Face swapping is an intriguing and intricate task in the field of computer vision. Currently, most mainstream face swapping methods employ face recognition models to extract identity features and inject them into the generation process. Nonetheless,...
The uncontrolled charging of electric vehicles may cause damage to the electrical system as the number of electric vehicles continues to rise. This paper aims to construct a new model of the power system and investigates the rational regulation and e...
The development of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technique and the growth of battery swapping stations are expected to enhance the resilience of power networks. However, V2G battery swapping stations exhibit inconsistencies among internal battery packs, wher...
This study analyzes the performance of a queue length-dependent overload control policy using a leaky bucket (LB) scheme. This queueing model is applied to the operation of a battery swapping and charging station for electric vehicles (EVs). In addit...
This paper proposes a novel motion-tracking control methodology for an underwater cable-driven parallel mechanism (CDPM) that achieves calculation of dynamic tension constraint values, tension planning, parameter linearization, and motion tracking. T...
This paper analyzes the control strategy for urban battery-swapping stations by optimizing the charging policy based on real-time battery demand and the time required for a full charge. The energy stored in available batteries serves as an electricit...
Batteries are one of the most crucial energy storage devices today, and battery-energy management technology has an extremely significant impact on the performance and lifespan of batteries. The traditional design approach for battery-energy manageme...
This paper presents and evaluates a control scheme and a power electronics architecture for a Wirelessly Enabled and Distributed Battery Energy Storage (WEDES) system. It includes several independent battery modules (WEDES-MX modules) that transfer b...
Low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) and grid support capability are becoming a necessity for grid-tied renewable energy sources to guarantee utility availability, quality and reliability. In this paper, a swap control scheme is proposed for grid-tied per...
Because they are environmentally friendly and safe, automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are increasingly used in newly constructed automated container terminals. However, their scheduling strategy is constrained by their limited battery capacity. When b...
Microgrids have increased in popularity thanks to both the integration of renewable energy resources and their energy distribution capability for remote locations. Moreover, the microgrids, mainly using multiple generators connected in parallel, acqu...
The transportation industry contributes a significant amount of carbon emissions and pollutants to the environment globally. The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has a significant potential to not only reduce carbon emissions, but also to provide...
Aiming at the coordinated control of charging and swapping loads in complex environments, this research proposes an optimization strategy for microgrids with new energy charging and swapping stations based on adaptive multi-agent reinforcement learni...
The influence of incorporation of post-distillation solid wastes of the aromatic plants (SWAP), oregano, rosemary, lemon balm, and spearmint into wheat breads at 1% and 2% levels on their physicochemical and sensorial properties, and antioxidant and...
Range anxiety seriously restricts the development of electric vehicles (EVs). To address the above issue, a hybrid battery swapping system (HBSS) is developed in this paper. In the system, EVs can swap their battery at battery swapping stations or by...
Background: Blue-yellow axis dyschromatopsia is well-known in Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy (ADOA) patients, but there were no data on the correlation between retinal structure and short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) values in this patholo...
In the low-voltage (LV) distribution network, a three-phase unbalance problem often exists. It does not only increase line loss but also threaten the safety of the distribution network. Therefore, the author designs a residential load transfer device...
During the search for S-boxes resistant to Power Attacks, the S-box space has recently been divided into Hamming Weight classes, according to its theoretical resistance to these attacks using the metric variance of the confusion coefficient. This par...
This paper studies the effect of variance swap in hedging volatility risk under the mean-variance criterion. We consider two mean-variance portfolio selection problems under Heston’s stochastic volatility model. In the first problem, the financ...
This paper presents a cost optimal model of electric vehicle taxi systems based on the cost of electric vehicle taxi companies, charging or battery swap stations, passengers’ time, and emission costs. Considering the requirement of meeting passengers...
Recent work at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory studied atmospheric turbulence on dynamic links with the goal of developing an optical anemometer and turbulence characterization system for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Providing infor...
This study proposes a modular bidirectional converter system for hot-swappable energy storage systems (ESSs). The proposed modular converter has a four-leg interleaved structure, and therefore it can reduce input current ripples and is suitable for s...
Collision models have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their versatility to simulate open quantum systems in different dynamical regimes. They have been used to study various interesting phenomena such as the dynamical emergence...
Surpervoxels are becoming increasingly popular in many point cloud processing applications. However, few methods have been devised specifically for generating compact supervoxels from unstructured three-dimensional (3D) point clouds. In this study, w...
Quasi-resonant flyback (QRF) converters have been widely applied as the main circuit topology in power converters because of their low cost and high efficiency. Conventional QRF converters tend to generate higher average conducted electromagnetic int...
