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  • Editorial: Information and knowledge engineering for intelligent systems. Part I

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2008

    W pracy omówiono najnowsze dokonania w zakresie inzynierii i zarządzania wiedzą i informacją z perspektywy ich możliwych zastosowań w konstruowaniu systemów inteligentnych

  • Implementing decisional trust: a first approach for smart reliable systems

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    - CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS - Year 2009

    In this article, we introduce the necessary elements that must be integrated in order to achieve a decisional technology that is trustworthy. Thus, we refer to such technology as decisional trust. For us, decisional trust can be achieved through the use of elements such as the decisional DNA, reflexive ontologies, and security models; and therefore, we present in this article a framework that was used for the implementation of...

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  • Managing the security vulnerabilities of critical systems and hazardous plants

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    - Year 2007

    Rozdział poświęcono aktualnym problemom zarządzania ochroną obiektów podwyższonego ryzyka jako ważnych systemów infrastruktury krytycznej. Zarządzanie odpornością na ataki takich obiektów jest oparte na ocenach ryzyka. Podkreśla się, że występują ważne instalacje i systemy wymagające specjalnej uwagi i zabezpieczeń, szczególnie systemy kontroli dostępu do sterowni i urządzeń komunikacji. Opisuje się przykładowe technologie ochrony....

  • A Survey of Vehicular Network Systems for Road Traffic Management

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    In this survey, we analyze the proposals of vehicular communication systems in the context of road traffic management. Starting with the definition of communications between vehicles (V2V), vehicles-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicles-to-everything (V2X), we first focus on the requirements and current standards for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), including the maximum communication delay, the communication range and the...

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  • Homoclinics for singular strong force Lagrangian systems

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    We study the existence of homoclinic solutions for a class of generalized Lagrangian systems in the plane, with a C1-smooth potential with a single well of infinite depth at a point ξ and a unique strict global maximum 0 at the origin.Under a strong force condition around the singular point ξ, via minimization of an action integral, we will prove the existence of at least two geometrically distinct homoclinic solutions.

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  • Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Orbits for a Class of Singular Planar Newtonian Systems

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    - Year 2015

    The study of existence and multiplicity of solutions of differential equations possessing a variational nature is a problem of great meaning since most of them derives from mechanics and physics. In particular, this relates to Hamiltonian systems including Newtonian ones. During the past thirty years there has been a great deal of progress in the use of variational methods to find periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions...

  • [ITiT] Transmission Channel in Radio Communication Systems - 2023/2024

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    • S. J. Ambroziak

    {mlang pl} Dyscyplina: informatyka techniczna i telekomunikacja Zajęcia fakultatywne dla doktorantów II roku Prowadzący:  dr hab. inż. Sławomir Ambroziak, prof. PG Liczba godzin: 15 Forma zajęć: wykład {mlang} {mlang en} Discipline: technical informatics and telecommunications Elective course for 2nd-year PhD students Academic teachers: dr hab. inż. Sławomir Ambroziak, prof. PG Total hours of training: 15 teaching hours Course...

  • Visual Content Representation for Cognitive Systems: Towards Augmented Intelligence

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    - Year 2020

    Cognitive Vision Systems have gained significant attention from academia and industry during the past few decades. One of the main reasons behind this interest is the potential of such technologies to revolutionize human life since they intend to work robustly under complex visual scenes (which environmental conditions may vary), adapting to a comprehensive range of unforeseen changes, and exhibiting prospective behavior. The combination...

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  • A concept of software extension of 3D low-PRF radar systems to 4D semi-medium-PRF radar systems

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    We present a concept of software modification of three-dimensional (3D) radar systems, designed to work in the low pulse repetition frequency mode, that equips them with the ability to estimate the radial velocity and to properly measure the range of targets that are detected outside the radar’s instrumented range. Despite the fact that the proposed modifications are designed so as to require only minor changes in software, they...

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  • Finite-difference time-domain analyses of active cloaking for electrically-large objects

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    - OPTICS EXPRESS - Year 2021

    Invisibility cloaking devices constitute a unique and potentially disruptive technology, but only if they can work over broad bandwidths for electrically-large objects. So far, the only known scheme that allows for broadband scattering cancellation from an electrically-large object is based on an active implementation where electric and magnetic sources are deployed over a surface surrounding the object, but whose ‘switching on’...

