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Gibbons, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Scott) 1979, and Stephen V. 1982 Samouhos. "Mobile power plants : waste body heat recovery." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32814.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2004.Includes bibliographical references.
Novel methods to convert waste metabolic heat into useful and useable amounts of electricity were studied. Thermoelectric, magneto hydrodynamic, and piezo-electric energy conversions at the desired scope were evaluated to understand their role and utility in the efficient conversion of waste body heat. The piezo-electric generator holds the most promise for the efficient conversion of waste body heat into electricity. In the future, this same device could be easily extended into a combustion based power plant. An experimental apparatus investigating the use of magneto hydrodynamics was designed, built, and tested. A room temperature liquid inetal was propelled through a magneto hydrodynamic channel of 4 inches by 0.1875 inches at a rate of 10 mL/s. A 2 T induction field was applied within the channel. However, the results of the analysis did not find the magneto hydrodynamic device to be an effective electric generator at the scale tested.
by Jonathan S. Gibbons and Stephen V. Samouhos.
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KARLSSON, AKMAL, and TARA MOHAMMED-AMIN. "Holonomic Spherical Mobile Robot : Omnidirectional spherical body robot using wireless control." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279805.
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The purpose of this project was to construct a holonomic mobile robot driven with omni wheels. That would enable movement in all degrees of freedom. The finished product was a robot platform within a spherical shell body controlled by input commands defining speed and direction from a wireless communication medium. The platform was iteratively designed and constructed with parts made out of laser cut acrylic plastic. By using omni wheels powered by Direct Current (DC) motors, which will be described further, the holonomic drive could be realized as the wheel hubs were placed on the platform with calculated angles.Syftet med detta projekt var att konstruera en holonomisk robot, vilket kan uppfyllas med hjälp av omnihjul som kan drivas i samtliga riktningar i planet. Den färdiga produkten blev en robot som placerats i en sfärisk kropp som tar in hastighet- och riktningssignaler från en trådlös kommunikationsmodul. Plattformen, som iterativt designades, laserskärdes ur akrylplast. På den placerades omni-hjul drivna av DC-motorer, vilka möjliggjorde den holonomiska rörelsen
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Liu, Mingyi. "Energy Harvesting from the Human Body for Wearable and Mobile Devices." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99305.
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Wearable and mobile devices are an important part of our daily life. Most of those devices are powered by batteries. The limited life span of batteries constitutes a limitation, especially in a multiple-day expedition, where electrical power can not access conveniently. At the same time, there is a huge amount of energy stored in the human body. While walking, there is a large amount of power dissipated in the human body as negative muscle work and the energy loss by impact. By sourcing locally and using locally, human body energy harvesting is a promising solution. This dissertation focuses on harvesting energy from the human body to power wearable and mobile devices while poses a minimum burden on the human body. Three topics related to the human body energy harvesting are explored, i.e, energy harvesting backpack, negative muscle work harvester, and energy harvesting tile/paver. The energy harvesting backpack was invented in 2006. Extensive work was done to improve the performance of backpack energy harvester. The backpack is modeled as a spring-mass-damper system. Mechanical Motion Rectifier was added to the spring-mass-damper system to increase the frequency bandwidth. A spring is added to the spring-mass-damper system, between the harvester and the backpack mass, and a inerter-based 2DOF (degree-of-freedom) backpack is created. The inerter-based 2DOF backpack improves the power output, frequency bandwidth, and power stroke ratio performance. MMR was added to the inerter-based 2DOF backpack to reduce the peak stroke. Compared with the conventional spring-mass-damper backpack, the MMR and inerter-based 2DOF backpack can harvest more power with large bandwidth at a small sacrifice of stroke. The electric damping was also tuned to increase the power output and bandwidth for the energy harvesting backpack. The negative work harvester mounts on the human ankle and harvests energy in the terminal stance phase in human walking, when the calf muscle is doing negative muscle work. This harvester is an analogy to regenerative brake in vehicles. The energy harvesting paver/tile harvests energy when the heel contacts with ground and energy are dissipated by impact.Doctor of Philosophy
Wearable and mobile devices are an important part of our daily life. Most of those devices are powered by batteries. The limited life span of batteries constitutes a limitation, especially in a multiple-day expedition, where electrical power can not access conveniently. At the same time, there is a huge amount of energy stored in the human body. While walking, there is a large amount of power dissipated in the human body as negative muscle work and the energy loss by impact. By sourcing locally and using locally, human body energy harvesting is a promising solution. This dissertation focuses on harvesting energy from the human body to power wearable and mobile devices while poses a minimum burden on the human body. Three topics related to the human body energy harvesting are explored, i.e, energy harvesting backpack, negative muscle work harvester, and energy harvesting tile/paver. The energy harvesting backpack was invented in 2006. Extensive work was done to improve the performance of backpack energy harvester. The backpack is modeled as a spring-mass-damper system. Extensive work have been done to make the energy harvesting backpack broad frequency bandwidth. The negative work harvester mounts on the human ankle and harvests energy in the terminal stance phase in human walking. This harvester is an analogy to regenerative brake in vehicles. The energy harvesting paver/tile harvests energy when the heel contacts with ground and energy are dissipated by impact.
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Simões, Inês da Silva Araújo. "Contributions for a new body representation paradigm in pattern design. Generation of basic patterns after the mobile body." Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5427.
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Rafieian, Garsivaz, and Marvast Amin Amini. "Designing principles for mobile application data of body sensors on physical activities." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2591.
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This thesis has been divided into two essential parts, the purpose of the first part is to investigate and explore a three-tier architecture for remote health monitoring system capable to collect, store and forward the physiological data, which has been collected by a mobile device via a bluetooth connection from body sensors, to an internet data base server.
During the second part, we have tried to take a deep look into a heart beat modeling method. We have studied and investigated on extended integral pulse frequency modulation model which is used for the presence of ectopic beats and heart rate turbulence.
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Zhao, Kun. "Mobile Antenna Systems for 4G and 5G Applications with User Body Interaction." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Elektroteknisk teori och konstruktion, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-215266.
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In the thesis, the user body effect on antennas in a mobile terminal is discussed. In order to overcome the degradation of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) performance due to the user body effect, a quad-elements MIMO antenna array which can mitigate the body effect through an adaptive antenna switching method is introduced for 4G mobile terminals. In addition, various bezel MIMO antennas that are robust to the impedance mismatching caused by the user effect have also been presented. The study of user body effect is later extended to frequency bands at 15 GHz and 28 GHz for future 5G communication systems. The results reveal that a human body will cause a significant shadowing loss, which will be a critical loss in 5G cellular networks. The electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure of a mobile terminal is also studied in this thesis. Below 6 GHz, the simultaneous transmission specific absorption rate (SAR) for MIMO antennas is the primary concern due to its complicated assessment procedures. Above 6 GHz, the free space power density is adopted as the basic parameter of exposure limits globally, and preliminary studies have been presented to address major challenges in EMF exposure assessment for 5G mobile terminals.QC 20171005
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Cruz, Folgar Ricardo Francisco. "Energy Harvesting from Human Body, Motion and Surroundings." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102604.
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As human dependence on electronic devices grows, there is an emerging need on finding sustainable power sources for low power electronics and sensors. One of the promising possibilities in this space is the human body itself. Harvesting significant power from daily human activities will have a transformative effect on wearables and implantables. One of the main challenges in harvesting mechanical energy from human actions is to ensure that there is no effect on the body itself. For this reason, any intrusive mechanism will not have practical relevance. In this dissertation, novel non-intrusive energy harvesting technologies are investigated that can capture available energy from body, motion, and surroundings.
Energy harvesting from the body is explored by developing a wrist-based thermoelectric harvester that can operate at low-temperature gradients. Energy harvesting from motion is investigated by creating a backpack and shoe sole. These devices passively store kinetic energy in a spring that is later released to a generator when it is not intrusive to the user kinematics. Lastly, energy harvesting from immediate surroundings is investigated by designing a two degree of freedom vibration absorber that is excited by electromagnetic fields found in common household appliances. These novel solutions are shown to provide consistent electrical power from wasted energy. Harvester designs are extensively modeled and optimized device architectures are manufactured and tested to quantify the relevant parameters such as output voltage and power density.Doctor of Philosophy
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Ur, Rehman Masood. "Characterisation of human body and environmental effects on the performance of mobile terminal antennas." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/385.
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Provision of efficient services to the user anywhere at anytime is being a centre of research and development in Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) and Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). Antenna is the essential part of WPAN/WBAN applications that got affected by two major factors: human body presence and nature of the surrounding environment. The presence of the human body in the proximity of the antenna causes electromagnetic (EM) reflections from the body surface and absorptions in the lossy body tissues resulting in antenna detuning, radiation pattern degradations and impedance mismatch. On the other hand, incident radio waves undergo reflections, difractions and scattering from the surrounding environment objects including buildings, trees, vehicles and ground, causing multipath fading. The thesis gives an overview of the main investigations, results and analyses accomplished in a study concerning the commercially available Bluetooth and GPS antennas working in the vicinity of the human body. Detailed numerical modelling process is adopted followed by measurements for validation. The thesis highlights the role of surface waves as a potential transmission medium in an on-body Bluetooth wireless communication link taking into account the effects of antenna-body separations and presence of the surrounding objects blocking the direct communication path. The thesis also presents a novel statistical model to evaluate the performance of GPS mobile terminal antennas in the multipath environment. This model characterises the antenna performance and identifies the key factors that can be used to enhance it, in a real working environment outside an anechoic chamber. The study also deals with presence of the human body in the multipath environment and its effects on the operation of the GPS antennas.
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Kern, Nicole I. "Cable-Driven Flexible Spines for Human Orthoses and Mobile Robots." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333582838.
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Hopkins, Breanna Cristine Berry. "Validity of PostureScreen Mobile® in the Measurement of Standing Posture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4119.
