UAV tracking is important for aerial surveillance, inspection, and autonomous perception, yet its progress is constrained by the tension between tracking robustness and limited onboard computation. Compared with existing UAV tracking surveys, this re...
With regard to the problem of current solar irradiation of the tracking surface by the tracker, this can be rationally assessed using a modeled flux with parameters close to the natural direct in accordance with the maximum transparent atmosphere. As...
The underflow entrainment of fine particles occurs during the hydrocyclone separation process, resulting in a “fishhook” effect on grade efficiency. Traditional efficiency models fail to address this phenomenon. This study examines the tr...
The sun tracker plays a major role in improving the energy efficiency of a solar power system. To address this role, this study experimentally explores the energy efficiency of three sun-tracking systems with three types of degrees of freedom (DOFs)—...
In this study, a novel smart efficiency tracking (SET) algorithm for GaN-based LLC resonant converter for quick battery charging of light electric vehicles is proposed. Conventional frequency modulation (FM) method, single pulse width modulation meth...
Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology is a contactless wireless energy transfer method with wide-ranging applications in fields such as smart homes, the Internet of Things (IoT), and electric vehicles. Achieving optimal efficiency in wireless powe...
Increasing the efficiency of transmitters, as the largest consumers of energy, is relevant for any wireless communication devices. For higher efficiency, a number of methods are used, including envelope tracking and envelope elimination and restorati...
To address the issues of low fundamental content in the output voltage of high-frequency inverters within wireless power transfer (WPT) systems and efficiency degradation caused by coupling coefficients and load variations, this paper proposes a nove...
This paper proposes a combined maximum efficiency tracking and improved active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) strategy for an inductive power transfer (IPT) system, addressing issues of reduced efficiency and voltage fluctuations under load var...
This article presents studies related to the driving and control of the switched reluctance generator in order to enhance its efficiency. This type of electrical machine is an option for wind energy conversion systems, favoring the generation of elec...
This article concerns the modeling and motion control of a mobile robot with six independently driven and non-steered wheels. The main research issue is analyzing the influence of the structure of the control system and wheel track on the control acc...
Inefficient material tracking continues to be a major challenge in sustainable construction, often leading to unnecessary waste, budget overruns, and project delays. While many digital tools have been introduced in recent years, there is still a lack...
The relevance of the article’s results lies in presenting the actual energy yields of PV panels of various generations and types of installations. The aim of the article is to provide answers about the effective operation of three different pho...
This paper presents the analysis and maximum-efficiency tracking control of a high-step-up boost-integrated dual-LLC resonant converter. The proposed converter combines one boost stage and two LLC resonant stages using a shared half-bridge, while the...
One of the most promising inductive power transfer applications is the wireless power supply for locomotives which may cancel the need for pantographs. In order to meet the dynamic and high power demands of wireless power supplies for locomotives, a...
This paper considers the tracking control of curved paths for an underwater snake robot, and investigates the methods used to improve energy efficiency. Combined with the path-planning method based on PCSI (parametric cubic-spline interpolation), an...
This work investigates the efficiency and power consumption of using the Intel® (Santa Clara, CA, USA) Neural Compute Stick 2 (NCS2) on the Raspberry Pi 4B platform to accelerate image classification and object tracking. The motivation behind thi...
Bidirectional inductive wireless power transfer (BWPT) enables electric vehicles (EVs) to support both grid-to-vehicle (G2V) charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) energy delivery. However, variations in battery charging conditions and grid power demands...
Virtual reality technology promises to transform immersive experiences across various applications, particularly within office environments. Despite its potential, the challenge of achieving efficient text entry in virtual reality persists. This stud...
In wind turbine control, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control is the main control mode for partial-load regimes. Efficiency potentiation of energy conversion and power smoothing are both two important control objectives in partial-load regime....
An analytical method to design a power amplifier (PA) with an optimized power added efficiency (PAE) trajectory for envelope tracking (ET) architecture is proposed. To obtain feasible matching solutions for high-efficiency performance of the PA in th...
This paper presents an 11-bit linear-tracking digital low-dropout (DLDO) regulator with variable step size control and transient enhancement (TE) techniques to achieve low output voltage overshoot/undershoot and high current efficiency. To address ov...
The wireless charging of electric vehicles (EVs) has drawn much attention as it can ease the charging process under different charging situations and environmental conditions. However, power transfer rate and efficiency are the critical parameters fo...
Efficiency has always been one of the most critical indicators for evaluating wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. To achieve fast maximum energy efficiency tracking (MEET), this paper provides an innovative control method utilizing the hill climbi...
Deep learning (DL) has revolutionized medical image analysis (MIA), enabling early anomaly detection, precise lesion segmentation, and automated disease classification. However, its clinical integration faces two major challenges: reliance on limited...
