2022 February-2 - 167 articles
Stereoscopic photography was one of the main forms of visual communication in the second half of the 19th century. The experience of viewing stereoscopic photographs using stereoscopes is described as evoking memories of the past, feelings of presenc...
Layered two-dimensional (2D) and quasi-zero-dimensional (0D) materials effectively absorb radiation in the wide ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and terahertz ranges. Photomemristive structures made of such low-dimensional materials are of great inter...
A robot trajectory teaching system with a vision-based positioning pen, which we called Solpen, is developed to generate pose paths of six degrees of freedom (6-DoF) for vision-guided robotics applications such as welding, cutting, painting, or polis...
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This paper proposes a hybrid converter with multiple sources for lithium battery charger applications. Since the output voltage of a lithium battery charger is very low, its charger needs a higher step-down voltage for a utility line source or a step...
Power generation and consumption is an instantaneous process and maintaining the balance between demand and supply is crucial since the demand and supply mismatch leads to various risks like over-investment, over-generation, under-generation, and the...
Millions of people lose their lives each year worldwide due to traffic law violations, specifically, over speeding. The existing systems fail to report most of such violations due to their respective flaws. For instance, speed guns work in isolation...
In this paper, a security framework based on cellular automata is proposed, which is composed of three parts: entity authentication, data encryption, and decryption. Authentication is based on a zero-knowledge protocol, and its robustness is supporte...
As optical networks evolve towards flexibility and heterogeneity, various modulation formats are used to match different bandwidth requirements and channel conditions. For correct reception and efficient compensation, modulation format identification...
Predicting stock market prices is an important and interesting task in academic and financial research. The volatile nature of the stock market means that predicting stock market prices is a challenging task. However, recent advancements in machine l...
Electronic healthcare technology is widespread around the world and creates massive potential to improve clinical outcomes and transform care delivery. However, there are increasing concerns with respect to the cyber vulnerabilities of medical tools,...
Mixed crops are one of the fundamental pillars of agroecological practices. Row intercropping is one of the mixed cropping options based on the combination of two or more species to reduce their impacts. Nonetheless, from a monitoring perspective, th...
Fog computing could potentially cause the next paradigm shift by extending cloud services to the edge of the network, bringing resources closer to the end-user. With its close proximity to end-users and its distributed nature, fog computing can signi...
Over the last years, the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks and the emergence of other energy-constrained applications have pushed the demand for low-cost systems-on-chip solutions, entailing tight area and small power/voltage budgets...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder most notable in children. The disease may affect the ability to focus and cause a physical and mental restlessness and risky behavior. Recommended treatment consists of stimulant ad...
Utilizing the measured distance and information exchanged between two different nodes to cooperatively locate in a mobile network has become a solution to replace global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning. However, the localization accura...
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease characterized by a large electrical explosion that is excessive and uncontrolled, as defined by the world health organization. It is an anomaly that affects people of all ages. An electroencephalogram (EEG)...
When a band is performing at a public occasion, certain sound effects are expected to be added to enliven the atmosphere. To achieve this effect, microphones and instruments are all connected to an audio mixer, then the expected audio output will be...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) has transformed factories into smart Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs), where man, product, and machine are fully interconnected across the whole supply chain. Although this digitalization bring...
The dual active bridge (DAB) converter has been extensively analyzed and used in recent years for applications where bidirectional power flow is required. The unidirectional version of the DAB, which replaces the active output bridge with a diode bri...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the efficiency of data transmission within a limited time is critical, especially for sensors designed with small batteries. In this paper, we design a cooperative transmission scheme with an energy-charging functi...
With the substantial increase in spatio-temporal mobile traffic, reducing the network-level energy consumption while satisfying various quality-of-service (QoS) requirements has become one of the most important challenges facing six-generation (6G) w...
Novel resistant hierarchical fuzzy neural networks are proposed in this study and their deep learning problems are investigated. These fuzzy neural networks can be used to model complex controlled plants and can also be used as fuzzy controllers. In...
In recent years, the number of smart contracts running in the blockchain has increased rapidly, accompanied by many security problems, such as vulnerability propagation caused by code reuse or vicious transaction caused by malicious contract deployme...
This paper proposes a rotating shutter antenna that can directly generate 2FSK signals in the ULF band and it is expected to be used as the transmitter for magnetic induction (MI) underground communication systems. The antenna was modeled using ANSYS...
In France, high-speed railway lines are powered by a 2 × 25 kV/50 Hz electrification system. The substations include two single-phase transformers connected to the high-voltage electrical transmission network on different pairs of phases accord...
