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Electronics, Volume 11, Issue 6

2022 March-2 - 137 articles

Cover Story: The digitalization of freight rail is an essential improvement to create modern functions that offer a cost-effective and improved operational opportunities to operators. These modern functions need intelligence, detection, actuation, and communications. However, the power supply is not granted in a freight wagon. This paper presents the implementation and testing of a wireless connected heterogeneous multiprocessing architecture, and thanks to its configurability, it allows us to propose the most suitable computing resources, data analysis, and communication strategy in terms of efficiency and performance for the functions that any wagon on board unit needs to host and support. With this approach, operation data are reported to a centralized freight driver assistant system. View this paper
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Articles (137)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,000 Views
18 Pages

CMOS Interface Circuits for High-Voltage Automotive Signals

  • Andrea Boni,
  • Michele Caselli,
  • Alessandro Magnanini and
  • Matteo Tonelli

The acquisition of high-voltage signals from sensors and actuators in an internal-combustion engine is often required for diagnostic purposes or in the case of conversion to alternative fuels, such as hydrogen, natural gas, or biogas. The integration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,007 Views
19 Pages

Malicious domains are increasingly common and pose a severe cybersecurity threat. Specifically, many types of current cyber attacks use URLs for attack communications (e.g., C&C, phishing, and spear-phishing). Despite the continuous progress in d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,069 Views
9 Pages

Precise Strong Magnet Measurement Method Based on Magnetic Flux Modulation Principle

  • Zhun Li,
  • Zhengrong Ouyang,
  • Zengkun Leng,
  • Yubo Zhang,
  • Shan Zhang,
  • Yunfeng Lu and
  • Zhidan Yan

Superconducting magnets with stable and strong magnetic fields play a pivotal role in fields such as biology, medical science, and physics. Given the difficult measurement conditions and low measurement accuracy of the strong magnetic field, a measur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,946 Views
29 Pages

A Model for the Definition, Prioritization and Optimization of Indicators

  • Frederico Viana Almeida,
  • Edna Dias Canedo,
  • Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque,
  • Flávio Elias Gomes de Deus,
  • Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco and
  • Luis Javier García Villalba

Context: The definition and prioritization of indicators is now a common reality and an integral part of the evolution of the strategic, technical and business processes of any organization, whether public or private. Purpose: This paper proposes a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
14,247 Views
15 Pages

An Experimental Analysis of Various Machine Learning Algorithms for Hand Gesture Recognition

  • Shashi Bhushan,
  • Mohammed Alshehri,
  • Ismail Keshta,
  • Ashish Kumar Chakraverti,
  • Jitendra Rajpurohit and
  • Ahed Abugabah

Nowadays, hand gestures have become a booming area for researchers to work on. In communication, hand gestures play an important role so that humans can communicate through this. So, for accurate communication, it is necessary to capture the real mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,465 Views
11 Pages

Pedestrian detection is a great challenge, especially in complex and diverse occlusion environments. When a pedestrian is in an occlusion situation, the pedestrian visible part becomes incomplete, and the body bounding box contains part of the pedest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,869 Views
18 Pages

Data Protection and Cybersecurity Certification Activities and Schemes in the Energy Sector

  • Iheanyi Nwankwo,
  • Marc Stauch,
  • Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis,
  • Panagiotis Sarigiannidis,
  • George Lazaridis,
  • Anastasios Drosou and
  • Dimitrios Tzovaras

Cybersecurity concerns have been at the forefront of regulatory reform in the European Union (EU) recently. One of the outcomes of these reforms is the introduction of certification schemes for information and communication technology (ICT) products,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,307 Views
19 Pages

Cyber Secure Framework for Smart Agriculture: Robust and Tamper-Resistant Authentication Scheme for IoT Devices

  • Saleh Alyahya,
  • Waseem Ullah Khan,
  • Salman Ahmed,
  • Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat and
  • Shabana Habib

Internet of Things (IoT) as refers to a network of devices that have the ability to connect, collect and exchange data with other devices over the Internet. IoT is a revolutionary technology that have tremendous applications in numerous fields of eng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,860 Views
11 Pages

Integration of Low-Cost Digital Tools for Preservation of a Sustainable Agriculture System

  • Alejandra Serrano-Trujillo,
  • José Jaime Esqueda-Elizondo and
  • Laura Jiménez-Beristáin

This work presents an electronic sensing approach composed of a pair of Physical–Chemical and Imaging modules to preserve an aquaponic system. These modules offer constant measurements of the physical–chemical characteristics within the f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
7,341 Views
16 Pages

High-Isolation MIMO Antenna for 5G Millimeter-Wave Communication Systems

  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Syeda Iffat Naqvi,
  • Niamat Hussain,
  • Yasar Amin and
  • Nam Kim