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Background: PostureScreen Mobile® is an app created to quickly screen posture using front and side-view photographs. There is currently a lack of evidence that establishes PostureScreen Mobile® (PSM) as a valid measure of posture. Therefore, the purpose of this preliminary study was to document the validity and reliability of PostureScreen Mobile® in assessing static standing posture. Methods: This study was an experimental trial in which the posture of 50 male participants was assessed a total of six times using two different methods: PostureScreen Mobile® and Vicon 3D motion analysis system (VIC). Postural deviations, as measured during six trials of PSM assessments (3 trials with and 3 trials without anatomical markers), were compared to the postural deviations as measured using the VIC as the criterion measure. Measurement of lateral displacement on the x-axis (shift) and rotation on the y-axis (tilt) were made of the head, shoulders, and hips in the frontal plane. Measurement of forward/rearward displacement on the Z-axis (shift) of the head, shoulders, hips, and knees were made in the sagittal plane. Validity was evaluated by comparing the PSM measurements of shift and tilt of each body part to that of the VIC. Reliability was evaluated by comparing the variance of PSM measurements to the variance of VIC measurements. The statistical model employed the Bayesian framework and consisted of the scaled product of the likelihood of the data given the parameters and prior probability densities for each of the parameters. Results: PSM tended to overestimate VIC postural tilt and shift measurements in the frontal plane and underestimate VIC postural shift measurements in the sagittal plane. Use of anatomical markers did not universally improve postural measurements with PSM, and in most cases, the variance of postural measurements using PSM exceeded that of VIC. The patterns in the intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) suggest high trial-to-trial variation in posture. Conclusions: We conclude that until research further establishes the validity and reliability of the PSM app, it should not be used in research or clinical applications when accurate postural assessments are necessary or when serial measurements of posture will be performed. We suggest that the PSM be used by health and fitness professionals as a screening tool, as described by the manufacturer. Due to the suspected trial-to-trial variation in posture, we question the usefulness of a single postural assessment.
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Ronkainen, S. (Sami). "Designing for ultra-mobile interaction:experiences and a method." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2010. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514261794.
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Usability methodology has matured into a well-defined, industrially relevant field with its own findings, theories, and tools, with roots in applying information technology to user interfaces ranging from control rooms to computers, and more recently to mobile communications devices. The purpose is regularly to find out the users’ goals and to test whether a design fulfils the usability criteria. Properly applied, usability methods provide reliable and repeatable results, and are excellent tools in fine-tuning existing solutions
The challenges of usability methodologies are in finding new concepts and predicting their characteristics before testing, especially when it comes to the relatively young field of mobile user interfaces. Current usability methods concentrate on utilising available user-interface technologies. They do not provide means to clearly identify, e.g., the potential of auditory or haptic output, or gestural input. Consequently, these new interaction techniques are rarely used, and the long-envisioned useful multimodal user interfaces are yet to appear, despite their assumed and existing potential in mobile devices.
Even the most advocated and well-known multimodal interaction concepts, such as combined manual pointing and natural language processing, have not materialised in applications. An apparent problem is the lack of a way to utilise a usage environment analysis in finding out user requirements that could be met with multimodal user interfaces. To harness the full potential of multimodality, tools to identify both little or unused and overloaded modalities in current usage contexts are needed. Such tools would also help in putting possibly existing novel interaction paradigms in context and pointing out possible deficiencies in them.
In this thesis, a novel framework for analysing the usage environment from a user-centric perspective is presented. Based on the findings, a designer can decide between offering a set of multiple devices utilising various user-interface modalities, or a single device that offers relevant modalities, perhaps by adapting to the usage environment. Furthermore, new techniques for creating mobile user interfaces utilising various modalities are proposed.
The framework has evolved from the experiences gathered from the designs of experimental and actual product-level uni- and multimodal user interface solutions for mobile devices. It has generated novel multimodal interaction and interface techniques that can be used as building blocks in system designs.
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Okoloko, Innocent. "Multi-path planning and multi-body constrained attitude control." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71905.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research focuses on the development of new efficient algorithms for multi-path planning and multi-rigid body constrained attitude control. The work is motivated by current and future applications of these algorithms in: intelligent control of multiple autonomous aircraft and spacecraft systems; control of multiple mobile and industrial robot systems; control of intelligent highway vehicles and traffic; and air and sea traffic control. We shall collectively refer to the class of mobile autonomous systems as “agents”. One of the challenges in developing and applying such algorithms is that of complexity resulting from the nontrivial agent dynamics as agents interact with other agents, and their environment. In this work, some of the current approaches are studied with the intent of exposing the complexity issues associated them, and new algorithms with reduced computational complexity are developed, which can cope with interaction constraints and yet maintain stability and efficiency. To this end, this thesis contributes the following new developments to the field of multipath planning and multi-body constrained attitude control: • The introduction of a new LMI-based approach to collision avoidance in 2D and 3D spaces. • The introduction of a consensus theory of quaternions by applying quaternions directly with the consensus protocol for the first time. • A consensus and optimization based path planning algorithm for multiple autonomous vehicle systems navigating in 2D and 3D spaces. • A proof of the consensus protocol as a dynamic system with a stochastic plant matrix. • A consensus and optimization based algorithm for constrained attitude synchronization of multiple rigid bodies. • A consensus and optimization based algorithm for collective motion on a sphere.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing fokus op die ontwikkeling van nuwe koste-effektiewe algoritmes, vir multipad-beplanning en veelvuldige starre-liggaam beperkte standbeheer. Die werk is gemotiveer deur huidige en toekomstige toepassing van hierdie algoritmes in: intelligente beheer van veelvuldige outonome vliegtuig- en ruimtevaartuigstelsels; beheer van veelvuldige mobiele en industrile robotstelsels; beheer van intelligente hoofwegvoertuie en verkeer; en in lug- en see-verkeersbeheer. Ons sal hier “agente” gebruik om gesamentlik te verwys na die klas van mobiele outonome stelsels. Een van die uitdagings in die ontwikkeling en toepassing van sulke algoritmes is die kompleksiteit wat spruit uit die nie-triviale agentdinamika as gevolg van die interaksie tussen agente onderling, en tussen agente en hul omgewing. In hierdie werk word sommige huidige benaderings bestudeer met die doel om die kompleksiteitskwessies wat met hulle geassosieer word, bloot te l^e. Verder word nuwe algoritmes met verminderde berekeningskompleksiteit ontwikkel. Hierdie algoritmes kan interaksie-beperkings hanteer, en tog stabiliteit en doeltreffendheid behou. Vir hierdie doel dra die proefskrif die volgende nuwe ontwikkelings by tot die gebied van multipad-beplanning van multi-liggaam beperkte standbeheer: • Die voorstel van ’n nuwe LMI-gebasseerde benadering tot botsingsvermyding in 2D en 3D ruimtes. • Die voorstel van ’n konsensus-teorie van “quaternions” deur “quaternions” vir die eerste keer met die konsensusprotokol toe te pas. • ’n Konsensus- en optimeringsgebaseerde padbeplanningsalgoritme vir veelvoudige outonome voertuigstelsels wat in 2D en 3D ruimtes navigeer. • Die bewys van ’n konsensusprotokol as ’n dinamiese stelsel met ’n stochastiese aanlegmatriks. • ’n Konsensus- en optimeringsgebaseerde algoritme vir beperkte stand sinchronisasie van veelvoudige starre liggame. • ’n Konsensus- en optimeringsgebaseerde algoritme vir kollektiewe beweging op ’n sfeer.
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Zhao, Kun. "Interaction between the Radiation of LTE MIMO Antennas in a Mobile Handset and the User´s Body." Thesis, KTH, Elektroteknisk teori och konstruktion, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-103426.
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Due to the great demand for high-speed wireless communication, Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) antenna systems have been attracted rapidly increased attention. Therefore, the interaction between human body and MIMO antenna becomes an important issue, which will be studied in the present thesis. This thesis mainly focuses on the specific absorption rate (SAR) of the LTE MIMO antenna in mobile phone. It is different from the SISO antenna, and as the MIMO antenna has more operation modes and functions (MIMO, SISO, beam forming, etc.), more parameters need to be investigated for the SAR of the antenna. In this thesis, four designs of dual elements MIMO antenna (dual semi ground free PIFA, co-located antenna, dual OG PIFA in parallel position and dual OG PIFA in orthogonal position) are studied under four typical LTE frequency points (0.75GHz, 0.85GHz 1.9Ghz and 2.1/2.6GHz), with the effects of different chassis lengths (90mm, 110mm, 130mm and 150mm), the port’s states (terminated with 50ohm, open or short) and phase difference (0 degree to 360 degree). The SAR, when dual elements operate simultaneously, is also studied, which is evaluated by the SAR to PEAK Location Spacing Ratio (SPLSR). The simulations are run on both a SAM head phantom and a flat phantom by CST 2011, and measurements on flat phantom are carried out with iSAR and Dasy to verify the accuracy of our simulations. Besides SAR, the body loss of MIMO and SISO LTE antennas (MIMO: dual semi ground free PIFA and co-located Antenna; SISO: OG PIFA on top and OG PIFA at the bottom) in mobile phones are also studied in this thesis. The body loss and multiplex efficiency (MUX) with head and hand (H+H) in an increased cell phone case length (110mm, 130mm and 150mm) are investigated and discussed. Furthermore, some prominent problems in body loss study (body loss reduction, right and left hand problem, etc.) are also discussed in this thesis.
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Hotze, Wolfgang. "Robotic First Aid : Using a mobile robot to localise and visualise points of interest for first aid." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för informationsteknologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32324.
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Domestic robots developed to support human beings by performing daily tasks such as cleaning should also be able to help in emergencies by finding, analysing, and assisting persons in need of first aid. Here such a robot capable of performing some useful task related to first aid is referred to as a First Aid Mobile Robot (FAMR). One challenge which to the author's knowledge has not been solved is how such a FAMR can find a fallen person's pose within an environment, recognising locations of points of interest for first aid such as the mouth, nose, chin, chest and hands on a map. To overcome the challenge, a new approach is introduced based on leveraging a robot's capabilities (multiple sensors and mobility), called AHBL. AHBL comprises four steps: Anomaly detection, Human detection, Body part recognition, and Localisation on a map. It was broken down into four steps for modularity (e.g., a different way of detecting anomalies can be slipped in without changing the other modules) and because it was not clear which step is hardest to implement. As a result of evaluating AHBL, a FAMR developed for this work was able to find the pose of a fallen person (a mannequin) in a known environment with an average success rate of 83%, and an average localisation discrepancy of 1.47cm between estimated body part locations and ground truth. The presented approach can be adapted for use in other robots and contexts, and can act as a starting point toward designing systems for autonomous robotic first aid.
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Nasser, Najat. "Contribution to the study and minimizing the impact of electromagnetic waves on the human body : Application in the field of mobile telephony." Thesis, Limoges, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIMO0091/document.
