Electronics, Volume 12, Issue 9

Passive localization relies significantly on the estimation of the Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) to accurately determine the location of a target. The precision of TDOA and FDOA estimation is affected by...

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a critical sensor for autonomous vehicle systems, providing high-resolution distance measurements in real-time. However, adverse weather conditions such as snow, rain, fog, and sun glare can affect LiDAR perform...

In dynamic wireless charging systems, the detection of secondary side positions has been attracting much attention in academic research. Due to the strong electromagnetic interference and the presence of foreign objects in the charging area, the use...

Wireless communication technology integration is necessary for Internet of Things (IoT)-based applications to make their data easily accessible. This study proposes a new, portable L-shaped microstrip patch antenna with enhanced gain for IoT 2.4 GHz...

To take the influence of the aging effect on circuit performance into account at the early design stage, it is necessary to establish an accurate aging simulation model. However, there is a great discrepancy in the reversely deduced MOSFET transistor...

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) with hierarchical architectures have obtained good results for image denoising. However, in some cases where the noise level is unknown and the image background is complex, it is challenging to obtain robust i...

In recent years, there has been a development of multifunctional components, including filtering antennas. Co-designing the filter and antenna can effectively reduce the overall size and thus realize high integration. A new coplanar waveguide (CPW) o...

We fabricated superconducting and ferromagnetic nanostructures, which are intended for applications in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in a commercial sample holder that can be cooled using liquid helium. Nanoscale superconducting quantum-int...

With the improvements in the intelligent level of connected vehicles (CVs), travelers can enjoy services such as self-driving, self-parking and audiovisual entertainment inside the vehicle, which place extremely high demands on the computing power of...

Because of their numerous benefits, solid-state drives (SSDs) are increasingly being used in a wide range of applications, including data centers, cloud computing, and high-performance computing. The growing demand for SSDs has led to a continuous im...

Time delay estimation (TDE) is of great interest for the thickness estimation of pavement using ground penetrating radar (a non-destructive testing tool that uses electromagnetic waves to probe civil engineering material), which determines the differ...

Autonomous robotic swarms are envisioned for a variety of applications—for example, space exploration, search and rescue, and disaster management. Important features of a robotic swarm include its ability to share information within the network...

Cloud computing is a disruptive technology that has transformed the way people access and utilize computing resources. Due to the diversity of services and complexity of environments, there is widespread interest in how to securely and efficiently au...

Due to the long-term exposure of bridge ties to complex environments, their internal steel wires are prone to corrosion damage, which may lead to tie breakage accidents if not detected in time. Although existing advanced monitoring methods can be use...

The increasing scale and pace of the production of digital documents have generated a need for automatic tools to analyze documents and extract underlying concepts and knowledge in order to help humans manage information overload. Specifically, since...

Surrounded by structured data, such as medical data, financial data, knowledge bases, etc., data-to-text generation has become an important natural language processing task that can help people better understand the meaning of those data by providing...

The extended application of device-dependent systems’ vision is growing exponentially, but these systems face challenges in precisely imitating the human perception models established by the device-independent systems of the Commission internat...

Objects in aerial images often have arbitrary orientations and variable shapes and sizes. As a result, accurate and robust object detection in aerial images is a challenging problem. In this paper, an arbitrary-oriented object detection method for ae...

Modulation recognition is an important technology in wireless communication systems. In recent years, deep learning-based modulation recognition algorithms, which can autonomously learn deep features and achieve superior recognition performance compa...

The heavy ion radiation response and degradation of SiC junction barrier Schottky (JBS) diodes with different P+ implantation intervals (S) are studied in detail. The experimental results show that the larger the S, the faster the reverse leakage cur...

Multi-robot systems have been used in many fields by utilizing parallel working robots to perform missions by allocating tasks and cooperating. For task planning, multi-robot systems need to solve complex problems that simultaneously consider the mov...

In an electronic jamming system, the ability to adequately perceive information determines the effectiveness of an electronic countermeasures strategy. This paper proposes a new method based on the combination of a multi-agent electronic jammer and a...

In this paper, we consider the control problem for systems in which the number of controllers does not match that of plants. As the model of the control plants becomes increasingly complex and diversified, a large number of control systems often shar...

Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchains are enabling technologies for modern healthcare applications, offering the improved monitoring of patient health and higher data integrity guarantees. However, in rural settings, communication reliability can...

The paper presents the theoretical, simulation, and experimental results on the QCM sensor based on the Butterworth van Dyke (BVD) model with lumped reactive motional circuit elements of fractional order. The equation of the fractional order BVD mode...

Electric power operation is necessary for the development of power grid companies, where the safety monitoring of electric power operation is difficult. Irregular deformable objects commonly used in electrical construction, such as safety belts and s...

