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Du, L. (author), Hu, D. (author), Poelm, René (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The application of microporous sintered copper (Cu) as a bonding material to replace conventional die-attach materials in power electronic devices has attracted considerable interest. Many previous studies have focused on the effect of processing parameters (temperature, time, pressure) on the microstructure evolution of sintered Cu. However,...conference paper 2023
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Du, Guodong (author), Zou, Yuan (author), Zhang, Xudong (author), Li, Z. (author), Liu, Qi (author)The autonomous vehicle is widely applied in various ground operations, in which motion planning and tracking control are becoming the key technologies to achieve autonomous driving. In order to further improve the performance of motion planning and tracking control, an efficient hierarchical framework containing motion planning and tracking...journal article 2023
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Mohammad Zaki, A.R. (author), Du, Yutong (author), Nihtianova, S. (author)This paper presents the design methodology, test setup and experimental qualification results of a high-speed low-power threshold comparator in 40 nm CMOS technology intended for the registry of particles landing on a PIN-detector surface in particle detector readout electronics. The operation of the designed comparator is experimentally...conference paper 2023
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Wang, Zhe (author), Wu, Shilong (author), Chen, Hang (author), He, Mao-Kui (author), Du, Jun (author), Lee, Chin-Hui (author), Chen, Jingdong (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Liu, Diyuan (author)The Multi-modal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) challenge aims to extend the application of signal processing technology in specific scenarios by promoting the research into wake-up words, speaker diarization, speech recognition, and other technologies. The MISP2022 challenge has two tracks: 1) audio-visual speaker diarization (AVSD),...conference paper 2023
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Yue, X. (author), Du, S. (author)Synchronized ac-dc rectifiers are widely used for energy rectification in piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH), which have to employ a bulky inductor or some dedicated flying capacitors for high energy conversion efficiency. This article proposes a synchronized switch harvesting on shared capacitors (SSHSC) rectifier achieving synchronized...journal article 2023
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Yue, X. (author), Du, S. (author)In the past decades, inductor-based synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI) rectifiers have been widely employed in many active rectification systems for piezoelectric energy harvesting. Although SSHI rectifiers achieve high energy extraction performance compared to passive full-bridge rectifier (FBR), the performance greatly...journal article 2023
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Peng, W. (author), Du, S. (author)A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a new transducer utilizing contact electrification and electrostatic induction to transform mechanical energy into electric energy. Due to its high energy density and flexibility, it can be employed to make electronic devices self-powered by harvesting ambient mechanical energy in many application...journal article 2023
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Liu, Shurui (author), Lu, T. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)In this article, we propose a reconfigurable regulating rectifier with a wide operational range for wireless power transfer. The proposed three-mode rectifier achieves a broad range voltage regulation without global loop control to minimize the chip area occupation. Compared with previous work, more working modes and greater voltage gain...journal article 2023
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Yue, X. (author), Javvaji, L.S. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Du, S. (author)Synchronized bias-flip rectifiers, such as synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI) rectifiers, are widely used for piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) [1], which can replace the use of batteries in many loT applications, thus reducing both system volume and maintenance cost. However, the output power extracted by such rectifiers...conference paper 2023
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Du, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)The regulatory endorsement of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the support of pivotal shipping market players in recent years motivate the investigation of the potential role that autonomous vessels play in the shipping industry. As the complexity and scale of the envisioned applications increase, research works gradually...review 2023
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Zhang, Lei (author), Liu, Wenjie (author), Du, Zhe (author), Du, Lei (author), Li, Xiaobin (author)Collision avoidance is a priority task for ensuring the safety of a maritime transportation system. However, for a ship towing system, which is characterized by multiple vessels and physical connections, the research works about collision avoidance is limited. Thus, this paper proposes a speed and heading control-based conflict resolution of...journal article 2023
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Du, Zhe (author)This thesis provides a set of cooperative control schemes for autonomous multi-vessel systems to manipulate a floating object through physical interconnections in onshore (inland waterways and ports) and offshore areas. Thanks to the maturity and popularity of the advancing technologies in information, communication, sensors, automatic control,...doctoral thesis 2022
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- Hua, Weiqi (author), Luo, Fengji (author), Du, Liang (author), Chen, Sijie (author), Kim, Taesic (author), Morstyn, Thomas (author), Robu, Valentin (author), Zhou, Yue (author) contribution to periodical 2022
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Flexible Collision-free Platooning Method for Unmanned Surface Vehicle with Experimental ValidationsDu, B. (author), Lin, Bin (author), Xie, Wei (author), Zhang, Weidong (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Pang, Y. (author)This paper addresses the flexible formation problem for unmanned surface vehicles in the presence of obstacles. Building upon the leader-follower formation scheme, a hybrid line-of-sight based flexible platooning method is proposed for follower vehicle to keep tracking the leader ship. A fusion artificial potential field collision avoidance...conference paper 2022
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Du, S. (author), Ibrahimli, N. (author), Stoter, J.E. (author), Kooij, J.F.P. (author), Nan, L. (author)Feedforward fully convolutional neural networks currently dominate in semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds. Despite their great success, they suffer from the loss of local information at low-level layers, posing significant challenges to accurate scene segmentation and precise object boundary delineation. Prior works either address this...conference paper 2022
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Gu, Guanjie (author), Yang, Changgui (author), Li, Zhuhao (author), Feng, Xiangdong (author), Chang, Ziyi (author), Wang, Ting-Hsun (author), Zhang, Yunshan (author), Luo, Yuxuan (author), Zhang, Hong (author), Wang, Ping (author), Du, S. (author), Chen, Yong (author), Zhao, Bo (author)Body Channel Communication (BCC) offers a low-loss signal transmission medium for ultra-low-power wearable devices on human body [1]. However, the effective communication range on human body is limited to less than 1m in the state-of-the-art BCC transceivers [2], where the signal loss at the interface of body surface and BCC receiver remains to...conference paper 2022
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Chen, Hang (author), Zhou, Hengshun (author), Du, Jun (author), Lee, Chin-Hui (author), Chen, Jingdong (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Liu, Di-Yuan (author)In this paper we discuss the rational of the Multi-model Information based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge, and provide a detailed description of the data recorded, the two evaluation tasks and the corresponding baselines, followed by a summary of submitted systems and evaluation results. The MISP Challenge aims at tack-ling speech processing...conference paper 2022
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Du, L. (author), Zhao, Xiujuan (author), Watte, Piet (author), Poelma, René H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The objective of this article is to investigate the thermal-fatigue properties of a commercially available lead-free solder alloy (SnBiAgCu) under the use of different types of potting compounds. Solder alloys with lower silver content are expected to substitute the conventional solder alloys SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu). First, the tensile...conference paper 2022
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Du, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)This paper proposes a novel dynamic coordination control scheme for a physically connected multi-vessel towing system to transport an offshore platform. The transportation process is executed by four tugboats, and each of them has a leading or following role. To render the transportation faster, the roles of the tugboats can be switched in...conference paper 2022
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Yue, X. (author), Chen, Zhelun (author), Zou, Yiwei (author), Du, S. (author)Ultrasonic wireless power transfer (WPT) has been proved to be a promising approach to power biomedical implants. To extract the energy generated from the transducer, a rectifier is typically required. Previous inductor-based rectifiers (SSHI and SECE) require a large off-chip inductor to achieve good performance, which is not desired for...conference paper 2022