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University of Cambridge, UK February 20-22, 2010

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RECENT ADVANCES in SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION (ISPRA '10) University of Cambridge, UK February 20-22, 2010 Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks Published by WSEAS Press www.wseas.org Copyright © 2010, by WSEAS Press All the copyright of the present book belongs to the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Editor of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All papers of the present volume were peer reviewed by two independent reviewers. Acceptance was granted when both reviewers' recommendations were positive. See also: http://www.worldses.org/review/index.html

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RECENT ADVANCES in SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and

AUTOMATION

Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL

PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION (ISPRA '10)

University of Cambridge, UK February 20-22, 2010

Editors: Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of Berkeley, USA Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, International Fuzzy Systems Association, POLAND Prof. Nikos Mastorakis, Technical University of Sofia, BULGARIA Prof. Angel Kuri-Morales, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, MEXICO Prof. Pierre Borne, Ecole Centrale de Lille, FRANCE Prof. Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford University, USA International Program Committee Members: Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez, UK Gehan A.J. Amaratunga, UK Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA Katia Sycara, USA Olga Martin, ROMANIA Marketa Mazalkova, CZECH REPUBLIC Lina Vasiliauskiene, LITHUANIA Javier Bilbao, SPAIN Maria Boile, USA Naim Sidek, USA Roberto Revetria, USA Andrzej W. Ordys, UK Dalibor Biolek, CZECH REPUBLIC Metin Demiralp, TURKEY Vincenzo Niola, ITALY Akshai Aggarwal, CANADA Aydin Akan, TURKEY Valeri Mladenov, BULGARIA Zoran S. Bojkovic, SERBIA Jurij Krope, SLOVENIA George Stavrakakis, GREECE Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, GREECE Fumiaki Imado, JAPAN Simona Lache, ROMANIA Blagovest Shishkov, BULGARIA S.A. Selouani, CANADA Vir Brslica, CZECH REPUBLIC Isak Taksa, USA Milan Stork, CZECH REPUBLIC Anping Xu, P. R. CHINA Victor-Emil Neagoe, ROMANIA

Preface This year the 9th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION (ISPRA '10) was held at the University of Cambridge, UK, February 20-22, 2010. The conference remains faithful to its original idea of providing a platform to discuss signal processing, fast algorithms, higher order spectrum analysis, speech production and perception, psychoacoustics, machine vision, computed imaging, evolutionary computation, robotics, kinematics, dynamics and control of robots, teleoperation, man-machine systems, cybernetics, automation, circuits and electronics for control, chemical processes control, virtual reality for automation, machines and mechanical engineering, unmanned vehicles etc. with participants from all over the world, both from academia and from industry.

Its success is reflected in the papers received, with participants coming from several countries, allowing a real multinational multicultural exchange of experiences and ideas.

The accepted papers of this conference are published in this Book that will be indexed by ISI. Please, check it: www.worldses.org/indexes as well as in the CD-ROM Proceedings. They will be also available in the E-Library of the WSEAS. The best papers will be also promoted in many Journals for further evaluation.

A Conference such as this can only succeed as a team effort, so the Editors want to thank the International Scientific Committee and the Reviewers for their excellent work in reviewing the papers as well as their invaluable input and advice.

The Editors

Table of Contents

Plenary Lecture 1: Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Distributed Parameter Systems Based on Sensor Networks and Artificial Intelligence

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Constantin Volosencu Plenary Lecture 2: New Approach for Pre-processing and Efficient Archiving of Scanned Documents

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Roumen Kountchev Plenary Lecture 3: On the Mechanical Systems Processed by Infrared Thermography Combined with Wavelet Transform

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Vincenzo Niola Plenary Lecture 4: Correlated and Interconnected Analyses for Human Walking and Standing Biomechanical Behavior

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Mihaela Ioana Baritz An Automation for Data Transmission through Power Lines 19Saeid Rafizadeh, Haleh Kangarloo, Siamak Baradaran K. New Architecture of Wavelet Packet Transform Using Parallel Filters 23Hossein Amiri Farahani, Majid Mashayekhi Nezamabadi Optimized Implementation of a Fast Wavelet Packet Transform Architecture with Hardware Acceleration

