a electroluminescence diode and photodiode. In next chapter is described design of transmitter, optical channel and receiver. Attention is also devoted to modulation suitable for optical communication. The last chapter is devoted to program in Matlab language, which's name is Program for calculation of optical intensity distribution. That program was created in this diploma theses.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2018-11-19T12:44:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 luizeduardomendesmatheus.pdf: 1606990 bytes, checksum: 2736fa2230ff16ef4aaa41155178b616 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-11-23T13:06:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 luizeduardomendesmatheus.pdf: 1606990 bytes, checksum: 2736fa2230ff16ef4aaa41155178b616 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-23T13:06:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 luizeduardomendesmatheus.pdf: 1606990 bytes, checksum: 2736fa2230ff16ef4aaa41155178b616 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-03 / Na última década, o interesse (acadêmico e comercial) em torno da Comunicação por Luz Visível (VLC) aumentou consideravelmente, devido a fatores como a crescente demanda por recursos sem fio na Internet e às vantagens oferecidas pela transmissão de dados através da luz visível. Entretanto, a utilização da luz como meio de comunicação, principalmente em ambientes internos, oferece diversos desafios, como interferência e bloqueios criados por obstáculos. Ao mesmo tempo, este tipo de ambiente oferece uma rica infraestrutura de fontes de luz, que podem ser utilizadas para auxiliar na comunicação através de mecanismos multi-hop. A maioria dos trabalhos presentes na literatura adotam técnicas simples para construção de mecanismos multi-hop em redes VLC, focando principalmente em aumento de distância. Neste trabalho, foi desenvolvido um protocolo de roteamento dinâmico, DYRP-VLC (DynamicRoutingProtocolforVisibleLightCommunication),quetemcomoobjetivo aumentar o desempenho de sistemas VLC em ambientes dinâmicos, enquanto reage à obstáculos construindo rotas alternativas na rede. A avaliação do protocolo foi realizada em um ambiente real, utilizando a plataforma embarcada OpenVLC 1.0 e métricas adotadas para problemas de roteamento. Os resultados obtidos mostram que, usando o DYRP-VLC, a rede foi capaz de se adaptar a mudanças dinâmicas na comunicação, como sombras e obstáculos, com pouca sobrecarga. / In the last decade, the interest in Visible Light Communication (VLC) has increased considerably, from both academic and commercial perspectives, due to factors such as the growing demand for wireless resources and the advantages offered by the transmission of data through visible light. However, the use of light as a communication medium, especially in indoor environments, offers several challenges, which includes shadowing and interference caused by obstacles. At the same time, this type of environment offers a rich infrastructure of light sources, which can be used to aid communication through multi-hop mechanisms. Most of the works present in the literature adopt simple techniques to construct multi-hop mechanisms in VLC networks, focusing mainly on increasing distance. Inthisthesis,wedevelopedDYRP-VLC(DynamicRoutingProtocolforVisibleLight Communication), a reactive routing protocol which aims to increase the performance ofVLCsystemsindynamicenvironments,whilereactingtoobstaclesbyconstructing alternative routes in the network. The evaluation of the protocol was performed in a real environment, using OpenVLC 1.0 embedded platform and adopting metrics for routing problems. The results show that, by using DYRP-VLC, the network was able to adapt to dynamic changes in communication, such as shadows and obstacles, with low overhead.

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In the first part of this thesis is discussed of the possibilities of surface grinding. There are described various methods for grinding and describe their characteristics. Furthermore, there is shown the marking of grinding wheels and is discussed of their composition and of calculating the cutting forces. In the second part of this thesis the experiment is performed. On the samples of various materials are monitored parameters of roughness after grinding, which is used by conventional grinding BPH 300 and horizontal lathe from company TDZ Turn.

