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Carbon Nanotubes Effect for Polymer Materials on Break Down Voltage

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1770-1778
Loai S. Nasrat , Berlanty A. Iskander , Marina N. Kamel
Epoxy resin composites reinforced to different types of carbon nano-particles have been fabricated. Carbon black (20, 30 and 40 wt. %), graphene (0.5 to 4 wt. %) and carbon nanotubes (CNT) (0.5 to 2 wt. %) were added with different weight percentages to epoxy. The dielectric strength of composites was tested in several conditions such as (dry, wet, low salinity and high salinity). The mechanical characterization showed that the nano-composite Polymer enhanced by using these particles in the tensile strength. Thermal gravimetric analysis shows effect of these nano-particles on the thermal structure of epoxy resin. Scanning Electron Microscopic test is used to characterize the dispersion of carbon nano-particles and to analysis the fractured parts in the nano scale.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1770-1778
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Functional Verification of Large-integers Circuits using a Cosimulation-based Approach

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2192-2205
Nejmeddine Alimi , Younes Lahbib , Mohsen Machhout , Rached Tourki
Cryptography and computational algebra designs are complex systems based on modular arithmetic and build on multi-level modules where bit-width is generally larger than 64-bit. Because of their particularity, such designs pose a real challenge for verification, in part because large-integer’s functions are not supported in actual hardware description languages (HDLs), therefore limiting the HDL testbench utility. In another hand, high-level verification approach proved its efficiency in the last decade over HDL testbench technique by raising the latter at a higher abstraction level. In this work, we propose a high-level platform to verify such designs, by leveraging the capabilities of a popular tool (Matlab/Simulink) to meet the requirements of a cycle accurate verification without bit-size restrictions and in multi-level inside the design architecture. The proposed high-level platform is augmented by an assertion-based verification to complete the verification coverage. The platform experimental results of the testcase provided good evidence of its performance and re-usability.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 2192-2205
Publish at: 2017-08-01

An Electromagnetic Moment in Short Circuits in Electrical Rotating Machines with High-Coercivity Permanent Magnets

10.11591/ijeecs.v7.i2.pp483-491
Flyur Ismagilov , Irek Khayrullin , Vyacheslav Vavilov , Valentina Ayguzina
This paper presents a computer model of an electrical rotating machine with high-coercivity permanent magnets and research of various short-circuit types in the electrical rotating machine with high-coercivity permanent magnets, including turn-to-turn short circuit. Diagnostic criteria of short circuits are revealed. There are the electromagnetic moment and the magnetic flux density in the stator core back. With comparison the experiment and computer modeling results, it was found that the created computer model is highly accurate and completely repeats the experiment results. The numerical discrepancy between the experimental data and the simulation data is below 5%. The obtained results can be used in practice in the design of the electrical rotating machine with high-coercivity permanent magnets.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 483-491
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Image Segmentation Research Based on GA and Improved Otsu Algorithm

10.11591/ijeecs.v7.i2.pp533-541
Xiaoqun Qin
In the face of the problem of high complexity of two-dimensional Otsu adaptive threshold algorithm, a new fast and effective Otsu image segmentation algorithm is proposed based on genetic algorithm. This algorithm replaces the segmentation threshold of the traditional two - dimensional Otsu method by finding the threshold of two one-dimensional Otsu method, it reduces the computational complexity of the partition from O (L4) to O (L). In order to ensure the integrity of the segmented object, the algorithm introduces the concept of small dispersion in class, and the automatic optimization of parameters are achieved by genetic algorithm. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the algorithm is not only better than the original two-dimensional Otsu algorithm, but also it has better segmentation effect.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 533-541
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Energy Efficient Operation of Three Phase Induction Motor using Delstar Converter for Machine Tools

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1706-1713
M. Premkumar , R. Sowmya
DELSTAR converter is an electronic system to be interfaced with the existing STAR – DELTA starter for machine tools. Induction motor consumes more power while it is operated at DELTA mode for a long time under no load condition. The proposed system gives the solution for the above stated problem. When the load on the motor is less than 40% of full load, it switches the motor to operate in STAR mode to save energy. When the load increases beyond 40%, it automatically switches the motor to operate in DELTA mode. The starting regimen is not disturbed. The proposed converter is recommended for applications where load changes are not more than 120 times/hour. This can be used with any capacity motor by choosing appropriate current transformers and setting the current level using the potentiometer built in. The proposed converter is designed for 5HP induction motor and experimentally tested.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1706-1713
Publish at: 2017-08-01

