Electronics, Volume 8, Issue 10

This paper presents a new three-phase battery charger integrated with the propulsion system of an electric vehicle. The propulsion system consists of a dual-inverter topology connected to an induction motor via open windings. The electrical vehicles...

The paper considers the problem of parameter identification of the surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor (SPMSM) with pulse width modulated (PWM) inverter in the presence of dead time of power switches and other nonlinear distortions. Pa...

Lithium-ion batteries are currently used for various applications since they are lightweight, stable, and flexible. With the increased demand for portable electronics and electric vehicles, it has become necessary to develop newer, smaller, and light...

Characterization of heterogeneous materials, such as particles from mechanically processed waste printed circuit boards, is a challenging task. The majority of characterization methods either give average information or information that is very limit...

An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is one of the most reliable critical components in power electronics systems (PESs). The switching time during IGBT turn-on/off transitions is a good health status indicator for IGBT. However, online monito...

Internet traffic is experiencing rapid growth, with the majority of traffic generated from video steaming, web data services and Internet of Things. As these services include the transmission of small data, such as web pages, video chunks and sensing...

We propose an open loop voltage amplifier topology based on a single JFET front-end for the realization of very low noise voltage amplifiers to be used in the field of low frequency noise measurements. With respect to amplifiers based on differential...

Over the past decade, the dimensional scaling of semiconductor electronic devices has been facing fundamental and physical challenges, and there is currently an urgent need to increase the ability of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). A semi-floati...

As one part of the power system, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables may be subject to various system faults, such as overvoltage. When overvoltage occurs, HTS cables may quench and the resistance of HTS tapes will increase rapidly, which w...

Twin-KSVC (Twin Support Vector Classification for K class) is a novel and efficient multiclass twin support vector machine. However, Twin-KSVC has the following disadvantages. (1) Each pair of binary sub-classifiers has to calculate inverse matrices....

Partial shading on photovoltaic (PV) strings consisting of multiple panels connected in series is known to trigger severe issues, such as reduced energy yield and the occurrence of multiple power point maxima. Various kinds of differential power proc...

Computer vision recently has many applications such as smart cars, robot navigation, and computer-aided manufacturing. Object classification, in particular 3D classification, is a major part of computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel metho...

The upcoming technologies related to Internet of Things will be characterized by challenging requirements oriented toward the most efficient exploitation of the energy in electronic systems. The use of wireless communications in these devices makes t...

The unprecedented growth of connected devices, together with the remarkable convergence of a wide variety of technologies, have led to an exponential increase in the services that the internet of things (IoT) can offer, all aimed at improving quality...

Mobile-oriented internet technologies such as mobile cloud computing are gaining wider popularity in the IT industry. These technologies are aimed at improving the user internet usage experience by employing state-of-the-art technologies or their com...

Loss of muscle functions, such as the elbow, can affect the quality of life of a person. This research is aimed at developing an affordable two DOF soft elbow exoskeleton incorporating a dual motor-tendon actuator. The soft elbow exoskeleton can be u...

Currently, the industry is using the MODBUS communication method, utilizing RS485 for the distributed equipment and network construction. This method has a rather good transmission and reception distance but has a disadvantage in that it is a half-du...

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of macrodiversity for millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks. The key issue with mmWave networks is that signals are prone to blocking by objects in the environment, which causes paths to go from...

The 5G cellular network is expected to provide core service platform for the expanded Internet of Things (IoT) by supporting enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communication (mMTC), and ultra-reliable low latency communications (U...

In this paper, a low cross-polarization improved-gain rectangular patch antenna is presented. A patch-ground shorting pin with defected patch structure (DPS) is introduced to suppress the cross-polarization level. A High Reflective Frequency Selectiv...

Current trends are showing that the popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) has significantly increased over the last few years, causing changes not only in the transportation industry but generally in business and society. This paper covers one possib...

The offshore wind resource has huge energy potential. However, wind turbine floating structures have to withstand harsh conditions. Strong wind and wave effects combine to generate vibrations, fatigue, and heavy loads on the structure and other eleme...

This paper proposes a new ASIFT hardware architecture that processes a Video Graphics Array (VGA)-sized (640 × 480) video in real time. The previous ASIFT accelerator suffers from low utilization because affine transformed images are computed r...

In the last few years, many routing protocols have been proposed for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) because of their specific characteristics. Protocols that use several metrics have been shown to be the most adequate to VANETs due to their effec...

Augmented reality (AR) technology is gaining popularity and scholarly interest in the rehabilitation sector because of the possibility to generate controlled, user-specific environmental and perceptual stimuli which motivate the patient, while still...

