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- Xu, Jianqiang, et al.
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Design of Smart Unstaffed Retail Shop Based on IoT and Artificial Intelligence
- 2020
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Ingår i: IEEE Access. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 2169-3536. ; 8, s. 147728-147737
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Unstaffed retail shops have emerged recently and been noticeably changing our shopping styles. In terms of these shops, the design of vending machine is critical to user shopping experience. The conventional design typically uses weighing sensors incapable of sensing what the customer is taking. In the present study, a smart unstaffed retail shop scheme is proposed based on artificial intelligence and the internet of things, as an attempt to enhance the user shopping experience remarkably. To analyze multiple target features of commodities, the SSD (300x300) algorithm is employed; the recognition accuracy is further enhanced by adding sub-prediction structure. Using the data set of 18, 000 images in different practical scenarios containing 20 different type of stock keeping units, the comparison experimental results reveal that the proposed SSD (300x300) model outperforms than the original SSD (300x300) in goods detection, the mean average precision of the developed method reaches 96.1% on the test dataset, revealing that the system can make up for the deficiency of conventional unmanned container. The practical test shows that the system can meet the requirements of new retail, which greatly increases the customer flow and transaction volume.
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- Baghaei Nejad, Majid, et al.
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A novel passive tag with asymmetric wireless link for RFID and WSN applications
- 2007
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Ingår i: 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS. - 9781424409204 ; , s. 1593-1596
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we present a radio-powered module with asymmetric wireless link utilizing ultra wideband radio system for RFID and wireless sensor applications. Our contribution includes using two different standards in uplink and downlink. Such as conventional RFIDs, incoming RF signal transmitted by reader is used to power the internal circuitry and receive the data. However, in upstream link, an IR-UWB transmitter is utilized. Unlike traditional RFID systems, due to great advantages of UWB communication, this tag is very robust to multi-path fading and collision problem and it is more secure against eavesdropping or jamming. The module consists of a power scavenging unit, a RF receiver, an IR-UWB transmitter, digital baseband controller, and an embedded UWB antenna are designed for integration on Liquid-Crystal Polymer (LCP) substrate, using 0.18um CMOS process technology.
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- Baghaei Nejad, Majid, et al.
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A remote-powered RFID tag with 10Mb/s UWB Uplink and -18.5dBm sensitivity UHF downlink in 0.18μm CMOS
- 2009
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Ingår i: Digest of technical papers / IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. - 0193-6530. ; , s. 198-199,199a
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this work, a 10 Mb/s impulse UWB RFID tag in 0.18 mum CMOS is presented. The tag is remotely powered by a UHF signal with a minimum input RF power as low as 14.1 muW. The primary innovation is to employ two different communication links (UWB and UHF) respectively in the uplink and downlink of the tag. This is because the amount of data or instructions from a reader to a tag is small and as a result a conventional UHF-RFID link at 900MHz can be used as the downlink. The UHF signal also provides remote power to the tag. The uplink requires higher data rates and precise positioning capability therefore an l-UWB transmitter is employed.
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- Baghaei Nejad, Majid, et al.
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Enabling Ubiquitous Wireless Sensing by a Novel RFID-Based UWB Module
- 2007
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Ingår i: The First International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology, RFID 2007, 24-25 September 2007, Vienna, Austria.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we present a novel passive CMOS module which uses two different standards in uplink and downlink. It can be used in many applications such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and ubiquitous wireless sensing. Such as conventional RFID systems, the module captures power supply from received RF signal transmitted by a reader and extracts data and clock by using an envelope detector and PIE encoder. However, in uplink instead of back scattering, an Impulse-UWB transmitter is used to improve the system performance and throughput. The UWB communication offers several advantages to the system. A new communication protocol is proposed for the system based on slotted-ALOHA anti-collision algorithm. The module consisting of a power management unit, an RF narrowband receiver, a clock management unit, an IR-UWB transmitter, and a digital baseband are designed in 0.18 CMOS process.
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- Bao, D., et al.
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A smart catheter system for minimally invasive brain monitoring
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices. - : SciTePress. - 9789897580710 ; , s. 198-203
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper demonstrates a smart catheter system with intracranial pressure (ICP) and temperature sensing capability which is designed for real-time monitoring in traumatic brain injury (TBI) therapy. It uses a single flexible catheter with a 1 mm (3 Fr) diameter that integrates electrodes and sophisticated silicon chip on flexible substrates, enabling multimodality monitoring of physiological signals. A micro-electromechanical-system (MEMS) catheter pressure sensor is mounted on the distal end. It can be used for detecting both pressure and temperature by different switch configurations, which minimizes the size of catheter and reduces the cost. The interconnects (signalling conductors) are printed on a bio-compatible flexible substrate, and the sensor is interfaced with an embedded electronic system at the far-end. The electronic system consists of analog front end with analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a microcontroller, and data interface to the hospital infrastructure with a graphical user interface (GUI). The overall smart catheter system achieves a pressure sensing root mean square error (RMSE) of ±1.5 mmHg measured from 20 mmHg to 300 mmHg above 1 atm and a temperature sensing RMSE of ±0.08°C measured from 32°C to 42°C. The sampling rate can be up to 10S/s. The in vivo performance is demonstrated in laboratory animals.
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- Bao, Dongxuan, et al.