FPGA Implementation of Higher Order FIR Filter

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1874-1881
Gurpadam Singh , Neelam R. Prakash
The digital Finite-Impulse-Response (FIR) filters are mainly employed in digital signal processing applications. The main components of digital FIR filters designed on FPGAs are the register bank to save the samples of signals, adder to implement sum operations and multiplier for multiplication of filter coefficients to signal samples. Although, design and implementation of digital FIR filters seem simple but the design bottleneck is multiplier block for speed, power consumption and FPGA chip area occupation. The multipliers are an integral part in FIR structures and these use a large part of the chip area. This limits the number of processing elements (PE) available on the chip to realize a higher order of filter. A model is developed in the Matlab/Simulink environment to investigate the performance of the desired higher order FIR filter. An equivalent FIR filter representation is designed by the Xilinx FIR Compiler by using the exported FIR filter coefficients. The Xilinx implementation flow is completed with the help of Xilinx ISE 14.5. It is observed how the use of higher order FIR filter impacts the resource utilization of the FPGA and it’s the maximum operating frequency.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1874-1881
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Modeling, Simulation, and Optimal Control for Two-Wheeled Self-Balancing Robot

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2008-2017
Modestus Oliver Asali , Ferry Hadary , Bomo Wibowo Sanjaya
Two-wheeled self-balancing robot is a popular model in control system experiments which is more widely known as inverted pendulum and cart model. This is a multi-input and multi-output system which is theoretical and has been applied in many systems in daily use. Anyway, most research just focus on balancing this model through try-on experiments or by using simple form of mathematical model. There were still few researches that focus on complete mathematic modeling and designing a mathematical model based controller for such system. This paper analyzed mathematical model of the system. Then, the authors successfully applied a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) controller for this system. This controller was tested with different case of system condition. Controlling results was proved to work well and tested on different case of system condition through simulation on matlab/Simulink program.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 2008-2017
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Toward a New Framework of Recommender Memory Based System for MOOCs

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2152-2160
El Alami Taha , El Kadiri Kamal Eddine , Chrayah Mohamed
MOOCs is the new wave of remote learning that has revolutionized it since its apparition, offering the possibility to teach a very big group of student, at the same time, in the same course, within all disciplines and without even gathering them in the same geographic location, or at the same time; Allowing the sharing of all type of media and document and providing tools to assessing student performance. To benefit from all this advantages, big universities are investing in MOOCs platforms to valorize their approach, which makes MOOC available in a multitude of languages and variety of disciplines. Elite universities have open their doors to student around the world without requesting tuition or claiming a college degree, however even with the major effort reaching to maximize students visits and hooking visitors to the platform, using recommending systems propose content likely to please learners, the dropout rate still very high and the number of users completing a course remains very low compared to those who have quit. In this paper we propose an architecture aiming to maximize users visits by exploiting users big data and combining it with data available from social networks.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 2152-2160
Publish at: 2017-08-01

New Realization of Quadrature Oscillator using OTRA

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1815-1823
Gurumurthy Komanaplli , Neeta Pandey , Rajeshwari Pandey
In this paper a new, operational transresistance amplifier (OTRA) based, third order quadrature oscillator (QO) is presented. The proposed structure forms a closed loop using a high pass filter and differentiator. All the resistors employed in the circuit can be implemented using matched transistors operating in linear region thereby making the proposed structure fully integrated and electronically tunable. The effect of non-idealities of OTRA has been analyzed which suggests that for high frequency applications self-compensation can be used. Workability of the proposed QO is verified through SPICE simulations using 0.18μm AGILENT CMOS process parameters. Total harmonic distortion (THD) for the proposed QO is found to be less than 2.5%.The sensitivity, phasenoise analysis is also discussed for the proposed structure.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1815-1823
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Indian Monuments Classification using Support Vector Machine

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1952-1963
Malay S. Bhatt , Tejas P. Patalia
Recently, Content-Based Image Retrieval is a widely popular and efficient searching and indexing approach used by knowledge seekers. Use of images by e-commerce sites, by product and by service industries is not new nowadays. Travel and tourism are the largest service industries in India. Every year people visit tourist places and upload pictures of their visit on social networking sites or share via the mobile device with friends and relatives. Classification of the monuments is helpful to hoteliers for the development of a new hotel with state of the art amenities, to travel service providers, to restaurant owners, to government agencies for security, etc.. The proposed system had extracted features and classified the Indian monuments visited by the tourists based on the linear Support Vector Machine (SVM). The proposed system was divided into 3 main phases: preprocessing, feature vector creation and classification. The extracted features are based on Local Binary Pattern, Histogram, Co-occurrence Matrix and Canny Edge Detection methods.  Once the feature vector had been constructed, classification was   performed using Linear SVM. The Database of 10 popular Indian monuments was generated with 50 images for each class. The proposed system is implemented in MATLAB and achieves very high accuracy. The proposed system was also tested on other popular benchmark databases.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1952-1963
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Source based Security Issues in WDM Systems

