Power electronics as an application oriented discipline, has been employed in industrial, commercial, residential and aerospace environments. Since power electronic circuits containing pulse width modulation, are nonlinear systems, it exhibits complex behaviors such as bifurcation and chaos. In this paper, a simulation study of chaos in voltage controlled buck converter is done by varying the l...

The dramatic changes in integrated-circuit technology over the last two decades have been of great benefit to countries such as Zimbabwe. High volume production of VLSI chips has produced a supply of intelligent, versatile electronic processing devices at very low cost. In particular the facilities of the microcontroller have steadily developed to the accompaniment of a reduction in price. Sinc...

Transition metal chalcogenides are an important family of materials that have received significant interest in recent years as they have the potential for diverse applications ranging from use in electronics to industrial lubricants. One of their most exciting properties is the ability to generate electricity from incident light. In this perspective we will summarise and highlight the key resul...

A number of technical breakthroughs in electronics and photonics made since the early 1990s have started to bring terahertz (THz)-wave technologies from laboratory demonstrators to industrial applications such as non-destructive testing, security, medicine, communications, etc. This paper overviews the latest progress in THz-wave technologies in terms of components such as sources and detectors...

T ODAY, MOTION CONTROL TECHNIQUE is utilized in many industrial systems such as machine tools, industrial robots, positioning stages, material handling systems, electric transportation, disk drives, rolling mills, printers, film molding machines, etc. Since performance of Motion Control system employed in such machines affects their all-out performance, advances in Motion Control system are imp...

Embedded systems are an integral part of almost every electronic product today. From consumer electronics to industrial components in SCADA systems, their possible fields of application are manifold. While especially in industrial and critical infrastructures the security requirements are high, recent publications have shown that embedded systems do not cope well with this demand. One of the re...

The aim of this working session on Industrial Realities of Program Comprehension is to exchange and discuss experiences, opportunities, challenges and strategies for the application of program comprehension techniques in industry. In this position paper we focus on a potentially interesting opportunity and challenge for adopting program comprehension techniques, and source code mining technique...

Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan Correlated Electronics Group, Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba Central 4, 1-1-1 Higashi Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan Diamond Research Group, Research Institute for Ubiquitous Energy Devices, National Institute of Advanced...