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High-Speed Adaptive Wireless Body Area Networks, Miftadi Sudjai, Le Chung Tran, Farzad Safaei, Tadeusz Wysocki, Son Lam Phung

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Adaptive ultra-wideband wireless body area network (WBAN) is proposed in this paper as a feasible mobile health platform, offering a high-speed and robust service. It employs a space-time-frequency-coded (STFC) multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wideband technology. It is designed to improve the average bit error performance for high data rate applications while maintaining a reasonably high throughput in body-to-external links of a WBAN. The proposed adaptive WBAN comprises two novel components, namely, the frame transmission model and the bit error rate (BER) estimation-based adaptive algorithm. In addition, the optimization of adaptive parameters is conducted to obtain an extra improvement, hence …

Identification And Characterization Of Irregular Consumptions Of Load Data, Desh Deepak Sharma, S. N. Singh, Jeremy Lin, Elham Foruzan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

The historical information of loadings on substation helps in evaluation of size of photovoltaic (PV) generation and energy storages for peak shaving and distribution system upgrade deferral. A method, based on consumption data, is proposed to separate the unusual consumption and to form the clusters of similar regular consumption. The method does optimal partition of the load pattern data into core points and border points, high and less dense regions, respectively. The local outlier factor, which does not require fixed probability distribution of data and statistical measures, ranks the unusual consumptions on only the border points, which are a few …

Shielding Effectiveness Performance Of Conductive Concrete Structures, Lim Nguyen, Aaron Krause, Christopher Tuan, Joel D. Blasey, Holly Mcnerney, Ferdinand J. Metzger

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Conductive concrete mixtures have been designed and demonstrated to perform electromagnetic shielding. This paper describes the design, testing methods, and results obtained from the development of conductive concrete construction for structured electromagnetic shielding.

Integrated Mid-Infrared, Far Infrared And Terahertz Optical Hall Effect (Ohe) Instrument, And Method Of Use, Tino Hofmann, Mathias M. Schubert, Stefan Schoeche, Sean Knight, Craig M. Herzinger, John A. Woollam, Greg K. Pribil, Thomas E. Tiwald

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

System Stage, and Optical Hall Effect (OHE) system method for evaluating such as free charge carrier effective mass, concentration, mobility and free charge carrier type in a (51) Int. Ci. sample utilizing a permanent magnet at room temperature.

Systems And Methods Using Drawings Which Incorporate Bometric Data Assecurity Information, Cliff Xiaongang Wang, Wesley E. Snyder, Benjamin S. Riggan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Systems and method using drawings as security information are disclosed. According to an aspect, a computing device may include a touchscreen display configured to receive information for drawing a security manager configured to determined one or more characteristics associated with input of the gesture information. The security manager may also be configured to authenticate a user based on the drawn security picture and the one or more characteristics associated with input of the gesture information.

Using Mediawiki, The Semantic Mediawiki Extension And Relfinder For Heritage Data Management: A Rock Art Case Study, Robert A. Haubt

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

This paper looks at the usefulness of the MediaWiki and relevant wiki extensions for rock art data management and research. The paper follows a framework provided by the Global Rock Art Database www.rockartdatabase.com and examines a new database model for a semantic data management approach. Through practical examples it explores the usefulness of wikis in the data management life cycle from data planning to collection, storage and dissemination and examines interconnections within each phase of the cycle. The paper proposes a combined use of the Semantic MediaWiki extension and the RelFinder for visualization of semantic relationships, which could assist researchers …

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks 2016, Qindong Sun, Schancang Li, Shanshan Zhao, Hongjian Sun, Li Xu, Arumugam Nallamathan

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

The industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is the next frontier in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is able to help industrial organizations to gain competitive advantages in industrial manufacturing markets by increasing productivity, reducing the costs, developing new products and services, and deploying new business models.

Proving Non-Deterministic Computations In Agda, Sergio Antoy, Michael Hanus, Steven Libby

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

We investigate proving properties of Curry programs using Agda. First, we address the functional correctness of Curry functions that, apart from some syntactic and semantic differences, are in the intersection of the two languages. Second, we use Agda to model non-deterministic functions with two distinct and competitive approaches incorporating the non-determinism. The first approach eliminates non-determinism by considering the set of all non-deterministic values produced by an application. The second approach encodes every non-deterministic choice that the application could perform. We consider our initial experiment a success. Although proving properties of programs is a notoriously difficult task, the functional logic …

Improving The Performance Of Data-Intensive Computing On Cloud Platforms, Wei Dai

