**Meet the editor**

Constantin Volosencu is a professor doctor engineer at "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania, Faculty of Automation and Computers, Department of Automation and Applied Informatics. He has researches in the field of linear control systems, fuzzy control, neural networks, control of electrical drives, system identification, sensor networks and distributed parameter systems. He

is author of 10 books, over 140 scientific papers and 27 patents, manager of 35 research projects. He is member of the editorial boards of international journals: Scientific Journals Int. SJI, Journal of Biochemical Technology, Int. Journal of Computer Science & Emerging Technology, WSEAS Trans. on Information Science and Applications, Int. Mag. on Advances in Computer Science and Telecommunications, Journal of Vibration and Wave Propagation. He is an IEEE member of Control System Society and Computational Intelligence Society. He was chair and member in the scientific committees of international conferences and plenary speaker at WSEAS conferences. Constantin Volosencu was a research and design engineer, from 1982 to 1991, at "Electrotimis" Enterprise Timisoara, Romania, in the field of electrical drives. He developed electrical equipment for machine tools, spooling machines, high power ultrasonic installations and other, with homologation of 30 prototypes and series zero.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Branko L. Dokic

Chapter 5 **Applying the Technology** 

Constantin Volosencu

Chapter 7 **Logistics Services and Intelligent** 

José F. Díez-Higuera,

**Part 1 Manufacturing Technology 1** 

Chapter 1 **Some Contributions at the Technology** 

**of Electrochemical Micromachining with Ultra Short Voltage Pulses 3**  Richard Zemann, Philipp Walter Reiss, Paul Schörghofer and Friedrich Bleicher

Chapter 2 **CMOS and BiCMOS Regenerative Logic Circuits 29** 

Chapter 3 **A New Pre-Wet Sizing Process – Yes or No? 59**  Ivana Gudlin Schwarz and Stana Kovačević

Chapter 4 **New IM Torque Control Scheme with Improved** 

**Efficiency and Implicit Rotor Flux Tracking 75**  Bojan Grčar, Peter Cafuta and Gorazd Štumberger

Chapter 6 **Tracking Players in Indoor Sports Using a Vision System Inspired in Fuzzy and Parallel Processing 117** 

Armando Sousa, Luis Paulo Reis and Maria Luisa Estriga

**Security Control for Transport Companies 141** 

Francisco J. Díaz-Pernas, Miriam Antón-Rodríguez, David González-Ortega and Mario Martínez-Zarzuela

Catarina B. Santiago, Lobinho Gomes,

**of Wireless Sensor Network in Environment Monitoring 97** 

**Part 2 Control Systems, Automation 73** 

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**

**Part 1 Manufacturing Technology 1** 

	- **Part 2 Control Systems, Automation 73**

Chapter 9 **Implementation of Control Design Methods into Matlab Environment 173**  Radek Matušů and Roman Prokop

#### **Part 3 Multimedia 189**

	- **Part 4 Wireless Sensor Networks 257**
	- **Part 5 Neural Networks 275**

#### **Part 6 Transportation 303**

	- **Part 7 Water Plant Technology 327**

## Preface

The book "Cutting Edge Research in New Technologies" presents the contributions of some researchers in modern fields of technology, serving as a valuable tool for scientists, researchers, graduate students and professionals. The focus is on several aspects of designing and manufacturing, examining complex technical products and some aspects of the development and use of industrial and service automation. The book covered some topics as it follows: manufacturing, machining, textile industry, CAD/CAM/CAE systems, electronic circuits, control and automation, electric drives, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, vision systems, neural networks, intelligent systems, wireless sensor networks, environmental technology, logistic services, transportation, intelligent security, multimedia, modeling, simulation, video techniques, water plant technology, globalization and technology. This collection of articles offers information which responds to the general goal of technology - how to develop manufacturing systems, methods, algorithms, how to use devices, equipments, machines or tools in order to increase the quality of the products, the human comfort or security.

The book is made up of 15 chapters, grouped together in seven parts, on different technical fields: manufacturing technology, control systems and automation, multimedia, wireless sensor networks, neural networks, transportation and water plant technology. In the domain of manufacturing technologies the following contributions are presented: a study on the processing parameters of the manufacturing process using the technology of electrochemical micromachining with ultra short voltage pulses; a study on the sizing in the weaving process for technical textiles and an overview of CMOS and BiCMOS Schmitt triggers, useful for designing digital integrated circuits and digital systems with integrated circuits, as independent circuits or as parts in MSI/VLSI and ASIC integrated circuits. In the field of control systems and automation the following themes are presented: a control strategy for induction motors based on rotor flux tracking, to improve efficiency; some considerations on environmental monitoring based on sensor networks are presented, using concepts such as estimation algorithms, implemented by ANFIS, fault detection and diagnosis and distributed parameter systems; a technical solution for an indoor tracking of the sport players, using a vision system, based on fuzzy logic and parallel processing; an automation system of the processes involved in managing commercial fleets, involving new technologies, for management, optimization of resources and artificial intelligence, some Matlab programs for research and educational purposes on

#### XII Preface

algebraic design of continuous-time controllers under assumption of interval plants and control of time-delay systems using three various modifications of Smith predictor and a Matlab modeling, simulation and discussion for a self-tuning control with polynomial regression used for derivation counting. In the field of multimedia the following applications are presented: a study on the implementation of the digital rights management mechanism, in various multimedia technologies developed by providers, creators and distributors and a study on the real time image compression technology, with high ratio and visual quality, based on hardware accelerators. In the technological domain of wireless sensor networks a study on the effect of decentralized clustering algorithm and Hamming coding on wireless sensor networks lifetime and throughput is presented. In the field of neural networks a technical solution to implement neural networks by programming on a general-purpose parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia is presented. In the field of transportation a traffic system study for developing a real time informatics system based on information communication technology is presented. In the domain of water plant technology a study which intends to develop a parametric model for water plants is presented.

The editor wishes to thank to all the researchers who accepted the invitation to contribute, on the basis of their scientific potential, within the topic to date. Some valuable new researches in this area are shared within this book.

> **Constantin Volosencu**  "Politehnica" University of Timisoara Romania