The work in this article presents the design and realization of a low-profile, four-port MIMO antenna supporting fifth-generation (5G) wireless applications operating at a millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) band. Each MIMO antenna is a 2-element array fed wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,547 Views
18 Pages

This paper contributes with a new two-stage optimization methodology to solve the problem of the optimal placement and sizing of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation units in medium-voltage distribution networks. The optimization problem is formulated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
16,738 Views
31 Pages

Strategies for Applications of Oxide-Based Thin Film Transistors

  • Lirong Zhang,
  • Huaming Yu,
  • Wenping Xiao,
  • Chun Liu,
  • Junrong Chen,
  • Manlan Guo,
  • Huayu Gao,
  • Baiquan Liu and
  • Weijing Wu

Due to the untiring efforts of scientists and researchers on oxide semiconductor materials, processes, and devices, the applications for oxide-based thin film transistors (TFTs) have been researched and promoted on a large scale. With the advantages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
12,491 Views
38 Pages

Harvesting Systems for RF Energy: Trends, Challenges, Techniques, and Tradeoffs

  • Surajo Muhammad,
  • Jun Jiat Tiang,
  • Sew Kin Wong,
  • Ali H. Rambe,
  • Ismahayati Adam,
  • Amor Smida,
  • Mohamed Ibrahim Waly,
  • Amjad Iqbal,
  • Adamu Saidu Abubakar and
  • Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin

The RFEH design challenges can be broadly classified into overall radio frequency direct current (RF-to-DC) power conversion efficiency (PCE), form factor, operational bandwidth (BW), and compactness. A detailed overview of the essential components o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,787 Views
19 Pages

Cheyne-Stokes Respiration Perception via Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Chang Yuan,
  • Muhammad Bilal Khan,
  • Xiaodong Yang,
  • Fiaz Hussain Shah and
  • Qammer Hussain Abbasi

With the development of science and technology, transparent, non-invasive general computing is gradually applied to disease diagnosis and medical detection. Universal software radio peripherals (USRP) enable non-contact awareness based on radio frequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,116 Views
13 Pages

Smartphone industries are seeking to maximize screen size, but a perfect full-screen phone is not yet available due to the unoccupied area required for the mobile antennas. Since a touchscreen is coated with transparent conductive layers, antennas be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,473 Views
11 Pages

This paper focuses on the learning-based motion control for flexible manipulators with varying loads via the singularly perturbed technique. Considering the two-timescale feature of the flexible manipulator, system dynamics are decomposed into fast a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,408 Views
22 Pages

A Smart and Robust Automatic Inspection of Printed Labels Using an Image Hashing Technique

  • Mehshan Ahmed Khan,
  • Fawad Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Danial Khan,
  • Jawad Ahmad,
  • Harish Kumar and
  • Nikolaos Pitropakis

This work is focused on the development of a smart and automatic inspection system for printed labels. This is a challenging problem to solve since the collected labels are typically subjected to a variety of geometric and non-geometric distortions....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,866 Views
23 Pages

UBUMonitor: An Open-Source Desktop Application for Visual E-Learning Analysis with Moodle

  • Raúl Marticorena-Sánchez,
  • Carlos López-Nozal,
  • Yi Peng Ji,
  • Carlos Pardo-Aguilar and
  • Álvar Arnaiz-González

An inherent requirement of teaching using online learning platforms is that the teacher must analyze student activity and performance in relation to course learning objectives. Therefore, all e-learning environments implement a module to collect such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,818 Views
17 Pages

With the upcoming emergence of the IEEE P3333.1.4 standard, the first ever standardization document on the subjective quality assessment of light field visualization, we are approaching a major milestone of light field Quality of Experience (QoE). Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,221 Views
28 Pages

In this paper, we propose a bus-independent hardware (HW)-based approach to secure long protocol data units (PDUs) in Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR)-based automotive electronic control units (ECUs). Our approach is based on extending p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
179 Citations
13,305 Views
17 Pages

AlexNet Convolutional Neural Network for Disease Detection and Classification of Tomato Leaf

  • Hsing-Chung Chen,
  • Agung Mulyo Widodo,
  • Andika Wisnujati,
  • Mosiur Rahaman,
  • Jerry Chun-Wei Lin,
  • Liukui Chen and
  • Chien-Erh Weng

With limited retrieval of reserves and restricted capability in plant pathology, automation of processes becomes essential. All over the world, farmers are struggling to prevent various harm from bacteria or pathogens such as viruses, fungi, worms, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,000 Views
29 Pages

Improving Characteristics of LUT-Based Three-Block Mealy FSMs’ Circuits

  • Alexander Barkalov,
  • Larysa Titarenko,
  • Kazimierz Krzywicki and
  • Svetlana Saburova

