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Electronics, Volume 9, Issue 2

2020 February - 179 articles

Cover Story: Smart devices are present in every aspect of everyday life from smartphones, which are now like mini-computers, to systems for monitoring sleep or fatigue and specific sensors for the recording of vital parameters. A particular use of the latter is health monitoring. Through the use of such devices, several vital parameters can be acquired and automatically monitored, even remotely. VITAL-ECG is a smart device designed to monitor the most important vital parameters with a one-touch device, anywhere, and at low cost. It is a wearable device that, coupled with a mobile app, can track bio-parameters including electrocardiogram, SpO2, skin temperature, and physical activity of the patient. View this paper
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Articles (179)

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1 Citations
5,374 Views
30 Pages

The system performances can be potentially enhanced for three-phase inverter parallel operation in droop-controlled AC microgrid by using network-based control, which also benefits for the extension of other control strategies in microgrids (MGs). It...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Power Electronic Circuits and Systems for Future Grid)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,243 Views
12 Pages

Multi-coil WPT systems require mutual inductance information between coils to increase the power transmission efficiency. However, in the high frequency (HF) bands such as 6.78 MHz and 13.56 MHz, the presence of surrounding coils changes the value of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Power/Data Transfer, Energy Harvesting System Design)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,855 Views
15 Pages

Athlete detection in sports videos is a challenging task due to the dynamic and cluttered background. Distractor-aware SiamRPN (DaSiamRPN) has a simple network structure and can be utilized to perform long-term tracking of large data sets. However, s...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,912 Views
27 Pages

EARL—Embodied Agent-Based Robot Control Systems Modelling Language

  • Tomasz Winiarski,
  • Maciej Węgierek,
  • Dawid Seredyński,
  • Wojciech Dudek,
  • Konrad Banachowicz and
  • Cezary Zieliński

The paper presents the Embodied Agent-based Robot control system modelling Language (EARL). EARL follows a Model-Driven Software Development approach (MDSD), which facilitates robot control system development. It is based on a mathematical method of...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,028 Views
19 Pages

A 1 GS/s 12-Bit Pipelined/SAR Hybrid ADC in 40 nm CMOS Technology

  • Jianwen Li,
  • Xuan Guo,
  • Jian Luan,
  • Danyu Wu,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Nanxun Wu,
  • Yinkun Huang,
  • Hanbo Jia,
  • Xuqiang Zheng and
  • Xinyu Liu
  • + 1 author

A 1 GS/s 12-bit pipelined/successive-approximation-register (pipelined/SAR) hybrid analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is presented in this paper, where the five most significant bits are resolved by two cascading 2.5-bit multiplying digital-to-analog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analog/Digital Mixed Circuit and RF Transceiver Design)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,662 Views
21 Pages

Approximate computing has been a good paradigm of energy-efficient accelerator design. Accurate and fast error estimation is critical for appropriate approximate techniques selection so that power saving (or performance improvement) can be maximized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Approximate Computing: Design, Acceleration, Validation and Testing of Circuits, Architectures and Algorithms in Future Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
15,313 Views
14 Pages

Exploring Impact of Age and Gender on Sentiment Analysis Using Machine Learning

  • Sudhanshu Kumar,
  • Monika Gahalawat,
  • Partha Pratim Roy,
  • Debi Prosad Dogra and
  • Byung-Gyu Kim

Sentiment analysis is a rapidly growing field of research due to the explosive growth in digital information. In the modern world of artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis is one of the essential tools to extract emotion information from massive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing for Emerging Multimedia Technology)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,567 Views
14 Pages

Along with internet growth, security issues come into existence. Efficient tools to control access and to filter undesirable web content are needed all the time. In this paper, a control access method for web security based on age estimation is propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing and Signal Processing in Smart Healthcare)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,686 Views
17 Pages

CMOS Analog Filter Design for Very High Frequency Applications

  • Luis Abraham Sánchez-Gaspariano,
  • Carlos Muñiz-Montero,
  • Jesús Manuel Muñoz-Pacheco,
  • Carlos Sánchez-López,
  • Luz del Carmen Gómez-Pavón,
  • Arnulfo Luis-Ramos and
  • Alejandro Israel Bautista-Castillo

A design strategy for the synthesis of high-selectivity/low-order analog filters in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology for very high frequency (VHF) applications is presented. The methodology for the reconstitution of a given t...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,216 Views
15 Pages

Demand and Storage Management in a Prosumer Nanogrid Based on Energy Forecasting

  • Eva González-Romera,
  • Enrique Romero-Cadaval,
  • Joaquín Garrido-Zafra,
  • Olivia Florencias-Oliveros,
  • Mercedes Ruiz-Cortés,
  • Antonio Moreno-Munoz and
  • Juan-José González-de-la-Rosa

