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A Comparison of Local Path Planning Techniques of Autonomous Surface Vehicles for Monitoring Applications: The Ypacarai Lake Case-study
(MDPI, 2020-03)
Local path planning is important in the development of autonomous vehicles since it allows a vehicle to adapt their movements to dynamic environments, for instance, when obstacles are detected. This work presents an ...
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Cross Correlation-Based Ultrasonic Gas Flow Sensor With Temperature Compensation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
In this article, the design of an ultrasonic gas flow sensor with a low cost and low energy temperature compensation method based on time of flight (ToF) measurement is presented. In order to minimize the cost, the proposed ...
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Common DC-Link Capacitor Harmonic Current Minimization for Cascaded Converters by Optimized Phase-Shift Modulation
(MDPI, 2023-03)
This paper investigates the influence of a constant carrier phase shift on the DC-link capacitor harmonic current of cascaded converters used in fuel-cell and mild-hybrid electric vehicles. In these applications, a DC-DC ...
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A High-Gain Observer-Based Adaptive Super-Twisting Algorithm for DC-Link Voltage Control of NPC Converters
(MDPI, 2020-03)
Acting as an interface between the grid and many energy systems, the active front-end (AFE) has been widely used in a large variety of industrial applications. In this paper, in order to ensure the fast dynamic performance ...
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An evolutionary multi-objective path planning of a fleet of ASVs for patrolling water resources
(Elsevier, 2022-03)
The rapid increase of human activities with direct influence on the environment has motivated the global awareness of the need to efficiently monitor the natural resources. Among the wide range of problems addressed, such ...
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Low-Power Transit Time-Based Gas Flow Sensor with Accuracy Optimization
(MDPI, 2022-12)
In this paper, a fully designed ultrasonic transit time-based gas flow sensor is presented. The proposed sensor has been optimized in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and power consumption at different design stages: ...
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Contactless Ultrasonic Cavitation for the Prevention of Shunt Obstruction in Hydrocephalus: A Proof-of-Concept Study
(Wolters Kluwer, 2022-11)
BACKGROUND: Obstructive failure of implanted shunts is the most common complication in the treatment of hydrocephalus. Biological material and debris accumulate in the inner walls of the valve and catheters block the ...
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Biocompatibility Study of a Commercial Printed Circuit Board for Biomedical Applications: Lab-on-PCB for Organotypic Retina Cultures
(MDPI, 2021-11)
Printed circuit board (PCB) technology is well known, reliable, and low-cost, and its application to biomedicine, which implies the integration of microfluidics and electronics, has led to Lab-on-PCB. However, the ...
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Time Efficient Unmanned Aircraft Systems Deployment in Disaster Scenarios Using Clustering Methods and a Set Cover Approach
(MDPI, 2021-02)
Unmanned aircraft, which are more commonly known as drones, are nowadays extensively used in an ever increasing set of applications. In a wider system, the aircraft are usually associated to additional elements such as ...
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Semi-Automatic Lab-on-PCB System for Agarose Gel Preparation and Electrophoresis for Biomedical Applications
(MDPI, 2021-09)
In this paper, a prototype of a semi-automatic lab-on-PCB for agarose gel preparation and electrophoresis is developed. The dimensions of the device are 38x34 mm2 and it includes a conductivity sensor for detecting the TAE ...