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Energy audit is an important tool in transforming the fortunes of any organization. This is highly relevant to the sugar industry as it deals with a renewable energy source and looked upon as rural power house. The scope for conservation is immense and if properly harnessed can take the organization to the path of prosperity. In this paper, a gland steam system has been studied and a proposed system is provided for the enhancement of the gland steam system. Also, in actual cogeneration process, it is observed from the gland leak steam condensate of 8.0 lit/min from steam turbine with temperature of 75 deg. C on an average, going as waste in drains. The reutilization of this steam is carried over by the enhanced gland steam system.

The main contribution of this paper is to present the state-space model of an omnidirectional drivetrain (Kiwi drive) for mobile robots. Holonomy or omnidirectional movement of mobile robots is important in applications where navigation through tight space is required. Besides the already available literature regarding either dynamic or kinematic models, this paper presents the complex analysis of a mechatronic system and shows a coherent model that takes into account both the kinematics and the dynamics of a coupled electromechanical system. The model was developed based on two holonomic mobile robots: the Festo Robotino Ò and the MOGI Ethon. A simulation software developed by the authors is also presented for numerical evaluation of the model. The simulation results qualitatively confirm the model by fulfilling the empirical requirements. Both the model and the simulation software are expandable in order to improve the accuracy of the model describing actual mobile robots. Compared to other models which are based only on the kinematics of the Kiwi drivetrain, in accordance to one's technical instinct, the presented model shows that there is a cross effect between the motors of the drivetrain, where the motors affect each other.

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The main contribution of this research is to develop of a new measuring device for measuring direct- and consensual light reflex of human pupil. In this case the pupillary light reflex means changing of diameter of pupil due to constant light stimulus as a function of time. Researches certify that the pupil diameter and its change reflects the person’s mental or physical state. There are several “eye tracking” devices available on the market, however, none of these are able to perform a proper consensual measurement. The basic principle of the consensual pupil measurement is that while only one of the eyes is stimulated, reactions of both eyes are being recorded and analyzed. The aim of this project was to develop a software, applicable to an existing prototype device in order to carry out “consensual pupillary reflex” measurements.