This paper presents and characterizes a measurement method for positioning of passive tags, by a drone equipped with a UHF-RFID reader. The method is based on a synthetic aperture radar approach and exploits the knowledge of the reader/drone trajectory,...
Recommender Systems (RS) currently represent a fundamental tool in online services, especially with the advent of Online Social Networks (OSN). In this case, users generate huge amounts of contents and they can be quickly overloaded by useless...
Context-awareness refers to the ability of a system to adapt and respond proactively to the changes in the user's situation. The multitude of data generated by sensors available on users' mobile devices, combined with advances in machine learning...
The possibility of interconnecting any kind of device to the Internet is driving the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm also in a city environment. Many IoT applications are making the Smart City concept real, offering advanced services...
Future Smart Cities will be enabled by a pervasive fabric of sensors and actuators, seamlessly integrated within information systems. This large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) will bring a new level of challenges to existing communication networks and...
8B/10B is an encoding technique largely used in different communication protocols, with several advantages such as zero DC bias. In the last years transmission rates have grown rapidly, thus the need of encoders with better performance in terms of...
In the last few years, data rate requirement on onboard satellite communication systems significantly grown. The need of high speed networks led to the birth of the SpaceFibre protocol, which is able to run at several Gigabit per second and operates...
In the last few years, data rate requirement on onboard satellite communication systems significantly grown. The need of high speed networks led to the birth of the SpaceFibre protocol, which is able to run at several Gigabit per second and operates...
This paper presents a new algorithm for the Temperature-Emissivity Separation (TES) task in LWIR hyperspectral imagery. The joint retrieval of both physical quantities from the measured radiance represents an ill-posed problem. Moreover, the atmosphere...
In this paper, we investigate the benefits of deep learning approaches for the development of personalized assistive technology solutions for users with dysarthria, a speech disorder that leads to low intelligibility of users’ speaking. It prevents...
José Gonzàlez-Rivera, Rossella Iglio, Giuseppe Barillaro, Celia Duce and Maria Rosaria Tinè Polymers 2018 , 10 (6), 616; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym10060616 Abstract Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymers are extensively used in a wide range of research...
Microfluidic 3D cell culture is a promising technology for the screening of drug toxicity profiles. In this study, a bioartificial liver consisting of a surfaceengineered microfluidic silicon chip with microtrenches mimicking hepatic sinusoids is shown...
A socially intelligent robot must be capable to extract meaningful information in real time from the social environment and react accordingly with coherent human-like behavior. Moreover, it should be able to internalize this information, to reason on it...
Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired capabilities and traits. In the last few decades, this has become a reality with enormous...
In this work, we present an unobtrusive and non-invasive perception framework based on the synergy between two main acquisition systems: the Touch-Me Pad, consisting of two electronic patches for physiological signal extraction and processing; and the...
Research Best Paper Candidate: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/program/tuesday-june-5/#not-set:all Available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93417-4_2
ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference - 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2017.8094513. -- A compact differential voltage reference cell, which combines an original switched capacitor integrator with a digitally programmable bandgap core, is...
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces DOI 10.1021/acsami.8b02322 Low-cost piezoresistive strain/pressure sensors with large working range, at the same time able to reliably detect ultralow strain (≤0.1%) and pressure (≤1 Pa), are one of the challenges...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require highly accurate autonomous navigation to achieve long-term tasks while collecting data that need to be correctly georeferenced. Nevertheless, no standard evaluation methods for vehicle navigation skills exist, and...