Reliability analysis of Electronic Control Unit and Remote Unit used in Decoy Launcher Defence System
Abstract: With the development of technology, effective countermeasures of decoy launcher are developed. Decoy Launcher Defence System (DLDS) designed to detect, to track and to localize the incoming Decoy from the enemies and it is a countermeasure system. The system offers a complete solution to detect and locate an incoming Decoy and provides highly effective defence for the system. The DLDS shall enable timely defence against incoming Decoys at sufficient range from the submarine to guarantee safety and survivability of own platform. Controlling of decoy launcher plays a crucial role in launching and firing of Decoys. For controlling the Decoy Launcher, two control units are there. They are Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and Remote Unit (RU). ECU is manually controlled and it act as master controller for the launcher. RU is controlled by directors through remotely (infrared signals). It is necessary to improve the reliability for the control units. In order to obtain the reliability of ECU and RU of DLDS, in this paper developed the Reliability Prediction, Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) and Failure Mode Effect and Criticality analysis (FMECA). Reliability Analysis gives the Prediction of the failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). Reliability Prediction obtained in accordance with MIL-HDBK-217F2. Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) used to know the parts reliability how it contributes to success or failure of a system using logical operations of the system. FMECA used to obtain the failure modes of the components, their effect on system, identifies the criticality and corresponding changes are made in the design to reduce the failure modes. The procedure for performing a failure mode effects and criticality analysis developed by MIL-STD-1629. To control these failures proper methods are considered to improve the reliability of system. The reliability analysis is carried out using ITEMSOFT Tool.
Published by: C. Himabindu, V. Sumalatha, A. Anilkumar
Author: C. Himabindu
Paper ID: V5I3-1348
Paper Status: published
Published: May 15, 2019
Skill gap assessment is a key to survive
To ensure that the workforce is well trained, knowledgeable and better equipped to perform the job. Identifying skill gap becomes essential. Skill gap presents an opportunity for the organization and the employees to identify the missing skills and try to gain them. This study analyzed the skill gap between the employees of VASUDHARA Dairy (AMUL), Nagpur and helped in making employees aware of the critical skills they will need to grow. A sample of 60 respondents was considered. The data were collected in 2 phases. At first, the department heads were interviewed and then the questionnaire was prepared based on the parameters communicated by the heads and then it was circulated to the employees. The major findings reveal that most of the employees out of the total sample lack ICT ( Information and communication technology) and thus a skill gap exists in this area.
Published by: Rupal Singh
Author: Rupal Singh
Paper ID: V5I3-1347
Paper Status: published
Published: May 15, 2019
Cloud cost management: An empirical view
Cloud computing provides a mechanism to access, store and retrieve the applications and data online. The word cloud refers to a network or the internet. Nowadays, many IT Companies are adopting Cloud Computing. In Cloud, computing resources are made available to the users easily, quickly and on a pay-per usage basis. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the cost involved in accessing the paid services of cloud and show how the service broker policy of retrieving data from the closest datacenter and retrieving data after optimized response time of the datacenters. After a close analysis, we find that retrieving data from the nearest datacenter is more cost effective than optimized response time data retrieval of data from datacenters.
Published by: Puja Gupta, Dr. Kumar Rajnish
Author: Puja Gupta
Paper ID: V5I3-1400
Paper Status: published
Published: May 15, 2019
Therapeutic strategies for vaginal and sexual health promotion in cervical cancer survivors: An overview of practice at the Tertiary Cancer Hospital in Mumbai
Cervical cancer survivors treated with radiotherapy alone or as a part of combined therapy have reported higher occurrence of vaginal morbidity. Vaginal stenosis and dryness are the common vaginal symptoms which tend to persist following radiotherapy treatment. Vaginal dilation with dilator and sexual counselling is routine practice to preserve vaginal patency and to facilitate sexual functioning and gynaecological surveillance. A retrospective review of case files of cervical cancer patients referred for vaginal dilation to Occupational therapy during 2002-2010 was carried out with the aim to understand the therapeutic strategies practiced for improving vaginal and sexual health following pelvic radiotherapy at the tertiary cancer hospital in Mumbai. Data of 183 cervical cancer patients which met the study criteria, was collected with reference to the stage of the disease, treatment received, details about vaginal dilation following radiotherapy, and sexual status and side effects related to dilation. Review found that vaginal dilation with dilator was routinely recommended to cervical cancer patients following completion of radiotherapy. Resumption of sexual intercourse and sexual counselling was provided to married patients for prevention of vaginal stenosis and preserving sexual functions. Documentation on the content of sexual counselling and the time spent on counselling was found absent. This review of case files found vaginal dilation with dilator post pelvic radiotherapy is effective in preventing vaginal stenosis and sexual intercourse cannot be used as a sole medium of dilation. Dilation with dilator improved vaginal length from 8.02 cm+ 2.9 to 9.96+ 2.89cm with the p value <0.001. ords.
Published by: Dr. Manjusha Vagal, Dr. Amitabh Dwivedi
Author: Dr. Manjusha Vagal
Paper ID: V5I3-1379
Paper Status: published
Published: May 15, 2019
Smart steering in automobiles for safe driving
Automobiles have been an integral part of the modernization and development of civilization. Right from the beginning of the industrial revolution, there were a huge number of automobiles manufactured. This called in for the need for safety measures to be implemented into the vehicle for protection of the passenger in case of accidents. Various safety measures were implemented in this domain, such as functions like Seat belt, Anti-lock Braking System, Safety Airbag System and many more. The accident toll continued to increase over the years despite these safety measures. These accidents were caused by human negligence such as drunken driving, drowsiness, unhealthy condition and a lot more. This paper, hence, proposes a system in which the driver cannot drive under the influence of alcohol and also a basic level health condition test to check if the driver is fit to drive. It also has a system that can sense if the driver is sleepy and alerts the driver back to his senses if found sleeping. This can ensure the complete safety of the passenger while driving and can reduce the accidents to almost zero values that are caused by the above mentioned human faults. To add to the safety in case of any accident the system houses a crash detector and flame detector along with GPS and GSM modules to alert the nearby authorities to get to the rescue. As a whole, the system can provide unimaginable safety assurance against fatal accidents and hence save precious life's.
Published by: Kiran B. V., Albert James, D. Chandan Krishna, B. Dharshan, Dr. Manju Devi
Author: Kiran B. V.
Paper ID: V5I3-1366
Paper Status: published
Published: May 15, 2019
A novel approach for designing smart cane for visually impaired
Usually, visually impaired people use a white cane as their mobility aid along with dogs as their guide. Using technologies to make smart walking cane which will assure safe mobility of the visually impaired person and reduce the energy spent on detecting an obstacle . In this paper, the smart cane is designed which will help a visually impaired person to walk confidently. The proposed project aims at the development of an Android-based Application for smartphones in which customers can connect to a cane. The camera on the cane sends real-time images of the current surroundings and the android application works on each frame to detect upcoming obstacles. The Convolution Neural network models help in the detection of objects using TensorFlow and stores the name of the object in a text file. Later the text in the text file is converted to voice using Google TTS (Text to Speech conversion). Thus using advanced technologies for better living.
Published by: Megha C. Sakkari, G. Krishna Chaitanya, K. Raveena
Author: Megha C. Sakkari
Paper ID: V5I3-1357
Paper Status: published
Published: May 15, 2019
