2021 September-2 - 137 articles
This article presents a novel compact widely tunable bandpass filter. The filter consists of two resonators that are double-coupled, inductively, where the coupling inductances are elements of the input and output networks. The application of double-...
The paper addresses a problem of efficiently controlling an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), where its typical underactuated model is considered. Due to critical uncertainties and nonlinearities in the system caused by unavoidable external distur...
W-Band radiometers using intermediate frequency down-conversion (super-heterodyne) and direct detection are compared. Both receivers consist of two W-band low noise amplifiers and an 80-to-101 GHz filter, which conforms to the reception frequency ban...
In this paper, the design, fabrication, and measurements of an S band multi harmonic tuned power amplifier in GaN technology is described. The amplifier has been designed by exploiting second and third harmonic tuning conditions at both input and out...
Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a significant and widespread research field in image processing and computer vision. The goal of the MOT task consists in predicting the complete tracklets of multiple objects in a video sequence. There are usually many...
A high-speed column driver IC with an area-efficient high-slew-rate buffer amplifier is proposed for use in a large-sized, high-resolution TFT-LCD panel application. In the proposed architecture, explicit isolation switches have been embedded into th...
Recently, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as artificial intelligence (AI) speakers and smartwatches, using a Linux-based file system has increased. Moreover, these devices are connected to the Internet and generate vast amounts o...
This paper presents a driver amplifier with high bandwidth-power efficiency, high capacitor-driving capacity, and low total harmonic distortion (THD). One complementary differential pair composed of self-cascode transistors is incorporated to obtain...
The aim of this paper is to detect a stator inter-turn short circuit in a synchronous machine through the analysis of the external magnetic field measured by external flux sensors. The paper exploits a methodology previously developed, based on the a...
Distribution networks are inherently radial and passive owing to the ease of operation and unidirectional power flow. Proper installation of Distributed Generators, on the one hand, makes the utility network active and mitigates certain power quality...
Brain injuries can create life-altering challenges and have the potential to leave people with permanent disabilities. Art therapy is a popular method used for treating many of the disabilities that can accompany a brain injury. In a systematic revie...
Petri nets are a useful mathematical formalism for specification of manufacturing systems, supported by various analysis and verification methods. The progress made in automating control systems and the widespread use of Industry 4.0 pose a number of...
The performance and reliability of nonvolatile NAND flash memories deteriorate as the number of program/erase cycles grows. The reliability also suffers from cell-to-cell interference, long data retention time, and read disturb. These processes effec...
Since occupancy affects energy consumption, it is common to model and simulate occupancy using simulation software. One drawback of simulation software is that it cannot provide data transmission information from the sensors, which is essential for r...
The increase in industrial and commercial applications of photovoltaic systems (PV) has a significant impact on the increase in interest in studying the improvement of the efficiency of these systems. Estimating the efficiency of PV is considered one...
This paper proposed an innovative mechanical design using the Rocker-bogie mechanism for resilient Trash-Collecting Robots. Mask-RCNN, YOLOV4, and YOLOv4-tiny were experimented on and analyzed for trash detection. The Trash-Collecting Robot was devel...
The development of convolutional neural networks for deep learning has significantly contributed to image classification and segmentation areas. For high performance in supervised image segmentation, we need many ground-truth data. However, high cost...
Route optimization has become an increasing problem in the transportation and logistics sector within the development of smart cities. This article aims to demonstrate the implementation of a genetic algorithm adapted to a Vehicle Route Problem (VRP)...
Segmentation of retinal vessels plays a crucial role in detecting many eye diseases, and its reliable computerized implementation is becoming essential for automated retinal disease screening systems. A large number of retinal vessel segmentation alg...
This paper presents the application of the cuckoo search (CS) algorithm in attempts to the minimization of the commutation torque ripple in the brushless DC motor (BLDC). The optimization algorithm was created based on the cuckoo’s reproductive behav...
In recent years, gradual improvements in communication and connectivity technologies have enabled new technical possibilities for the adoption of chatbots across diverse sectors such as customer services, trade, and marketing. The chatbot is a platfo...
This work is dedicated to the assessment of the filtering performances of an optoelectronic sensor for space applications. Particular care is taken concerning the power supply subsystem (here voltage shifter integrated circuit), which is part of the...
Due to the design principle of parallel processing, belief propagation (BP) decoding is attractive, and it provides good error-correction performance compared with successive cancellation (SC) decoding. However, its error-correction performance is st...
In this paper, the implementation of a low-voltage class AB second generation voltage conveyor (VCII) with high current drive capability is presented. Simple realization and good overall performance are the main features of the proposed circuit. Prop...
In this work, a bioinspired or neuromorphic model to replicate the vowel recognition process for an auditory system is presented. A bioinspired peripheral and central auditory system model is implemented and a neuromorphic higher auditory system mode...
