E. Priidel, P. Annus, M. Metshein, R. Land, Olev Märtens, M. Min
{"title":"Lock-in integration for detection of tiny bioimpedance variations","authors":"E. Priidel, P. Annus, M. Metshein, R. Land, Olev Märtens, M. Min","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600965","url":null,"abstract":"It is often desirable to detect tiny variations on top of larger static base value. Synchronous or lock-in measurement related problems are discussed in the current paper, and new solution is proposed for detection of bioimpedance variations. Proposed method is believed to be simpler, and more robust compared to known solutions. In the heart of the method is lockin integrator, used as differentiating peak detector. The base component of the signal is rejected, giving better dynamic range for the information carrying variable component of the bioimpedance due to the apparent differentiation. Reduction of the additive off band signals and noise is considered as well.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126798372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Drikis, Ingars Ribners, Juris Ormanis, K. Nesenbergs
{"title":"Scalable in-door positioning system for cooperative Micro Intelligent Vehicle algorithm development","authors":"I. Drikis, Ingars Ribners, Juris Ormanis, K. Nesenbergs","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600950","url":null,"abstract":"Even though cooperative driving shows great promise in improving road safety and travel efficiency, full scale experimental testing of related algorithms after simulation phase is prohibitively expensive. Micro Intelligent Vehicles (MicroIV) are commonly used as a more cost efficient, easier and faster way to develop innovations in this field. As GPS is a crucial component in autonomous driving scenarios but is not practical for use at MicroIV scales, alternative solutions are needed. This paper proposes a scalable, low-cost positioning system based on image processing, that can be used as a replacement for GPS in indoor facilities.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128163019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenol and Methanol Detector Based on Pristine Graphene Nano-sheet: A First Principles Study","authors":"M. H. Rashid, A. Koel, T. Rang","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600982","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade graphene and its derivatives have stimulated the interest of researchers due to their extraordinary electrical, optical and chemical properties. Graphene has emerged as a potential candidate for electronic sensors and optical sensors applications. The purpose of the work presented in this article is to contribute in this novel field by simulating graphene nano-sheet based sensor to detect phenol and methanol molecules. QuantumWise Atomistix Toolkit (ATK) software has been used to carry out the sensor simulations. A significant change in the density of states and conductivity of the graphene have been noticed in the proximity of the target molecules. This change in the conductivity of graphene nano-sheet has been used as a detection signal. These simulations lay the groundwork for our physical experiments, which are targeted to produce a cheap sensor.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131379277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karl Janson, René Pihlak, Siavoosh Payandeh Azad, Behrad Niazmand, G. Jervan, J. Raik
{"title":"Handling of SETs on NoC Links by Exploitation of Inherent Redundancy in Circular Input Buffers","authors":"Karl Janson, René Pihlak, Siavoosh Payandeh Azad, Behrad Niazmand, G. Jervan, J. Raik","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600989","url":null,"abstract":"The miniaturization of nanometer technologies beyond the sub-micron domain has jeopardized the reliability of on-chip network links, making them more susceptible to Single Event Transients (SETs) during system’s run-time. Using retransmission approaches has been proposed in the literature for handling SETs in Network-on-Chip (NoC) links. However, those approaches either suffer from significant latency overhead or impose additional retransmission buffers, which consume more area. This paper proposes the ReUSE mechanism as a transient fault mitigation mechanism for Network-on-Chip links. The mechanism takes advantage of the inherent redundancy in the input buffers of NoC routers and reuses these for SET mitigation on the NoC links. By using a parity checker for fault detection, the approach can cover all SETs during run-time and return to normal operation in maximum one clock cycle after the disappearance of the fault. The experimental results show that the proposed mechanism prevents network-wide failure even in harsh environments with up to 80 million random faults on links per second. The ReUSE mechanism imposes 18% area overhead and 7.8% critical path delay overhead to the baseline NoC router.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127098115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Ubar, Adeboye Stephen Oyeniran, Olusiji O. Medaiyese
