The smart grid is an electrical grid that uses information and communications technology to gather and act on information, such as information about the behaviors of suppliers and consumers, in an automated fashion to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity. In the smart grid environment, it is a very important factor ...

When a fault occurs in a power system, the protective relays detect the fault and trip appropriate circuit breakers, which isolate the affected equipment from the rest of the power system. Fault diagnosis of power systems is the process of identifying faulty components and/or sections by analysing observable symptoms (telemetry messages). As the domain itself is characterised by dynamic situati...

Stanford's Space Systems Development Laboratory is developing methods for automated spacecraft health operations. Such operations greatly reduce the need for ground-space communication links and full-time operators. However, new questions emerge about how to supply operators with the spacecraft information that is no longer available. One solution is to introduce a low-bandwidth health beacon a...

In this paper, we present our research on using computer-vision analysis for vehicular safety applications. Our research has potential applications for both autonomous vehicles and connected vehicles. In particular, for connected vehicles, we propose three image analysis algorithms that enhance the quality of a vehicle’s on-board video before inter-vehicular information exchange takes place. Fo...

Real time transmission of spaceborne and airborne images to the ground station is highly desirable in many telemetering applications. They also need to be sent through an error prone, time varying, wireless channel possibly under jamming conditions. Hence, a fast, efficient, scalable, error resilient image compression scheme is vital to realize the full potential of airborne reconnaisance. JPEG...