2^nd International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence December 03-04, 2018 Valencia, Spain

Biography:

Edith Bianchi has her background combining both clinical record as a Clinical Research Associate and Registered Nurse with CICU (Cardiac Intensive Care Unit) experience, as well as strong business management orientation with an MBA Degree from University of Derby (UK). She is a Senior Global Business Development Expert, specializing in the medical device industry – specifically in digital health and wearable applications. She has a long track international record in medical device firms and is a key person in few meaningful strategic cooperations between major global players in the industry. She has coined the term S2T (Skin To Thing) and continuously promotes patient's and users' human factors.

Abstract:

The internet of things (IoT) is allowing collected data from "things" to be connected to the cloud, where artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify trends and enable decisions to be made accordingly. This platform has been integrated into the medical field and is known as the internet of medical things (IoMT). This shift can potentially transform medical field as we know it today. By using this platform, we can generate and analyze the collected medical data in a way that was not possible otherwise. This holds a tremendous value to improve patient personalized care. It also carries the potential of creating an efficient way of health monitoring, promoting wellbeing, allowing real-time interventions, progress treatment and adherence and improving the management of chronic disease. IoMT devices are often presented in a concept of a wearable device and mobile healthcare applications. These devices are enabling and enhancing possibilities of home-care as well as access to medical experts anywhere. In a world with aging population and massive health expenditures, IoMT may be the very desired mean to cope with many of the challenges. Analysts are estimating the IoMT market to continue its growth trend and simultaneously the worldwide wearables market continued its upward trajectory. The starting point of every wearable medical device is always the patient. Whether it is a monitoring device, a diagnostic system, a drug delivery infusion pump or a nerve stimulation tool - in most cases the device would be attached to the skin. The patient's "Skin" interface to the "Thing", has been described in the term S2T (Skin-to-Thing). This crucial element is often overlooked by medical device developers, left for a later stage of design although at times, it may be the determining factor of implementation of the entire device or technology. Most of the focus of IoMT is rightfully directed to the device itself, to the computing and cloud technologies, to the electronics and to the gateways apps of the data. Yet, engineering teams must be aware of S2T and assume responsibility to understand its challenges and acquire the necessary expertise that is required for their specific skin-to-thing solution. The intended wearing location, duration, target population and many other considerations, should dictate the solution, its components and design. Indeed, engineering teams are becoming more and more familiar with factors that are critical to S2T ("Skin to Thing") required solution and its challenges to adhere the device to the patient's skin. Challenges such as biocompatibility and regulation requirements, the possible material interactions due to manufacturing technologies and comfortability to the end user – these aspects of body/machine interface should be given their deserved attention in order to assure the successful usage and benefits of current technological breakthrough is medical device, fitness, healthcare & pharmaceuticals industries.

Biography:

Ali Kanso is a Scientific Researcher at ZeMA. His activities cover different fields in the frame of automation and handling devices. These are analysis and optimization of handling device, calibration of the robot kinematic chain and deployment of sensitive robots in the production.

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Laser line sensors are used for inspection, positioning and scanning of 3D objects. They are often mounted on the flange of an industrial robot. The laser line sensor provides 2D measurement values in the x and z direction with respect to the sensor coordinate frame. In order to transform the measured values into the robot coordinate frame and therefore expand the 2D measured values into 3D coordinates, the position and orientation of the sensor coordinate frame with respect to the flange coordinate system must be determined by solving a kinematic equation in terms of transformation matrices. This article provides a complete solution for solving this problem. A unique solution is derived based on the separable closed-form solution after two movements of the robot flange under satisfying constraints. Robotic applications are usually implemented with the presence of noise. Therefore, a least squares solution is determined after performing several measurements. Finally the calibrated laser line sensor is integrated in combination with a process tool into a semi-automated assembly process in aircraft production. In the assembly of the aft section of the aircraft the pressure bulk head must be mounted through a riveting process to the section barrel. Using skills of humans and robots the riveting process can be performed precisely in human robot collaboration.

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Traditional industrial design is about functions and forms. Designers placed great emphasis on forms and aesthetics. However, technology innovation has shifted industrial design from the stage of technology driven to user centered design driven, this is also due to the functions of products are increasingly complex to interact, i.e. electrical/computers devices, mobile phones and multifunctional products. So that industrial design now emphasizes on bettering user experience. Don Norman defines user centered design as all aspects of the person’s experience with the system including the interface, the physical interaction and the manual. Technology revolution results in products are getting more complex, in particular those of multimodality interfaces include car dashboard and aircraft cockpits that displayed a number of information such as engine temperature, fuels level, speed etc. That challenges the user to recognize/understand the information. Human factor is the scientific discipline that concerned with the understanding of the interactions among humans and other elements of a system. The knowledge, in particular product semantics is a language that helps people to understand and interact with products easily and efficiently. Designers rely on this language to communicate with users; to express functions, reliabilities and characters through forms, material/textures and semiotics. This paper discusses user centered design and human factors knowledge, in particular product semantics and its application in product design; and reviewing a curriculum developed particularly focuses on user centered design within a BSc product design engineering programme.

Biography:

Alec John Burns received his bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2016 from the University of Liverpool. From June 2015 to August 2015 he was a Research Assistant on a joint project between the Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences and the Engineering Department at the University of Liverpool, working on fluid flow analysis for magma chambers. Currently he is pursuing his PhD at the University of Liverpool. His fields of interest include sensing, robotics and autonomous systems.

