Vlad Ciobanu

Cloud-Based Architecture for Farm Management

Cloud Computing technologies can fundamentally contribute to business processes in agriculture, through enhancing traditional farm management systems, by integrating processes like, monitoring, operation farm management, with cloud specific capabilities, which will lead to an increased productivity. Based on this idea we propose, in this paper, a cloud-based architecture that helps creating an integrated intelligent system for improving product quality and business development in the farms field. Farmers cloud access diverse set of information and data related to his farm, in an integrated and unified approach in order to take informed decisions or to be supported in decision taking process.

Tactile sensor value preprocessing pipeline

Tactile sensing plays an important role in robot hand manipulation. This papers presents an analysis of the raw values produced by a biomimetic tactile sensor and the proposed solution organized in a pipeline processing structure to overcome the signals noncompliances and issues for further processing. Even if this paper focuses on the data generated by the SynTouch BioTac sensor, the results and implemented modules can be applied to a wide range of tactile sensors.

Robot telemanipulation system

The article presents a solution for the teleoperation of a robot hand and arm designed as a complex system that captures human motion and controls the robot into mimicking the human actions. This hybrid system allows the robot execution to be guided by human actions, therefore decreasing the planning complexity and allowing the robot to perform more complex movements and to use the human capacity of adapting to unexpected situations.

A Distributed Approach to Business Intelligence Systems Synchronization

This paper presents a distributed solution of the synchronization of Business Intelligence (BI) Systems via networking services. The main problem addressed by the proposed project is to create a common solution that allows automatically redeploying of business intelligence applications among different servers located in the Internet. A case study by using the Microsoft BizTalk Server as a Business Intelligence system is presented included in a research project called PrO Processor. The research came as a necessity because of the lack of support for remote deployment of applications via Internet. Our solution overcomes this issue and presents the synchronization architecture capable of transporting, installing and starting BI applications, orchestrations and ports to any number of BI servers in the Internet.

Point of Contact Location and Normal Force Estimation Using Biomimetical Tactile Sensors

One of the most important human capabilities is the tactile sensing that allows advanced in hand manipulation for several objects or tasks. In the robot world, object manipulation without tactile sensing is relying only on visual detection, thus introducing large error margins. This paper presents several solutions for point of contact detection and normal force estimation by using a biomimetical tactile sensor mounted on a robot hand. Even if this paper focuses on the data generated by using a specific sensor, the results and implemented methods can be applied to a wide range of tactile sensors.

The EU-Services Directive: An E-framework to Optimize Public Administration

The Point of Single Contact, proposed by the EUServices Directive, is a reliable source of electronic processing of information that facilitates the interaction of citizens with the public administration. This paper presents an eFramework designed to improve the communication between the citizens or businesses and the public administration. Using this framework the governments can offer eServices to its citizens, as well as the possibility to interact with various public govern level services, without the need to directly interact with the involved institutions. An example of such an electronic service would be the possibility to open a business using a single browser. We present the architecture as well as technical details for the implementation of such a framework. We also present a pilot application designed to orchestrate the workflow for opening a business. Such a solution is based on state-of-the-art technologies such as Info Path, Share Point, BizTalk, and Web Services.

Crash Detection Using IMU Sensors

More than 50% of the motorcycle accidents are fatal for the rider. 70% of those are due to the time needed for the emergency service to arrive at the accident. This leads us to a necessity in finding a device able to detect accidents. This document explains how to use the MPU6050 IMU sensor in an embedded device for measuring the Euler angles (roll, pitch, yaw) and also the G Forces on different axes.

Interoperability of Medical Data Through e-Health Service in Romania

In the first part, the paper describes the Romanian e-Health service, the modalities of its operation in terms of patients medical data usage. The usage of medical data is very important, both administrative or medical point of view. Medically they have the ability to increase the efficiency of decision-making for all health care providers, both in the private and in the public area. It presents how a medical document model can be used nationwide and internationally and how it can facilitate the interoperability of medical data. In order to do that, a medical questionnaire is proposed (a model presentation of health data in a systematic and uniform way) that generates prerequisites standardization documents which represents in fact the patient’s medical history and disease description. Once the questionnaire has been defined (which varies depending on existing medical specialties), the corresponding XML schema is generated that makes computer-computer interaction available.

Predefined recovery exercises system for after stroke hand rehabilitation

The paper presents the design of an intelligent haptic robotic glove (IHRG) model for the rehabilitation of the patients that have been diagnosed with a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). Total loss or loss of range of motion, decreased reaction times and disordered movement organization create deficits in motor control, which affect the patients independent living. The proposed approach aims to improve the recovery programs using a set of predefined rehabilitation exercises. They will work together and, according to the hand movement, the progress will be encountered when the patient uses more his own force and less the controlled glove. The final goal was the integration of the haptic robotic glove with Shadow Dexterous Hand and ROS (Robot Operating System). In this way the glove movements made by a patient wearing it, will be found in the virtual reality simulator.

Brain Computer Interface Architectures and Classification Approaches

This paper presents some results of a research work that aims to use Brain - Computer Interfaces to facilitate rehabilitation training of a patient who has lost motor functions. The subject must perform motor imagery tasks that will be transmitted to a computer application. The paper is also focused on the study of classification algorithms that can be optimal candidates for signals classification obtained in order to identify right and left hand movement. Two types of neural networks-based classifiers are used and tested in order to compare the results - Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Basis Function (RBF), two types of linear classifiers – Linear Discriminant Analysis and Support Vector Machine and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN).