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Adaptive Pinning Synchronization of Switching Networks with Arbitrary Topologies

  • Isaac Leonel López-García and
  • Juan Gonzalo Barajas-Ramírez

21 January 2026

We propose a novel design approach for pinning control of a dynamical network that achieves synchronization despite switching between arbitrary topologies. Unlike existing approaches, we consider weighted, directed, and even unconnected topologies as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in Phase Transitions, Synchronization, Irreversibility, and Critical Phenomena in Chaotic Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
984 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2026

This study carries out the research on event-triggered output feedback control tailored for discrete-time switched linear systems. A dynamic event-triggered mechanism (DETM) is utilized to mitigate the triggering frequency. To ensure stability and co...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Automation and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,384 Views
15 Pages

Design of a High-Voltage Arbitrary Waveform Generator Using a Modular Cascaded H-Bridge Topology

  • Weichuan Zhao,
  • Gijs Willem Lagerweij,
  • Brecht Hurkmans and
  • Mohamad Ghaffarian Niasar

8 November 2024

As the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid increases, the insulation systems of grid components such as transformers and switchgear encounter significant challenges due to the transients and harmonics generated by power-electronic-b...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,966 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2023

This paper addresses the problem of stabilization of non-minimum phase switched nonlinear systems where the internal dynamics with symmetries or non-symmetries of each mode may be unstable. The authors initially build a stabilizing Lyapunov controlle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,195 Views
14 Pages

Stability Switching in Lotka-Volterra and Ricker-Type Predator-Prey Systems with Arbitrary Step Size

  • Shamika Kekulthotuwage Don,
  • Kevin Burrage,
  • Kate J. Helmstedt and
  • Pamela M. Burrage

17 April 2023

Dynamical properties of numerically approximated discrete systems may become inconsistent with those of the corresponding continuous-time system. We present a qualitative analysis of the dynamical properties of two-species Lotka-Volterra and Ricker-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling with Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,571 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2024

In this paper, a robust bumpless transfer control scheme for tracking control is proposed to avoid large jumps in the control signals for a switched system (SS) with unmatched uncertainty and disturbance. The robust bumpless controller comprises a ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,300 Views
18 Pages

3 March 2022

In this paper, the stability analysis and controller design of two-dimensional (2-D) switched system with random disturbances are studied. First, based on the Fornasini–Marchesini local state space model, a random discrete 2-D switched system m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,868 Views
17 Pages

Simulation of Fidelity in Entanglement-Based Networks with Repeater Chains

  • David Pérez Castro,
  • Ana Fernández Vilas,
  • Manuel Fernández Veiga,
  • Mateo Blanco Rodríguez and
  • Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo

3 December 2024

We implement a set of simulation experiments in NetSquid specifically designed to estimate the end-to-end fidelity across a path of quantum repeaters or quantum switches. The switch model includes several generalizations that are not currently availa...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,140 Views
17 Pages

9 February 2023

This paper addresses the problem of coexistence of synchronization and anti-synchronization (CSAS) for a class of switched chaotic systems by adaptive control method, where the switched system is realized by unified chaotic systems under arbitrary sw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear and Stochastic System Control)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,073 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2024

The modular reconfigurable flight array (MRFA) is composed of multiple identical flight unit modules, which has several advantages such as structural variability, strong versatility, and low cost. Due to the redundant properties of MRFA, it keeps sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial IoT-Enabled Modeling and Optimization for the Process Industry)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,917 Views
25 Pages

Robust (Q,S,R)-γ-Dissipative and H2 Performances for Switched Systems with Mixed Time Delays

  • Ker-Wei Yu,
  • Chang-Hua Lien,
  • Hao-Chin Chang,
  • Cheung-Chieh Ku and ,
  • Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan,
  • Cheng-Ruei Yu,
  • Hung-Chih Li and
  • Yi-You Hou
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 March 2023

This paper investigates the switching on switching rule and sampling input to guarantee (Q,S,R)-γ-dissipative and H2 performances for switched systems with mixed time delays. Synchronous switching can be used to overcome the difficulty in imple...

