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Recent reports have indicated that driver fatigue is one of the main causes in vehicle accidents leading to traffic fatalities and severe injuries. Therefore, developing fatigue driving monitoring system is of outmost importance to avoid fatigue-related accidents. Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based continuous monitoring system is one of the effective ways to predict both psychological and physiological...
Congestion presents a significant challenge in ad hoc networks due to their unstructured and distributed nature. In most congestion detection schemes for such networks, the affected node itself detects whether it is congested or not. The detection approach proposed in this paper performs detection with information estimators from neighbouring uncongested nodes that may be able to relieve the congestion...
This project will present a wireless sensors network. Each sensor node measures noise and CO2 pollution levels inside a specific urban area and a coordinator node stores these measurements in a database made with Java. Finally the obtained results are presented.
An original and modern integrated current sensor is designed and presented in this paper. It can provide a sense current proportional to an output current available to the microcontroller via an external resistor. The ratio between output and sense current is modeled and simulated. The errors between the two currents increase in low currents domain. A solution consisting in a gate back regulation...
A communication protocol for fog computing should be efficient, lightweight and customizable. In this work we focus in a communication protocol for fog nodes composed of wireless sensors, which are spatially distributed autonomous sensors monitoring physical or environmental conditions. Problems with data congestion and limited physical resources are common in these networks. For the optimization...
In this paper, we present a simple differential CMOS ISFET based pH sensor. The design uses two different sensing areas. The resulting sensor reduces complexity and power consumption making it suitable for implantable biomedical applications. The design is implemented in a standard 130nm process and the design constraints on sensitivity are explored. Analytical results based on theory show that sensor...
This work discusses the concurrent applications of data collection and reconfiguration, and proposes a novel reconfiguration scheme during data collection. The proposed scheme incorporates the advantages of both proactive and reactive protocols into one system: using proactive protocol to collect continuous data and reactive protocol to reconfigure each remote node of the network. In addition, three...
Wireless communication systems can be used to support a lot of industrial applications and much effort has been done to design solutions for this scenario. Actually, an important issue when designing such solutions is the performance evaluation, which requires proper resources for accurate results. This paper then proposes an experimental platform where the devices communicate via wireless and wire...
Target counting is an established challenge for sensor networks: given a set of sensors that can count (but not identify) targets, how many targets are there? The problem is complicated because of the need to disambiguate duplicate observations of the same target by different sensors. A number of approaches have been proposed in the literature, and in this paper we take an existing technique based...
The paper presents the design and implementation of an integrated wireless network that support to the multiparametric geophysical monitoring network of the Campi Flegrei volcanic area. The wireless network is equipped with a tool for real-time monitoring and fault detection. The enhancement of the transmission system with respect to the previously existing one has been realized in view of the increased...
The propagation of the S0 Lamb mode in AlN membrane combined with continuous and structured SiO2 thin films is theoretically studied with respect of the materials geometrical parameters and electrical boundaries conditions. A comparison is made in terms of the phase velocity, electromechanical coupling coefficient and temperature coefficients of frequency (TCF) between the studied structures. The...
This paper presents a case study of wireless sensor network (WSN) system for remote soil moisture monitoring. The development of this system is driven by the needs for having realtime data collection and remote monitoring access capabilities which are lacking in the conventional soil monitoring techniques. Our proposed system is developed using commercially available IRIS motes based on the IEEE 802...
This work proposes distributed recursive least squares (RLS) strategies for adaptive reconstruction and learning of signals defined over graphs. First, we introduce a centralized RLS estimation strategy with probabilistic sampling, and we propose a sparse sensing method that selects the sampling probability at each node in the graph in order to guarantee adaptive signal reconstruction and a target...
Passive EMI filters occupy significant volume in a power converter. This work involves the study of utilizing Active EMI Filters (AEF) and Hybrid EMI Filters (HEF) to reduce the volume of passive filters. The DUT under consideration is a 30 W AC-DC converter. Since the power level less than 65 W it does not have a PFC stage. In this work, noise sensing is carried out using voltage sensing methodology...
In this paper, the containment control problem in second-order multi-agent systems for static and dynamic leaders under directed and undirected topologies are studied. We propose the periodic intermittent containment control algorithm, which both reduces the load of updating rates of controller and cuts down the working time of the controller in each sampling interval. Some necessary and sufficient...
Series stacking of dc voltage domains to allow power delivery at higher voltages and lower currents has been explored for some time. Differential power processing (DPP) is an integral part of many such applications. DPP benefits from bidirectional converters to process the difference in currents between two consecutive stacked domains to regulate voltages of each domain. In this paper we discuss the...
This paper presents a novel and an improved approach for estimating the position of a vehicle using vehicle-infrastructure cooperative localization. In our previous work we presented a Factor Graph based solution which added the topology (inter-vehicle distance) as a constraint while localizing the vehicle using data from sensors from both inside and outside the vehicle. This paper extends the work...
Nowadays, more and more systems are coordinated and controlled to compose globally-distributed, highly-complex systems of systems (SoS). Existing testing methods focus on single devices and on performance characteristics from the network architecture upwards, but ignore the innate complexity caused by the spatial and temporal separation of these systems over vastly differing scales. As a result, quality...
In this paper, system framework for UAV formation collision avoidance is proposed. Key modules of the framework are identified including collaborative sensing, threat assessment, formation reorganization, path planning and maneuver control. Their corresponding mathematical models are also established for performance optimization. The formation collision avoidance is finally formulated as a combined...
The quest for an improvement in the quality of life of human beings directs the idea of integrating different areas of knowledge to solve problems that it is impossible to solve using traditional methods. The presented idea applies to the development of autonomous robotic systems; such as cars, wheelchairs, boats, and airplanes. In those cases, given a high level of autonomy can bring countless benefits...
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