2022 April-1 - 194 articles
Ridesharing services aim to reduce travel costs for users and optimize revenue for drivers and platforms by sharing available seats. Existing works can be roughly classified into two types, i.e., online-based and batch-based methods. The former mainl...
In the context of software product line (SPL) engineering, test cases can be reused for testing a family of products that share common parts of source code. An approach to test the products of a product family is to exhaustively execute each test cas...
1U CubeSats often use the 430-MHz band for communication due to their size and power limitations, and half-wavelength dipole antennas are employed. A 430-MHz-band dipole antenna requires a deployable structure for a 1U CubeSat. However, a 1U CubeSat...
Substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) is a modern day (21st century) transmission line that has recently been developed. This technology has introduced new possibilities to the design of efficient circuits and components operating in the radio frequen...
Capacitive power transfer (CPT) uses an electric field as the transfer medium to achieve wireless power transfer (WPT). Benefitting from the low eddy current loss, simple system structure and strong plasticity of the coupling coupler, the CPT system...
Automated vehicle (AV) minibuses, i.e., AV shuttles, are gaining popularity in the testing of new types of transportation services in real traffic conditions. AV shuttles have moved from closed test areas to low-traffic public sites such as local res...
The DARPA POSH program echoes with the research community and identifies that engineering productivity has fallen behind Moore’s law, resulting in the prohibitive increase in IC design cost at leading technology nodes. The primary reason is tha...
Aiming at the high-precision position control of electro-hydraulic servo pump control system, a compensation control algorithm based on fuzzy control theory is proposed based on the classical PID control algorithm for the control of factors such as o...
The mentality of electricity consumers is one of the most important entities that must be addressed when dealing with issues in the operation of power systems. Consumers are used to being completely passive, but recently these things have changed as...
In this paper, a novel low-profile magnetoelectric (ME) dipole antenna with wideband is presented. The conventional vertical fixing structure is bended four times from the center to the sides. The Γ-shaped feeding structure is bended two times...
Emergency situations such as wildfires, water floods, or even terrorist attacks require continuous communication between the coordination centres, the several on-the-field teams, and their respective devices to properly address the adverse circumstan...
There is an increasing need to diagnose Parkinson’s disease (PD) in an early stage. Existing solutions mainly focused on traditional ways such as MRI, thus suffering from the ease-of-use issue. This work presents a new approach using video and...
Point-of-interest (POI) recommender systems (RSes) have gained significant popularity in recent years due to the prosperity of location-based social networks (LBSN). However, in the interest of personalization services, various sensitive contextual i...
Network layer multicast research is an important field of network research that requires simulators or emulators to support Software-Defined Networking (SDN) as well as to provide a specific structure at the network layer to facilitate packet forward...
The automatic detection of humans in aerial thermal imagery plays a significant role in various real-time applications, such as surveillance, search and rescue and border monitoring. Small target size, low resolution, occlusion, pose, and scale varia...
Visible light communication (VLC) is a technology that uses unlicensed light spectrum resources and high spatial reuse rates for communication. Because it does not occupy any resource allocation in wireless communication, it has fully alleviated the...
In this paper, a low-power and low-noise capacitive-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) is proposed for biopotential sensing applications. A chopping technique is applied to mitigate the domination of flicker noise at low frequency. A ne...
Early detection and diagnosis of COVID-19, as well as the exact separation of non-COVID-19 cases in a non-invasive manner in the earliest stages of the disease, are critical concerns in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN...
With the increasing demand for earth observation in various fields, remote satellites play an important role in ground information assurance. Apparently, the effective scheduling and utilization of multi-satellite resources determine the quality and...
In this paper, a power compensator using supercapacitors in parallel to protect grid-connected devices connected to the distributed power supply in the case of a low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) situation in designed, and a grid-connected device contr...
Brain tumors (BTs) are spreading very rapidly across the world. Every year, thousands of people die due to deadly brain tumors. Therefore, accurate detection and classification are essential in the treatment of brain tumors. Numerous research techniq...
The media access control (MAC) protocol is responsible for channel resource sharing and conflict management in the communication process in VANET, which is of great significance for ensuring efficient and reliable communication. The existing MAC prot...
Ambient assisted living (AAL) makes it possible to build assistance for older adults according to the person’s context. Understanding the person’s context sometimes involves transforming one’s home into a smart home. Typically, this...
Steganography hides secret messages inside the covers while ensuring imperceptibility. Different from traditional steganography, deep learning-based steganography has an adaptable and generalized framework without needing expertise regarding the embe...
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are widely used to model stochastic systems to deduce optimal decision-making policies. As the transition probabilities are usually unknown in MDPs, simulation-based policy improvement (SBPI) using a base policy to de...
