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This work depicts the preparation of Ni-C ultrafine composite from used engine oil. The used oil was emulsified with detergent loaded with Ni (OH)2. The loaded emulsion was sprayed on electric plasma generated between two C electrodes to a DC main 28 V and 70-80 A. The purged Ni-doped carbon fume was trapped on a…

Wheelchair controller design is very important for handicapped users such as quadriplegia, amputee, paralyzed and elderly. The safe use, easiness, and comfort are an important factor that can directly affect the user’s social efficiency and quality of life. In this paper, the design, implementation, and test of a new low-cost hybrid wheelchair controller for quadriplegics…

The availability of traffic data and computational advances now make it possible to build data-driven models that capture the evolution of the state of traffic along modeled stretches of road. These models are used for short-time prediction so that transportation facilities can be operated in an efficient way that guarantees a high level of service.…

This paper describes the concept and configuration of a novel automated safety vehicle stop system, and a future prospect of the study. Intrinsic sudden death may cause traffic accident since such accidents sometimes involve not only the driver but also other traffic users such as passengers and pedestrians. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is considered as a…

The sector of telecommunications is experiencing a large growth and rapid change in developing applications due to the variety of technologies, to increase the number of users and to arrival services varied from the high demand of the service quality such as streaming, web navigation. In this regard, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) organization…

This paper presents a literature review on data flow error detection and recovery techniques in embedded systems. In recent years, embedded systems are being used more and more in an enormous number of applications from small mobile device to big medical devices. At the same time, it is becoming important for embedded developers to make…

This paper proposes a novel intelligent technique that has been designed to optimise the performance of Software Defined Networks (SDN). The proposed hybrid intelligent system has employed integration of intelligence-based optimisation approaches with the artificial neural network. These heuristic optimisation methods include Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO). These methods were utilised separately…

One of the most important roles of the wireless sensor networks (WSN) is to avoid wiring costs, be self-sustainable and be able to function for several years. However, due to the slow progress in battery technology, power continues to be a limited resource in wireless sensor communication and electric energy storage remains to be an…

Among the most popular methodologies for development of data mining projects are CRISP-DM and SEMMA, This research paper explains the reason why it was decided to compare them from a specific case study. Therefore, this document describes in detail each phase, task and activity proposed by each methodology, applying it in the construction of a…

One of the great challenges in distance-learning is to follow the actions of the teachers/tutors and also the actions of students during the process of teaching and learning. This article presents the FAG Tool integrated with the LMS Moodle was developed to help managers of the Distance Education environment to monitor the actions of teachers/tutors…

This paper focuses on optimizing the decoding complexity of the progressive-edge-growth-based (PEG-based) method for the extended grouping of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags using a hybrid iterative/Gaussian elimination decoding algorithm. To further reduce the decoding time, the hybrid decoding is improved by including an early stopping criterion to avoid unnecessary iterations of iterative decoding for…

Smart city projects are quickly evolving in several countries as a feasible solution to the urban organization to provide sustainable socioeconomic growth and solve problems that arise as the populations of these cities grow. In this sense, technology application plays an important role in enabling automation of processes, improving the citizen’s quality of life and…

The Static Var Compensator (SVC) is used to improve the stability of the power system because of its role in injecting or absorbing the reactive power in the electrical transmission lines. The Power System Stabilizer (PSS) is also a control device which ensures maximum power transfer and thus the stability of the power system enhancement.…

Cloud computing is one of the largest emerging utility services that is expected to grow enormously over the next decade. Many organizations are moving into hybrid cloud/hosted computing models. Single cloud service provider introduces cost and environmental challenges. Also, multi-cloud solution implemented by the Cloud tenant is suboptimal as it requires expensive adaptation costs. Cloud…

In modern day technology, the Information Society is at risk. Passwords are a multi-user computer systems usual first line of defence against intrusion. A password may be textual with any combination of alphanumeric characters or biometric or 3-D. But no authentication protocol is fully secured against todays hackers as all of them are Static in…

In this paper, a delay-dependent controller based on the sliding mode concept is proposed to stabilize a networked robotic system in a decentralized synchronization scheme. In addition to being affected by communication time-delays between agents, and seen that external disturbances obviously affect any physical and dynamic system, an unsettling action resulting from measurement errors affects…

Nowadays, compliant micro-motion stages offer high positioning accuracy and repeatability. When assembled with conventional stages, the resulting dual-range positioning systems allow for nanometer scale accuracy within a centimeter scale working area. However, such systems invoke a high cost and large footprint. This paper presents a low-cost, compact compliant XY micro-motion stage where dual-range manipulation has…

The evolution of technology has changed the face of education, especially when combined with appropriate pedagogical bases. This combination has created innovation opportunities in order to add quality to teaching through new perspectives for traditional methods applied in the classroom. In the Health field, particularly, augmented reality and interaction design techniques can assist the teacher…

This paper This paper presents a reliable method for image segmentation using a fuzzy inference system. The Fuzzy Membership function is applied on the YCbCr color space. Triangular membership functions are used in the input of the fuzzy system, Mamdani type fuzzy inference system is applied and for the output universe, singleton-type functions are used;…

In recent years pattern recognition of power quality (PQ) disturbances in smart grids has developed into crucial topic for system equipments and end-users. Undoubtedly analyzing the PQ disturbances develop and maintain smart grids effectiveness. Voltage sags are the most common events that affect power quality. These faults are also the most costly. This paper represents…

Radar ambiguity function is widely employed to analyze a radar system’s time delay (range) resolution, Doppler frequency (range rate) resolution, mainlobe width and sidelobes in both range and Doppler. In this paper, ambiguity functions of frequency diverse array (FDA) which offers range-angle dependent transmit beampattern and Phased array which yields angle transmit beampattern is investigated.…

In this article we’ll tackle the control of multi-motors electric drives with high dynamic, with rapid changes in torque and speed, with rigid or flexible coupling of motors, where the control strategy is FOC (Field Oriented Control) for each drives and the distributed control in local network using the CANopen protocol. In the surface mining…

We have been developing a method of evaluating the mental health condition of a person based on the sound of their voice. Currently, we have applied this technology to create a smartphone application that shows the vitality and the mental activity as mental health condition indices. Using voice to measure one’s mental health condition is…

In virtual environments, virtual hand interactions play a key role in interactivity and realism allowing to perform fine motions. Data glove is widely used in Virtual Reality (VR) and through simulating a human hands natural anatomy (Avatar’s hands) in its appearance and motion is possible to interact with the environment and virtual objects. Recently, hand…

In this paper, we exploit an integration between Compressive sensing (CS) and the random mobility of sensors in distributed mobile sensor networks (MSNs). A small number of distributed mobile sensors are deployed randomly in a sensing area to observe a large number of positions. The distributed mobile sensors sparsely sample the sensing area for data…