Electronics, Volume 12, Issue 13

The existing expert weight determination method for multi-attribute decision making based on the Pythagorean fuzzy number approach does not make sufficient use of the hesitation involved with the decision information, which may cause biased weight as...

This paper examines the flocking control issue of the Cucker–Smale model in the presence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and communication delays. In the setting of DoS attacks, the attacker only obstructs the information communication betwe...

In this paper, a dual-mode step-down DC-DC converter with an automatic mode-switching circuit is implemented in a 28 nm digital CMOS process and embedded in an RF transceiver chip to power the digital part. The proposed automatic mode-switching circu...

Three current paths are proposed, and theoretical analysis and laboratory tests are carried out to investigate the root causes of bearing failure in IGBT inverter-fed locomotives and EMUs. The three types of current paths that run through the drive u...

The Internet of Things (IoT) faces significant challenges in the requirements of sensitive task latency, reasonable resource allocation and reliability for resource transactions. This paper introduces a novel method for road resource allocation in th...

Track processing is the foundation of radar multi-target tracking, and the processing performance for jamming has particular research significance when it comes to protecting high-value targets. At present, passive jamming using a modulated metasurfa...

High-quality space target images are important for space surveillance and space attack defense confrontation. To obtain space target images with higher resolution and sharpness, this paper proposes an image super-resolution reconstruction network bas...

It is well known that the fluctuations in experimentally obtained characteristic impedance versus frequency curves are associated with resonances originated by standing waves bouncing back and forth between the transitions at the transmission line te...

Visual tracking is a key research area in computer vision, as tracking technology is increasingly being applied in daily life, it has high-research significance. Visual tracking technology usually faces various challenging interference factors, among...

All electric vehicles are the only way to decarbonize transport quickly and substantially. Although multilevel inverters have already been used in some transportation modes, they are rarely used in road transportation, especially in light-duty passen...

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) have abundant spectral and spatial information, which shows bright prospects in the application industry of urban–rural. Thus, HSI classification has drawn much attention from researchers. However, the spectral and s...

The maritime sector employs the Internet of Things (IoT) to exploit many of its benefits to maintain a competitive advantage and keep up with the growing demands of the global economy. The maritime IoT (MIoT) not only inherits similar security threat...

Driving behavior analysis has become crucial for traffic safety. In addition, more abundant driving data are needed to analyze driving behavior more comprehensively and thus improve traffic safety. This paper proposes an approach to image data extrac...

The important problem of selecting the predictors in a high-dimensional case where the number of candidates is larger than the sample size is often solved by the researchers from the signal processing community using the orthogonal matching pursuit a...

The security of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems is a challenge that needs to be addressed immediately, as the increasing use of new communication paradigms and the abundant use of sensors opens up new opportunities to compromise these ty...

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) has attracted more and more attention in recent years. This paper focuses on the representation learning of multimodal data to reach higher prediction results. We propose a model to assist in learning modality repr...

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is an indispensable technique in today’s neurological research, but its signal acquisition time is extremely long due to the need to acquire signals in multiple diffusion gradient directions. Supervis...

In recent years, antenna design has received a lot of attention [...]

The limited coverage extension of mobile edge computing (MEC) necessitates exploring cooperation with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to leverage advanced features for future computation-intensive and mission-critical applications. Moreover, the workf...

This paper presents two optimization methods of an interior permanent magnetic motor (IPM). The first method is based on the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II), while the second one is based on the NSGA-III algorithm. The focus is o...

As one of foundation technologies for massive data processing for AI, event mining is attracting more and more attention, mainly including event detection (event trigger identification and event classification) and argument extraction. At present, EE...

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAMT) has received increasing attention recently in virtue of its promising acceleration paradigm for fast decoding. However, these splendid speedup gains are at the cost of accuracy, in comparison to it...

The automotive industry’s focus on driver-oriented issues underscores the critical importance of driver safety. This paper presents the development of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) algorithms specifically tailored for an electric bus...

The reliability and lifetime of systems-on-chip (SoCs) are being seriously threatened by thermal issues. In modern SoCs, dynamic thermal management (DTM) uses the thermal data captured by thermal sensors to constantly track the hot spots and thermal...

This paper proposes and simulates research on the reverse recovery characteristics of two novel superjunction (SJ) MOSFETs by adjusting the doping profile. In the manufacturing process of the SJ MOSFET using multilayer epitaxial deposition (MED), the...

