Real-time simulation has become a well-established and accepted method of predicting equipment behaviour across many industries, for various conditions. One such application is when performing grid-integrated Renewabl...
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Real-time simulation has become a well-established and accepted method of predicting equipment behaviour across many industries, for various conditions. One such application is when performing grid-integrated Renewable Power Plant (RPP) behavioural studies, as increasing amounts of renewable generation are integrated into existing electrical grids. Set to greatly benefit from tailored renewable energy (RE) integration studies, is South Africa, on account of their aggressive RE integration goals, and ailing electrical grid. In this paper, a South African tailored grid code guiding RPP control approach is presented, allowing RPPs to be operated in line with local grid code voltage and frequency requirements during simulation. To evaluate the design, MATLAB-integrated OPAL-RT real-time simulations are performed, implementing OPAL-RT’s OP4510 real-time simulator. Results show the RPP grid code guided control method to be effective in operating RPPs in line with grid code voltage and frequency requirements, allowing an RPP’s grid-integrated behaviour concerning grid code specifications to be simulated and studied.
Since the perceptual quality of audio signals is easily to be affected by compression, transmission, noise adding, etc, it is of great significance to develop an effective audio quality assessment (AQA) method to meas...
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(数字)9798350330991
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(纸本)9798350331004
Since the perceptual quality of audio signals is easily to be affected by compression, transmission, noise adding, etc, it is of great significance to develop an effective audio quality assessment (AQA) method to measure end-user’s quality of experience. In this paper, we propose a full reference AQA model named Multidimensional Similarity Fusion for Audio Quality Assessment (MSF-AQA). We generalize the similarity-based image quality assessment methods for audio, then extract audio similarity features from multiple dimensions, and finally regress the multidimensional similarity features into the final quality score. The experimental results across three databases indicate that our MSF-AQA model outperforms the state-of-the-art AQA methods.
Autonomous driving of vehicles and robots requires highly accurate position information, and RTK-GNSS is expected to be utilized for this purpose. In this paper, we propose a robust and real-time operation method by i...
Autonomous driving of vehicles and robots requires highly accurate position information, and RTK-GNSS is expected to be utilized for this purpose. In this paper, we propose a robust and real-time operation method by introducing graph optimization into the integrated RTK-GNSS/IMU method. The proposed method is an extension of a method using vehicle trajectories that can estimate positions with lane-level accuracy even in urban areas. The position is estimated by removing GNSS multipaths from the shape of a vehicle trajectory of several hundred meters and averaging the remaining GNSS results. This method does not take into account the errors in the vehicle trajectory and cannot fully benefit from the high accuracy positioning solution of RTK-GNSS. To solve this problem, we introduce graph optimization to the base method, which treats the error state as a probabilistic model. However, general graph optimization methods have problems with processing time and outlier elimination. The proposed method solves these problems by restricting the time series data to be optimized and using a two-step optimization structure. Evaluations show that the proposed method is effective because it satisfies the requirements for real-time operation and improves accuracy compared to conventional methods.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities, and its impact has fallen disproportionately on disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. Racial and ethnic minorities such as Black Americans who are...
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(纸本)9798350336184
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities, and its impact has fallen disproportionately on disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. Racial and ethnic minorities such as Black Americans who are at a particular disadvantage are more likely to be the potential target of COVID-19 infection and are dying at alarmingly high rates. Despite a promising solution of the COVID-19 vaccination offers hope, equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines remains a challenge in the US, which has compounded the existing disparities in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among racial and ethnic minority groups. The deep and pervasive history of medical racism in the US has led to the vaccine hesitancy in racial and ethnic minorities, and thereby caused the disparities. Although some studies examine determinants of health disparities (e.g., social health determinants), there is a shortage of studies examining the social, structural and constructural health determinants, either alone or in tandem with other determinants. Little research paid attention to leveraging geographic information to trace the social, structural and constructural health determinants, which can provide a lower level of granularity. In this paper, we propose DeepHealth, a geospatial and ML-based (machine learning based) approach to identify diverse determinants (including the social, structural, and constructural determinants) of health disparities in COVID-19 pandemic, which provides a lower level of granularity. We provide a thorough analysis of health disparities based on multiple COVID-19 datasets and examine the social, structural, and constructural health determinants to assist in ascertaining why disparities (in racial and ethnic minorities who are particularly disadvantaged) occur in incidence and mortality rates due to COVID-19 pandemic. Extensive experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach. This research provides new strategies for health disparity identification and deter
Eavesdroppers of wireless signals want to infer as much as possible regarding the transmitter (Tx). Popular methods to minimize information leakage to the eavesdropper include covert communication, directional modulat...
