2022 March-2 - 137 articles
The acquisition of high-voltage signals from sensors and actuators in an internal-combustion engine is often required for diagnostic purposes or in the case of conversion to alternative fuels, such as hydrogen, natural gas, or biogas. The integration...
Malicious domains are increasingly common and pose a severe cybersecurity threat. Specifically, many types of current cyber attacks use URLs for attack communications (e.g., C&C, phishing, and spear-phishing). Despite the continuous progress in d...
Superconducting magnets with stable and strong magnetic fields play a pivotal role in fields such as biology, medical science, and physics. Given the difficult measurement conditions and low measurement accuracy of the strong magnetic field, a measur...
Context: The definition and prioritization of indicators is now a common reality and an integral part of the evolution of the strategic, technical and business processes of any organization, whether public or private. Purpose: This paper proposes a n...
Nowadays, hand gestures have become a booming area for researchers to work on. In communication, hand gestures play an important role so that humans can communicate through this. So, for accurate communication, it is necessary to capture the real mea...
Pedestrian detection is a great challenge, especially in complex and diverse occlusion environments. When a pedestrian is in an occlusion situation, the pedestrian visible part becomes incomplete, and the body bounding box contains part of the pedest...
Cybersecurity concerns have been at the forefront of regulatory reform in the European Union (EU) recently. One of the outcomes of these reforms is the introduction of certification schemes for information and communication technology (ICT) products,...
Internet of Things (IoT) as refers to a network of devices that have the ability to connect, collect and exchange data with other devices over the Internet. IoT is a revolutionary technology that have tremendous applications in numerous fields of eng...
This work presents an electronic sensing approach composed of a pair of Physical–Chemical and Imaging modules to preserve an aquaponic system. These modules offer constant measurements of the physical–chemical characteristics within the f...
The work in this article presents the design and realization of a low-profile, four-port MIMO antenna supporting fifth-generation (5G) wireless applications operating at a millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) band. Each MIMO antenna is a 2-element array fed wit...
This paper contributes with a new two-stage optimization methodology to solve the problem of the optimal placement and sizing of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation units in medium-voltage distribution networks. The optimization problem is formulated...
Due to the untiring efforts of scientists and researchers on oxide semiconductor materials, processes, and devices, the applications for oxide-based thin film transistors (TFTs) have been researched and promoted on a large scale. With the advantages...
The RFEH design challenges can be broadly classified into overall radio frequency direct current (RF-to-DC) power conversion efficiency (PCE), form factor, operational bandwidth (BW), and compactness. A detailed overview of the essential components o...
With the development of science and technology, transparent, non-invasive general computing is gradually applied to disease diagnosis and medical detection. Universal software radio peripherals (USRP) enable non-contact awareness based on radio frequ...
Smartphone industries are seeking to maximize screen size, but a perfect full-screen phone is not yet available due to the unoccupied area required for the mobile antennas. Since a touchscreen is coated with transparent conductive layers, antennas be...
This paper focuses on the learning-based motion control for flexible manipulators with varying loads via the singularly perturbed technique. Considering the two-timescale feature of the flexible manipulator, system dynamics are decomposed into fast a...
This work is focused on the development of a smart and automatic inspection system for printed labels. This is a challenging problem to solve since the collected labels are typically subjected to a variety of geometric and non-geometric distortions....
An inherent requirement of teaching using online learning platforms is that the teacher must analyze student activity and performance in relation to course learning objectives. Therefore, all e-learning environments implement a module to collect such...
With the upcoming emergence of the IEEE P3333.1.4 standard, the first ever standardization document on the subjective quality assessment of light field visualization, we are approaching a major milestone of light field Quality of Experience (QoE). Th...
In this paper, we propose a bus-independent hardware (HW)-based approach to secure long protocol data units (PDUs) in Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR)-based automotive electronic control units (ECUs). Our approach is based on extending p...
With limited retrieval of reserves and restricted capability in plant pathology, automation of processes becomes essential. All over the world, farmers are struggling to prevent various harm from bacteria or pathogens such as viruses, fungi, worms, p...
One of the very important problems connected with FPGA-based design is reducing the hardware amount in implemented circuits. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of Mealy finite state machines (FSMs) by circuits consisting of look-up tables (...
Low-dropout regulators, which have the capabilities of handling large output current and obtaining a superior transient response, are receiving increasing attention. This paper presents a high-output-current low-dropout regulator with high loop gain....
The fireworks algorithm (FWA) has achieved significant global optimization ability by organizing multiple simultaneous local searches. By dynamically decomposing the target problem and handling each one with a sub-population, it has presented distinc...
