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Analysis Of Condition Number And Position Estimation Error For Multiangulationposition Estimation System, Sa'id Musa Yarima, Ahmad Zuri Sha'ameri, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro Jan 2020

Analysis Of Condition Number And Position Estimation Error For Multiangulationposition Estimation System, Sa'id Musa Yarima, Ahmad Zuri Sha'ameri, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A passive wireless positioning system could be used to detect the location of low-level airborne targets such as drones or unmanned aircraft systems from the electromagnetic emission detected at spatially deployed ground receiving stations (GRSs). The multiangulation system proposed in this paper makes use of the angle of arrival (AOA) of the transmitted signal from the target to estimate its position through a 2-stage process. The AOA is the positiondependent signal parameter (PDSP) obtained from the target emission in the first stage, and using the PDSP and GRSs, the target location is estimated in the second stage by the angulation …


Two Novel Radar Detectors For Spiky Sea Clutter With The Presence Of Thermal Noise And Interfering Targets, Nouh Guidoum, Faouzi Soltani, Amar Mezache Jan 2020

Two Novel Radar Detectors For Spiky Sea Clutter With The Presence Of Thermal Noise And Interfering Targets, Nouh Guidoum, Faouzi Soltani, Amar Mezache

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the context of noncoherent detection and high-resolution maritime radar system with low grazing angle, new Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) decision rules are suggested for two Compound Gaussian (CG) clutters namely: The K distribution and the Compound Inverse Gaussian (CIG) distribution, which are considered among the most appropriate models for sea clutter. The proposed decision rules are then modified to deal with the presence of thermal noise and interfering targets. The proposed detectors are investigated on the basis of synthetic data as well as real data of the IPIX radar database. The obtained results exhibit a high probability of …


Selective Personalization And Group Profiles For Improved Web Search Personalization, Samira Karimi Mansoub, Gönenç Ercan, İlyas Çi̇çekli̇ Jan 2020

Selective Personalization And Group Profiles For Improved Web Search Personalization, Samira Karimi Mansoub, Gönenç Ercan, İlyas Çi̇çekli̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Personalization is a common technique used in Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of retrieval. While personalizing some queries yields significant improvements in user experience by providing a ranking in line with the user preferences, it fails to improve or even degrades the effectiveness for less ambiguous queries. A potential personalization metric could improve search engines by selectively applying personalization. One such measure, click entropy uses the query history and the clicked documents for the query, which might be sparse for some queries. In this article, the topic entropy measure is improved by integrating the user distribution into the …


Nonlinear Adaptive Semiactive Control Of A Half-Vehicle Model Via Hardware In The Loop Simulation, Mahmut Paksoy, Muzaffer Meti̇n Jan 2020

Nonlinear Adaptive Semiactive Control Of A Half-Vehicle Model Via Hardware In The Loop Simulation, Mahmut Paksoy, Muzaffer Meti̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, vehicle body vibrations are semiactively controlled using a nonlinear adaptive controller designed to improve passenger comfort by guaranteeing closed loop system stability under variable road disturbances with parametric uncertainty. Semiactive vibration control is implemented to the system through the magnetorheological damper. The MR damper test system is established in laboratory conditions, and the required values that are measured from the test system are used in computer simulations via the hardware in the loop simulation (HILS) method. By this way, it is possible to avoid the financial and other difficulties of the experimental study by establishing the test …


An Optimized Fpga Design Of Inverse Quantization And Transform For Hevcdecoding Blocks And Validation In An Sw/Hw Environment, Ahmed Ben Atitallah, Manel Kammoun, Rabie Ben Atitallah Jan 2020

An Optimized Fpga Design Of Inverse Quantization And Transform For Hevcdecoding Blocks And Validation In An Sw/Hw Environment, Ahmed Ben Atitallah, Manel Kammoun, Rabie Ben Atitallah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents an optimized hardware architecture of the inverse quantization and the inverse transform (IQ/IT) for a high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) decoder. Our highly parallel and pipelined architecture was designed to support all HEVC Transform Unit (TU) sizes: 4 × 4, 8 × 8, 16 × 16, and 32 × 32. The IQ/IT was described in the VHSIC hardware description language and synthesized to Xilinx XC7Z020 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and to TSMC 180 nm standard-cell library. The throughput of the hardware architecture reached in the worst case a processing rate of up to 1080 p at 33 fps …


A New Semiempirical Model Determining The Dielectric Characteristics Of Citrusleaves For The Remote Sensing At C Band, Abdullah Genç, Habi̇b Doğan, İbrahi̇m Bahadir Başyi̇ği̇t Jan 2020