To take full advantage of the information of images captured by drones and given that most existing monocular depth estimation methods based on supervised learning require vast quantities of corresponding ground truth depth data for training, the mod...

Natural disasters and the poor management of civil engineering structures and infrastructures require timely action and new tools such as specially designed structural health monitoring platforms. This paper proposes an innovative platform based on a...

This paper provides the results of a comprehensive comparison between complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) amplifiers with low susceptibility to electromagnetic interference (EMI). They represent the state-of-the-art in low EMI susceptibili...

A novel and miniaturized semi-elliptical 20-bit fully passive chipless RFID sensor tag is proposed in this article. The realized sensor tag is made up of semi-elliptical shaped open-end slots within the compact size of 25 mm × 17 mm. The multi-...

This paper proposes a structure of the $\mathsf{\mu }$ W RF energy harvesting (RFEH) system that is used for scavenging RF power from an ambient environment. A cross-coupled rectifier (CCR) with floating sub-circuit structures was utilized in the applicati...

vanets, iot, and many other acronyms represent exciting new technologies that build upon pervasive computation and communications to achieve their goal. As an underlying communication model, the (mobile) ad hoc network (manet) paradigm is used, which...

Recently, the spectacular innovations in the fields of wireless body area networks (WBAN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have made e-Care services rise as a promising application domain, which significantly advances the quality of the medical syste...

When designing a microwave circuit involving substrate integrated coaxial lines (SICLs), it is important to know what real crosstalk between SICLs is. A measured crosstalk will be a good reference value in a practical design. In addition, it is also...

The sorting algorithm is the most widely accepted capacitor voltage balancing strategy for a modular multilevel converter. This strategy offers to keep the balance among submodule capacitor voltages under all of the modular multilevel converter worki...

Recently, social network services that express individual opinions and thoughts have been significantly developed. As unreliable information is generated and shared by arbitrary users in social network services, many studies have been conducted to fi...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm that has been evolving into the wireless sensor networks to expand the scope of networked devices (or things). This evolution drives communication engineers to design secure and reliable communication at a l...

Fire must be extinguished early, as it leads to economic losses and losses of precious lives. Vision-based methods have many difficulties in algorithm research due to the atypical nature fire flame and smoke. In this study, we introduce a novel smoke...

This paper presents a proof-of-concept for a novel dq droop control technique that applies DC droop control methods to fixed frequency inverter-based AC microgrids using the dq0 transformation. Microgrids are usually composed of distributed generatio...

Theoretical neuroscience investigation shows valuable information on the mechanism for recognizing the biological movements in the mammalian visual system. This involves many different fields of researches such as psychological, neurophysiology, neur...

Age progression is associated with poor performance of verification systems. Thus, there is a need for further research to overcome this problem. Three-dimensional facial aging modeling for employment in verification systems is highly serviceable, an...

Internet Protocol (IP) multicasting is a method for one-to-many and many-to-many communication between hosts in an IP network. This communication happens in a real-time synchronous fashion. It is a useful mechanism for distributing management data in...

It is important to verify both the correctness and real-time properties of embedded systems. However, as practical computer programs are represented by infinite state transition systems, specifying and verifying a computer program is difficult. Real-...

This study describes the design of a resonant tunneling diode (RTD) oscillator (RTD oscillator) with a RTD-gated-graphene-2DEF (two dimensional electron fluid) and demonstrates the functioning of this RTD oscillator through a transmission line simula...

Location and tracking needs are becoming more prominent in industrial environments nowadays. Process optimization, traceability or safety are some of the topics where a positioning system can operate to improve and increase the productivity of a fact...

Point cloud filtering is a crucial step in most airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) applications. Many filtering algorithms have been proposed, but the filtering effect has some limitations in complex environments. To improve the filtering e...

The paper presents and evaluates three advanced methods for the characterization of the low-voltage (LV) grid access impedance for the frequency range assigned to Narrow Band-Power Line Communications (NB-PLC): 9 kHz to 500 kHz. This study responds t...

This paper presents the design and construction of a robotic arm that plays chess against a human opponent, based on an artificial vision system. The mechanical design was an adaptation of the robotic arm proposed by the rapid prototyping laboratory...

The design of a wide-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) modified as a VCO with programmable tail currents is introduced herein. The VCO is implemented by using CMOS current-mode logic stages, which are based on differential pairs that are conne...

We present in this paper a fully integrated low-noise high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) logarithmic programmable gain amplifier (LPGA) and chopped LPGA circuits for EEG acquisition systems. The proposed LPGA is based on a rail-to-rail true loga...

Massive electric vehicle (EV) integration has been an inevitable trend for future power distribution networks. However, the spatial-temporal randomness of EV charging behavior may cause insufficiency of power supply capability. This paper simulates t...