Virtual Control Panel Research Articles

Mobile Phone Based Home Surveillance System

This paper presents an application of the GSM technology. Using the public GSM networks, a mobile phone based home surveillance system has been designed. The system automatically sends sms messages to specified phone / phones in case any door or window is opened by some intruder. The system also allows the homeowner monitoring and controlling the electrical home appliances via the mobile phone by sending commands in the form of SMS messages and receiving the appliances status. Virtual control panel is realized using VB on windows 98. Electronic circuit to control security and electrical appliances is interfaced to PC using PCL-812 Lab card. This home surveillance system has been tested and found to very effective in security control as well as controlling and monitoring electrical home appliances virtually from any place.

Mixed-Reality and Traditional Flight Simulators for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles

The 2018 NASA Academy at Langley Research Center created proof-of-concept mixed reality (MR) and traditional simulators to enable quick vehicle concept prototyping and data collection for human factors studies. Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicle concepts were implemented as the focus for these simulators due to recent and dramatic rise in subject interest. The team used X-Plane 11 to model flight dynamics, and Unity for the virtual reality (VR) aspect of the MR simulator and to model the control panel in the traditional simulator. A physical version of the virtual control panel was also fabricated to provide haptic feedback to maintain the immersion for the MR simulator.

가상 현실 기반 철강 공정 조업 교육 시스템

This paper will introduce the development case study about virtual-reality-based operation training system for steel making process. Steel making process consist iron making process to create liquid steel, pig iron, by reduction process, steel making process to make molten steel by refining, continuous casting process to make slab, and rolling process to make final product like coil, plate. This steel making process deals with liquid and solid products, so facilities of steel making process are very various and complicated. In addition, according to various customer requirements, the recycle of facilities and recipes changing have been fast. So the training for skilled operators is very important point. In this paper, we develop steel making training system based virtual reality for training skilled operator. This system consists of virtual machine, virtual HMI, and virtual control panel. And for fitting the characteristics of each process and increasing the education effectiveness, we develop dynamic methods like the method of dynamic education system configuration, initial facilities setup operation education system, and etc.

Conception of the Integration of the Virtual Robot Model with the Control System

The paper presents the conception of integration of a robot virtual model with its virtual control system. The system of connections between the virtual world and the control system of a virtual model, proposed in the work, should let for developing the technical approach allowing teaching the manual programming of robots. In the paper attempted to define particular subsystems included in the proposed system for teaching programming of robots. In the work it have been distinguished problems that should be solved in order to properly create the proposed virtual system, and namely problems related to the: creation of a robotic system model in CAD systems, including modelling of a robot and its technological equipment; modelling of functioning of a real system in the applications of the VR (Virtual Reality) class; creation of a robot control system basing on a high level programming language (control application); elaboration of a virtual robot control panel (hardware interface); determination of the appropriate stereoscopic projection system and creation of the interfaces between the particular subsystems.

1P1-G04 遭遇型ハプティックデバイスによる仮想操作パネル提示システム

In this paper, we proposed a new method to plan the motion of an encountered-type haptic device for rendering several switches on a control panel in virtual space. We introduced the virtual surface coordinates to the motion planning so that the device moves along the virtual control panel in order to avoid unintended collision with the user. We also improved weight function used in the motion planning to reduce the duty of the device motion. The proposed method was verified by numerical simulation.

What is electronic contact lens?

Electronic contact lenses promise to overlay a heads-up display over a user's visual field, enabling tactical information-like an automobile speedometer for drivers-to be seen only by the wearer. Researchers at the University of Washington (Seattle) recently demonstrated the world's first electronic contact lens, complete with integrated light-emitting-diodes. So far the researchers have only completed animal testing on unpowered lenses, but for the upcoming human trials the researchers hope to power a virtual control panel that enables the display to appear to float in mid-air. Future applications could give military users virtual heads-up displays, give video gamers "anywhere" action, and let any contact-lens wearer surf the Internet sans monitor.