Multilevel converters continue their upward trend in renewable generation, electric vehicles, and power quality conditioning applications. Despite having satisfactory voltage capabilities, mainstream multilevel converters suffer from poor current sha...
Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) is a restriction of the fetus that involves the abnormal growth rate of the fetus, and it has a huge impact on the new-born’s health. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can help in early prediction and discr...
Human falls are an issue that especially affects elderly people, resulting in permanent disabilities or even in the person’s death. Preventing human falls is a social desire, but it is almost impossible to achieve because it is not possible to...
Switched-mode power supplies (SMPSs) are a relevant and widespread source of unsymmetrical conducted emissions, as they feed various electrical appliances and information technology equipment in office and residential contexts and, despite their low...
With the development of consumer-grade drone products, drones have been good carriers for many IoT (Internet of Things) applications, especially as a part of edge computing to deliver things, collect data, or monitor objects. This paper develops a Un...
Cooperative communication networks have received more attention due to its ability to improve the signal quality of terminal devices by spatial diversity. Under recent advance in internet of things, In order to extend the service life of terminal dev...
Vital for Space Situational Awareness, Initial Orbit Determination (IOD) may be used to initialize object tracking and associate observations with a tracked satellite. Classical IOD algorithms provide only a point solution and are sensitive to noisy...
This paper proposes a simplistic, efficient, and low-cost method of millimeter-wave nondestructive testing (NDT) of dielectric material cracks based on millimeter-wave interference. A relationship between combining efficiency, phase difference, and a...
This paper highlights recent developments and challenges on beam steering characteristics of reconfigurable transmitarray antennas. It introduces the operating principle of beam forming/beam steering high gain transmitarray antennas to enable the use...
Compressed sensing (CS) and its medical applications are active areas of research. In this paper, we review recent works using deep learning method to solve CS problem for images or medical imaging reconstruction including computed tomography (CT), m...
Children are a country’s most valuable asset. Educating them and bringing them into society is one of the most fundamental tasks of a nation. The disadvantageous position that individuals with a disability are exposed to shows the importance of...
More than half of patients with high spinal cord injury (SCI) suffer from episodes of autonomic dysreflexia (AD), a condition that can lead to lethal situations, such as cerebral haemorrhage, if not treated correctly. Clinicians assess AD using clini...
The joint integrated probabilistic data association (JIPDA) algorithm is widely used for the automatic tracking of multiple targets, but it has the well-known problem of track coalescence. By optimizing the posterior density, the accuracy of the targ...
This study presents a literature review on the concept of power system flexibility in terms of its definition, indices, algorithms, implementation, economic impacts, operational impacts, and security. Although there are tremendous reviews on this sub...
Social media is a great source of data for analyses, since they provide ways for people to share emotions, feelings, ideas, and even symptoms of diseases. By the end of 2019, a global pandemic alert was raised, relative to a virus that had a high con...
Recent healthcare systems based on human body communication (HBC) require human interaction sensors. Due to the conductive properties of the human body, capacitive sensors are most widely known and are applied to many electronic gadgets for communica...
Practical activities and laboratories, where the students handle hardware devices, are an important part of the curriculum in STEAM degrees. In face-to-face learning, the students go to a specific classroom where the hardware is available. However, l...
In order to achieve automatic identification of modulation formats in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarrier signals, a recognition method based on multiple feature inputs and a Hybrid Training Neural Network (HTNN) is proposed,...
This study details the development of a lightweight and high performance model, targeting real-time object detection. Several designed features were integrated into the proposed framework to accomplish a light weight, rapid execution, and optimal per...
One of the main problems that local authorities of large cities have to face is the regulation of urban mobility. They need to provide the means to allow for the efficient movement of people and distribution of goods. However, the provisioning of tra...
Exploration in unknown dynamic environments is a challenging problem in an AI system, and current techniques tend to produce irrational exploratory behaviours and fail in obstacle avoidance. To this end, we present a three-tiered hierarchical and mod...
Recent progress in machine learning frameworks has made it possible to now perform inference with models using cheap, tiny microcontrollers. Training of machine learning models for these tiny devices, however, is typically done separately on powerful...
Verification is one of the core steps in integrated circuits (ICs) manufacturing due to the multifarious defects and malicious hardware Trojans (HTs). In most cases, the effectiveness of the detection relies on the quality of the sample images of ICs...
In this paper, we propose the design of a low-power wireless sensor network architecture that enables robust communications inside offshore wind turbines. This research work is in the scope of the WATEREYE EU Project, where we have designed a corrosi...
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