{"title":"Minimization of the High-Level Fault Model for Microprocessor Control Parts","authors":"R. Ubar, Adeboye Stephen Oyeniran, Olusiji O. Medaiyese","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600980","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a method for representing the instruction set truth tables of microprocessors with High-Level Decision Diagrams (HLDD). A behavior level fault model is defined for the microprocessor control parts on the basis of instruction level truth tables (TT). Two methods are proposed for creating HLDDs from TTs with minimization of the edges on graphs: greedy algorithm, and branch and bound algorithm (B&B). A simple and fast computable lower bound is proposed to be used for pruning the search space of the B&B algorithm. Experimental data of using the fault model for several microprocessors and comparison data are provided to show the efficiency of the proposed high-level fault model over the gate-level Stuck-at-Fault (SAF) model.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131029396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Analysis of Low Voltage Converters for Completely Integrable Wearable Human Motion Energy Harvester","authors":"Ilgvars Gorņevs, J. Blūms, V. Jurķāns","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600954","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic human motion energy harvesters have shown good results previously. As the direct output of a harvester cannot be used for powering electronic devices, the paper focuses on a complete setup of rectifier, ultra-low voltage converter and a capacitor charger. The aim is to evaluate performance of off-the-shelf elements and modules for electromagnetic human motion harvester. Three commercially available converters were tested in a controlled environment and on a human separately. The best configuration obtained 4.9V on a capacitor in less than 5 minutes with peak efficiency of 22.7%, presenting a fully autonomous wearable human motion harvester as a usable voltage source.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133044771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Shavelis, K. Ozols, M. Greitans, Vitālijs Feščenko
{"title":"Performance of Adaptive Filters for Predicting the Future Values of the Vehicle Sideslip Angle","authors":"R. Shavelis, K. Ozols, M. Greitans, Vitālijs Feščenko","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600993","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a performance of conventional adaptive finite impulse response filters and a feed forward multi-layer neural network is examined for predicting the future values of the slip angle of a vehicle. The obtained results depending on a number of inputs and a prediction horizon are compared in terms of prediction error and a required number of operations for executing the algorithms.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133253696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yohann Rioual, Y. Moullec, J. Laurent, Muhidul Islam Khan, J. Diguet
{"title":"Reward Function Evaluation in a Reinforcement Learning Approach for Energy Management","authors":"Yohann Rioual, Y. Moullec, J. Laurent, Muhidul Islam Khan, J. Diguet","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600992","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decade, the energy needs in WBANs have increased due to more information to be processed, more data to be transmitted and longer operational periods. On the other hand, battery technologies have not improved fast enough to cope with these needs. Thus, miniaturized energy harvesting technologies are increasingly used to complement the batteries in WBANs. However, this brings uncertainties in the system since the harvested energy varies a lot during the node operation. It has been shown that reinforcement learning algorithms can be used to manage the energy in the nodes since they are able to make decisions under uncertainty. But the efficiency of these algorithms depends on their reward function. In this paper we explore different reward functions and seek to identify the most suitable variables to use in such functions to obtain the expected behavior. Experimental results with four different reward functions illustrate how the choice thereof impacts the energy consumption of the nodes.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128225528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing of Automotive Systems - Complex vs. Simple Environment Models","authors":"J. Sobotka, Luká Krejèí","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600953","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is focused on particular issues related to the modeling of automotive systems as a network of timed automata. During experiments with application of the ModelBased Testing on automotive systems, a few modeling related inquiries were raised. This paper analyzes the question of influence of an environment model complexity on the coverage of an observer part of a system model. The goal is to uncover, which modeling approach is most suitable for the environment models.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133001418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harvesting Electrical Power from Body Heat Using Low Voltage Step-up Converters with Thermoelectric Generators","authors":"V. Jurķāns, J. Blūms, Ilgvars Gorņevs","doi":"10.1109/BEC.2018.8600958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEC.2018.8600958","url":null,"abstract":"Rise in use of mobile and wearable electronic devices increase the demand of solutions to power these devices conveniently and safely for humans and environment. Harvesting of human body energy is one of perspective solutions for this problem. This paper studies performance of harvesting of human body waste heat using thermoelectrical generators. Generated form of electricity is not suitable for direct use by electronic devices and special converters have to be used to transform and store electrical energy. Study analyzes three commercially available low voltage step-up converters in conjunction with series of 5 thermoelectric elements located on lower leg. An approach for defining efficiency of energy harvesting is presented for comparison of step-up converters and finding the best solution in required conditions.","PeriodicalId":140384,"journal":{"name":"2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126977613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}