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Hamid Reza Ghozatloo, Mohammad Noori Time-Frequency Localisation Analysis for Extracting Fatigue Damaging Events 31S. Abdullah, T. E. Putra, M. Z. Nuawi, Z. M. Nopiah, A. Arifin, L. Abdullah Design of ECG Instrumentation and Implementation of Digital Filter for Noise Reduction 36Mahesh S. Chavan, R. A. Agarwala, M. D. Uplane, M. S. Gaikwad LQR Optimal Control for Micromachined Tunneling Accelerometer 40H. E. A. Ibrahim Uncertainty Propagation using Polynomial Chaos and Centre Manifold Theories 46L. Nechak, S. Berger, E. Aubry Statistical Analysis of Speech Signals by Weighted ASMDF 52Roudra Chakraborty, Sagnik Sinha, Debapriya Sengupta Model Reference Adaptive Temperature Control of the Electromagnetic Oven Process in Manufacturing Process

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Jiraphon Srisertpol, Supot Phungphimai An Extraction of Fatigue Damaging Events by Using Running Damage Extraction (RDE) Technique

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Z. M. Nopiah, M. N. Baharin, S. Abdullah, M. I. Khairir, A. Ariffin Dynamic Mill's Deflection for High Feed Machining on Orthogonal Directions 69Laurentiu-Aurel Mihail

Automatic Iron Cutting Device using IEC61499 FBs Editor 74Maryam Sadeghi Wall-Following Exploration with two Cooperating Mobile Robots 80Mohammad Al Khawaldah, Salvatore Livatino Time Series Identification Methodology Using Wireless Sensor Networks 86Daniel-Ioan Curiac, Ovidiu Banias, Constantin Volosencu Image Content Protection Based on Multi-Layer Decomposition 91Roumen Kountchev, Vladimir Todorov, Roumiana Kountcheva Weight Parameters Tuning for Frontier-based Cooperating Robots Exploration 97Mohammad Al-Khawaldah, Salvatore Livatino, David C. Lee Hardware Implementation of the Fuzzy Fingerprint Vault System 103Sung Jin Lim, Seung-Hoon Chae, Hae-Min Moon, Sung Bum Pan Simulation Studies of Position Control System for Estimation of DC Motor Load Torque 107Chanyut Khajorntraidet, Jiraphon Srisertpol A Model-Based Sliding Mode Controller for Extensible Continuum Robots 113Apoorva D. Kapadia, Ian D. Walker, Darren M. Dawson, Enver Tatlicioglu Objective Video Quality Assessment for Tracking Moving Objects from Video Sequences 121E. Mendi, Y. Zhou, M. Milanova, J. Talburt A Novel Receiver Diversity Combining Technique for Internet-Based 4G Wireless Communication

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Jihad Daba, Jean-Pierre Dubois, Philip Jreije Measurement Assisted Automated Robotic Edge Deburring of Complex Components 133Nirosh Jayaweera, Phil Webb Kinematic Analysis of a Two-Link Object for Whole Arm Manipulation 139Zakarya Zyada, Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Shigeyuki Hosose Preserve Robustness for Image Data Hiding 146D. B. Satre, R. V. Pawar Seven State Kalman Filtering for LEO Microsatellite Attitude Determination 151A. M. Si Mohammed, M. Benyettou, A. Boudjemai, Y. Hashida Recognition of Handwritten Arabic (Indian) Numerals using Radon-Fourier-based Features 158Sabri A. Mahmoud, Marwan H. Abu-Amara A New Approach for Better Document Retrieval and Classification Performance using Supervised WSD and Concept Graph

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Reza Soltanpoor, Mehran Mohsenzadeh, Morteza Mohaqeqi Time Complexity Analysis of the Genetic Algorithm Clustering Method 171Z. M. Nopiah, M. I. Khairir, S. Abdullah, M. N. Baharin, A. Arifin Use of Information Technology for Data Management in Public Service – Case Study 177Valter Luiz Vendramin, Eduardo Mario Dias

