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Electronics, Volume 8, Issue 2

February 2019 - 140 articles

Cover Story: In the past decade, an indisputable consolidation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been produced based on mature technology ready to be applied in our daily lives. This technical consolidation of the field of UAVs—known colloquially as drones—provokes continuous research in design, modelling, control, navigation, guidance, etc., with the aim of manufacturing new aircraft with better features such as optimized take-off and vertical landing, longer flight times, ability to avoid obstacles in urban environments, accomplishment of complete missions automatically, or integration into non-segregated airspace. The collection of papers presented in this Special Issue gives a sample of the new lines of research that attempt to respond to future UAV needs. View Paper here.
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Articles (140)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,009 Views
14 Pages

A 5GS/s 8-bit ADC with Self-Calibration in 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS Technology

  • Dong Wang,
  • Jian Luan,
  • Xuan Guo,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Danyu Wu,
  • Huasen Liu,
  • Hao Ding,
  • Jin Wu and
  • Xinyu Liu

A 5 GS/s 8-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) implemented in 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology has been demonstrated. The proposed ADC is based on two-channel time-interleaved architecture, and each sub-ADC employs a two-stage cascaded folding and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,097 Views
16 Pages

A novel phosphorus-doped porous carbon/graphene composite was adopted as electrode material of super-capacitor, which showed excellent electrochemical performance compared with carbon material without phosphorus heteroatom by means of cyclic voltamme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,026 Views
17 Pages

Development of a Low-Cost Fault Detector for Photovoltaic Module Array

  • Kuei-Hsiang Chao,
  • Jen-Hsiang Tsai and
  • Ying-Hao Chen

This study proposes a binary search-based fault detection system for photovoltaic (PV) modules to ameliorate the deficiencies in the existing fault detectors for PV module arrays. The proposed system applies a single-chip microcontroller to execute t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,780 Views
17 Pages

Cyber-Physical System Framework for Measurement and Analysis of Physical Activities

  • Faisal Arafsha,
  • Fedwa Laamarti and
  • Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Several recent studies in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) focus on monitoring human movement and capturing data for further processing and analysis. However, there is a lack of studies that address the configurability and modularity of these systems, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,773 Views
27 Pages

The combination of machine learning and heterogeneous embedded platforms enables new potential for developing sophisticated control concepts which are applicable to the field of vehicle dynamics and ADAS. This interdisciplinary work provides enabler...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,027 Views
37 Pages

Perylene-Diimide Molecules with Cyano Functionalization for Electron-Transporting Transistors

  • Mario Barra,
  • Fabio Chiarella,
  • Federico Chianese,
  • Ruggero Vaglio and
  • Antonio Cassinese

Core-cyanated perylene diimide (PDI_CY) derivatives are molecular compounds exhibiting an uncommon combination of appealing properties, including remarkable oxidative stability, high electron affinities, and excellent self-assembling properties. Such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,912 Views
12 Pages

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have attracted great attention owing to their excellent performances in imaging and communication. In this paper, a dual-arm Archimedean spiral antenna (DASA) is proposed to generate multiple OAM states with posit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,037 Views
30 Pages

City Marathon Active Timing System Using Bluetooth Low Energy Technology

  • Chun-I Sun,
  • Jung-Tang Huang,
  • Shih-Chi Weng and
  • Meng-Fan Chien

This study proposes and implements city marathon timing technology using Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) communication technology. This study also performs a prevalidation of the athletes’ physiological sensory data that is sent out by the same timi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,960 Views
18 Pages

The robustness of wearable Ultra-High Frequency (UHF)-band planar inverted-F Antennas (PIFAs) with respect to coupling with the human body is an extremely difficult challenge for the designer. In this work a design strategy is presented to help the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,286 Views
9 Pages

The rapid switching action of power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) causes high-level electromagnetic interference (EMI) in power converters. The switching transient waveform modification method realized by closed-loop gate...

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