scholarly journals The Symbian Robot

Author(s):  
Shilpa V ◽  
H. S. Pradeep ◽  
M Z Kurian

As mobile phone handsets attain increasing capabilities, there are many more opportunities for novel applications development. While it is important to respect these resource constraints, some of the unique features of mobile phones also want to highlight, such as high quality audio, constant connectivity and comfortable form factor for use as device to interact with the physical world. In this project, there is exploration of the opportunities available with the usage of Symbian OS coupled with Bluetooth technology in developing an environment for current mobile phones and demonstrate applications and simultaneously exploiting the unique features of these commercially available devices. Applications for mobile phones have been limited to standard telephony or messaging services, PDA activities (calendar and contact management) and games. In this paper, the goal is to demonstrate that viewing a handset as a generic computing platform with some unique capabilities opens up the possibility for a variety of interesting applications. The main aim of the paper is to design and develop a symbian OS coupled with Bluetooth technology based wireless remote control to control motions of robot in the real time applications with four degrees of freedom. In this paper, there is a development of program which uses the symbian OS, which reads the data from the MEMS sensor present in the cell phone. This data is then compared to the stored data and then the user will get to know the way the cell phone is being tilted, This data is sent to the robot using the blue tooth technology that is present in the cell phone. At the other end the Blue tooth in the robot will read the data and will send the data to the micro controller, which will then accordingly drive the robot in the direction as required by the user.

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Redhwan Ahmed Al-Naggar ◽  
Yuri V Bobryshev

The worldwide use of cell phones has rapidly increased over the past decades. With the increasing use of mobile phones, concern has been raised about the possible carcinogenic effects as a result of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions and opinions towards brain cancer related to cell phone use among university students in Malaysia. The study revealed that the majority of the study participants believe that there is no relationship between brain cancer and hand phone use.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v4i1.7808 Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 4(2013) 1-4


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Dwi Syahputra

The main focus of the research is the application of criminal sanctions against phone cell users while driving. The inhibiting factors in the application of criminal sanctions against cell phone users while driving. The approach method used in this research is normative and empirical with descriptive-analytical. The results showed that the application of sanctions against the use of mobile phones while driving by motorized vehicle drivers was directly given a proof of violation and after that it was continued with a trial process in court and then paid a fine according to the judge's decision. The inhibiting factor in the application of criminal sanctions against the use of cell phones while driving lies in community factors and cultural factors. Community factors are very influencing because the applied legal rules will not run well if human resources or the community itself are not aware of the importance of obeying traffic rules.


Author(s):  
Adriana Braga ◽  
Robert K. Logan

Recent statistics about the mobile phone market in Brazil state that for every 100 inhabitants there are 130 mobile phones. Despite the euphoria that those numbers bring to business, the social uses of mobile technology in Brazil tells a lot about Brazilian society and culture itself, and show a more complex picture than merely a marketing phenomenon. The authors examine subversive cell phone use in Brazil against the background of the cell phone use worldwide and the social implications of that cell phone use. As soon as a technology is implemented in a culture, it is possible to observe uses that were not intended by the inventors or producers of that technology. People create different strategies to take advantage of the new resource. Using social interaction theories and an ethnographic approach in the natural setting of cell phone use in Brazil, the authors observed how people use the mobile phone technology for interpersonal communication. This chapter addresses three subversive uses of mobile technology, namely, i.) strategies of mobile phone coding; ii) SIM card management; and iii) criminal uses of mobile phones.


Author(s):  
Ngozi V. Uti ◽  
Richard Fox

In recent years, mobile phones have become the de facto system of communication across the planet. Mobile phones have helped increase economic growth and critical response in many parts of the world. Mobile phones are even being used for data transmission. However, little academic research has been done on the specific problem of streaming real time video originating from the cameras of mobile devices over cell phone networks. There are many factors that complicate this problem including the limited computational resources of mobile phones, the low and variable bandwidth of cell phone networks, and the need for video compression and streaming algorithms that can be supported by both the mobile phones and cell phone networks. This chapter examines the problems involved and discusses on-going research on the topic. The main goal of this chapter is to identify the real time constraints and challenges of compressing and streaming video from mobile devices for the purpose of designing efficient video compression and streaming techniques that are able to work within the constraints of the limited computational resources and bandwidth available to mobile devices.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Girish Sriram ◽  
Alex Jensen ◽  
Steve C. Chiu

The human hand along with its fingers possess one of the highest numbers of nerve endings in the human body. It thus has the capacity for the richest tactile feedback for positioning capabilities. This article shares a new technique of controlling slippage. The sensing system used for the detection of slippage is a modified force sensing resistor (FSR®). The control system is a fuzzy logic control algorithm with multiple rules that is designed to be processed on a mobile handheld computing platform and integrated/working alongside a traditional Electromyography (EMG) or Electroencephalography (EEG) based control system used for determining position of the fingers. A 5 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) hand, was used to test the slippage control strategy in real time. First a reference EMG signal was used for getting the 5 DOF hand to grasp an object, using position control. Then a slip was introduced to see the slippage control strategy at work. The results based on the plain tactile sensory feedback and the modified sensory feedback are discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 2915-2919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Ming Cui ◽  
Yan Xin Ye