Enablers and Inhibitors of Integration between IT and AT 185Claudia Tomie Yukishima Zuge, Sergio Luiz Pereira, Eduardo Mario Dias Face Detection Technique based on Skin Color and Facial Features 192Khalid M.Alajel, Wei Xiang, John Lies Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Distributed Parameter Systems Based on Sensor Networks and Artificial Intelligence

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Constantin Volosencu Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Window Cleaning Robot 208A. Albagul, A. Asseni, O. Jomah, M. Omer, B. Farge Mobile Robot Fault Tolerant Control. Introducing ARTEMIC 213Cristian Axenie Ant Colony Optimization for Image Edge Detection 220Anna Veronica Baterina, Carlos Oppus Autonomous Motion of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in General Environment 226Petr Stodola, Jan Mazal Identification of Parameters of a System with Fractional Damping 232Liviu Bereteu, Gheorghe. E. Draganescu, Dan V. Stanescu Correlated and Interconnected Analyses for Human Walking and Standing Biomechanical Behavior

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Mihaela Baritz Research on Optimizing Automatic Dosing Systems 244Cristea Luciana, Manescu Mihai, Repanovici Angela, Rogozea Liliana Infodocumentary Automatization Systems: RFID Technology 248Angela Repanovici, Luciana Cristea, Diana Cotoros Analysis by Strain Gauges of the Strains in a Composite Material 254Anca Stanciu, Diana Cotoros, Mihaela Baritz, Liliana Rogozea Retinal Image and Oculo-Motor Equilibrium Analyze using Recordings of Human Body Stability-Posture

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Mihaela Baritz, Luciana Cristea, Diana Cotoros, Anca Stanciu Ethics, Robotics and Medicine Development 264Liliana Rogozea, Florin Leasu, Angela Repanovici, Mihaela Baritz Nonlinear Backward Tracking Control of an Articulated Mobile Robot with Off-Axle Hitching 269Plamen Petrov Proposal for the Integrated Automation of the Brazilian Subway System Rectifier Substations 274Eduardo Mario Dias, Sergio Luiz Pereira, Carlos Alberto De Sousa Simulation Strategies Walking Mechatronic System Mero 282Ion Ion, Curaj Adrian, Marin Alexandru, Doicin Cristian, Vasile Aurelian

Rate Control and Mode decision Jointly Optimization in H.264AVC 288Siavash Eshaghi, Hassan Farsi Evaluation and Detection of Defects of Industrial Surfaces and Welds, using Radiographic Images and Euler's Number

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Alireza Zendebudi, Seyed Alireza Hashemi Image Segmentation Using a Generalized Fast Level Set Method 298Dang Tran Vu, Jin Young Kim, Seung Ho Choi, Seung You Na Various Speech Processing Techniques for Multimedia Applications 304Jalal Karam Two Big Dreams in Space will Come True 310Hironori A. Fujii Reachability Judgment in P/T Petri Nets by Approximate Algebraic Approach 318Tadashi Matsumoto, Masahiro Osogami, Seiichiro Moro Nonlinear Model & Controller Design for Magnetic Levitation System 324Ishtiaq Ahmad, Muhammad Akram Javaid Design and Feasibility Tests of Flexible Gripper for Handling Variable Shape of Food Products 329Rosidah Sam, Samia Nefti Arabic Letters Compression using New Algorithm of Trapezoid Method 336Ali Abdrhman Ukasha Authors Index 342