The imaging performance of a semiconductor radiation imaging detector critically depends on its photoconductor layer thickness. The conventional detector structure (i.e., a photoconductor layer is sandwiched between two parallel electrodes) needs a s...

In this work, sub-micron-thick AlN/GaN transistors (HEMTs) grown on a silicon substrate for high-frequency power applications are reported. Using molecular beam epitaxy, an innovative ultrathin step-graded buffer with a total stack thickness of 450 n...

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) is an important task in image processing, aiming to achieve enhanced image resolution. With the development of deep learning, SISR based on convolutional neural networks has also gained great progress, but as the...

With the flourishing development of wireless communication, further challenges will be introduced by the future demands of emerging applications. However, in the face of more complex communication scenarios, favorable decoding results may not be yiel...

This paper presents a novel DQ-based multicarrier pulse width modulation PWM for a single-phase, three-level PV-powered grid-connected F-type inverter. The main control objective in the proposed inverter is to regulate the grid current with low total...

In this article, the problem of simultaneously estimating and localizing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar emitters is considered for a distributed multi-station passive localization system, wherein the transmitted signal is unknown for rec...

Due to its inherent robustness and finite time convergence, sliding mode control (SMC) is extensively used for the control of nonlinear uncertain systems [...]

Fair clustering aims to partition a dataset while mitigating bias in the original dataset. Developing fair clustering algorithms has gained increasing attention from the machine learning community. In this paper, we propose a fair k-means algorithm,...

To address the issue of low detection accuracy caused by low contrast in color Mura defects, this paper proposes a color Mura defect detection method based on channel contrast sensitivity function (CSF) filtering. The RGB image of the captured liquid...

Wind energy is a good alternative to fossil fuels, as the use of fossil fuels has seriously exacerbated the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and has greatly affected the environment. Conventional AC wind farms and AC transmission s...

Keyphrase generation is a long-standing task in scientific literature retrieval. The Transformer-based model outperforms other baseline models in this challenge dramatically. In cross-domain keyphrase generation research, topic information plays a gu...

This paper presents a novel high-power rotary waveguide phase shifter based on circular polarizers specifically engineered for high-power microwave (HPM) applications. The phase shifter is capable of performing a precise 360° linear phase shift t...

Aiming at the problem of detection difficulties caused by the characteristics of high similarity and disorderly arrangement of workpieces in dense scenes of industrial production lines, this paper proposes a workpiece detection method based on improv...

This paper reports an LNO surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator based on a shear horizontal mode with high operating frequency over 3 GHz, large electromechanical coupling of 33.54%, Q factor of 380, and a relatively good figure of merit (FOM) of 127...

This article presents a wide-range and high-precision analog front-end circuit for multi-parameter sensors that can handle sensor outputs of different types (R, C, V). A rail-to-rail baseline compensation method has been proposed, which further incor...

To enhance the overall communication rate and capacity of mobile networks, a real-time application (RTA)-classification vertical handover (Ac-VHO) scheme is presented for indoor visible light communication (VLC) heterogeneous networks. The scheme con...

Most power is generated using fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and diesel. The contribution of coal to power generation is very high compared to other sources. Almost all thermal power plants use coal as a fuel for power generation. Such sources...

With the advent and rapid growth of automation, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have emerged as a crucial technology, with applications spanning various domains, from agriculture to surveillance, logistics, and military operations. Alongside this sur...

Researchers in academics and companies working on location-based services (LBS) are paying close attention to indoor localization based on pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) because of its infrastructure-free localization method. PDR is the fundamental...

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), this Special Issue presents the electrical and mechanical engineering research of the USTB, with the aim of providing timely solutions to emerging scie...

This paper presents a supervised learning scheme that employs key-frame extraction to enhance the performance of pre-trained deep learning models for object detection in surveillance videos. Developing supervised deep learning models requires a signi...

This research paper provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions related to enabling haptic communication over the Tactile Internet in the context of 6G networks. The increasing demand for multimedia services and device...

Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP) is a sleep instability marker defined based on the amplitude and frequency of the electroencephalogram signal. Because of the time and intensive process of labeling the data, different machine learning and automatic a...

The use of optical systems in medical imaging, computer electronics, large-scale industries, and space exploration is common. The performance of these devices is closely related to the compactness and fast responses of lenses that are used in these o...

Today, billions of small devices that can sense things are connected, creating the Internet of Things (IoT). This major technological step has led to ideas like smart cities, smart factories, and smart countries. One important use of this technology...