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Big Data such as Terabyte and Petabyte datasets are rapidly becoming the new norm for various organizations across a wide range of industries. The widespread data-intensive computing needs have inspired innovations in parallel and distributed computing, which has been the effective way to tackle massive computing workload for decades. One significant example is MapReduce, which is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on huge datasets, and an execution framework for data-intensive computing on commodity clusters as well. Since it was originally proposed by Google, MapReduce has become the most popular technology for data-intensive computing. While Google owns its proprietary …

An Efficient Global Technique For Solving The Network Constrained Static And Dynamic Economic Dispatch Problem, Aamir Nawaz, Nasir Saleem, Ehtasham Mustafa, Umair Ali Khan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a new approach for solving the economic load dispatch (ELD) problem with generator constraints and transmission losses. The constrained globalized Nelder-Mead algorithm is a newly proposed algorithm for solving economic dispatch problems with and without valve-point effects. Convex and nonconvex cost functions with equality and inequality constraints are difficult to optimize. To circumvent these problems, a robust global technique is desirable. In this paper, the constrained globalized Nelder--Mead algorithm is proposed to optimize the ELD problem globally using variance variable probability. To validate the proficiency of the proposed approach, statistical studies have been accomplished for different test …

An Efficient Hybrid Data Gathering Algorithm Based On Multihop And Mobile Elements In Wsns, Mukhtar Ghaleb, Shamala Subramaniam, Mohamed Othman, Zuriati Zukarnain

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Data gathering is a focal task in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that expends most of the sensor nodes' energy. Two factors that are considered essential in data gathering are latency and power consumption. The multihop data gathering approach proves that latency is minimized due to the speed of forwarding data to the base station. However, this may lead to increased power consumption and increased possibility of an emerging hotspot area. In contrast, data gathering based on a mobile element (ME) proves that power consumption is minimized due to avoiding relay data in extreme schemes. However, this may increase the latency …

Performance Evaluation Of Simple Csrz-Qdpsk Transmitter Configurations For 20-Gbps Pon Applications, Rimmya Chitravelu, Ganesh Madhan Muthu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The performance of 1 and 2 Mach--Zehnder modulator (MZM)-based simple carrier suppressed return to zero differential quadrature phase shift keying (CSRZ-QDPSK) transmitters is analyzed in a 20 Gb/s single-mode fiber optic link. The link's performance under the transmitter schemes is evaluated by analyzing the received constellation, eye diagram, quality factor, and eye opening penalty (EOP) in a passive optical networks (PON) scenario. It is observed that the simple transmitter provides performance closer to the case of the standard 3 MZM CSRZ-QDPSK-based transmitter reported in the literature and implemented in experiments.

Truncation Thresholds: A Pair Of Spike Detection Thresholds Computed Using Truncated Probability Distributions, Murat Okatan, Mehmet Kocatürk

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

We describe a method for computing a pair of spike detection thresholds, called `truncation thresholds', using truncated probability distributions, for extracellular recordings. In existing methods the threshold is usually set to a multiple of an estimate of the standard deviation of the noise in the recording, with the multiplication factor being chosen between 3 and 5 according to the researcher's preferences. Our method has the following advantages over these methods. First, because the standard deviation is usually estimated from the entire recording, which includes the spikes, it increases with firing rate. By contrast, truncation thresholds decrease in absolute value with …

Comparing Of Phase Shifting Method And One-Dimensional Continuous Wavelet Transform Method For Reconstruction Using Phase-Only Information, Gülhan Ustabaş Kaya, Zehra Saraç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The one-dimensional continuous wavelet transform method has some advantages in hologram reconstruction, when used in the only phase, compared with the phase shifting method. This paper aims to discuss these advantages. One advantage is related to image quality. Another advantage is less power spent and saving time, because the one-dimensional continuous wavelet transform method uses only one hologram and the phase shifting method uses four holograms for recording and reconstruction processes. One final advantage is that the one-dimensional continuous wavelet transform method can also be used in real-time applications. Within the context of the ongoing optimization studies, this study will …

Model-Based Fault Analysis Of A High-Voltage Circuit Breaker Operating Mechanism, Ali Forootani, Ali Akbar Afzalian, Ali Nadian Ghohmshe

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a dynamic model is developed for high-voltage circuit breakers to extract fault features and causes. Lagrange's method is applied using geometric equations of mechanism components to write the model. Unlike previous approaches, the proposed method reveals and analyzes all types of circuit breaker operating mechanism faults. Early fault detection, which is a vital requirement of the fault diagnosis system, becomes feasible by keeping track of changes in the contact travel curve in the proposed model. Resulting faults in the travel curve are analyzed mathematically in order to find out the exact origin of the fault. Field test …