As the construction of supporting infrastructure for electric vehicles (EV) becomes more and more perfect, an energy replenishment station (ERS) involving photovoltaics (PV) that can provide charging and battery swapping services for electric vehicle...
To improve the reliability and energy efficiency of battery swapping, we constructed a battery power network system with active redundancies and with multiple battery management controllers (one in each newly developed smart redundant battery pack)....
The electricity distribution system is the coupling point between the utility and the end-user. Typically, these systems have unbalanced feeders due to the variety of customers’ behaviors. Some significant problems occur; the unbalanced loads increas...
The driving range and replenishment problem of electric vehicles have become the main contradictions that interfere with consumers’ purchasing decisions. To alleviate these problems, battery-swap technology has been introduced into the public v...
Fossil fuel depletion, environmental concerns, and energy efficiency initiatives drive the rapid growth in the use of electric vehicles. However, lengthy battery charging times significantly hinder their widespread use. One proposed solution is imple...
Visual working memory (VWM) resources have been shown to be flexibly distributed according to item priority. This flexible allocation of resources may depend on attentional control, an executive function known to decline with age. In this study, we s...
Chronic inflammation of the colon (colitis) is a known risk factor for inflammatory-driven colorectal cancers (id-CRCs), and intestinal microbiota has been implicated in the etiology of id-CRCs. Manipulation of the microbiome is a clinically viable t...
This paper presents the use of Google’s simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technique, namely Cartographer, and adaptive multistage distance scheduler (AMDS) to improve the processing speed. This approach optimizes the processing speed...
Advancement of compact atomic clocks has centered on reducing footprint and power consumption. Such developments come at the cost of the clock’s stability performance. Various commercial and military applications demand reduced size, weight, an...
Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk...
In this paper, a current sharing method based on the circular chain control (3C) method is proposed for controlling parallel inverters of unequal ratings in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) applications. Due to its circular structure, 3C is one of...
A swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) often rely on exceptional wireless coverage of embedded or flush-mounted antennas or arrays, especially in long-range communication. While arrays offer significant range and beam steerability control, they o...
Electric vehicle (EV) fast charging systems are rapidly evolving to meet the demands of a growing electric mobility landscape. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of various fast charging techniques, advanced infrastructure, control strategi...
The robustness of an atomic fountain interferometer with respect to variations in the initial velocity of the atoms and deviations from the optimal pulse amplitude is examined. We numerically simulate the dynamics of an interferometer in momentum spa...
To support a vast number of devices with less energy consumption, we propose a new user association and power control scheme for machine to machine enabled heterogeneous networks with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), where a mobile user (MU) ac...
In this paper, a modified triple-tuned microstrip bandpass filter is presented. The filter consists of inductively cross-coupled resonators tuned with varactors. The application of the additional source-load couplings together with resonator branch s...
In this study, the wettability of PET membranes (prepared with different pore sizes) treated by UV irradiation, thermal annealing or doping with metal nanoparticles was investigated. The wettability was studied using the contact angle method based on...
Owing to some nonlinear characteristics in the permanent-magnet synchronous motor (SM), such as nonlinear friction, cogging torque, wind stray torque, external load torque, and unmodeled systems, fine control performances cannot be accomplished by ut...
Information security is the foundation for building trust between the Internet of Things (IoT) and its users. Due to the sharp increase of information quantity and the limitation of hardware resources, it is difficult to maintain the high performance...
Sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads exhibit strong co-movements across Asian countries and regions, including both emerging and developed economies. After controlling for global impacts, we examine the regional lead-lag relationships among ch...
A wireless battery charger with inductive power transfer (IPT) was proposed in this paper. The commonly used constant-current constant-voltage (CC-CV) charging method is accomplished by a closed-loop controlled IPT with a hybrid resonant circuit on t...
Recent work suggests complementary roles of the prelimbic and infralimbic regions of the rat medial prefrontal cortex in cognitive control processes, with the prelimbic cortex implicated in top-down modulation of associations and the infralimbic cort...
Including redundancy is popular and widely used in a fault-tolerant method for memories. Effective fault-tolerant methods are a demand of today’s large-size memories. Recently, system-on-chips (SOCs) have been developed in nanotechnology, with...
The mitochondrial carrier family (MCF) consists of nuclear-encoded proteins which catalyze the transport of a wide variety of compounds across the mitochondrial inner membrane. These proteins present common structural features, which consist of three...
To protect participants’ confidentiality, blockchains can be outfitted with anonymization methods. Observations of the underlying network traffic can identify the author of a transaction request, although these mechanisms often only consider th...
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