Roushan Kumar

Improvement and Approval of Impediment Recognition and Activity for Power Window

The paper focuses to bring high-quality innovative products based on automotive power window control system. Currently, market is moving very rapidly and technology drives the use of simulation models and different validation techniques for model design and rapid realization process. A model-based design technique provides higher efficiencies in product development cycle that boost the technocrats to deliver outcome on time and satisfies initial design requirements and their validation. This paper applies the model-based design model and also develops prototype and appropriate code from a model-based development tool code generation automatically. The research paper emphasis on the modeling and validation of obstacle detection and appropriate action on automotive power window and implementation on electronic control unit based automotive power window. The main objective of ECU-based power window system is to make automatic or circuit-based approach to raise up glass door and to lower down the glass door with help of an appropriate driver and passenger switches or the use of appropriate sensors like carbon dioxide sensor, thermocouple, current sensor, and proximity sensor to replace the conventional hand-turned crank handle manual automotive window, and whenever obstacle is detected, power window should lower down by 10 cm. Automatic power window control system consists of power electronic circuit, DC motor, and control algorithm. The control algorithm senses soft obstructions and hard obstructions and accordingly controls speed of DC motor as well as orientation control of DC motor that moves the window glass frame downward of 10 cm when any obstruction is detected. In other way the power window ECU faculties hindrances and with help of calculations it is keeping up information which additionally control the engine development operation in three distinctive memory cushions that are routinely refreshed by the information beats that are identified with DC engine speed control. The whole framework is outlined as a clever control framework by applying number of conditions which results to the development of the power window.

Automatic Street Lighting System

The considerable amount of electrical power is consumed in lighting up the streets in India. However, streets remain deserted for most of the time after night fall, and a minimum frequency of vehicles pass through the street in that duration of time. The conventional lighting system on road and highways is not automatic in India. The volume of traffic and passerby is very through the streets in nighttime, and light is on for the whole night. The larger amount of light is wasted on roads meaninglessly. The same issue can be addressed with the use of automatic or flexible-lighting system technology and LED lamps which can be as solution for power saving, fast, reliable, and efficient in operation to control the amount of light utilization in a street and city. In the paper, the prototype hardware for automatic street light system is being proposed, which will use an Arduino Uno microcontroller and estimates the saving of energy in nighttime.

Design and Optimization of Luggage Tracking System on Airport

The loss or mishandling of luggage in airports is increasing nowadays, tremendously raising its associated costs. It is expected that the constant monitoring detects possible errors in a timely manner, allowing a proactive attitude when correcting this kind of situations. There are several devices in the market but all have some problems such as power consumption, location, portability, etc. The current research provides a novel idea to track the luggage in real time with the help of a microcontroller system, which is wearable and handy. Using wireless communication techniques the proposed system has been designed. Power consumption is the most important feature in the luggage tracking system. With the inclusion of accelerometer, the device consumes less power. The proposed system increases the monitoring detail when compared to current monitoring systems because it allows the individual tracking of luggage. It has also a web application to know about location of luggage and GSM module for the text application.

Implementation of Ladder Logic for Control of Pipeline Inspection Robot Using PLC

In the modern world, the transportation of goods and services plays an important role in establishing good connections between the nations. The main source of transportation of major energy sources like fuel gases, petroleum, and other flow of gases and liquid has been done through pipelines, any crack, blowholes, or damage inside the pipe may lead to major economic loss and can catches fire therefore the internal inspection of pipelines is needed. For inspection of narrow, deep, and hazardous environment inside the pipeline the robots is used. The control of robot has been done by programmable logic controller (PLC) and internal control of robot has been through human–machine interface (HMI). The control of robot has two parts in terms of programming. First, the development of ladder logic is done in Indraworks Engineering Software according to the sequence of operations and then simulates it on software itself to check the fulfillment of objectives. Second, developing the HMI Interface is for internal control of robot and easy access of operation. Touch screen has been used as HMI which is helpful in opting the size of pipe accordingly pipeline inspection robot will adjust its arms.

Storage Optimization of Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems Using Breadth-First Search Algorithm

Automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) are generally used in the production and supply chain industries for storage as well as retrieval of products. In the present era, it is also used in state-of-the-art applications like automated car parking systems, automated library management system, and automated locker system. Breadth-first search (BFS) is a type of un-informed searching technique in graph theory. This research paper explains an application of BFS technique for storage optimization of the ASRS. The implementation of BFS in the random storage assignment is the core area of research. The algorithm searches the nearest empty slot for material storage. The algorithm described in this paper is flexible to change in the order of the rack matrix. To know the status (empty/filled) of the racks, a unique method which tends to exclude the array of sensors which is generally used to note the status has been discussed.

Conceptual design of an automatic fluid level controller for aerospace applications

In this paper an attempt has been made for the conceptual design of an automatic fluid level controller for cryogenic tank lucratively for aerospace applications. An ideal design technique of the low temperature multi-phase fluid level control system for estimating the boil-off rate and/or the flow rate to facilitating the estimation of the total quantity of effective fluid available for completing the mission based on the use of microcontroller has been presented. The proposed control system model is mainly composed of microcontroller, level sensor, temperature sensors, pump and relay. This system could estimate the actual fluid volume of the low temperature cryogenic fluid for the evaluation of the effective propulsive efficiency of the entire aerospace vehicle. The preliminary sea level test results, using water as the base fluid, show that the system model being proposed is able to monitor the liquid level very effectively and accurately for estimating the total volume of the fuel and oxidiser for estimating the operating time of the aerospace vehicle lucratively.

Design and implementation of hydraulic motor based elevator system

The research paper emphasizes on the Elevator control system which is one of the important aspects in infrastructure industry. This elevator control system is designed with the help of hydraulic motor and programmable logic control (PLC) while internal controlling is done through human machine interference (HMI). This research is divided into two Parts on the basis of programming. Firstly the program is developed on ladder logic and then simulated on software itself but for later testing and running the application a visualization is created on Indraworks engineering Software and testing of hardware is done. In the second level for controlling the internal commands of the system and for floor recognition HMI is developed on Rexroth touch screen HMI and internal switch for floor selection is done by HMI. The system consists of three floor hardware and recognition of floors is done by inductive proximity sensors and limit switch. Hydraulic motor used for UP-DOWN movement of the elevator is controlled through 4/3 Directional control valve (DCV).

Automated precise liquid transferring system

Nearly all chemical, pharmaceutical, food processing and bio medical industries require large volumes of liquid transfer. With automation technology, the capacity, easiness and efficiency of liquid transferring systems has been greatly enhanced. Precision and accuracy in the volume of liquid dispensed plays a vital role in determining the overall efficiency of the industrial processes. An automated precise liquid transferring system targets replacement of the conventional erratic flow meters and highly expensive flow sensors used in the industries. This non-contact system enhances the overall efficiency of liquid transferring process in a very cost effective manner. The system control was implemented through Unitronics PLC and the noncontact mechanism of liquid dispensing was designed with the help of solenoid valves, relays, FRL and various other devices. The liquid was initially pressurized for a pre-defined time and the precisely dispensed by regulating the opening and closing time of solenoid valves. Provision for liquid transfer to demanded mixture tank is also provided. Flow rate of the liquid and the on- off time for solenoid determines the volume of liquid transferred. Experiment carried out for different volumes of liquid showed an accuracy of 1-2 gm. Using the PLC control and automation, the time required for the entire process of liquid dispensing was brought down to few seconds irrespective of the volume of the liquid dispensed.