A DAC switching scheme that combines energy efficiency and resolution reconfigurability is proposed. Compared with the conventional switching scheme, the proposed scheme achieves 93.8%, 96.1%, and 97.3% switching energy saving in 8-bit, 9-bit, and 10...
This paper presents a resolution-reconfigurable wide-range resistive sensor readout interface for wireless multi-gas monitoring applications that displays results on a smartphone. Three types of sensing resolutions were selected to minimize processin...
MEMS-based LiDAR with a low cost and small volume is a promising solution for 3D measurement. In this paper, a reconfigurable angular resolution design method is proposed in a separate-axis Lissajous scanning MEMS LiDAR system. This design method rev...
This paper presents a low-power, high-resolution reconfigurable hybrid ADC for bio-electrical signal processing. The proposed ADC contains a SAR ADC for the most significant bit (MSB) and a single-slope ADC for the least significant bit (LSB). To sol...
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are emerging as a key enabling technology to engineer the wireless propagation environment in 5G/6G systems. This paper presents the design, characterization, and control of a high-resolution RIS targeting s...
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising enabler for 6G communication systems due to its ability to reconfigure wireless propagation environments. However, as a passive device, RIS requires significant pilot overhead for acc...
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is widely used in robotics, autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, and object tracking, and a large number of commercial 3D LiDAR sensors with diverse specifications are now available. However, these sensors are typi...
In order to ease the conflict between the bandwidth demand of high-rate wireless communication and the shortage of spectrum resources, a wideband spectrum sensing method based on reconfigurable filter bank (RFB) with adjustable resolution is presente...
Controlled Traffic Regions (CTRs) around major airports pose an important challenge to Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) traffic management. Current regulations highly restrict UAS missions in these areas by confining them to segregated areas. This paper...
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems leverage the directional beamforming capabilities of antenna arrays equipped at the base stations (BS) to counteract the inherent high propagation path loss characteristic of mmWave channels. In downlink...
This paper investigates the optimization of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network serving multiple downlink users equipped with single antennas. The network is enhanced by the deployment of either a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)...
Time-resolved spectroscopic and electron–ion coincidence techniques are essential to study dynamic processes in materials or chemical compounds. For this type of analysis, it is necessary to have detectors capable of providing, in addition to i...
This paper presents a novel design for a reconfigurable CDC as a multiplexed sensor fusion that converts three analog signals into digital output bits with different resolutions. The proposed reconfigurable CDC design uses the SAR technique that intr...
Off-grid algorithms for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation have become attractive because of their advantages in resolution and efficiency over conventional ones. In this paper, we propose a grid reconfiguration direction of arrival (GRDOA) estima...
Crowd surveillance plays a key role to ensure safety and security in public areas. Surveillance systems traditionally rely on fixed camera networks, which suffer from limitations, as coverage of the monitored area, video resolution and analytic perfo...
This paper presents a reconfigurable time-to-digital converter (TDC) used to quantize the phase of the impedance in electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The TDC in the EIS system must handle a wide input-time range for analysis in the low-frequen...
The current trend in the evolution of sensor systems seeks ways to provide more accuracy and resolution, while at the same time decreasing the size and power consumption. The use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provides specific reprogramma...
Artificial metasurfaces can rapidly modulate their electromagnetic scattering properties and the characteristics of echo signals, which can lead to different imaging features in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging results. Based on this, for the f...
Different types of fill-level measurement systems exist in the market, but most of them imply some type of intrusion in the tank itself. In this paper, a reconfigurable system based on sound resonance for measuring the fill-level of a tank from the e...
This paper proposes a reconfigurable sensor analog front-end using low-noise chopper-stabilized delta-sigma capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) for capacitive microsensors. The proposed reconfigurable sensor analog front-end can drive both capacit...
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are navigated utilising multiple types of sensors for detecting the environment. In this investigation such sensors are replaced and/or minimized by the use of a single omnidirectional camera picture stream. An area o...
This paper presents a frequency-reconfigurable dual-band phase shifter operating in the n257 (26.5–29.5 GHz) and n260 (37–40 GHz) bands for fifth-generation (5G) communication. The proposed phase shifter is based on an active vector-summi...
In this paper, we propose the theoretical framework for a reconfigurable radiation pattern modulation (RRPM) scheme, which is reminiscent of the index modulation technique. In the proposed scheme, information is encoded using far-field radiation patt...
Three-dimensional seed phenotyping requires imaging systems capable of achieving micron-level resolution across a centimeter-level field of view (FOV), a goal constrained by the resolution–FOV trade-off in conventional light field architectures...
Benefitting from a large bandwidth and compact configuration, a time-domain pulse-shaping (TPS) system provides possibilities for generating broadband radio frequency (RF) arbitrary waveforms based on the Fourier transform relationship between the in...
