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Supporting Cybersecurity Compliance Assessment of Industrial Automation and Control System Components
PublikacjaThe chapter presents a case study demonstrating how security requirements of an Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) component can be represented in a form of Protection Profile that is based on IEC 62443 standards and how compliance assessment of such component can be supported by explicitly representing a conformity argument in a form based on the OMG SACM meta-model. It is also demonstrated how an advanced argument...
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Procedure based functional safety and information security management of industrial automation and control systems on example of the oil port installations
PublikacjaThe approach addresses selected technical and organization aspects of risk mitigation in the oil port installations with regard to functional safety and security requirements specified in standards IEC 61508, IEC 61511 and IEC 62443. The procedure for functional safety management includes the hazard identification, risk analysis and assessment, specification of overall safety requirements and definition of...
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Automation of ship and control
PublikacjaSummaryThe article presents the problem of automation of ship and control. This paper will discuss the basic tasks of the track ship control, collision avoidance and automatic dynamic positioning. The following subjects will be presented: the general structure of the ship's control, methods and control algorithms for the above mentioned tasks..StreszczenieArtykuł przedstawia zagadnienia automatyzacji i sterowania statkiem. W pracy...
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OROMACS: A Design Framework for Multi-agent Control System
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PLC-based Implementation of Stochastic Optimization Method in the Form of Evolutionary Strategies for PID, LQR, and MPC Control
PublikacjaProgrammable logic controllers (PLCs) are usually equipped with only basic direct control algorithms like proportional-integral-derivative (PID). Modules included in engineering software running on a personal computer (PC) are usually used to tune controllers. In this article, an alternative approach is considered, i.e. the development of a stochastic optimizer based on the (μ,λ) evolution strategy (ES) in a PLC. For this purpose,...
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Quadrotor Flight Controller Design Using Classical Tools
PublikacjaA principal aspect of quadrocopter in-flight operation is to maintain the required attitude of the craft’s frame, which is done either automatically in the so-called supervised flight mode or manually during man-operated flight mode. This paper deals with the problem of flight controller (logical) structure and algorithm design dedicated for the man-operated flight mode. The role of the controller is to stabilise the rotational...
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Detection of the Oocyte Orientation for the ICSI Method Automation
PublikacjaAutomation or even computer assistance of the popular infertility treatment method: ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) would speed up the whole process and improve the control of the results. This paper introduces a preliminary research for automatic spermatozoon injection into the oocyte cytoplasm. Here, the method for detection a correct orientation of the polar body of the oocyte is presented. Proposed method uses deep...
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When Does Automation in Government Thrive or Flounder?
PublikacjaGovernment organizations worldwide are harvesting the transformative potential of digital technologies to automate interactions with citizens, businesses, and each other. Automation can bring benefits, such as an increase the efficiency of government operations, quality of government decisions, and convenience of government-citizen interactions. It can also produce adverse outcomes, such as compromising social value for economic...
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Validating the Rules of Government Automation
PublikacjaThere is growing evidence on the benefits and risks of government automation, and how should government organizations proceed with automation when the benefits outweigh the risks. This evidence was recently consolidated into the "rules of government automation", part of the project funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. The project uncovered that the combined nature of government work and its transformation into digital...
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Towards automation of IT systems repairs
PublikacjaMonitoring and repair are two sides of the on-the-fly maintenance of IT systems.Monitoring is well supported by automatic tools. In contrast, repairs involve much higherhuman intervention which negatively affects reliability and efficiency. The paper intro-duces a method of automating repairs of IT systems which can be integrated with any ofthe existing monitoring mechanisms. The method is described as a collection of modelsand...
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60th anniversary of Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
PublikacjaThe paper presents the outline history of Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Automation of the Gdansk University of Technology over the span of 60 years - throughout the period 1945-2006.
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Applications of Computer Vision in Automation and Robotics
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Hybrid System for Ship-Aided Design Automation
PublikacjaA hybrid support system for ship design based on the methodology of CBR with some artificial intelligence tools such as expert system Exsys Developer along with fuzzy logic, relational Access database and artificial neural network with backward propagation of errors.
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Comparison of Tracking Methods in Respect of Automation of Animal Behavioral Test
PublikacjaAutomation in experiments carried out on animals is getting more and more important in research. Computers take over laborious and time-consuming activities like recording and analysing images of experiment scene. The first step in an image analysis is finding and distinguishing between the observed animals, and then tracking all objects during the experiment. In this paper four tracking methods are presented. Quantitative and...
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Miniaturization and Automation of an Internally Cooled Coated Fiber Device
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The automation of test stand for engine cooling system testing
PublikacjaW rozdziale przedstawiono budowę stanowiska do badań układu chłodzenia silnika samochodowego typu M111920. Układ był wyposażony w obwód podgrzewania paliwa gazowego i układ akumulacji ciepła. Stanowisko wyposażono w liczne termopary do pomiaru temperatur płynów i części metalowych silnika. Ważnym opracowanym zagadnieniem było rejestrowanie wielu pomiarów w czasie rzeczywistym, do czego użyto sieci transmisji danych CAN.