One of the very important problems connected with FPGA-based design is reducing the hardware amount in implemented circuits. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of Mealy finite state machines (FSMs) by circuits consisting of look-up tables (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,771 Views
12 Pages

Low-dropout regulators, which have the capabilities of handling large output current and obtaining a superior transient response, are receiving increasing attention. This paper presents a high-output-current low-dropout regulator with high loop gain....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,700 Views
19 Pages

The fireworks algorithm (FWA) has achieved significant global optimization ability by organizing multiple simultaneous local searches. By dynamically decomposing the target problem and handling each one with a sub-population, it has presented distinc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
162 Citations
20,190 Views
23 Pages

Over the past decade, deep-learning-based representations have demonstrated remarkable performance in academia and industry. The learning capability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) originates from a combination of various feature extraction l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,762 Views
22 Pages

The main purpose of this paper is to present a solution to the well-known problems generated by classical control methods through the analysis of nonlinear time series. Among the problems analyzed, for which an explanation has been sought for a long...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
3,375 Views
15 Pages

Intelligent Design of Multi-Machine Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) Using Improved Particle Swarm Optimization

  • Sohaib Latif,
  • Sadaf Irshad,
  • Mehrdad Ahmadi Kamarposhti,
  • Hassan Shokouhandeh,
  • Ilhami Colak and
  • Kei Eguchi

In this paper, an improved version of the particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed for the online tuning of power system stabilizers in a standard four-machine two-area power system to mitigate local and inter-area mode oscillations. Moreove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,560 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of HBM Failure in 3D NAND Flash Memory

  • Biruo Song,
  • Zhiguo Li,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Xiang Fu,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Lei Jin and
  • Zongliang Huo

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) events are the main factors impacting the reliability of NAND Flash memory. The behavior of human body model (HBM) failure and the corresponding physical mechanism of 3D NAND Flash memory are investigated in this paper....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,343 Views
26 Pages

Connected Heterogenous Multi-Processing Architecture for Digitalization of Freight Railway Transport Applications

  • Markos Losada,
  • Iñigo Adin,
  • Alejandro Perez,
  • Roberto Carlos Ramírez and
  • Jaizki Mendizabal

The digitalisation of freight rail is an essential improvement to create modern functions that offer a cost-effective, attractive service and improved operational opportunities to operators. These modern functions need intelligence, detection, actuat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,078 Views
26 Pages

Review of Ka-Band Power Amplifier

  • Zhong Wang,
  • Shanwen Hu,
  • Ling Gu and
  • Lujun Lin

With the increase in the demand for high-speed transmission communication, satellite communication is developing rapidly. Because of the bandwidth capacity, the K/Ka band is considered the mainstream frequency band of satellite communication. The per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,692 Views
15 Pages

A single-valued neutrosophic (SVN) set contains three parameters, which can well describe three aspects of an objective thing. However, most previous similarity measures of SVN sets often encounter some counter-intuitive examples. Manhattan distance...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,963 Views
24 Pages

Low-Noise Amplifier for Deep-Brain Stimulation (DBS)

  • Tiago Matheus Nordi,
  • Rodrigo Henrique Gounella,
  • Maximiliam Luppe,
  • João Navarro Soares Junior,
  • Erich Talamoni Fonoff,
  • Eduardo Colombari,
  • Murilo Araujo Romero and
  • João Paulo Pereira do Carmo

Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is an emerging research topic aiming to improve the quality of life of patients with brain diseases, and a great deal of effort has been focused on the development of implantable devices. This paper presents a low-noise a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,037 Views
23 Pages

AAPFE: Aligned Assembly Pre-Training Function Embedding for Malware Analysis

  • Hairen Gui,
  • Ke Tang,
  • Zheng Shan,
  • Meng Qiao,
  • Chunyan Zhang,
  • Yizhao Huang and
  • Fudong Liu

The use of natural language processing to analyze binary data is a popular research topic in malware analysis. Embedding binary code into a vector is an important basis for building a binary analysis neural network model. Current solutions focus on e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,871 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform to Improve SNR in Collaboration with Neuro-Fuzzy System for Heart-Sound Identification

  • Bassam Al-Naami,
  • Hossam Fraihat,
  • Jamal Al-Nabulsi,
  • Nasr Y. Gharaibeh,
  • Paolo Visconti and
  • Abdel-Razzak Al-Hinnawi

The research paper proposes a novel denoising method to improve the outcome of heart-sound (HS)-based heart-condition identification by applying the dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) together with the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference System (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,463 Views
16 Pages

