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TRAFFIC DENSITY DATA ACQUISITION AND TRAFFIC FLOW CONTROL It is quite difficult to improve the performance of urban traffic signal control system efficiently by using traditional methods, because of time-variability, non-linearity, fuzziness and non-determinacy in the system. Especially in situations where additional road construction is nearly impossible due to either non-availability of land or high construction costs, there is a need to optimize the traffic signal timing plans. We propose a scheme where conventional system is empowered with additional arrangements to determine traffic density, so that better traffic control is achieved. This can be done by using load cell transducers embedded on roads in different positions. A controller is developed to simulate a wide range of traffic signal control types and strategies to achieve flexible time and demand responsive logic. Depending on the density, the Boolean function determines the signal timing for each lane. When the density is high the signal timing can be increased in stages and vice versa. In this scheme the signaling sequence remains unaltered, only signal timing is either increased or decreased in accordance with the situation.

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AUTO LIGHT DIPPER FOR AUTOMOBILE APPLICATION

It is used to switch over from high beam head lights to low beam head lights. Whenever the high light beam falls on the front mirror of the vehicle, the LabVIEW program detects the light intensity level using sensor through DAQ cards, by taking this value controller (LabVIEW Program) switches over from high beam head lights to low beam head lights, by operating the relay for certain period of time (duration in seconds). By this device one can identify the opposite vehicle & the road width clearly by dipping the head lights. High beam light creates problems to the opposite vehicle driving person which causes loss of the clarity of vision which may cause the accidents at high ways in night times. This project provides the solution by automatically dipping (dipper) head light which helps the driver for the clear vision.

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FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEM WITH LEVEL & ZONE INDICATION TO SENSE THE COMBUSTIBLE GASES LIKE LPG, SMOKE, PETROLEUM etc.

Now days fire fighting equipments plays an important role in commercial buildings The proposed system is an advanced system in which it detects not only the smoke, also combustible gases like LPG , petroleum. It also indicates the zone, through which one can know the exact location where the fire hazard has happens. We can detect smoke & other gases like LPG, petroleum, diesel using dedicated sensors. In this project LabVIEW program detects the gases through the sensor & display the respective Zone & alerts the people through the hooter sound.

4. AUTOMATIC CHANGE OVER FROM ELECTRICAL LINE TO DIESEL GENERATOR UNDER POWER FAILURES Generally whenever there is a power failure form electricity department, we switch over to generator mode manually & many times we forget to switch back to mains supply, which creates loss of power. In order to prevent the loss of power & manual intervention, a automatic system is proposed, this system detects the phase of the signal, whenever there is a phase loss in the signal, LabVIEW program will generate a control action which will change over to generator mode through contractor based on the load capacity & it will switch back to mains supply immediately whenever power supply is restored back.

5. LABVIEW CONTROLLED AUTO PNEUMATIC HACKSAW Over a decade due to scientific and technological development all devices are being automated so that human effort can be reduced. The automation is not only in case of home appliances but is also in the field of engineering particularly in mechanical and automobile industries. In this context we propose a pneumatic hacksaw machine (System) which performs the sequence gripping the work piece cutting start cutting stop un-gripping the work piece, the cycle repeats again and again. 6. REAL TIME CONTROL OF LEVEL OF A TANK WITH FUZZY LOGIC TUNED PID CONTROLLER USING LABVIEW This project tries to explore the potential of using soft computing methodologies for controlling liquid level of a tank using fuzzy logic based tuning of a PID controller using LabVIEW and its advantages over conventional methods. PID controller, being the most widely used controller in industrial applications, needs efficient methods to control the different parameters of the plant. This thesis asserts that the conventional approach of PID tuning is not very efficient due to the presence of non-linearity in the system of the plant. The output of the conventional PID system has a quite high overshoot and settling time. The main focus of this project is to apply soft-computing technique fuzzy logic design and tuning of PID controller to get an output with better dynamic and static performance. The application of fuzzy logic to the PID controller imparts it the ability of tuning itself automatically in an on-line process. 7. CLOSED LOOP SPEED CONTROL OF A DC MOTOR USING LabVIEW Automation is applied in industry where ever it is desired to get accuracy and repeatable performance and where manual operations cannot be used because reasonable performance cannot be obtained manually. In engineering the experiments are performed manually after installing an experimental setup and taking readings manually. Performing experiments manually has the following draw backs:

