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Nagendrappa Harischandrappa and Ashoka K. S. Bhat

The design and performance analysis of a 10 kW three-phase DC–DC LCL-type resonant converter having a built-in boost function were carried out. This high-power converter is proposed for its application in grid-interfacing a linear generator (LG)-bas... see more

Yasir I. A. Al-Yasir, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Raed A. Abd-Alhameed, Ahmed M. Abdulkhaleq and James M. Noras

Currently, several microwave filter designs contend for use in wireless communications. Among various microstrip filter designs, the reconfigurable planar filter presents more advantages and better prospects for communication applications, being compact i... see more

Maria Antonia Maisto and Fortuna Munno

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of multiple views and multiple frequencies in linear inverse scattering problems. The study was performed assuming the Fresnel-zone approximation on the scattering operator. Due to the crucial role played b... see more

Seung-Min Oh, Jae-hak Ko, Hag-Wone Kim and Kwan-Yuhl Cho

A wide-bandwidth current-controller is required for the fast charging and discharging of applications containing super capacitors. To accomplish this, peak current mode is generally used due to the speed of its response characteristics. On the other hand,... see more

Touqeer Ahmed Jumani, Mohd Wazir Mustafa, Madihah Md Rasid, Nayyar Hussain Mirjat, Mazhar Hussain Baloch and Sani Salisu

Despite the vast benefits of integrating renewable energy sources (RES) with the utility grid, they pose stability and power quality problems when interconnected with the existing power system. This is due to the production of high voltages and current ov... see more

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Rashid Al-Ammari, Atif Iqbal, Amith Khandakar, Syed Rahman and Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban

Multiphase (more than three) power system has gained popularity due to their inherent advantages when compared to three-phase counterpart. Multiphase power supply is extensively used in AC/DC multi-pulse converters, especially supply with multiple of thre... see more

Yue Lu, Shengyu Duan, Basel Halak and Tom Kazmierski

Distributed arithmetic (DA) brings area and power benefits to digital designs relevant to the Internet-of-Things. Therefore, new error resilient techniques for DA computation are urgently required to improve robustness against the process, voltage, and te... see more

Kewei Li, Yiran Wei, Chao Wang and Hongbin Deng

A longitudinal attitude decoupling algorithm based on the fuzzy sliding mode control for a small coaxial rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented in this paper. The attitude system of a small coaxial rotor UAV is characterized by nonlinearity, str... see more

Ivan Pisarenko and Eugeny Ryndin

In this paper, we address the problem of research and development of the advanced optoelectronic devices designed for on-chip optical interconnections in integrated circuits. The development of the models, techniques, and applied software for the numerica... see more

Fanjie Meng, Xinqing Wang, Faming Shao, Dong Wang and Xia Hua

Deep-learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be successful in various cognitive applications with a multilayer structure. The high computational energy and time requirements hinder the practical application of CNNs; hence, the realiza... see more

Jianfei Zhao, Changjiu Kong, Tingzhang Liu and Ruihua Li

The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is one of the most attractive converter topologies in the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission field. The latest widely used sorting method has a low algorithm complexity. It can effectively balance the su... see more

David Sánchez-Rodríguez, Itziar Alonso-González, Carlos Ley-Bosch and Miguel A. Quintana-Suárez

Indoor localization has received tremendous attention in the last two decades due to location-aware services being highly demanded. Wireless networks have been suggested to solve this problem in many research works, and efficient algorithms have been deve... see more

Víctor Pagola, Rafael Peña, Juan Segundo and Adalberto Ospino

The growing penetration of generation systems based on renewable energy in electric power systems is undeniable. These generation systems have many benefits, but also many challenges from the technical point of view. One of the biggest problems in the cas... see more

Ruitao Chen, Ruchun Li, Shouli Zhou, Shi Chen, Jianhua Huang and Zhiyu Wang

This paper presents an X-band 40 W power amplifier with high efficiency based on 0.25 μm GaN HEMT (High Electron Mobility Transistor) on SiC process. An equivalent RC (Resistance Capacitance) model is presented to provide accurate large-signal output i... see more