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Electromagnetic Simulation with 3D FEM for Design Automation in 5G Era
PublikacjaElectromagnetic simulation and electronic design automation (EDA) play an important role in the design of 5G antennas and radio chips. The simulation challenges include electromagnetic effects and long simulation time and this paper focuses on simulation software based on finite-element method (FEM). The state-of-the-art EDA software using novel computational techniques based on FEM can not only accelerate numerical analysis, but...
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Centralized and Distributed Structures of Intelligent Systems for Aided Design of Ship Automation
PublikacjaA design process and accepted solutions made during this process, often base on non-formalized knowledge, obtained from designer (expert) intuition and practice. There are no formalized rules assuring the correctness of design solutions. The analysis of design process of ship automation, including ship power system, shows that this process can be supported by application of the artificial intelligence elements. The article presents...
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On application of the Case-Based Reasoning methods in ship automation design
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono metodę wnioskowania na podstawie przypadków oraz dwa przykłady jej zastosowania w projektowaniu statków. Pierwszy przykład dotyczy systemu projektowania koncepcyjnego statku. Drugi przykład odnosi się do projektowania układów automatyki okrętowej. Omówiono szczegółowo problemy doboru funkcji podobieństwa w metodzie wnioskowania na podstawie przypadków.
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An application of simulation investigations in design procedures of shippower system automation
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono wyniki prac dotyczące zastosowania badań symulacyjnych systemów energetycznych statków w środowisku programowym systemu ekspertowego. Wyniki badań symulacyjnych są źródłem głębokiej wiedzy dla systemu ekspertowego dotyczącej oceny spełnienia kryteriów towarzystw klasyfikacyjnych statków. Wybrane sesje symulacyjne podsystemu napędu głównego statku zostały przedstawione i omówione.
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Agricultural products' storage control system
PublikacjaThe paper discusses the idea and the design of a remote control system for storage management of agricultural products which temperature may rise as the result of biological processes during the storage. An actual potatoes storehouse is discussed as an application for the proposed automation system. Because of existing buildings and infrastructure at the farm, wireless data transfer system has been proposed for communication between...
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(Lost) Pride and Prejudice. Journalistic Identity Negotiation Versus the Automation of Content
PublikacjaThe objective of our research was to broaden the knowledge regarding the relationship between the work of journalists and their professional identity, and, in particular, to identify the attitudes of this professional group towards algorithmic content creation under conditions of liminality. Previously, the implementation of the technology of algorithmic content creation by media organisations was associated primarily with financial...
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The use of can in automation test bench to test the engine cooling system
PublikacjaW publikacji opisano zasady rejestracji danych pomiarowych w hamowni silnikowej do badań układów chłodzenia silników samochodowych. Założeniami projektu stanowiska było użycie standardu przesyłu danych typu CAN. Opracowano metodę dużej gęstości zapisu przesyłanych danych.
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Implementation of Hierarchical Control of Drinking Water Supply System
PublikacjaThe paper presents the outline of the didactical project of a complex computer controlled system realized by the first degree students of the Automatics and Robotics on the Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering (FoEaCE) in Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). The synthesis, implementation and analysis of a multilayer hierarchical control system for drinking water supply system (DWSS) are main topics of that project. The...
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PROGRAMMABLE YANG - BASED INTERFACE IN CONTROL OF OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK
PublikacjaSince over a decade we observe intensive effort of research institutions and industrial consortia on extending flexibility and automation of the transport network control also known under the term network programmability. Key aspect of each programming interface is ability to evolve but also sensitivity to future modifications. As indicated in the past work in the specific context of optical transport networks an important criterion...
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Response Feature Technology for High-Frequency Electronics. Optimization, Modeling, and Design Automation
PublikacjaThis book discusses response feature technology and its applications to modeling, optimization, and computer-aided design of high-frequency structures including antenna and microwave components. By exploring the specific structure of the system outputs, feature-based approaches facilitate simulation-driven design procedures, both in terms of improving their computational efficiency and reliability. These benefits are associated...
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Automation of the Road Gate Operations Process at the Container Terminal—A Case Study of DCT Gdańsk SA
PublikacjaThe future increased terminal capacity will result in more container movement through the road complex and rail siding, which are one of the most critical areas (potential bottlenecks) in the container terminal. Truck turnaround time is one of the major factors that customers take into account while deciding how many container volumes they will handle through the container terminal. To enable to optimize increased traffic with...
