A simple method for the design of a continuously tunable phase shifter based on a negative-refractive-index transmission line (NRI-TL) metamaterial without the need for variable inductors is presented. The employed λ...
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(数字)9783982039749
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(纸本)9798331521790
A simple method for the design of a continuously tunable phase shifter based on a negative-refractive-index transmission line (NRI-TL) metamaterial without the need for variable inductors is presented. The employed λ/4 transformer solution consists of only three varactor diodes and three corresponding bias resistors, which greatly simplify the design and lower the cost of the phase-shifting stage. A single unit cell of the phase shifter prototype exhibits a total phase shift of 60° over 4V at 2.4GHz and a fractional bandwidth of 37% with insertion loss of only 0.5dB. Some of the drawbacks are also discussed.
The massive development of internet of things(IoT)technologies is gaining momentum across all areas of their possible deployment—spanning from Industry 4.0 to eHealth,smart city,agriculture or waste *** ongoing devel...
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The massive development of internet of things(IoT)technologies is gaining momentum across all areas of their possible deployment—spanning from Industry 4.0 to eHealth,smart city,agriculture or waste *** ongoing development is further pushed forward by the gradual deployment of 5G *** 5G capable smart devices,it will be possible to transfer more data with shorter latency thereby resulting in exciting new use cases such as Massive ***-IoT(low-power wide area network-LPWAN)enables improved network coverage,long device operational lifetime and a high density of *** all the advantages of massive-IoT technology,there are certain cases where the original concept cannot be *** them are dangerous explosive environments or issues caused by subsurface deployment(operation during winter months or dense greenery).This article presents the concept of a hybrid solution of IoT LoRaWAN(long range wide area network)/IRC-VLC(infrared communication,visible light communication)technology,which combines advantages of both technologies according to the deployment scenario.
Kidney cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. The major types of malignant renal tumors are renal cell carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma. Although the majority of renal tumors are malignant, up to 20% ar...
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At present, ad hoc networks are getting a lot of attention, because they have many features that differ from the rest of the networks and because they are technically advanced. In routing protocols, the Vehicular Ad-h...
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A Time-gated (TG) circuit is designed to generate a TG signal applied in SPAD-based optical wireless communication (OWC) system. The simulation results demonstrate that the signal can be used to eliminate inter-symbol...
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We demonstrate elliptical beam shaping in a miniaturized two-photon microscope enabling cellular resolution fluorescence imaging at over three times faster frame rate than point scanning over a 400 µm diameter FO...
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Realistic real-time surgical simulators play an increasingly important role in surgical robotics research, such as surgical robot learning and automation, and surgical skills assessment. Although there are a number of...
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(数字)9798350361070
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(纸本)9798350361087
Realistic real-time surgical simulators play an increasingly important role in surgical robotics research, such as surgical robot learning and automation, and surgical skills assessment. Although there are a number of existing surgical simulators for research, they generally lack the ability to simulate the diverse types of objects and contact-rich manipulation tasks typically present in surgeries, such as tissue cutting and blood suction. In this work, we introduce CRESSim, a realistic surgical simulator based on PhysX 5 for the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) that enables simulating various contact-rich surgical tasks involving different surgical instruments, soft tissue, and body fluids. The real-world dVRK console and the master tool manipulator (MTM) robots are incorporated into the system to allow for teleoperation through virtual reality (VR). To showcase the advantages and potentials of the simulator, we present three examples of surgical tasks, including tissue grasping and deformation, blood suction, and tissue cutting. These tasks are performed using the simulated surgical instruments, including the large needle driver, suction irrigator, and curved scissor, through VR-based teleoperation.
A simple method for the design of a continuously tunable phase shifter based on a negative-refractive-index transmission line (NRI-TL) metamaterial without the need for variable inductors is presented. The employed λ...
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Brain-computer interface (BCI) actively translates the brain signals into executable actions by establishing direct communication between the human brain and external devices. Recording brain activity through electroe...
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Brain-computer interface (BCI) actively translates the brain signals into executable actions by establishing direct communication between the human brain and external devices. Recording brain activity through electroencephalography (EEG) is generally contaminated with both physiological and nonphysiological artifacts, which significantly hinders the BCI performance. Artifact subspace reconstruction (ASR) is a well-known statistical technique that automatically removes artifact components by determining the rejection threshold based on the initial reference EEG segment in multichannel EEG recordings. In real-world applications, the fixed threshold may limit the efficacy of the artifact correction, especially when the quality of the reference data is poor. This study proposes an adaptive online ASR technique by integrating the Hebbian/anti-Hebbian neural networks into the ASR algorithm, namely, principle subspace projection ASR (PSP-ASR) and principal subspace whitening ASR (PSW-ASR) that segmentwise self-organize the artifact subspace by updating the synaptic weights according to the Hebbian and anti-Hebbian learning rules. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is compared to the conventional ASR approaches on benchmark EEG dataset and three BCI frameworks, including steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), and motor imagery (MI) by evaluating the root-mean-square error (RMSE), the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the Pearson correlation, and classification accuracy. The results demonstrated that the PSW-ASR algorithm effectively removed the EEG artifacts and retained the activity-specific brain signals compared to the PSP-ASR, standard ASR (Init-ASR), and moving-window ASR (MW-ASR) methods, thereby enhancing the SSVEP, RSVP, and MI BCI performances. Finally, our empirical results from the PSW-ASR algorithm suggested the choice of an aggressive cutoff range of c =1-10 for activity-specific BCI applications and a moderat
Significance: There is no clinical imaging method to visualize the soft tissues of the human cochlea, which are crucial for sound transduction and are damaged in sensorineural hearing loss. Although optical coherence ...
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