In this paper, we address the issue of hot-carriers and their impact on reducing the reliability of a VLSI circuit by accelerating the aging process of transistors. We tackle this phenomenon by formulating and solving an encoding problem, which we refer to as the Bit-level Transition Balancing (BTB). The BTB problem is to find encoding techniques that minimize the maximum activity over a group ...

The rapid progress of information technology (IT) may provide us new insights into understanding traffic phenomena, and could help mitigate traffic problems. One of the key applications of IT to traffic and transport analysis is the identification of the location of moving objects using the global positioning system (GPS) . It is expected that detailed traffic analysis could be carried out usin...

with the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...

To establish a suitable pure electric bus arrival time prediction model, this paper takes as the research object. Based on analysis of influencing factors bus, BP neural network model optimized by firefly algorithm (FA-BP model) is established selecting vehicle type, SOC value, battery age, and input conditions. The trained tested using operation data. root mean square error Kalman filter 0.351...

The Paderkickers are a heterogenuous robot soccer team that makes heavy use of automotive technology like C167 microcontrollers or communication over CAN bus. All sensor data is processed on these decentralized embedded nodes for better reliability and hardware layer abstraction. In this paper we present how we integrate and process the extracted real-time data in our behavior-based system.

In this paper, reconfiguration problem of distribution network has been investigated toimprove reliability and reduce power loss by placement of renewable energy sources; i.e. solarcell and wind turbine. For this, four reliability indices are considered in objective function;which are as follows: System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI), System AverageInterruption Duration Index (SAI...

optimal sitting and sizing of shunt capacitor banks at the distribution networks for the purpose of power quality improvement is drawn much attention of electric power utilities in the last decades. determining the optimal number, location and sizing of capacitor using bee colony optimization algorithm (bco) is being presented in this paper. the bco algorithm is a new population based meta-heur...

1. Project goals and objectives This project aimed at developing analytical models and methods for assessing the seismic response of electrical substation equipment connected by assemblies of rigid bus (RB) and flexible strap connectors (FSC) or slider connectors (SC). Also developed is a method to estimate the reliability of electrical substation systems subjected to stochastic earthquake load...