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Safety Integrity Verification Issues of the Control Systems for Industrial Process Plants
PublikacjaThe aim of this article is to identify and discuss some issues that can be encountered in designing the industrial automation and control systems (IACS) for implementing safety functions. In a functional safety standard IEC 61511 for the process industry such systems are named the basic process control systems (BPCS) and the safety instrumented systems (SIS). In a generic functional safety standard IEC 61508 they are depicted as...
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A decision-making module for aiding ship system automation design; A knowledge-based approach
PublikacjaZastosowanie elementów sztucznej inteligencji, w tym systemów z bazą wiedzy staje się coraz bardziej powszechne przy komputerowo wspomaganym projektowaniu. Proces projektowy związany jest z wieloma problemami decyzyjnymi, jak: wybór struktury podsystemu, podzespołów czy też elementów składowych. Z tego względu zdecydowano się opracować system z bazą wiedzy z modułem wspirającym proces podejmowania decyzji.W artykule przedstawiono...
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CBR methodology application in an expert system for aided design ship's engine room automation
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono metody obliczania podobieństwa na podstawie przypadków, zastosowane w opracowanym systemie ekspertowym do wspomagania projektowania siłowni okrętowej. Do realizacji metody na przykładzie automatyki napędu głównego zastosowano oprogramowanie bazy danych i system ekspertowy. Uzyskane wyniki wyszukiwania w bazie danych statków podobnych zostały porównane i przeanalizowane. Do weryfikacji zastosowanych w bazie...
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Extending Continuous Integration with Post-mortem Debug Automation of Unhandled Exceptions Occurred in Kernel or User Mode Applications
PublikacjaThe paper proposes extension of the Continuous Integration practices with debug automation of unhandled exceptions. Goal of this improvement is to reduce the amount of redundant work when inspecting hundreds of failed tests from possibly the same reason, and to decrease time necessary to provide a fix to the codebase. The suitable CI infrastructure is proposed and an automatic method how to eliminate duplicated bugs is discussed....
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The application of an expert system for simulation investigations in yhe aided design of ship power systems automation.
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono strukturę i funkcje systemu wspomagającego projektowanie automatyki systemów enegretycznych statków. Dane opisujące projektowany podsystem energetyczny są wprowadzane w trybie interaktywnym do systemu ekspertowego. Reguły określaja poprawność formalną i merytoryczną wprowadzonych danych. W przypadku braku błędów system automatycznie tworzy model symulacyjny projektowanego podsystemu enegretycznego i wywołuje program...
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Polynomial description of dynamic impedance spectrogram—introduction to a new impedance analysis method
PublikacjaThis paper presents a polynomial description of spectrograms obtained using Dynamic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. A method to fit the polynomial degree correctly is discussed. A simple electrical system of a diode connected in parallel with a capacitor was used for testing. Dynamic impedance measurements during potentiodynamic polarization were conducted. This paper presents an alternative analysis method that allows...
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BASICS OF THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATIONS OF PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL PROCESSES
PublikacjaIntensive development of technologies, in particular of the spinotronics, nanotechnology, robotics, and ICT, shapes the new generation production systems. Their distinctive feature is the flexi-bility associated with production intelligence. It is required from all processes, including the production planning and control processes (PPCP). The article is of conceptual character. It was prepared based on literature research. It encompasses...
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Evaluating aerial laser scanning for seafloor mapping automation Shallow seabed mapping based on airborne Lidar bathymetry
PublikacjaThis article presents a novel methodological approach to understand and assess the suitability of ALB for the automatic classification and mapping of the seabed. ALB allows recording of the depth below the Secchi disk.
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Students and Young Professionals of the IEEE IES in the Time of Information, Automation, and Energy Transformation [Students and Young Professionals News]
PublikacjaReports on IEEE IES Society student activities in year 2021.
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Soft Real-Time Communication with WebSocket and WebRTC Protocols Performance Analysis for Web-based Control Loops
PublikacjaThe web browser has become an access window for content and services. The browser is available on almost any device connected to the network, regardless of its intended use: desktop, mobile device, computing server, e-book reader etc. Browsers are used by people to read news, contact the world, to check a bank account, register a visit at the doctor, watching video content, electronic purchases, using web versions of the office...
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Current risk analysis and management issues in technical systems.
PublikacjaDealing with the reliability and safety of industrial hazardous plants requires taking into account relevant interdisciplinary scientific knowledge and some existing approaches based on so-called good engineering practice, also those included in the international standards and guidelines. In this article an approach is proposed how to integrate the functional safety concept with information security aspects in the design and management...
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Początki i rozwój Katedry Automatyki na Wydziale Elektrycznym Politechniki Gdańskiej
PublikacjaNiniejszy artykuł obejmuje historię powstawania i rozwoju Katedry Automatyki na Wydziale Elektrotechniki i Automatyki Politechniki Gdańskiej oraz związanego z tym powstawania i rozwoju na Wydziale kierunku studiów automatyka i robotyka. W kształceniu studentów tego kierunku studiów uczestniczyły także i inne katedry Wydziału. Zajęcia dydaktyczne z zastosowań automatyki prowadzili również pracownicy: Katedry Miernictwa Elektrycznego,...
