Electronics  

Fulai Wang, Chen Pang, Yongzhen Li and Xuesong Wang

Simultaneous polarimetric radar transmits a pair of orthogonal waveforms both of which must have good auto- and cross-correlation properties. Besides, high Doppler tolerance is also required in measuring the highly maneuvering targets. A new method for th... see more

Konstantin Bick, Duy Thanh Nguyen, Hyuk-Jae Lee and Hyun Kim

Computer architecture simulators play a crucial role in the verification of a new system’s design. However, a single simulator may not be sufficient in covering detailed modeling of the entire system, thereby lacking in the simulation of a specific ... see more

Umut Güvengir, Isik Çadirci and Muammer Ermis

This paper is devoted to an otablen-line application of the selective harmonic elimination method (SHEM) to three-phase, two-level, grid-connected voltage source converters (VSCs) by particle swarm optimization (PSO). In such systems, active power can be ... see more

Byunggyu Yu

The Phase Locked Loop (PLL) technique has been studied to obtain the phase and frequency information in grid-connected distributed generations for the sake of synchronizing the grid voltage and the inverter output current. In particular, the line frequenc... see more

Anand Kumar, Pradip Kumar Sadhu, Dusmanta Kumar Mohanta and Maddikara Jaya Bharata Reddy

Prevalent converters for induction heating (IH) applications employ two-stage conversion for generating high-frequency magnetic field, namely, AC to DC and then DC to high-frequency AC (HFAC). This research embarks upon a direct conversion of utility AC t... see more

Yakun Lv, Yanhong Wu, Hongyan Wang, Lei Qiu, Jiawei Jiang and Yang Sun

When imaging maneuvering targets with inverse synthetic aperture ladar (ISAL), dispersion and Doppler frequency time-variation exist in the range and cross-range echo signal, respectively. To solve this problem, an ISAL imaging algorithm based on integral... see more

Yan Cui, He Liu, Mengjie Zhang, Stevan Stankovski, Jianying Feng and Xiaoshuan Zhang

At present, due to their geographical distribution, environmental conditions and traditional monitoring technologies, the manual inspection of brine pumps in Qinghai Saline Lake can not be effectively carried out in real time, so the pumps have a high fai... see more

Leonel Paredes-Madrid, Johanna Fonseca, Arnaldo Matute, Elkin I. Gutiérrez Velásquez and Carlos A. Palacio

Force Sensing Resistors (FSRs) are manufactured from a blend of conductive nanoparticles dispersed in an insulating polymer matrix. FSRs exhibit large amounts of hysteresis and drift error, but currently, a great effort is placed on improving their perfor... see more

Jyun-Yu Jhang, Kuang-Hui Tang, Chuan-Kuei Huang, Cheng-Jian Lin and Kuu-Young Young

This study used Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to implement a functional neuro-fuzzy network (FNFN) for solving nonlinear control problems. A functional link neural network (FLNN) was used as the consequent part of the proposed FNFN model. ... see more

Muhammad Arshad, Imran Khan, Jaime Lloret and Ignacio Bosch

The 2D precoding technology can only adjust the beam in a horizontal direction through data processing, which will cause serious problems for multiuser systems, especially at the edge of the base station it will cause serious inter-cell interference. To s... see more

Omid Sam-Daliri, Lisa-Marie Faller, Mohammadreza Farahani, Ali Roshanghias, Hannes Oberlercher, Tobias Mitterer, Alireza Araee and Hubert Zangl

We address multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for structural health monitoring in adhesive bonds, such as in building structures. MWCNT-loaded composites are employed to sense strain changes under tension load using an AC impedance measurement setup. ... see more

Himanshu, Harsimran Singh, Pandiyan Sathish Kumar, Muhammad Umair Ali, Ho Yeong Lee, Muhammad Adil Khan, Gwan Soo Park and Hee-Je Kim

The high-frequency-based medium voltage (MV) inverter is used in renewable energy power sources for power transmission. However, power quality is compromised as a result of the increase in common mode noise currents by the high inter-winding parasitic cap... see more

Tiedong Cheng, Jingjing Rao, Xingui Tang, Lirong Yang and Nan Liu

As the fourth basic electronic component, the application fields of the memristive devices are diverse. The digital resistive switching with sudden resistance change is suitable for the applications of information storage, while the analog memristive devi... see more

Lei Hang, Wenquan Jin, HyeonSik Yoon, Yong Geun Hong and Do Hyeun Kim

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has increased the ubiquity of the Internet by integrating all objects for interaction via embedded systems, leading to a highly distributed network of devices communicating with human beings as well as other... see more

