The development of control strategies for autonomous vehicles requires a reliable and cost-effective validation approach. In this context, testbeds enabling repeatable experiments under controlled conditions are gaining relevance. Scaled vehicles hav...
Advanced electrochemical batteries are becoming an integral part of a wide range of applications from household and commercial to smart grid, transportation, and aerospace applications. Among different battery technologies, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batte...
Today’s mobility management (MM) architectures, such as Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) and Proxy Mobile IP, feature integration of data and control planes, as well as centralized mobility control. In the existing architecture, however, the tight integ...
This work presents the initial experimentation of a real-time 5G mmWave downlink positioning testbed deployed at Airbus premises. This experimentation is part of a first-of-a-kind testbed for hybrid Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), fifth-g...
This work presents the application of an aerial manipulation robot for the semi-autonomous installation of clip-type bird flight diverters on overhead power line cables. A custom-made prototype is designed, developed, and experimentally validated. Th...
The success of small satellites has lead to the study of new technologies for the realization of Nano and Micro Launch Vehicle (NMLV) in order to make competitive launch costs. The paper has the objective to define and experimentally investigate the...
The lack of privileged access to emergent and operational deployments is one of the key matters during validation and testing of novel telecommunication systems and technologies. This matter jeopardizes the repeatability of experiments, which results...
Digital twin, a concept introduced in 2002, is becoming increasingly relevant to systems engineering and, more specifically, to model-based system engineering (MBSE). A digital twin, like a virtual prototype, is a dynamic digital representation of a...
The high heterogeneity of 5G use cases requires the extension of the traditional per-component testing procedures provided by certification organizations, in order to devise and incorporate methodologies that cover the testing requirements from verti...
Software defined networking (SDN) complements low power Internet of Things (IoT), since the former offers dynamicity and the latter is susceptible to environmental changes. The SDN controller placement refers to the selection of the IoT sensors runni...
Due to the growing number of vehicles on the roads worldwide, road traffic accidents are currently recognized as a major public safety problem. In this context, connected vehicles are considered as the key enabling technology to improve road safety a...
Five-G heterogeneous network overlaid by millimeter-wave (mmWave) access employs mmWave meshed backhauling as a promising cost-efficient backhaul architecture. Due to the nature of mobile traffic distribution in practice which is both time-variant an...
Precise quantification of respiratory pathogen transmission is urgently needed to underpin disease surveillance and support diagnostic decision-making in indoor healthcare settings. Although numerical simulations are widely used to study macro-scale...
In this paper, we describe an experimental testbed designed to evaluate indoor visible light communications (VLC) in realistic scenarios. The system is based on a mockup where the location and orientation of the optical receiver can be modified with...
Advanced mobile communication standards of the fifth and subsequent generations widely use beamforming technology. While many publications on this topic rely on simulation tools, some work has been dedicated to experimental testing using software-def...
To build a comprehensive academic or scientific foundation in control theory, developing the theoretical foundation is essential; however, it is equally crucial to validate the theory through practical or experimental verification. Therefore, it is n...
Side impacts tend to produce more severe injuries than frontal collisions, particularly for vulnerable occupants such as children. Despite this, there is a limited number of studies and developments focused on side impact protection systems, and exis...
Tor is an anonymization network that enables access to hidden services and protects user identity through layered encryption. While its core technology offers strong privacy, users can still be exposed through indirect attack methods or configuration...
The proliferation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, driven by the NewSpace economy and reduced launch costs, has opened new opportunities for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications. Compared to traditional GNSS system...
The robust stabilization of the attitude of quadrotors with respect to disturbance torques is a fundamental and crucial control problem in many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. For this problem, a control Lyapunov function (CLF)-based robu...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in our modern society and their development is rapidly accelerating. Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) have opened a new window of opportunity to create new value-added services. However, the characterist...
The recent development of wireless communications has prompted many diversified applications in both industrial and medical sectors. Zigbee is a short-range wireless communication standard that is based on IEEE 802.15.4 and is vastly used in both ind...
For the rigid impact and flexible impact in space operation tasks, impact dynamic models between two objects are established in this paper, laying the model foundation for controlling or suppressing the impact. For the capture task between a grapple...
This paper describes a new solution for an articulated low-cost artificial neck with sensors to assess the effects of head impacts. This prototype is designed as a new solution to evaluate the neck’s response after suffering the head impact. An...
The intention of an authentication and authorization infrastructure (AAI) is to simplify and unify access to different web resources. With a single login, a user can access web applications at multiple organizations. The Shibboleth authentication and...