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Recent trends in mobile broadband indicates that the available radio frequency (RF) spectrum will not be enough to support the data requirements of the immediate future. Visible light communication, which uses visible spectrum to transmit wirelessly could be a potential solution to the RF ’Spectrum Crunch’. Thus there is growing interest all over the world in this domain with support from both academia and industry. Visible light communication( VLC) systems make use of light emitting diodes (LEDs), which are semiconductor light sources to transmit information. A number of demonstrators at different data capacity and link distances has been reported in this area. One of the key problems holding this technology from taking off is the unavailability of power efficient, miniature LED drive schemes. Reported demonstrators, mostly using either off the shelf components or arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) to drive the LEDs have only started to address this problem by adopting integrated drivers designed for driving lighting installations for communications. The voltage regulator based drive schemes provide high power efficiency (> 90 %) but it is difficult to realise the fast switching required to achieve the Mbps or Gbps data rates needed for modern wireless communication devices. In this work, we are exploiting CMOS technology to realise an integrated LED driver for VLC. Instead of using conventional drive schemes (digital to analogue converter (DAC) + power amplifier or voltage regulators), we realised a current steering DAC based LED driver operating at high currents and sampling rates whilst maintaining power efficiency. Compared to a commercial AWG or discrete LED driver, circuit realised utilisng complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has resulted in area reduction (29mm2). We realised for the first time a multi-channel CMOS LED driver capable of operating up to a 500 MHz sample rate at an output current of 255 mA per channel and > 70% power efficiency. We were able to demonstrate the flexibility of the driver by employing it to realise VLC links using micro LEDs and commercial LEDs. Data rates up to 1 Gbps were achieved using this system employing a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) scheme. We also demonstrated the wavelength division multiplexing ability of the driver using a red/green/blue commercial LED. The first integrated digital to light converter (DLC), where depending on the input code, a proportional number of LEDs are turned ON, realising a data converter in the optical domain, is also an output from this research. In addition, we propose a differential optical drive scheme where two output branches of a current DAC are used to drive two LEDs achieving higher link performance and power efficiency compared to single LED drive.

To light up the world of technology, where wireless communication has bloomed to a great extend which requires a lot of data to be transmitted and received every fraction of the second a new era is coming. Electro-magnetic waves i.e., radio waves are the main way to transmit wireless data but certain limitations are there because radio waves can only support less bandwidth because of compact spectrum availability and intrusions. Visible Light Communication (VLC) has come to take way those issues. The new technology Li-Fi which stands for Light-Fidelity is a new kind of wireless communication system which uses light waves as a medium instead of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. This pro-ject presents an eco-friendly data communication system through visible light which consists of LEDs that transmit audio signals and sensor data to the receiver. A connection protection mechanism that co-operates with wireless network and visible light communication to achieve relia-bility and performance overcoming the drawbacks from the pre-existing system is proposed here.

With the huge development of semiconductor lighting technologies, the light emitting diodes (LEDs) are promising technology that eventually replacing traditional incandescent and fluorescent lamps for their high power efficiency, environmental friendliness and long predicted product lifetime. Besides lighting, the advent of high-brightness, fast-switching LED lamps has facilitated LED Communication as a new form of Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) in the visible light spectrum. This thesis study model characteristics of LED communication for indoor optical environment. Based on Matlab and SPICE, an electrical and optical LED communication model is proposed to describe light power's conversion and propagation. In details, our models include (1) models for V-I characteristics and fro small signal behavior, (2) electro-electrical conversion and emitting, (3) optical channel with path loss and noise, (4) receiving model. Moreover, a test and measurement platform for LED communication has been established to validate the proposed model. A case of study on light power distribution within 30cmX30cmX10cm in line-of-sight was implemented by measuring for comparing the theoretical simulation and experimental results. Depending on our model and the case of study, we carried out an inspection of the LED communication performance using On-Off Keying (OOK) signals and a 500 kbps transmission data rate under 10e-3 BER was achieved in our lab.

Connected Vehicle (CV) is a motorized vehicle that can communicate with its interior and exterior surroundings. Connected Vehicle focuses on localized vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) to support safety, mobility and environmental applications. In this work, a simulation framework is presented. The framework quantifies Connected Vehicle performance in a forward collision warning situation. The simulation framework evaluates the performance using a vehicular traffic simulator with data from an intersection in Toronto, ON Canada. Various communication methodologies are evaluated at different Connected Vehicle market penetration rates. While DSRC is an interference limited communication methodology and visible light communications is a line-of-sight communication, the combination of both is evaluated to quantify the vehicular network safety performance in terms of time to collision. The performance of DSRC in a vehicular network is quantified in an interference dominant environment and the VLC performance in the vehicular network is evaluated at different weather conditions. In a specific vehicular traffic situation namely for- ward collision warning, this research quantified the VLC performance improvement in vehicular network safety to be 11% in addition to DSRC.This work concludes with the simulation and prototyping of camera communications for vehicular applications. Specifically this thesis presents multiple input / multiple output camera communications link utilizing a luminary array as a transmitter and two orthogonal low cost rolling shutter cameras as a receiver with the purpose of increasing the achievable data rate with one camera. This work has demonstrated that there is at most a doubling in the data rate using two cameras over a single one. This data rate increase is achievable using a specific camera setup namely orthogonal cameras. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)