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Dans cette thèse, nous proposons des modifications de conception d’antenne PIFA concernant la téléphonie mobile afin de réduire le taux de pénétration des ondes électromagnétiques dans la tête. Trois antennes ont été considérées: une antenne PIFA à bande unique fonctionnant à 1,8 GHz, une antenne PIFA à bande double fonctionnant à 900 MHz et à 1,8 GHz, et une antenne PIFA tri-bande à 900 MHz, 1800 MHz et 2400 MHz. La densité de courant de surface le long du plan de masse a été réduite en diminuant le rayonnement du champ électrique émis par l’antenne émettrice vers le corps, ce qui a entraîné une réduction de la densité de courant le long de la tête humaine ainsi que du SAR. Cette réduction du SAR a été réalisée en insérant plusieurs traitements de bords tels qu'une forme en U à chaque coin du plan de masse de l'antenne. Nous avons étudié trois types des antennes : la première, lorsque les bords U sont constitués de PEC, nous obtenons une réduction du SAR de 78,6%. La seconde utilise un type de liquide considéré comme absorbant. Avec ce liquide, deux antennes ont été analysées: une PIFA à bande unique fonctionnant à 1,8 GHz et une PIFA à bande double fonctionnant à 900 MHz et à1,8 GHz. Dans ce scénario, le bord en U est constitué d’eau, et nous avons constaté que la valeur maximale du SAR moyen sur 10 g de tissu était réduite à 73,52% pour une PIFA à bande unique, tandis que le pic de SAR a été réduit à 88,78% et 90,31% en cas de double bande. Afin de préserver la hauteur de l'antenne et de la rendre plus réaliste, un autre type d’antenne a été modélisé en insérant des arêtes en forme de U à chaque extrémité du plan de masse. Dans ce cas, la réduction du SAR a été la suivante: 74,5% à 1800 MHz pour une bande unique et environ 64,37%, 79,92% et 54,71% à 900 MHz, 1800 MHz et 2400 MHz pour une antenne tri-bande, et pour une moyenne de masse de tissu égale à 10g. Dans une dernière partie, cette thèse propose une antenne optimisée pour des transmissions de la station de base vers l'utilisateur d’un téléphone mobile, en exploitant la bande GSM-900. L’objectif principal de cette étude est de fournir une intensité de champ constante sur la surface de couverture, afin de minimiser certains effets biologiques considérés comme dangereux pour la santé humaineIn this thesis, we propose new types of mobile handset PIFA antenna design to reduce the specific absorption rate (SAR) in human head. Three antennas were considered: a single band PIFA operating at 1.8 GHz, a dual band PIFA operating at 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz, and a Triband PIFA operating at 900MHz, GSM 1800MHz, and 2400MHz. Surface current density along the ground plane was decreased by reducing the near electric field radiation coming from the radiating antenna to the human head, which in turns leads to a reduction in current density along human head as well as the SAR. This SAR reduction is accomplished by inserting several edges treatment such as U-shape at each corner of the ground plane of antenna. In this scenario, we studied three types: first one, when U-edges are made of PEC, we get SAR reduction about 78.6%. Second one is a liquid type that is considered as more advanced type. For this type, two antennas are considered: a single band PIFA operating at 1.8 GHz, and a dual band PIFA operating at 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz. In this scenario, two cases were studied: first one when the U-edge is made of water, we noticed that the peak SAR value averaged over 10 g mass tissue was reduced to 73.52% in the case of single band PIFA, whereas the peak SAR was reduced to 88.78% and 90.31% in case of dual band. Second case, when U-edge filled with water, this enhanced structure was presented to overcome the manufacturing limitations of the first case design. Simulation results showed a better performance in terms of reflection coefficient and radiation pattern for both single-band and dual-band antennas. The results of SAR were also similar to the first case structure design for the single-band antenna. However, the SAR was slightly higher for the dual-band antenna, but it still remains very low (1.6 W/Kg at 900 MHz and 0.6 W/Kg at 1800 MHz). After that, for preserving the height of antenna, and making it more realistic to be applied, another type was done by inserting U-edges above each corner of the ground plane. In this case, we get SAR reduction as follows: 74.5% at GSM1800MHz in case of single band, and about 64.37%, 79.92%, and 54.71% at GSM900MHz, GSM1800MHz, and 2400 MHz in case of Tri-band averaged over 10g mass tissue. On the other hand, this thesis presents a modern and unprecedented safety antenna that transmits from the base station to the mobile user being operated at the GSM-900 band. The main objective of this study is to provide a constant field strength or a uniform coverage over a certain surface area, for preventing human health from several hazardous biological effects, and this strongly depends on the studied site (e.g. if it is densely urban, rural, open area, etc.). Our proposed design is synthesized using S.A.R.A (Synthesis of Array of Antenna) software. Besides, Atoll GSM planning tool is used to ensure the signal coverage and power strength for the safety antenna, and CST (Computer Simulation Technology) software for simulating the proposed antenna
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Berg, M. (Markus). "Methods for antenna frequency control and user effect compensation in mobile terminals." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514296918.
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Abstract In this thesis, new methods for mobile terminal antenna frequency control and user effect compensation are presented. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part includes frequency reconfigurable and tuneable antennas for mobile terminals. At first, the efficient frequency reconfiguration methods for a slot-, planar inverted-F (PIFA) and inverted-F (IFA) antennas are presented. Methods are based either on the use of RF switches, or on variable capacitor loading. One of the frequency tuneable antennas is used for the antenna frequency bandwidth enhancement in an internal digital television reception antenna, offering a continuous tunability range from 470 MHz to 702 MHz with 8 MHz instantaneous bandwidth. The second part of this thesis is concentrated on the user effect on the mobile terminal antennas, and especially, on the active compensation of the user-induced losses. At first, an experimental user effect study is conducted for triple-band PIFA and the body loss, comprising both the reflection loss and absorption loss, is characterized and formulated. It was observed that with the highly loaded mobile terminal antenna the majority of the losses are absorption losses and the user-induced reflection losses play a minor role. An active method of compensating the body loss, and especially the absorptive part of it, is designed and developed in this thesis. The switchable two-antenna arrangement is applied to a dual-band top-bottom PIFA that yielded up to 9 dB compensation of the body loss with a specific phantom hand grips in the lower band (GSM 850). In the higher band (GSM 1900 and WCDMA) 2 dB compensation is obtained. The same method is verified with two side by side-located PIFA and monopole configurations in order to compensate the effect of the user’s index finger. The losses from switching circuitry proved to be smaller than the benefit achieved by the compensation methodTiivistelmä Tässä työssä esitään uudenlaisia menetelmiä matkaviestinantennin taajuussäätöön ja käyttäjän vaikutuksen kompensointiin. Työ jakautuu kahteen osaan, joista ensimmäisessä käsitellään taajuussädettäviä matkaviestinantenneja. Aluksi esitetään tehokkaita taajuussäätömenetelmiä rako-, tasomainen käännetty-F- ja käännetty-F -tyyppisille antennirakenteille. Menetelmät perustuvat joko RF kytkimen tai säädettävän kapasitanssin käyttöön. Yhtä säätömenetelmää sovelletaan päätelaitteen sisäisen vastaanottoantennin taajuuskaistanleveyden kasvattamiseen. Säätömenetelmällä saavutettu jatkuva säätöalue on 470–702 MHz ja hetkellinen kaistanleveys on 8 MHz. Työn toisessa osassa keskitytään käyttäjän matkaviestimen antennille aiheuttamaan vaikutukseen ja erityisesti käyttäjän aiheuttamien häviöiden kompensointiin. Aluksi esitetään kokeellinen tutkimus käyttäjän vaikutuksesta kolmikaistaiseen PIFA-antenniin. Tutkimuksessa arvioidaan kehohäviöiden määrää, antennin impedanssimuutoksesta aiheutuvaa heijastushäviötä ja absorptiohäviötä. Tutkimuksen perusteella absorptiolla on suurempi vaikutus kokonaishäviöön kuin heijastushäviöllä. Työssä esitetään aktiivinen kehohäviön ja erityisesti absorptiohäviön kompensointimenetelmä. Menetelmässä antennikytkentää sovelletaan päätelaitteen ylä- ja alapäähän sijoitettuihin kaksitaajuus antenniin. Tutkimuksen perusteella todetaan, että tietyn käsiotteen aiheuttamia häviöitä voidaan kompensoida 9 dB matalammalla taajuuskaistalla (GSM 850) ja 2 dB korkeammalla taajuuskaistalla (GSM 900 ja WCDMA). Kompensointimenetelmän toimivuus todennetaan myös kahdella monopoli- ja PIFA-antennirakenteella käyttäen erilaista antennijärjestelyä, jossa pääpaino on käyttäjän etusormesta johtuvien häviöiden kompensoinnissa. Antennikytkennän aiheuttamat häviöt ovat pienemmät kuin kompensointimenetelmällä saavutettu etu
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Alhaddad, Abdolrauf Gawad. "Balanced antennas for mobile handset applications : simulation and measurement of balanced antennas for mobile handsets, investigating specific absorption rate when operated near the human body, and a coplanar waveguide alternative to the balanced feed." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5512.
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The main objectives of this research are to investigate and design low profile antennas for mobile handsets applications using the balanced concept. These antennas are considered to cover a wide range of wireless standards such as: DCS (1710-1880 MHz), PCS (1850-1990 MHz), UMTS (1920-2170 MHz), WLAN (2400-2500 MHz and 5000-5800 MHz) and UWB frequency bands. Various antennas are implemented based on built-in planar dipole with a folded arm structure. The performance of several designed antennas in terms of input return loss, radiation patterns, radiation efficiency and power gain are presented and several remarkable results are obtained. The measurements confirm the theoretical design concept and show reasonable agreement with computations. The stability performance of the proposed antenna is also evaluated by analysing the current distribution on the mobile phone ground plane. The specific absorption rate (SAR) performance of the antenna is also studied experimentally by measuring antenna near field exposure. The measurement results are correlated with the calculated ones. A new dual-band balanced antenna using coplanar waveguide structure is also proposed, discussed and tested; this is intended to eliminate the balanced feed network. The predicted and measured results show good agreement, confirming good impedance bandwidth characteristics and excellent dual-band performance. In addition, a hybrid method to model the human body interaction with a dual band balanced antenna structure covering the 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz bands is presented. Results for several test cases of antenna locations on the body are presented and discussed. The near and far fields were incorporated to provide a full understanding of the impact on human tissue. The cumulative distribution function of the radiation efficiency and absorbed power are also evaluated.
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Alhaddad, A. G. "Balanced antennas for mobile handset applications. Simulation and Measurement of Balanced Antennas for Mobile Handsets, investigating Specific Absorption Rate when operated near the human body, and a Coplanar Waveguide alternative to the Balanced Feed." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5512.