The results of research on the influence of the 1.2/50 µs (8/20 µs) surge impulse on the reliability of commercial LED lamps are presented in the paper. For two types of lamps, differing in the declared warranty period, tests were carried...
Split-ring resonators (SRR) are simple electrical circuits that show a significant shift in resonance frequency even with the smallest changes in split capacitance, and thus in permittivity, electric conductivity, and dielectric losses of the split c...
In the field of communication, autoencoder (AE) refers to a system that replaces parts of the traditional transmitter and receiver with artificial neural networks (ANNs). To meet the system performance requirements, it is necessary for the AE to adap...
In this paper, a composite control strategy is proposed to deal with output constraints and disturbances of the visual tracking system for an inertial stabilized platform, which combines active disturbance compensation and the variable gain function...
In recent years, the rapid development of computer vision makes it possible for mobile robots to be more intelligent. Among the related technologies, the visual SLAM system allows the mobile robot to locate itself, build the map, and provide a naviga...
Unlike the modular multilevel converter (MMC) topology operated under the rectifier or inverter modes, control of the balanced state for the submodule (SM) capacitor voltage has emerged as the key issue for DC-DC MMCs. This is mainly caused by no bal...
In this article, we introduce correlation technologies both at RF/mmWave and baseband frequencies. At RF and mmWave frequencies, power-spectra and energy-spectra metrics are introduced for measuring the power-density of mobile devices and systems. Ne...
A quad-band circularly-polarized antenna, for applications of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), 5G, and WIFI-6E, is designed, fabricated, and measured. The proposed antenna is formed by an L-shaped radiator, a rectangular frame ground with...
This article presents an efficient crypto processor architecture for point multiplication acceleration of side-channel secured Binary Huff Curves (BHC) on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) over
Functional delay and sum (FDAS) beamforming for spherical microphone arrays can achieve 360° panoramic acoustic source identification, thus having broad application prospects for identifying interior noise sources. However, its acoustic imaging s...
Many advanced power electronics control techniques present a steep computational load, demanding advanced controllers, such as FPGAs. However, FPGA development is a daunting and time-consuming task, inaccessible to most users. This paper proposes a c...
Twitter is one of the largest social networking platforms, which allows users to make friends, read the latest news, share personal ideas, and discuss social issues. The huge popularity of Twitter mean it attracts a lot of online spammers. Traditiona...
Currently multicopters are facing a continuous growth in terms of recreational uses, and multiple companies focused on these aircrafts to facilitate certain tasks that were nearly inaccessible to humans, or otherwise involved a great cost. In this co...
The distributed trigger counting (DTC) problem is defined as raising an alarm and notifying a user when the total number of received triggers reaches a predefined value w in a distributed system of n nodes. DTC algorithms can be used for environmenta...
The versatility of IoT devices increases the probability of continuous attacks on them. The low processing power and low memory of IoT devices have made it difficult for security analysts to keep records of various attacks performed on these devices...
Prognosis and health management (PHM) are mandatory tasks for real-time monitoring of damage propagation and aging of operating systems during working conditions. More definitely, PHM simplifies conditional maintenance planning by assessing the actua...
This article presents a simple method to design an ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with a notched band. The structure of the filter is simple and is composed of a single half-wavelength resonator loaded with three sets of short-circuit ste...
Fully automated homes, equipped with the latest Internet of Things (IoT) devices, aiming to drastically improve the quality of lives of those inhabiting such homes, is it not a perfect setting for cyber threats? More than that, this is a fear of many...
We present a generative model with spatial control to synthesize dual-artistic media effects. It generates different artistic media effects on the foreground and background of an image. In order to apply a distinct artistic media effect to a photogra...
Object segmentation is still considered a challenging problem in autonomous driving, particularly in consideration of real-world conditions. Following this line of research, this paper approaches the problem of object segmentation using LiDAR–c...
The quantification of skin resistance in individuals after spinal cord injury for the purpose of neurophysiological research is difficult, mainly as a consequence of decreased activity of sweat glands in the injured human organism. In this original w...
The goal of a tour recommendation is to recommend the best destinations according to the preferences of each tourist. The task of tour recommendation is challenging in that it not only has to consider the ratings, as do existing traditional recommend...
This paper presents an integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) for an RF wireless charging system. To improve the phase-noise characteristics under low power, a constant amplitude control class-C voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with a DC-DC converter,...
In this paper, a novel fractional-order global fast terminal sliding mode control (FGFTSMC) strategy based on an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neural network is proposed to improve the performance of a medium density fiberboard (MDF) continuou...
A numerical analysis on field distribution along the Earth’s surface of a line current source submerged in the ground is conducted in this paper to investigate the potential of the extremely low frequency (ELF) technology in the envisioned long...
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