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  • Leszek Zięba mgr inż.

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    He is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics (1979 M.Sc. Electronics majoring in Computer Science). In the years 1979-1994 he worked at the PG Computing Center as a senior programmer, chief technologist in the Department of Basic Software and Software Development Department, senior designer. From 1994, he was employed as a senior lecturer in the Department of Production Engineering at the Faculty of Management and Economics of...

  • A method of self-testing of an analog circuit terminated by an ADC in electronic embedded systems controlled by microcontrollers

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    A new self-testing method of analog parts terminated by an ADC in electronic embedded systems controlled by microcontrollers is presented. It is based on a new fault diagnosis method based on on-line (i.e. during measurement), transformations of voltage samples of the time response of a tested part to a square pulse - onto localization curves placed in the measurement space. The method can be used for fault detection and single...

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  • Investigating the Impact of Weather Conditions and Time of Day on Traffic Flow Characteristics

    Adverse weather such as rain, snow, and fog may significantly reduce visibility or change adhesion properties and, as a consequence, affect drivers’ sense of safety, driving comfort, and their reaction to a changing driving environment (i.e., lower speed and increased headways). The changed behavior of individual drivers affects both traffic flow characteristics, that is, average speed and headways, and parameters related to highway...

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  • Reliability And Safety As An Objective Of Intelligent Transport Systems In Urban Areas

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    Technologies that use transport telematics offer tools for strengthening urban transport systems. They rationalise the use of the existing infrastructure and transport management systems, increase their reliability and safety and improve the transport behaviour of residents, while reducing the operating costs of transport. The main reason for using Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is the need to implement measures to reduce...

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  • Research Platform for Monitoring, Control and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems

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    Sustainable operation of Critical Infrastructure Systems (CISs) is of a major concern to modern societies. Monitoring, control and security of such systems plays a key role in guaranteeing continuous, reliable and above all secure access to the resources provided by these systems. Development of adequate software and hardware structures, as well as algorithms to perform such functions cannot be done apart from the operational conditions...

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  • A Surveillance Of Dynamic Processes in Selected Mechatronic Systems

    The paper concerns development of original method of optimal control at energy performance index and its application to dynamic processes surveillance of some mechatronic systems. The latter concerns chatter vibration surveillance during highspeed slender milling of rigid details, as well as motion control of two-wheeled mobile platform. Results of on-line computer simulations and real performance on the target objects reflect...

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  • Radar Signal Parameters Estimation Using Phase Accelerogram in the Time-Frequency Domain

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    - IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL - Year 2019

    Radar signal parameter estimation, in the context of the reconstruction of the received signal in a passive radar utilizing other radars as a source of illumination, is one of the fundamental steps in the signal processing chain in such a device. The task is also a crucial one in electronic reconnaissance systems, e.g. ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) systems. In order to obtain accurate results it is important to measure, estimate...

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  • Intelligent integration for autonomous manufacturing systems

    W artykule zaproponowano inteligentną platformę integracyjną dla autonomicznych systemów produkcyjnych. Autonomie zdefiniowano w pracy jako samowystarczalne zamkniecie informacyjne. Inteligencje natomiast zdefiniowana jako umiejętność podejmowania właściwych decyzji w zmiennym otoczenie. Platformę integracyjną oparto na technice systemów ekspertowych.

  • Towards solving heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with time windows and additional constraints: real use case study

    In advanced logistic systems, there is a need for a comprehensive optimization of the transport of goods, which would reduce costs. During past decades, several theoretical and practical approaches to solve vehicle routing problems (VRP) were proposed. The problem of optimal fleet management is often transformed to discrete optimization problem that relies on determining the most economical transport routes for a number of vehicles...

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  • A method of measuring RLC components for microcontroller systems

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    A new method of measuring RLC components for microcontroller systems dedicated to compact smart impedance sensors based on a direct sensor-microcontroller interface is presented. In the method this direct interface composed of a reference resistor connected in series with the tested sensor impedance is stimulated by a square wave generated by the microcontroller, and then its voltage response is sampled by an internal ADC of the...

