2022 February-2 - 167 articles
The federated learning technique (FL) supports the collaborative training of machine learning and deep learning models for edge network optimization. Although a complex edge network with heterogeneous devices having different constraints can affect i...
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique based on interferometry of backscattered lights from materials and biological samples. For the quantitative evaluation of an OCT system, artificial optical samples or phantoms are commonly us...
This article demonstrates the possibility of creating memory devices based on polycrystalline mayenite. In the course of the study, structural characterization (XRD, TEM) of ceramic samples of mayenite was carried out, as well as a study of the spect...
This paper proposes a modified Chua Corsage Memristor endowed with two symmetrical locally active domains. Under the DC bias voltage in the locally active domains, the memristor with an inductor can construct a second-order circuit to generate period...
An intrusion detection system serves as the backbone for providing high-level network security. Different forms of network attacks have been discovered and they continue to become gradually more sophisticated and complicated. With the wide use of int...
Resilience plays an important role in improving robustness for robots in harsh environments such as planetary exploration and unstructured terrains. As a naturally compliant structure, tensegrity presents advantageous flexibility for enhancing resili...
High current density and high brightness are critical factors for high-power and compact extended interaction oscillators (EIOs) which are operated in the terahertz (THz) waveband. The pseudospark-sourced (PS) sheet electron beam, which combines meri...
The COVID-19 pandemic has limited people’s mobility to a certain extent, making it difficult to purchase goods and services offline, which has led the creation of a culture of increased dependence on online services. One of the crucial issues w...
The Binarized Neural Network (BNN) is a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) consisting of binary weights and activation rather than real-value weights. Smaller models are used, allowing for inference effectively on mobile or embedded devices with limi...
The Internet of things (IoT) enables mobile devices to connect and exchange information with others over the Internet with a lot of applications in consumer, commercial, and industrial products. With the rapid development of machine learning, IoT wit...
Incremental graph processing has been developed to reduce unnecessary redundant calculations in dynamic graphs. In this paper, we propose an incremental dynamic graph-processing scheme using a cost model to selectively perform incremental processing...
With the increased resolution and frame rates of video recordings, in combination with the current evolution towards video-on-demand streaming services and the user expecting ubiquitous wireless connectivity, it is necessary to design wireless commun...
By linking computational intelligence technology directly to urban transportation systems, a framework for scheduling traffic lights is proposed to enhance their flexibility in adaptation to traffic fluctuation. First, based on the flexible neural tr...
With the expansion of the civil UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) market, UAVs are also increasingly being used in illegal activities such as espionage and snooping on privacy. Therefore, how to effectively control the activities of UAVs in cities has be...
In this paper, a novel switching scheme using discontinuous pulse-width modulation (DPWM) for a zero-voltage switching (ZVS) grid-connected three-phase inverter is proposed. ZVS in the main and auxiliary switches was achieved. Moreover, the reverse r...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing computational paradigm where all kinds of everyday objects are interconnected, forming a vast cyberphysical environment at the edge between the virtual and the real world. Since the emergence of the IoT, Mult...
Switched-capacitor converters and their alternatives have been shown to provide high efficiency with high power densities on smaller volumes, and can thereby be a suitable choice for energy harvesting. This paper proposes a hybrid power architecture...
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are toxic and difficult to degrade, which will cause huge damages to human life and the ecological environment. Therefore, based on historical measurements, it is important to use intelligent methods and data anal...
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have become ubiquitous as part of the emerging cryptographic algorithms. Strong PUFs are also predominantly addressed as the suitable variant for lightweight device authentication and strong single-use key gener...
EEG-based emotion recognition can help achieve more natural human-computer interaction, but the temporal non-stationarity of EEG signals affects the robustness of EEG-based emotion recognition models. Most existing studies use the emotional EEG data...
This paper proposes a single-stage AC-DC rectifier with power factor correction (PFC), high-frequency isolation and bidirectional power conversion capability for on-board battery charger (OBC) applications. The proposed converter is based on the inte...
Conjugated polymers have emerged as promising materials for next-generation electronics. However, in spite of having several advantages, such as a low cost, large area processability and flexibility, polymer-based electronics have their own limitatio...
A two-layer artificial fish swarm evacuation model based on heterogeneous pheromones is presented in this paper. Firstly, the movements of evacuees are simulated by the behaviors of an artificial fish swarm, including preying, swarming, and following...
In this paper, a new realization of electronically tunable voltage output second-order low-pass (LP) and band-pass (BP) filter is presented. The circuit has a multiple-input single-output structure, and LP and BP outputs are provided using the same s...
Precise localization plays a crucial role in autonomous driving applications. As Global Position System (GPS) signals are often susceptible to interference or even not fully available, odometry sensors can precisely calculate positions in urban envir...