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While eco-friendly energy is attracting the public’s interest in recent environmental issues, the market of lithium-ion batteries is expanding. Ensuring the safety and reliability of batteries is important in using b...
While eco-friendly energy is attracting the public’s interest in recent environmental issues, the market of lithium-ion batteries is expanding. Ensuring the safety and reliability of batteries is important in using batteries. Hence, it is essential to monitor the state of health (SOH) of the battery. Model-based SOH estimation has a limitation because battery data exhibit non-linear characteristics according to complex internal changes. To overcome this limitation, the data-based estimation of the SOH of the battery has been researched extensively. Data-based SOH estimation requires a large, high-quality battery dataset. In general, a battery dataset is built based on data obtained from experimental tests. However, this approach is time-dependent. To overcome this problem, data augmentation algorithms are used. TimeGAN is one of the time-series data augmentation algorithms that generate time-series data in the latent space while preserving temporal dynamics and static characteristics. To ensure stable training of data, TimeGAN generates synthetic data after data has been preprocessed using Min-Max scaling. In this study, various preprocessing techniques were applied for TimeGAN to generate more realistic synthetic data which was close to the original battery data. Results based on different preprocessing techniques were analyzed, and the preprocessing technique suitable for generating a battery dataset was proposed. Discriminative and predictive scores were used for evaluation with t-SNE graphs for visual comparison. When Max-Abs scaling and Normalization preprocessing techniques were applied, the discriminative score improved by 53.7 and 44.4%, respectively, compared to the conventional Min-Max scaling.
A unique axe-shaped ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for implantable medical applications has been proposed in this research paper. The antenna has been designed with a defected ground plane and an FR-4 substrate with a r...
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(数字)9798331534356
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(纸本)9798331534363
A unique axe-shaped ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for implantable medical applications has been proposed in this research paper. The antenna has been designed with a defected ground plane and an FR-4 substrate with a relative permittivity of 3.0. The size of the antenna is $0.21 \lambda \times 0.13 \lambda \times 0.017 \lambda$. A quasi-self-complementary design with delicate multiple slots on the ground plane assisted in miniaturization of the design. In free space simulations, the antenna shows prominent results in terms of bandwidth, return loss, VSWR, gain, and efficiency, while the s11 curve entirely remained operational within the ultra-wideband range by staying under 10 dB with multiple resonant points. Primarily, four different frequencies within the UWB range have been monitored to analyze the antenna parameter, where 4 GHz and 8 GHz produced more optimized results with around 20 and 40 dB return loss, respectively, with a peak gain over 2 dBi. Later, the antenna has been tested by implanting into the muscle layer of an artificially created torso phantom consisting of multiple layers and frequency dispersive features. Though the antenna perfectly sustained its operability within the UWB range, its primary resonance remained close to 4 GHz with around 30 dB return loss and optimum gain close to -11.9 dBi. The design shows promise to perform in implantable wireless body-centric network-based medical applications, while keeping the primary frequency of operation at 4 GHz.
In this research, a dataset of two thousand images was obtained, which were taken through a speed camera to vehicles in the city of Lima, Peru, with the purpose of detecting license plates. Therefore, a distribution o...
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In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, the existence of a trade-off between the rate and the perceptual quality (realism) has been brought to light, where the realism is measured by the clo...
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Many person, face, and hand detectors have reached remarkable achievements in the last century. With the convolutional neural networks' emergence, applications based on these detectors were increasingly widely app...
Many person, face, and hand detectors have reached remarkable achievements in the last century. With the convolutional neural networks' emergence, applications based on these detectors were increasingly widely applied in practice. Following this trend, this paper develops a simultaneous person, face, and hand detector based on YOLOv5 network architecture. The research focuses on redesigning the backbone and neck with compact network architectures EfficientNet and CBAM attention technique. The proposed architecture is trained and evaluated on the fine-tuned Human-Parts dataset. As a result, this network reached 87.2% of mAP@O.5 and 58.6% of mAP@O.5:0.95. This experimet outperforms most of the original YOLOv5 network architectures and is comparable to large-scale YOLOv5 architectures and the latest YOLOv8 architecture.
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