A New Semiempirical Model Determining The Dielectric Characteristics Of Citrusleaves For The Remote Sensing At C Band, Abdullah Genç, Habi̇b Doğan, İbrahi̇m Bahadir Başyi̇ği̇t

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Dielectric parameters (i.e. permittivity) are fundamental to the simulation, design, modeling, and developing of microwave applications. For targeted objects, the complex permittivity is an essential parameter that affects its characteristics of scattering and microwave radiation. Thus, in microwave remote sensing applications, the knowledge of the dielectric property of vegetable materials is used not only to detect planting areas for monitoring and to able to specify the growth stage of them in seasonal variations, but also to determine the water requirement of the plant for controlling (water stress). This paper focuses on determining the dielectric parameters of orange and lemon leaves, …


A Ga-Based Adaptive Mechanism For Sensorless Vector Control Of Induction Motor Drives For Urban Electric Vehicles, Asma Boulmane, Youssef Zidani, Driss Belkhayat, Marouane Bouchouirbat Jan 2020

A Ga-Based Adaptive Mechanism For Sensorless Vector Control Of Induction Motor Drives For Urban Electric Vehicles, Asma Boulmane, Youssef Zidani, Driss Belkhayat, Marouane Bouchouirbat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Induction motors are more attractive to car manufacturers because they are more robust and more cost effective to maintain in comparison with other types of electric machines. The evolution of their control makes them more efficient and less expensive. However, a new control technique known as sensorless control is being used to simplify the implementation of electric machines in electric vehicles. This technique involves replacing the flux and speed sensors with an observer. The estimation of these elements is based on the measurement of currents and voltages. The main purpose of the present study is to design a novel robust …


Assessment Of Environmental Factors Affecting Software Reliability: A Survey Study, Alper Özcan, Çağatay Çatal, Cengi̇z Toğay, Bedi̇r Teki̇nerdoğan, Emrah Dönmez Jan 2020

Assessment Of Environmental Factors Affecting Software Reliability: A Survey Study, Alper Özcan, Çağatay Çatal, Cengi̇z Toğay, Bedi̇r Teki̇nerdoğan, Emrah Dönmez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Currently, many systems depend on software, and software reliability as such has become one of the key challenges. Several studies have been carried out that focus on the impact of external environmental factors that impact software reliability. These studies, however, were all carried out in the same geographical context. Given the rapid developments in software engineering, this study aims to identify and reinvestigate the environmental factors that impact software reliability by also considering a different context. The environmental factors that have an impact on software reliability as reported in earlier studies have been analyzed and synthesized. Subsequently, a survey study …


Finite-Time Dynamic Surface Approach To Nonlinear Systems With Mismatcheduncertainties, Guofa Sun, Yaming Xu Jan 2020

Finite-Time Dynamic Surface Approach To Nonlinear Systems With Mismatcheduncertainties, Guofa Sun, Yaming Xu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper develops a finite-time dynamic surface control (DSC) scheme for nonlinear systems with mismatched uncertainties via a high-order sliding mode(HOSM) observer. By designing a second-order terminal sliding surface based on the estimated signals, an observer-based sliding mode control (SMC) is designed to counteract the mismatched uncertainties in each step of backstepping. The proposed DSC scheme exhibits the following two attractive features. One is the application of HOSM observer to deal with mismatched system uncertainty functions. This is very different from the traditional approximator-based adaptive methods in dealing with high-order uncertain nonlinear systems. The other is the finite-time convergence of …


Sketic: A Machine Learning-Based Digital Circuit Recognition Platform, Mohamamd Abdel Majeed, Tasneem Almousa, Maysaa Alsalman, Abeer Yosef Jan 2020

Sketic: A Machine Learning-Based Digital Circuit Recognition Platform, Mohamamd Abdel Majeed, Tasneem Almousa, Maysaa Alsalman, Abeer Yosef

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In digital system design, digital logic circuit diagrams are built using interconnects and symbolic representations of the basic logic gates. Constructing such diagrams using free sketches is the first step in the design process. After that the circuit schematic or code has to be generated before being able to simulate the design. While most of the mentioned steps are automated using design automation tools, drafting the schematic circuit and then converting it into a valid format that can be simulated are still done manually due to the lack of robust tools that can recognize the free sketches and incorporate them …


Passenger Scoring For Free-Pass Promotion In Public Transportation, Ufuk Demi̇r Alan, Derya Bi̇rant Jan 2020

