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Evaluation of respiration rate and pattern using a portable thermal camera
PublikacjaThe goal of this paper was to analyze the accuracy of the proposed method for the evaluation of respiration rate and respiration rhythm patterns (e.g. inspiration slope) using the portable and mobile thermal camera module that could be a part of smart glasses. Parameters were analyzed for 12 volunteers in two experiments, when subjects speak and do not speak. The pressure, chest belt was used as a reference measurement method....
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Blockchain based Secure Data Exchange between Cloud Networks and Smart Hand-held Devices for use in Smart Cities
PublikacjaIn relation to smart city planning and management, processing huge amounts of generated data and execution of non-lightweight cryptographic algorithms on resource constraint devices at disposal, is the primary focus of researchers today. To enable secure exchange of data between cloud networks and mobile devices, in particular smart hand held devices, this paper presents Blockchain based approach that disperses a public/free key...
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Behavior Based Complete Coverage Task of Unknown Area by an Autonomous Mobile Robot SCORPION with Static Obstacles in Environment
PublikacjaIn the paper the behavior based control system of an autonomous mobile robot SCORPION is presented to execute the one of the most difficult navigation task, which is the complete coverage task of unknown area with static obstacles in the environment. The main principle assumed to design control system was that the robot should cover all area only once, if it possible, to optimize the length of path and energy consumption. All commercial...
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Low-Cost Unattended Design of Miniaturized 4 × 4 Butler Matrices with Nonstandard Phase Differences
PublikacjaDesign of Butler matrices dedicated to Internet of Things and 5th generation (5G) mobile systems—where small size and high performance are of primary concern—is a challenging task that often exceeds capabilities of conventional techniques. Lack of appropriate, unified design approaches is a serious bottleneck for the development of Butler structures for contemporary applications. In this work, a low-cost bottom-up procedure for...
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Dynamic risk assessment in autonomous vehicles motion planning
PublikacjaArguing that an autonomous mobile system is sufficiently safe to operate in presence of other vehicles and objects is an important element in development of such systems. Traditional approach to assure safety is to distinguish between safe and unsafe area and prevent the autonomous vehicle from entering the unsafe area. The paper presents a model of autonomous vehicle control system which uses risk assessment...
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Fitting the mobile device characteristics to the user's hearing preferences
PublikacjaA method for fitting the mobile computer audio characteristics to the user's hearing preferences is proposed. The process consists of two stages: calibration and dynamics processing. During the calibration phase the user performs a loudness scaling test giving their response regarding the perceived loudness. The dynamics processing made on above basis sets the loudness to the most comfortable level. The processing accounts both...
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Study of data scheduling methods in the WiMAX Mobile metropolitan area networks
PublikacjaThe paper discusses basic assumptions of the WiMAX Mobile system. It also presents and analyses the results of simulation tests run for selected data scheduling methods and subcarrier allocation. Based on the test results, the authors have prepared a comparative analysis of two popular data scheduling methods, i.e. WRR and PF, and their own method CDFQ which uses information about the current channel situation for the queuing processes...
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Asynchronous time difference of arrival (ATDOA) method
PublikacjaA new method for a location service in the asynchronous wireless sensor networks is outlined. This method, which is called asynchronous time difference of arrival (ATDOA), enables calculation of the position of a mobile node without knowledge of relative time differences (RTDs) between measuring sensors. The ATDOA method is based on the measurement of time difference of arrival between the node and the same sensor at the discrete...
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Color Processing for Color-Blind Individuals Using Smart Glasses
PublikacjaIn this paper we investigated image processing methods for color-blind individuals. In particular we experimentally verified color naming procedure, generation of maps with color perception differences for average observers and for dichromats, and two color transformation methods. In experiments 7 mobile devices were used: 3 smart glasses and 4 smartphones. User studies were performed with 38 average observers and 9 dichromats....
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Game with a Purpose for Mappings Verification
PublikacjaMappings verification is a laborious task. The paper presents a Game with a Purpose based system for verification of automatically generated mappings. General description of idea standing behind the games with the purpose is given. Description of TGame system, a 2D platform mobile game with verification process included in the gameplay, is provided. Additional mechanisms for anti-cheating, increasing player’s motivation and gathering...
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Collision-Free Network Exploration
PublikacjaA set of mobile agents is placed at different nodes of a n-node network. The agents synchronously move along the network edges in a collision-free way, i.e., in no round may two agents occupy the same node. In each round, an agent may choose to stay at its currently occupied node or to move to one of its neighbors. An agent has no knowledge of the number and initial positions of other agents. We are looking for the shortest possible...