Traditional massive data mining with BP neural network algorithm, resource constraints of the ordinary stand-alone platform and scalability bottlenecks and classification process serialization due to classification inefficient results, and also have an impact on the classification accuracy. In this paper, the Detailed description of the flow of execution of the BP neural network parallel algorithm in Hadoop's MapReduce programming model.Experimental results show that: the BP neural network under the cloud computing platform can greatly shorten the network training time, better parallel efficiency and good scalability.


2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 2507-2513
Author(s):  
Fei Yang ◽  
Zhong You Liu ◽  
Nian Zhang

The noise data results from two aspects, technically, different mobile phones traveling on different roads may generate the same handover sequence; operationally, signal error in mobile communication network possibly causes wrong handover information. Second, four types of noise data are summarized, that is wrong sample data from signal error, passenger cell phone sample noise data beside roads, vehicle cell phone sample ones between parallel and overlapping roads. Third, hierarchy and K means cluster algorithms are applied with SPSS software for the collected sample data cleaning based on real handover data by try and trial to produce link travel speed, which is compared with practical traffic situation. Finally, historic loop data is used as the baseline to evaluate the accuracy compared with cleaned results.


2016 ◽  
Vol 847 ◽  
pp. 335-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Guang Wang ◽  
Yu Feng Wu ◽  
Yi Fan Gu ◽  
Xian Zhong Mu

In recent years, users replace their mobile phone more and more frequently, therefore, the number of waste mobile phones has been increasing year by year. In 2014, the number was more than 1 billion units. Indium, that has unique optical transparency and electrical conduction properties, is a necessary element in the screen of mobile phone. The potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone is considerable. Recycling indium from waste mobile phones can alleviate the constraints of indium resources while gaining great economic benefit. However, there is no relevant research work to evaluate the potential yield of indium in the waste cell phone. This paper explores the main factors that constraint the efficiency of recycling by predicting potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone, and puts forward the corresponding policy recommendations. The results are based on the Logistic model and Stock-base model and a survey. The results show that the potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone from 2015 to 2035 will increase from 8.7 tonnes to 10.2 tonnes in China. However, the recovery rate of waste mobile phone is very low, the actual available amount is far lower than the potential yield of indium. The main factors that constrain the efficiency of recycling are: (1) it is difficult to guarantee information security; (2) the existing recycling system is not perfect; (3) the technology of recycling indium needs to be improved.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (62) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Thomas M Roehr

The application of reconfigurable multi-robot systems introduces additional degrees of freedom to design robotic missions compared to classical multi-robot systems. To allow for autonomous operation of such systems, planning approaches have to be investigated that cannot only cope with the combinatorial challenge arising from the increased flexibility of modular systems, but also exploit this flexibility to improve for example the safety of operation. While the problem originates from the domain of robotics it is of general nature and significantly intersects with operations research. This paper suggests a constraint-based mission planning approach, and presents a set of revised definitions for reconfigurable multi-robot systems including the representation of the planning problem using spatially and temporally qualified resource constraints. Planning is performed using a multi-stage approach and a combined use of knowledge-based reasoning, constraint-based programming and integer linear programming. The paper concludes with the illustration of the solution of a planned example mission.


Author(s):  
Priti Y. Umratkar ◽  
Harshali Chalfe ◽  
S. K. Totade

The continuously use of mobile phone can be attributed to it can use in any places and thus have become one of the most widely used devices in mobile communication which makes it so important in our lives. The convenience and portability of cellphones has made it possible to be carried everywhere. e.g Churches, lecture halls, medical centers etc. Its benefit can create disturbance in some places when there is continuous beeping or ringtones of cell phones which becomes annoying when such noise is disturbance in areas where silence is required or the use or of mobile phone is restricted or prohibited like Libraries and Study rooms A mobile phone jammer is an instrument used to prevent cellular phones from receiving signals from base station. It is a device that transmit signal on the same frequency at which the GSM system operates, the jamming success when the mobile phones in the area where the jammer is located are disabled. The mobile phone jammer unit is intended for blocking all mobile phone types within designated indoor areas. The mobile Phone Jammer is a 'plug and play' unit, its installation is quick and its operation is easy. Once the mobile Phone Jammer is operating, all mobile phones present within the jamming coverage area are blocked, and cellular activity in the immediate surroundings (including incoming and outgoing calls, SMS, pictures sending, etc.) is jammer. This paper focuses on the design of a cell phone jammer to prevent the usage of mobile communication in restricted areas without interfering with the communication channels outside its range.


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