This article reports the ongoing work on an environment for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) tests of CubeSats and the benefits gained from using such an environment for low-cost satellite development. The satellite tested fo...
The increasing complexity of modern automotive lighting systems requires advanced validation strategies that ensure both functional performance and regulatory compliance. This study presents a structured integration of Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) and...
Power consumption has become a major design constraint, especially for battery-powered embedded systems. However, the impact of software applications is typically considered in later phases, where both software and hardware parts are close to their f...
The software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests of a battery management system require a real-time compatible electro-thermal battery pack model. In our study, a numerically complex electrochemical-thermal model has been characterized from ex...
In this work, the development of a software-in-loop platform to carry out Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) simulations using a real-time STANAG 5066 stack is presented. The used protocol stack is part of a real-world implementation of an und...
In this study, a digital-twin-oriented integration architecture was developed for district heating networks in a laboratory Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) environment and evaluated. The implemented testbed combined a virtual SIMATIC S7-1500 controller ex...
In order to investigate the grid integration of wind turbines (WT) of various scales and designs, a wind turbine emulator (WTE) is being built in Flensburg within the state-funded project GrinSH. The special feature of this WTE is the use of a large...
In this work, a real-time software-in-loop simulation technique was employed to test and analyse an underwater wireless sensor network. This simulation should facilitate the deployment of the real network and helps guarantee the network’s expected be...
The realization of the first prototype of a vehicle requires several tests of the algorithms implemented on the electronic control unit (ECU). This represents an important step for conventional vehicles, which becomes fundamental when dealing with un...
This study evaluates the On-Demand All-Red Interval (ODAR) at signalized intersections to address red-light running (RLR) issues. Traditional fixed all-red intervals fail to adapt to dynamic traffic conditions, leading to potential safety risks and u...
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...
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...
Reliable wall-relative localization is required for robotic cleaning of aquaculture-vessel bulkheads, where sensor availability changes across the air–water interface. A two-stage study separated measured dry-wall performance from a controlled...
Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) has been recommended by ISO 26262 as an essential test bench for determining the safety and reliability characteristics of automotive software systems (ASSs). However, due to the complexity and the huge amount of data recor...
This study endeavored to design and develop an innovative closed-loop diagnostic and therapeutic system with the following objectives: (a) the noninvasive detection of glucose concentration in sweat utilizing nanonengineered screen-printed biosensors...
A well-known challenge in the development of safety-critical systems in vehicles today is that reliability and safety assessment should be rigorously addressed and monitored. As a matter of fact, most safety problems caused by system failures can lea...
Scientific data acquisition is a problem domain that has been underserved by its computational tools despite the need to efficiently use hardware, to guarantee validity of the recorded data, and to rapidly test ideas by configuring experiments quickl...
Advanced vehicle technologies that substitute or assist the driver are crucial and safety-critical elements, including independently acting electronic control units. A key element of vehicle road safety is its behavior on the road, influenced by vari...
As automotive software continues to grow in scale and timing sensitivity, hardware-independent verification in the early design phase has become increasingly important—especially for safety-critical, body-domain controllers. This study proposes...
In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a software-based wireless power transfer platform that enables the development of a prototype involving various open- and closed-loop power control functions. Our platform is based on a loosely c...
The increasing number of UAVs performing commercial and amateur flights necessitates the introduction of safe design principles for airborne platform architectures and UAV control algorithms. This article presents an approach to designing such soluti...
Due to the increasing complexity of vehicle software, it is becoming increasingly difficult to comprehensively test all requirements. This inevitably means that alternative test methods, e.g., simulation-based methods, must be used more frequently. H...
The soft pneumatic actuators of an assistive exoskeleton hand glove are here designed. The design of the actuators focuses on allowing the actuator to perform the required bending and to restrict elongation or twisting of the actuator. The actuator i...
The increasing complexity of spacecraft On-Board Software (OBSW) necessitates advanced development and testing methodologies to ensure reliability and robustness. This paper presents a digital twin approach for the development and testing of embedded...
Neural networks are one of the methods used in system identification problems. In this study, a NARX network with a serial-parallel structure was used to identify an unknown aerial delivery system with a ram-air parachute. The dataset was created usi...
Heavy-vehicle Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) controllers are commonly tested using simulations before vehicle testing, but pneumatic actuation and measurement limitations can affect the results in the field. This paper presents the complete design pr...