Visual object tracking is a key technology that is used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous navigation. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning, tracking algorithms based on Siamese neural networks have recei...
Object detection and tracking is one of the key applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The key issues associated with this application include network lifetime, object detection and localization accuracy. To ensure the high quality of the s...
This research focuses on the design and implementation of a movement strategy for a photovoltaic (PV) system, presented through four phases: First came the design of the mechanical part and the selection of geared motors with high torque and low powe...
As a key technology in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), target tracking plays an essential role in many applications. To improve energy efficiency, clustering is widely used in tracking to organize the network to achieve data fusion and reduce commun...
In this work we focus on the energy efficiency challenge in wireless sensor networks, from both an on-line perspective (related to routing), as well as a network design perspective (related to tracking). We investigate a few representative, important...
The increasing deployment of underwater vehicles demands accurate and energy-efficient target tracking in sensor networks. However, existing approaches have largely addressed tracking accuracy and energy efficiency in isolation, and a system-level fr...
Computationally efficient 3D orientation (3DO) tracking using gyroscope angular velocity measurements enables a short execution time and low energy consumption for the computing device. These are essential requirements in today’s wearable devic...
Video object tracking has taken advantage of pre-trained weights on large-scale datasets. However, most trackers fully fine-tune all the backbone’s parameters for adjusting to tracking-specific representations, where the utilization rate of par...
We study the problem of energy-efficient target tracking in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Since sensors of UWSNs are battery-powered, it is impracticable to replace the batteries when exhausted. This means that the battery life affects...
In Korea, a precast floating track with anti-vibration isolators was recently developed to reduce the vibration and noise in urban railway stations, without disrupting train operations. This precast floating slab track is a newly developed structure...
Partial shading is an unavoidable condition which significantly reduces the efficiency and stability of a photovoltaic (PV) system. When partial shading occurs the system has multiple-peak output power characteristics. In order to track the global ma...
Irradiance variability is one of the main challenges for using photovoltaic energy. This variability affects the operation of maximum power point trackers (MPPT) causing energy losses. The logic of the Perturb-and-Observe MPPT algorithm is particular...
The primary objective of this research is to address the existing gap about the use of a path-planning algorithm that will reduce energy consumption in off-road applications of tracked electric vehicles. The study focuses on examining various off-roa...
Near-field interfaces with miniaturized coil systems and low output power levels, such as applied in biomedical sensor systems, can suffer from severe efficiency degradation due to dynamic impedance mismatches, reducing battery life of the power tran...
Target tracking is one of the broad applications of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). However, as a result of the temporal and spatial variability of acoustic channels, underwater acoustic communications suffer from an extremely limited ba...
The decay of radon gas in soil and buildings produces alpha radiation, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer in humans. Therefore, by conveniently detecting radon gas in the environment, potential sources of danger can be identified early,...
A solution to increase the electrical output of the photovoltaic systems relies on solar tracking mechanisms that increase the amount of received solar energy. The experimental results obtained during a monitoring period of one year are comparatively...
With the increase of charging requirements in electrical equipment, the wireless power transfer (WPT) system with multiple receivers has gained more attention as the charging power and efficiency of a WPT system depends on the equivalent reflected im...
The Integrated Track Splitting (ITS) is a multi-scan algorithm for target tracking in a cluttered environment. The ITS filter models each track as a set of mutually exclusive components, usually in the form of a Gaussian Mixture. The purpose of this...
Fast neutron identification and spectroscopy is of great interest to nuclear physics experiments. Using the neutron elastic scattering, the fast neutron momentum can be measured. Wang and Morris introduced the theoretical concept that the initial fas...
Path-tracking control algorithms in agriculture typically focus on how to improve the trajectory-tracking performance of autonomous agricultural machinery, and the agricultural productivity is optimized in a two-layer way. The upper operational layer...
The model-based methods of maximum power point (MPP) tracking in photovoltaic installations are widely known. One of these methods proposes the use of tracking by direct estimation of the maximum power point resistance using irradiance measurement pr...
This work describes a new photovoltaic (PV) sun tracker design methodology that utilizes the advantages that the orientation and efficiency of the PV panel offer due to the latitude of the installation zone. Furthermore, the proposed design methodolo...
Aircraft icing can substantially alter leading-edge geometry and degrade aerodynamic performance, highlighting the need for computationally efficient prediction methods during preliminary aircraft design. This study presents a two-dimensional reduced...
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This paper is related to the H2020 project EN-TRACK, dedicated to developing a platform for gathering data on the performance of energy efficiency investments in buildings. The project aims to collect and harmonize data from different sources and pro...
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