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  • Road safety analysis in Poland using time-series modelling techniques

    A number of international studies argue that there is a correlation between the number of traffic fatalities and the degree of public activity. The studies use the unemployment rate to support that argument. As unemployment grows miles travelled fall, a factor known to affect road safety. This relationship seems to be true for Poland, as well. The model presented in the paper is intended to prove it. It is a structural time-series local...

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  • Adaptive Optimal Discrete-Time Output-Feedback Using an Internal Model Principle and Adaptive Dynamic Programming

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    - IEEE-CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica - Year 2024

    In order to address the output feedback issue for linear discrete-time systems, this work suggests a brand-new adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) technique based on the internal model principle (IMP). The proposed method, termed as IMP-ADP, does not require complete state feedback, merely the measurement of input and output data. More specifically, based on the IMP, the output control problem can first be converted into a stabilization...

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  • Energy Systems Stations, PG_00042106, W, PE-ET, sem.7, winter 2023/24

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    • R. Liberacki

    Construction and operation of energy systems, based on the example of the ship power plant.

  • Modeling of Electrified Transportation Systems Featuring Multiple Vehicles and Complex Power Supply Layout

    The paper proposes a novel approach to modeling electrified transportation systems. The proposed solution reflects the mechanical dynamics of vehicles as well as the distribution and losses of electric supply. Moreover, energy conversion losses between the mechanical and electrical subsystems and their bilateral influences are included. Such a complete model makes it possible to replicate, e.g., the impact of voltage drops on vehicle...

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  • On the Handling of Outliers in the GNSS Time Series by Means of the Noise and Probability Analysis

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    - Central European Journal of Geosciences - Year 2015

    The data pre-analysis plays a significant role in the noise determination. The most important issue is to find an optimum criterion for outliers removal, since their existence can affect any further analysis. The noises in the GNSS time series are characterized by spectral index and amplitudes that can be determined with a few different methods. In this research, the Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) was used. The noise amplitudes...

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  • Recovery of Anammox Biomass at Short Hydraulic Retention Time in a MBR Reactor

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    The anammox system has been consider as an economical option for treating high concentration of nitrogen and poor in biodegradable orgaednic carbon wastewaters. This process is attractive option compared with conventional nitrogen removal because it provides a significant saving in aeration and organic addition for denitrification. The anammox technology has been applied mostly for concentrated nitrogenous wastewater containing...

  • Computational algorithm for the analysis of mechatronic systems with distributed parameter elements

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    The paper presents a systematic computational package for analysis of complex systems composed of multiple lumped and distributed parameter subsystems. The algorithm is based on the transfer function method (DTFM). With this algorithm, a bond graph technique for the modelling is developed to simplify computations. Analysis of different systems requires only changing the inputs data in the form of the bond graph diagram

  • Safety Integrity Verification Issues of the Control Systems for Industrial Process Plants

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    - Year 2018

    The aim of this article is to identify and discuss some issues that can be encountered in designing the industrial automation and control systems (IACS) for implementing safety functions. In a functional safety standard IEC 61511 for the process industry such systems are named the basic process control systems (BPCS) and the safety instrumented systems (SIS). In a generic functional safety standard IEC 61508 they are depicted as...

  • Time evolution of luminescence of Sr2SiO4:Eu2+

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    • J. Barzowska
    • K. Szczodrowski
    • M. Grinberg
    • S. Mahlik
    • K. Anders
    • R. Piramidowicz
    • Y. Zorenko
    • S. Mahlik
    • J. Barzowska

    - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter - Year 2013

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  • Hypertension and sexual dysfunction: time to act

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    • M. Viigimaa
    • M. Doumas
    • C. Vlachopoulos
    • P. Anyfanti
    • J. Wolf
    • K. Narkiewicz
    • G. Mancia

    - JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION - Year 2011

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  • Time and clock synchronization with AFCK for CBM

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    • M. Gumiński
    • W. Zabołotny
    • G. Kasprowicz
    • K. Poźniak
    • R. Romaniuk
    • R. S. Romaniuk

    - Year 2015

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  • Special discrete-time filters and applications

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    - Year 2005

    Celem monografii jest pokazanie głównych kierunków postepu w zakresie nowych technik projektowania cyfrowych filtrów specjalnych i ich zastosowań. Rodzina filtrów specjalnych skupia sie wokół filtru ułamkowo-opóźniającego, tj. szczególnego interpolatora, którego właściwości można scharakteryzować za pomocą opóźnienia grupowego albo opóźnienia fazowego. W monografii pokazano mechanizm powiązań pomiędzy filtrami specjalnymi, wyjaśniono...