Ethics, robotics and medicine development

LILIANA ROGOZEA, FLORIN LEASU

ANGELA REPANOVICI MIHAELA BARITZ,

Transilvania University of Brasov ROMANIA

r_liliana@yahoo.com

Abstract: The humanity was more and more dissatisfied with its skills, especially because they think that our possibility to see, hear or use our sense has limits. In that context, in the XX century were developed a lot of tools for sustaining the medical care. The application of robots in medicine is a new way of developing medicine and could assure a lot of new facilities for humanity. But, of course, for developing robots with high performance a lot of resources are needed and in that way is a privilege for the rich countries. The paper tries to analyze the ethical implication, not only of using the robots in medicine, but, in the same time, of developing the intelligence robots. In respect to this, we will try to pay attention to the ethical dilemma and, of course to correlate the technical problems with patients’ needs and rights, with health care services and hospital facilities. Key Words: ethics, robots, health 1. Introduction

In this paper we reflect how the ethical problem must be involved in use and development of the robots and why we should reconsider the idea of developing this kind of ethical subjects in the students’ curricula.

According to The International Foundation of Robotics Research the goal of this representative association“is to promote the development of robotics as a scientific field establishing the theoretical foundations and technology basis for its ever expanding applications, with emphasis on its potential role to benefit humans.”

Robots are defined by Encyclopedia Britannica like “any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots”

Professor Lee Dai Gil also tries to find a connection between human and robots, and conclude that “Human beings may be thought as direct-drive robots where many muscles play a role of direct drive motors. However, contradictory to science fiction, humans are much superior to robots in the structural point of view because the densities of muscles and bones of humans are one order lower than steel or copper, which are the major structural materials for robots and electrical motors. [6].

Robots are used in our day in a different field, like is show in the next figure.

Figure 1.

The first appearing of robots is connected with the

personality of Isaac Asimov’s science-fiction story Runaround (1942), where a mention also the famous Three Laws of Robotics: “1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.” Considered one of the best “imagination” of the world Asimov was not the first who described the robots, but we could consider that he is the most impressive mind,

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and his great success could be explain by his own words: “In the 1920's science fiction was becoming a popular art form for the first time ..... and one of the stock plots .... was that of the invention of a robot .... Under the influence of the well-known deeds and ultimate fate of Frankenstein and Rossum, there seemed only one change to be rung on this plot - robots were created and destroyed their creator ... I quickly grew tired of this dull hundred-times-told tale .... Knowledge has its dangers, yes, but is the response to be a retreat from knowledge? .... I began in 1940, to write robot stories of my own - but robot stories of a new variety ...... My robots were machines designed by engineers, not pseudo-men created by blasphemers" [3] 2. From past to future

Developing the robots it was a dream of the humanity, even from antiquity, when a god could breathe over a figurine and brought it to life, in some countries like: Egypt, Babylon, Sumer or Greece. Some reference points were Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (1818), the Asimov stories, and the Czech playwright Karel Çapek who in 1918 in R. U. R., which stood for “Rossum's Universal Robots” used the term robots.

Now the robots are really common in few fields, but the future is to have robots for own use. [2, 4] For achieving these goals it is necessary to achieve a high level of autonomy and some properties like in the next figure.

Figure 2.

3. Medical or technical responsibilities

It is clear for us now that, in near future robots will be involved more and more in our life: in homes, offices, in

our entire environment. The main area where the robots could be used are:

Figure 3.

In respect to that, robots must “learn” and achieve the

capabilities to decide. Of course they must use an algorithm and the problems is who have the responsibilities when is right the program, how many details and option could have and what can a robot do when “normal” condition are not assured.

Developing robots capable to do real task for human is not only a dream, is also a reality. [1, 5]

If we compare (using World Robotics 2009 sources) the field where service robots for professional are used it is clear that medicine in not in the top – the most important field where robots are sales are: defense, security. (fig. 4).

Figure 4.

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The medical robots are used especially for: diagnostic systems, assisted surgery or therapy and rehabilitation,

The medical robots used in research are humanoid robot research platform on bipedal locomotion robot and robot arm-and-gripper test beds that allow research on manipulating real objects.

Design criteria for developing a robot are according with their scope and operational criteria and must assure the following characteristics of the entire system: human safety, robustness and payload.