Energy efficiency and consumers’ role in the energy system are among the strategic research topics in power systems these days. Smart grids (SG) and, specifically, microgrids, are key tools for these purposes. This paper presents a three-stage...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,315 Views
26 Pages

This paper describes a low-cost flight control system of a small aileron-less hand-launched solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In order to improve the accuracy of the whole system model and quantify the influence of each subsystem, detailed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles Technology)
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  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,529 Views
22 Pages

This paper presents the sensorless control algorithm for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system with the estimator and the intelligent controller. The estimator is constructed on the novel sliding mode observer (SMO) in combination...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Systems for Electric Drives)
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  • Open Access
146 Citations
13,577 Views
22 Pages

Power Quality Assessment of Grid-Connected PV System in Compliance with the Recent Integration Requirements

  • Ali Q. Al-Shetwi,
  • M A Hannan,
  • Ker Pin Jern,
  • Ammar A. Alkahtani and
  • A. E. PG Abas

The generation and integration of photovoltaic power plants (PVPPs) into the utility grid have increased dramatically over the past two decades. In this sense, and to ensure a high quality of the PVPPs generated power as well as a contribution on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Intelligent Mechatronic Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
16,286 Views
16 Pages

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

  • Ester Martinez-Martin,
  • Felix Escalona and
  • Miguel Cazorla

Over one billion people in the world suffer from some form of disability. Nevertheless, according to the World Health Organization, people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to deficiencies in services, such as health care, rehabilitation,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Techniques for Assistive Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,658 Views
12 Pages

This paper presents not only a hardware-simulator development for hydraulic turbine generation systems (HTGS) in a district heating system (DHS) but also its control strategies and sequence. Generally, a DHS uses a differential pressure control valve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Power Electric Traction Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,077 Views
19 Pages

This article reviews the nonlinear dynamical attributes, switching kinetics, bifurcation analysis, and physical realization of a family of generic memristors, namely, Chua corsage memristors (CCM). CCM family contains three 1-st order generic memrist...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,056 Views
17 Pages

This paper presents a inductor–inductor–capacitor (LLC) resonant converter with variable winding turns to achieve wide voltage operation (100–400 V) and realize soft switching operation over the entire load range. Resonant converter...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,025 Views
17 Pages

As the network technology continues to grow at a high rate of speed, the traditional network topology is improved with novel distributed topologies such as the Cloud computing network. A cloud computing environment consists of a huge number of proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Applications)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,457 Views
11 Pages

A soft-switching hybrid DC-DC converter with a 2-phase switched capacitor is proposed for the implementation of a fully-integrated voltage regulator in a 65 nm standard CMOS process. The soft-switching operation is implemented to minimize power loss...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,357 Views
9 Pages

An Express Algorithm for Transient Electromagnetic Data Interpretation

  • Roman Kaminskyj,
  • Nataliya Shakhovska,
  • Gregus Michal,
  • Borys Ladanivskyy and
  • Lidia Savkiv

The transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is a time-domain, controlled source, electromagnetic (EM) geophysical technique which is often applied to image the subsurface conductivity distributions of shallow layers due to its effectiveness and adapta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronization of Businesses - Systems Engineering and Analytics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,370 Views
14 Pages

Recognition of Gait Phases with a Single Knee Electrogoniometer: A Deep Learning Approach

  • Francesco Di Nardo,
  • Christian Morbidoni,
  • Alessandro Cucchiarelli and
  • Sandro Fioretti

Artificial neural networks were satisfactorily implemented for assessing gait events from different walking data. This study aims to propose a novel approach for recognizing gait phases and events, based on deep-learning analysis of only sagittal kne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Motion Analysis)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,128 Views
17 Pages

Losses in energy storage systems (ESSs) result from losses in battery systems and power conversion systems (PCSs). Thus, the power difference between the input and output occurs as a loss, which is considered an operational cost. Additionally, since...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,838 Views
10 Pages

A vibration-based energy harvester (VEH) utilizes vibrations originated from various structures and specifically maximizes the displacement of its moving parts, using the resonance between the frequency of external vibration loads from the structure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Harvesting and Storage Applications)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,124 Views
10 Pages

Research on Simplified Model of AC/DC Hybrid Microgrid for Fault Analysis

  • Tianliang Yao,
  • Zhiwei Li,
  • Jiping Qu,
  • Zhaoxiong Li,
  • Qi Zhao and
  • Guopeng Zhao

The AC/DC hybrid microgrid, which takes into account the access requirements of AC and DC sources and loads, optimizes the structure of traditional distribution networks. The application of power electronic transformers as the core of its energy mana...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies for Smart Distribution Grid)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,012 Views
17 Pages