(This article belongs to the Topic Analysis and Controls of Time-Delay Systems with Perturbations: Theory and Application)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,474 Views
9 Pages

Tunable Infrared Optical Switch Based on Vanadium Dioxide

  • Qi Wang,
  • Shijie Zhang,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Rui Li and ,
  • Tianhan Cai and
  • Dawei Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 November 2021

A tunable infrared optical switch based on a plasmonic structure consisting of aluminum nanoarrays with a thin film of vanadium dioxide is proposed. This optical switch can realize arbitrary wavelength-selective optical switching in the mid-infrared...

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  • Open Access
789 Views
14 Pages

On-Chip Reconfigurable Three-Waveguide Coupling Mode Switches on Silica Platform

  • Minghui Zhou,
  • Shengyuan Zhang,
  • Yingzhi Ding,
  • Guoyan Zeng and
  • Daming Zhang

12 January 2026

Reconfigurable mode switches can provide more flexible and advanced data exchange functions for complex on-chip optical networks. A reconfigurable mode-selective optical switch based on adiabatic progressive three-waveguide coupling (TWC) is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,309 Views
22 Pages

30 March 2023

In this paper, we investigate the three-stage, wavelength–space–wavelength switching fabric architecture for nodes in elastic optical networks. In general, this switching fabric has r input and output switches with wavelength-converting c...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,193 Views
25 Pages

7 January 2025

Arbitrary translational Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) video represents a transitional stage towards immersive terminal videos, allowing users to freely switch viewpoints for a 3D scene experience. However, the increased freedom of movement introduces...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,778 Views
14 Pages

Design of a Compact Wireless Multi-Channel High Area-Efficient Stimulator with Arbitrary Channel Configuration

  • Yuwei Zhang,
  • Deng Luo,
  • Ting Ou,
  • Zhangyi Yuan and ,
  • Heng Huang,
  • Ling You,
  • Yin Yue,
  • Milin Zhang,
  • Dongmei Li and
  • Zhihua Wang
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

27 December 2017

This paper presents the design of a wireless, implantable, multi-channel, programmable stimulator with arbitrary channel combination. A novel channel management module using a switch array is presented, enabling arbitrary channel configuration with a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Microdevices and Systems for Biomedical Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,624 Views
22 Pages

2 April 2024

The adaptive fuzzy backstepping control problem is studied for Itô-type nonlinear switched systems subject to unknown hysteresis input. Compared with existing works, the unknown hysteresis and stochastic disturbances are considered in the pure-...

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  • Open Access
495 Views
28 Pages

27 July 2026

This paper addresses the analysis and control of continuous-time linear switched systems within the linear time-varying (LTV) framework. A correspondence between switched and LTV system representations is first established, enabling the use of LTV to...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,325 Views
21 Pages

Game-Based Consensus of Switching Multi-Agent Systems

  • Baihe Liu,
  • Pengyu Wang,
  • Zhijian Ji and
  • Hao Wang

13 November 2025

This paper investigates the leader–follower consensus problem for a class of second-order multi-agent systems. These systems are composed of both discrete-time and continuous-time subsystems and are governed by switching dynamics. Within the fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Applications of Control Systems Theory)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,118 Views
19 Pages

Time-Optimal Control Problem of Two Non-Synchronous Oscillators

  • Leonid Berlin,
  • Andrey Galyaev and
  • Pavel Lysenko

29 September 2022

The time-optimal control problem for a system consisting of two non-synchronous oscillators is considered. Each oscillator is controlled with a shared limited scalar control. The objective of the control is to accelerate the oscillatory system to a g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Oscillatory Phenomena)
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  • Open Access
770 Views
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Discrete Switching Sequence Control for Universal Current Tracking in Wind Power Converters

  • Jiawei Yu,
  • Xuetong Wang,
  • Guangqi Li,
  • Wenzhe Hao and ,
  • Chao Luo and
  • Zhiyong Dai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 November 2025