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INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL SAFETY AND CYBERSECURITY ANALYSIS METHOD FOR SMART MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
PublikacjaThis article addresses integrated functional safety and cybersecurity analysis with regard to: the generic functional safety standard IEC 61508 and the cyber security standard IEC 62443 concerning an industrial automation and control system (IACS). The objective is to mitigate the vulnerability of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems, and reduce relevant risks taking into account a set of fundamental...
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Feature extraction in detection and recognition of graphical objects
PublikacjaDetection and recognition of graphic objects in images are of great and growing importance in many areas, such as medical and industrial diagnostics, control systems in automation and robotics, or various types of security systems, including biometric security systems related to the recognition of the face or iris of the eye. In addition, there are all systems that facilitate the personal life of the blind people, visually impaired...
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From U2TP Models to Executable Tests with TTCN-3
PublikacjaThe approach towards system engineering according to Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) with code generation derived from model implies also an increased need for research on automation of the test generation process. This paper presents an approach to derive executable tests from UML 2.0 Testing Profile diagrams automatically. In particular, an approach to derive executable tests within the Testing and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3)...
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Functional safety and cyber security analysis for life cycle management of industrial control systems in hazardous plants and oil port critical infrastructure including insurance
PublikacjaThis report addresses selected methodological aspects of proactive reliability, functional safety and cyber security management in life cycle of industrial automation and control systems (IACS) in hazardous plants and oil port critical installations based on the analysis of relevant hazards / threats and evaluation of related risks. In addition the insurance company point of view has been also considered, because nowadays the insurer,...
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PROJEKTOWANIE WIELOWYMIAROWEGO REGULATORA BACKSTEPPING W UKŁADZIE DYNAMICZNEGO POZYCJONOWANIA STATKU
PublikacjaW komercyjnych systemach dynamicznego pozycjonowania statku, pomimo znacznego wzrostu poziomu automatyzacji, wykorzystywane jest nadal sterowanie typu PID. Poprawę jakości procesu pozycjonowania może umożliwić wykorzystanie bardziej efektywnych algorytmów, oferujących zaawansowane nieliniowe techniki sterowania. W artykule przedstawiono zagadnienie projektowania regulatora pozycji i kursu dla układu dynamicznego pozycjonowania...
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Mobile wireless measurement system for potatoes storage management
PublikacjaThe paper discusses the idea and the design of a remote control system for a storage management of agricultural products which temperature may rise in a result of biological processes during the storage. Exemplary potatoes storehouse is discussed as an application of the automation system. Because of existing buildings and infrastructure in the farm, wireless data transfer system has been proposed for both sensors to data acquisition...
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Systems engineering approach to functional safety and cyber security of industrial critical installations
PublikacjaThis chapter addresses the systems engineering approach to integrated functional safety and cybersecurity analysis and management regarding selected references, standards and requirements concerning critical installations and their industrial automation and control system (IACS). The objective is to mitigate the vulnerability of industrial installations that include the information technology (IT) and the operational technology...
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Systems engineering approach to functional safety and cyber security of industrial critical installations
PublikacjaThis chapter addresses the systems engineering approach to integrated functional safety and cybersecurity analysis and management regarding selected references, standards and requirements concerning critical installations and their industrial automation and control system (IACS). The objective is to mitigate the vulnerability of industrial installations that include the information technology (IT) and the operational technology...
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Human Factors and Cognitive Engineering in Functional Safety Analysis
PublikacjaHuman factors and cognitive engineering are considered nowadays as important multidisciplinary domains that focus on improving the relations between humans, technology and systems to be supervised and operated. The industrial automation and control systems (IACS) in hazardous plants are increasingly computerized and perform various safety functions. These are usually designed and implemented according to the functional safety requirements....
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Application of Smart IoT Technology in Project Management Scenarios
PublikacjaThe report presents a low-cost and flexible solution to control and monitor home and industrial appliances. The popularity of automation devices has increased greatly in recent years due to higher affordability and simplicity through IoT phone and tablet connectivity. For this purpose, we have developed the IoT Outlet: a stand-alone communication unit, used to connect outlets to the internet. The IoT Plug is a power switch which...
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Experimental research of the stability of steel cylindricalshell subjected to circumferential compression
PublikacjaAt the Department of Metal Structures Gdańsk University of Technology, experiments have been performed on the stability of shell of steel cylindrical models. The experiments have been carried on a test bench built at the Department. The design based on other test benches which were created in the past by other scientists, where modernized by the courtesy of companies that offer modern solutions. The test bench enables to generate...