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2101-2108
A. Antwiwaa , A. Kumar , A. K Jaiswal
The issue of security has become a bigger heddle for all telecommunication companies to climb in this era where information hungry customers are increasing daily. Unauthorized users are finding novel ways of accessing information of others and thereby attacking the requisite legitimate users’ information accounting to security threats. In this work, two forms of WDM system attacks will be considered. These attacks include a clone source based attack where the adversary tries to replicate the transmitted signal of the legitimate user by transmitting at the same wavelength and power and the different wavelength source based attack where the adversary transmit at a wavelength different from that of the legitimate user thereby creating interaction effects igniting security issues. Finally, a simulation of the outcome will be considered and the resulting output will be analyzed
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 2101-2108
Publish at: 2017-08-01

A Simplified Speed Control of Induction Motor based on a Low Cost FPGA

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1760-1769
Lotfi charaabi , Ibtihel Jaziri
This paper investigates the development of a simplified speed control of induction motor based on indirect field oriented control (FOC). An original PI-P controller is designed to obtain good performances for speed tracking. Controller coefficients are carried out with analytic approach. The algorithm is implemented using a low cost Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The implementation is followed by an efficient design methodology that offers considerable design advantages. The main advantage is the design of reusable and reconfigurable hardware modules for the control of electrical systems. Experimental results carried on a prototyping platform are given to illustrate the efficiency and the benefits of the proposed approach.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1760-1769
Publish at: 2017-08-01

A Novel Method based on Gaussianity and Sparsity for Signal Separation Algorithms

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1906-1914
Abouzid Houda , Chakkor Otman
Blind source separation is a very known problem which refers to finding the original sources without the aid of information about the nature of the sources and the mixing process, to solve this kind of problem having only the mixtures, it is almost impossible , that why using some assumptions is needed in somehow according to the differents situations existing in the real world, for exemple, in laboratory condition, most of tested algorithms works very fine and having good performence because the  nature and the number of the input signals are almost known apriori and then the mixing process is well determined for the separation operation.  But in fact, the real-life scenario is much more different and of course the problem is becoming much more complicated due to the the fact of having the most of the parameters of the linear equation are unknown. In this paper, we present a novel method based on Gaussianity and Sparsity for signal separation algorithms where independent component analysis will be used. The Sparsity as a preprocessing step, then, as a final step, the Gaussianity based source separation block has been used to estimate the original sources. To validate our proposed method, the FPICA algorithm based on BSS technique has been used.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 1906-1914
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Energy-Efficient Hybrid K-Means Algorithm for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks

10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2054-2060
Aziz Mahboub , Mounir Arioua , El Mokhtar En-Naimi
Energy efficiency is the most critical challenge in wireless sensor network. The transmission energy is the most consuming task in sensor nodes, specifically in large distances. Clustered routing techniques are efficient approaches used to lower the transmission energy and maximize the network’s lifetime. In this paper, a hybrid clustered routing approach is proposed for energy optimization in WSN. This approach is based on K-Means clustering algorithm and LEACH protocol. The simulation results using MATLAB tool have shown that the proposed hybrid approach outperforms LEACH protocol and optimizes the nodes energy and the network lifetime.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 2054-2060
Publish at: 2017-08-01

Real-Time Video Scaling Based on Convolution Neural Network Architecture

10.11591/ijeecs.v7.i2.pp381-394
S Safinaz , AV Ravi kumar
In recent years, video super resolution techniques becomes mandatory requirements to get high resolution videos. Many super resolution techniques researched but still video super resolution or scaling is a vital challenge. In this paper, we have presented a real-time video scaling based on convolution neural network architecture to eliminate the blurriness in the images and video frames and to provide better reconstruction quality while scaling of large datasets from lower resolution frames to high resolution frames. We compare our outcomes with multiple exiting algorithms. Our extensive results of proposed technique RemCNN (Reconstruction error minimization Convolution Neural Network) shows that our model outperforms the existing technologies such as bicubic, bilinear, MCResNet and provide better reconstructed motioning images and video frames. The experimental results shows that our average PSNR result is 47.80474 considering upscale-2, 41.70209 for upscale-3 and 36.24503 for upscale-4 for Myanmar dataset which is very high in contrast to other existing techniques. This results proves our proposed model real-time video scaling based on convolution neural network architecture’s high efficiency and better performance.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 381-394
Publish at: 2017-08-01
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