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Taking advantage of symmetries: Gathering of many asynchronous oblivious robots on a ring
PublikacjaOne of the recently considered models of robot-based computing makes use of identical, memoryless mobile units placed in nodes of an anonymous graph. The robots operate in Look-Compute-Move cycles; in one cycle, a robot takes a snapshot of the current configuration (Look), takes a decision whether to stay idle or to move to one of the nodes adjacent to its current position (Compute), and in the latter case makes an instantaneous...
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Fusion-based Representation Learning Model for Multimode User-generated Social Network Content
PublikacjaAs mobile networks and APPs are developed, user-generated content (UGC), which includes multi-source heterogeneous data like user reviews, tags, scores, images, and videos, has become an essential basis for improving the quality of personalized services. Due to the multi-source heterogeneous nature of the data, big data fusion offers both promise and drawbacks. With the rise of mobile networks and applications, UGC, which includes...
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Audio Content and Crowdsourcing: A Subjective Quality Evaluation of Radio Programs Streamed Online
PublikacjaRadio broadcasting has been present in our lives for over 100 years. The transmission of speech and music signals accompanies us from an early age. Broadcasts provide the latest information from home and abroad. They also shape musical tastes and allow many artists to share their creativity. Modern distribution involves transmission over a number of terrestrial systems. The most popular are analog FM (Frequency Modulation) and...
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Kinetics and mechanism of the chemically modified starches during gelatinization.
PublikacjaNative starch was silicated by means of microwave-assisted reactions with varying doses of reagents. Resulting products were characterized by DSC and HMR-relaxation methods. It was observed that the hydratation of the silicated starches during gelatinization decreases when compared to that of the native potato starch. The amount of unfrozen water for ungelitinizated silicated starches are less than in control samples. At the same...
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Deterministic Rendezvous in Restricted Graphs
PublikacjaIn this paper we consider the problem of synchronous rendezvous in which two anonymous mobile entities (robots) A and B are expected to meet at the same time and point in a graph G = (V;E). Most of the work devoted to rendezvous in graphs assumes that robots have access to the same sets of nodes and edges, where the topology of connections may be initially known or unknown. In our work we assume the movement of robots is restricted...
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Empirical Propagation Model for the Container Terminal Environment
PublikacjaIn the paper the empirical propagation model for mobile radio links in a container terminal environment is presented and the investigated environment Deepwater Container Terminal in Gdansk, Poland) is characterized. Described empirical model was elaborated on the basis of almost 290 thousand propagation path measurements in real conditions. The diversity of conditions occurring in different places of the container terminal has...
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Connected searching of weighted trees
PublikacjaW artykule rozważamy problem spójnego przeszukiwania drzew obciążonych. Autorzy w [L. Barriere i inni, Capture of an intruder by mobile agents, SPAA'02 (2002) 200-209] twierdzą, że istnieje wielomianowy algorytm dla problemu obliczania optymalnej strategii przeszukiwania obciążonego drzewa. W niniejszej pracy pokazano, że problem ten jest obliczeniowo trudny nawet dla wierzchołkowo-obciążonych drzew (wagi krawędzi równe 1) oraz...
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Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
PublikacjaAdvanced mobile vehicles and robots have long been one of the main issues in engineering. They have various applications in emergency, lifeguarding and entertainment as well as in various industrial, civil and military systems. Among them, you can distinguish robots that can move in an open environment or operate only in predetermined confined spaces. Open world robots are very demanding because they have...
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A Point Set Connection Problem for Autonomous Mobile Robots in a Grid
PublikacjaConsider an orthogonal grid of streets and avenues in a Manhattan-like city populated by stationary sensor modules at some intersections and mobile robots that can serve as relays of information that the modules exchange, where both module-module and module-robot communication is limited to a straight line of sight within the grid. The robots are oblivious and move asynchronously. We present a distributed algorithm that, given...
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Badanie sprawności algorytmów szeregowania danych w systemie WiMAX Mobile
PublikacjaW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań symulacyj-nych różnych metod szeregowania danych i przydziału podnośnych w sieciach opartych na standardzie IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX Mobile). W pracy zostały opisane najważniejsze mechanizmy odpowiedzialne za zarządza-nie jakością usług w tych sieciach. Analizę porównaw-czą przeprowadzono dla następujących metod: Round Robin (RR), Proportional Fairness (PF) oraz Maximum Rate (MR). Znaczną uwagę poświęcono...
