The aim of this paper is to improve the circuit modeling of electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters by taking into account near-field inductive couplings using additional 3D modeling. In this work a method is descr...
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The posterior alveolar bone region of the maxilla has, in more than 40% of the cases, a height inferior to 4 mm, thus making rehabilitation with implants a clinical challenge. This focus literature review was car...
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In this work, a 3D model was designed that has the negative of several widely used microfluidic mixers and channel patterns, and which could be used to cast polymers, e.g. PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane). This model was p...
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In this work, a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensor based on hexagonally arranged ellipsoidal gold nanoparticles is designed and investigated by finite element method (FEM) via COMSOL Multiphysics. The w...
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User authentication based on muscle tension manifested during password typing seems to be an interesting additional layer of security. It represents another way of verifying a person's identity, for example in the...
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The network switches in the data plane of Software Defined Networking (SDN) are empowered by an elementary process, in which enormous number of packets which resemble big volumes of data are classified into specific f...
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The network switches in the data plane of Software Defined Networking (SDN) are empowered by an elementary process, in which enormous number of packets which resemble big volumes of data are classified into specific flows by matching them against a set of dynamic rules. This basic process accelerates the processing of data, so that instead of processing singular packets repeatedly, corresponding actions are performed on corresponding flows of packets. In this paper, first, we address limitations on a typical packet classification algorithm like Tuple Space Search (TSS). Then, we present a set of different scenarios to parallelize it on different parallel processing platforms, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), clusters of Central Processing Units (CPUs), and hybrid clusters. Experimental results show that the hybrid cluster provides the best platform for parallelizing packet classification algorithms, which promises the average throughput rate of 4.2 Million packets per second (Mpps). That is, the hybrid cluster produced by the integration of Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), Message Passing Interface (MPI), and OpenMP programming model could classify 0.24 million packets per second more than the GPU cluster scheme. Such a packet classifier satisfies the required processing speed in the programmable network systems that would be used to communicate big medical data.
Vision-based semantic segmentation of complex urban street scenes is a very important function during autonomous driving (AD), which will become an important technology in industrialized countries in the near future. ...
Vision-based semantic segmentation of complex urban street scenes is a very important function during autonomous driving (AD), which will become an important technology in industrialized countries in the near future. Today, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) improve traffic safety thanks to the application of solutions that enable detecting objects, recognising road signs, segmenting the road, etc. The basis for these functionalities is the adoption of various classifiers. This publication presents solutions utilising convolutional neural networks, such as MobileNet and ResNet50, which were used as encoders in the U-Net model to semantically segment images of complex urban scenes taken from the publicly available Cityscapes dataset. Some modifications of the encoder/decoder architecture of the U-Net model were also proposed and the result was named the MU-Net. During tests carried out on 500 images, the MU-Net model produced slightly better segmentation results than the universal MobileNet and ResNet networks, as measured by the Jaccard index, which amounted to 88.85%. The experiments showed that the MobileNet network had the best ratio of accuracy to the number of parameters used and at the same time was the least sensitive to unusual phenomena occurring in images.
Road deaths are still alarmingly high. It also ranks first regarding causes of death unrelated to pre-existing health status. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among vulnerable road users like pedestrian...
Road deaths are still alarmingly high. It also ranks first regarding causes of death unrelated to pre-existing health status. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among vulnerable road users like pedestrians. The main purpose of the work was to design, implement, and evaluate pedestrian detection methods using multimodal imaging and machine learning meth-ods. Two cameras were co-calibrated using a specially designed reference chessboard. The method of superimposing multimodal images using thermal and RGB data was proposed to produce the final images. New datasets consisting of 8000 multimodal images were collected in good and limited visibility. The adapted YOLO models, which included edge device variants for TFLite, were proposed to detect pedestrians in a new representation of multimodal data. The models were trained to optimize the detection accuracy and speed performance for mobile devices compared to desktop computers in different lighting conditions. The best results obtained in tests for a subset of images related to good visibility were achieved by the adapted YOLOv5s model, reaching mAP:0.5 of 96.5% for CUDA architecture and 93.4% for edge devices. The same model achieved 87.8% and 86.8% for limited visibility. In both cases, the frame rate was approximately 7 FPS. The methods could be further improved for practical application in traditional or semi-autonomous car systems, drones, security cameras, etc.
This work introduces a novel technique for cost-efficient antenna optimization. Our approach employs computational intelligence tools, including machine learning (ML) and bio-inspired algorithms. The ML process is con...
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This work introduces a novel technique for cost-efficient antenna optimization. Our approach employs computational intelligence tools, including machine learning (ML) and bio-inspired algorithms. The ML process is conducted within a dimensionality-constrained parameter space established through global sensitivity analysis (GSA). The underlying surrogate model is kriging interpolation, whereas candidate designs are generated using the particle swarm optimizer (PSO). Further enhancement of the computational efficacy is obtained by employing multi-fidelity electromagnetic (EM) models, with majority of operations executed at low-fidelity antenna representation and final (gradient-based) tuning performed using the high-fidelity model. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate the superiority of the introduced approach over several benchmark procedures regarding reliability, computational efficiency, and repeatability of results.
This paper describes the design, simulation, and fabrication of an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna. A single-sided copper-clad laminate Pyralux with a copper layer’s thickness of 70 μm was used for these reasons. For t...
This paper describes the design, simulation, and fabrication of an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna. A single-sided copper-clad laminate Pyralux with a copper layer’s thickness of 70 μm was used for these reasons. For the fabrication of the antenna, a conventional copper layer etching technique using hydrochloric acid was chosen. Using Ansys HFSS simulation software, the antenna was designed and simulated. The realized UWB antenna has a bandwidth of more than 11 GHz, from 1 GHz to 12 GHz, which exceeds the bandwidth of conventional antennas on rigid substrates. The impedance of the antenna’s feeding element is matched to 50 Ω. The SMA connector was soldered with hot air and SAC solder paste to the feeding element and ground patch. The scattering parameter of the produced antenna was measured with the Agilent N5421A PNA network analyzer at room temperature. The designed and realized antenna using the standard etching technique and Pyralux foil provides a cost-effective solution for the mass production of antennas while maintaining the antenna’s required characteristics.
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