Pablo Raul Yanyachi;Alfredo Mamani Saico;Flor Chacon;Miguel Esquivel;Juan Carlos Cutipa Luque;Daniel Yanyachi
{"title":"Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Enclosed Environments Based on Two-Dimensional LiDAR: Starting Point and Future Challenges","authors":"Pablo Raul Yanyachi;Alfredo Mamani Saico;Flor Chacon;Miguel Esquivel;Juan Carlos Cutipa Luque;Daniel Yanyachi","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620414","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620414","url":null,"abstract":"Robotics and LiDAR technology stand as a crucial cornerstone for the development of cutting-edge three-dimensional mapping systems. This study represents a significant advancement by addressing the development of an initial approach for a three-dimensional mapping system, utilizing a unique LiDAR translational mechanism. In pursuit of this objective, a comprehensive review of works exclusively dedicated to mechanisms employing two-dimensional LiDAR has been conducted. This selective approach results in a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism used for three-dimensional reconstruction and lays the groundwork for future endeavors. Furthermore, a robotic prototype has been implemented using the Robot Operating System (ROS), serving as an accessible tool for implementing our initial approach and engaging new researchers from our university in the application of robotics for three-dimensional reconstruction through LiDAR technology. The validation of our study is conducted through tests in both open and closed environments, revealing high data resolution and a correlation of over 98% with the real environment. The study suggests further research based on the identified errors and introduces new challenges for developing robust prototypes capable of handling changes in a robot's attitude.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10620414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141883110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Transformer Less Ultra Gain DC-DC Converter for Renewable Micro Energy Sources","authors":"Manikanta Kuraganti;Ramulu Chinthamalla","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620415","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620415","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a novel Ultra Gain Cubic (UGC) DC-DC converter for integrating PV and Fuel cell into the grid. The proposed UGC has 12 components in total, including asingle switch. The steady-state operation of the converter in both modes were explained and necessary equations were derived. The impact of parasitic elements on the UGCs DC-voltage gain is investigated and finally the stability of the UGC converter is verified through state space averaging technique. Optimized number of components, Ultra voltage gain, input and output terminals are connected to same ground, Single switch, input current continuous are the key aspects of the UGC converter. A 300W prototype with a 325V output voltage is tested and validated using hardware results.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10620415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141883108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Table of Contents August 2024","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620385","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10620385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141883112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caio Eduardo Falcão Matos;Geraldo Braz Junior;João Dallyson Sousa de Almeida;Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva
{"title":"CPP-UNet: Combined Pyramid Pooling Modules in the U-Net Network for Kidney, Tumor and Cyst Segmentation","authors":"Caio Eduardo Falcão Matos;Geraldo Braz Junior;João Dallyson Sousa de Almeida;Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620387","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10620387","url":null,"abstract":"Renal carcinoma stands prominently as a significant contributor to global cancer-related mortality rates, highlighting the critical importance of early detection and diagnosis in the management of this ailment. Moreover, the rising incidence of kidney tumors poses a challenge in differentiating between malignant and benign lesions using radiographic methods. Therefore, we present CPP-UNet, an innovative convolutional neural network-based architecture designed for the segmentation of renal structures, including the kidneys themselves and renal masses (cysts and tumors), in a computed tomography (CT) scan. Particularly, we investigate the fusion of the Pyramid Pooling Module (PPM) and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) for improving the UNet network by integrating contextual information across multiple scales. Our proposed method yielded promising outcomes in the Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation challenge (KiTS21 and KiTS23) datasets, exhibiting Dice indices of 93.51% and 92.84% for Kidneys and Masses, 90.33% and 92.08% for Renal Masses, and 85.69% and 88.17% for Tumors, respectively.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10620387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141883116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angélica Guzmán-Ponce;Rosa María Valdovinos-Rosas;Jacobo Leonardo González-Ruíz;Iván Franciso-Valencia;J. Raymundo Marcial-Romero
{"title":"Exploring COVID-19 Trends in Mexico during the Winter Season with Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)","authors":"Angélica Guzmán-Ponce;Rosa María Valdovinos-Rosas;Jacobo Leonardo González-Ruíz;Iván Franciso-Valencia;J. Raymundo Marcial-Romero","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10562257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2024.10562257","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 has become the most significant pandemic in recent years. Today, Mexico has recorded millions of infections and deaths since the pandemic started. Around the world, machine learning methods have been used to understand, predict or develop strategies to manage the virus and the pandemic. Although algorithms provide good results, it is necessary to understand why a model makes specific predictions with a particular data set. To explain this question, we apply Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in this paper. With this, it is possible to understand the characteristics that influence the model decisions when denoting between deaths and survivors. As a case of study, the positive cases detected during the winter season of 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 were considered. In this season, respiratory diseases increased considerably, and in the study period, they influenced the increase in positive cases and the spread of COVID-19. Preliminary results suggest that age is essential when using a Random Forest model. Preliminary results suggest that age is essential when determining the prognosis of a patient infected by COVID-19 in winter seasons.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10562257","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141422500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ramayana Pereira;Rodrigo Cesa Dantas de Lima;Helon David M. Braz;Núbia S. Dantas Brito;Pedro Henrique Fernandes Monteiro;Jamile P. N. Amoah
