Electronics, Volume 13, Issue 2

Patient decontamination is the act of removing or neutralising hazardous substances from an affected individual. To ensure adequate emergency preparedness, regulations require hospitals to train personnel in decontamination procedures regularly. To s...

The precise detection of small lesions on grape leaves is beneficial for early detection of diseases. In response to the high missed detection rate of small target diseases on grape leaves, this paper adds a new prediction branch and combines an impr...

In verifying programs for embedded systems, it is essential to reduce the verification time because state explosion may occur during model checking. One solution is to reduce the number of interrupt handler executions. In particular, when periodic in...

IEEE 1588, also known as the Precision Time Protocol (PTP), is a standard protocol for clock synchronization in distributed systems. While it is not architecture-specific, implementing IEEE 1588 on Reduced Instruction Set Computer-V (RISC-V) low-powe...

Wind power is a crucial direction for new energy transition technology in response to the challenges of global warming. However, the potential for collisions between the blades and the tower barrel remains a significant concern. To address this issue...

A micro-expression (ME), as a spontaneous facial expression, usually occurs instantaneously and is difficult to disguise after an emotion-evoking event. Numerous convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models have been widely explored to recognize M...

All kinds of vessels consist of dozens of complex machineries with rotating parts and electric motors that operate continuously in harsh environments with excess temperature, humidity, vibration, fatigue, and load. A breakdown or malfunction in one o...

Deep-learning-based breast cancer image diagnosis is currently a prominent and growingly popular area of research. Existing convolutional-neural-network-related methods mainly capture breast cancer image features based on spatial domain characteristi...

Reducing the impact of underwater disturbance targets and improving the ability to recognize real moving targets underwater are important directions of active sonar research. In this paper, the highlight model of underwater targets was improved and a...

Cross -project defect prediction (CPDP) is a promising technical means to solve the problem of insufficient training data in software defect prediction. As a special case of CPDP, heterogeneous defect prediction (HDP) has received increasing attentio...

In response to the shortcomings of the traditional A-star algorithm, such as excessive node traversal, long search time, unsmooth path, close proximity to obstacles, and applicability only to static maps, a path planning method that integrates an ada...

The continuous advancement of electronic technology has led to the gradual integration of automated intelligent devices into various aspects of human life. Motion gesture-based human–computer interaction systems offer abundant information, user...

Based on the original deep network architecture, this paper replaces the deep integrated network by integrating shallow FastText, a bidirectional gated recurrent unit (GRU) network and the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In FastText, word embed...

In pursuit of advancing fault diagnosis in electromechanical systems, this research focusses on vibration analysis through innovative techniques. The study unfolds in a structured manner, beginning with an introduction that situates the research ques...

In this paper, we propose an optimized device structure to address issues in 3D NAND flash memory devices, which encounter difficulties when using the hole erase method due to the unfavorable hole characteristics of indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO)....

The ZX Spectrum was a popular 8-bit home computer by Sinclair Research in the 1980s. Even though some of these computers may still work, the audio tapes, the TV with an analog tuner, and the micro-switch joystick that were used with the original ZX S...

In the process of vehicles transitioning from conventional means of transportation to mobile computing platforms, ensuring secure communication and data exchange is of paramount importance. Consequently, identity authentication has emerged as a cruci...

3D (Three-Dimensional) scene inpainting aims to remove objects from scenes and generate visually plausible regions to fill the hollows. Leveraging the foundation of NeRF (Neural Radiance Field), considerable advancements have been achieved in the rea...

With the support of deep neural networks, the existing image manipulation detection (IMD) methods can detect manipulated regions within a suspicious image effectively. In general, manipulation operations (e.g., splicing, copy-move, and removal) tend...

The article focuses on the use of short-time Fourier transform (STFT) to detect the unbalance of a drive with a flexible connection between the driving machine and the load. The authors present the unbalance model and justify, through subsequent expe...

Series-cascaded microgrids (SCMGs) indeed provide control flexibility and high-voltage synthesis capabilities. However, the power distribution in SCMGs based on distributed generation (DG) sources stays understudied. This paper proposes an SCMG topol...

Active front-end (AFE) rectifiers have become widely employed in power systems to achieve unity power factor and harmonic mitigations. The typical modeling approaches applied for AFE rectifiers in the literature mostly relied on two baselines: the de...

Multispectral object detection is a crucial technology in remote sensing image processing, particularly in low-light environments. Most current methods extract features at a single scale, resulting in the fusion of invalid features and the failure to...

Compared with traditional anomaly analysis, intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) data validity analysis is faced with a variety of data anomalies, including sensor anomalies, driving behavior anomalies, malicious tampering, and so on, which eventually...

