Electronics, Volume 13, Issue 14

Self-healing (SH) in metallized polypropylene film capacitors (MPPFCs) can lead to irreversible damage to electrode and dielectric structures, resulting in capacitance loss and significant stability degradation, especially under cumulative SH conditi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated profound changes in the business and technology landscapes, compelling organizations to reassess their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Traditional ERP systems have demonstrated significant limitation...

With the integration of renewable energy sources, how we can improve the stability of the new energy power system has become an urgent issue pursued by scholars. In this paper, a joint scheduling method for pumped storage units (PSUs) and renewable e...

In this study, we present a novel approach leveraging the segment anything model (SAM) for the efficient detection and tracking of vehicles in urban traffic surveillance systems by utilizing uncalibrated low-resolution highway cameras. This research...

This paper investigates the impacts of element grouping on the covert communication performance of an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS)-aided uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. Through element grouping, each element o...

Predicting the concentration of dissolved gases in transformer oil is a critical activity for the early detection of potential faults. To address the prevalent issue of data leakage in current prediction methods, this paper proposes a prediction meth...

State-of-charge (SoC) consistency and bus voltage regulation are two major control objectives of shipboard DC microgrids. To achieve these objectives, this paper presents a novel distributed model predictive control (DMPC) strategy with multiple cost...

Deep learning techniques for medical image analysis often encounter domain shifts between source and target data. Most existing approaches focus on unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). However, in practical applications, many source domain data are...

An event camera generates an event stream based on changes in brightness, retaining only the characteristics of moving objects, and addresses the high power consumption associated with using high-frame-rate cameras for high-speed eye-tracking tasks....

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a network of mobile nodes that dynamically form a transitory network lacking any existence of infrastructure and any form of centralized management. Nodes in ad hoc networks are powered by batteries with a limited l...

With the exponential growth of encrypted communication over the internet, research into systems capable of analyzing large volumes of encrypted traffic is essential. This study focuses on evaluating the performance of two prominent tools, ssldump and...

The demonstration of compliance of rolling stock against disturbance limits for railway signaling, and in particular track circuits, is subject to a large deal of variability, caused by the diverse values of the electrical parameters of the railway l...

With the development of 5th-Generation Mobile Communication (5G) technology and the deployment of low-Earth orbit satellites, using satellites to locate 5G radiation sources is of great significance in commerce and the military as an important task o...

The recovery of mutilated fingerprints plays an important role in improving the accuracy of fingerprint recognition and the speed of identity retrieval, so it is crucial to recover mutilated fingerprints efficiently and accurately. In this paper, we...

Reversible computation is very important to minimize energy dissipation and prevent information loss not only in quantum computing but also in digital computing. Therefore, interest in designing efficient universal logic gates has recently increased....

Operational amplifiers (op amps) are fundamental blocks that find wide application both as stand-alone devices and as crucial blocks embedded in various Systems on Chips (SoCs). Achieving high defect coverage, as well as performing defect localizatio...

Surface water plays a pivotal role in the context of climate change, human activities, and ecosystems, underscoring the significance of precise monitoring and observation of surface water bodies. However, the intricate and diverse nature of surface w...

The inter-turn fault is a common fault of oil-immersed transformers. Due to the deterioration of inter-turn insulation, its resistance decreases, which leads to an increase in the winding coil current and loss, causing the winding temperature to rise...

This paper presents a geometry-based stochastic model (GBSM) for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) system tailored to high-speed rail environments, addressing energy leakage at space latti...

This paper presents the design, simulation, prototyping, and measurement results of a digitally tunable fourth order Gm-C low-pass filter (LPF) for multi-standard radio receivers. The LPF cut-off frequency can be tunned by digitally selecting the tra...

The formation of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) stands as a paramount concern in USV formation control research. In addressing this, this paper introduces a novel formation strategy for USVs, which accounts for their arbitrary initial positions and...

For autonomous patrol robots, how to complete multi-point path planning efficiently is a crucial challenge. To address this issue, this work proposes a practical and efficient path planning method for patrol robots. Firstly, the evaluation function o...

Although Three-dimensional (3D) printers have legitimate applications in various fields, they also present opportunities for misuse by criminals who can infringe upon intellectual property rights, manufacture counterfeit medical products, or create u...

This paper presents a study on the double-loop controller design technique for a single-phase power factor correction (PFC) three-level (TL) boost converter. Designing a double-loop controller using conventional methods is challenging due to the 120...

This study presents an innovative method to optimize convolutional neural networks (CNNs) tailored for the prevalent low-power platforms in IoT and embedded devices, which are integral to smart city infrastructures. Our approach introduces a novel &l...

