Outputs (231)

Design of a Cost Effective Off-Grid Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System in an Island of Bangladesh (2011)
Journal Article
Nahid-Al-Masood, Mirza, R., Ahmed, J., Abedin, A. H., Deeba, S., Hafiz, F., …Chowdhury, A. H. (2011). Design of a Cost Effective Off-Grid Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System in an Island of Bangladesh. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 5(12), 312-315

Bangladesh is a developing country with large population. Demand of electrical energy is increasing day by day because of increasing population and industrialization. But due to limited resources, people here are suffering from power crisis problem w... Read More about Design of a Cost Effective Off-Grid Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System in an Island of Bangladesh.

Assessing motor performance with PCA (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Hammerla, N. Y., Plötz, T., Andras, P., & Olivier, P. (2011). Assessing motor performance with PCA. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using Pervasive Sensing (18-23)

Information about the motor performance, i.e. how well an activity is performed, is valuable information for a variety of novel applications in Activity Recognition (AR). Its assessment represents a significant challenge, as requirements depend on th... Read More about Assessing motor performance with PCA.

Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Muhammad-Sukki, C., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., McMeekin, S., Stewart, B., & Clive, B. (2011). Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis. In IET Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2011). https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2011.0201

The Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer (SPOT) is one of the components of the SolarBrane, a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) system developed by SolarEmpower Ltd. Recently, an optimised design for the optical concentrator in the SPOT ha... Read More about Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis.

A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, N., Alhaddad, A., See, C., & Cabongomuqueba, E. (2011). A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (516-519). https://doi.org/10.1109/icecs.2011.6122326

This paper presents a tunable balanced antenna covering WLAN frequency bands near 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.4835 GHz) and 5 GHz (5.15-5.35 GHz & 5.650-5.925 GHz), for mobile application. The design is based on loading two variable capacitors onto the planar bal... Read More about A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application.

New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms (2011)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C. . H., Bin-Melha, M., Zainal-Abdin, Z., & Excell, P. (2011). New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 5(9), 1054-1061. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2010.0218

A novel design strategy for microstrip harmonic-suppression antennas is presented. The computational method is based on an integral equation solver using adaptive surface meshing driven by a genetic algorithm (GA). Three examples are illustrated, all... Read More about New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms.

Broadband dual planar inverted F-antenna for wireless local area networks/worldwide interoperability for microwave access and lower-band ultra wideband wireless applications (2011)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., Hraga, H., & Excell, P. (2011). Broadband dual planar inverted F-antenna for wireless local area networks/worldwide interoperability for microwave access and lower-band ultra wideband wireless applications. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 5(6), 644-650. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2010.0135

An extension of the planar inverted F-antenna (PIFA) concept is proposed, combining two such antennas (one of them fed parasitically) to extend the usable bandwidth to cover the WiFi wireless local area network, worldwide interoperability for microwa... Read More about Broadband dual planar inverted F-antenna for wireless local area networks/worldwide interoperability for microwave access and lower-band ultra wideband wireless applications.

Meander-line filter for short range radio communications (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Alqahtani, S., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Hussaini, A., Abidin, Z., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2011). Meander-line filter for short range radio communications. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 11 (560-565)

Filters and antennas play a significant part in many different RF and microwave transceiver systems. This paper describes the design and testing of two RF filters for use in narrow-band short-range radio communications. The structures of these filter... Read More about Meander-line filter for short range radio communications.

Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults (2011)
Conference Proceeding
von Bruhn Hinné, T., & Keates, S. (2011). Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Proceedings, Part II (166-175). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21663-3_18

This paper examines how motion sensitive remote control devices can improve the usability of television sets for older adults. It investigates the use of a pointing remote control where the actions are read and selected on the TV screen by a group of... Read More about Using motion sensing remote controls with older adults.

Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Keates, S. (2011). Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Proceedings, Part I (70-79). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_9

This paper describes the development of the ?Usability and Accessibility? course for M.Sc. students at the IT University of Copenhagen. The aim is to examine whether this course provides an effective and useful method for raising the issues around Un... Read More about Teaching the next generation of universal access designers: a case study.

Metamaterial-based Sensor Design Working in Infrared Frequency Range (2011)
Journal Article
La Spada, L., Bilotti, F., & Vegni, L. (2011). Metamaterial-based Sensor Design Working in Infrared Frequency Range. Progress in electromagnetics research B: PIER B, 34, 205-223. https://doi.org/10.2528/pierb11060303

In this paper, we propose the design of high sensitivity and selectivity metamaterial-based biosensors operating in the THz regime. The proposed sensors consist of planar array of resonant metallic structures, whose frequency response is modified thr... Read More about Metamaterial-based Sensor Design Working in Infrared Frequency Range.