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The main objectives of this research are to investigate and design low profile antennas
for mobile handsets applications using the balanced concept. These antennas are
considered to cover a wide range of wireless standards such as: DCS (1710¿1880 MHz),
PCS (1850¿1990 MHz), UMTS (1920¿2170 MHz), WLAN (2400¿2500 MHz and 5000
¿ 5800 MHz) and UWB frequency bands. Various antennas are implemented based on
built-in planar dipole with a folded arm structure.
The performance of several designed antennas in terms of input return loss, radiation
patterns, radiation efficiency and power gain are presented and several remarkable
results are obtained. The measurements confirm the theoretical design concept and show
reasonable agreement with computations. The stability performance of the proposed
antenna is also evaluated by analysing the current distribution on the mobile phone
ground plane. The specific absorption rate (SAR) performance of the antenna is also
studied experimentally by measuring antenna near field exposure. The measurement
results are correlated with the calculated ones.
A new dual-band balanced antenna using coplanar waveguide structure is also proposed,
discussed and tested; this is intended to eliminate the balanced feed network. The
predicted and measured results show good agreement, confirming good impedance
bandwidth characteristics and excellent dual-band performance.
In addition, a hybrid method to model the human body interaction with a dual band
balanced antenna structure covering the 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz bands is presented.
Results for several test cases of antenna locations on the body are presented and
discussed. The near and far fields were incorporated to provide a full understanding of
the impact on human tissue. The cumulative distribution function of the radiation
efficiency and absorbed power are also evaluated.UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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Celik, Numan. "Wireless graphene-based electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor including multiple physiological measurement system." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15698.
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In this thesis, a novel graphene (GN) based electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor is designed, constructed and tested to validate the concept of coating GN, which is a highly electrically conductive material, on Ag substrates of conventional electrodes. The background theory, design, experiments and results for the proposed GN-based ECG sensor are also presented. Due to the attractive electrical and physical characteristics of graphene, a new ECG sensor was investigated by coating GN onto itself. The main focus of this project was to examine the effect of GN on ECG monitoring and to compare its performance with conventional methods. A thorough investigation into GN synthesis on Ag substrate was conducted, which was accompanied by extensive simulation and experimentation. A GN-enabled ECG electrode was characterised by Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy along with electrical resistivity and conductivity measurements. The results obtained from the GN characteristic experimentation on Raman spectroscopy, detected a 2D peak in the GN-coated electrode, which was not observed with the conventional Ag/AgCl electrode. SEM characterisation also revealed that a GN coating smooths the surface of the electrode and hence, improves the skin-to-electrode contact. Furthermore, a comparison regarding the electrical conductivity calculation was made between the proposed GN-coated electrodes and conventional Ag/AgCl ones. The resistance values obtained were 212.4 Ω and 28.3 Ω for bare and GN-coated electrodes, respectively. That indicates that the electrical conductivity of GN-based electrodes is superior and hence, it is concluded that skin-electrode contact impedance can be lowered by their usage. Additional COMSOL simulation was carried out to observe the effect of an electrical field and surface charge density using GN-coated and conventional Ag/AgCl electrodes on a simplified human skin model. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the addition of electrical field and surface charge capabilities and hence, coating GN on Ag substrates was validated through this simulation. This novel ECG electrode was tested with various types of electrodes on ten different subjects in order to analyse the obtained ECG signals. The experimental results clearly showed that the proposed GN-based electrode exhibits the best performance in terms of ECG signal quality, detection of critical waves of ECG morphology (P-wave, QRS complex and T-wave), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with 27.0 dB and skin-electrode contact impedance (65.82 kΩ at 20 Hz) when compared to those obtained by conventional a Ag/AgCl electrode. Moreover, this proposed GN-based ECG sensor was integrated with core body temperature (CBT) sensor in an ear-based device, which was designed and printed using 3D technology. Subsequently, a finger clipped photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor was integrated with the two-sensors in an Arduino based data acquisition system, which was placed on the subject's arm to enable a wearable multiple physiological measurement system. The physiological information of ECG and CBT was obtained from the ear of the subject, whilst the PPG signal was acquired from the finger. Furthermore, this multiple physiological signal was wirelessly transmitted to the smartphone to achieve continuous and real-time monitoring of physiological signals (ECG, CBT and PPG) on a dedicated app developed using the Java programming language. The proposed system has plenty of room for performance improvement and future development will make it adaptabadaptable, hence being more convenient for the users to implement other applications than at present.
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Sundström, Petra. "Designing Affective Loop Experiences." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43376.
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There is a lack of attention to the emotional and the physical aspects of communication in how we up to now have been approaching communication between people in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). As designers of digital communication tools we need to consider altering the underlying model for communication that has been prevailing in HCI: the information transfer model. Communication is about so much more than transferring information. It is about getting to know yourself, who you are and what part you play in the communication as it unfolds. It is also about the experience of a communication process, what it feels like, how that feeling changes, when it changes, why and perhaps by whom the process is initiated, altered, or disrupted. The idea of Affective Loop experiences in design aims to create new expressive and experiential media for whole users, embodied with the social and physical world they live in, and where communication not only is about getting the message across but also about living the experience of communication - feeling it. An Affective Loop experience is an emerging, in the moment, emotional experience where the inner emotional experience, the situation at hand and the social and physical context act together, to create for one complete embodied experience. The loop perspective comes from how this experience takes place in communication and how there is a rhythmic pattern in communication where those involved take turns in both expressing themselves and standing back interpreting the moment. To allow for Affective Loop experiences with or through a computer system, the user needs to be allowed to express herself in rich personal ways involving our many ways of expressing and sensing emotions – muscles tensions, facial expressions and more. For the user to become further engaged in interaction, the computer system needs the capability to return relevant, either diminishing, enforcing or disruptive feedback to those emotions expressed by the user so that the she wants to continue express herself by either strengthening, changing or keeping her expression. We describe how we used the idea of Affective Loop experiences as a conceptual tool to navigate a design space of gestural input combined with rich instant feedback. In our design journey, we created two systems, eMoto and FriendSense.
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Richelle, Justine. "Essai de notation corpographique pour des lectures sensibles du corps mobile : Noter le mouvement des corps dans l'espace public : Une nouvelle approche qualitative du corps et de la mobilité." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Valenciennes, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UPHF0034.
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La présente recherche est un essai pour noter le mouvement du corps humain dans l’espace public. Notre approche développe une analyse qualitative de nos mouvements corporels par la création d’un nouveau langage : la Notation Corpographique. L’évidence et la banalité de la nécessité à se mouvoir revêt pourtant un caractère mystérieux car l’expérience manque de récits. Notre visée est d’enrichir nos moyens descriptifs et réflexifs autour de l’expérience sensible que nous faisons de ces mouvements permanents, individuels et collectifs qui façonnent, qui agissent en nous et nous font agir, « nous ». L’expérience du flux, du passage piéton, de la gare, révèle et actualise un monde en commun, une manière de vivre ensemble.Dans des sociétés rendues de plus en plus mobiles sous les effets de la mondialisation, un nouveau paradigme de la mobilité se dessine où les mobilités individuelles sont mises au centre du débat. Mais nous manquons de représentations pour qualifier cette relation du corps à l’environnement, en proie à des reconfigurations de plus en plus complexes. La recherche répond donc au besoin de requalifier notre présence corporelle, individuelle et collective, dans l’espace public. Les composantes de l’urbanité propres à la corporéité sont encore largement ignorées dans les théories et les pratiques d’aménagement de l’espace et peinent à être reconnues par les sciences humaines et sociales en général. Ces composantes sont pourtant essentielles à identifier au regard du débat sur les spatialités individuelles qui anime la recherche sur les espaces et les spatialités des sociétés contemporaines au sens large. Ainsi l’expressivité dynamique du corps importe dans l’étude qualitative de nos vies mobiles.Le rassemblement des thématiques du corps, du mouvement et de la notation, trouvent leurs racines dans un terreau propice entre danse et géographie. Ce parcours transdisciplinaire prend appui sur des énoncés parfois éloignés en apparence. Les apports de la philosophie d’un côté et des neurosciences de l’autre, dont s’inspirent danses et géographies, amènent le liant nécessaire à ces fondations. Même si, nous en convenons, les épistémologies de ces différents champs ne sont pas pour l’instant compatibles. En déplaçant notre regard, en hybridant les pratiques de recherche entre art et science, nous souhaitons amorcer le dialogue entre la corporéité et l’urbanité, trait d’union qui est encore manquant.De manière générale, les espaces de la mobilité sont des lieux privilégiés pour observer les corps en mouvement. La gare étant le berceau de nos vies mobiles, ma recherche de terrain s’est portée sur la Gare du Nord à Paris. En effet, si les corps en mouvement ne se limitent pas à l’un ou l’autre de ces espaces liées à la mobilité et rencontrent plus largement la problématique du rapport à l’espace public, la gare est un point d’entrée pour l’observation et l’analyse du mouvement des corps. Ce choix permet par ailleurs d’éclairer le nouveau paradigme de la mobilité dans lequel nous sommes entré aujourd’hui.Dans un cadre de recherche-création, une nouvelle méthodologie entre danse et géographie a été expérimentée via les outils de La Notation Corpographique, création de cette recherche. Cette méthodologie articule trois niveaux d’analyse : la réalisation de cartes et de récits basés sur un nouveau lexique graphique et conceptuel du corps humain – la mise en une pratique d’une immersion sensible sur le terrain – la création d’ateliers de corpographies avec différents publics axés vers l’exploration et l’explicitation du ressenti corporel.Ces outils nous ont permis de plonger dans le travail empirique à la Gare du Nord et de porter un nouveau regard sur ce paysage corpographique des mobilités individuelles dans l’espace public. La réalisation des ateliers de corpographie est venue compléter cette approche en mettant en valeur les connaissances apprises par le corps au sein de l’expérience de la mobilitéThis research is an attempt to explore the relationship between human body and public space. Our approach develops a qualitative analysis of our body movements by creating a new language: “la Notation Corpographique” or the Corpographic Notation. The obviousness and banality of the need to move is nevertheless mysterious because the experience lacks narratives. By developing this new language, our working objective is to enrich our descriptive and reflexive means around our sensitive experience of these permanent, individual and collective movements that shape us, act in us and make us act, «us». The experience of flow, of pedestrians passing through, of the train station, reveals and actualizes a shared world, a way of living together.In societies that have become increasingly mobile as a result of globalization, a new paradigm of mobility is emerging with individual mobility at the heart of the debate. But we lack the representations to qualify this relationship between the body and the environment, which is undergoing increasingly complex reconfigurations. Our research thus responds to the need to re-qualify our physical presence, both individual and collective, in the public space. The components of urbanity specific to corporeality are still largely ignored in the theories and practices of spatial planning and struggle to be recognized by the humanities and social sciences in general. Yet, these components are essential to identify in the light of the debate on individual spatialities that drives research into the spaces and spatialities of contemporary societies in the broadest sense. For example, the dynamic expressiveness of the body is important in the qualitative study of our mobile lives.The themes of body, movement and notation are rooted in the fertile ground between dance and geography. This transdisciplinary approach draws on sometimes seemingly distant perspectives. The contributions of philosophy on the one hand and neuroscience on the other, which are inspired by dance and geography, provide the necessary link to these foundations. Even if, we agree, the epistemologies of these different fields are not yet compatible. By shifting our gaze, by hybridizing research practices between art and science, we want to initiate a dialogue between corporeality and urbanity, a link that is still missing.In general, mobility spaces are ideal places for observing bodies in motion. The railway station being the cradle of our mobile lives, my fieldwork focuses on the Gare du Nord in Paris. Indeed, while bodies in motion are not limited to one or other of these mobility-related spaces and relate more broadly to the question of our relationship with public space, the station is an ideal entry point for the observing and analysing body movement. This choice also sheds light on the new paradigm of mobility in which we have entered today.Within a research-creation framework, a new methodology between dance and geography was experimented through the tools of “La Notation Corpographique”, which is the creation of this research. This methodology articulates three levels of analysis: the creation of maps and narratives based on a new graphic and conceptual lexicon of the human body – the practice of a sensitive immersion in the field – the creation of corpography workshops with different audiences focused on exploring and explaining bodily feeling.These tools enabled us to deepen our empirical work at the Gare du Nord in Paris and to take a new look at this corpographic landscape of individual mobilities in public space. The corpography workshops complemented this approach, highlighting the knowledge learned through the body in the experience of mobility
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Li, Ming. "User-Centric Security and Privacy Mechanisms in Untrusted Networking and Computing Environments." Digital WPI, 2011. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/323.