{"title":"Reclosers Modeling for Temporal Simulation of Distribution Networks in Simulink/ Matlab","authors":"Ramayana Pereira;Rodrigo Cesa Dantas de Lima;Helon David M. Braz;Núbia S. Dantas Brito;Pedro Henrique Fernandes Monteiro;Jamile P. N. Amoah","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10562260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2024.10562260","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few years, Brazils increasing dependence on electricity has caused a continuous growth in demand and, therefore, the need to guarantee long-term energy supply to costumers. Hence, studying the devices that are responsible ensuring this continuity is critical since the improper operation of this equipment can reduce the reliability of the electrical energy distribution system, therefore requiring detailed study that incorporates simulations, modeling, and analysis of response capacity in the face of real loads. Simulink/Matlab is one of the most widely used software programs in academia. However, it does not have readymade templates for protection system equipment such as relays, fuses, and reclosers. Herein, the aim is to model the digital recloser using the S-function block of Simulink/Matlab. The proposed model for the recloser follows the configurations required by Brazilian electricity distribution companies, i.e. four operations divided into fast and slow, the latter one being responsible for permanently opening the section of the system on fault. To validate the modeled device, the IEEE 34-bar system was used, in which several operational cases were considered. The results obtained show that the proposed digital recloser model performed successfully proved to be a promising proposal for protection studies of power distribution systems.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10562260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141422600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archana P;Harigovindan V P;Griffith Faustina G;Babu A V
{"title":"Incremental Relaying with Partial Relay Selection for Enhancing the Performance of Underlay Cognitive NOMA Networks","authors":"Archana P;Harigovindan V P;Griffith Faustina G;Babu A V","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10562255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2024.10562255","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider an underlay cognitive non-orthogonal multiple access (CNOMA) network, where incremental relaying with partial relay selection (PRS) scheme (i.e., IRP scheme) is proposed for the secondary network. We derive analytical expressions for the outage probabilities of the secondary users (SUs) and the system throughput of the IRP-CNOMA network. The proposed approach is compared to conventional cooperative relaying-based CNOMA (CR-CNOMA) networks with PRS scheme (i.e., CRP-CNOMA) and random relay selection (RRS) scheme. The results show that the proposed scheme significantly lowers the outage probability of the SUs while improving the system throughput.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10562255","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141422499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power System Stability Improvement Using STATCOM: New Practical Method for Placement and Sizing","authors":"Jimmy Cesar Gonzales Arispe;Jhoel Arroyo Flores","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10562256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2024.10562256","url":null,"abstract":"In Latin America, in recent years, several projects with FACTS equipment have been materialized to improve the stability of the power system. Among these, for example, use of SVC equipment in Peru to regulate voltage, and STATCOM in Colombia to support voltage and prevent collapse of electrical areas. Several variables influence the way a STATCOM operates, its size is an important factor, and also the electrical substation where it is installed; these two aspects, although they can be calculated separately, in the real time operation it is evident that their contributions can be optimized, considering them jointly. This article aims to show a new practical methodology to evaluate the location and size of a STATCOM through a sequence of calculations and the application of routine electrical studies executed by system operators, in order to improve voltage and/or angular stability of the units. As a case of practical application, the stability problems of the South Bolivian system were analyzed, as well as the installation of a STATCOM to improve the operational limitations.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10562256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian René Jiménez Román;Emmanuel Hernández-Mayoral
{"title":"Power Quality Analysis of a Hybrid Microgrid based on Renewable Energy Sources","authors":"Christian René Jiménez Román;Emmanuel Hernández-Mayoral","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10562258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2024.10562258","url":null,"abstract":"Today, and mainly in the academic environment, one of the fields of study that is receiving the most attention, in reference to electrical microgrids (MGs), is precisely how to integrate all the elements of the MGs to maintain a stable operation, resilient, reliable and quality. This can be achieved through power converters, which allow for the decentralization of electricity generation, but on the other hand, create the challenge of power quality. In this paper, a model of an MG based on the IEEE 14Bus distribution network is proposed for power quality studies when the MG operates in grid-connected mode. MG model is developed in the software MATLAB-Simulink and the results obtained are compared with the compatibility levels of the IEEE519 standard.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10562258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simplified SEP Approximations of Coherent Digital Modulation Schemes over alpha-kappa-mu Fading Channel","authors":"Shreya Tated;Garv Anand;Dharmendra Sadhwani","doi":"10.1109/TLA.2024.10562262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2024.10562262","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose novel, simplified yet tight approximations of the error probability expressions of numerous digital modulation schemes over a popular alpha-kappa-mu fading channel. With the help of a suitable approximation of the Gaussian Q-function and utilization of Taylor's series expansion, we facilitate the cumbersome integrals which play a key role in simplification of the performance evaluation metrics like symbol error probability (SEP) of various digital modulation schemes. This facilitates cost effective receiver's design making the overall system economically viable. We further illustrate the accuracy of the proposed SEP expressions with the help of the relative error. An insight on the truncation error (and its upper bound) is also highlighted in this paper. We also compute the relative error in the upper bound of the truncation error to further justify the accuracy of the proposed integrals. Moreover, the asymptotic expressions for the integrals are also provided which gives an idea regarding diversity order of the wireless communication systems for large signal to noise ratios.","PeriodicalId":55024,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Latin America Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10562262","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141422498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}