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A hybrid nf-fo-ro process for the supply of irrigation water from treated wastewater: Simulation study
( MDPI AG , 2021 , Article)Municipal treated wastewater could be considered as a water source for food crop irrigation purposes. Enhancing the quality of treated wastewater to meet irrigation standards has become a necessary practice. Nanofiltration ... -
A Hybrid Nine-Arm Modular Multilevel Converter for Medium-Voltage Six-Phase Machine Drives
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)The nine-arm modular multilevel converter (9A-MMC) has been recently proposed as a reduced MMC topology variation for six-phase drive applications, with 25% reduction in the number of employed arms and associated components, ... -
A HYBRID NONLINEAR VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTER FOR REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS
(2023 , Master Thesis)Energy harvesting mechanisms can be used to extract energy from ambient surroundings to power small electronic devices which has a significant advantage in realizing self-sustaining wireless devices. The piezoelectric ... -
A hybrid optimization-simulation approach for robust weekly aircraft routing and retiming
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)We address the robust weekly aircraft routing and retiming problem, which requires determining weekly schedules for a heterogeneous fleet that maximizes the aircraft on-time performance, minimizes the total delay, and ... -
A Hybrid Photo-Electro Catalytic Conversion of Carbon dioxide Using CuO-MgO Nanocomposite
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels accompanied by renewable resources has been under research since it helps to decrease CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The most suited source is solar energy which is generous and ... -
A hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvesting at stabilization cycles excited confined water in pipeline
(2021 , Master Thesis)Research on green energy has been increasing tremendously in the past few years. Energy harvesting from an industrial pipeline conveying fluid using a hybrid harvester consisting of a piezoelectric beam and electromagnetic ... -
A hybrid prognosis and health monitoring strategy by integrating particle filters and neural networks for gas turbine engines
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)In this paper, a novel hybrid structure is proposed for the development of health monitoring techniques of nonlinear systems by integration of model-based and computationally intelligent and data-driven techniques. In our ... -
A Hybrid PWM Technique to Improve the Performance of Voltage Source Inverters
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Article)Due to the rapid advancement of power semiconductor devices, the use of voltage source inverters (VSIs) has gained widespread acceptance. As a consequence, the performance of the voltage source inverter has emerged as a ... -
A hybrid simulation-optimization approach for the robust Discrete Time/Cost Trade-off Problem
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)We investigate a stochastic Discrete Time/Cost Trade-off Problem. This multimode project scheduling problem, requires assigning modes to activities, and scheduling the activities so that the sum of the activities cost and ... -
A hybrid spectrum sensing technique with multiple antenna based on GLRT
(2013 , Conference Paper)Spectrum sensing is the core for any cognitive radio network. Quick detection of the primary user signal allows for higher spectrum efficiency. In this paper, we introduce and implement a new hybrid spectrum sensing technique ... -
A hybrid switched inductor with flexible high voltage gain boost converter for DC micro-grid application
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Article)A hybrid switched inductor with flexible high voltage gain boost converter for 400 V DC microgrid application is presented in the paper. The three operating modes of the converter are controlled using three switches by ... -
A hybrid TDMA-MAC cooperative relaying scheme: Stability and delay analysis
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)We consider a cooperative relaying system with any number of source terminals, one shared relay, and a common destination. We assume a slotted time division multiple access (TDMA) framework in which each source terminal ... -
A hybridized genetic algorithm for cost estimation in bridge maintenance systems
(2010 , Conference Paper)A hybridized genetic algorithm is proposed to determine a repair schedule for a network of bridges. The schedule aims for the lowest overall cost while maintaining each bridge at satisfactory quality conditions. Appreciation, ... -
A hyperbolic penalty method to solve structured convex minimization problems
( Institute of Advanced Science Extension (IASE) , 2020 , Article)This paper presents a decomposition algorithm based on the smooth hyperbolic penalty, which leads to a scheme suitable for parallelized computations. The proposed algorithm can be seen as a separable version of the earlier ... -
A k-nearest neighbor multilabel ranking algorithm with application to content-based image retrieval
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Multilabel ranking is an important machine learning task with many applications, such as content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, when the number of labels is large, traditional algorithms are either infeasible or ... -
A kernel-based approach to MIMO LPV state-space identification and application to a nonlinear process system
( Elsevier B.V. , 2015 , Conference Paper)This paper first describes the development of a nonparametric identification method for linear parameter-varying (LPV) state-space models and then applies it to a nonlinear process system. The proposed method uses kernel-based ... -
A Kernel-Based PCA Approach to Model Reduction of Linear Parameter-Varying Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)This brief presents a model reduction method for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems using kernel-based principal component analysis (PCA). For state-space LPV models that are affine or rational in the scheduling variables ... -
A kernelized sparsity-based approach for best spectral bands selection for face recognition
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Article)We study face recognition in unconstrained illumination conditions. A twofold contribution is proposed: First, the robustness of four state-of-the-art algorithms, namely Multi-block Local Binary Pattern (MBLBP), Histogram ... -
A Key Frame Based Video Summarization using Color Features
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)The rapid development of digital video has opened ways for several multimedia applications. A huge amount of video data is uploaded on internet on daily basis, which, consumes additional internet bandwidth and storage ... -
A Laparoscopic Grasping Tool with Force Sensing Capability
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)This paper presents a laparoscopic grasping tool for minimally invasive surgery with the capability of multiaxis force sensing. The tool is able to sense three-axis Cartesian manipulation force and a single-axis grasping ...
