Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 21

Reaching out the function of the brain in perceiving input data from the outside world is one of the great targets of neuroscience. Neural decoding helps us to model the connection between brain activities and the visual stimulation. The reconstructi...

Anomalous behavior detection in business processes inspects abnormal situations, such as errors and missing values in system execution records, to facilitate safe system operation. Since anomaly information hinders the insightful investigation of eve...

In the 6G aerial network, all aerial communication nodes have computing and storage functions and can perform real-time wireless signal processing and resource management. In order to make full use of the computing resources of aerial nodes, this pap...

Cloud computing supports the fast expansion of data and computer centers; therefore, energy and load balancing are vital concerns. The growing popularity of cloud computing has raised power usage and network costs. Frequent calls for computational re...

Entity linking is a process of linking mentions in a document with entities in a knowledge base. Collective entity disambiguation refers to mapping of multiple mentions in a document with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. Most previou...

Path planning for robotic manipulators has proven to be a challenging issue in industrial applications. Despite providing precise waypoints, the traditional path planning algorithm requires a predefined map and is ineffective in complex, unknown envi...

This paper presents an overview and formalization of the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) 3.0. The formalization captures the new FMI 3.0 standard and is intended to be used as an introduction for conceptualizing the use of clocks in the FMI standa...

In the tracking scheme in which global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurement is temporally lost or the sampling frequency is insufficient, dead reckoning based on the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and other location-related information can...

Sensors are the foundational components of any smart machine system and are invaluable in all modern technologies. Consequently, faults and errors in sensors can have a significant negative impact on the setup. Intelligent, lightweight, and accurate...

The ACC (adaptive cruise control) system has developed rapidly in recent years, and its reliability and safety have also attracted a lot of attention. The ACC system can realize automatic driving following the vehicle in the longitudinal range, and i...

Digital transformation has continued to have a remarkable impact on industries, creating new possibilities and improving the performance of existing ones. Recently, we have seen more deployments of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (I...

A compact and low-power all-digital CMOS dual-loop jitter attenuator (DJA) for low-cost built-off-test (BOT) applications such as parallel multi-DUT testing is presented. The proposed DJA adopts a new digital phase interpolator (PI)-based clock recov...

Robotic welding requires a higher weld image resolution for easy weld identification; however, the higher the resolution, the higher the cost. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved CLAHE algorithm, which can not only effectively denoise and reta...

In this paper, we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method for optimal path planning for mobile robots using dynamic programming (DP)-based data collection. The proposed method can overcome the slow learning process and improve traini...

A new technique for fiber faults events detection and monitoring in optical communication network systems is proposed. The fiber performance monitoring tool is a new proposed technique designed to detect, locate, and estimate the fiber faults without...

With the application of the random sampling method in the down-sampling of point clouds data, the processing speed of point clouds has been greatly improved. However, the utilization of semantic information is still insufficient. To address this prob...

This paper proposes a two-stage bidirectional isolated charging system, which can realize the bidirectional flow of electric energy, not only making the electric energy flow from the grid side to the battery side but also converting the battery&rsquo...

Twitter has become a unique platform for social interaction from people all around the world, leading to an extensive amount of knowledge that can be used for various reasons. People share and spread their own ideologies and point of views on unique...

Speckles and wrinkles are common skin conditions on the face, with occurrence ranging from mild to severe, affecting an individual in various ways. In this study, we aim to detect these conditions using an intelligent deep learning approach. First, w...

Pavement cracks can result in the degradation of pavement performance. Due to the lack of timely inspection and reparation for the pavement cracks, with the development of cracks, the safety and service life of the pavement can be decreased. To curb...

This research is an attempt to examine the recent status and development of scientific studies on the use of machine learning algorithms to model air pollution challenges. This study uses the Web of Science database as a primary search engine and cov...

This paper proposes a C/X/Ku/K band 6-bit digital step attenuator (DSA) which employs a variety of improved attenuation cells to achieve a wide bandwidth, stable amplitude variation, stable phase variation, and small area. In this paper, the improved...

Deep learning is a cutting-edge image processing method that is still relatively new but produces reliable results. Leaf disease detection and categorization employ a variety of deep learning approaches. Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetable...

Drones are increasingly used in several industries, including rescue, firefighting, and agriculture. If the motor connected to a drone’s propeller is damaged, there is a risk of a drone crash. Therefore, to prevent such incidents, an accurate a...

A medical record is an important part of a patient’s follow-up. It comprises healthcare professionals’ views, prescriptions, analyses, and all information about the patient. Several players, including the patient, the doctor, and the phar...

