2021 October-1 - 129 articles
Coronavirus has affected millions of people worldwide, with the rate of infected people still increasing. The virus is transmitted between people through direct, indirect, or close contact with infected people. To help prevent the social transmission...
It is generally accepted that the 20th century was the age of electronics [...]
Standing up and sitting down are prerequisite motions in most activities of daily living scenarios. The ability to sit down in and stand up from a chair or a bed depreciates and becomes a complex task with increasing age. Hence, research on the analy...
This paper presents a new intelligent control strategy to augment the low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) potential of photovoltaic (PV) plants, and the transient stability of a complete grid system. Modern grid codes demand that a PV plant should be con...
This paper presents a design of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag antenna in the ultra-high-frequency (UHF) range, which is applicable to a vehicular license plate attached to a vehicle bumper. The main goals are to first improve the identi...
With the evolution of Internet technology, social networking sites have gained a lot of popularity. People make new friends, share their interests, experiences in life, etc. With these activities on social sites, people generate a vast amount of data...
In recent years, the scaling down that Moore’s Law relies on has been gradually slowing down, and the traditional von Neumann architecture has been limiting the improvement of computing power. Thus, neuromorphic in-memory computing hardware has been...
In vehicles, dozens of electronic control units are connected to one or more controller area network (CAN) buses to exchange information and send commands related to the physical system of the vehicles. Furthermore, modern vehicles are connected to t...
The structure of a document contains rich information such as logical relations in context, hierarchy, affiliation, dependence, and applicability. It will greatly affect the accuracy of document information processing, particularly of legal documents...
In recent years the amount of malware spreading through the internet and infecting computers and other communication devices has tremendously increased. To date, countless techniques and methodologies have been proposed to detect and neutralize these...
The necessity for DC−DC converters has been rapidly increasing due to the emergence of RES-based electrification. However, the converter designed so far exhibits the drawbacks of lower efficiency and non-compactness in size. Hence, to rectify this pr...
A prototype RF probe card is assembled to test the feasibility of Pogo-pins as robust probe tips for the automized testing of multiple-port millimeter-wave circuits. A custom-made ceramic housing machined from a low-loss dielectric holds an array of...
This paper applies a dynamic path planning and model predictive control (MPC) to simulate self-driving and parking for an electric van on a hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) platform. The hardware platform is a simulator which consists of an electric power...
The localization of electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources is of high importance in electromagnetic compatibility applications. Recently, a novel localization technique based on the time-reversal cavity (TRC) concept was proposed using only one s...
State-of-the-art mobile platforms, such as smartphones and tablets, are powered by heterogeneous system-on-chips (SoCs). These SoCs are composed of many processing elements, including multiple CPU core clusters (e.g., big.LITTLE cores), graphics proc...
Grayscale morphology is a powerful tool in image, video, and visual applications. A reconfigurable processor is proposed for grayscale image morphological processing. The architecture of the processor is a combination of a reconfigurable grayscale pr...
We present a new machine learning (ML) deep learning (DL) synthesis algorithm for the design of a microstrip meander line (MML) slow wave structure (SWS). Exact numerical simulation data are used in the training of our network as a form of supervised...
In the 5G system, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas for both transmitting and receiving ends are required. However, the design of MIMO antennas at the 5G upper band is challenging due to the mutual coupling issues. Many techniques have b...
Reaction wheels are widely used in the attitude control system of small satellites. Unfortunately, reaction wheels failure restricts the efficacy of a satellite, and it is one of the many reasons leading to premature abandonment of the satellites. Th...
With small-scale quantum processors transitioning from experimental physics labs to industrial products, these processors in a few years are expected to scale up and be more robust for efficiently computing important algorithms in various fields. In...
Convolutional neural networks and the per-pixel loss function have shown their potential to be the best combination for super-resolving severely degraded images. However, there are still challenges, such as the massive number of parameters requiring...
In this paper, a method of capacity trajectory prediction for lead-acid battery, based on the steep drop curve of discharge voltage and improved Gaussian process regression model, is proposed by analyzing the relationship between the current availabl...
A recurrent neural network (RNN) and differential evolution optimization (DEO) based nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) technique is proposed for position control of a single-link flexible-joint (FJ) robot. First, a simple three-layer recurren...
In this work, the effect of randomly distributed stuck-at faults (SAFs) in memristive cross-point array (CPA)-based single and multi-layer perceptrons (SLPs and MLPs, respectively) intended for pattern recognition tasks is investigated by means of re...
It is difficult to model and determine the parameters of the steer-by-wire (SBW) system accurately, and the perturbation is variable with complex and changeable tire–road conditions. In order to improve the control performance of the vehicle SBW syst...