1. The readings taken may have errors because of parallax or subjective judgment. 2. The response time of the experimenter may not be sufficient to take the readings Correctly. With the availability of various sensors, highly powerful desktops, workstations and laptops, Programmable Logic Controllers, automated software based measurement technologies such as LabVIEW, it has become necessary and expedient to evolve a new paradigm in performing experiments in the educational and research laboratories. With this back ground it is shown here how to automate a common experiment in Electrical machines Laboratory. The Closed Loop Speed Control of a DC motor using LabVIEW is a completely automation based concept as far as the speed control of a DC motor is concerned. To achieve closed loop, the feedback adopted is speed feedback and this is done using a PID control loop because of the advantages of this type of control. 8. ULTRASONIC SECURITY SYSTEM USING LABVIEW The presented project aims at building a virtual instrument that adds protection to an automobile driver by avoiding unwanted closeness to other vehicle moving ahead, thus providing anti-collision safety. An Ultrasonic Sensor (of proximity detection range of 6 inches to 20 feet) is used to get output voltage signal when an object is within the specified range. Suppose the sensor is attached at the front of the vehicle, when another vehicle comes within a distance that is not considered to be safe, the program shows a warning (in form of a beeper with varying frequency of sound) and a PID controller reduces the error of reduced relative distance between the vehicles. This controller output can be given to the motor of the vehicle to reduce its speed which automatically slows it down thereby avoiding the collision. Ultrasound is a cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing (>20KHz). It can be used for obstacle detection. An ultrasonic pulse is generated in a particular direction. If there is an object in the path of this pulse, part or all of the pulse will be reflected back to the transmitter as an echo and can be detected through the receiver path. By measuring the difference in time between the pulse being transmitted and the echo being received, it is possible to determine how far away the object is. Since these waves cannot be seen, they provide a base for security systems. In this project, detection of the distance of an approaching target is done using an Ultrasonic Transceiver. This sensor contains an ultrasonic transmitter and receiver, which will provide a voltage output proportional to the distance of the target. The target in this case is a vehicle moving in front of a vehicle within a very close proximity. Only authenticated personnel will be permitted entry into the vehicle. The digital and required analog algorithms as well as the interface will be implemented in LabVIEW. 9. FACE RECOGNISITON USING LabVIEW IMAQ In today's networked world, the need to maintain the security of information or physical property is becoming both increasingly important and increasingly difficult. From time to time we hear about the crimes of credit card fraud, computer break-ins by hackers, or security breaches in a company or government building. In most of the rimes, the criminals take

advantage of the fundamental flaw in the conventional access control systems: the systems do not grant access by "who we are", but by "what we have", such as ID cards, keys, PIN numbers, or mother's maiden name. None of these means really define us. Rather, they merely are means to authenticate us. It goes without saying that if someone steals, duplicates, or acquires these identity means, he or she will be able to access our data or our personal property any time they want. Recently, technology became available to allow verification of "true" individual identity. This technology is based in a field called "biometrics". Biometric access controls are such as fingerprints or facial features, or some aspects of the person's behavior, like his/her handwriting style or keystroke patterns. Face recognition is one of the few biometric methods that possess the merits of both high accuracy and low intrusiveness. It has the accuracy of a physiological approach without being intrusive. For this reason, since the early 70's (Kelly, 1970), face recognition has drawn the attention of researchers in fields from security, psychology, and image processing, to computer vision. Numerous algorithms have been proposed for face recognition. The Industrial Security Monitoring System implemented using LabVIEW works on the idea that access to privileged premises is allowed only to certain members whose pictures are present in the database. When a person wants to gain access to these privileged areas his picture is taken with the webcam. A histogram is drawn for the picture and compared to the histograms of the images in the database. On matching of the histograms the person is asked for a password. And once the password is verified he is given access to the privileged premises.