Over the past decade, deep-learning-based representations have demonstrated remarkable performance in academia and industry. The learning capability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) originates from a combination of various feature extraction l...
The main purpose of this paper is to present a solution to the well-known problems generated by classical control methods through the analysis of nonlinear time series. Among the problems analyzed, for which an explanation has been sought for a long...
In this paper, an improved version of the particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed for the online tuning of power system stabilizers in a standard four-machine two-area power system to mitigate local and inter-area mode oscillations. Moreove...
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) events are the main factors impacting the reliability of NAND Flash memory. The behavior of human body model (HBM) failure and the corresponding physical mechanism of 3D NAND Flash memory are investigated in this paper....
The digitalisation of freight rail is an essential improvement to create modern functions that offer a cost-effective, attractive service and improved operational opportunities to operators. These modern functions need intelligence, detection, actuat...
With the increase in the demand for high-speed transmission communication, satellite communication is developing rapidly. Because of the bandwidth capacity, the K/Ka band is considered the mainstream frequency band of satellite communication. The per...
A single-valued neutrosophic (SVN) set contains three parameters, which can well describe three aspects of an objective thing. However, most previous similarity measures of SVN sets often encounter some counter-intuitive examples. Manhattan distance...
Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging research topic aiming to improve the quality of life of patients with brain diseases, and a great deal of effort has been focused on the development of implantable devices. This paper presents a low-noise a...
The use of natural language processing to analyze binary data is a popular research topic in malware analysis. Embedding binary code into a vector is an important basis for building a binary analysis neural network model. Current solutions focus on e...
The research paper proposes a novel denoising method to improve the outcome of heart-sound (HS)-based heart-condition identification by applying the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) together with the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference System (...
Binary neural networks (BNNs) have been proposed to reduce the heavy memory and computation burdens in deep neural networks. However, the binarized weights and activations in BNNs cause huge information loss, which leads to a severe accuracy decrease...
Self-organized criticality theory proved that information transmission and computational performances of neural networks are optimal in critical state. By using recordings of the spontaneous activity originated by dissociated neuronal assemblies coup...
The widespread use of the internet of things (IoT) is due to the value of the data collected by IoT devices. These IoT devices generate, process, and exchange large amounts of safety-critical or privacy-sensitive data. Before transmission, the data s...
Solar thermal collectors are among the most popular renewable energy research subjects. Automatic Data Acquisition Systems (ADAS) have greatly facilitated their experimental testing, but their high cost is a drawback. In this paper, we present the de...
The research of infrared image small-target detection is of great significance to security monitoring, satellite remote sensing, infrared early warning, and precision guidance systems. However, small infrared targets occupy few pixels and lack color...
Hand gestures are a natural and efficient means to control systems and are one of the promising but challenging areas of human–machine interaction (HMI). We propose a system to recognize gestures by processing interrupted patterns of light in a...
Due to their versatility, thin films, which can be formed through many different approaches, are being used in various applications in microelectronics[...]
Graphene as a mono-atomic sheet has recently grabbed attention as a material with enormous properties. It has also been examined for enhancing absorbance in the current plasmonic structure. This has led to an increment in the sensitivity of the plasm...
Von Neumann architecture-based computing systems are facing a von Neumann bottleneck owing to data transfer between separated memory and processor units. In-memory computing (IMC), on the other hand, reduces energy consumption and improves computing...
Traditional PID controllers are widely used in industrial applications due to their simple computational architecture. However, the gain parameters of this simple computing architecture are fixed, and in response to environmental changes, the PID par...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) power has several advantages such as free availability, absence of rotating parts, can be easily integrated with building architecture, and need little maintenance. However, the PV cell current–voltage (I–V) charac...
It is difficult to rapidly and accurately achieve alignment under complicated interferential environmental conditions with a marine strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) subject to angular swaying interference and linear motion interference. To...
In this paper, we proposed a scheduling method to optimize a time-critical traffic using genetic algorithm in automotive ethernet networks. The proposed traffic scheduling method aims to generate a transmission schedule to minimize end-to-end delay,...
Recently, multi-access edge computing (MEC) cooperating with fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technology or WiFi has been widely discussed for low-delay systems. However, for the Industrial Internet of Things, which raises higher requiremen...
For various applications, such as gate drivers for transistors, wireless chargers for mobile devices and cars, and isolated measurement equipment, an isolated DC power supply for electronic components is required. In this work, a new concept for an i...
Capacitive power transfer (CPT) is an attractive wireless power transfer (WPT) technology and it has been widely studied in many applications. Symmetrical structures and high-order compensation networks are always produced as optimization results and...
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