A balanced bandpass filter (BPF) with an improved frequency selectivity for differential-mode (DM) excitation and high rejection for common-mode (CM) excitation is proposed in this paper. Two half-wavelength stepped impedance resonators (SIRs) are em...

With the continuous enhancement of weak grid characteristics, the negative effects of grid voltage feedforward (GVF) and PLL on grid-connected inverters become more and more serious and are coupled. Therefore, it is difficult to effectively solve the...

Network embedding is an effective way to realize the quantitative analysis of large-scale networks. However, mainstream network embedding models are limited by the manually pre-set metapaths, which leads to the unstable performance of the model. At t...

Electrical power is essential in human life. Thus, the security and reliability of its supply are of critical importance in a country’s industrial and economic development. The leakage and improper use of electricity may cause serious problems...

This paper proposed a plasmonic absorbing structure suitable for super high frequency. The plasmon absorbing structure is a periodic square cavity structure; the bottom of the cavity is a metal plate, the wall of the cavity is a polyester plate, and...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are a critical component of modern electronic equipment, performing a crucial role in the electronic information industry chain. However, accurate detection of PCB defects can be challenging. To address this problem, thi...

Photovoltaic (PV) power generation is the most widely adopted renewable energy source. However, its inherent unpredictability poses considerable challenges to the management of power grids. To address the arduous and time-consuming training process o...

Enhanced class E inverters (EF_n or E/F_n) reduce the high peak switch voltage that is prevalent in class E inverters. Additionally, their stability and load regulation capabilities are improved as compared to class E inverters. This paper proposes an...

A new controller based on a fractional-order synergetic controller (FOSC) is proposed for a three-level T-type inverter using a shunt active power filter (SAPF). The SAPF is designed to compensate for the reactive power and eliminate the current harm...

This paper presents a new electro-thermal coupling simulation method for evaluating the reliability of IGBT modules, which combines a numerical power loss model and a finite element model. To illustrate the method, a specific case of the Infineon FF5...

Interventional surgery robots are essential in cardiovascular surgery as remote medical devices. By performing remote surgery, surgeons can reduce surgical fatigue and after-effects from heavy surgical instruments and radiation, ensuring that cardiov...

An iterative design algorithm is developed for robust disturbance–rejection control of uncertain systems with time-varying parameter perturbations in this paper. For more design degrees of freedom, a generalized equivalent-input-disturbance est...

Code review as an effective software quality assurance practice has been widely applied in many open-source software communities. However, finding a suitable reviewer for certain codes can be very challenging in open-source communities due to the dif...

With the continuous development and progress of science and technology, the increasingly complex electromagnetic environment and the research and development of new radar systems have led to the emergence of various radar signals. Traditional methods...

An ultracompact self-triplexing antenna realized on a substrate-integrated rectangular cavity (SIRC) is discussed in this study. The proposed structure employs two L-shaped slots and an inverted U-shaped slot to radiate at three independent operating...

Parallel-connected converters are commonly used in applications such as DC microgrids. The presence of multiple converters allows for the use of the interleaving technique to minimize bus ripple. Most existing interleaving methods rely on communicati...

It gets harder and harder to guarantee the quality of software systems due to their increasing complexity and fast development. Because it helps spot errors and gaps during the first phases of software development, software testing is one of the most...

In digital image inpainting tasks, existing deep-learning-based image inpainting methods have achieved remarkable staged results by introducing structural prior information into the network. However, the corresponding relationship between texture and...

The segmentation of retinal vessels plays an essential role in the early recognition of ophthalmic diseases in clinics. Increasingly, approaches based on deep learning have been pushing vessel segmentation performance, yet it is still a challenging p...

Currently, most recommendation algorithms only use a single type of user behavior information to predict the target behavior. However, when browsing and selecting items, users generate other types of behavior information, which is important, but ofte...

The use of optimal control theory for motion planning is a challenging task. Cell mapping offers a way to formulate combinatorial optimization problems, allowing the inclusion of complex cost functions as well as multi-objective optimization problems...

Attaining a high-resolution and accurate location for a radiated passive intermodulation source (R-PIMS) has been an increasingly interesting problem in modern multi-carrier wireless communication systems. For precisely positioning multiple closely s...

Aiming at the problems of feature information loss during down-sampling, insufficient characterization ability and low utilization of channel information in skin cancer diagnosis of melanoma, a skin pathological mirror classification method based on...

Blue-hazard-free lighting is in urgent need in order to protect human eyes and physiology. A candlelight-style organic light emitting diode (OLED) is so far the safest measure for its blue-hazard-free, low-color-temperature illumination. However, lif...