Technological evolution and in particular the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has paved the way for material prosperity and a better standard of living. A critical factor in the effectiveness of emerging IoT applications, which heavily re...
Decarbonizing aviation, particularly for long-range operations, is critical for meeting international climate targets, yet it remains technically and operationally challenging. Experimental aircraft (EA) serve to enable flying research infrastructure...
Over-the-air (OTA) firmware updating has become a fundamental requirement in modern Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, where thousands of heterogeneous embedded devices operate in remote and distributed environments. Manual firmware maintenance in...
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the various software and hardware tools used in microgrid protection studies, including experimental setup requirements. While these tools have broad applications in power system research, this review spe...
Spectrum Sensing (SS) is expected to play a crucial role in forthcoming 6G Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), where unlicensed users will be able to dynamically access the spectrum and perform opportunistic transmissions without generating interference...
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) are essential for navigation in aviation, transportation, and autonomous systems, yet they remain vulnerable to intentional interference such as jamming and spoofing. Unlike prior studies that primarily foc...
Background: A critical review of the literature demonstrates that masticatory apparatus with an artificial oral environment is of interest in the fields including (i) dental science; (ii) food science; (iii) the pharmaceutical industries for drug rel...
A federation of heterogeneous testbeds, which provides a wide range of services, attracts many experimenters from academia and industry to evaluate novel future Internet architectures and network protocols. The candidate experimenter reserves the app...
This paper demonstrates the use of Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), together with Raspberry Pi3 B+ (RP3) as the brain (or the decision making engine), to develop a distributed wireless network in which nodes can communicate with other node...
Industrial Control Systems (ICSs), which underpin communications and operations in industrial environments in general and in critical infrastructures in particular, are targeted by malicious actors for diverse reasons. To strengthen their resilience...
In computer networking, simulations are widely used to test and analyse new protocols and ideas. Currently, there are a number of open real testbeds available to test the new protocols. In the EU, for example, there are Fed4Fire testbeds, while in th...
This paper explores the opportunities and challenges for classifying human posture in indoor scenarios by analyzing the Frequency-Modulated (FM) radio broadcasting signal received at multiple locations. More specifically, we present a passive RF test...
IoT applications rely strongly on the performance of wireless communication networks. There is a wide variety of wireless IoT technologies and choosing one over another depends on the specific use case requirements—be they technical, implementa...
While the robotics community agrees that the benchmarking is of high importance to objectively compare different solutions, there are only few and limited tools to support it. To address this issue in the context of multi-robot systems, we have defin...
Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has made significant strides in the last decade and is now beginning to increase coverage of the system life cycle and in the process generating many more digital artifacts. The MBSE community today recognizes t...
With the deployment of numerous innovative smart grid technologies in modern power systems, more real-time communication and control are required due to the complexity and proliferation of grid-connected systems, making a power system a typical cyber...
VENTURER was one of the first three UK government funded research and innovation projects on Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and was conducted predominantly in the South West region of the country. A series of increasingly complex scenarios cond...
Jamming attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) scenarios are detrimental to the performance of these networks and affect the security and stability of the service perceived by users. Therefore, the evaluation of the effectiveness of smart environ...
The fish-eye lens camera has a wide field of view that makes it effective for various applications and sensor systems. However, it incurs strong geometric distortion in the image due to compressive recording of the outer part of the image. Such disto...
The main goal of this paper is to illustrate the development of a satellite attitude simulator testbed for on-ground experimentation of attitude, determination, and control methodologies. This setup aims to be a low-cost alternative to testbeds based...
In this research, we describe a new balancing device used to stabilize the rear quarters of a patient dog with spinal cord injuries. Our approach uses inertial measurement sensing and direct leg actuation to lay a foundation for eventual muscle contr...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are experiencing explosive growth in public adoption, causing a major shift in research and development priorities by OEMs toward electrified powertrains. To verify EV drivetrain platforms and software models in the design pha...
Process systems engineering research often utilizes virtual testbeds consisting of physicsbased process models. As machine learning and image processing become more relevant sensing frameworks for control, it becomes important to address how process...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized industries by enabling seamless data exchange between billions of connected devices. However, the rapid proliferation of IoT devices has introduced significant security challenges, as many of these devi...
Engineering systems undergoing extreme and harsh environments can often times experience rapid damaging effects. In order to minimize loss of economic investment and human lives, structural health monitoring (SHM) of these high-rate systems is being...
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