Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applies IoT technologies on industrial automation systems with the aims of providing remote sensing, remote control, self-organization and self-maintenance. Since IIoT systems often constitute a critical infrastru...
Solder-joint detection and localization on large, complex printed circuit boards (PCBs) remain challenging because PCB images often contain unevenly distributed features, nonuniform illumination, specular reflection, scale variation and geometric dis...
Hands-on engineering design can help bridge the gap between theoretical coursework and real-world engineering practice, particularly during the middle years of undergraduate programs. This paper presents the implementation and outcomes of an open-end...
Satellites become critical to space exploration, global communication, Earth observation, and navigation. There is a growing need for satellite avionics that are highly integrated, reliable, and low-cost, which is essential for mass production and re...
Measurement of material thermodynamic parameters plays a crucial role in understanding the interactions between host materials and guest species. Therefore, developing a general-purpose system for thermodynamic parameter measurement is of great signi...
Long-read sequencing technologies, particularly those developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), have transformed genome sequencing by enabling high-resolution analysis of complex microbial communities. Among ONT devices, the MinION remains aff...
During the inspection stage, an integration test is performed on electronic automobile parts that have passed a unit test. The faults found during this test are reported to the developer, who subsequently modifies the source code. If the tester provi...
Certified flight simulation training devices support pilot training and standardized instruction. However, high acquisition costs and vendor constraints on high-resolution operational/flight data can hinder academic research. This paper describes a l...
The discrepancy between simulated and hardware experiments, the reality gap, is a challenge in evolutionary robotics. While strategies have been proposed to address this gap in fixed-body robots, they are not viable when dealing with populations and...
Effective Internet of Things (IoT) education requires students to integrate sensing, actuation, embedded programming, networking, and application development into complete cyber-physical systems. Achieving this integration remains challenging, partic...
With an increasing number of aircraft systems, a fully manual developmental approach is impractical for finding optimal hardware and software mapping from overwhelming configurations for Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics (DIMA) systems. The aut...
The vehicle testing–validation phase is a crucial and demanding task in the automotive development process for vehicle manufacturers. It ensures the correct operation, safety, and efficiency of the vehicle. To meet this demand, some commercial...
In this paper, we present an approach to assess the schedulability and scalability of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Networks through an algorithm that is capable of estimating the load of the network as its utility grows. Our approach evaluates both t...
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is widely used at the laboratory level for monitoring/diagnostics of battery cells, but the design and validation of in situ, online measurement systems based on EIS face challenges due to complex hardware...
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used extensively in nanoscience research since its invention. Recently, many teaching laboratories in colleges, undergraduate institutions, and even high schools incorporate AFM as an effective teaching tool for...
Some complex digital circuits must host various operating systems in a single electronic platform to make real-time and not-real-time tasks compatible or assign different priorities to current applications. For this purpose, some hardware–softw...
Recently, remarkable successes have been achieved in the quality assurance of automotive software systems (ASSs) through the utilization of real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Based on the HIL platform, safe, flexible and reliable realis...
To solve the problems of low seeding precision and the poor operational adaptability of traditional no-till seeders under dense planting mode, and meet the agronomic requirements for high maize yield, this study carried out optimization and experimen...
Yōkobo is a robject; it was designed using the principle of slow technology and it aims to strengthen the bond between members (e.g., a couple). It greets people at the entrance and mirrors their interactions and the environment around them. It...
In the past twenty years, the IT industry has moved away from using physical servers for workload management to workloads consolidated via virtualization and, in the next iteration, further consolidated into containers. Later, container workloads bas...
To validate safety-related automotive software systems, experimental tests are conducted at different stages of the V-model, which are referred as “X-in-the-loop (XIL) methods”. However, these methods have significant drawbacks in terms o...
We propose a fully integrated common-source amplifier based analog artificial neural network (ANN). The performance of the proposed ANN with a custom non-linear activation function is demonstrated on the breast cancer classification task. A hardware-...
The characterization of ultrashort optical pulses is a highly requested task. The most popular commercially available hardware/software systems are based on interferometric measurements and second-harmonic generation, leading to some ambiguities and...
The paper presents a hardware and software complex for monitoring the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) with electromyography (EMG) as the primary tool, observing the RLN’s response to stimulation during intraoperative nerve monitoring (IONM). As...
The explosion of the Internet of Things has dramatically increased the data load on networks that cannot indefinitely increment their capacity to support these new services. Edge computing is a viable approach to fuse and process data on sensor platf...
