In human body communication, it is important to investigate the input impedance characteristics of electrodes and transmission characteristics between transceivers for improving the qualities of communication and redu...
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In human body communication, it is important to investigate the input impedance characteristics of electrodes and transmission characteristics between transceivers for improving the qualities of communication and reducing power consumption. In this work, we studied the input impedance characteristics and transmission characteristics between a wristwatch device and a handheld device using both a three-dimensional electromagnetic field simulation and experiment at 10 MHz. The input impedance and transmission characteristics obtained from the simulation using a muscle homogenous model and those obtained from the measurement using a muscle-tissue-equivalent phantom showed good consistency. The calculated electric field around a human arm decreased as it moved away from the surface of the arm. This distribution of the electric field showed the advantages of human body communication, which are confidential communication and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Moreover, power consumption at the feeding point of the system was calculated from the transmission characteristics obtained from the simulation. This result indicated that human body communication achieves low-power consumption.
Most of electrical resistance tomography literature is aimed at biomedical application, where one wishes to estimate the conductivity distribution of some portion of human body in order to detect some health disorder....
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Most of electrical resistance tomography literature is aimed at biomedical application, where one wishes to estimate the conductivity distribution of some portion of human body in order to detect some health disorder. The solution to this problem often starts considering a continuous media, which requires subsequent discretization through finite element simulations or other sophisticated methods. In this paper, we propose an alternative and purely discrete approach. We pose the problem as a resistor grid, or network, of which only the peripheral elements are accessible for measurements. By injecting known electrical current externally, we want to estimate all the conductances of the network given only boundary voltage measurements. Since the relation between conductance values and voltage measurement is nonlinear, we present two solutions to the problem: one based on iterative linearization and another based on neural network, which solves the problem directly in the nonlinear domain. Finally, we present simulated experiments to demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach and highlight possible applications of the developed technique.
We present a novel approach for outdoor place categorization using synchronized texture and depth images obtained using a laser scanner. Categorizing outdoor places according to type is useful for autonomous driving o...
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(纸本)9781479957521
We present a novel approach for outdoor place categorization using synchronized texture and depth images obtained using a laser scanner. Categorizing outdoor places according to type is useful for autonomous driving or service robots, which work adaptively according to the surrounding conditions. However, place categorization is not straight forward due to the wide variety of environments and sensor performance limitations. In the present paper, we introduce a two-dimensional local ternary pattern (2D-LTP) descriptor using a pair of synchronized texture and depth images. The proposed 2D-LTP describes the local co-occurrence of a synchronized and complementary image pair with ternary patterns. In the present study, we construct histograms of a 2D-LTP as a feature of an outdoor place and apply singular value decomposition (SVD) to deal with the high dimensionality of the place. The novel descriptor, i.e., the 2D-LTP, exhibits a higher categorization performance than conventional image descriptors with outdoor place experiments.
This paper studies the digital controlled dc-dc converter which employs the neural network in coordination with PID control. Especially, we focus on the problem of overcompensation to the transient response of the out...
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(纸本)9781479927067
This paper studies the digital controlled dc-dc converter which employs the neural network in coordination with PID control. Especially, we focus on the problem of overcompensation to the transient response of the output voltage in the dc-dc converter by the neural network control. Our previous studies suggested that the neural network control is effective to improve the transient response of the output voltage. Therefore, it can contribute to the low power consumption of power supplies for information and communication systems. However, the neural network aided control has a problem that it tends to be overcompensation, i.e., the compensation effect of the neural network becomes too much and badly affects to control the plant. The overcompensation causes from a delay time in sensing and calculation to determine the timing and duration of the neural network control itself. To address the problem of overcompensation, our previous studies investigated methods to devise the timing and duration of neural network control. However, since they need some pre-determined parameters which are optimized to the specific target converter to avoid the effect of delay, the implementation of it tends to be complicated one in practical use. In this study, we adopt the neural network which predicts parameters to improve the transient response and control timing and duration of itself. Therefore, it does not need any predetermined parameters for timing and duration control. From the simulation result for evaluation, it is confirmed that the presented method has a superior transient characteristics compared with conventional method.
This work is motivated by the needs to manage the priority inversion problem without sacrificing the utilization of increasingly popular hardware accelerators. A new mechanism is developed to dedicate accelerators to ...
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Single point, quasi-distributed and distributed optical (fiber) sensors are demonstrated to be robust and reliable tools for one, two and three dimensional imaging of physical phenomena in industrial monitoring. Real ...
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The received signal strength (RSS) clustering has played a significant role in site surveying and data pre-processing for the location tracking in Wi-Fi environment. To this end, this paper presents a novel clustering...
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We theoretically study the impact of changes in surroundings on the electron ground-state effective g factor in defect-free GaAs/AlGaAs nanodisks. To perform the study, we formulate and deploy a computational efficien...
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We theoretically study the impact of changes in surroundings on the electron ground-state effective g factor in defect-free GaAs/AlGaAs nanodisks. To perform the study, we formulate and deploy a computational efficient full three-dimensional model to describe the effective g-factor tensor in semiconductor nano-objects of complex geometry and material content. This model is based on an effective 2×2 conduction-band Hamiltonian which includes the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings. The description is suited to clarify the important question of the controllability of the electron effective g factor in semiconductor nano-objects. The results of this theoretical study suggest that in the defect-free GaAs/AlGaAs nanodisks, the effective g factor can be tuned within a wide range by proper design of the nanodisk environment. The zz components of the electron effective g-factor tensor obtained in our simulation are in good agreement with some recent experimental observations.
This paper presents a comparison between two different technologies of acquisition systems (BrainNet36 and Emotiv Epoc) for an Independent-BCI based on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP). Two stimuli separat...
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This paper presents a comparison between two different technologies of acquisition systems (BrainNet36 and Emotiv Epoc) for an Independent-BCI based on Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP). Two stimuli separated by a viewing angle
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Heinzelman, WendiGraduate Studies for Arts
Sciences and Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Computer Science University of Rochester RochesterNY United States
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