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"Our modern society is increasingly relying on the collection, processing, and sharing of digital information. There are two fundamental trends: (1) Enabled by the rapid developments in sensor, wireless, and networking technologies, communication and networking are becoming more and more pervasive and ad hoc. (2) Driven by the explosive growth of hardware and software capabilities, computation power is becoming a public utility and information is often stored in centralized servers which facilitate ubiquitous access and sharing. Many emerging platforms and systems hinge on both dimensions, such as E-healthcare and Smart Grid. However, the majority information handled by these critical systems is usually sensitive and of high value, while various security breaches could compromise the social welfare of these systems. Thus there is an urgent need to develop security and privacy mechanisms to protect the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the collected data, and to control the disclosure of private information. In achieving that, two unique challenges arise: (1) There lacks centralized trusted parties in pervasive networking; (2) The remote data servers tend not to be trusted by system users in handling their data. They make existing security solutions developed for traditional networked information systems unsuitable. To this end, in this dissertation we propose a series of user-centric security and privacy mechanisms that resolve these challenging issues in untrusted network and computing environments, spanning wireless body area networks (WBAN), mobile social networks (MSN), and cloud computing. The main contributions of this dissertation are fourfold. First, we propose a secure ad hoc trust initialization protocol for WBAN, without relying on any pre-established security context among nodes, while defending against a powerful wireless attacker that may or may not compromise sensor nodes. The protocol is highly usable for a human user. Second, we present novel schemes for sharing sensitive information among distributed mobile hosts in MSN which preserves user privacy, where the users neither need to fully trust each other nor rely on any central trusted party. Third, to realize owner-controlled sharing of sensitive data stored on untrusted servers, we put forward a data access control framework using Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE), that supports scalable fine-grained access and on-demand user revocation, and is free of key-escrow. Finally, we propose mechanisms for authorized keyword search over encrypted data on untrusted servers, with efficient multi-dimensional range, subset and equality query capabilities, and with enhanced search privacy. The common characteristic of our contributions is they minimize the extent of trust that users must place in the corresponding network or computing environments, in a way that is user-centric, i.e., favoring individual owners/users."
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Axelsson, Johanna, and Linda Tellström. "Mobil hälsa (m-hälsa) genom användning av mobiltelefon som intervention för barn med övervikt eller fetma. : En systematisk litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Medicinsk vetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28314.
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Bakgrund: Förekomsten av övervikt och fetma bland barn ökar i stora delar av världen. Brist på fysisk aktivitet är en av orsakerna bakom övervikt och fetma. För barn med fetma kan små mängder fysisk aktivitet ha stora positiva hälsoeffekter. Det finns ett behov av att utveckla nya effektiva strategier för att öka mängden fysisk aktivitet bland barn med övervikt eller fetma. Mobil hälsa (m-hälsa) används som ett paraplybegrepp för hälsotjänster förmedlade genom mobila enheter och definieras som ”medicinsk eller offentlig hälsoutövning som stöds av mobila enheter så som mobiltelefoner, anordningar för patientövervakning, personliga digitala assistenter och andra trådlösa enheter”. En potentiell strategi för att påverka mängden fysisk aktivitet bland barn med övervikt eller fetma är m-hälsa genom användning av mobiltelefon. Syfte: Att kartlägga och beskriva vilka interventioner med m-hälsokomponent genom användning av mobiltelefon som utvärderat fysisk aktivitet eller Body Mass Index (BMI) bland barn med övervikt eller fetma. Metod: En systematisk litteraturstudie där studier som beskrev interventioner med mhälsokomponenter för målgruppen barn 0-18 år med övervikt eller fetma inkluderades. Sökning genomfördes i tre vetenskapliga databaser. Resultat: Sökningarna resulterade i 649 studier av vilka 16 mötte uppsatta inklusionskriterier. M-hälsokomponenten innefattade i de flesta studier användning av sms och i några studier användning av app. Funktionen med m-hälsokomponenten studerades och delades in i självregistrering, kommunikation, uppmuntran, utbildning och påminnelse. De inkluderade studierna rapporterade olika former av BMI där två studier visade på signifikanta skillnader mellan interventions-och kontrollgrupp med störst minskning för interventionsgruppen. Få studier rapporterade objektivt mätt tid i fysisk aktivitet på måttlig till hög intensitet. Slutsats: Den vanligast förekommande interventionen med m-hälsokomponent genom användning av mobiltelefon bland barn med övervikt eller fetma var sms. För att kunna förstå och jämföra på vilket sätt m-hälsa kan användas skulle ett ramverk för beskrivning av dessa interventioner underlätta.Background: The presence of overweight and obesity among children is increasing in large parts of the world. Lack of physical activity is one of the causes of overweight and obesity. For children with obesity, small amounts of physical activity may have major positive health effects. There is a need to develop new effective strategies to increase the amount of physical activity among children with overweight or obesity. Mobile health (mHealth) is used as an umbrella term for health services transmitted by mobile devices and is defined as "medical or public health practice supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices." A potential strategy for influencing the amount of physical activity in children with overweight or obesity is mHealth through the use of mobile phones. Objective: To examine and describe what interventions with mHealth component through the use of mobile phones that evaluated physical activity or Body Mass Index (BMI) in children with overweight or obesity. Methods: A systematic literature study in which studies describing interventions with mHealth components for the target group of children 0-18 years of overweight or obesity were included. Search was conducted in three scientific databases. Results: The searches resulted in 649 studies, of which 16 met set inclusion criteria. In most studies, the mHealth component included the use of text messaging and in some studies the use of app. The function of the mHealth component was studied and divided into self-registration, communication, encouragement, education and reminder. The included studies reported different forms of BMI where two studies showed significant differences between the intervention and control group with the greatest reduction for the intervention group. Few studies reported objectively measured time in physical activity of moderate to high intensity. Conclusion: The most common intervention with mHealth component through the use of mobile phones among children with overweight or obesity was text messaging. In order to understand and compare how mHealth can be used, a framework for the description of these interventions would facilitate.
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Cooper, Rick. "The effects of a nearby biological body on the parameters of a small hand-held radio operating in the H.F. band (3 MHz-30 MHz)." Ohio : Ohio University, 1992. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1172245676.
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Huang, Xin. "Multi-channel security protocols in personal networks." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e0217f2f-4b8f-4ee4-bb34-03cd03e6f68b.
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Personal computing devices are becoming more and more popular. These devices are able to collaborate with each other using wireless communication technologies, and then support many applications. Some interesting examples of these are healthcare, context-aware computing, and sports training. In any such applications, security is of vital importance. Firstly, sensitive personal data is always collected in these applications, thus confidentiality is usually required. Secondly, authenticity and integrity of data or instructions are always critical; incorrect data or instructions are not only useless, but also harmful in some cases. This thesis analyses the security requirements of personal networks, and develops a number of multi-channel security protocols. With the help of out-of-band channels, especially no-spoofing and no-blocking out-of-band channels, these protocols can bootstrap security in personal networks. In particular, three kinds of security protocols have been studied: protocols that use human-controlled channels, protocols that use visible light communications, and protocols that use intra-body communications. Interesting trade-offs have been discovered among communication, computation and security, resulting from different channel implementations and protocols.
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Venený, Petr. "Detekce prostorových objektů v mračně bodů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-400180.
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The diploma thesis deals with processing of a point cloud that was collected via mobile mapping system. The first part sets a theoretical background, starting with mapping in general moving to mobile mapping systems and their particular parts. The practical part describes the whole process of data collecting, testing the automatic detection of spatial objects based on a point cloud and its visualisation. The results of the diploma thesis are GIS data layers and an evaluation of the process.
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Urban, Daniel. "Lokalizace mobilního robota v prostředí." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-385923.
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This diploma thesis deals with the problem of mobile robot localisation in the environment based on current 2D and 3D sensor data and previous records. Work is focused on detecting previously visited places by robot. The implemented system is suitable for loop detection, using the Gestalt 3D descriptors. The output of the system provides corresponding positions on which the robot was already located. The functionality of the system has been tested and evaluated on LiDAR data.
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Jiang, Haotian. "WEARABLE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTED LEARNING." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1571072941323463.
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Gan, Yajian. "Analysis of bioelectric mechanisms at the skin-electrode interface for mobile acquisition of physiological signals : application to ECG measurement for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Aix-Marseille, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021AIXM0045.