With increasing wind power penetration in modern grids, high-performance current control of converters is essential for efficient power transfer, harmonic reduction, and system stability. A novel discrete switching sequence control (dSSC) is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Power Electronics for Renewable Energy and Power Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,843 Views
16 Pages

26 December 2022

We propose a mode switch based on hybrid-core vertical directional couplers with an embedded graphene electrode to realize the switching function with low power consumption. We designed the device with Norland Optical Adhesive (NOA) material as the g...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,543 Views
18 Pages

A Driving Technique for AC-AC Direct Matrix Converters Based on Sigma-Delta Modulation

  • Simone Orcioni,
  • Giorgio Biagetti,
  • Paolo Crippa and
  • Laura Falaschetti

21 March 2019

Direct conversion of AC power between three-phase systems operating at different frequencies can be achieved using solid-state circuits known as matrix converters. These converters do not need energy storage elements, but they require sophisticated c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from EEEIC 2018—18th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,780 Views
21 Pages

3 July 2024

In this work, the effectiveness and stability of psychological counseling are evaluated using the switched complex-valued neural networks (SCVNN) model, which includes parameter disturbances, impulsive perturbations, variable and continuously distrib...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,667 Views
18 Pages

For hypersonic-vehicle fairing separation, the reliable separation of the fairing and rapid suppression of the separation disturbance are required in scenarios where there is high dynamic pressure and there are abrupt changes in the aerodynamic shape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supersonic and Hypersonic Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,539 Views
17 Pages

9 May 2023

The increasing ubiquity of big data and cloud-based computing has led to increased concerns regarding the privacy and security of user data. In response, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) was developed to address this issue by enabling arbitrary com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Cryptography and Privacy-Preserving Computation Architectures for Wireless Sensors Networks and Communications)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,417 Views
30 Pages

22 June 2023

The requirements to switching the capacities of SF6 circuit breakers submitted by Russian Grid companies are difficult to satisfy. The first limitation is related to material and financial costs in order to create a new requirement-satisfying switchi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics in Energy and Mechanical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
65 Citations
6,762 Views
19 Pages

Communication Enhancement through Quantum Coherent Control of N Channels in an Indefinite Causal-Order Scenario

  • Lorenzo M. Procopio,
  • Francisco Delgado,
  • Marco Enríquez,
  • Nadia Belabas and
  • Juan Ariel Levenson

18 October 2019

In quantum Shannon theory, transmission of information is enhanced by quantum features. Up to very recently, the trajectories of transmission remained fully classical. Recently, a new paradigm was proposed by playing quantum tricks on two completely...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Revolution: Impact to Foundations)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
448 Views
30 Pages

24 July 2026

This paper extends the Theory of Functional Connections (TFC) to a new class of admissibility conditions, referred to as divergent constraints, which prescribe an unbounded asymptotic behavior of the solution at one or more specified locations. While...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,222 Views
19 Pages

Capacitor Voltage Balancing of a Grid-Tied, Cascaded Multilevel Converter with Binary Asymmetric Voltage Levels Using an Optimal One-Step-Ahead Switching-State Combination Approach

  • Manuel Kuder,
  • Anton Kersten,
  • Jose-Luis Marques-Lopez,
  • Julian Estaller and ,
  • Johannes Buberger,
  • Florian Schwitzgebel,
  • Torbjörn Thiringer,
  • Anton Lesnicar,
  • Rainer Marquardt and
  • Richard Eckerle
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

13 January 2022

This paper presents a novel capacitor voltage balancing control approach for cascaded multilevel inverters with an arbitrary number of series-connected H-Bridge modules (floating capacitor modules) with asymmetric voltages, tiered by a factor of two...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,651 Views
20 Pages

Parallel hardware designed for image processing promotes vision-guided intelligent applications. With the advantages of high-throughput and low-latency, streaming architecture on FPGA is especially attractive to real-time image processing. Notably, m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing Using FPGAs)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,022 Views
29 Pages

