During the last decades, Ethernet progressively became the most widely used local area
networking (LAN) technology. Apart from LAN installations, Ethernet became also attractive …

Traffic safety applications using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is an emerging and
promising area within the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) sphere. Many of these new …

Automatic facial expression analysis is the most commonly studied aspect of behavior
understanding and human-computer interface. The main difficulty with facial emotion …

In current vehicles, a large number of control units are connected by several automotive
specific communication buses, facilitating innovative distributed applications. At the same …

The evolution of industrial communication inexorably moves to Industrial Ethernet networks.
One important reason for using Ethernet at the shop floor is to participate on the continuous …

The IEEE-1588 standard for a high precision time synchronization now exists since 2002.
For using this standard in bridged networks a so-called boundary clock is defined, where the …

In todaypsilas realtime Ethernet systems two approaches can be differentiated regarding the
organisation of the frame transmission: On the one hand there is a summation frame …

Fieldbus networks based on Ethernet become an inevitable part of factory automation
systems. The number of installed nodes has increased over the last few years. Therefore …

Networked control system (NCS) is a set of entities communicating and exchanging data via
a network, which makes its analysis and synthesis complex. Colored Petri nets (CPN) …

PROFIBUS is an international standard (IEC 61158) for factory-floor communications, with
some hundreds of thousands of world-wide installations. However, it does not include any …