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A Wirelessly Powered UWB RFID Sensor Tag With Time-Domain Analog-to-Information Interface
- 2018
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Ingår i: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. - : IEEE. - 0018-9200 .- 1558-173X. ; 53:8, s. 2227-2239
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a wirelessly powered radio frequency identification sensor tag with an analog-to-information interface. A time-domain interface, incorporating an ultra-lowpower impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transmitter (TX), is employed. The analog signal from the sensor is compared with a triangular waveform, resulting in a pulse-position modulation signal to trigger UWB pulses. Thanks to the high time-resolution IR-UWB radio, time intervals of the impulses can be used to represent the original input value, which is measured remotely on the reader side by a time-of-arrival estimator. This approach not only eliminates the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) but also significantly reduces the number of bits to be transmitted for power saving. The proposed tag is fabricated in a 0.18-mu m CMOS process with an active area of 2.5 mm(2). The measurement results demonstrate that a 300-kS/s sampling rate with a 6.7-bit effective number of bits (ENOB) is obtained via a UWB receiver with a sensitivity of -93 dBm and an integration window of 10 ns. The ENOB is improved to 7.3 bits when the integration window is reduced to 2 ns. The tag can be powered up by a -18-dBm UHF input signal. The power consumption of the proposed tag is 41.5 mu W yielding a 1.3-pJ/conv.step figure of merit, offering 9x and 67x improvements compared with the state of the art based on an ADC and a backscattering TX, and the tag based on an ADC and a narrowband TX, respectively.
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- Bao, D., et al.
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A wirelessly-powered UWB sensor tag with time-domain sensor interface
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. - 9781479934324 ; , s. 2503-2506
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a wirelessly-powered sensor tag with a time-domain sensor interface for wireless sensing applications. The tag is remotely powered by RF wave. Instead of traditional approaches employing conventional ADCs for quantization and transmitter for data communication, in this work, a Pulse Position Modulator incorporating simple impulse radio UWB (IR-UWB) transmitter is proposed to convert and transmit the analog sensing information in time domain. The analog signal is compared with an adjustable triangular wave for analog to time conversion in signal-varying environments. Then a UWB transmitter converts the PPM signal to very short pulses and sends it back to the reader. The time interval of UWB pulses represents the original input signal in time domain which can be measured on the reader side by a time-to-digital conversion. This approach not only simplifies the ADC design but also relaxes the number of bits transmitted on the tag side. The sensor tag is designed in 180nm CMOS process. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach reduce transmission power consumption by nearly 3 orders of magnitude over traditional approaches, while consuming only 85 μW for 1.5 MS/s sampling rate.
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- Cui, K., et al.
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An all-digital phase-locked-loop with a robustness enhanced dual-mode DCO
- 2017
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Ingår i: Microwave and optical technology letters (Print). - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0895-2477 .- 1098-2760. ; 59:2, s. 312-315
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An all-digital-phase-locked-loop (ADPLL) with a dual-mode Class-A/Class-C Digital-controlled-oscillator (DCO) is presented in this letter. During the start-up phase, the DCO operates in the Class-A mode with increasing tail current. A low-power amplitude-to-pulse-converter (APC) is proposed to detect the oscillating amplitude of the DCO. After the start-up, the DCO switches to the Class-C mode with reduced tail current, resulting in better phase noise and lower power consumption. The ADPLL with the proposed DCO is implemented in a 65-nm CMOS technology. The Class-C mode DCO exhibits a phase noise of −123.3 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset with a 2.7-GHz carrier frequency. Measured results show about a 2.9-dB phase noise improvement at 1-MHz offset among the tuning range of 2.5–2.9 GHz, compared to the Class-A DCO under the same power consumption. The figure-of-merit (FOM) and FOM including the tuning range (FOMT) of the DCO is 188.7 and 192.1, respectively.
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- Ding, Chen, et al.
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An Ultra-Low Latency Multicast Router for Large-Scale Multi-Chip Neuromorphic Processing
- 2021
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Ingår i: 2021 IEEE 3rd international conference on artificial intelligence circuits and systems (AICASs). - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neuromorphic simulation is fundamental to the study of information processing mechanism of the human brain and can further inspire application development of event-driven spiking neural networks. However large-scale neuromorphic simulation requires massive parallelism on multi-chip processing and imposes great challenges on dealing with data transmission latency and congestion problems between chips, especially when the number of simulated neurons reaches to billions or even trillions level. In this paper, we propose an ultra-low-latency on-chip router together with a multicast routing algorithm that focuses on reducing global loads and balancing loads between links. Additionally, we build a large-scale neuromorphic simulation platform consisting of 64 FPGA chips and evaluate the proposed design on it. The experiment results suggest that this design benefits from the proposed multicast routing algorithm in global communication loads and simulation capacity. This work has 4.1% similar to 5.2% reduction of global loads comparing to previous works and can achieve a latency as low as 25ns and a maximum data throughput of 6.25Gbps/chip.
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- Huan, Yuxiang, et al.
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A 101.4 GOPS/W Reconfigurable and Scalable Control-Centric Embedded Processor for Domain-Specific Applications
- 2016
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1. - : IEEE. - 1549-8328 .- 1558-0806. ; 63:12, s. 2245-2256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adapting the processor to the target application is essential in the Internet-of-Things (IoT), and thus requires customizability in order to improve energy efficiency and scalability to provide sufficient performance. In this paper, a reconfigurable and scalable control-centric architecture is proposed, and a processor consisting of two cores and an on-chip multi-mode router is implemented. Reconfigurability is enabled by a programmable sequence mapping table (SMT) which reorganizes functional units in each cycle, thus increasing hardware utilization and reducing excessive data movement for high energy efficiency. The router facilitates both wormhole and circuit switching to construct intra- or inter-chip interconnections, providing scalable performance. Fabricated in a 65-nm process, the chip exhibits 101.4 GOPS/W energy efficiency with a die size of 3.5 mm(2). The processor carries out general-purpose processing with a code size 29% smaller than the ARM Cortex M4, and improves the performance of application-specific processing by over ten times when implementing AES and RSA using SMTs instead of general-purpose C. By utilizing the on-chip router, the processor can be interconnected up to 256 nodes, with a single link bandwidth of 1.4 Gbps.
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