Monocular Stereo Measurement Using High-Speed Catadioptric Tracking

  • Shaopeng Hu,
  • Yuji Matsumoto,
  • Takeshi Takaki and
  • Idaku Ishii

9 August 2017

This paper presents a novel concept of real-time catadioptric stereo tracking using a single ultrafast mirror-drive pan-tilt active vision system that can simultaneously switch between hundreds of different views in a second. By accelerating video-sh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Imaging Depth Sensors—Sensors, Algorithms and Applications)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,708 Views
11 Pages

20 April 2023

Fitts’ approach, which examines the information processing of the human motor system, has the problem that the movement speed is controlled by the difficulty index of the task, which the participant uniquely sets, but it is an arbitrary speed....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,804 Views
15 Pages

4 August 2021

We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a MEMS-based 3-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) that allows the generation of large displacements. The DAC consists of electrostatic bending-plate actuators that are connected to a mech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative Microactuator Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,546 Views
18 Pages

Global Optimal Solving Algorithm for Power Distribution Based on Selective Harmonic Elimination in Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverters

  • Xingyue Qian,
  • Jun Hao,
  • Jiajia Xiao,
  • Hanzhi Yang and ,
  • Qi Zhang and
  • Zhibao Yuan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 June 2025

The conventional power distributions methods face many challenges, such as high switching frequency, multiple carrier cycles, and single power distribution. To address the above issues, a novel power distribution based on the selective harmonic elimi...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
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  • Open Access
82 Citations
6,794 Views
21 Pages

Despite its importance in general relativity, a quantum notion of general covariance has not yet been established in quantum gravity and cosmology, where, given the a priori absence of coordinates, it is necessary to replace classical frames with dyn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Group Field Theory and Related Quantum Gravity Formalisms)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,955 Views
11 Pages

Broadband Generation of Polarization-Immune Cloaking via a Hybrid Phase-Change Metasurface

  • Ximin Tian,
  • Junwei Xu,
  • Ting-Hui Xiao,
  • Pei Ding and ,
  • Kun Xu,
  • Yinxiao Du and
  • Zhi-Yuan Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Metasurface-enabled cloaking offers an alternative platform to render scatterers of arbitrary shapes indiscernible. However, specific propagation phases generated by the constituent elements for cloaking are usually valid for a single or few states o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photonics for Emerging Applications in Communication and Sensing)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,584 Views
19 Pages

11 May 2023

A photonics-assisted binary/quaternary phase-coded microwave signal generator with fundamental/doubling reconfigurable carrier frequency applicable to digital I/O interfaces is proposed and has been verified by experiments. This scheme is based on a...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,335 Views
17 Pages

Modeling and Centralized-ZVS Control for Wireless Charging Electric Vehicles Supplied by Parallel Modular Multi-Inverters

  • Jing Chen,
  • Ao Zhu,
  • Zhengqing Zhang,
  • Shuai Yu and ,
  • Rui Li,
  • Weilong Zhang and
  • Jiuqing Cai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In this paper, a parallel modular multi-inverter (PMMI) topology is proposed to supply high power for wireless charging electric vehicles (EVs). A major challenge in the implementation of PMMI topology is zero-voltage switching (ZVS) for all inverter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Development in Wireless Power Transfer Technology for Internet of Things (IoT) in Smart Grid)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,737 Views
33 Pages

Full- and Reduced-Order State-Space Modeling of Wind Turbine Systems with Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

  • Christoph M. Hackl,
  • Pol Jané-Soneira,
  • Martin Pfeifer,
  • Korbinian Schechner and
  • Sören Hohmann

10 July 2018

Full-order state-space models represent the starting point for the development of advanced control methods for wind turbine systems (WTSs). Regarding existing control-oriented WTS models, two research gaps must be noted: (i) There exists no full-orde...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
398 Views
20 Pages

Unified Analytical Modeling of Multicell Interleaved Buck Converters with Parallel Switching Arms for Low-Ripple Electrochemical Energy Conversion Systems