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Les maladies cardiovasculaires deviennent de plus en plus préoccupantes dans le monde entier. En 2020, le monde souffre de la crise du coronavirus Covid-19, dont le fort rythme de la contagion et les symptômes ont déjà provoqué la mort de plusieurs millions de personnes. Les résultats cliniques ont prouvé que le coronavirus et le médicament thérapeutique (chloroquine) peuvent tous deux endommager le cœur de manière irréversible, sous forme d’arythmies. Par rapport à l’appareil d’ECG utilisé dans les hôpitaux, les appareils d’ECG mobiles à simple dérivation sont la meilleure solution pour surveiller la santé cardiaque à tout moment et en tout lieu. Cependant, la plupart de ces appareils manquent de précision et d’exactitude des mesures, principalement dû au fait que le faible signal ECG est facilement perturbé par le mouvement de l’utilisateur et par l’environnement. Cette thèse étudie tout d’abord le matériau le plus approprié pour l’électrode à simple dérivation. Par la suite, des expériences approfondies ont été élaborées et réalisées pour analyser les sources d’interférence du signal ECG en s’appuyant sur un modèle physico-chimique de l’impédance peau-électrode proposé. Enfin, des méthodes de compensation directes et indirectes (fonction de transfert / intelligence artificielle) sont proposées pour éliminer les interférences dû au mouvement dans le signal ECG. L’objectif de cette recherche est d’appliquer ces résultats à l’optimisation du produit "Witcard" et de fournir des informations expérimentales précieuses à d’autres chercheurs qui travaillent à l’amélioration de la qualité de l’enregistrement des signaux ECG avec des équipements mobiles à simple dérivationCardiovascular diseases are becoming increasingly serious worldwide. Especially in the year 2020, when the world is suffering from the coronavirus. Clinical results have proved that both coronavirus and the therapeutic drug (chloroquine) can irreversibly damage the heart, such as arrhythmias. Compared to the ECG machine used in the hospitals that consumes plenty of patients’ time and money, single-lead mobile ECG monitors are the best solution for monitoring heart health anytime, anywhere. However, most of the handheld ECG monitoring devices on the market have not passed clinical testing due to the lack of accuracy and precision of measurement, mainly caused by the fact that the weak ECG signal is easily disturbed by the subject’s movement and the surrounding environment. This thesis investigates the most suitable material for the single-lead electrode at first. Secondly, extensive experiments have been designed and practiced analyzing the sources of ECG noise interference. The physicochemical model of the skin-electrode impedance is proposed at the same time. Finally, directly and indirectly method with the corresponding algorithm (transfer function/artificial intelligence) has been used to eliminate the interference in ECG signal when the motion artifact exists. This research aims to apply these findings to the optimization of the product “Witcard” and provide valuable experimental information to other researchers who work to improve the quality of ECG signal recording with signal-lead mobile ECG equipment
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Masaryk, Adam. "Pořizování vysoce kvalitních snímků rovinných povrchů chytrým telefonem." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-445564.
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The aim of this thesis is to create a mobile application for Android, which allows users to create high-quality photos of planar objects. User can create multiple photographs of a selected planar object. These photographs are then aligned and combined into one final image. Various shortcomings that can be present in the photographs are filtered.
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Borový, Ján. "Klasifikace mračen bodů z leteckého a mobilního skenování." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-390168.
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This diploma thesis deals with the classification of the point clouds taken by different carrier and with various density. The terrain model and building models were created from provided data sets. Also the software equipment is described. Achieved outcomes of elaboration are presented in each corresponding chapter. In conclusion, the overall evaluation and assessment of the results of processing is done.
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Lauzier, Matthieu. "Conception et validation de plateformes de communication autour du corps humain, à l'échelle de l'individu et du groupe." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ISAL0027/document.
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Depuis plusieurs années, bénéficiant de nombreuses évolutions technologiques, le domaine de l'instrumentation sans fil a conquis de nouveaux champs d'application, comme le suivi de paramètres physiologiques des personnes, par le développement des réseaux de capteurs sans fil autour du corps humain (BAN, pour Body Area Networks). Majoritairement orienté vers le domaine médical et l'amélioration des conditions de vie des patients, ce type de plate-forme s'est plus récemment étendu à d'autres activités, notamment aux loisirs et au sport. Selon le contexte applicatif, les hypothèses et les contraintes liées à ces réseaux peuvent être très variées, c'est pourquoi le développement de mécanismes de communication adaptés est nécessaire. Au cours de mes travaux de thèse, je me suis intéressé à la réalisation de plate-formes de collecte de données pour des applications sportives en situation de mobilité. Dans une première partie est abordée la collecte d'informations individuelles, pour laquelle nous présentons une preuve de concept en contexte sportif, avant d'apporter des éléments complémentaires à la modélisation des canaux des BAN et aux stratégies de communication pour la collecte individuelle. Ensuite, nous abordons la réflexion sur la collecte d'informations dans les réseaux denses et mobiles, en proposant des algorithmes distribués basés sur le consensus permettant d'identifier des groupes de façon dynamique, à petite et large échelle. Des réalisations pratiques à chaque étape de mes travaux de thèse permettent la validation des plate-formes développées, grâce à un ensemble conséquent de données collectées sur le terrain. L'analyse des données fournit également des éléments pour mieux caractériser les communications, notamment à large échelle, ce qui ouvre de nombreuses pistes quant à de futurs travaux. De plus, si un fort contexte applicatif est présent dans ces travaux, les méthodes d'analyse et les algorithmes développés sont valorisables et extensibles à d'autres domainesThe technological evolutions which have taken place for the last decades allowed the emergence of new application fields, such as the wireless monitoring of physiological parameters collected on the human body, with the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs, or BANs). Mostly dedicated to the medical domain and the improvement of the patients' comfort and safety, this kind of platforms more recently extended to other kinds of activities, such as sports and leisures. According to the applicative context, the hypotheses and constraints associated to these networks can vary drastically, yielding the necessity of developing adapted communication mechanisms. The works presented in this thesis have focused on the realization of data collection platforms for mobile sports applications. In a first part, we concentrate on the individual data collection, for which we give a proof of concept in the context of a Marathon race, before aiming at a better understanding of individual channel models and cooperative mechanisms for on-body data centralization. In a second part, we are interested in dense and mobile networks consisting in an important number of coexisting BANs. Our aim is to propose distributed algorithms based on consensus to allow dynamic group detection, with a variable scale. The validation of the approaches developed in this document is performed by practical implementations and experiments at each step of this work, thanks to an important amount of real world collected data. Through extended analyzes, we provide elements allowing to characterize the communication within mobile BANs, and particularly large scale networks. Although guided by the strong applicative context of live TV broadcast, these works and analysis methods don't lose in generality, and this challenging and original context opens a lot of perspectives
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MOREAU, FRANCOISE. "Etude de la serie cellulaire, bidimensionnelle et complexe, et de ses applications aux ecoulements de stokes en canal plan." Poitiers, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988POIT2278.
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Etude numerique d'ecoulements plans permanents de stokes qui s'etablissent dans un canal rectiligne illimite sous l'action de sources de mouvement variees (1 ou 2 cylindres de rayons, emplacements et mouvements divers). A faible distance de ces sources, le fluide decolle des parois pour former une suite de cellules visqueuses dont on analyse la structure et les particularites geometriques. Calculs bases sur la methode des moindres carres
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Xu, Chuan. "Power-Aware Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLS498/document.
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Ce manuscrit contient d'abord l'étude d'une extension du modèle des protocoles de populations, qui représentent des réseaux de capteurs asynchrones, passivement mobiles, limités en ressources et anonymes. Pour la première fois (à notre connaissance), un modèle formel de consommation d'énergie est proposé pour les protocoles de populations. A titre d'application, nous étudions à la complexité en énergie (dans le pire des cas et en moyenne) pour le problème de collecte de données. Deux protocoles prenant en compte la consommation d'énergie sont proposés. Le premier est déterministe et le second randomisé. Pour déterminer les valeurs optimales des paramètres, nous faisons appel aux techniques d'optimisation. Nous appliquons aussi ces techniques dans un cadre différent, celui des réseaux de capteurs corporels (WBAN). Une formulation de flux est proposée pour acheminer de manière optimale les paquets de données en minimisant la pire consommation d'énergie. Une procédure de recherche à voisinage variable est développée et les résultats numériques montrent son efficacité. Enfin, nous considérons le problème d'optimisation avec des paramètres aléatoires. Précisément, nous étudions un modèle semi-défini positif sous contrainte en probabilité. Un nouvel algorithme basé sur la simulation est proposé et testé sur un problème réel de théorie du contrôle. Nous montrons que notre méthode permet de trouver une solution moins conservatrice que d'autres approches en un temps de calcul raisonnableIn this thesis, we propose a formal energy model which allows an analytical study of energy consumption, for the first time in the context of population protocols. Population protocols model one special kind of sensor networks where anonymous and uniformly bounded memory sensors move unpredictably and communicate in pairs. To illustrate the power and the usefulness of the proposed energy model, we present formal analyses on time and energy, for the worst and the average cases, for accomplishing the fundamental task of data collection. Two power-aware population protocols, (deterministic) EB-TTFM and (randomized) lazy-TTF, are proposed and studied for two different fairness conditions, respectively. Moreover, to obtain the best parameters in lazy-TTF, we adopt optimization techniques and evaluate the resulting performance by experiments. Then, we continue the study on optimization for the power-aware data collection problem in wireless body area networks. A minmax multi-commodity netflow formulation is proposed to optimally route data packets by minimizing the worst power consumption. Then, a variable neighborhood search approach is developed and the numerical results show its efficiency. At last, a stochastic optimization model, namely the chance constrained semidefinite programs, is considered for the realistic decision making problems with random parameters. A novel simulation-based algorithm is proposed with experiments on a real control theory problem. We show that our method allows a less conservative solution, than other approaches, within reasonable time
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Stingel, Péter. "Mobilní aplikace na ulehčení hledání bodů zájmu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-417669.
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The growing trend in the share of mobile application use results in higher user expectations for applications. Much more emphasis is placed on both the appearance and ease of use of the applications themselves. This work examines this issue, analyses the market and then uses its findings. From these findings, a proposal for a new application is created, which will be used to promote the newly established company. The work also includes economic and non-economic aspects associated with the development of the application.
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Moore, John. "Inside the Boy Inside the Robot: Mobile Suit Gundam and Interiority." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23156.
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Mobile Suit Gundam (1979-1980) is an iconic series in the genre of television anime featuring giant fighting robots, embedded in a system of conventions developed across decades of media aimed at boys that emphasizes action and combat. In this thesis, I argue that Gundam foregrounds the interiority of its main character Amuro, challenging conventions governing the boy protagonist. Using Peter Verstraten's principles of film narratology and Thomas Lamarre’s theory of limited animation, I find in Gundam's narrative strategies sophisticated techniques developed to portray his inner life. These techniques of interiority generate ironic tensions with the traditionally exterior orientation of combat narratives. These tensions connect to a larger discourse of Japanese postwar media built into the very lines that draw characters and robots, leading Gundam to a spectacular confrontation with its own genre’s legacy of mechaphilia.
