Anton I. Shabaev

An approach to creation of smart space-based trip planning service

Trip planning is among important and complex problems in tourism industry. Trip plan preparation requires data analyzing from a substantial number of services. Usually, service or standalone application provides limited functionality, which can be used only in trip preparation and for basic scenarios. This paper provides an approach to creating Smart Space-based Trip planning service. The Smart Space technology allows to create proactive services with context-based scenarios and multi-service usage. The paper describes trip planning problem as a list of possible tasks and presents mathematical model for common task. The presented approach includes high-level architecture of Smart Spacebased service, scenarios usage and possible data sources from existing third party services and used algorithms for data transformation.

Smart-M3-based robots self-organization in pick-and-place system

This paper presents an approach for robots selforganization for pick-and-place scenario based on Smart-M3 information sharing platform that provide possibilities of information sharing between different services in smart space. In scope of the approach the reference model for robots selforganization has been developed. To provide semantic interoperability, the ontologies for the robots participating in the scenario, have been built. The scenario implementation is based on Lego® Mindstorms EV3 set for robot construction, which is one of the most popular sets for education at the moment.

“Accessibility Map” and “Social navigator” services for persons with disabilities

The paper describes development process of information environment for persons with disabilities. Introduction describes the aim and objectives of development, the results of evaluation of typical demands and user scenarios for persons with disabilities. The first section of the main part describes common applications architecture and utilized technologies. Both services use the same data model, which includes description of route parts and roads, as well as information about accessibility of objects stored in the database of “Accessibility Passports” service developed previously. The next section contains description of the development process. The user scenarios, service functions, the use of Geo2Tag platform and Open Street Map with its libraries are presented. In “Social navigator” service the routes are described as a graph with weighted edges, where the weight is the rate of accessibility of the path parts. The mathematical method for estimation of accessibility according to various types of ability restrictions was developed and implemented in the service. The method is based on graph theory and provides an approach to formal ranging of the routes according to the accessibility level of persons with limited mobility.

The route planning services approach for people with disability

This paper describes approach and methods used for the development of navigation services for people with disabilities. Our previous papers contained the description of informational environment development for disabled people. The environment includes several applications utilizing unified database and providing the information support to disabled people. The service “Accessibility Passports” was developed to collect information about accessibility of the objects. “Accessibility map” service visualizes the information on the geographical map. This paper is focused on the development of the key service of environment - “Social navigator”. Recently we have presented the service only conceptually without detailed description of navigation approach and methods with adaptation to personal mobility restriction. The paper describes developed methods of navigation for disabled people and elaborated algorithms. Also the practical opportunities of the service to support disabled people are presented. The results of approach study and development work are also presented in the paper.

Software system for sawmill operation planning

The paper describes research and development of software system for optimal planning of sawmill operation. This work is a part of long-term activity carried out by Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) in the field of scientific research, software development and customer projects for enterprises of pulp-and-paper and forestry industry of Russia. The system uses advanced mathematical models and optimization algorithms, developed by IT-park of PetrSU, to solve a series of planning tasks for any number of orders and any configuration of process equipment of a hardwood sawmill. The developed mathematical model takes into account all features, limitations and parameters of process equipment, as well as of raw material and production orders. The efficiency of solutions had been validated on real production data of several sawmills in Russia. The system has friendly and flexible user interface and can be easily modified to handle new customer-specific requirements.

Optimal planning software platform development with cloud computing technology

The paper describes research and development of software platform for optimal operation planning of pulp-and-paper and forestry enterprises using cloud computing technology. This work is a part of long-term activity carried out by Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) in the field of scientific research, software development and customer projects for enterprises of pulp-and-paper and forestry industry of Russia. The Platform uses advanced mathematical models and optimization algorithms developed by IT-park of PetrSU to create services for solving a series of planning tasks for different industries: production of corrugated packaging, sawmill, plywood production, timber enterprise.

Enhancing ICT-Based multidisciplinary collaboration in cross-border context: FRUCTFacilitated karelia ENPI project success stories

The paper summarizes success stories of Finnish and Russian research organizations that joined forces towards development of leading-edge ICT competences and their use in multidisciplinary applications. The partner organizations from both countries have developed close collaboration framework, which enabled them to implement three crossborder cooperation projects co-funded by the Karelia ENPI CBC Programme. The paper describes this framework as a complex combination of various activities, including educational events, practical R&D, as well as infrastructure development and dissemination activities. Following the development of regional cooperation ecosystem and enhancement of ICT competences (KA179 project), rest of the activities were focused on practical and multidisciplinary applications. In these projects, novel approaches and latest information and Internet technologies were used to increase regional tourism attractiveness (KA322 project) and to improve quality of life for people with disabilities by addressing issues related to social exclusion, accessibility and mobility (KA432 project). The aim of the paper is to share practical experiences, gained during implementation of these cross-border cooperation projects, and to present developed ICT applications in a multidisciplinary context.

“Accessibility passports” service in information environment for persons with disabilities

The paper describes development process of information environment for persons with disabilities. Introduction gives a base understanding of the project idea. The first section of the main part describes common infrastructure architecture. Services are divided on government and public. The public part is presented by various services, based on the information collected by government service. Government service is presented by information system “Accessibility passports”, which in details is described in second section of main part. The “Accessibility passports” is a service for initial collection of data about accessibility of the social infrastructure facilities for people with disabilities. In the last section of the main part presented a mathematical method for measuring level of accessibility of the social infrastructure facilities for people with disabilities. Method is based on probability theory and provide possibility for formal ranging of the social infrastructure facilities according to the level of accessibility for persons with limited mobility.

Ontology-Based Human-Robot Interaction: An Approach and Case Study on Adaptive Remote Control Interface

The paper presents an approach to human-robot interaction in socio-cyberphysical systems. The paper propose a socio-cyberphysical system ontology that is aimed at describing the knowledge of the system resources. Humans are interacted with robots using personal smartphones. Every robot and mobile application for smartphone are designed based on the ontology that allows to support their semantic interoperability in socio-cyberphysical system. A case study considered in the paper is aimed at controlling the robots by group of humans. Group of robot consists of several robot types. Every type of robot has competencies that are described in the robot competency profile. Human experts also have own competencies that are described in the human profile. To control a robot a human should be available and have an appropriate competency for such type of robot. The paper describes the developed prototype for Android-based smartphone. The prototype implements the proposed approach and based on the developed ontology and Smart-M3 information sharing platform.

On applicability of wireless routers to deployment of smart spaces in Internet of Things environments

The use of wireless technologies and low-capacity devices is now inevitable in smart spaces development for Internet of Things (IoT). A smart space is created by deploying a Semantic Information Broker (SIB) on a host device. This paper examines the applicability of a wireless router for being a SIB host device and creating a smart space in the IoT environment. CuteSIB is one of SIB implementations in the Smart-M3 platform and the focus is on Qt-based devices. We provide a technique for creating an OpenWrt-based embedded system composed of CuteSIB software components for a smart spaces deployment using a cross-compiling method. The resulting embedded system is used to deploy the SmartRoom system — a Smart-M3-based application that creates a virtual shared workspace in a multimedia equipped room to support collaborative activity of participants. Our experiments confirm that capacity of a wireless router is satisfactory for deployment of this class of Smart-M3 applications.