{"title":"Memristor crossbar based low cost classifiers and their applications","authors":"Raqibul Hasan, T. Taha","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045782","url":null,"abstract":"Existing studies have demonstrated the use of memristor crossbars for learning linearly separable functions. The memristors are used as analog synaptic weights, thus allowing the memristor crossbar to evaluate a large number of multiplication and addition operations concurrently in the analog domain. Non-linearly separable functions can be implemented by cascading two or more crossbars, with each crossbar implementing a linearly separable function. The training circuits for these cascaded crossbars implementing non-linearly separable functions requires more complex logic than for linearly separable functions. In this paper we have implemented non-linear classifiers utilizing multiple linear separators and thus can utilize a simpler training circuit. We have examined the implementation of Boolean functions and motion detection applications as case studies.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"539 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133318885","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":"Cloud-induced uncertainty for visual navigation: Development of cloud templates","authors":"A. N. Gutierrez, A. Jennings","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045800","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the algorithm created to produce realistic cloudy aerial images using pictures of clouds taken from ground level. After performing a one-time manual operation, this otherwise autonomous algorithm produces a single aerial image overlaid with cloud imagery that is capable of retaining the natural transparency of the clouds.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124028348","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":"On the doppler effect to the wavelet-based radar waveform","authors":"Siyang Cao, Yuan F. Zheng, R. Ewing","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045846","url":null,"abstract":"Previously we have presented that by using a wavelet-based waveform called Chirp-Z, sidelobes in the range detection can be significantly reduced. In this paper, we describe the use of the wavelet-based waveform in velocity detection by the Doppler frequency. We have compared the results with conventional waveform using linear frequency modulation (LFM) for both range and velocity detections. Analysis and simulation results have shown that the wavelet-based waveforms achieve higher resolution in velocity as well as range detections than LFM. Further study shows that the wavelet-based waveform can be applied in SAR to acquire images of higher resolution.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124535792","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":"Subspace imaging compressive sensing","authors":"Balsam Dakhil, Yuan F. Zheng, R. Ewing","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045845","url":null,"abstract":"A new compressed image sensing approach is presented. The approach departs from conventional sensing mechanism which seeks incoherency between the sensing and representation vectors. The subspace where most energy of the image lies in is first identified (estimated). Sensing vectors are then selected in the subspace. In doing so, base vectors of discrete cosine transform are used as representation vectors, and low-frequency members of the base vectors are considered to form the subspace. Of those selected base vectors some are used as sensing vectors which are phase shifted to enhance incoherency. Experimental results prove that the new approach is significantly better than random sensing as previously used for compressed sensing.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129301504","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":"1550-nm time-domain study of ErAs:GaAs photoconductive switches as a function of the erbium concentration","authors":"Matthieu Martin, J. Middendorf, E. Brown","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045825","url":null,"abstract":"We present the performance of ultrafast ErAs:GaAs photoconductive-switch antennas measured with a 1550-nm time-domain spectrometer. A 1%- and 2%-Er ErAs:GaAs PC switch were tested and showed detected transmitted frequencies up to at least 2.5 and 4.0 THz, respectively, with a dynamic range of ~50 and ~55 dB below ~200 GHz.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115468997","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":"10 bit current steering DAC in 90 nm technology","authors":"Tyler Moody, S. Ren, R. Ewing","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045832","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a high speed current steering DAC using 90 nm CMOS technology is presented. The resolution for this design is 10 bits, segmented into 6 thermometer encoded current cells and 4 binary weighted current cells. Thermometer encoding is used instead of binary coded decimal to reduce glitches since only one bit changes at a time. The design methodology of the sub-components such as current cell, thermometer encoder, and bias circuits are discussed. The simulation results show the input bandwidth of the DAC is 250 MHz.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114528040","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":"Bioinspired THz applications for chemical analysis and microorganism fingerprinting","authors":"L. Viveros, Weidong Zhang, E. Brown, A. Bykhovski","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045831","url":null,"abstract":"This report presents THz spectroscopy as a valuable tool to discover unique signatures in a variety of analytes. Biomolecules and bacterial spores have been demonstrated to have characteristic signatures in the absorption patterns. Examples presented are the absorption band of thymine and the double bands of Bacillus sp. spores. In the case of thymine, the absorption band exactly matched the results of molecular modeling at 1.27 THz. The signatures are associated with collective polar vibrations within the structures of the materials, and can be used for fingerprint type sensing.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122702730","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":"Automatic detection of abnormal human events on train platforms","authors":"Blanca Delgado, Khalid Tahboub, E. Delp","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045797","url":null,"abstract":"Video surveillance systems that contain a large number of cameras makes the continuous monitoring of the video feeds nearly an impossible task. A transit or transportation authority usually deploys a video surveillance system to monitor and identify events in the system such as crowd behavior and crime. In this paper we present a method for automatically detecting people jumping or falling off a train platform. An experimental evaluation is described using a dataset that was recorded at a train station.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122143715","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":"Novel RPM technique to dismiss systematic variation for RO PUF on FPGA","authors":"M. Mustapa, M. Niamat","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045838","url":null,"abstract":"Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is a function that cannot be modeled as it utilizes the random process variations on a silicon chip to generate a unique bit stream of `1's and `0's (response bits) which can be used for authentication and cryptography applications. As PUF is highly rely upon process variations, the response bits generated are governed by the systematic process variation instead of the stochastic process variation, which will reduce the randomness in the response bits. In this paper we propose the novel Random Patch Mixer (RPM) technique to dismiss the systematic variation effect on the response bits generated. We applied the RPM technique on data obtained from 29 Spartan 3E FPGA chips. We showed that our RPM technique has successfully dismissed the systematic variation effect on the response bits generated from the ROPUF on FPGA. We also proved that the responses generated by applying the RPM Technique passed the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST statistical test for randomness.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115067691","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":"Phase calculation approaches for a multi-tier weak radio signal detection process with N simultaneous signals","authors":"M. Lanzerotti, C. Cerny, R. K. Martin","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2014.7045817","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the results of a generalized theoretical analysis of Tsui's phase measurement approach for detection of extremely weak radio signals to the situation in which there are N simultaneous signals, where one signal is strong, and N - 1 signals are weak. Applications to a multi-tier detection process for N = 2, N = 3, and N = 4 simultaneous signals are described. Signal parameters are extracted for the case of N = 2. This work has applications for electronic warfare receivers for detection and characterization of weak signals with unknown parameters.","PeriodicalId":318539,"journal":{"name":"NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130885026","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}