Disturbances presented in aeronautical imaging equipment can cause visual axis jitter, which directly leads to a reduction in closed-loop bandwidth and a decrease in tracking accuracy. The disturbance frequency affecting the stable control platform i...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,132 Views
20 Pages

Determining the best timetable for vehicles in a public transportation (PT) network is a complex problem, especially because it is just necessary to consider the requirements and satisfaction of passengers as the requirements of transportation compan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Public Transport Platform for the Development of Sustainability Cities)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,445 Views
24 Pages

Aggregation of small size consumers and Distributed Generation (DG) units have a considerable impact to catch the full flexibility potential, in the context of Demand Response programs. New incentive mechanisms are needed to remunerate consumers adeq...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,509 Views
14 Pages

sDeepFM: Multi-Scale Stacking Feature Interactions for Click-Through Rate Prediction

  • Baohua Qiang,
  • Yongquan Lu,
  • Minghao Yang,
  • Xianjun Chen,
  • Jinlong Chen and
  • Yawei Cao

For estimating the click-through rate of advertisements, there are some problems in that the features cannot be automatically constructed, or the features built are relatively simple, or the high-order combination features are difficult to learn unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regularization Techniques for Machine Learning and Their Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,427 Views
14 Pages

A Baseline Roadmap for Advanced Wireless Research Beyond 5G

  • Alain Mourad,
  • Rui Yang,
  • Per Hjalmar Lehne and
  • Antonio De La Oliva

This paper presents a baseline roadmap for the evolution of 5G new radio over the next decade. Three timescales are considered, namely short-term (2022-ish), medium-term (2025-ish), and long-term (2030-ish). The evolution of the target key performanc...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,520 Views
11 Pages

Cooperative Secure Transmission in MISO-NOMA Networks

  • Yang Chen,
  • Zhongpei Zhang and
  • Bingrui Li

In this paper, we investigate cooperative secure transmission in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks where a source (Alice) intends to transmit confidential messages to one legitimate user with high-level security requirement (LU1), and se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative Communications for Future Wireless Systems)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,682 Views
12 Pages

BPR-TCAM—Block and Partial Reconfiguration based TCAM on Xilinx FPGAs

  • Anees Ullah,
  • Ali Zahir,
  • Noaman A. Khan,
  • Waleed Ahmad,
  • Alexis Ramos and
  • Pedro Reviriego

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) based Ternary Content Addressable Memories (TCAMs) are widely used in high-speed networking applications.However, TCAMs are not present on state-of-the-art FPGAs and need to be emulated on SRAM-based memories (i...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,109 Views
12 Pages

Gallium nitride (GaN) devices have been widely adopted to achieve high efficiency and high power density as alternative solutions to silicon devices. When the GaN power devices are used for variable frequency drive (VFD) systems, the high dv/dt pulse...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,149 Views
12 Pages

By using through-silicon-vias (TSV), three dimension integration technology can stack large memory on the top of cores as a last-level on-chip cache (LLC) to reduce off-chip memory access and enhance system performance. However, the integration of mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low-Power Techniques for Embedded Systems and Network-on-Chip Architectures)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,681 Views
17 Pages

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation problem as an essential problem in the radar system is important in radar applications. In this paper, considering a multiple-input and multiple-out (MIMO) radar system, the DOA estimation problem is investig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Array Antenna and Array Signal Processing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,581 Views
23 Pages

Impacts of Array Orientation and Tilt Angles for Photovoltaic Self-Sufficiency and Self-Consumption Indices in Olive Mills in Spain

  • Gabino Jiménez-Castillo,
  • Francisco José Muñoz-Rodríguez,
  • Antonio Javier Martinez-Calahorro,
  • Giuseppe Marco Tina and
  • Catalina Rus-Casas

Olive mills are extensive in the Mediterranean Basin, and Spain constitutes approximately 45% of global production. The industrial sector faces a new energetic paradigm where distributed generation provided by small renewable energy sources may reduc...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,951 Views
22 Pages

NoCGuard: A Reliable Network-on-Chip Router Architecture

  • Muhammad Akmal Shafique,
  • Naveed Khan Baloch,
  • Muhammad Iram Baig,
  • Fawad Hussain,
  • Yousaf Bin Zikria and
  • Sung Won Kim

Aggressive scaling in deep nanometer technology enables chip multiprocessor design facilitated by the communication-centric architecture provided by Network-on-Chip (NoC). At the same time, it brings considerable challenges in reliability because a f...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,904 Views
17 Pages

Novel Design and Adaptive Fuzzy Control of a Lower-Limb Elderly Rehabilitation

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Jiehao Li,
  • Salih Ertug Ovur,
  • Ziyang Chen,
  • Xiangnan Li,
  • Zhenhuan Hu and
  • Yingbai Hu