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Computational complexity and length of recorded data for fluctuation enhanced sensing method in resistive gas sensors
PublikacjaThis paper considers complexity and accuracy of data processing for gas detection using resistance fluctuation data observed in resistance gas sensors. A few selected methods were considered (Principal Component Analysis – PCA, Support Vector Machine – SVM). Functions like power spectral density or histogram were used to create input data vector for these algorithms from the observed resistance fluctuations. The presented considerations...
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Fast Fading Influence on the Deep Learning-Based LOS and NLOS Identificationin Wireless Body Area Networks
PublikacjaIn the article, the fast fading influence on the proposed DL (Deep Learning) approach for LOS (Line-of-Sight) and NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) conditions identification in Wireless Body Area Networks is investigated. The research was conducted on the basis of the off-body communication measurements using the developed mobile measurement stand, in an indoor environment for both static and dynamic scenarios. The measurements involved...
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Greener organic solvents in analytical chemistry
PublikacjaThe paper presents the most recent advances in analytical applications of greener organic solvents. Substitution of problematic solvents with more benign organic ones is much easier than shifting to technique applying alternative solvents, such as ionic liquids or supercritical fluids. In the area of liquid chromatography greener mobile phases, much attention is given to application ethanol or acetone instead of acetonitrile. Solvent-based...
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Augmenting digital documents with negotiation capability
PublikacjaActive digital documents are not only capable of performing various operations using their internal functionality and external services, accessible in the environment in which they operate, but can also migrate on their own over a network of mobile devices that provide dynamically changing execution contexts. They may imply conflicts between preferences of the active document and the device the former wishes to execute on. In the...
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ASYNCHRONICZNA METODA TDOA
PublikacjaPrzedstawiono nową metodę lokalizowania terminali ruchomych MT (Mobile Terminal) w sieciach radiowych, w których stacje bazowe BS (Base Station) pracują asynchronicznie względem siebie. Metoda ta, nazwana ATDOA (Asynchronous Time Difference of Arrival), umożliwia estymację położenia MT na podstawie pomiarów różnicy czasów propagacji sygnałów radiowych pomiędzy terminalem ruchomym będącym w ruchu, a pojedynczą stacją bazową w różnych...
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Charakterystyki jakościowe systemu Wimax mobile z interfejsem SOFDMA/TDD w łączu w górę
PublikacjaW pracy przedstawiono założenia systemu WiMAX Mobile, podstawowe cechy interfejsu SOFDMA/TDD oraz wyniki badań symulacyjnych, obejmującychwyznaczanie charakterystyk jakościowych tego systemu, tj. zależności blokowej stopy błędów od stosunku sygnału do szumu dla różnych rodzajów modulacji i kodowania. Prezentowane wyniki badań uwzględniają mobilność terminali w dostępie do usług i dotyczą łącza w górę.W kontekście przeprowadzonych...
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Common methods for the chiral determination of amphetamine and related compounds I. Gas, liquid and thin-layer chromatography
PublikacjaThis article reviews the most common, useful methods for the chiral determination of amphetamine (AM) and AM-deriveddesigner drugs in different of matrix, including blood, hair, urine, medicaments or standard solutions, taking into considerationarticles published in the past 15 years. We consider chromatographic methods (e.g., gas, liquid, high-performance liquid, and thinlayer). We describe several types of chiral derivatization...
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Simultaneous handover scheme for IEEE 802.11 WLANs with IEEE 802.21 tiggers
PublikacjaHandover performance in wireless networks is important, especially nowadays, when multimedia services are becoming increasingly available over the wireless devices. However, users expect uncompromised mobility when using the service. Thus, the support of multimedia services is not possible if handover is inefficient. At the same time it is clear that a strict separation between IP Layer and the Link Layer results in built-in sources...
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Analysis of human behavioral patterns
PublikacjaWidespread usage of Internet and mobile devices entailed growing requirements concerning security which in turn brought about development of biometric methods. However, a specially designed biometric system may infer more about users than just verifying their identity. Proper analysis of users’ characteristics may also tell much about their skills, preferences, feelings. This chapter presents biometric methods applied in several...
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A Visual Method of Measuring Railway-Track Weed Infestation Level
PublikacjaThis paper concerns the assessment of railway track surface conditions in relation to the degree of weed infestation. The paper conceptually describes the proposed method using a visual system to analyse weed infestation level. The use of image analysis software for weed detection is also proposed. This new measurement method allows for a mobile assessment of the track’s weed infestation status. Validation of the assessment method...
