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Electronics, Volume 4, Issue 1

2015 March - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,955 Views
17 Pages

12 March 2015

The authors present a large area collision detection sensor utilizing the piezoelectric effect of polyvinylidene fluoride film. The proposed sensor system provides high dynamic range for touch sensation, as well as robust adaptability to achieve coll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,816 Views
31 Pages

E-textiles in Clinical Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review

  • Amanda Fleury,
  • Maddy Sugar and
  • Tom Chau

25 February 2015

Electronic textiles have potential for many practical uses in clinical rehabilitation. This scoping review appraises recent and emerging developments of textile-based sensors with applications to rehabilitation. Contributions published from 2009 to 2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,407 Views
23 Pages

Optimally Fortifying Logic Reliability through Criticality Ranking

  • Yu Bai,
  • Mohammed Alawad,
  • Ronald F. DeMara and
  • Mingjie Lin

13 February 2015

With CMOS technology aggressively scaling towards the 22-nm node, modern FPGA devices face tremendous aging-induced reliability challenges due to bias temperature instability (BTI) and hot carrier injection (HCI). This paper presents a novel anti-agi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,455 Views
32 Pages

29 January 2015

This article presents a method that provides an estimate of road bank by decoupling the vehicle roll due to the dynamics and the roll due to the road bank. Suspension deflection measurements were used to provide a measurement of the relative roll bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,950 Views
24 Pages

A Geometric Algebra Co-Processor for Color Edge Detection

  • Biswajit Mishra,
  • Peter Wilson and
  • Reuben Wilcock

26 January 2015

This paper describes advancement in color edge detection, using a dedicated Geometric Algebra (GA) co-processor implemented on an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). GA provides a rich set of geometric operations, giving the advantage tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,669 Views
12 Pages

22 January 2015

Motion detection and tracking is a relevant problem for mobile robots during navigation to avoid collisions in dynamic environments or in applications where service robots interact with humans. This paper presents a simple method to distinguish mobil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,113 Views
23 Pages

13 January 2015

The problem of motion planning of an autonomous vehicle amidst other vehicles on a straight road is considered. Traffic in a number of countries is unorganized, where the vehicles do not move within predefined speed lanes. In this paper, we formulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,935 Views
22 Pages

On the Impact of Building Attenuation Models in VANET Simulations of Urban Scenarios

  • Luis Urquiza-Aguiar,
  • Carolina Tripp-Barba,
  • José Estrada-Jiménez and
  • Mónica Aguilar Igartua

Buildings are important elements of cities for VANETs, since these obstacles may attenuate communications between vehicles. Consequently, the impact of buildings has to be considered as part of the attenuation model in VANET simulations of urban scen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,685 Views
34 Pages

31 December 2014

Turning grand concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities into reality requires the development and deployment of a wide variety of computing devices incorporated into the Internet infrastructure. Unsupervised sensing is the corner...

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