Design and control of a lower-limb exoskeleton rehabilitation of the elderly are the main challenge for health care in the past decades. In order to satisfy the requirements of the elderly or disabled users, this paper presents a novel design and ada...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,148 Views
12 Pages

Computationally Efficient Soft Detection Schemes for Coded Massive MIMO Systems

  • Meixiang Zhang,
  • Zhi Zhang,
  • Satya Chan and
  • Sooyoung Kim

This paper presents a computationally efficient soft detection scheme for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed scheme adopts joint iterative detection and decoding (JIDD) methods for their capacity limiting performances...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Networks: New Advances and Challenges)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,558 Views
10 Pages

Radio Network Planning towards 5G mmWave Standalone Small-Cell Architectures

  • Georgia E. Athanasiadou,
  • Panagiotis Fytampanis,
  • Dimitra A. Zarbouti,
  • George V. Tsoulos,
  • Panagiotis K. Gkonis and
  • Dimitra I. Kaklamani

The 5G radio networks have introduced major changes in terms of service requirements and bandwidth allocation compared to cellular networks to date and hence, they have made the fundamental radio planning problem even more complex. In this work, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antennas and Propagation Aspects for Emerging Wireless Communication Technologies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,557 Views
17 Pages

Electronics is a field of study ubiquitous in our daily lives, since this discipline is undoubtedly the driving force behind developments in many other disciplines, such as telecommunications, automation, and computer science. Nowadays, electronics i...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,547 Views
19 Pages

The direction-of-departure (DOD) and the direction-of-arrival (DOA) are important localization parameters in bistatic MIMO radar. In this paper, we are interested in DOD/DOA estimation of both single-pulse and multiple-pulse multiple-input multiple-o...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,998 Views
11 Pages

High-power switching applications, such as thyristor valves in a high-voltage direct current converter, can use 4H-SiC. The numerical simulation of the 4H-SiC devices requires specialized models and parameters. Here, we present a numerical simulation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrical Characterization of Wide Bandgap Devices for Modern Power Electronics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,355 Views
21 Pages

The present paper deals with neural algorithms to learn the singular value decomposition (SVD) of data matrices. The neural algorithms utilized in the present research endeavor were developed by Helmke and Moore (HM) and appear under the form of two...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Machine Learning Applications to Internet of Things (IoT))
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,072 Views
16 Pages

This paper studies the coordination control of active and reactive power of the voltage source converter-high voltage direct current transmission (VSC-HVDC) grid side converter. Firstly, the high-order VSC-HVDC converter system is decomposed into thr...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,030 Views
11 Pages

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands is considered for fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems because abundant spectrum is available for mobile broadband communications. In mmWave communication systems, accurate beamforming is important to compensate for h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Millimeter Wave Technology in 5G)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
190 Citations
14,736 Views
14 Pages

Reconfigurable Antennas: Switching Techniques—A Survey

  • Naser Ojaroudi Parchin,
  • Haleh Jahanbakhsh Basherlou,
  • Yasir I. A. Al-Yasir,
  • Ahmed M. Abdulkhaleq and
  • Raed A. Abd-Alhameed

Due to the fast development of wireless communication technology, reconfigurable antennas with multimode and cognitive radio operation in modern wireless applications with a high-data rate have drawn very close attention from researchers. Reconfigura...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,721 Views
21 Pages

Sequence-to-sequence deep neural networks have become the state of the art for a variety of machine learning applications, ranging from neural machine translation (NMT) to speech recognition. Many mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) applications woul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Embedded HW/SW Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
15,124 Views
14 Pages

Efficient Systolic-Array Redundancy Architecture for Offline/Online Repair

  • Keewon Cho,
  • Ingeol Lee,
  • Hyeonchan Lim and
  • Sungho Kang

Neural-network computing has revolutionized the field of machine learning. The systolic-array architecture is a widely used architecture for neural-network computing acceleration that was adopted by Google in its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). To ensu...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,051 Views
20 Pages

Formal Analysis and Verification of Airborne Software Based on DO-333

  • Zongyu Cao,
  • Wanyou Lv,
  • Yanhong Huang,
  • Jianqi Shi and
  • Qin Li

With rapid technological advances in airborne control systems, it has become imperative to ensure the reliability, robustness, and adaptability of airborne software since failure of these software could result in catastrophic loss of property and lif...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,011 Views
21 Pages

Adaptive Safety Early Warning Device for Non-contact Measurement of HVDC Electric Field

  • Chunguang Suo,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Wenbin Zhang,
  • Nianrong Zhou and
  • Weiren Chen

In order to prevent electric shock accidents during the maintenance and repair of high-voltage direct current (DC) live equipment, an intelligent safety early warning system device based on non-contact electric field measurement is developed in this...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)

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