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Realizacja mobilnego urządzenia do wytwarzania kurtyny elektromagnetycznej do zastosowań specjalnych
PublikacjaIn the article the assumptions, design and realisation of the technological demonstrator of a mobile device for generating an electromagnetic curtain (AEGIS) were presented, both in the area of hardware and software. The device is designed to block radio communication by which it is possible to detonate the Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIEDs). The preliminary laboratory tests of the demonstrator for generating...
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Mobile satellite measurements on the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway
PublikacjaThis paper presents the process of organization and execution of the mobile satellite measurements conducted on the tracks of the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway before officially entry the line into operation. These measurements allowed for the accurate identification of the actual geometric shape of the line. In the paper the issues of both design and construction phase of this railway line has been described. Moreover, the geodetic...
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The Snow Team Problem
PublikacjaWe study several problems of clearing subgraphs by mobile agents in digraphs. The agents can move only along directed walks of a digraph and, depending on the variant, their initial positions may be pre-specified. In general, for a given subset~$\cS$ of vertices of a digraph $D$ and a positive integer $k$, the objective is to determine whether there is a subgraph $H=(\cV_H,\cA_H)$ of $D$ such that (a) $\cS \subseteq \cV_H$, (b)...
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Measuring research on radio wave propagation
PublikacjaTelecommunication connections are increasingly based on the wireless links, both fixed and mobile, carried out under different radio systems. This kind of solution has many advantages. However, the propagation medium is a factor that causes many difficulties in designing wireless networks, because of large diversity of propagation environments. Transmission loss in each environment is determined by many variables phenomena and...
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5G/6G optical fronthaul modeling: cost and energy consumption assessment
PublikacjaIn fifth generation (5G) and the future beyond 5G (6G) radio access networks (RANs), the cost of fronthaul deployment is a main challenge for mobile network operators. Depending on different constraints, there are various solutions to deploy an efficient fronthaul. Fiber-optic-based fronthaul offers long-term support with regard to a rapid increase in capacity demands. When fiber connections, either point-to-point (P2P) or point-to-multipoint...
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Practical Trial for Low-Energy Effective Jamming on Private Networks With 5G-NR and NB-IoT Radio Interfaces
PublikacjaFourth-generation (4G) mobile networks are successively replaced by fifth-generation (5G) ones, based on the new releases of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard. 5G generation is dedicated to civilian users and the conducted analytical work shows that it has numerous technological gaps that prevent its direct implementation in military communications systems. However, the recent armed world conflicts showed that...
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Analiza efektywności metod estymacji położenia terminala ruchomego w środowisku propagacji wielodrogowej
PublikacjaW referacie została zaprezentowana analiza efektywności metod estymacji położenia terminala ruchomego w systemie WCDMA/FDD (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access / Frequency Division Duplex) w warunkach propagacji wielodrogowej. Analizie poddano cztery, najczęściej spotykane w literaturze przedmiotu, metody: Chan'a, Foy'a, Fang'a oraz Friedlander'a. Metody te umożliwiają wyznaczanie położenia geograficznego termi-nala ruchomego...
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Badanie metod szeregowania danych w systemie WiMAX Mobile z wykorzystaniem standaryzowanych modeli kanału
PublikacjaW referacie omówiono podstawowe założenia systemu WiMAX Mobile oraz przedstawiono i przeanalizowano wyniki badań symulacyjnych wybranych metod szeregowania danych i przydziału podnośnych. W oparciu o uzyskane wyniki badań, dokonano analizy porównawczej dwóch popularnych metod szeregowania danych tj. WRR i PF oraz własnej metody CDFQ, wykorzystującej w procesie kolejkowania i przydziału zasobów informację...
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Evolution of Animats Following a Moving Target in an Artificial Ecosystem
PublikacjaMany biological animals, even microscopically small, are able to track moving sources of food. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of such behavior in artificial animals (animats) in a 2-dimensional simulated liquid environment. These "predators" are controlled by evolving artificial gene regulatory networks encoded in linear genomes. The fate of the predators is determined only by their ability to gather food and reproduce—no...
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Modification of Selected Propagation Models in Terms of Path Loss Estimation in Container Terminal
PublikacjaIt is particularly important to look for any propagation model that could be useful for designing mobile radio networks in container terminal environment. Selected propagation models have been investigated. Firstly - basing on measurements results - they have been evaluated in this scope and the analysis has shown, that the adjustment is needed. This modification improved significantly the accuracy of path loss modelling. For the...