This paper presents a novel digital miniaturization method for a prototype silicon micro-gyroscope (SMG) with the symmetrical and decoupled structure. The schematic blocks of the overall system consist of high precision analog front-end interface, hi...
Batteries are a key element in the development of both battery-operated and hybrid trains. For this type of system, the most common anode choice is LTO (lithium titanate), as the adoption of lithium titanate instead of graphite for anodes ensures an...
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...
The traditional receiver employs scalar tracking loops, resulting in degraded navigation performance in weak signal and high dynamic scenarios. An innovative design of a vector tracking receiver based on nonlinear Kalman filter (KF) tracking loops is...
In this work, we present the design, implementation, and testing of a guidance system for the UX-1 robot, a novel spherical underwater vehicle designed to explore and map flooded underground mines. For this purpose, it needs to navigate completely au...
This paper introduces the ProVANT Simulator, a comprehensive environment for developing and validating control algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Built on the Gazebo physics engine and integrated with the Robot Operating System (ROS), it...
The paper presents a framework to emulate spacecraft orbits using GNSS hardware in the loop that enables the evaluation of new orbital positioning algorithms. The framework software generates the spacecraft orbit and the GNSS signals, including the m...
A high frequency dual-buck full-bridge inverter for small power renewable energy applications is proposed in this paper. The implementation of the wide band gap SiC (Silicon Carbide) power device contributes to the high switching frequency of 400 kHz...
We propose a vector tracking loop (VTL) algorithm for an asynchronous pseudolite navigation system. It was implemented in a software receiver and experiments in an indoor navigation system were conducted. Test results show that the VTL successfully t...
To validate microgrid systems, precise simulations are necessary beforehand. Traditional Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) is used to validate systems by creating a digital twin environment that integrates software and hardware to mimic reality....
This paper designs a cascading vector tracking loop based on the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for high dynamic environment. Constant improvement in dynamic performance is an enormous challenge to the traditional receiver. Due to the doppler effect,...
This paper addresses the challenge of ensuring quality control for electronic control units (ECUs) in the automotive industry. Traditional hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems, used for software quality assurance, are costly and not always readily avai...
Recently, the usage of the automotive Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and its software in cars is increasing. Therefore, as the functional complexity of such software increases, so does the likelihood of software-related faults. Therefore, it is import...
The integration of embedded software in multi-sensor wearable devices has revolutionized real-time monitoring across health, fitness, industrial, and environmental applications. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to designing and implementi...
This paper proposes a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) based nonlinear integral backstepping (NIB) in combination with model free control (MFC) for pitch angle control of variable speed wind turbine. In particular, the controller has been pr...
Adversarial manipulation of perception is usually scored per frame by an adversarial success rate (ASR). For a remotely supervised drone this is insufficient: a manipulation is dangerous when neither the modeled remote-human path nor the onboard auto...
It is necessary to develop a vehicle digital twin (DT) for urban air mobility (UAM) that uses an accurate, physics-based emulator to model the statics and dynamics of a vehicle. This is because the use of digital twins in the operation and control of...
GNSS spoofing can progressively corrupt unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation when manipulated position solutions are fused before integrity assessment. Existing detection methods often use dead-reckoning references such as visual–inertial o...
This paper presents a study on the development of a hybrid modeling framework for the optimal operation of microgrids based on renewable energy resources. Accurate prediction of both renewable energy generation and consumer demand is crucial for the...
Software-defined electric vehicles have reached micromobility, creating a growing need to evaluate how controller software shapes drive performance and energy use. This requires experimental platforms with quantified emulation fidelity and measuremen...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently been used in a wide variety of applications due to their versatility, reduced cost, rapid deployment, among other advantages. Search and Rescue (SAR) is one of the most prominent areas for the employment...
Human-in-the-loop driving simulation aims to create the illusion of driving by stimulating the driver’s sensory systems in as realistic conditions as possible. However, driving simulators can only produce a subset of the sensory stimuli that wo...
Software-defined radio (SDR) is a good solution for complying with the existing and incoming protocols for emerging wireless sensor networks (WSN) and internet of things (IoT) applications. The frequency synthesizer in a SDR tranceiver usually consis...
A network paradigm called the Software-Defined Network (SDN) has recently been introduced. The idea of SDN is to separate the control logic from forwarding devices to enable a centralized control platform. However, SDN is still a distributed and asyn...
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