This study investigates the realization and verification of safety-related functions of the KZ-MPC-MA national modular microprocessor-based railway interlocking system for Kazakhstan. The work focuses on the realization stage of the IEC 61508 safety...
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices has revolutionized arrhythmia monitoring. However, the high computational and power demands of traditional Deep Learning (DL) models pose significant challe...
In the pursuit of energy efficiency and reduced environmental impact, adequate ventilation in enclosed spaces is essential. This study presents a hybrid neural network model designed for monitoring and prediction of environmental variables. The syste...
This paper introduces a hardware/software co-designed 3D object detection pipeline based on the PointPillars architecture for low-power embedded MPSoC deployment. The proposed system accelerates the computationally intensive stages in programmable lo...
CubeSats are increasingly adopted for space missions due to their low cost and short development cycles. However, their attitude determination and control systems (ADCS) often suffer from limited verification environments and constrained hardware con...
This paper describes an innovative integrated solution for monitoring and protection of the power supply system of electric traction. The development of electronics devices, new possibilities to communicate (wireless), and new sensors makes it possib...
This paper presents the results of complex scientific research aimed at developing a prototype fiber-optic system for controlling the technical condition of buildings, structures, and extended objects. The aim is to develop a quasi-distributed type o...
The article discusses counters defined in the IEC 61131-3 standard. The possible implementations of standard counters function blocks in FPGAs are presented. First, counters are implemented as classical hardware-based modules. Second, counters are de...
In embedded electronic system applications being developed today, complex datasets are required to be obtained, processed, and communicated. These can be from various sources such as environmental sensors, still image cameras, and video cameras. Once...
Real-time (re-)planning is crucial for autonomous quadrotors to navigate in uncertain environments where obstacles may be detected and trajectory plans must be adjusted on-the-fly to avoid collision. In this paper, we present a control system design...
Industrial application data acquisition systems can be sources of vast amounts of data. The seismic surveys conducted by oil and gas companies result in enormous datasets, often exceeding terabytes of data. The storage and communication demands these...
This paper conducts a focused probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) on the reliability of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) drones deployed for surveillance in areas with diverse radiation levels following a nuclear accident. The study employs the event...
The advent of quantum computing with high processing capabilities will enable brute force attacks in short periods of time, threatening current secure communication channels. To mitigate this situation, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms have...
Nowadays, the growing interest in gathering physiological data and human behavior in everyday life scenarios is paralleled by an increase in wireless devices recording brain and body signals. However, the technical issues that characterize these solu...
As the scope of artificial intelligence (AI) expands and the structure becomes more complex, the amount of data for inference and training has increased. In traditional computer architectures, the memory bandwidth limitations have intensified bottlen...
This paper presents an analog-digital hardware-software co-design environment for simulating and programming reconfigurable systems. The tool simulates, designs, as well as enables experimental measurements after compiling to configurable systems in...
We developed a machine vision-based robotic system to address automation challenges in pharmaceutical pill sorting and packaging. The hardware platform integrates a high-resolution industrial camera with an HSR-CR605 robotic arm. Image processing lev...
In the Internet of Things (IoT), many strong constraints have to be considered when designing the connected objects, including low cost and low power, thus limited resources. The confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data must however be ensured...
Mechatronic systems, like mobile robots, are fairly complex. They are composed of electromechanical actuation components and sensing elements supervised by microcontrollers running complex embedded software. This paper proposes a novel approach to ai...
This paper proposes a unified fault-tolerant batch authentication scheme for vehicular networks, designed to address key limitations in existing approaches, namely the segregation between in-vehicle and V2I authentication scenarios and the lack of fa...
The resource-constrained MCU-based platform is unable to use high-performance accelerators such as GPUs or servers due to insufficient resources for ML applications. We define a Micro-Accelerator (MA) that can accelerate ML operations by being connec...
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the largest source of residential energy consumption. Occupancy sensors’ data can be used for HVAC control since it indicates the number of people in the building. HVAC and sensors form a typ...
Intelligent sensors with embedded AI are key to modern cyber-physical systems. They find applications in industrial automation, medical diagnostics and healthcare, smart cities, and autonomous systems. Despite their significant potential, they face s...
In modern power systems, reliable provision of grid services (e.g., primary and ancillary services) are highly dependent on automation systems in order to have monitoring, processing, decision making and communication capabilities. The operational fl...
Real-time image processing and computer vision systems are now in the mainstream of technologies enabling applications for cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, augmented reality, and Industry 4.0. These applications bring the need for Smart Ca...
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