  • Differential inequalities with initial time difference.

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    Uzyskano pewne wyniki porównawcze pomiędzy rozwiązaniami nierówności różniczkowych startujących z różnych punktów początkowych. O nieliniowej funkcji f (związanej z zagadnieniem) zakładano jednostronny warunek Lipschitza. Podano pewne zastosowanie otrzymanych wyników. Sformułowano też pewne warunki dotyczące stabilności.

  • Time-of-flight spectroscopy for medical applications.

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    - Year 2004

    W pracy przedstawiono korzyści optycznej spektroskopii czasu przelotu, w zastosowaniach medycznych. Przedstawiono także zasadę pomiarów oraz pokazano, jak z danych pomiarowych można wyznaczyć podstawowe parametry optyczne tkanki. Potencjał pomiarowy optycznej spektroskopii czasu przelotu zaprezentowano na przykładzie pomiarów ośrodków silnie rozpraszających światło jakimi są: papier, cicze technologiczne z papierni, wodne roztwory...

  • Modeling SPMD Application Execution Time

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    - Year 2016

    Parallel applications in a Single Process Multiple Data paradigm assume splitting huge amounts of data to multiple processors working in parallel at small data packets. As the individual data packets are not independent, the processors must interact with each other to exchange results of the calculations with their adjacent partners and take these results into account in their own computations. An example of SPMD is geometric parallelism...

  • Modeling DAC Application Execution Time

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    - Year 2016

    An application written in the Divide And Conquer paradigm is more difficult to model than SPMD application because of complex algorithm, causing use of many coefficients in a computational complexity function. Processors are divided into various layers, each layer contains different number of processors. Data packets processed in different layers and transferred between layers have different length. Moreover first layer processors use...

  • Hazard prevention by forced time constraints

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    Minimalne Zbiory Przyczyn powstałe podczas analizy Drzew Błędów wskazują zdarzenia, które jeśli nastąpią razem, mogą doprowadzić do Hazardu. W niektórych zastosowaniach opis zdarzeń może zostać poszerzony o informację czasową, wtedy zdarzenia z MZP mogą doprowadzić do Hazardu tylko jeśli wystąpi pomiędzy nimi określona zależność czasowa. W tym artykule przedstawione zostało jak informacja czasowa może zostać wprowadzona do Drzew...

  • TreeCmp: Comparison of Trees in Polynomial Time

    Metryki filogenetyczne umożliwiają ocenę jakości wyników analizy filogenetycznej oraz wiarygodności algorytmów przeprowadzających taką analizę. Aplikacja TreeCmp oferuje efektywne, wielomianowe implementacje ośmiu takich metryk (dla drzew nieukorzenionych i zawierających korzeń) zdefiniowanych dla dowolnych filogenez (nie koniecznie binarnych). Program ten jako pierwszy umożliwia wyznaczanie nowych metryk, definiowanych w oparciu...

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  • Design of M2M Communications Interfaces in Transport Systems

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    - Year 2016

    In the paper the principle of M2M communications in transport systems is presented. The concept of M2M system architecture is considered. Characteristics of M2M communications for example data transmission, monitoring and other services for transport applications are presented. The problem of communications interfaces design for M2M applications is analysed. Next, the proposal of M2M communication interface for transport applications...

  • A nine-input 1.25 mW, 34 ns CMOS analog median filter for image processing in real time

    In this paper an analog voltage-mode median filter, which operates on a 3 × 3 kernel is presented. The filter is implemented in a 0.35 μm CMOS technology. The proposed solution is based on voltage comparators and a bubble sort configuration. As a result, a fast (34 ns) time response with low power consumption (1.25 mW for 3.3 V) is achieved. The key advantage of the configuration is relatively high accuracy of signal processing,...