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The most dangerous hazards in the aftermath of environmental disasters are typically linked to the damage that has occurred to structures. A material extrusion device capable of traversing highly irregular terrain, able to operate in hazardous or difficult to reach locations, and repair damage would largely mitigate many of the risks for survivors and relief workers. In this work, we propose a platform capable of tackling such challenge: a mobile tracked rover (MTR) that can travel on difficult terrains and deposit material where needed. The ability to deposit self-expanding material allows the MTR to achieve real-time climbing by creating its own support to overcome obstacles or bridge gaps. The proposed platform is also capable of depositing material accurately to perform effective damaged-structure reinforcement. Targeted material deposition has been implemented with multiple materials and this platform has been tested for applications to disaster scenarios. One such material is polyurethane foam, which allows easy deposition, expansion and solidification in fast enough time to enable the MTR to use it as a real-time support for climbing. The amount of foam deposited can be controlled and multiple layers can be stacked on top of each other to significantly increase altitude. The high compressive strength of the solidified polyurethane foam is sufficient for temporary support structures, or structural reinforcement allowing the MTR to operate in support of disaster relief workers. The MTR is also capable of depositing clay alongside polyurethane foam, making it able to repair damaged masonry and thus further improving its usefulness in more general maintenance and repair scenarios.

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Harison Wara Che passionate about sustainable Development, Food security/processing, safety indigenous, Good living philosophies Environmental sustainability, Research theory and methodologies. His food philosophy is certainly called from years of experience in the industry and many adventures travelling, dining and meeting amazing people. However, it can undoubtedly be distilled to a concept I learned from the chef I truly confider my mentor Mike. While working in the industries in Cameroon my country of Birth I learned what is means to approach food with the mindset of a culinary anthropologist “and while working at the USA Army camp in Kandahar Afghanistan in a company called Supreme Group global food service his respect understand and appreciate the culinary tradon that underlie any particular foodstuff product or dish, Know how that ingredient is used in it indigenous form, then use that knowledge to apply it to whatever style or method suit you and joining organization that fight food was my biggest dream .

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West Africa has experienced very little progress in reducing food insecurity and child malnutrition in the past 20 years. Approximately, one third of children under five years of age are stunted, and 5-15 percent is wasted. Micronutrient deficiencies, particularly lack of vitamin A, iron and iodine, affect mainly women and children and contribute to some of the highest rates of child mortality in the world. Overweight and obesity are emerging problems in some urban populations with negative implications for chronic non-communicable diseases. The causes of malnutrition and food insecurity are complex and include the agro-ecological, socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the sub-region. Rising incomes, rapid population growth especially in urban areas, desertification, as well as HIV/AIDS affect the food system. Changes in diets and lifestyles especially in urban settings involve a shift from the consumption of traditional staples to imported cereals (wheat and rice). Although food availability has generally improved in the sub- region, the dietary energy and protein supplies are still below requirements and unstable, especially in Sahel countries. The nutritional quality of local diets remains low for most people and access to adequate food is not always secure for the poor. Besides the need to diversify and increase food production and productivity, increased support is needed for appropriate food storage, processing, and preservation techniques at community and industrial level, and better distribution and marketing. Technologies, such as fortification and plant breeding, are increasingly relevant within a comprehensive food-based strategy. Nutrition education is a complementary activity for ensuring the effectiveness of food-based approaches. Based on a review of lessons learned from food-based interventions implemented by FAO and other development partners, this paper addresses some of the major issues, challenges and opportunities involved in fulfilling the pledge of West African countries to meet the goal of reducing malnutrition by 50 percent.

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Samir Ladaci has graduated in Automatics Engineer from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers in 1995 and received his Magister degree from Annaba University, Algeria, 1999. He obtained his PhD and HDR degrees from Mentouri University of Constantine, Algeria in 2007 and 2009 respectively. He is a Full Professor with the National Polytechnic School of Constantine and the Head of Control Research Team at the SP-Lab Laboratory, Constantine. He has more than 110 publications and supervises many PhD theses. His current research interests include fractional order systems and control, fractional adaptive control, robust control, systems identification and nonlinear control systems.

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Fractional order controllers are gathering more and more interests from the control community for their ability to enhance the system control quality performances and robustness. In this work we are investigating different fractional order control strategies for the cruise control of an electrical vehicle. We will use a fractional order model reference adaptive control (FOMRAC) algorithm, an optimized fractional order PID controller (FOPID) and a fractional order high gain controller to improve the vehicle behavior in presence of disturbances and uncertainties. We introduce new tuning parameters for the closed-loop system performance improvement. A numerical simulation of an application study for cruise control of an electric car is proposed. Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more popular these days and automobile manufacturers are introducing various types of EVs in the market. The main advantages of EVs are the emission elimination, low operating cost, high efficiency, simplicity and superior controllability over the power train. The EV power train consists of an electric motor, single or double speed transmission and the final drive unit. Our fractional adaptive control algorithm is applied to the cruise control of a DC motor driven electric vehicle. This system is developed for driving with constant speed on long stretched roads. We show through computer simulations that it is able to compensate the disturbances from the road grade and changes in the vehicle weight. The results illustrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.