Passenger Scoring For Free-Pass Promotion In Public Transportation, Ufuk Demi̇r Alan, Derya Bi̇rant

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The focus of promotions targeted to increase the use of public transportation concentrates on increasing the attractiveness of it, particularly by decreasing transportation fares. To serve that purpose, this paper proposes a novel passenger scoring model, namely RFLT (recency, frequency, loyalty, and time), for offering a free-pass promotion in public transportation. It presents the comparison results of RFLT and wRFLT (weighted version) using a real-world dataset obtained by a near field communication (NFC) mobile payment application. The experimental results show that the w-RFLT model provides a more balanced score distribution than the RFLT model, and the frequency parameter (F), among …


Replica Bias Circuit For Common-Source Amplifier, Burak Kelleci̇ Jan 2020

Replica Bias Circuit For Common-Source Amplifier, Burak Kelleci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A replica bias circuit to set the current of common-source amplifier to reduce the gain variations across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) changes is proposed. The gain of a common-source amplifier is set by the load resistor and transistor transconductance which is set proportional to a resistor using a constant-gm bias circuit. The success of constant-gm biasing depends on the accuracy of copying of generated current to the transistor. The leakage current at the transistor gate due to the electrostatic discharge protection diodes prevents the matching of the common source transistor current to the constant-gm circuit current. A low-power replica …


A 88 $\Mu W$ Digital Phase-Domain Gfsk Demodulator Compatible With Low-If And Zero-If Receiver With Preamble Detection For Ble, Shen Jie Ung, Ab Al-Hadi Ab Rahman Jan 2020

A 88 $\Mu W$ Digital Phase-Domain Gfsk Demodulator Compatible With Low-If And Zero-If Receiver With Preamble Detection For Ble, Shen Jie Ung, Ab Al-Hadi Ab Rahman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Unlike conventional analog-to-digital converter (ADC), phase-domain ADC (Ph-ADC) is more power efficient for the implementation of fully digital Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK) demodulator in bluetooth low energy (BLE). Besides, Ph-ADC based demodulator is flexible to pair with low-IF and zero-IF receiver, opposed to limiter based demodulator that work with low-IF receiver only. Yet, currently reported Ph-ADC based demodulator lack of preamble detection for BLE which will be used as symbol clock synchronization. In this work, a Ph-ADC based demodulator is proposed with the feature of preamble detection on BLE's packet. The detected preamble is used for symbol clock recovery …


A New Grid Partitioning Technology For Location Privacy Protection, Yue Sun, Lei Zhang, Jing Li, Zhen Zhang Jan 2020

A New Grid Partitioning Technology For Location Privacy Protection, Yue Sun, Lei Zhang, Jing Li, Zhen Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nowadays, the location-based service (LBS) has become an essential part of convenient service in people's daily life. However, the untrusted LBS servers can store lots of information about the user, such as the user's identity, location, and destination. Then the information can be used as background knowledge and combined with the query frequency of the user to launch the inference attack to obtain user's privacy. In most of the existing schemes, the author considers the algorithm of virtual location selection from the historical location of the user. However, the LBS server can infer the user's location information on the historical …


A New Smart Networking Architecture For Container Network Functions, Gülsüm Atici, Pinar Bölük Jan 2020

A New Smart Networking Architecture For Container Network Functions, Gülsüm Atici, Pinar Bölük

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

5G slices have challenging application demands from a wide variety of fields including high bandwidth, low latency and reliability. The requirements of the container network functions which are used in telecommunications are different from any other cloud native IT applications as they are used for data plane packet processing functions, together with control, signalling and media processing which have critical processing requirements. This study aims to discover high performing container networking solution by considering traffic loads and application types. The behaviour of several container cluster networking solutions -- Flannel, Weave, Libnetwork, Open Virtual Networking for Open vSwitch and Calico -- …


Improving Coverage Method Of Autonomous Drones For Environmental Monitoring, Ömür Yildirim, Revna Acar Vural, Klaus Diepold Jan 2020

Improving Coverage Method Of Autonomous Drones For Environmental Monitoring, Ömür Yildirim, Revna Acar Vural, Klaus Diepold

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the rapid developments of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), usage of UAVs is increasing to bring autonomy for complicated processes such as environmental monitoring. Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental monitoring tasks are highly demanding in terms of time and resources. To reduce expensive costs of operations, improvements on autonomous observation capabilities has a key role. In this work, we offer coverage improvements for our autonomous environmental monitoring system. We compared different path planning approaches to find out the optimum path planning solution. Simulation results showed that required task execution time and required resources are decreased by usage …