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Mahjoub, Fares. "Modélisation diphasique des évolutions transitoires d’interfaces liquide-gaz : application aux bulles attachées à des corps en mouvement." Grenoble INPG, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995INPG0158.
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Ce travail entre dans le cadre de l'etude de poches de gaz attachees a des corps immerges en mouvement. Nous avons cherche a modeliser les evolutions transitoires de grosses structures diphasiques placees en equilibre hydrodynamique important. Nous nous sommes interesses en particulier a l'influence de la vitesse des corps et de la pression initiale de ces bulles sur la stabilite des interfaces et l'apparition de jets rentrants. La complexite des phenomenes et la non-linearite du systeme d'equations issu des modeles physiques rend necessaire une modelisation numerique pour la determination complete de la plupart des cas, donnant en particulier acces aux impacts des jets pouvant apparaitre. Pour cela, sur la base d'un modele physique a deux fluides, nous avons construit un outil numerique utilisant le principe des volumes-finis associes a de nouveaux schemas de discretisation. Le developpement du code de calcul dans une optique industrielle polyvalente a permis la validation de ces differentes capacites. La comparaison de resultats numeriques et experimentaux pour des ecoulements laminaires ou turbulents, incompressibles, ou compressibles, monophasiques ou diphasiques nous a precise les limites de validite ducode. Elle a en outre permis de proposer une politique d'analyse des resultats de calculs plus complexes presentant des evolutions rapides d'interfaces. L'etude fine de trois configurations d'ecoulements a ete faite. Nous avons pu en extraire quelques conclusions physiques et numeriques sur l'influence des parametres de l'ecoulement sur l'ordre de grandeur des efforts dus aux impacts de jets rentrants sur les solides en presence
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Moribe, Sergio. "Desenvolvimento de um sistema de monitoramento de sinais de ECG e temperatura utilizando dispositivos móveis." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2016. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1939.
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CAPES; CNPq; Fundação AraucáriaEste trabalho teve por objetivo o desenvolvimento de um sistema de monitoramento de sinais de ECG e temperatura, com o propósito de dar mobilidade a pessoas que necessitam de monitoramento contínuo de alguns sinais fisiológicos, tais como pessoas idosas e/ou pessoas com deficiências cardíacas ou até mesmo para atletas que desejam melhorar seu desempenho através do monitoramento de seu condicionamento físico. Foram realizadas pesquisas dos equipamentos similares que existem atualmente no mercado e que estão sendo desenvolvidos para um embasamento técnico do protótipo desenvolvido. O sistema foi desenvolvido utilizando um microcontrolador de baixo custo e consumo para aquisição dos sinais fisiológicos e um módulo Bluetooth para comunicação com um dispositivo móvel que apresenta grande capacidade de processamento e recursos para realizar o armazenamento de dados e a interface com um sistema de monitoramento para avaliação médica remota, garantindo a mobilidade, segurança e melhoria na qualidade de vida de idosos e pacientes. Os principais sinais fisiológicos são os sinais vitais, que são as funções mais básicas do corpo, tais como, temperatura corporal, frequência cardíaca, frequência respiratória e pressão arterial. No protótipo proposto, foi incorporado o monitoramento da temperatura corporal e do eletrocardiograma (ECG) completo com as 12 derivações. A frequência respiratória e pressão arterial não foram contempladas no protótipo devido à complexidade de implementação de muitos sinais fisiológicos em um único equipamento. Para definição do hardware e minimizar o risco de futuros problemas, foram também realizados testes com ferramentas de desenvolvimentos disponibilizados pelos fabricantes dos principais componentes e que também são expostos neste trabalho. Pode-se concluir que os objetivos iniciais foram alcançados pois foi desenvolvido um protótipo para monitoramento remoto de sinais de ECG e temperatura utilizando um aplicativo Android. O protótipo foi testado utilizando-se sinais de um simulador de ECG e um sensor de temperatura, atendendo às principais funcionalidades requeridas para o sistema.
This work aims to develop a system for monitoring ECG and temperature signals with the purpose of giving mobility to people requiring continuous monitoring of some physiological signals, such as the elderly and/or individuals with heart failure or even for athletes who wish to improve their performance by monitoring their fitness. Research of similar equipment that there are currently on the market and that are being developed was made for a technical base of the prototype to be developed. The system was developed using a low cost and low consumption microcontroller for the acquisition of physiological signals and a Bluetooth module for communication with a mobile device having large capacity and processing resources to perform data storage and interface with a monitoring system for remote medical evaluation, ensuring mobility, safety and improved quality of life of elderly and patients. The main physiological signals are vital signals, which are the most basic body functions such as body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure. In the proposed prototype, monitoring body temperature and complete 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) was incorporated. The respiratory rate and blood pressure were not included in the prototype due to the complexity of implementation of many physiological signals in a single equipment. For the hardware definition and to minimize the risk of future problems, tests have also been done with development tools available from manufacturers of the main components and which are also presented in this work. It is possible to conclude that the initials objectives were achieved bacause a prototype was developed for remote monitoring of ECG and temperature signals using an Android application. The prototype was tested using an ECG simulator and a temperature sensor, attending the main required features for the system.
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Cimpl, Tomáš. "AKTUALIZACE DTMM S VYUŽITÍM MOBILNÍHO SKENOVACÍHO SYSTÉMU." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226219.
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This diploma thesis deals with the updating of digital technical city map. Specifically with map updating using data from mobile scanning system and a comparison with map updating performed without the use of a mobile mapping system. Aim of the thesis was to update the digital technical map of Pardubice in the range of map sheet Pardubice 8-1/21.
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Brosse, Nicolas. "Trajectoire et sillage d'un corps en chute libre en interaction avec un autre corps ou en présence d'un confinement." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010INPT0053/document.
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Un corps en chute libre dans un fluide sous l'effet de la gravité peut être soumis à des perturbations. De façon générale, celles-ci peuvent être dues aux mouvements propres du fluide porteur, à la présence d'autres corps mobiles ou encore à la présence de parois. Dans un premier temps, nous avons choisi de nous intéresser à l'interaction de deux disques identiques chutant dans un fluide de densité proche de celle du corps. Différents comportements d'interaction sont observés pour des disques de rapports de forme variable (diamètre sur épaisseur) et des nombres de Reynolds (effets inertiel sur effets visqueux) couvrant des trajectoires rectilignes et périodiques oscillantes. Lorsque les disques sont lâchés en tandem, ils s'attirent et se rencontrent. Après le contact, le comportement dépend du rapport de forme : les disques épais se séparent et tombent côte à côte, tandis que les disques minces continuent leur évolution ensemble dans une configuration relative stable. Lorsque les corps sont lâchés côte à côte, on observe une répulsion des corps qui se traduit par un éloignement horizontal. Une modélisation pour chacun de ces comportements (attraction, répulsion) a été proposée. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons étudié l’effet de parois fixes sur le mouvement d'un disque isolé en chute libre. Les disques sont lâchés dans des tubes cylindriques créant différents rapports de confinement (diamètre du disque sur diamètre du tube). Nous avons mis en évidence que le comportement du corps dépendait du rapport de forme : la trajectoire d'un disque mince est déstabilisée par le confinement, alors que celle d'un disque épais est stabilisée. Des visualisations des sillages à l'aide de colorants ainsi que des simulations numériques de l'écoulement autour de disques fixes ont été réalisées et ont permis de mieux comprendre le rôle du sillage sur les interactionsA body falling in a fluid under the effect of gravity may be perturbed by the presence of other bodies or fixed boundaries. We first focused our attention on the interaction of two identical disks in freefall. We investigated the kinematics of disks with different aspect ratios (ratio of diameter to thickness) and with different initial relative positions, for a range of Reynolds numbers (ratio of inertial effects to viscous effects) covering both rectilinear trajectories and periodic, oscillating trajectories. When the disks are falling in tandem, the trailing body accelerates until it catches up the leading one. After the contact, the behaviour depends on the aspect ratio. Thicker disks separate and fall side by side and separated while thinner disks continue their fall together in Y or T reversed position. A model of the different types of interaction (entrainment by the wake and horizontal repulsion) is proposed. The second part of the study is devoted to the effect of fixed walls on the kinematics of freely falling bodies. The behaviour again depends strongly on the aspect ratio : a thin disk is destabilized when the blockage ratio (ratio of disk diameter to tube diameter) increases, whereas thicks disks are stabilized. In addition, visualizations of the wakes using dyes and numerical simulations for fixed disks were performed and provide a better understanding of the role of the wake in the interaction
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Raška, Martin. "Mobile IP v sítích MANET." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218096.
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This thesis discuss about the problem with mobility of stations in IP networks, concretely protocol Mobile IP and about the problems with this protocol in MANET networks, with the scope on Motorola MESH. First part is about design integration of protocol Mobile IP in this networks with usage Tropos 5210 MetroMesh routers and Cisco components (router, switch) to design and configure wireless MESH network, than connect this network with Cisco components and try to implement Mobile IP into this network. Second part is about design and configure wireless network from Cisco Wireless Access Points and about succesfully implementation of Mobile IP protocol into this network. In the last part is some tests of the function and quality of this topology.
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Hoffmannová, Lada. "Testování přesnosti mobilního laserového skenování." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-414306.
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Diploma thesis describes collecting of data by mobile mapping system Riegl VMX-450. Science centre AdMas was captured with mobile mapping system. For the purpose of testing the accuracy, a calibration field was constructed in AdMaS. Main part of the thesis deals with testing of the accuracy of point cloud. Calibration field's coordinates were obtained by adjustment of the geodetic network using the least squares adjustment. During the testing, the coordinates of the calibration field points determined by the adjustment of the geodetic network and the coordinates of the points determined from the point cloud were compared. Another part of the work deals with testing of the accuracy, when target's position is in different height levels.
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Du, Wenqian. "Motion generation of four-limb robots using whole-body torque control." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUS067.