In this paper, we performed analytical, numerical and experimental studies on the generation of soliton waves in discrete nonlinear transmission lines (NLTL) with varactors, as well as the analysis of the losses impact on the propagation of these wav...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been listed among the most deadly diseases worldwide. Many CVDs are likely to manifest their symptoms some time prior to the onset of any adverse or catastrophic events, and early detection of cardiac abnormalities...
Gas insulated transmission lines (GILs) are used in electrical systems mainly for power transmission and High Voltage substation interconnection. In this paper, we focus on the development of complex numerical tools for the optimization of gas insula...
In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted increasingly more researchers to study by virtue of its bio-interpretability and low-power computing. The SNN simulator is an essential tool to accomplish image classification, recognitio...
The transformation of time series into complex networks through visibility graphs is an innovative way to study time-based events. In this work, we use visibility graphs to transform IOTA and IoTeX price volatility time series into complex networks....
Here, we report the hole injection role of p-type conjugated polymer layer in phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) nanolayers (thickness = ~1 nm thick), which were subjected to thermal annealing at 140...
Solar eruptive events could affect radio communication, global positioning systems, and some high-tech equipment in space. Active regions on the Sun are the main source regions of solar eruptive events. Therefore, the automatic detection of active re...
Diesel engine emissions contribute nearly 30% of greenhouse effects and diverse health and environmental problems. Amidst these problems, it is estimated that there will be a 75% increase in energy demand for transportation by 2040, of which diesel f...
From early design phases to final release, the reliability of modern embedded systems against soft errors should be carefully considered. Several schemes have been proposed to protect embedded systems against soft errors, but they are neither always...
In Network Function Virtualization, the resource demand of the network service evolves with the change of network traffic. VNF dynamic migration has become an effective method to improve network performance. However, for the time-varying resource dem...
CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) have attracted great consideration from investigators owing to their excellent photo-physical characteristics and application in quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs). The CdSe/ZnS-based inverted QD-LEDs structure us...
The shift to a sustainable energy future is becoming more reliant on large-scale deployment of renewable and distributed energy resources raising concerns about frequency stability. Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF) is necessary as a system inertia...
Bone cancer is rare in adults, the most affected persons by this disease are young people and children. The common treatments for bone cancer are surgery, chemotherapy, and targeted therapies; however, all of them have side-effects that decrease the...
The speed of modern digital systems is severely limited by memory latency (the “Memory Wall” problem). Data exchange between Logic and Memory is also responsible for a large part of the system energy consumption. Logic-in-Memory (LiM) represents an a...
According to statistics, the majority of accidents are attributed to driver negligence, especially when a driver intends to lane change or to overtake another vehicle, which is most likely to cause accidents. In addition, overtaking is one of the mos...
This paper explores a new methodology based on data-driven approaches to identify and track degradation processes in Li-ion batteries. Our goal is to study if it is possible to differentiate the state of degradation of cells that present similar agin...
Traffic lights are an important part of urban roads. They improve traffic conditions but bring about a limitation of driving speed in the space–time domain for vehicles. In this paper, a traffic light model based on a vehicle–road cooperative system...
This paper set out to revise and improve existing autonomous driving models using reinforcement learning, thus proposing a reinforced autonomous driving prediction model. The paper conducted training for a reinforcement learning model using DQN, a re...
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) continue to dominate research in the area of hardware acceleration using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), proving its effectiveness in a variety of computer vision applications such as object segmentation, im...
The perturbation approach is presented here for the first time for the analysis of an inhomogeneous circularly polarized rectangular dielectric resonator (DR) antenna (DRA). The inhomogeneous permittivity is created by perturbing a rectangle-shaped r...
Optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) is used to characterize fiber optic links by identifying and localizing various refractive and reflective events such as breaks, splices, and connectors, and measuring insertion/return loss and fiber length. E...
With the prevalence of online video-sharing platforms increasing in recent years, many people have started to create their own videos and upload them onto the Internet. In filmmaking, background music is also one of the major elements besides the foo...
Although many algorithms have been proposed to mitigate air turbulence in optical videos, there do not seem to be consistent blind video quality assessment metrics that can reliably assess different approaches. Blind video quality assessment metrics...
The standard Bluetooth Low-Energy mesh networks assume the use of flooding for multihop communications. The flooding approach causes network overheads and delays due to continuous message broadcasting in the absence of a routing mechanism. Among the...
An 11-level switched-capacitor multilevel inverter (SCMLI) with 2.5 times boosting feature is presented in this paper. It can produce an 11-level output voltage waveform by utilizing 14 switches, 3 capacitors, 2 diodes, and 1 DC source. Only nine dri...
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