In response to the problems of difficult identification of degradation stage start points and inadequate extraction of degradation features in the current rolling bearing remaining life prediction method, a rolling bearing remaining life prediction m...

The high efficiency of obstacle detection system (ODS) is essential to obtain the high performance of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) carrying out a mission in a complex underwater environment. Based on the previous literature analysis, that in...

Recently, as a wearable-sensor-based approach, a smart insole device has been used to analyze gait patterns. By adding a small low-power sensor and an IoT device to the smart insole, it is possible to monitor human activity, gait pattern, and plantar...

The exponential trend of digital technologies, doubled by the mobility restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, caused a paradigm shift in traditional economic models. Digital transformation has become increasingly common in all types of or...

Interest in chaotic time series prediction has grown in recent years due to its multiple applications in fields such as climate and health. In this work, we summarize the contribution of multiple works that use different machine learning (ML) methods...

Mobile operators must increase investments in network infrastructures due to the emergent growth of the internet and technological advancements. Mobile operators consider cloud-RAN and software defined networking to be developing technologies that ca...

The objective of this study is to perform peak load shaving at a virtual power plant (VPP) to maximize the electricity cost-saving for local distribution companies (LDCs) while satisfying the necessary operational constraints. It can be achieved by i...

Visual localization is employed for indoor navigation and embedded in various applications, such as augmented reality and mixed reality. Image retrieval and geometrical measurement are the primary steps in visual localization, and the key to improvin...

This paper presents a new approach to simplify the design of class-E power amplifier (PA) using hybrid artificial neural-optimization network modeling. The class-E PA is designed for wireless power transfer (WPT) applications to be used in biomedical...

Algorithms based on the hardness of solving multivariate quadratic equations present promising candidates for post-quantum digital signatures. Contemporary threats to implementations of cryptographic algorithms, especially in embedded systems, includ...

The cube attack was proposed at the 2009 Eurocrypt. The attack derives linear polynomials for specific output bits of a BlackBox cipher. Cube attacks target recovery keys or secret states. In this paper, we present a cube attack on a 5-round Sycon pe...

The charge sharing effect is becoming increasingly severe due to the continuous reduction of semiconductor process feature size. In the nanoscale digital circuit, the probability of triple-node upset (TNU) is increasing, which seriously affects the r...

The health care sector is one of the most sensitive sectors in our society, and it is believed that the application of specific and detailed database creation and design techniques can improve the quality of patient care. In this sense, better manage...

At present, the total length of accident blackspot accounts for 0.25% of the total length of the road network, while the total number of accidents that occurred at accident black spots accounts for 25% of the total number of accidents on the road net...

Although neural-network architectures are critical for their performance, how the structural characteristics of a neural network affect its performance has still not been fully explored. Here, we map architectures of neural networks to directed acycl...

Hot carrier injection (HCI) can generate interface traps or oxide traps mainly by dissociating the Si-H or Si-O bond, thus affecting device performances such as threshold voltage and saturation current. It is one of the most significant reliability i...

The growing use of power converters connected to the grid motivates their study in power electronics courses and the prototype development in the degree final project (DFP). However, the practical realization of using state-of-the-art components and...

While machine learning models are powering more and more everyday devices, there is a growing need for explaining them. This especially applies to the use of deep reinforcement learning in solutions that require security, such as vehicle motion plann...

Accurately predicting power consumption is essential to ensure a safe power supply. Various technologies have been studied to predict power consumption, but the prediction of power consumption using deep learning models has been quite successful. How...

In this letter, we study turbo product codes with quadratic residue codes (called QR-TPCs) as the component codes. We propose an efficient decoder based on Chase-II algorithm with two convergence conditions for the iterative decoding of QR-TPCs. For...

Optical music recognition (OMR) refers to converting musical scores into digitized information using electronics. In recent years, few types of OMR research have involved numbered musical notation (NMN). The existing NMN recognition algorithm is diff...

The early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) can effectively prevent them from worsening. The source of the disease can be effectively detected through analysis with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI). The segmentation of the left ven...

Energy disaggregation algorithms disintegrate aggregate demand into appliance-level demands. Among various energy disaggregation approaches, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) algorithms requiring a single sensor have gained much attention in recen...

The proliferation of IoT devices has amplified the challenges for cloud computing, causing bottleneck congestion which affects the delivery of the required quality of service. For some services that are delay sensitive, response time is extremely cri...

Icing is one of the main external environmental factors causing loss of control (LOC) in aircraft. To ensure safe flying in icy conditions, modern large aircraft are all fitted with anti-icing systems. Although aircraft anti-icing technology is becom...