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Cette thèse présente la génération de mouvements de deux robots quadrupèdes : la génération du mode roulement d’un robot quadrupède sur roues, et la génération du mode trot d’un robot quadrupède avec mécanisme en parallélogramme. Ces deux générateurs de mouvement sont développés en utilisant des modèles de dynamiques généralisées et de dynamiques centroidales. Nous introduisons le concept de contrôleur en impédances priorisées et nous proposons un nouveau modèle de dynamiques qui incorpore une hiérarchie de contrôle multitâche. Nous l’intégrons dans le nouveau modèle dynamique pour améliorer quatre différents cadres de travail pour le contrôle hiérarchisé. Puis, nous proposons deux générateurs de mouvements pour le mode roulement de TowrISIR. Le mouvement des roues est extrait selon les mouvements des pattes et de la base. Le premier générateur de mouvement des roues est développé en combinant le modèle cinématique et le modèle dynamique et de moments centroidaux. Le deuxième générateur de mouvements est plus général et permet de franchir des terrains accidentés avec différences d’altitude. Un générateur de mouvements corps complets est développé en combinant un modèle de mouvements centré sur roues et un modèle proposé de contrôle d’altitude. Enfin, nous proposons un nouveau principe de locomotion à pattes pour notre robot quadrupède, QuadISIR, qui peut générer les mouvements des pattes automatiquement en utilisant les propriétés centroidales, sans nécessiter l’approximation de pattes sans masse. La position des pattes suit le mouvement de la base sans interférer avec les contraintes de contact. Le balancement des pattes compense le délai généré par les pattes de postureThe thesis presents the whole-body motion generation of two four-limb robots, including the rolling-mode generation of a quadruped-on-wheel robot, TowrISIR, and the trotting-mode generation of a quadruped robot with parallelogram mechanisms, QuadISIR. Both the wheeled and legged motion generators are developed by using the generalized dynamics and centroidal dynamics models, and they are verified by our improved proposed torque controllers. We propose the concept called prioritized impedance controller, and we propose one new dynamics model to embody multi-task control hierarchy. We integrate it into the new dynamics model to improve four kinds of hierarchical operational-space torque control frameworks. Then, we propose two rolling-mode motion generators of TowrISIR. By given legged-suspension motion, the wheel motion is extracted out depending on base and legged motions, then the first wheel motion generator is developed by combining the kinematics model and centroidal momentum/dynamics model. The second whole-body motion generator is more general which enables the robot to cross rough terrains with much-altitude difference. Then the whole-body motion generator is developed by combining further the wheel-center motion model and a proposed altitude control model. Finally, we propose a new legged locomotion principle for one quadruped robot, QuadISIR, which can generate legged motion automatically using the centroidal properties without massless-leg assumption. The virtual joint between the base and each-leg CoM is used. The stance legs follow the base motion without conflicting the contact constraints. The swing legs compensate the delay influences by the stance legs
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Nunes, Douglas Fabiano de Sousa. "ACUMAAF: ambiente de computação ubíqua para o monitoramento e avaliação de atividade física." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2012. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/501.
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The physical inactivity has been indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the main risk factors for the incidence of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (CNCDs). Millions of deaths in the world are a result of these diseases, and this number has increased each year. In an attempt to change this scenario WHO has stimulated regular practice of physical activities, because they play an important role in preventing CNCDs. In Brazil, these activities are performed by health units which generate a large amount of data that need treatment. To deal with this problem we developed UCEMEPA, an environment that employs Ubiquitous Computing technologies and wireless communication networks, in order to monitor remotely and evaluate participants of physical activity groups in real-time. This environment automatically collects physiologic data, and provides indicators which will support and direct public policies for promoting physical activity. In this sense, UCEMEPA will contribute for the promotion of health and quality of life, and for the conduction of longitudinal studies aiming to establish correlations between the practice of physical activity and CNCDs prevention.
A inatividade física tem sido apontada pela Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) como um dos principais fatores de risco comportamentais responsáveis pela incidência de Doenças Crônicas Não Transmissíveis (DCNTs). Milhões de mortes no mundo são decorrentes dessas doenças e esse número vem aumentando a cada ano. Na tentativa de reverter esse quadro a OMS vem estimulando as práticas regulares de atividade física, já que estas possuem um importante papel na prevenção de DCNTs. No Brasil a promoção dessas atividades é realizada por unidades regionalizadas de saúde e geram uma grande quantidade de dados que carecem de processamento e tratamento. Em resposta a esse problema nós desenvolvemos o ACUMAAF, um ambiente que emprega tecnologias emergentes da Computação Ubíqua e redes de comunicação sem fio para monitorar e avaliar, em tempo real e a distância, participantes de grupos de atividade física. Esse ambiente coleta dados fisiológicos de forma automática e coletiva e tem como objetivo possibilitar a geração de indicadores capazes de apoiar e nortear políticas públicas de promoção de atividade física. O ACUMAAF é um ambiente computacional com contribuições para a promoção da saúde, para a promoção da qualidade de vida da população e para a realização de estudos longitudinais objetivando relacionar atividade física e a prevenção de DCNTs.
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Groulík, Tomáš. "Kamerový subsystém mobilního robotu Minidarpa." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218317.
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Master`s thesis is focused on mobile robotics and computer vision. There is briefly introduced a library of functions for image processing OpenCV. Then it deals with image processing and navigation of mobile robots using image data. There are described segmentation methods and methods for navigating through feature points.
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Ferrand, Paul. "Communications coopératives dans les réseaux autour du corps humain." Phd thesis, INSA de Lyon, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00941101.
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Cette thèse a pour but d'évaluer la performance théorique des approches coopératives pour la fiabilisation des transmissions dans les réseaux autour du corps humain. Ces réseaux sont formés d'un nombre limité de capteurs communicants disposés sur et dans le corps. Les techniques de coopération dans les réseaux de cette taille sont extrêmement dépendantes de l'information disponible quand à la qualité des canaux de communication au moment de la transmission. Sous une hypothèse de connaissance de la valeur moyenne à moyen et long terme de l'affaiblissement de ces canaux, nous dérivons une approximation du taux d'erreur paquet de bout en bout pour des techniques de relayage. Nous présentons également, pour certains de ces modèles, une allocation de puissance asymptotiquement optimale, fournissant un gain sur une large plage des puissances d'émission. En supposant ensuite que les noeuds ont une connaissance parfaite de l'état du réseau, nous étudions la capacité de Shannon sur des canaux à relais, et des canaux comprenant deux émetteurs coopérant entre eux. Pour ces deux modèles, nous montrons que lorsque l'on cherche à optimiser la répartition de puissance totale disponible à l'émission, l'étude se réduit à celle d'un modèle de canal équivalent simplifiant grandement l'analyse de la capacité et fournissant des solutions analytiques aux problèmes d'allocation de ressources. Nous présentons enfin une plate-forme de mesures pour les réseaux autour du corps humain, permettant de relever de manière quasi-simultanée l'intégralité des affaiblissements des liens entre les nœuds du réseau. Cette plateforme nous permet de traiter de la stabilité de ces liens et de la validité de l'hypothèse de réciprocité. Nous évaluons également la corrélation spatiale de l'affaiblissement des liens et nous montrons en particulier que celle-ci varie fortement au cours du mouvement, mais de façon suffisamment lente pour être estimée au fil de l'eau.
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Friesz, Kenneth Michael. "Operation mobilize guiding members of Glidewell Baptist Church to find spiritual fulfillment through a workshop designed to help each participant discover his role in the Body of Christ /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Kučera, Pavel. "USB host s mikrokontroléry PIC." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-235542.
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The aim of master thesis is implementation of USB host in a microcontroller PIC. The thesis contains description of ways of peripherals to computer connections with detailed description of USB bus. There are also discussed several approaches in implementations USB host for embedded systems. A concept of layered USB host system is designed on the basis of analysis of the state of the art. Finally, the designed system is implemented in microcontroller. Resulting firmware of development kit is tested on real USB device.
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Flayols, Thomas. "Exploitation du Retour de Force pour l'Estimation et le Contrôle des Robots Marcheurs." Thesis, Toulouse, INSA, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ISAT0025/document.
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Dans cette thèse, on s’intéresse à la commande des robots marcheurs. Contrôler ces systèmes naturellement instables, de dynamique non linéaire, non convexe, de grande dimension, et dépendante des contacts représente un défi majeur en robotique mobile. Les approches classiques formulent une chaîne de contrôle formée d’une cascade de sous problèmes tels que la perception, le planning, la commande du corps complet et l’asservissement articulaire. Les contributions rapportées ici ont toutes pour but d’introduire une rétroaction au niveau de la commande du corps complet ou du planning. Précisément, une première contribution technique est la formulation et la comparaison expérimentale de deux estimateurs de la base du robot. Une seconde contribution est l’implémentation d’un contrôleur par dynamique inverse pour contrôler en couple le robot HRP-2. Une variante de ce contrôleur est aussi formulée et testée en simulation pour stabiliser un robot en contact flexible avec son environnement. Finalement un générateur de marche par commande pré-dictive et couplé à un contrôleur corps complet est présentéIn this thesis, we are interested in the control of walking robots. Controlling these naturally unstable, non-linear, non-convex, large and contact-dependent systems is a major challenge in mobile robotics. Traditional approaches formulate a chain of control formed by a cascade of sub-problems such as perception, planning, full body control and joint servoing. The contributions reported here are all intended to provide state feedback at the whole body control stage or at the planning stage. Specifically, a first technical contribution is the formulation and experimental comparison of two estimators of the robot base. A second contribution is the implementation of a reverse dynamic controller to control the HRP-2 robot in torque. A variant of this controller is also formulated and tested in simulation to stabilize a robot in flexible contact with its environment. Finally, a predictive control operation generator coupled to a whole body controller is presented
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Pereira, Orlando Ricardo Esteves. "Mobile platform-independent solutions for body sensor network interface." Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/3726.
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Body Sensor Networks (BSN) appeared as an application of Wireless Sensor Network
(WSN) to medicine and biofeedback. Such networks feature smart sensors (biosensors)
that capture bio-physiological parameters from people and can offer an easy way
for data collection. A new BSN platform called Sensing Health with Intelligence
Modularity, Mobility and Experimental Reusability (SHIMMER) presents an excellent
opportunity to put the concept into practice, with suitable size and weight, while also
supporting wireless communication via Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 standards.
BSNs also need suitable interfaces for data processing, presentation, and storage
for latter retrieval, as a result one can use Bluetooth technology to communicate with
several more powerful and Graphical User Interface (GUI)-enabled devices such as
mobile phones or regular computers. Taking into account that people currently use
mobile and smart phones, it offers a good opportunity to propose a suitable mobile
system for BSN SHIMMER-based networks.
This dissertation proposes a mobile system solution with different versions created
to the four major smart phone platforms: Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and
Android. Taking into account that, currently, iPhone does not support Java, and Java
cannot match a native solution in terms of performance in other platforms such as
Android or Symbian, a native approach with similar functionality must be followed.
Then, four mobile applications were created, evaluated and validated, and they are
ready for use.