This paper presents a high-voltage power source to produce glow-discharge plasma in the frame of a specific application. The load has two well-differentiated types of behavior. To start the system, it is necessary to apply a high voltage, up to 15 kV...
Image registration is an important research topic in medical image-guided therapy, which is dedicated to registering the high-dose imaging sequences with low-dose/faster means. Registering computer tomography (CT) scanning sequences with cone beam co...
The correctness of autonomous driving software is of utmost importance, as incorrect behavior may have catastrophic consequences. Formal model-based engineering techniques can help guarantee correctness and thereby allow the safe deployment of autono...
Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition is emerging as a crucial supporting technology for various applications. Although great success has been achieved for location-dependent recognition tasks, it depends on adequate data collection, which is partic...
Neutral-point-clamped (NPC) power conversion topologies are among the most popular multilevel topologies in current industrial products and in industrial and academic research. The proper operation of multilevel three-phase NPC DC–AC converters...
Annotations for image segmentation are expensive and time-consuming. In contrast to image segmentation, the task of object detection is in general easier in terms of the acquisition of labeled training data and the design of training models. In this...
In the attempt to extract key information and talk patterns from YiXi talks in China to realize “strategic reading” for readers and newcomers of the speaking field, text mining methods are used by this work. The extraction of key informat...
Cooperative localization under complex urban environments has become a solution able to replace Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning. Due to the lack of an efficient cooperative localization scheme, traditional cooperative vehicle ne...
Materials such as stainless steel, cemented carbide, metal matrix composites, etc., usually require combinations of multiple machining, due to their high hardness, high wear resistance, and other mechanical properties. Ultrasonic combined electro-mac...
Misalignment is a common issue in wireless power transfer systems. It shifts the resonant frequency away from the operating frequency that affects the power flow and efficiency from the charging station to the load. This work proposes a novel capacit...
In this study, we propose a virtual reality biphasic separator methodology in an immersive industrial environment. It allows the training of students or engineers in process and automatic control. On the other hand, the operating performance of a bip...
Ship targets in ORSIs (Optical Remote Sensing Images) have the characteristics of various scales, and most of them are medium and small-scale targets. When the existing target detection algorithms are applied to ship target detection in ORSIs, the de...
This paper proposes a 110% relative bandwidth (RBW) low-noise amplifier (LNA) for broadband receivers with flat gain, low noise and high linearity. Bias and parasitic parameters derived wide bandpass (BPDWB) matching networks and a cascode with dual...
Miniaturization and portable devices have reshaped the electronic device landscape, emphasizing the importance of high performance while maintaining energy efficiency to ensure long battery life. FinFET and Tunnel-FET technologies have emerged as att...
Due to the limitation of event sensors, the spatial resolution of event data is relatively low compared to the spatial resolution of the conventional frame-based camera. However, low-spatial-resolution events recorded by event cameras are rich in tem...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a popular computing technology paradigm. It is increasingly being utilized to facilitate human life processes through a variety of applications, including smart healthcare, smart grids, smart finance, and smart...
This paper presents a Class-C voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with bias voltage calibration that automatically finds the low-phase noise point and achieves robust start-up regardless of PVT variation. This VCO structure also has the bias circuit...
In an electric distribution system, the management of peak demands is becoming increasingly difficult. Every method we have to flatten the consumption curve greatly reduces the energy generation costs, CO2 emissions, and congestion in the generation,...
In the application of 3D reconstruction of multi-cameras, it is necessary to calibrate the camera used separately, and at the same time carry out multi-stereo calibration, and the calibration accuracy directly affects the effect of the 3D reconstruct...
In this study, we investigated the coexistence of the 5G communication network with a fixed-satellite service (FSS) in the 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz frequency bands. We analyzed an angular protection scheme for the FSS Earth station (ES) and 5G base station...
Modern-day applications of fifth-generation (5G) and sixth-generation (6G) systems require fast, efficient, and robust transmission of multimedia information over wireless communication medium for both mobile and fixed users. The hybrid amalgamation...
Network performance prediction is crucial for enabling agile capacity planning in mobile networks. One of the key problems is predicting evolution of spectral efficiency in growing network load conditions. The main factor driving network performance...
In this paper, we present a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a charge-pump (CP) phase-locked loop (PLL) and a bootstrapped switch, also called PLL-SAR ADC. To meet system-on-chip (SOC) and industrial requ...
IETF has standardized the point-to-point RPL (P2P-RPL) to ensure reliable and optimal P2P route discovery for low-power and lossy networks (LLNs). P2P-RPL propagates route discovery packets to all nodes in the network, which results in high routing c...
In data-driven bearing fault diagnosis, sufficient fault data are fundamental for algorithm training and validation. However, only very few fault measurements can be provided in most industrial applications, bringing the dynamics model to produce bea...
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