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Auto-localized multimedia platform based on a modular Cyber Physical System aligned in a two-dimensional grid

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In this research, a smart mechanism to automatically configure the relative locations of clustered intelligent nodes arranged in a grid pattern is introduced. If an intelligent node knows the relative location of more than one neighboring node, its location can be recognized. By studying the feature of the grid structure and the short-range infrared signal communication method between the adjacent nodes, the location of an intelligent node and the location map construction of the whole system are configured automatically at each node. The algorithms in this study are tested by a cross-module image or video display task with modularized and reconfigurable digital surface, a modular Cyber-Physical System platform which has stacked ‘smart modules’ each of which has smart sensing and multimedia node with infra-red transceivers at four corners. Exemplary applications demonstrate the feasibility of the system in its scalability and practicality as well as performance by being applied to various spatially reconfigurable multimedia platforms.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRF-2013R1A1A2013740) and Prof. Jungdae Kim was also financially supported by Korea Nazarene University.

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  1. Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Daejeon, Korea

    Dongjun Suh

  2. TmaxSoft Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi, Korea

    Kil Jeon

  3. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

    Seongju Chang

  4. Korea Nazarene University, Cheonan, Korea

    Jungdae Kim

  5. School of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea

    Jinsul Kim

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Suh, D., Jeon, K., Chang, S. et al. Auto-localized multimedia platform based on a modular Cyber Physical System aligned in a two-dimensional grid. Cluster Comput 18, 1449–1464 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-015-0479-z

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