Electronics  

Sitki Akkaya and Özgül Salor

A simplified Voltage Peak Detection (VPD)-based flickermeter based on spectral decomposition is proposed in this paper to detect flicker caused by high-frequency interharmonic components which effect the illumination of next-generation lamps, such as LEDs... see more

Xiaowen Jiang, Kai Huang, Xiaomeng Zhang, Rongjie Yan, Ke Wang, Dongliang Xiong and Xiaolang Yan

Energy optimization for periodic applications running on safety/time-critical time-triggered multiprocessor systems has been studied recently. An interesting feature of the applications on the systems is that some tasks are strictly periodic while others ... see more

Tiwen Han, Lijia Wang and Binbin Wen

To realize real time object tracking in complex environments, a kernel based MIL (KMIL) algorithm is proposed. The KMIL employs the Gaussian kernel function to deal with the inner product used in the weighted MIL (WMIL) algorithm. The method avoids comput... see more

Naresh Kumar Reddi, Manojkumar Raju Ramteke and Hiralal Murlidhar Suryawanshi

A new modified LCLC series resonant circuit based dual-input single out-put isolated converter is proposed for hybrid energy systems. With this novel converter topology, two different voltage sources can be decoupled completely and transfer the power from... see more

Georgios Vougioukas, Antonis Dimitriou, Aggelos Bletsas and John Sahalos

This work studies the performance of two methods for providing power to an ultra-low power, ambient backscatter tag, omitting the need for any battery. RF energy harvesting from a dedicated source and energy harvesting from ambient light using a single ph... see more

Yasser Almalaq and Mohammad Matin

This paper introduces three topologies of a non-isolated high gain step-up Cuk converter based on a switched-inductor (SL) and switched-capacitor (SC) techniques for renewable energy applications, such as photovoltaic and fuel cells. These kinds of Cuk co... see more

Sangjin Byun

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Nobuyuki Shiraki, Zhixiong Chen, Dai Sasakawa, Naoki Honma, Takeshi Nakayama and Shoichi Iizuka

This paper presents a method that uses microwaves to estimate human body orientation. The antennas are arranged to surround the human and observe vital signs such as respiration and heart beat from the microwaves reflected from the human. Since the signal... see more

Qinjin Huang and Fengqi Yu

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

Communication-based distributed secondary control is extensively used in DC microgrids. Compared to centralized control, it can provide better voltage regulation and load sharing in microgrids. A conventional secondary control technique that converges the... see more

Peng Xun, Peidong Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang, Pengshuai Cui and Yinqiao Xiong

False data injection (FDI) attack is a hot topic in large-scale Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), which can cause bad state estimation of controllers. In this paper, we focus on FDI detection on transmission lines of the smart grid. We propose a novel and ef... see more

Sundeok Kwon, Jungyoon Kim and Chao-Hsien Chu

Many healthcare problems are life threatening and need real-time detection to improve patient safety. Heart attack or ventricular fibrillation (VF) is a common problem worldwide. Most previous research on VF detection has used ECG devices to capture data ... see more

Song Wang, Leilei Zhao, Yanzhu Hu and Fuxing Yang

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Min Zhang, Hai Wang, Hongbo Qin, Wei Zhao and Yan Liu

This paper proposes a method for phase difference measurement based on the principle of progressive phase shift (PPS). A phase difference measurement system based on PPS and implemented in the FPGA chip is proposed and tested. In the realized system, a fu... see more

Serkan Öztürk, Mehmet Canver, Isik Çadirci and Muammer Ermis

Design methodology and implementation of an all SiC power semiconductor-based, grid-connected multi-string photovoltaic (PV) supply with an isolated high frequency (HF) link maximum power point tracker (MPPT) have been described. This system configuration... see more

Pan Wei, Lucas Cagle, Tasmia Reza, John Ball and James Gafford

Collision avoidance is a critical task in many applications, such as ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems), industrial automation and robotics. In an industrial automation setting, certain areas should be off limits to an automated vehicle for protect... see more

Di Shi, Zhong Wu and Wusheng Chou

During the flight of the quadrotor, the existence of a slung load will exert a swing effect on the system and the motion of which will significantly change the dynamics of the quadrotor. The external torque caused by the slung load can be considered as a ... see more

Teh-Lu Liao, Pei-Yen Wan, Pin-Cheng Chien, Yi-Chieh Liao, Liang-Kai Wang and Jun-Juh Yan

This paper aims to propose a novel design of high-security USB flash drives with the chaos authentication. A chaos authentication approach with the non-linear encryption and decryption function design is newly proposed and realized based on the controller... see more

Tomás Grimm, Djones Lettnin and Michael Hübner

The high degree of miniaturization in the electronics industry has been, for several years, a driver to push embedded systems to different fields and applications. One example is safety-critical systems, where the compactness in the form factor helps to r... see more

Lin Chen, Zhen-Yu He, Tian-Yu Wang, Ya-Wei Dai, Hao Zhu, Qing-Qing Sun and David Wei Zhang

The emerging resistive switching devices have attracted broad interest as promising candidates for future memory and computing applications. Particularly, it is believed that memristor-based neuromorphic engineering promises to enable efficient artificial... see more

James Kweku Nkrumah Nyarko and Christian Ango Mbom

Massive multiple-input and multiple-out (massive MIMO) systems and heterogeneous networks (HetNet) are envisioned to meet the new performance objectives of evolving networks. Now, the main challenge of massive MIMO with HetNet in two-tier networks is how ... see more

Xiaofei Liu, Tao Yang and Jing Li

An infrared sensor is a commonly used imaging device. Unmanned aerial vehicles, the most promising moving platform, each play a vital role in their own field, respectively. However, the two devices are seldom combined in automatic ground vehicle detection... see more