Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 8

With the advent of high-speed and parallel computing, the applicability of computational optimization in engineering problems has increased, with greater validation than conventional methods. Pitch angle is an effective variable in extracting maximum...

This paper presents a 77 GHz two path power amplifier (PA) for automotive radar applications. It was fabricated in 28-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator CMOS technology, which provides transistors with a transition frequency of about 270 GHz and...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common diseases causing cognitive impairment in middle-aged and elderly people, and the high cost of the disease poses a challenge for health systems to cope with the expected increasing number of cas...

In this paper, we solve the optimal power flow problem in alternating current networks to reduce power losses. For that purpose, we propose a master–slave methodology that combines the multiverse optimization algorithm (master stage) and the po...

Electro hydrostatic actuator (EHA) has been successfully developed for flight control applications to replace the cumbersome centralized hydraulic system. It also has excellent potential for ocean applications due to its advantages on miniaturization...

The Switched Reluctance Generator (SRG) has been widely studied for Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS). However, a major drawback of the SRG system adopting the conventional control is the slow response of the DC link voltage controller. In this p...

In Internet-of-Media-Things (IoMT) environments, users can access and view high-quality Over-the-Top (OTT) media services anytime and anywhere. As the number of OTT platform users has increased, the original content offered by such OTT platforms has...

In recent years, artificial intelligence technology represented by deep learning has achieved remarkable results in image recognition, semantic analysis, natural language processing and other fields. In particular, deep neural networks have been wide...

The goal of Clinical Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is to identify clinical terms from medical records, which is of great importance for subsequent clinical research. Most of the current Chinese CNER models use a single set of features that do not c...

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely discussed. IoT is one of the emerging technologies that have caught the attention of many researchers. The increase in the number of exchanges of services between heterogeneous or homogeneous conn...

The smart city concept refers to the implementation of disruptive technologies in the urban environment, with the aim of creating an optimal citizen experience [...]

This paper presents the overall conceptual design of a 170 GHz, 1 MW gyrotron for plasma heating applications in thermonuclear fusion reactors. The operating mode is carefully selected with consideration of mode competition. The TE_25,10 mode is deter...

Smart mobile learning (M-learning) applications have shown several new benefits for higher educational institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which such applications were used to support distance learning. Therefore, this study aims to exa...

This paper presents the integrated motion control method for an electric vehicle (EV) equipped with a front/rear steer-by-wire (SbW) system and four in-wheel motor (IWM). The proposed integrated motion control method aims to maintain stable cornering...

DNS filtering is the practice of blocking access to certain sites for a specific purpose, often content-based filtering. Unlike previous studies that focused on the behavior of national-level DNS filtering itself (e.g., location of filtering devices)...

Artificial intelligence research in natural language processing in the context of poetry struggles with the recognition of holistic content such as poetic symbolism, metaphor, and other fine-grained attributes. Given these challenges, multi-modal ima...

In this paper, the pulse wave (PW) rectifier of the Schottky diode is theoretically analyzed using the microwave equivalent circuit. It is found that the duty cycle of PW is inversely proportional to the load resistance of the rectifier when the ampl...

Quasi-particle formed by electron and the dressed deformed lattice is important to accurately interpret the properties of various disordered/amorphous materials. However, a unified understanding of the drag effect, in particular the negative Coulomb...

In an RGB-LED-based optical camera communication system, it is an essential goal to have better performance in the data rate and BER. However, in a higher symbol rate, due to the conventional sampling algorithm, the deterioration of transmission perf...

This paper reports on a novel solution for a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) specifically designed as an analog conditioning circuit for low-voltage, low-power, wearable, portable and implantable optoelectronic integrated sensor systems in biomedical...

A blockchain, as a form of distributed ledger technology, represents the unanimity of replication, synchronization, and sharing of data among various geographical sites. Blockchains have demonstrated impressive and effective applications throughout m...

A very low noise figure radio frequency (RF) front-end for the cellular realm is presented. The front-end is composed of two planar YBCO high critical temperature superconductor (HTSC) bandpass filters (BPFs) and a low temperature, low noise amplifie...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted consumers’ lives and their shopping patterns, leading them towards mobile commerce. To address current shopping circumstances, an adapted UTAUT2 model aims to integrate trust and perceptions of the effects of...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is evolving rapidly, enabling more new applications than ever before. Some radio systems in the IoT space used to connect things with things operate at the 863–928 MHz frequency band (e.g., LoRa, ISM). IoT wireless...

In this research, we proposed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) model for image-based plant leaf disease identification using data augmentation and hyperparameter optimization techniques. The DCNN model was trained on an augmented dataset of...

