CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES Edited by Constantin Volosencu Cutting Edge Research in New Technologies Edited by Constantin Volosencu Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Maja Jukic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published April, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Cutting Edge Research in New Technologies, Edited by Constantin Volosencu p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0463-6 Contents Preface IX 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 Branko L. Dokic Chapter 3 A New Pre-Wet Sizing Process – Yes or No? 59 Ivana Gudlin Schwarz and Stana Kovačević Part 2 Control Systems, Automation 73 Chapter 4 New IM Torque Control Scheme with Improved Efficiency and Implicit Rotor Flux Tracking 75 Bojan Grčar, Peter Cafuta and Gorazd Štumberger Chapter 5 Applying the Technology of Wireless Sensor Network in Environment Monitoring 97 Constantin Volosencu Chapter 6 Tracking Players in Indoor Sports Using a Vision System Inspired in Fuzzy and Parallel Processing 117 Catarina B. Santiago, Lobinho Gomes, Armando Sousa, Luis Paulo Reis and Maria Luisa Estriga Chapter 7 Logistics Services and Intelligent Security Control for Transport Companies 141 José F. Díez-Higuera, Francisco J. Díaz-Pernas, Miriam Antón-Rodríguez, David González-Ortega and Mario Martínez-Zarzuela VI Contents Chapter 8 Comparison of Two Approaches to Count Derivations for Continuous-Time Adaptive Control 163 Karel Perutka Chapter 9 Implementation of Control Design Methods into Matlab Environment 173 Radek Matušů and Roman Prokop Part 3 Multimedia 189 Chapter 10 DRM & Security Enabling Mechanisms Leveraging User Centric Multimedia Convergence 191 Anastasios Fragopoulos, John Gialelis and Dimitrios Serpanos Chapter 11 Video Compression from the Hardware Perspective 233 Grzegorz Pastuszak Part 4 Wireless Sensor Networks 257 Chapter 12 Effect of Decentralized Clustering Algorithm and Hamming Coding on WSN Lifetime and Throughput 259 Nora Ali, Hany ElSayed, Magdy El-Soudani, Hassanein Amer and Ramez Daoud Part 5 Neural Networks 275 Chapter 13 Implementation of Massive Artificial Neural Networks with CUDA 277 Domen Verber Part 6 Transportation 303 Chapter 14 Modelling of System for Transport and Traffic Information Management in Republic of Croatia 305 Dragan Perakovic, Vladimir Remenar and Ivan Jovovic Part 7 Water Plant Technology 327 Chapter 15 Modelling of Critical Water Quality Indicators for Water Treatment Plant 329 Adam Rak 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 X 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 . CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES Edited by Constantin Volosencu Cutting Edge Research in New Technologies Edited by Constantin Volosencu Published by InTech. depicted in figure 1, the group of electrochemical processes are assigned to Cutting Edge Research in New Technologies 4 ablation, which is a non -cutting technology. Cutting technologies. Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Cutting Edge Research in New Technologies, Edited