Passive distribution networks are being converted into active ones by incorporating distributed means of energy generation, consumption, and storage, and the formation of so-called microgrids (MGs). As the next generation of MGs, reconfigurable micro...
We review mechanically reconfigurable reflectarray (RA) and transmitarray (TA) antennas. We categorize the proposed approaches into three major groups followed by a hybrid category that is made up of a combination of the three major approaches. We di...
This paper presents a wideband digitally controlled variable gain amplifier (VGA) with a reconfigurable gain tuning range and gain step in a 65 nm CMOS process. A unique asymmetric capacitor-based reconfigurable technique is proposed to extend the ga...
This paper presents a reconfigurable multi-sensor interface and its readout integrated circuit (ROIC) for display-based multi-sensor systems, which builds up multi-sensor functions by utilizing touch screen panels. In addition to inherent touch detec...
Multispectral imaging plays an important role in fields such as environmental monitoring and industrial inspection. To meet the demands for high spatial resolution, portability, and multi-scenario use, this study presents a reconfigurable 2 × 3...
Quantum imaging leverages entanglement and photon correlations to surpass classical limits in resolution and noise performance. However, its practical deployment is constrained by bulky optical setups and limited system adaptability. Metasurfaces&mda...
The performance of a computer vision system depends on the accuracy of visual information extracted by the sensors and the system’s visual-processing capabilities. To derive optimum information from the sensed data, the system must be capable o...
With nine-axis sensing systems in 5G smartphones, mobile power consumption has become increasingly important, and ultra-low-power (ULP) sensor circuits can decrease power consumption to tens of microwatts. This paper presents an innovative successive...
This paper tackles a significant problem in gaming graphics: balancing visual fidelity with performance in real time. The article introduces CPOY SR (Continuous Procedural Output Yielder for Scaling Resolution), a dynamic resolution scaling algorithm...
Urban air pollution has caused public concern globally because it seriously affects human life. Modern monitoring systems providing pollution information with high spatio-temporal resolution have been developed to identify personal exposures. However...
Terahertz communication has been proposed as one of the basic key technologies of the sixth-generation wireless network (6G) due to its significant advantages, such as ultra-large bandwidth, ultra-high transmission rates, high-precision positioning,...
Conventional heading-keeping autopilot logic exhibits well-known performance limitations under complex route geometry and environmental disturbances. Motivated by this limitation, this paper proposes a line-adhering intelligent navigation framework f...
Microwave photonic phase-shifting technology can be used to generate high-frequency, broadband, and tunable phase-coded microwave signals, which are helpful in solving the contradiction between the detection range and the range resolution in radar sy...
Nowadays, broadband and multi-channel radio frequency (RF) processing has been widely used in communication, radar, countermeasure, and other applications. At present, multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)-oriented microwave photonic signal proce...
Real-time affine transformation, a core operation for image correction and registration of industrial cameras and scanners, faces challenges including the high computational cost of interpolation and inefficient data access. In this study, we propose...
Co-prime linear arrays (CLAs) provide an additional degree of freedom (DOF) with a limited number of physical sensors, and thus help to improve the resolution of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms. However, the DOF of traditional CLA is...
Currently, manufacturers seek to provide customized and sustainable products, requiring flexible manufacturing systems and advanced production management to cope with customization complexity and improve environmental performance. The reconfigurable...
Direct sensor–digital device interfaces measure time dependent variables of simple circuits to implement analog-to-digital conversion. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices whose hardware can be reconfigured to work in parallel. They usu...
High parasitic capacitance from poly-insulator-poly capacitors in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes presents a major bottleneck to achieving high-resolution successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (...
A medium- or large-scale receiving antenna array using digital beamforming can achieve high-resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation at the receiver. However, it typically suffers from high cost and complexity. This paper proposes an efficien...
Software-defined radio (SDR) has become an attractive platform for radar research due to its flexibility, compact size, and ability to reconfigure radar methods for different situations. However, achieving high-resolution time-domain radar with SDR r...
Reconfigurable linear optical processors can be used to perform linear transformations and are instrumental in effectively computing matrix–vector multiplications required in each neural network layer. In this paper, we characterize and compare two t...
Scanning acoustic microcopy (SAM) is widely used in biomedical and industrial applications in dermatology, ophthalmology, intravascular imaging, and small animal images, owing to SAM’s ability to photograph small structures with a good spatial...
A fault detector inside an active fault-tolerant loop drives an automatic action, so every false alarm commands a reconfiguration for a fault that is absent. In a photovoltaic (PV) plant the false-alarm rate has to be controlled within each operating...
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used in electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) because of their high energy density, low self-discharge rate, good cycling performance, and environmental friendliness. Nevertheless, with the...
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