A Marching Algorithm For Isosurface Extraction From Face-Centered Cubic Lattices, Yusuf Sahi̇lli̇oğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This work provides a novel method that extracts isosurfaces from face-centered cubic (FCC) lattices. It has been theoretically shown that sampling volumetric data on an FCC lattice tiled with rhombic dodecahedra is more efficient than sampling them on a Cartesian lattice tiled with cubes, in that the FCC lattice can represent the same data set as a Cartesian lattice with the same accuracy, yet with approximately 23% fewer samples. This fact, coupled with the good properties of rhombic dodecahedra, encouraged us to develop this related isosurface extraction technique. Thanks to the sparser sampling required by the FCC lattices, the de …

Robust Seed Detection For Coronary Arteries Segmentation Using Thresholded Frangi Response, Sammer Zai, Muhammad Ahsan Ansari, Soon-Young Song, Young Shik Moon

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Automatic detection of initial seed points has become an essential step towards delineating coronary arteries in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) images due to image inhomogeneity and other factors. Most coronary segmentation algorithms require user interaction for seed point selection, which may lead to erroneous segmentation. In this study, we present an improved technique of seed detection for coronary segmentation using a thresholded Frangi response. Before computing region of interest (ROI), the proposed method first computes the Frangi response of the complete CCTA volume, followed by thresholding with respect to quantile and median values, and then the ROI selection procedure …

A Bidirectional Wireless Power Transfer System For An Electric Vehicle With A Relay Circuit, Chenyang Xia, Wei Wang, Yuling Liu, Kezhang Lin, Yanhe Wang, Xiaojie Wu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In order to extend the transfer distance, enhance the tolerance for coil misalignment, and improve the capability of energy feedback and power transfer efficiency of conventional wireless power transfer (WPT) systems for electric vehicles, this paper presents a bidirectional WPT topology with a relay circuit. In the proposed topology, the primary and pickup circuits are implemented with virtually identical structures, which can operate in both magnetic field excitation and magnetic field receiving modes to facilitate bidirectional power flow between the primary side and the pickup side. A relay circuit is introduced to achieve high transfer efficiency under special conditions such …

A Fast Feature Selection Approach Based On Extreme Learning Machine And Coefficient Of Variation, Ömer Faruk Ertuğrul, Mehmet Emi̇n Tağluk

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Feature selection is the method of reducing the size of data without degrading their accuracy. In this study, we propose a novel feature selection approach, based on extreme learning machines (ELMs) and the coefficient of variation (CV). In the proposed approach, the most relevant features are identified by ranking each feature with the coefficient obtained through ELM divided by CV. The achieved accuracies and computational costs, obtained with the use of features selected via the proposed approach in 9 classification and 26 regression benchmark data sets, were compared to those obtained with all features, as well as those obtained with …

Horizontal Directional Drilling Pilot Bore Simulation, Paulius Tervydis, Ruta Jankuniene

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Various underground communications (water or gas supply systems, sewage, power lines) have been installed in recent years using trenchless technologies, i.e. horizontal directional drilling (HDD). This technique by its nature does not disturb the traffic and is environmentally friendly. One must be aware that, with HDD, pipeline building time is shortened. With respect to the above, HDD is especially effective in highly populated or industrial areas. However, it is necessary to ensure that HDD works, in order to prevent damage to installed underground facilities. The aim of this work is to propose a user-friendly and inexpensive simulation tool with required …

An Electronic Portable Device Design To Spectroscopically Assess Fruit Quality, Ali̇ Sarikaş, Merve Doğruyol Başar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

As a rapid and nondestructive sensing technique, reflection spectroscopy is useful in monitoring and managing horticultural production; in other words, the ripening of fruits and vegetables can be evaluated using reflection spectroscopy. Based on laboratory data obtained from an ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared (UV/Vis/NIR) spectrophotometer with a diffuse reflectance accessory, we developed a prototype handheld device. The device operates at a range of 400 nm to 1100 nm (blue, green, red, and NIR). LEDs, photodiodes, a microcontroller, digital-to-analog converters, a graphical LCD display, and a keypad were used for instrumentation. With our user-friendly software interface, measurements can be performed and controlled in real …

Planar Inverted-F Antenna For Universal Serial Bus Dongle Applications, Hassan Tariq Chattha, Muhammad Nasir, Qamar Hussain Abbasi, Yi Huang, Saqer Saleh Aljaafreh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A simple planar inverted-f antenna for universal serial bus dongles covering the frequency from 1.6 GHz to more than 3.6 GHz in a single band is presented in this paper. The height of the planar inverted-f antenna is only 3 mm and the dimensions of the ground plane are set equal to the usual size of a universal serial bus dongle (20 mm $\times $ 55 mm). For further enhancement in impedance bandwidth, a rectangular strip is etched on the ground plane. The frequency bands covered by this antenna include LTE / AWS / UMTS (1700), DCS (1800), PCS / …