A YOLOv5 aluminum profile defect detection algorithm that integrates attention and multi-scale features is proposed in this paper to address the issues of the low detection accuracy, high false detection rates, and high missed detection rates that ar...

Secret sharing is a data security technique that divides secret information into multiple parts, embeds these parts into various shares, and distributes these shares to different participants. The original secret information can be retrieved only whe...

In the not-too-distant future, humans will return to the Moon and step foot for the first time on Mars. Eventually, humanity will colonize these celestial bodies, where living and working will be commonplace. Energy is fundamental to all life. The en...

Large language models (LLMs) have gained immense attention and are being increasingly applied in various domains. However, this technological leap forward poses serious security and privacy concerns. This paper explores a novel approach to data steal...

Robots in hazardous environments demand precise and advanced motion control, making extensive simulations crucial for verifying the safety of motion planning. This paper presents a simulation system that enables interactive path editing, allowing for...

Infrared image and visible image fusion (IVIF) is a research direction that is currently attracting much attention in the field of image processing. The main goal is to obtain a fused image by reasonably fusing infrared images and visible images, whi...

This paper presents an analytical exploration of sixth-generation (6G) satellite–terrestrial integrated networks, focusing specifically on their applications within air mobility operations, such as those involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs...

This study introduces a new method for real-time efficiency tracking and stable output power of Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) systems using variable capacitors. A preliminary detailed discussion and an analysis of the DWPT system are carried...

The single-phase photovoltaic energy storage inverter represents a pivotal component within photovoltaic energy storage systems. Its operational dynamics are often intricate due to its inherent characteristics and the prevalent usage of nonlinear swi...

As a typical information system, a cloud file system enables the storage, retrieval, and management of data on remote servers or server clusters. The reliable design of such systems is critical to ensure the security of data and availability of servi...

Inverters are important interfaces between micropower sources and consuming loads. However, the varying inductors and capacitors, modeling errors, measurement errors, and external disturbances would lead to degradation of the inverters’ perform...

In recent years, with the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, multi-view 3D reconstruction has once again become a hot spot in computer vision. Incremental Structure From Motion (SFM) is currently the most prevalent reconst...

Energy security is a crucial issue for political, environmental, and economic reasons. This article presents a modern approach to securing critical infrastructure in energy transmission networks, which are managed by advanced IT systems. This paper f...

Robotics includes complex mathematical calculations and coordinate transformations in forward and inverse kinematics, path planning, and robot dynamics. Students may experience a high cognitive load and lose learning motivation because robotics can b...

Given power fluctuations from near-land offshore wind farms, this article designs a coordinated control strategy for cascaded hybrid DC transmission. To suppress the frequency disturbances when wind power varies, supplementary active power control sc...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is often used to detect targets in a construction environment. Due to the different construction environments, the noise exhibits different characteristics on the GPR signal. When the noise is widely distributed on the...

Although the NSGA-III algorithm is able to find the global optimal solution and has a good effect on the workshop scheduling optimization, the limitations in population diversity, convergence ability and local optimal solutions make it not applicable...

In the realm of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), vehicular communication technologies such as Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC), Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), and LoRa 2.4 GHz play crucial roles in enhancing road safety,...

Deploying modern neural networks on resource-constrained edge devices necessitates a series of optimizations to ready them for production. These optimizations typically involve pruning, quantization, and fixed-point conversion to compress the model s...

This survey article provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving landscape of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Decision Support Systems (DSSs). As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to play a crucial role in decision-making proce...

Multi-beam sonar imaging detection technology is increasingly becoming the mainstream technology in fields such as hydraulic safety inspection and underwater target detection due to its ability to generate clearer images under low-visibility conditio...

Considering the shortcomings of the current monitoring system for tunnel anchor support systems, a tunnel anchor monitoring system based on LSTM-ARIMA prediction is proposed in this paper to prevent the deformation and collapse accidents that may occ...

To improve the performance of the sparrow search algorithm in solving complex optimization problems, this study proposes a novel variant called the Improved Beetle Antennae Search-Based Sparrow Search Algorithm (IBSSA). A new elite dynamic opposite l...

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have revolutionized FPGA application development by providing a more efficient and streamlined approach, significantly impacting digital design methodologies. Despite the capability of FPGAs to customize numerical rep...

This study investigates the optimization of traffic scheduling in autonomous vehicle networks using time-sensitive networking (TSN), a type of deterministic Ethernet. Ethernet has high bandwidth and compatibility to support various protocols, and its...