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Analiza modalna konstrukcji stanowiska badawczego dynamiki małogabarytowych wirników przy wykorzystaniu wzbudników drgań część 1. badania eksperymentalne
PublikacjaStreszczenie: W artykule przedstawiono przebieg i wyniki eksperymentalnej analizy modalnej konstrukcji stanowiska do badania wirników małogabarytowych, które miały w drugiej części pracy posłużyć do weryfikacji stworzonego modelu symulacyjnego. Wymuszeniem były dwa wzbudniki drgań, modułem akwizycji danych był SCADAS Mobile, a środowiskiem, w którym pracowano był Test.Lab 11 B. Obiekt badań podwieszono na elastycznych linach by...
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Analiza modalna konstrukcji podpierającej stanowiska badawczego dynamiki małogabarytowych wirników / część pierwsza - badania eksperymentalne
PublikacjaStreszczenie: W artykule przedstawiono przebieg i wyniki eksperymentalnej analizy modalnej konstrukcji stanowiska do badania wirników małogabarytowych, które miały w drugiej części pracy posłużyć do weryfikacji stworzonego modelu symulacyjnego. Wymuszeniem były dwa wzbudniki drgań, modułem akwizycji danych był SCADAS Mobile, a środowiskiem, w którym pracowano był Test.Lab 11 B. Obiekt badań podwieszono na elastycznych linach by...
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Analiza modalna konstrukcji stanowiska badawczego dynamiki małogabarytowych wirników przy wykorzystaniu wzbudników drgań. cz. I. badania eksperymentalne.
Publikacjastreszczenie: w artykule przedstawiono przebieg i wyniki eksperymentalnej analizy modalnej konstrukcji stanowiska do badania wirników małogabarytowych, które miały w drugiej części pracy posłużyć do weryfikacji stworzonego modelu symulacyjnego. wymuszeniem były dwa wzbudniki drgań, modułem akwizycji danych był scadas mobile, a środowiskiem, w którym pracowano był test.lab 11 b. obiekt badań podwieszono na elastycznych linach by...
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Realizacja przełączeń terminali ruchomych przez elementy infrastruktury systemu mobilności
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawione zostało rozwiązanie pozwalające zrealizować mobilność terminali, które nie posiadają zaimplementowanych zaawansowanych mechanizmów dedykowanych dla tej usługi. Opisano protokół Proxy Mobile IPv6 jako rozwiązanie wpisujące się w model network-based localized mobility management, w której to elementy infrastruktury systemu odpowiadają za zachowanie ciągłości połączenia w trakcie przełączania. Zaprezentowane...
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AEGIS – Mobile Device for Generating Electromagnetic Curtain for Special Applications and Countering the Threats of RCIED
PublikacjaIn the article the assumptions, design and realization of the technological demonstrator of a mobile device for generating an electromagnetic curtain (with a cryptonym AEGIS) were presented, both in the area of hardware and software. The device is designed to block the radio communication systems by which it is possible to detonate the Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIEDs). The preliminary laboratory tests of the...
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Correction of determined coordinates of railway tracks in mobile satellite measurements
PublikacjaThis article examines one of the basic issues related to the technique of mobile satellite measurements in railway tracks. This problem concerns the correction of the determined coordinates of the track centerline. The need to perform this operation results from the GNSS receivers positioning at a certain height above the level of the existing track axis, leading to longitudinal and lateral shifts of antennas. The key problem here...
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Application of auto calibration and linearization algorithms to improve sound quality of computer devices
PublikacjaAn application of auto calibration and linearization algorithms designed for correcting acoustic characteristics of selected computer devices was presented in the paper. The functionality of the algorithms were presented for two kind of computer devices: ultrabook class computer and portable device of All-In-One type. The algorithms were adjusted for the given type of the device on the basis of series of measurements conducted...
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Airborne and mobile laser scanning in measurements of sea cliffs on the southern Baltic
PublikacjaMeasurements of sea cliffs performed using periodic surveying based on laser scanning is currently one of the fastest and most accurate solutions. Supported with the technology of satellite measurements using GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning and photographic measurements with the use of aerial vehicle, they enable an effective monitoring of the sea cliffs affected by the erosion. In case of the coast of southern...
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Some Artificial Intelligence Driven Algorithms For Mobile Edge Computing in Smart City
PublikacjaSmart mobile devices can share computing workload with the computer cloud that is important when artificial intelligence tools support computer systems in a smart city. This concept brings computing on the edge of the cloud, closer to citizens and it can shorten latency. Edge computing removes a crucial drawback of the smart city computing because city services are usually far away from citizens, physically. Besides, we introduced...