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  • Śledzenie głowy użytkownika komputera z użyciem kamery Time of Flight

    Opisano opracowaną metodę śledzenia położenia głowy użytkownika komputera lub urządzenia mobilnego przy wykorzystaniu kamery mierzącej czas powrotu wiązki promieniowania elektromagnetycznego podczerwonego odbitej od oświetlanego obiektu (ang. Time Of Flight camera). Dzięki zastosowaniu odpowiednich metod cyfrowego przetwarzania obrazu pozyskanego z kamery tego typu możliwe jest zlokalizowanie użytkownika w przestrzeni 3D. Znajomość...

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  • Energy-Aware Scheduling for High-Performance Computing Systems: A Survey

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    High-performance computing (HPC), according to its name, is traditionally oriented toward performance, especially the execution time and scalability of the computations. However, due to the high cost and environmental issues, energy consumption has already become a very important factor that needs to be considered. The paper presents a survey of energy-aware scheduling methods used in a modern HPC environment, starting with the...

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  • Influence of high temperature air-steam mixture application on time wood drying process

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    The results of influence gas-steam mixture drying process on time wood drying process are presented. Wood species, namely oak (Quercus L.), beech (Fagus L.), pine (Pinus L.) and spruce (Picea K.) from the northern part of Pomerania region in Poland, were subject of air-steam mixture drying process. Main focus of those tests was to shorten the time of drying process and afterward to check properties of wood.

  • A ship domain-based model of collision risk for near-miss detection and Collision Alert Systems

    The paper presents a new model of ship collision risk, which utilises a ship domain concept and the related domain-based collision risk parameters. An encounter is here described by five variables representing: degree of domain violation (DDV), relative speed of the two vessels, combination of the vessels’ courses, arena violations and encounter complexity. As for the first three variables, their values can be directly computed...

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  • Message Inter-Arrival and Inter-Departure Time Distributions in IMS/NGN Architecture

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    - Year 2012

    Currently is it assumed that requirements of the information society for delivering multimedia services will be satisfied by the Next Generation Network (NGN) architecture, which includes elements of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. In order to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS), NGN has to be appropriately designed and dimensioned. Therefore, proper traffic models should be proposed and applied. This requires determination...

  • Time evolution of Electrochemical Impedance spectra of cathodically protected steel in artificial seawater

    Usability of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy data for better cathodic protection control was investigated. Carbon steel – S235JR2 grade specimen were exposed in artificial seawater environment. Samples were polarized and their potentials corresponded to four different cathodic protection degrees. Time evolution of Electrochemical Impedance spectra was investigated. Goodness of fit function (X2) was analysed in terms of proper...

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  • Crank–Nicolson FDTD Method in Media Described by Time-Fractional Constitutive Relations

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    - Year 2024

    In this contribution, we present the Crank-Nicolson finite-difference time-domain (CN-FDTD) method, implemented for simulations of wave propagation in media described by time-fractional (TF) constitutive relations. That is, the considered constitutive relations involve fractional-order (FO) derivatives based on the Grünwald-Letnikov definition, allowing for description of hereditary properties and memory effects of media and processes....

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  • THE INFLUENCE OF PHASE SHIFTERS ON THE VOLTAGE STABILITY OF CONNECTED POWER SYSTEMS

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    The paper presents the results of simulation tests of connected power systems in which phase shifters were installed on cross-border links. The analysis was carried out in terms of assessing the impact of shifters on node voltage stability. Individual systems were characterized by different balance of active power: deficit or excess. The evaluation of voltage stability was based on the dU/dQ and dU/dP criteria.

  • The Concept of Using the Decision-Robustness Function in Integrated Navigation Systems

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    - SENSORS - Year 2022

    The diversity and non-uniformity of the positioning systems available in maritime navigation systems often impede the watchkeeping officer in the selection of the appropriate positioning system, in particular, in restricted basins. Thus, it is necessary to introduce a mathematical apparatus to suggest, in an automated manner, which of the available systems should be used at the given moment of a sea trip. Proper selection of the...

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  • Jerzy Konorski dr hab. inż.

    Jerzy Konorski received his M. Sc. degree in telecommunications from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, and his Ph. D. degree in computer science from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 2007, he defended his D. Sc. thesis at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology. He has authored over 150 papers, led scientific projects funded by the European Union,...