Electroencephalographic (EEG) analysis has been widely adopted for the monitoring of cognitive state changes and sleep stages because abundant information in EEG recording reflects changes in drowsiness, arousal, slee...
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Electroencephalographic (EEG) analysis has been widely adopted for the monitoring of cognitive state changes and sleep stages because abundant information in EEG recording reflects changes in drowsiness, arousal, sleep, and attention, etc. In this study, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) based silicon spiked electrode array, namely dry electrodes, are fabricated and characterized to bring EEG monitoring to the operational workplaces without requiring conductive paste or scalp preparation. An isotropic/anisotropic reactive ion etching with inductive coupled plasma (RIE-ICP) micromachining fabrication process was developed to manufacture the needle-like micro probes to pierce the stratum corneum of skin and obtain superior electrically conducting characteristics. This article reports a series of prosperity testing and evaluations of continuous EEG recordings. Our results suggest that the dry electrodes have advantages in electrode-skin interface impedance, signal intensity and size over the conventional (wet) electrodes. In addition, we also developed an EEG-based drowsiness estimation system that consists of the dry-electrode array, power spectrum estimation, Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based EEG signal analysis, and multivariate linear regression to estimate driver's drowsiness level in a virtual-reality-based dynamic driving simulator to demonstrate the potential applications of the MEMS electrodes in operational environments.
In this paper, we propose a new pedestrian detection algorithm, and use it to develop a real-time pedestrian detection system. The pedestrian detection algorithm can be functionally partitioned into two parts: moving ...
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This paper is concerned with the derivation of the kinematics model of the University of Tehran-Pole Climbing Robot (UT-PCR). As the first step, an appropriate set of coordinates is selected and used to describe the s...
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The paper elaborates the design of an optimal feedback control system for a washing machine. It is sought to save on the water and energy consumption and the associated wear and tear and detergent consumption through ...
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Intelligent control of home appliances, have in recent years, attracted much theoretical attention, as well as becoming a major factor for industrial and economic success and rapid market penetration. Washing machines...
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This work examines the blocking performance of narrowband (NB) and wideband (WB) sources that access a shared pool of wireless channels. The NB sources utilize a single channel, whereas WB sources access simultaneousl...
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This work examines the blocking performance of narrowband (NB) and wideband (WB) sources that access a shared pool of wireless channels. The NB sources utilize a single channel, whereas WB sources access simultaneously a larger group of channels. This system is analyzed in the context of maximizing the utilization of spectrum that is allocated to the WB system by allowing NB sources random access to the same spectrum. The performance measure to be controlled is the blocking experienced by WB sources. A queueing model of this system is proposed that allows evaluation of the impact of NB sources on WB performance. Assuming Poisson arrival process models and negative exponential distributions for the channel holding times, the dependence of the blocking probability of the WB source is derived as a function of the NB utilization factor. In an uncontrolled NB access scheme, the WB blocking is lower bounded by the blocking probability experienced by NB sources. The performance improvement afforded by adding extra NB channels and by controlling the access rates of the NB source for finite population WB sources is presented. The analysis presented here provides an assessment of some of the emerging paradigms for adaptive spectrum allocation. Of particular interest are the criteria under which spectrum agile, cognitive and software radios functioning in an opportunistic fashion can access unused spectrum allocated to a primary system without adversely affecting the performance of the primary system.
in this paper, robust regulation of a class of nonlinear singularly perturbed systems, via nonlinear H∞ approach is considered. Under appropriate assumptions, it is shown through two new theorems that the existence o...
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Game theory deals with decision-making processes involving two or more parties with partly or completely conflicting interests. The players involved in the game usually make their decisions under conditions of risk or...
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A game is a decision-making situation in which each player attempts to act in such a way that the game's circumstances get close to what desirable for him. To reach this goal, a player needs to have a suitable est...
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The residual error in the WAAS solution contains low frequency elements that reduce the accuracy of the vertical navigation during flight tests of precision approaches conducted at The University of Oklahoma. In an ef...
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The residual error in the WAAS solution contains low frequency elements that reduce the accuracy of the vertical navigation during flight tests of precision approaches conducted at The University of Oklahoma. In an effort to determine if the WAAS-enabled GPS solution can be improved, the character of the errors was first determined. Static position error data from ten, geographically diverse, WAAS reference stations were initially collected continuously over the period of a month. A primary step in identifying the sources of error was to evaluate the spectral (periodic) content of the error signal. However, characterizing the spectral content of the error signal presents problems due to the extremely high sampling rate relative to the extremely slow periods of interest in the error signal. The WAAS signal was sampled at 1 Hz, yet the periods of interest are on the order of 10-5 Hz. Using our proposed method for extracting the near DC frequency content, it is shown that the WAAS residual error primarily contains periodic elements on the order of 6, 12, and 24 hours, which correspond to frequencies of approximately 4.6x10-5, 2.3x10-5, and 1.2x10-5 Hz, respectively. These results were consistent across the disparate geographic regions represented by the data set. Due to this, we think it unlikely that multi-path is responsible for these slow, periodic components in the residual error signal. Therefore, it is likely the periodic elements of the error signal are due primarily to the ionosphere.
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