Javier Del Pino, Sunil L. Khemchandani, Sergio Mateos-Angulo, Daniel Mayor-Duarte and Mario San-Miguel-Montesdeoca

In this paper, an area-efficient 4-stage dual-fed distributed power amplifier (DPA) implemented in a 0.35 μm Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process is presented. To effectively reduce the area of the circuit, techniques such as using mu... see more

Syed Rameez Naqvi, Tallha Akram, Sajjad Ali Haider, Muhammad Kamran, Aamir Shahzad, Wilayat Khan, Tassawar Iqbal and Hafiz Gulfam Umer

Contemplating the importance of studying current–voltage curves in superconductivity, it has been recently and rightly argued that their approximation, rather than incessant measurements, seems to be a more viable option. This especially becomes bon... see more

Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Sheraz Ali Khan, Cheol-Hong Kim and Jong-Myon Kim

The fast Fourier transform (FFT) is the most prevalent algorithm for the spectral analysis of acoustic emission signals acquired at ultra-high sampling rates to monitor the condition of rotary machines. The complexity and cost of the associated hardware l... see more

Mohammed Al-Shalabi, Mohammed Anbar, Tat-Chee Wan and Ahmad Khasawneh

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a modern technology in radio communication. A WSN comprises a number of sensors that are randomly spread in a specific area for sensing and monitoring physical attributes that are difficult to monitor by humans, such as ... see more

Nikolay Chervyakov, Pavel Lyakhov, Dmitry Kaplun, Denis Butusov and Nikolay Nagornov

In this paper, we analyze the noise quantization effects in coefficients of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) filter banks for image processing. We propose the implementation of the DWT method, making it possible to determine the effective bit-width of the... see more

Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Mansoor Khan, Jianming Xu, Muhammad Talib Faiz, Yaqoob Ali, Khurram Hashmi and Houjun Tang

This paper presents a comparative analysis of a new topology based on an asymmetric hybrid modular multilevel converter (AHMMC) with recently proposed multilevel converter topologies. The analysis is based on various parameters for medium voltage-high pow... see more

Sungwook Kim, Ruchire Eranga Wijesinghe, Jaeyul Lee, Muhammad Faizan Shirazi, Pilun Kim, Jeong Hun Jang, Mansik Jeon and Jeehyun Kim

The precise identification of intra-cochlear microstructures is an essential otorhinolaryngological requirement to diagnose the progression of cochlea related diseases. Thus, we demonstrated an experimental procedure to investigate the most optimal wavele... see more

Moath Sababha, Mohamed Zohdy and Maged Kafafy

As a nature-inspired search algorithm, the Firefly algorithm (being a naturally outstanding search algorithm with few control parameters) may have a considerable influential performance. In this paper, we present a new firefly algorithm to address the par... see more

Eugeny A. Ryndin, Boris G. Konoplev and Irina V. Kulikova

In this paper, we propose a method of distributed sensory systems designing for monitoring of surface cracks in highly loaded constructions based on electrical impedance tomography. A thin conductive film with contacts on the perimeter applied on the moni... see more

Yuhwan Ro, Eojin Lee and Jung Ho Ahn

Following trends that emphasize neural networks for machine learning, many studies regarding computing systems have focused on accelerating deep neural networks. These studies often propose utilizing the accelerator specialized in a neural network and the... see more

Tomoki Murakami, Yasushi Takatori and Fumiaki Maehara

This paper proposes a novel receiving antenna allocation scheme for downlink multiuser multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MU-MIMO-OFDM) transmission; an access point (AP) simultaneously transmits data frames to a co... see more

Di Shi, Zhong Wu and Wusheng Chou

This article addresses the problem of high precision attitude control for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle in presence of wind gust and actuator faults. We consider the effect of those factors as lumped disturbances, and in order to realize the quickly a... see more

Farman Ullah, Yu Liu, Zhiqiang Li, Xiaosong Wang, Muhammad Masood Sarfraz and Haiying Zhang

A novel varactor circuit exhibiting a wider tuning range and a new technique for quadrature coupling of LC-Voltage Controlled Oscillator (LC-VCO) is presented and validated on a 25 GHz oscillator. The proposed varactor circuit employs distribute-biased pa... see more

Lina Wang, Junyi Yang, Haobo Ma, Zeyuan Wang, Kabir Oladele Olanrewaju and Kamel Djamel Eddine Kerrouche

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