  • Menaouar Berrehil El Kattel,
  • Ildenor David Sales Junior,
  • Robson Mayer,
  • Cristina do Carmo Lucio Berrehil El Kattel and ,
  • Paulo Peixoto Praça and
  • Luiz Henrique Silva Colado Barreto
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 September 2026

Power electronic converters play an important role in proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, where current ripple has been associated with electrode potential fluctuations, electrocatalyst degradation, and long-term system durability. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,497 Views
25 Pages

10 June 2023

The problem of optimal scheduling in a system with parallel queues and a single server has been extensively studied in queueing theory. However, such systems have mostly been analysed by assuming homogeneous attributes of arrival and service processe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Mobile Things and Wireless Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,408 Views
27 Pages

Reliability Enhancement of Photovoltaic Systems under Partial Shading through a Two-Step Module Placement Approach

  • Belqasem Aljafari,
  • Priya Ranjan Satpathy,
  • Siva Rama Krishna Madeti,
  • Pradeep Vishnuram and
  • Sudhakar Babu Thanikanti

20 October 2022

Partial shading has a negative impact on photovoltaic systems by forcing the connected modules to generate lower power, creating severe unexpected power losses. To resolve this issue, numerous solutions have been proposed, among which configuration m...

  • Article
  • Open Access

This paper investigates resilient leader-following consensus of singular fractional-order multi-agent systems subject to partial denial-of-service (DoS), sensor and actuator deception, measurement noise, and external disturbances. The descriptor stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
444 Views
13 Pages

Longitudinal Ocular Surface Microstructural Findings After Switching to Preservative-Free Dorzolamide/Timolol in POAG: An Exploratory IVCM Pilot Case Series

  • Ana Sanseau,
  • Arturo Burchakchi,
  • Fernando Cataldi,
  • Héctor Fontana and ,
  • Alejo Peyret,
  • Giselle Rodríguez,
  • Ailín Fantacone,
  • María Silvia Passerini,
  • Javier Fernando Casiraghi and
  • Analía Luna
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Background and Objectives: To describe longitudinal ocular-surface microstructural findings on in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) after switching from benzalkonium chloride-preserved dorzolamide 2%/timolol 0.5% (BAK-DT) to preservative-free dorzolami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,403 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2023

Kalman filter is a well-established accuracy correction method in control, guidance, and navigation. With the popularity of mobile communication and ICT, Kalman Filter has been used in many new applications related to positioning based on spatiotempo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Intelligent Wireless Networks)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,049 Views
15 Pages

In this article, a simple closed-form analytical expression for the line-voltage total harmonic distortion (LTHD) of three-phase staircase-modulated (SCM) multilevel inverters (MLI) is proposed. The revealed expression is valid for any conventional M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converter Design, Control and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,028 Views
14 Pages

X-Band Photonic-Based Pulsed Radar Architecture with a High Range Resolution

  • Youngseok Bae,
  • Minwoo Yi,
  • Jinwoo Shin and
  • Sang-Gug Lee

20 September 2020

In this paper, we propose an X-band photonic-based pulsed radar architecture with a high range resolution. The proposed architecture is operated as a pulsed radar by adding a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) operating as an optical switch to a transmitte...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,278 Views
8 Pages

29 October 2020

The problem of excitation of internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the upper atmosphere by an external source of a limited duration of operation is investigated. An isothermal atmosphere was chosen as the propagation environment of IGWs in the presence of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere: New Diagnostic Methods and Recent Observations)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,895 Views
8 Pages

Light-Driven Pitch Tuning of Self-Assembled Hierarchical Gratings

  • Yuan-Hang Wu,
  • Sai-Bo Wu,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Qing-Gui Tan and ,
  • Rui Yuan,
  • Jing-Ge Wang,
  • Ling-Ling Ma and
  • Wei Hu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2021

Gratings are of vital importance in modern optics. Self-assembled cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) gratings have attracted intensive attention due to their easy fabrication and broad applications. However, simultaneously achieving arbitrary patternin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Liquid Crystals in China)

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