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An extended-duty-ratio (EDR) boost is a unique combination of interleaved, multiphase boost converter and switched capacitor configuration that achieves a high converter gain without increased switching losses as most of the switches experience only fractions of the output voltage depending on the number of phases M. For an M-phase EDR converter with different combinations of the operating modes,...
The Carleton University Simulator Project (CUSP) is developing a novel flight simulator that decouples typical translational motions from unlimited rotations about any axis. The new CUSP simulator, Atlas, consists of an orientable sphere, housing the cockpit, mounted on a motion platform. Atlas is not bound by the typical limitations in roll, pitch, and yaw of traditional flight simulators. This paper...
Remote Laboratories are used in educational settings as tools to give students access to experiments that are not physically available to them at their institutions. During implementation, problems such as: bandwidth, security or limitations in terms of the usability, have been identified. This paper proposes an approach that integrates, what we call, a Smart Adaptive Remote Laboratory (SARL) with...
On the financial side, a key factor for the success of a smart-city initiative is the low cost of the sensors. On the technical side, the units need to be flexible enough to cover different roles, and to be reconfigurable for a distinct target. The capability to interact with an already deployed infrastructure, like a preexistent web-server, is a favorable feature from both the financial and technical...
Response time of the emergency services is vital in drastically improving the chances of survival and of meaningful recovery for the affected individuals in emergency situations. Often precious time is often lost for emergency services due to traffic, especially at traffic intersections. What we propose is a dynamic solution to the aforementioned problem using an intelligent network of smart traffic...
The article presents the results of studies of the physical security system in the infrastructure facility of a region. The following results have been obtained: structural and functional decomposition of the physical security system for the regional infrastructure has been performed; engineering solutions for the implementation of the standard functions for the subsystems of the research object have...
Over speed is one of the major causes of traffic injuries, especially in low and middle-income countries. The speed limits are predetermined per particular zone but violated by drivers. The objective of the study is to design and develop a low-cost system that can accurately detect speed by using an array of active infrared sensors enabled by specialized algorithm and submit violation-related data...
While petty crimes are considered misdemeanors from a judicial point of view and are typically punished with light sentences, they greatly affect citizens' perception of safety and are related to substantial financial losses. In this paper, we describe a technological solution for the timely detection of petty crimes, based on the developments of the EU project P-REACT. Concretely, a modular framework...
Vehicular transport as a concept is an extremely widespread acceptance among people. This means that there is an extremely diverse transport sector on the globe. The way vehicles are manufactured, deployed and used is also quite varied which has a direct implication on the fuel efficiency, emissions and even the driving style of people. The focus has been on developing a realistic drive cycle for...
Post-silicon validation is concerned for discovering design errors that escape to the silicon prototypes. Recent research efforts have shown how to reuse the constraints from pre-silicon verification to support post-silicon constrained-random validation. The objective is to subject the prototype to a large volume of random, yet functionally-compliant stimuli. In this paper, we present a new method...
Various current trends such as ever growing population have effectively promoted the growth of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). Most of the existing works in WBAN focus on theoretical performance enhancement, whereas works in implementation which is of significance in validation and further research are pretty rare. Therefore, a reliable and efficient system designed both in hardware and software...
The Internet of Things has created a need for embedded devices that, despite being battery powered, can perform complex algorithms when needed. To fulfil this need we present the Elastic Node, a hardware platform that combines embedded field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with conventional microcontroller units (MCUs). These nodes can adapt their processing resources when their requirements change...
This paper presents a method to implement complex tasks into stateful SDN programmable dataplanes. In particular, the presented method proposes to use the internal microcontroller typically used to configure the programmable dataplane also to perform some complex operations that do not require to be executed on each packet. These operations can be executed on a set of data gathered by the dataplane...
The proposed paper describes the Fire-HEXBOOT prototype's implementation, consisting of the hexapod-propulsion module, the fire detection and its extinguishing system. During the prototype testing some adjustments in terms of sensors, servomotor response times, balancing of the displacement structure have been solved and optimized. Specifically, the developed robot has mechatronic system dedicated...
An adaptive (or cognitive) radar operates by sensing the environment and accordingly adopts an optimal transmit-receive structure. To this end, in the literature, matched illumination (MI) principles have been investigated to realize this concept, algorithms have been developed for the different components in such radars, and the entire framework validated through numerical simulations. However, these...
The paper describes a new methodology that allows to design scalable complex control and data acquisition systems taking into consideration the additional, non-functional requirements of High-Energy Physics (HEP). Electronic systems applied in HEP often operate in difficult conditions. Access to such devices is difficult or even impossible. The HEP systems require high availability, serviceability...
We report a FPGA-hardware implementation of a novel Hough-transform (HT) architecture. A DE4 platform with a Stratix-IV FPGA device has been applied to synthesize a complete prototype system. Due to parallelization of the voting procedure, XGA videos can be processed with a frame delay of 5.4 ms at an operating frequency of 200MHz. System suitability for detecting road lanes in automotive applications...
CPU is one of the most significant sources of power consumption on smartphones. Power modeling is a key technique and important tool for power estimation and management, both of which are critical for providing good QoS for smartphones. However, we find that existing CPU power models for smartphones are ill-suited for modern multicore CPUs: they can give high estimation errors (up to 34%) and high...
The application of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) to the real-time monitoring, protection and control of Distribution Networks, requires the availability of high accuracy devices that are characterized at the same time by a reasonable cost. This paper presents the design of a low-cost PMU prototype based on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that integrates a recently published synchrophasor...
This paper presents the proposal of a new front-end readout electronics (RO) architecture for the ALICE Charged-particle Veto detector (CPV) located in PHOton Spectrometer (PHOS), and for the High Momentum particle IDentification detector (HMPID). With the upgrades in hardware typology and proposed new readout scheme in FPGA design, the RO system shall achieve at least five times the speed of the...
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