A systematic method for decoupling and increasing the tunability of the first and third-order resonant modes of a compact, printed inverted-F antenna is presented. By identifying and utilizing surface-current symmetry in ...

Models of integrated vehicle systems are essential for designing hybrid vehicles by means of simulation-based optimization. Given the complexity of hybrid vehicle systems, designing is a time consuming process that requires ...

Based on recent advances on convex design for Large-Scale Control Systems (LSCSs) and robust and efficient LSCS self-tuning/adaptation, a methodology is proposed in this paper which aims at providing an integrated LSCS-design, ...

State-transition faults in digital sequential systems, such as finite-state logic controllers, have traditionally been handled by embedding the given system into a larger one, in a way that preserves the state evolution ...

An adaptive control design procedure for a class of nonlinear systems with both parametric uncertainty and unknown nonlinearities is presented. The unknown nonlinearities lie within some 'bounding functions' which are ...

The common practice for quantifying the benefit(s) of design-time architectural choices of server processors is often limited to the chip- or server-level. This quantification process invariably entails the use of salient ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become a hot research topic in recent years and are considered to be one of the building blocks of pervasive computing. Many diverse, mission-critical applications are deployed, including ...