Electronics  

Abdullah M. Almohaimeed, Rony E. Amaya, Jose A. Lima and Mustapha C. E. Yagoub

After demonstrating, in previous works, the proof of concept of adaptive rectifiers with active load modulation to operate simultaneously for short/long range RF Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) while maintaining a high Power Conversion Efficiency (PCE), the... see more

Catherine Rooney, Amar Seeam and Xavier Bellekens

As a result of the globalisation of the semiconductor design and fabrication processes, integrated circuits are becoming increasingly vulnerable to malicious attacks. The most concerning threats are hardware trojans. A hardware trojan is a malicious inclu... see more

Timur Karimov, Denis Butusov, Valery Andreev, Artur Karimov and Aleksandra Tutueva

The verification of the digital models of chaotic systems and processes is a valuable problem in many practical applications, such as nonlinear control and communications. In our study, we propose a hybrid technique for chaotic systems’ identificati... see more

Zhi-Ling Tang, Si-Min Li and Li-Juan Yu

Intelligent radios collect information by sensing signals within the radio spectrum, and the automatic modulation recognition (AMR) of signals is one of their most challenging tasks. Although the result of a modulation classification based on a deep neura... see more

Himanshu, S. Srinivasa Rao, Dinah Punnoose, P. Sathishkumar, Chandu V. V. Muralee Gopi, Naresh Bandari, Ikkurthi Kanaka Durga, T. N. V. Krishna and Hee-Je Kim

This paper presents an electrode with a core/shell geometry and a unique four-layered porous wrinkled surface for pseudocapacitive supercapacitor applications. To design the electrode, Ni foam was used as a substrate, where the harmonious features of four... see more

Dmitry Popov, Artem Gapochkin and Alexey Nekrasov

Development and improvement of a mathematical model for a large-scale analysis based on the Daubechies discrete wavelet transform will be implemented in an algebraic system possessing a property of ring and field suitable for speech signals processing. Mo... see more

Muhammad Adil Khan, Kamran Zeb, Waqar Uddin, P. Sathishkumar, Muhammad Umair Ali, S. Hussain, M. Ishfaq, Himanshu, Archana Subramanian and Hee-Je Kim

Environment protection and energy saving are the most attractive trends in zero-carbon buildings. The most promising and environmentally friendly technique is building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), which can also replace conventional buildings based on... see more

Mustafa Ay, Deniz Korkmaz, Gonca Ozmen Koca, Cafer Bal, Zuhtu Hakan Akpolat and Mustafa Can Bingol

This paper presents mechatronic design and manufacturing of a biomimetic Carangiform-type autonomous robotic fish prototype (i-RoF) with two-link propulsive tail mechanism. For the design procedure, a multi-link biomimetic approach, which uses the physica... see more

Tony Luczak, David Saucier, Reuben F. Burch V., John E. Ball, Harish Chander, Adam Knight, Pan Wei and Tashfin Iftekhar

Interviews from strength and conditioning coaches across all levels of athletic competition identified their two biggest concerns with the current state of wearable technology: (a) the lack of solutions that accurately capture data “from the ground ... see more

J. Greg Nash

A new class of fast Fourier transform (FFT) architecture, based on the use of distributed memories, is proposed for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Prominent features are high clock speeds, programmability, reduced look-up-table (LUT) and register... see more

Qingshan Xu, Yuqi Wang, Minjian Cao and Jiaqi Zheng

The power system is a nonlinear complicated system. For power system analysis problems, they are mainly based on nonlinear equations. In practical systems, the calculation speed of a specific problem is very important. For most classical power system anal... see more

Healin Im, Sungho Lee, Muhammad Naqi, Chanhui Lee and Sunkook Kim

Plant growth and development are negatively affected by a wide range of external stresses, including water deficits. Especially, plants generally reduce the stomatal aperture to decrease transpiration levels upon drought stress. Advanced technologies, suc... see more

Marco Donald Migliore, Daniele Pinchera, Mario Lucido, Fulvio Schettino and Gaetano Panariello

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Wenchao Tian, Tianran Ma and Xiaohan Liu

Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC) based on TSV (Through Silicon Via) technology is the latest packaging technology with the smallest size and quality. As a result, it can effectively reduce parasitic effects, improve work efficiency, reduce th... see more

Xingang Fu, Shuhui Li, Abdullah Al Hadi and Rajab Challoo

A single-phase Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) grid-tied multilevel inverter is introduced with a detailed discussion of the proposed novel neural controller for better efficiency and power quality in the integration of renewable sources. An LCL (inductor-capacit... see more

Chaitanya Jibhakate, Madhuri Chaudhari and Mohan Renge

In this paper, a reduced switch AC-DC-AC converter is used as a distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) and induction motor drive. The AC-DC-AC nine switch converter (NSC) is a reduced switch topology of conventional 12-switch back to back converter. W... see more

Paolo Ferrari, Alessandra Flammini, Stefano Rinaldi, Emiliano Sisinni, Davide Maffei and Matteo Malara

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is becoming a reality thanks to Industry 4.0, which requires the Internet connection of as many industrial devices as possible. The sharing and storing of a huge amount of data in the Cloud allows the implementatio... see more

Girmaw Teshager Bitew, Minxiao Han, Sifrash Amogne Mekonnen and Patrobers Simiyu

Harnessing wind energy is the most rapidly growing amongst renewable energy sources. However, because of its intermittency in nature, wind power results in unfavorable influences on power system control, operation and stability. The voltage sag and flicke... see more

Tung-Tsan Chen, Yin-Chun Hung, Ming-Wei Hsueh, Yung-Hsin Yeh and Ko-Wei Weng

Seawater intrusion is a major issue in coastal areas, and the traditional technology of investigation mainly makes use of drilling for water level observation and sample analysis of groundwater; as drilling data is an information of points, it will cost m... see more

Massimo Donelli and Mohammedhusen Manekiya

This work presents the development of a wireless sensor system for environmental monitoring based on the modulated scattering technique (MST). The MST sensor probes are based on the scattering properties of small passive antennas and radiate part of the i... see more

Khurram Hashmi, Muhammad Mansoor Khan, Huawei Jiang, Muhammad Umair Shahid, Salman Habib, Muhammad Talib Faiz and Houjun Tang

Improvements in control of renewable energy-based microgrids are a growing area of interest. A hierarchical control structure is popularly implemented to regulate key parameters such as power sharing between generation sources, system frequency and node v... see more

Xianghong Hu, Xin Zheng, Shengshi Zhang, Shuting Cai and Xiaoming Xiong

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Chong Han, Qing Lin, Jian Guo, Lijuan Sun and Zhuo Tao

Limited battery power directly affects the performance and survival time of sensor networks. In this study, solar energy was used to provide additional energy for sensor nodes, and a clustering algorithm for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) b... see more

Issam A. Smadi, Saher Albatran and Mohammad A. Alsyouf

This paper presents an optimal control method for a compact reduced switch count AC/AC converter in an AC microgrid. The AC/AC converter is adopted to interconnect dual three-phase renewable energy sources (RESs) and a three-phase permanent magnet synchro... see more

Dizhi Zhao, Tian Jin, Yongpeng Dai, Yongping Song and Xiangchenyang Su

High-resolution three-dimensional (3D) images can be acquired by the planar Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) array radar making future work like detection and tracking easier. However, regarding portability and to save the costs of radar system, MIMO... see more

Farukh Abbas, Salman Habib, Donghan Feng and Zheng Yan

In grid advancement, energy storage systems are playing an important role in lowering the cost, reducing infrastructural investment, ensuring reliability and increasing operational capability. The storage system can provide stabilization services and is p... see more