One key feature of named data networks (NDN) is supporting in-network caching to increase the content distribution for today’s Internet needs. However, previously cached contents may be threatened by side-channel timing measurements/attacks. Fo...

Video coding standards, such as high-efficiency video coding (HEVC), versatile video coding (VVC), and AOMedia video 2 (AV2), achieve an optimal encoding performance by traversing all possible combinations of coding unit (CU) partition and selecting...

The dynamic characteristics of rigid-flexible manipulators involve complex rigid-flexible coupling phenomena, which essentially comprise a nonlinear distributed parameter system with infinite degrees of freedom. Consequently, it results in challenges...

The integration of space–air–ground–sea networking in 6G, which is expected to not only achieve seamless coverage but also offer service-aware access and transmission, has introduced many new challenges for current mobile communicat...

FPGAs can provide application-specific acceleration for computationally demanding tasks. However, they are rarely considered general-purpose platforms due to low productivity of software development and long reconfiguration time. These problems can b...

Hepatitis C is a viral infection (HCV) that causes liver inflammation, and it was found that it affects over 170 million people around the world, with Egypt having the highest rate in the world. Unfortunately, serial liver biopsies, which can be inva...

During COVID-19, universities started to use mobile learning applications as one of the solutions to support distance learning. The readiness of universities to apply new systems, such as mobile learning applications, is considered one of the critica...

Multiple-output DC–DC converters are essential in a multitude of applications where different DC output voltages are required. The interest and importance of this type of multiport configuration is also reflected in that many electronics manufa...

In the modern world of digitalization, data growth, aggregation and sharing have escalated drastically. Users share huge amounts of data due to the widespread adoption of Internet-of-things (IoT) and cloud-based smart devices. Such data could have co...

This paper presents a novel buck converter with dual-loop control technology, which does not need to detect the inductor current directly. The structure of the control loops is easy to implement, one loop controls the output voltage, and the other co...

Nowadays, due to the great accessibility to the internet, people seek out and consume news via social media due to its low cost, ease of access, and quick transmission of information. The tremendous leverage of social media applications in daily life...

The Bai People have left behind a wealth of ancient texts that record their splendid civilization, unfortunately fewer and fewer people can read these texts in the present time. Therefore, it is of great practical value to design a model that can aut...

This paper presents a fault detection method in three-phase induction motors using Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT). The proposed algorithm takes a frame of samples from the three-phase supply current of an induction motor. The three phase current samp...

Power system networks are becoming more complex and decentralized with the foreword of deregulation in the global power sector. In this scenario, an independent system operator (ISO) is responsible for determining the appropriate actions to deliver s...

Video streaming has become extremely widespread, especially with the growing number of users and the spread of mobile devices, along with the increase in the availability and diversity of multimedia applications and communication technologies. Real-t...

The paper presents theoretical formulas for the extraction of TEM network parameters from coupling matrices. Along with resonator couplings, the circuits realizing external couplings are also considered. The most common coupling techniques are invest...

WPT system performances highly depend on the misalignment scenarios of the transmitter or the receiver coil. In this contribution, the authors analyze the effect of the misalignment influencing factors of the integrated WPT-PLC system receiving coil...

This article addresses the problem of the detection of range-spread targets in the presence of Gaussian disturbance which are in possession of unidentified covariance matrices. The detectors have been derived by resorting to a design composed of two...

In this paper, an improved cuckoo search-learning-based optimization algorithm (CSLBOA) for the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of a photovoltaic module array is presented. For any shading discovered on a photovoltaic module array, there will be...

The phonocardiogram (PCG) is an important analysis method for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, which is usually performed by experienced medical experts. Due to the high ratio of patients to doctors, there is a pressing need for a real-time a...

Recently, numerous studies have investigated computing in-memory (CIM) architectures for neural networks to overcome memory bottlenecks. Because of its low delay, high energy efficiency, and low volatility, spin-orbit torque magnetic random access me...

The coordination of clustered microgrids (MGs) needs to be achieved in a seamless manner to tackle generation-load mismatch among MGs. A hierarchical control strategy based on PI controllers for local and global layers has been proposed in the litera...

Current-limiting superconducting cable uses the quench resistance of superconductor under short-circuit current to improve the short-circuit impedance of the system. In this paper, the design of current-limiting 10 kV three-phase tri-axial supercondu...

Receding horizon controllers are special approximations of optimal controllers in which the continuous time variable is discretized over a horizon of optimization. The cost function is defined as the sum of contributions calculated in the grid points...

Deep-learning-based segmentation methods have achieved excellent results. As two main tasks in computer vision, instance segmentation and semantic segmentation are closely related and mutually beneficial. Spatial context information from the semantic...