A Novel Hybrid Approach Based On A Chaotic Cloud Gravitational Search Algorithm To Complicated Image Template Matching, Weijia Cui, Yuzhu He

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Template matching is the process of accurately extracting the interesting regions in a source image according to reference templates. In this paper, the gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is employed as a novel search strategy for template matching. However, the basic GSA is easily trapped in a local optimum and has a poor exploitation ability. In this paper, to enhance the optimization performance of GSA, a novel cross-search strategy based on chaotic global search (CGS) and cloud local search (CLS) is incorporated into GSA. The new variant is named chaotic cloud GSA (CCGSA). CGS makes full use of the ergodicity of …

A Novel Approach To Solve Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power Flow Problems, Huy Nguyen-Duc, Linh Tran-Hoai, Dieu Vo Ngoc

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes an approach to solve the transient stability constraint optimal power flow (TSC-OPF) problem. The transient stability constraints are expressed as the critical clearing time (CCT) of different contingencies, and are approximated using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The ANNs provide a nonlinear, differentiable mapping between the load flow variables and the CCT. As a result, the TSC-OPF with multiple transient stability constraints can be solved very efficiently with little additional computational burden. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with the IEEE 39 bus and the IEEE 300 bus systems.

Low-Power Voltage To A Frequency-Based Smart Temperature Sensor With +0.8/-0.75 $^{\Circ}$C Accuracy For -55 $^{\Circ}$C To 125 $^{\Circ}$C, Mudasir Bashir, Sreehari Rao Patri, Krishna Prasad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The high power densities in system-on-chips demand accurate, low power, and compact smart temperatures for thermal monitoring. In this paper, a low-power CMOS-based smart temperature sensor, operating in the subthreshold region, for military applications (-55 $^{\circ}$C to 125 $^{\circ}$C) is presented. The sensor exploits the thermal dependency of the threshold voltage of MOS transistors to generate a voltage proportional to absolute temperature ($V_{PTAT})$. A frequency locked loop technique is employed to generate frequency from $V_{PTAT}$. The frequency variation due to temperature is measured by counting the rising edge with an asynchronous 12-bit counter. The large die area and requirement of …

When Machines Decide: Justice.Exe Learning Modules, Praxis Lab Team

Law School Historical Documents

Learning modules for the Praxis Lab Honors Course

When Machines Decide: Creating Justice.Exe, Randy Dryer, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Austin Anderson, Abigail Busath, Logan Cox, Morgan Cox, Logan Erickson, Zachary Grena, Joseph Hutchins, Skyler Jayson, Andrew Yang

Law School Historical Documents

Our Praxis Lab centered on the increasingly important need for algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight, particularly in the context of the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system. Accordingly, we (1) designed an educational simulation to illustrate the function of algorithms in the context of criminal sentencing; (2) created several pre-packaged course modules that faculty in a variety of disciplines could integrate into their existing curriculum to educate students about algorithms and their increasing role in modern society; and (3) curated a set of best practices designed to promote the transparency and oversight of algorithmic systems.

Animatronic Kinect Bear, Christopher J. Barth, Luis Manjarrez, Emily Lopez

Computer Engineering

The objective of the project was to build an interactive robotic bear through the application of Computer Engineering related software and hardware concepts. Utilizing the body recognition features of XBos One Kinect, the bera will be able to mimic a user's motions in real time.

Wind Turbine Noise And Wind Speed Prediction, Tyler H. Blanchard

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In order to meet the US Department of Energy projected target of 35% of US energy coming from wind by 2050, there is a strong need to study the management and development of wind turbine technology and its impact on human health, wildlife and environment. The prediction of wind turbine noise and its propagation is very critical to study the impacts of wind turbine noise for long term adoption and acceptance by neighboring communities. The prediction of wind speed is critical in the assessment of feasibility of a potential wind turbine site. This work presents a study on prediction of …

Towards Design And Analysis For High-Performance And Reliable Ssds, Qianbin Xia

Theses and Dissertations

NAND Flash-based Solid State Disks have many attractive technical merits, such as low power consumption, light weight, shock resistance, sustainability of hotter operation regimes, and extraordinarily high performance for random read access, which makes SSDs immensely popular and be widely employed in different types of environments including portable devices, personal computers, large data centers, and distributed data systems.

However, current SSDs still suffer from several critical inherent limitations, such as the inability of in-place-update, asymmetric read and write performance, slow garbage collection processes, limited endurance, and degraded write performance with the adoption of MLC and TLC techniques. To alleviate these …