Evaluation of a Haptic Mixed Reality System for Interactions with a Virtual Control Panel

We present a haptic feedback technique that combines feedback from a portable force-feedback glove with feedback from direct contact with rigid passive objects. This approach is a haptic analogue of visual mixed reality, since it can be used to haptically combine real and virtual elements in a single display. We discuss device limitations that motivated this combined approach and summarize technological challenges encountered. We present three experiments to evaluate the approach for interactions with buttons and sliders on a virtual control panel. In our first experiment, this approach resulted in better task performance and better subjective ratings than the use of only a force-feedback glove. In our second experiment, visual feedback was degraded and the combined approach resulted in better performance than the glove-only approach and in better ratings of slider interactions than both glove-only and passive-only approaches. A third experiment allowed subjective comparison of approaches and provided additional evidence that the combined approach provides the best experience.

Focus on Lasers and Optics

Focus on Lasers and Optics

3次元空間内の複数の仮想物体を提示するための遭遇型ハプティックデバイスの軌道計画

A path-planning algorithm for encountered-type haptic devices that render multiple virtual objects in 3D space is proposed. To render multiple virtual objects with a single haptic device, the following two behaviors must be realized: (i) the device should move to the target object location in advance of the user's hand so that the user can encounter it; (ii) otherwise, the device should keep away from the user's hand, avoiding an unexpected collision. To realize such a consistent encounter, the user's hand motion must be tracked. The proposed algorithm determines the device location based on the minimum distance problem between a point (the user's hand) and a convex polyhedron constructed from the reference points of multiple objects. An automobile virtual control panel was constructed using an encountered-type haptic device in which the proposed path-planning algorithm was implemented. The validity of the proposed algorithm was confirmed and the required performances, such as the device speed and the accuracy of hand tracking were evaluated.

A Virtual Curve-Fitting Instrument for Interactive Analysis of Excimer Dynamics

Custom LabVIEW software has been developed which creates a virtual control panel equipped with a waveform chart that simultaneously displays both calculated and experimental time-resolved laser-induced emission profiles of pyrene monomer and excimer species. The program uses numerical methods and interactively controlled rate constants to solve a set of coupled differential rate equations. The virtual control panel is equipped with controls that can be operated with a computer mouse to interactively adjust the values of the rate constants until the calculate curves best fit the experimental data as measured by a variance of fit meter. The control panel also has a convolution switch, which, when enabled, subjects the calculated intensity profiles to the same instrumental distortions as those experienced by the experimental profiles. Unlike traditional curve-fitting algorithms, the analog nature of this virtual instrument provides students an opportunity to interactively explore the behavior of a coupled ki...

Computer controlled specimen stage goniometer for a nuclear microprobe

A computer controlled virtual instrument for a nuclear microprobe specimen stage goniometer is described. This virtual instrument includes many powerful features not previously available on other computer controlled stages. A X-windows interface under the linux operating system provides a virtual instrument control panel on any X-terminal connected to the global net. This allows mouse driven ‘point and click’ control over four stage motions. In addition, two input channels allow continuous measurement of beam current and detector count rate. Each axis is controlled by a stepper motor which can be configured to step in any unit. The virtual instrument may be reconfigured from an initialisation file to adapt to changes in the hardware configuration. Motion of each axis can also be controlled by a flexible command language that allows for four dimensional scanning or any other complicated axis movements in response to elapsed time, accumulated dose or integrated detector counts. An integrated video capture system provides an inset in the virtual instrument control panel for viewing of the specimen in real time. Some applications of this virtual instrument include the identification of the orientation and structure of crystals, the study of radiation induced damage in semiconductors and the direct writing of microstructures in optical materials.

Computer control and data acquisition of the heavy ion beam probe (abstract)

The heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) on TEXT-upgrade and the vertical test stand (VTS) at Rensselaer are to be operated from a virtual control panel using a graphical language interfacea). The system will monitor and control over eighty signals, as well as acquire data using mouse and keyboard inputs. The computer interface utilizes a DEC 5000/240 workstation, two color monitors, SCSI to fiber optic link, and CAMAC crate. Long term goals include remote experimental monitoring and control, and feedback control. The status and visuals of the computer control system and results of implementation on the VTS will be presented.

A synthetic visual environment with hand gesturing and voice input

This paper describes a practical synthetic visual environment for use in CAD and teleoperation. Instead of using expensive head mounted display systems, we use a standard display and compute smooth shaded images using an AT&T Pixel Machine. The interface uses a VPL DataGlove [9] to track the hand, bringing the synthetic world into the same space as the hand. Hand gesturing is used to implement a virtual control panel, and some 3D modeling tasks. When simple speech recognition was added it markedly improved the interface. We also outline what extensions might be needed for using this kind of interface for teleoperation.