Electronics  

Aura Polo, Pedro Narvaez and Carlos Robles Algarín

This paper presents the implementation of a cost-effective didactic prototype, which was designed as a tool for theoretical and practical learning in the biomedical instrumentation area for engineering students. The prototype provides integrated hardware ... see more

Myunghoi Kim

In the packages and printed circuit boards (PCBs) of high-speed and mixed-signal electronics, parallel plate waveguides (PPWs) are frequently used as the power/ground plane pair, resulting in a significant problem of electrical switching noise such as sim... see more

Massimo Conti, Marco Caldari, Matteo Gianfelici, Adriana Ricci and Franco Ripa

The design of an efficient memory subsystem is a fundamentally challenging task in the design of electronic equipment. The storage hierarchy chosen for a particular design has a significant impact on the overall performance and cost. Flash memory often co... see more

Muhammad Masood Sarfraz, Farman Ullah, Minghua Wang, Haiying Zhang and Yu Liu

This paper presents the design and measuring of a 6-bit SiGe BiCMOS digital step attenuator, with a maximum attenuation of 31.5 dB, and with 0.5 dB steps (64 states) that have the lowest RMS amplitude error and a low phase variation. To alleviate the larg... see more

Tao Yang, Peiqi Li, Huiming Zhang, Jing Li and Zhi Li

With the popularization and wide application of drones in military and civilian fields, the safety of drones must be considered. At present, the failure and drop rates of drones are still much higher than those of manned aircraft. Therefore, it is imperat... see more

Zachary Bosire Omariba, Lijun Zhang and Dongbai Sun

The battery is the most ideal power source of the twenty-first century, and has a bright future in many applications, such as portable consumer electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), military and aerospace systems, and power storage for renewable energy so... see more

Liang Zhang, Jongwon Kim and Yongho LEE

In the process of animal husbandry production through grazing, animals are active in large grassland or mountain areas, and it is very difficult to obtain and deal with the information on animal activity and state of life. In this paper, we propose a plat... see more

Xiaochun Fang, Shuai Lin, Zhongping Yang, Fei Lin, Hu Sun and Liang Hu

In this paper, an adhesion control strategy based on the wheel-rail adhesion state observation is proposed for high-speed trains. First, the high-speed train single axle dynamics model is established. Then, a modified adhesion control method is proposed. ... see more

Chunlei Zhang, Yuhua Fu, Fangming Deng, Baoquan Wei and Xiang Wu

According to the advantages of integrating wireless sensors networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification (RFID), this paper proposes a novel method for methane gas density monitoring and predicting based on a passive RFID sensor tag and a convolution... see more

Haiwen Yuan, Changshi Xiao, Supu Xiu, Wenqiang Zhan, Zhenyi Ye, Fan Zhang, Chunhui Zhou, Yuanqiao Wen and Qiliang Li

The localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for autonomous landing is challenging because the relative positions of the landing objects are almost inaccessible and the objects have nearly no transmission with UAVs. In this paper, a hierarchical vi... see more

Enis Günay and Kenan Altun

A State Controlled-Cellular Neural Network (SC-CNN) based chaotic model for generating multi-scroll attractors via hyperbolic tangent function series is proposed in this paper. After presenting the double scroll generation, the presented SC-CNN system is ... see more

Alexey Kashevnik and Nikolay Teslya

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), robotics, Internet of Things, information and communication technologies have become more and more popular over the last several years. These topics open new perspectives and scenarios that can automate processes in human lif... see more

Dalal Hanna, Prakash Veeraraghavan and Eric Pardede

Broadcasting is one of the essential features in the Internet Protocol Ver 4 (IPv4). Attackers often exploit this feature of the IP protocol to launch several attacks against a network or an individual host. Attackers may either be a part of a Local Area ... see more

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

Nowadays, three-dimensional (3D) printing technology is applied to many areas of life and changes the world based on the creation of complex structures and shapes that were not feasible in the past. But, the data of 3D printing is often attacked in the st... see more

Muhammad Adil Khan, Kamran Zeb, P. Sathishkumar, Muhammad Umair Ali, Waqar Uddin, S. Hussain, M. Ishfaq, Imran Khan, Hwan-Gue Cho and Hee-Je Kim

The electric powered wheelchair (EPW) is an essential assistive tool for people with serious injuries or disability. This manuscript describes the validation of applied research for reducing the charging time of an electric wheelchair using a hybrid elect... see more

Hyeok-Jin Yun, Dong-Keun Jeong, Ho-Sung Kim, Myoungho Kim, Ju-Won Baek, Ju-Yong Kim and Hee-Je Kim

This paper presents the implementation of a single-phase solid-state transformer (SST) for the interface between a 13.2 kV medium voltage alternative current (MVAC) network and a 750 V bipolar DC distribution. The SST has ten cascaded subunits in consider... see more

Solomon Netsanet, Jianhua Zhang and Dehua Zheng

Microgrids of varying size and applications are regarded as a key feature of modernizing the power system. The protection of those systems, however, has become a major challenge and a popular research topic because it involves greater complexity than trad... see more

Aiman Salih and Jiann-Shiun Yuan

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Lutao Liu, Shuang Wang and Zhongkai Zhao

In this paper, a system for identifying eight kinds of radar waveforms is explored. The waveforms are the binary phase shift keying (BPSK), Costas codes, linear frequency modulation (LFM) and polyphase codes (including P1, P2, P3, P4 and Frank codes). The... see more

Xiaoming He, Wenjun Shu, Bing Yu and Xiaodong Ma

A novel wireless power transfer approach for the rotary parts telemetry of a gas turbine engine is proposed. The advantages of a wireless power transfer (WPT) system in the power supply for the rotary parts telemetry of a gas turbine engine are introduced... see more

Xu Ding, Zhiyu Wang, Jiarui Liu, Min Zhou, Wei Chen, Hua Chen, Jiongjiong Mo and Faxin Yu

In this paper, we present an all-in-one wafer-level solution for MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) automatic testing. The OSL (open short load) two tier de-embedding, the calibration verification model, the accurate PAE (power added efficienc... see more

Rakesh Kumar Sahu and Narendra S. Chaudhari

In Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANET), power conservation and utilization is an acute problem and has received significant attention from academics and industry in recent years. Nodes in MANET function on battery power, which is a rare and limited energy reso... see more