Electronics  

Shayan Taheri and Jiann-Shiun Yuan

A biometric recognition system is one of the leading candidates for the current and the next generation of smart visual systems. The visual system is the engine of the surveillance cameras that have great importance for intelligence and security purposes.... see more

Giovanni Sanna, Giorgio Montisci, Zushen Jin, Alessandro Fanti and Giovanni Andrea Casula

A coupled-line coupler based on the asymmetric cascade connection of two coupled line sections is used to achieve a high coupling factor using low-cost material and technology in the X frequency band, and its performance is compared with a standard quarte... see more

Marco Simone, Alessandro Fanti, Giuseppe Valente, Giorgio Montisci, Riccardo Ghiani and Giuseppe Mazzarella

A microstrip-to-waveguide transition has been realized for radio astronomy applications, designed to operate in the Q-band (33–50 GHz). As part of an array radio frequency (RF) receiver, the main requirement of such a transition is the reduction of transv... see more

Giao N. Pham, Suk-Hwan Lee, Oh-Heum Kwon and Ki-Ryong Kwon

With the increase of three-dimensional (3D) printing applications in many areas of life, a large amount of 3D printing data is copied, shared, and used several times without any permission from the original providers. Therefore, copyright protection and o... see more

Muhammad Majid Gulzar, Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi, Muhammad Yaqoob Javed, Umer Munir and Haleema Asif

Cooperative control consensus is one of the most actively studied topics within the realm of multi-agent systems. It generally aims to drive multi-agent systems to achieve a common group objective. The core aim of this paper is to promote research in coop... see more

Massimo Donelli

This paper describes the development and the realization of an adaptive antenna based on a reconfigurable parasitic structure. The geometry of the proposed antenna is circular, and it is composed by an active omni-directional radiator, surrounded by a num... see more

Ramji Tiwari, Kumar Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Babu Neelakandan, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban and Patrick William Wheeler

This paper proposes an artificial neural network (ANN) based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control strategy for wind energy conversion system (WECS) implemented with a DC/DC converter. The proposed topology utilizes a radial basis function network (... see more

Xiang Wu, Fangming Deng and Zhongbin Chen

Location information is crucial in various location-based applications, the nodes in location system are often deployed in the 3D scenario in particle, so that localization algorithms in a three-dimensional space are necessary. The existing RFID three-dim... see more

Sohaib Tahir, Jie Wang, Mazhar Hussain Baloch and Ghulam Sarwar Kaloi

In the modern era, distributed generation is considered as an alternative source for power generation. Especially, need of the time is to provide the three-phase loads with smooth sinusoidal voltages having fixed frequency and amplitude. A common solution... see more

Hui Dun, Fang Ye, Shuhong Jiao and Dandan Liu

Device-to-device (D2D) pairs are allowed to reuse the spectrum of cellular users who are in a good quality channel state with underlaying cellular network. However, cellular users usually suffer a poor performance in term of achievable rate when they are ... see more

Hyungseob Han, Sangjin Cho, Sundeok Kwon and Sang-Bock Cho

In the fault diagnosis system using empirical mode decomposition (EMD), it is important to select the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) which contain as much fault information as possible and to alleviate the problems of mode mixing and spurious modes. An e... see more

Li Fu, Kefeng Xie, Yuhong Zheng, Luxi Zhang and Weitao Su

Graphene ink is a commercialized product in the graphene industry with promising potential application in electronic device design. However, the limitation of the graphene ink is its low electronic performance due to the ink preparation protocol. In this ... see more

Tounsi Kamel, Djahbar Abdelkader, Barkat Said, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban and Atif Iqbal

This paper presents sliding mode control of sensor-less parallel-connected two five-phase permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) fed by a single five-leg inverter. For both machines, the rotor speeds and rotor positions as well as load torques are ... see more

Emrah Cetin and Ferhat Daldaban

Axial flux machines have positive sides on the power and torque density profile. However, the price of this profile is paid by the torque ripples and irregular magnetic flux density production. To gather higher efficiency, torque ripples should close to t... see more

Yuta Takahashi and Naoki Honma

This paper presents a novel passive repeater that achieves enhanced Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication between two isolated terminals. The novel aspect of this work is an avoidance of the key-hole effect, which is normally caused by a rep... see more

Pu Miao, Peng Chen and Zhimin Chen

In this paper, we propose a low-complexity peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction scheme that combines both multi-band (MB)-Hadamard precoding and clipping for the optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Approximations of ... see more