Electronics  

Amjad Iqbal, Omar A Saraereh, Amal Bouazizi and Abdul Basir

In this paper, a metamaterial structure is presented to lower the mutual coupling between the closely spaced microstrip patch antenna elements. Two elements Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna is closely placed with each other at edge to edge se... see more

Andrei Velichko, Maksim Belyaev, Vadim Putrolaynen and Petr Boriskov

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Anto Joseph, Thanga Raj Chelliah, Sze Sing Lee and Kyo-Beum Lee

The multi-channel (MC) back-to-back voltage source inverter (VSI)-fed doubly fed induction machine (DFIM) is emerging as a highly interesting topic in large-rated variable speed pumped-storage power plants (PSPP) in view of cost, optimal efficiency, and s... see more

Sixian Li, Junyou Zhang, Shufeng Wang, Pengcheng Li and Yaping Liao

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are supposed to identify obstacles automatically and form appropriate emergency strategies constantly to ensure driving safety and improve traffic efficiency. However, not all collisions will be avoidable, and AVs are required to... see more

Tianqing Yuan and Dazhi Wang

In this paper, a novel direct torque control (DTC) scheme based on composite active vectors modulation (CVM) is proposed for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). The precondition of the accurate compensations of torque error and flux linkage error i... see more

Guizhou Wu, Min Zhang, Fucheng Guo and Xuebing Xiao

Direct Position Determination (DPD) of coherent pulse trains using a single moving sensor is considered in this paper. Note that when a large observation window and relative maneuvering course between emitter and receiver both exist, the localization accu... see more

Haider Zaman, Xiancheng Zheng, Xiaohua Wu, Shahbaz Khan and Husan Ali

Since the parasitic voltage ringing and switching power losses limit the operation of active devices at elevated frequencies; therefore, a higher-order inductor-capacitor (LC) filter is commonly used, which offers extended attenuation above the cutoff fre... see more

Fábio Júlio F. Gonçalves, Alfred G. M. Pinto, Renato C. Mesquita, Elson J. Silva and Adriana Brancaccio

The knowledge of the electromagnetic constitutive properties of materials is crucial in many applications. Free-space methods are widely used for this purpose, despite their inherent practical difficulties. This paper describes an affordable free-space ex... see more

Rahim Uddin, Jianxiang Wen, Tao He, Fufei Pang, Zhenyi Chen and Tingyun Wang

The effects of ultraviolet irradiation on luminescent centres in bismuth-doped (BDF) and bismuth/erbium co-doped (BEDF) optical fibers were examined in this study. The fibers were fabricated by modified chemical vapor deposition combining with atomic laye... see more

Abdus Sami Hassan, Umar Afzaal, Tooba Arifeen and Jeong A. Lee

Recently, concurrent error detection enabled through invariant relationships between different wires in a circuit has been proposed. Because there are many such implications in a circuit, selection strategies have been developed to select the most valuabl... see more

Marco Donald Migliore

The aim of this review paper is to discuss some of the advanced sampling techniques proposed in the last decade in the framework of planar near-field measurements, clarifying the theoretical basis of the different techniques, and showing the advantages in... see more

Karam Dad Kallu, Jie Wang, Saad Jamshed Abbasi and Min Cheol Lee

This paper proposes a novel bilateral control design based on an estimated reaction force without a force sensor for a three-degree of freedom hydraulic servo system with master–slave manipulators. The proposed method is based upon sliding mode cont... see more

Javier Vázquez, Pedro Roncero-Sánchez and Alfonso Parreño Torres

When applied to road vehicle electrification, inductive power transfer (IPT) technology has the potential to boost the transition from combustion engines to electric motors powered by a battery pack. This work focuses on the validation of a PSpice circuit... see more

Van Ha Nguyen, Hai Au Huynh, SoYoung Kim and Hanjung Song

DC-DC buck converters are widely used in portable applications because of their high power efficiency. However, their inherent fast switching releases electromagnetic emissions, making them prominent sources of electromagnetic interference (EMI). This pap... see more

Bo-Chao Zheng, Shumin Fei and Xiaoguang Liu

This paper is concerned with a novel event-triggered sliding mode variable structure control (ESMC) scheme to achieve robust stabilization of memristive systems (MSs). First, a memory-based sliding surface, including the past and the current information o... see more

