{"title":"Compound dynamic and static effects from wind turbines on the reception of television signals","authors":"M. H. Taieb, J. Chouinard, A. Semmar","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090195","url":null,"abstract":"To meet the clean energy challenges, the wind farms creation is one of the most promising alternatives. The wind project developer must verify whether there would be a risk on the existing broadcast links in the area before moving towards the construction phase. Geometrical wind turbine modeling can help in determining the scattering of the signal around and assess whether the signal reception in the vicinity will be affected. From ITU Recommendation 69-1/6, we establish a clear propagation methodology to determine the dynamic scattering from the rotor blades and the static scattering from the large pylon.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126925228","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":"Non-time based motion control for multiple intelligent vehicles","authors":"Howard Li, Brandon C. Brown","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090208","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a non-time based tracking controller for multiple intelligent vehicles is designed. Non-time based motion controllers have been successfully applied to many areas such as robot motion control, multi-robot coordination, force and impact control, robotic tele-operation and manufacturing automation. In this research, we propose to use non-time based multi-agent control for the control of multiple vehicles. Simulations using two intelligent vehicles are conducted to investigate the performance of the proposed controllers. The proposed multi-agent non-time based tracking controllers can coordinate and control two vehicles to track the road successfully.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122977867","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}
Md Foezur Rahman Chowdhury, S. Selouani, D. O'Shaughnessy
{"title":"Distributed automatic text-independent speaker identification using GMM-UBM speaker models","authors":"Md Foezur Rahman Chowdhury, S. Selouani, D. O'Shaughnessy","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090157","url":null,"abstract":"The ETSI “Aurora” is a digit-based standard developed for distributed speech recognition (DSR) over telephone communication channels. This paper introduces a digit-based text-independent distributed speaker identification (DSID) system over telephone channels within the DSR framework. In this DSID system, the hypothesized speaker model is derived by GMM-UBM model training using Aurora2 connected digit training speech data and maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation. The UBM technique for speaker models is incorporated into this DSID system to reduce the computational complexities significantly. Experiments on the Aurora2 speech recognition corpus show that GMM-UBM yields excellent performance for speaker recognition over telephone channels. Compared to the baseline system, we got 100% recognition accuracy for this proposed DSID within the ETSI DSR framework.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123072400","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":"Channel equalization for multi-gigabit ethernet over copper","authors":"J. Fadlullah, A. Enteshari, M. Kavehrad","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090090","url":null,"abstract":"We present formulations and simulation results for infinite- and finite-length MIMO decision feedback equalization and compare with finite-length SISO equalizer/FEXT canceller for an improved version of Cat-6 cable. Intuitively, far-end crosstalk contains useful information, and instead of being cancelled, could be jointly processed to improve performance. Conversely, a simpler system could be designed for a given transmission rate. A SISO equalizer/canceller is compared with a MIMO equalizer to investigate possible improvement in decision point SNR and filter lengths.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122231261","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":"MOSFET model assessment for submicron and nanometer bulk-driven applications","authors":"Shaoxi Wang, Rui He, Lihong Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090297","url":null,"abstract":"Bulk-driven MOSFET technique meets the low-voltage and low-power requirements demanded in the modern analog circuit design. Due to submicron/nanometer technologies and critical short-channel effects, choosing a suitable MOSFET model for circuit design becomes increasingly important. However, the conventional MOSFET models normally set up for the typical gate-driven applications may not perform correctly and accurately for the bulk-driven applications in the advanced technologies. In this paper, three most widely used MOSFET models, including BSIM, EKV, and PSP, have been extracted for the modern technologies and used in the simulation of bulk-driven applications. Measurement data of fabricated devices are compared with simulation results from distinct models. Several critical MOSFET parameters have been chosen to compare and analyze MOSFET characteristics. The experimental results demonstrate the advantages of the bulk-driven technique compared with the gate-driven scheme. Finally, the performance of distinct MOSFET models is summarized in order to provide analog circuit designers with practical directives.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121073153","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":"A compactmodular active vision system formulti-target surveillance","authors":"Christopher D. W. Ward, M. Naish","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090177","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an omnidirectional active vision system that has been developed for the autonomous acquisition of detailed images of multiple targets. Omnidirectional and perspective camera technologies are integrated to create a robust vision system that combines the strengths of both camera types. A compact, inexpensive and highly modular design is presented in which system modules are stacked vertically. The vertical structure provides each module with an unobstructed 360 degree horizontal view of the surroundings and allows the omnidirectional cameras to directly guide an active camera to view a target point. The physical system design is detailed, along with a description of the system's hardware and software architectures. The hardware architecture is scalable and fully self contained, while the software architecture is built around a user datagram protocol (UDP) network, allowing the computational load to be distributed over multiple computers.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"18 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113955286","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":"Joint optimization of run-length coding, context-based arithmetic coding and quantization step sizes","authors":"E. Yang, Longji Wang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090215","url":null,"abstract":"Given the JPEG syntax, the rate-distortion performance a JPEG optimization method can improve is limited. Part of the limitation comes from the poor context modeling used by a JPEG coder, which fails to take full advantage of the pixel correlation existing in both space and frequency domains. Consequently, context-based arithmetic coding is proposed in the literature to replace the Huffman coding used in JPEG for better rate-distortion performance. In this paper, we extend our previous JPEG compatible joint optimization algorithm to a context-based arithmetic coding scenario. Experimental results show that an extra of 10∼15% size reduction or 0.5 dB compression gain can be achieved on top of JPEG compatible joint optimization with the same level of complexity.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134467206","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":"Active mobility control in IPV6 mobile sensor networks","authors":"D. Gao, Y. Niu, O. Yang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090172","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile sensor network(MSN) is a kind of wireless sensor networks(WSNs) in which nodes can move under their own control or under the control of the environment. In this paper we develop a new mobile sensor node that supports IPv6 technology, which enablesWSN to easily connect to Internet. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic path planing for mobile node's moving and mobility control mechanism. Mobile node can dynamically adjust its moving direction according to wireless signal strengths between sensor nodes till it arrives at the destination location. Finally, we set up a test-bed with our developed mobile sensor network and illustrate network operation procedures.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133120488","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":"Automata-based approach for kernel trace analysis","authors":"G. Matni, M. Dagenais","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090273","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an automata-based approach for analyzing traces generated by the kernel of an operating system. We identified a list of typical patterns of problematic behavior, to look for in a trace, and selected an appropriate state machine language to describe them. These patterns were then fed into an off-line analyzer which efficiently and simultaneously checks for their occurrences even in traces of several gigabytes. The checker achieves a linear performance with respect to the trace size. The remaining factors impacting its performance are discussed.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"151 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133356576","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":"A novel topology of bridge-type superconducting fault current limiter","authors":"W. Fei, Bin Wu","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2009.5090132","url":null,"abstract":"A new topology of bridge-type SFCL, which can limit not only the rising speed but also the steady state value of fault current, is proposed in this paper. The new SFCL includes a bridge composed of 4 SCRs and 2 diodes, a superconducting coil and an ordinary bypass reactor. In normal status, the bridge works as a rectifier, the voltage across the coil is zero if the current of the coil keeps greater than the peak value of the load current. When a fault occurs, the fault current is limited in the first cycle by the coil, when the fault is detected, the bridge can be controlled working as two bidirectional switches and the coil is inserted in the ac circuit and the steady fault current can also be limited. By adding the bypass reactor, the cost of the new SFCL can be minimized. Parameter design and simulations are presented. The simulation proves the validity of the new SFCL.","PeriodicalId":153464,"journal":{"name":"2009 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115924862","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}