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have been proposed to reduce the heavy memory and computation burdens in deep neural networks. However, the binarized weights and activations in BNNs cause huge information loss, which leads to a severe accuracy decrease...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,493 Views
16 Pages

Self-organized criticality theory proved that information transmission and computational performances of neural networks are optimal in critical state. By using recordings of the spontaneous activity originated by dissociated neuronal assemblies coup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,167 Views
19 Pages

The widespread use of the internet of things (IoT) is due to the value of the data collected by IoT devices. These IoT devices generate, process, and exchange large amounts of safety-critical or privacy-sensitive data. Before transmission, the data s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,550 Views
16 Pages

Low-Cost Data Acquisition System for Solar Thermal Collectors

  • Orestis Panagopoulos and
  • Athanassios A. Argiriou

Solar thermal collectors are among the most popular renewable energy research subjects. Automatic Data Acquisition Systems (ADAS) have greatly facilitated their experimental testing, but their high cost is a drawback. In this paper, we present the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,126 Views
13 Pages

Infrared Image Small-Target Detection Based on Improved FCOS and Spatio-Temporal Features

  • Shengbo Yao,
  • Qiuyu Zhu,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Wennan Cui and
  • Peimin Yan

The research of infrared image small-target detection is of great significance to security monitoring, satellite remote sensing, infrared early warning, and precision guidance systems. However, small infrared targets occupy few pixels and lack color...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,176 Views
18 Pages

Hand gestures are a natural and efficient means to control systems and are one of the promising but challenging areas of human–machine interaction (HMI). We propose a system to recognize gestures by processing interrupted patterns of light in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,480 Views
9 Pages

Graphene-Based Plasmonic Metamaterial Perfect Absorber for Biosensing Applications

  • Masood Ali Koondhar,
  • Abdul Aleem Jamali,
  • Xin-Cheng Ren,
  • Mujeeb ur Rehman Laghari,
  • Fatima Qureshi,
  • Muhammad Rizwan Anjum,
  • Yousuf Khan,
  • Yongzhi Zhai and
  • Yanmin Zhu

Graphene as a mono-atomic sheet has recently grabbed attention as a material with enormous properties. It has also been examined for enhancing absorbance in the current plasmonic structure. This has led to an increment in the sensitivity of the plasm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,511 Views
11 Pages

Von Neumann architecture-based computing systems are facing a von Neumann bottleneck owing to data transfer between separated memory and processor units. In-memory computing (IMC), on the other hand, reduces energy consumption and improves computing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,529 Views
20 Pages

Traditional PID controllers are widely used in industrial applications due to their simple computational architecture. However, the gain parameters of this simple computing architecture are fixed, and in response to environmental changes, the PID par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,705 Views
18 Pages

Roach Infestation Optimization MPPT Algorithm for Solar Photovoltaic System

  • Chittaranjan Pradhan,
  • Manoj Kumar Senapati,
  • Nicholas Kakra Ntiakoh and
  • Rajnish Kaur Calay

Solar photovoltaic (PV) power has several advantages such as free availability, absence of rotating parts, can be easily integrated with building architecture, and need little maintenance. However, the PV cell current–voltage (I–V) charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,406 Views
18 Pages

It is difficult to rapidly and accurately achieve alignment under complicated interferential environmental conditions with a marine strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) subject to angular swaying interference and linear motion interference. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,196 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, we proposed a scheduling method to optimize a time-critical traffic using genetic algorithm in automotive ethernet networks. The proposed traffic scheduling method aims to generate a transmission schedule to minimize end-to-end delay,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,552 Views
18 Pages

Recently, multi-access edge computing (MEC) cooperating with fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technology or WiFi has been widely discussed for low-delay systems. However, for the Industrial Internet of Things, which raises higher requiremen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,634 Views
21 Pages

Wireless Low-Power Transfer for Galvanically Isolated High-Voltage Applications

  • Moritz Hitzemann,
  • Martin Lippmann,
  • Jonas Trachte,
  • Alexander Nitschke,
  • Olaf Burckhardt and
  • Stefan Zimmermann

For various applications, such as gate drivers for transistors, wireless chargers for mobile devices and cars, and isolated measurement equipment, an isolated DC power supply for electronic components is required. In this work, a new concept for an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,828 Views
25 Pages

A General Parameter Optimization Method for a Capacitive Power Transfer System with an Asymmetrical Structure

  • Jinglin Xia,
  • Xinmei Yuan,
  • Sizhao Lu,
  • Weiju Dai,
  • Tong Li,
  • Jun Li and
  • Siqi Li

Capacitive power transfer (CPT) is an attractive wireless power transfer (WPT) technology and it has been widely studied in many applications. Symmetrical structures and high-order compensation networks are always produced as optimization results and...

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