Victor Hugo Carbajal-Gomez, Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, Carlos Sanchez-Lopez and Francisco Vidal Fernandez-Fernandez

Designing chaotic oscillators using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit technology for generating multi-scroll attractors has been a challenge. That way, we introduce a current-mode piecewise-linear (PWL) function based on CM... see more

Kai-Sheng Chen

Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) is a promising solution to implement high-speed internet protocol (IP) networks by reducing the layer number. To meet the increasing demand for data traffic, optical packet switching (OPS) is integrated under IP to pr... see more

Anas Bushnag, Abdelshakour Abuzneid and Ausif Mahmood

Source anonymity in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes a real concern in several applications such as tracking and monitoring. A global adversary that has sophisticated resources, high computation and full view of the network is an obvious threat to ... see more

Yatin Wadhawan, Anas AlMajali and Clifford Neuman

In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of smart grid security against cyber-physical attacks on its distinct functional components. We discuss: (1) a function-based methodology to evaluate smart grid resilience against cyber-physical attacks; (2)... see more

Lucia Billeci, Magda Costi, David Lombardi, Franco Chiarugi and Maurizio Varanini

The authors wish to make the following corrections to our published paper [1].[...]

Jianwei Jiang, Wenyi Zhu, Jun Xiao and Shichang Zou

Single event double upsets (SEDUs) caused by charge sharing have been an important contributor to the soft error in integrated circuits. Most of the up-to-date double-upset (DU) tolerant latches suffer from high costs in terms of delay, power and area. In... see more

Hoyoung Yu, Hansol Lee, Sangil Lee, Youngmin Kim and Hyung-Min Lee

In this paper, we review recent advances in reverse engineering with an emphasis on FPGA devices and experimentally verified advantages and limitations of reverse engineering tools. The paper first introduces essential components for programming Xilinx FP... see more

T. N. V. Krishna, P. Sathishkumar, P. Himasree, Dinah Punnoose, K. V. G. Raghavendra, Himanshu, Bandari Naresh, R. A. Rana and Hee-Je Kim

High-power plasma power supply is very useful for many industrial and medical applications. Plasma is generated artificially in the laboratory or industry by applying the electric or magnetic field. In this manuscript, we presented the simple 4T analog MO... see more

Jian Wei and Feng Liu

The visual tracking algorithm based on discriminative correlation filter (DCF) has shown excellent performance in recent years, especially as the higher tracking speed meets the real-time requirement of object tracking. However, when the target is partial... see more

Padmanabhan Balasubramanian, Douglas Maskell and Nikos Mastorakis

Adder is an important datapath unit of a general-purpose microprocessor or a digital signal processor. In the nanoelectronics era, the design of an adder that is modular and which can withstand variations in process, voltage and temperature are of interes... see more

Stefano Ricci and Valentino Meacci

Stepper motors are employed in a wide range of consumer and industrial applications. Their use is simple: a digital device generates pulse-bursts and a direction bit towards a power driver that produces the 2-phase currents feeding the motor windings. Des... see more

Arthur H. R. Rosa, Matheus B. E. Silva, Marcos F. C. Campos, Renato A. S. Santana, Welbert A. Rodrigues, Lenin M. F. Morais and Seleme I. Seleme Jr.

In this work, a new real-time Simulation method is designed for nonlinear control techniques applied to power converters. We propose two different implementations: in the first one (Single Hardware in The Loop: SHIL), both model and control laws are inser... see more

Carlos Robles-Algarín, William Echavez and Aura Polo

The implementation of a printed circuit board (PCB) drilling machine using recyclable materials and computer-aided control is presented. A mechanical system using a DC motor for movement on the X and Y axes, and a transmission mechanism by belts, pulleys,... see more

P. K. Gkonis, D. I. Kaklamani, I. S. Venieris, C. T. Dervos, M. T. Chrysomallis, K. Siakavara and G. A. Kyriakou

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Devarani Devi Ningombam and Seokjoo Shin

To handle the fast-growing demand for high data rate applications, the capacity of cellular networks should be reinforced. However, the available radio resources in cellular networks are scarce, and their formulation is expensive. The state-of-the art sol... see more