But design and technical development are not enough, even if “One of the most ambitious aims of Robotics is to design an autonomous robot that could reach - and even surpass -human intelligence and performance in partially unknown, changing, and unpredictable environments.” [15]

It is very clear that medicine, and medical doctor must be involved in that development for assure a high performance of robots in an ethical way. 4. Ethics in robotics used in medicine– an interdisciplinary field

We knew now that ethics in robotics are border areas develop according to the intrinsic ethical dimension of the robots. More and more robots are used in services and it’s well accepted that are 8 fields where the robots could be used: medicine, rehabilitation, construction; public relations, environment, agriculture; trade, transportation; hotels and restaurants; safety and security, radiation protection and disaster; households, hobby and leisure. [11, 12]

Using the robots and automation in this fields have a lot of advantages and disadvantages, like in figure 5.

Figure 5

But the most important ethical challenge of using robots is related to the new idea that robots are a new species, “with their rational mind and unshaken morality” [14]

The field involved in medical robots bioethics are:

Figure 6.

As it could be seen in figure 6, robots could be

analysed using tools coming from engineering, IT, sociology, law, philosophy or medicine.

The robots could increase the quality of life and human performance and in our world with more and more patients with disabilities, who needs continuum care using robots could be one of the ways of reducing the expenditure in health. In that context increasing the role of bioinformatics and electronic evidence and developing new concept of e-Health and evidence based medicine are connected with the development of robots, and with the necessity to assure the privacy, accuracy, intellectual property and access. [10, 13]

Ethics about robots in medicine put robots in medicine in antagonist, but, in the same way complementary connection with medicine; more and more robots underwent a process of anthropomorphization and humanization and they could provide technological addiction and have an environmental impact of technology.

Could robots have consciousness, self-consciousness, sense of dignity, emotions? It could be any sign of danger that the robots could became our slaves? Is there any reason to consider that we need a special ethical code for assuring the dignity or the rights of robots?

What are the other possible dilemmas? Robots could assist humans to increase their

performance and for the old people could be the opportunity to enable people to continue to lead an active and productive life.

Ethical multidisciplinary approach is available also for

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tele-robots and autonomous robots. The surgical tele-robots could be not only an extended

of human reach but also, a vital link between a surgeon's hands and a patient's health.

The ethical analysis of tele-robots is somewhat similar to that of any technical system where the moral praise or blame is to be born by the designers, programmers, and users of the technology. Since humans are involved in all the major decisions that the machine makes, they also provide the moral reasoning for the machine for assure not only the replacement of human but also resolve the psychological problems and assure the safety, security and privacy. 5. Ethics and robots – an educational approach

Developing the knowledge in robotic and automation is not only a opportunity for students, the start must be done in middle school, including by using the internet and data-bases special created for them. [7, 9

The curriculum must be design based by thematic, competencies and level of knowledge. The competencies achieve after that are connected with practice – labour market, work-places, but also with scientific research or to develop adult education. [8]

Figure 7.

There is a number of ethical issues which must be

present in the robo-ethics curriculum design for university studies: dehumanization developing the experiment in the medical field

without respect all the ethical rules modify the communication dual-use of technology – developed for military

purpose and used in medicine human equality improving healthy humans ethics and extension of the human life, etc The ethical issue will be very important and well

explore in future, and of course is the duty of specialist

in ethics to think about this and to try to start discussion between specialists from different field and to develop a guidelines from this field.

8. Conclusion

Robo-Ethics is not only a theoretical way to do what is right or to analyze in different aspect of developing and using robots in medicine. Are the robots our surround environment? Could the robots become our neighbors and friends? The robo-ethics must be involve in developing the products, especially in medicine and to become part of university curriculum, even if the ethical problems are not so different that the dilemma in other bio-engineering fields.

Robots could help doctors to improve the quality of medical services, to do a better diagnosis and to find a modern an efficient way to treat few diseases.

Ethical issue does not seem to be an obstacle for using robots in medicine, maybe also because the development of the filed is not very high, the used of the robots are not included in the health insurance package, and, in that context is not very accessible for more people.

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