Jeong-Yun Lee, Gwang-Sub Kim, Kwang-Il Oh and Donghyun Baek

In this paper, we propose a fully integrated switched-capacitor DC–DC converter with low ripple and fast transient response for portable low-power electronic devices. The proposed converter reduces the output ripple by filtering the control ripple v... see more

Syed Khandker, Joaquín Torres-Sospedra and Tapani Ristaniemi

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is widely applied for indoor positioning due to the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure present in most indoor spaces (home, work, leisure, among others) and the widespread usage of smartphones everywhere. It corresponds to a... see more

Min Lee and Seong-Keun Oh

We consider the problem of joint power allocation (JPA) in a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) joint diversity transmission (JDT) network with a total coordination point power (TCPP) constraint, aimed at maximizing the ergodic cooperative capacity (ECC) in R... see more

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig

Nowadays, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in women. Mammography is the standard screening imaging technique for the early detection of breast cancer. However, thermal infrared images (thermographies) can be used to reveal lesions... see more

Shaik Mullapathi Farooq, S. M. Suhail Hussain, Siddavaram Kiran and Taha Selim Ustun

When equipped with an on-board wireless kit, electric vehicles (EVs) can communicate with nearby entities, e.g., road side units (RSUs), via a vehicle ad-hoc network (VANET). More observability enables smart charging algorithms where charging stations (CS... see more

Muhammad Masud, Abu A’ain, Iqbal Khan and Nasir Husin

A novel voltage mode first order active only tuneable all pass filter (AOTAPF) circuit configuration is presented. The AOTAPF has been designed using ±0.7 V, 16 nm carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNFET) Technology. The circuit uses CNFET b... see more

Asgar Abbaszadeh, Taras Iakymchuk, Manuel Bataller-Mompeán, Jose V. Francés-Villora and Alfredo Rosado-Muñoz

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Jinbao Zhang, Ning Wu, Fang Zhou, Muhammad Rehan Yahya and Jianhua Li

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Jeong-Woo Lim, Hanyoung Bu and Younghoon Cho

This paper proposes a novel three-phase voltage source inverter dead-time compensation strategy for accurate compensation in wide current regions of the inverter. In particular, an analysis of the output voltage distortion of the inverter, which appears a... see more

Umberto Robustelli, Valerio Baiocchi and Giovanni Pugliano

On May 2018 the world’s first dual-frequency Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) smartphone produced by Xiaomi equipped with a Broadcom BCM47755 chip was launched. It is able to receive L1/E1/ and L5/E5 signals from GPS, Galileo, Beidou, and G... see more

Arturo Mejia-Barron, J. Jesus de Santiago-Perez, David Granados-Lieberman, Juan P. Amezquita-Sanchez and Martin Valtierra-Rodriguez

The induction motor (IM) is one of the most important elements in industry. Although IMs are robust machines, they are susceptible to faults, where the stator winding short-circuit fault is one of the most common ones. In this work, the Shannon entropy (S... see more

Christopher Goodin, Daniel Carruth, Matthew Doude and Christopher Hudson

While it is well known that rain may influence the performance of automotive LIDAR sensors commonly used in ADAS applications, there is a lack of quantitative analysis of this effect. In particular, there is very little published work on physically-based ... see more

Merzak Ferroukhi, Abdeldjalil Ouahabi, Mokhtar Attari, Yassine Habchi and Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

The operations of digitization, transmission and storage of medical data, particularly images, require increasingly effective encoding methods not only in terms of compression ratio and flow of information but also in terms of visual quality. At first, th... see more

Jaime Wladimir Zapata, Samir Kouro, Gonzalo Carrasco and Thierry A. Meynard

Photovoltaic (PV) systems composed by two energy conversion stages are attractive from an operation point of view. This is because the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) range is extended, due to the voltage decoupling between the PV system and the dc-li... see more

Xiaorui Song, Lingda Wu, Hongxing Hao and Wanpeng Xu

Processing and applications of hyperspectral images (HSI) are limited by the noise component. This paper establishes an HSI denoising algorithm by applying dictionary learning and sparse coding theory, which is extended into the spectral domain. First, th... see more