Multi-person pose tracking is a challenging task. It requires identifying the human poses in each frame and matching them across time. This task still faces two main challenges. Firstly, sudden camera zooming and drastic pose changes between adjacent...

This paper displays a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with high performance implemented in 0.18 µm CMOS. The proposed CMOS VCO adopts a current-reused method, analog coarse and fine tuning mechanisms, and an adaptive overdrive voltage contr...

A quantum Pauli noise is a nonunitary process that alters the state of a qubit by random application of the four Pauli operators. We investigate a four-qubit quantum circuit, consisting of a pipeline of three independently controlled Pauli gates, for...

In the era of Industry 4.0 and beyond, ball bearings remain an important part of industrial systems. The failure of ball bearings can lead to plant downtime, inefficient operations, and significant maintenance expenses. Although conventional preventi...

Recently, a data-driven approach has been widely used at various stages of the system development lifecycle thanks to its ability to extract knowledge from historical data. However, despite its superiority over other conventional approaches, e.g., ap...

In recent years, there has been a substantial surge in the application of image watermarking, which has evolved into an essential tool for identifying multimedia material, ensuring security, and protecting copyright. Singular value decomposition (SVD...

In the field of remote sensing image segmentation, achieving high accuracy and efficiency in diverse and complex environments remains a challenge. Additionally, there is a notable imbalance between the underlying features and the high-level semantic...

Currently, a variety of Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies offer diverse solutions for long-distance communication. Among these, Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) has garnered considerable attention for its widespread applications...

The cervical intervertebral disc, a cushion-like element between the vertebrae, plays a critical role in spinal health. Investigating how to segment these discs is crucial for identifying abnormalities in cervical conditions. This paper introduces a...

A stable output voltage of a boost converter is vital for the appropriate functioning of connected devices and loads in a DC microgrid. Variations in load demands and source uncertainties can damage equipment and disrupt operations. In this study, a...

With the proliferation of mobile devices and various mobile services, ensuring smooth mobility for users has become a major challenge. The future internet is expected to be more mobile-friendly, with advancing technologies that will transform interne...

The demand for kiosk systems with embodied conversational agents has increased with the development of artificial intelligence. There have been attempts to utilize non-verbal cues, particularly virtual human (VH) eye contact, to enable human-like int...

Pre-synchronization control is needed when the microgrid changes from an off-grid state to a grid-connected state. Aiming to resolve the problems of frequency overstep and voltage fluctuation in traditional pre-synchronous grid-connection schemes, a...

This paper presents the design of an integrated temperature sensor. The sensor was manufactured using the 3 µm CMOS technology. The proportional to absolute temperature sensor output signal was produced by two MOS transistors with biasing and b...

Web crawlers are widely used to automatically explore and test web applications. However, navigating the pages of a web application can be difficult due to dynamic page generation. In particular, the inputs for the web form fields can affect the resu...

In recent years, wireless power transfer (WPT) has progressed rapidly in both theory and commercialization. However, existing research into WPT coil design for low-power devices to mitigate the coil offset is limited. A dual-layer printed circuit boa...

Labeling-Based Recipient Identification (LABRID) brings the possibility of representing the destination station address in a Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding (BICM-ID) system by a signal labeling rule. Low-order modulations, s...

This paper proposes a harmonic-suppressed Wilkinson power divider (HS WPD) utilizing parallel resonant shunt stubs (PRSSs). PRSSs are integrated into the conventional WPD by adding functionalities such as bandpass filtering, harmonic suppression, and...

Printing electronics is emerging as one of the fastest-growing engineering technologies that are increasingly used and reliable. It provides an alternative to manufacturing electronics devices based on silicon compounds. This article discusses its ch...

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have become prevalent over the last decade. However, numerous challenges remain, including path planning, security, and the capacity to operate safely in unstructured environments. This study proposes an obstacle avoi...

This Special Issue delves into the diverse applications of blockchain technology, spanning topics including democratic elections, business models, secure data storage, and large-scale ICT security [...]

The traditional safety distance model based on the braking process is inadequate for scenarios where the adhesion coefficient varies. This research presents a safety distance model that takes into account the real-time fluctuations in the adhesion co...

Paper recommendation systems are important for alleviating academic information overload. Such systems provide personalized recommendations based on implicit feedback from users, supplemented by their subject information, citation networks, etc. Howe...

Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is widely used in fields such as materials science, biomedical research, surface morphology analysis, and optical component inspection because of its high measurement accuracy, broad frequency range, a...

The traditional rat-race coupler comprises a quarter-wavelength transmission line and a three-quarter-wavelength transmission line. In this design, the slow-wave structure transmission line is employed to replace the conventional quarter-wavelength t...

The concept of learning has multiple interpretations, ranging from acquiring knowledge or skills to constructing meaning and social development. Machine Learning (ML) is considered a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and develops algorithms that...