At present, diverse, innovative technology is used in electronics and ubiquitous computing environments [...]
In photovoltaic (PV) systems, maximum power point (MPP) is tracked by matching the load impedance to the internal impedance of the PV array by adjusting the duty cycle of the associated DC-DC converter. Scientists are trying to improve the efficiency...
Seed imbibition, absorption of water by a dry seed, is an essential process in which embryo hydration and root establishment occur. In natural environments, this process occurs beneath the soil, making it difficult to observe preliminary growth of se...
Containerization has been mainly used in pure software solutions, but it is gradually finding its way into the industrial systems. This paper introduces the edge container with artificial intelligence for speech recognition, which performs the voice...
To support the “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goal, new energy is poised to explode, and new energy power generation converter is simultaneously facing new challenges. The conventional current-controlled new energy converter can quickly transmit...
The electrical equivalent model of an underwater acoustic transducer must be exactly defined in the operating frequency band to improve the driving efficiency between a sonar transmitter and a transducer. This paper used the PSO (particle swarm optim...
The demand of delivering various services is driving inter-data centers optical interconnection towards 400 G/800 G, which calls for increasing capacity and spectrum efficiency. The aim of this study is to effectively increase capacity while also imp...
Photovoltaic (PV) systems are used to generate electricity and they are considered less aggressive in their environmental impact. These systems require no further maintenance once they are installed, they do not pollute the environment and their aver...
A critical advancement in solar photovoltaic (PV) establishment has led to robust acceleration towards the evolution of new MPPT techniques. The sun-oriented PV framework has a non-linear characteristic in varying climatic conditions, which considera...
Object tracking is a fundamental computer vision problem that refers to a set of methods proposed to precisely track the motion trajectory of an object in a video. Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a subclass of object tracking that has received grow...
There is no doubt that CNN has made remarkable technological developments as the core technology of computer vision, but the pooling technique used for CNN has its own issues. This study set out to solve the issues of the pooling technique by proposi...
Microscopy plays a crucial role in the diagnosis of numerous diseases. However, the need for trained microscopists and pathologists, the complexity of pathology, and the accessibility and affordability of the technology can hinder the provision of ra...
In order to limit various alien species by ballast water, electrolysis of ballast water is used to sterilize microorganisms. In this process, total residual oxidizer (TRO) is produced, and it is necessary to measure the precise TRO concentration to p...
In this paper, a five-level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverter with short-circuit fault-tolerant capability is presented. Based on the proposed approach, in order to ensure service continuity subsequent to a short-circuit fault event in a switch, t...
We propose an equivalent electrical circuit model to evaluate the direct modulation performance of optically injection-locked (OIL) semiconductor lasers. We modeled the equivalent circuit of the OIL laser based on alternating complex envelope represe...
Human activity recognition (HAR) and transfer learning (TL) are two broad areas widely studied in computational intelligence (CI) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Much effort has been put into developing suitable solutions to advance th...
In underwater acoustic cellular (UWAC) systems, underwater equipment or sensor nodes (UE/SN) should perform downlink synchronisation and a cell search during the initial access stage using the preambles received from adjacent underwater base stations...
Quasi-2-level (Q2L) operation of multi-level bridge-legs, especially of flying-capacitor converters (FCC), is an interesting option for realizing single-cell power conversion in applications whose system voltages exceed the ratings of available power...
In this paper, we analyze the effect of an enhanced voltage flip technique on the power performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester. The enhanced voltage flip principle is based on a synchronized-switch-based architecture, and is referred to as F...
The DC-link filter which includes a magnetic inductor and a storage capacitor is one of the key parts of adjustable speed drives in the market. It significantly affects the stability, reliability, and power density of the motor-drive system. This pap...
Network attacking using malware has become very popular on the Internet and in many other networks, namely Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) networks. It is required to have the model describing the malware spreading based on factors, which directly a...
This paper used an artificial jellyfish search (AJFS) optimizer suitable for selective harmonic elimination-based modulation for multilevel inverter (MLI) voltage control application. The main objective was to remove the undesired lower-order harmoni...
The availability of quantum microprocessors is mandatory, to efficiently run those quantum algorithms promising a radical leap forward in computation capability. Silicon-based nanostructured qubits appear today as a very interesting approach, because...
Currently, the existing vehicle-centric semi-autonomous driving modules do not consider the driver’s situation and emotions. In an autonomous driving environment, when changing to manual driving, human–machine interface and advanced driver assistance...
This study focuses on the design of a MATLAB platform for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based systems with link-level and system-level analyses. Among the different potential candidates for 5G, NOMA is gaining considerable attention owing to...
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