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Packing Incubation and Addition of Rot Fungi Extracts Improve BTEX Elimination from Air in Biotrickling Filters
PublikacjaThe removal of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) from air was investigated in two similar biotrickling filters (BTFs) packed with polyurethane (PU) foam, differing in terms of inoculation procedure (BTF A was packed with pre-incubated PU discs, and BTF B was inoculated via the continuous recirculation of a liquid inoculum). The effects of white rot fungi enzyme extract addition and system responses to variable VOC...
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Characterization and Filtration Efficiency of Sustainable PLA Fibers Obtained via a Hybrid 3D-Printed/Electrospinning Technique
PublikacjaThe enormous world demand for personal protective equipment to face the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has revealed two main weaknesses. On one hand, centralized production led to an initial shortage of respirators; on the other hand, the world demand for single-use equipment has had a direct and inevitable effect on the environment. Polylactide (PLA) is a biodegradable, biocompatible, and renewable thermoplastic polyester, mainly...
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Generalized adaptive notch smoothing revisited
PublikacjaThe problem of identification of quasi-periodically varying dynamic systems is considered. This problem can be solved using generalized adaptive notch filtering (GANF) algorithms. It is shown that the accuracy of parameter estimates can be significantly increased if the results obtained from GANF are further processed using a cascade of appropriately designed filters. The resulting generalized adaptive notch smoothing (GANS) algorithm...
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On the instantaneous frequency smoothing for signals with quasi-linear frequency changes
PublikacjaThe problem of estimation of the slowly-varying instantaneous frequency of a nonstationary complex sinusoidal signal buried in noise is considered. This problem is usually solved using frequency tracking algorithms. It is shown that the accuracy of frequency estimates can be considerably increased if the results yielded by the frequency tracker are further processed using the appropriately designed filters. The resulting frequency...
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Vehicle classification based on soft computing algorithms
PublikacjaExperiments and results regarding vehicle type classification are presented. Three classes of vehicles are recognized: sedans, vans and trucks. The system uses a non-calibrated traffic camera, therefore no direct vehicle dimensions are used. Various vehicle descriptors are tested, including those based on vehicle mask only and those based on vehicle images. The latter ones employ Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) and gradient images...
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Easy recipes for cooperative smoothing
PublikacjaIn this paper we suggest how several competing signal smoothers, differing in design parameters, or even in design principles, can be combined together to yield a better and more reliable smoothing algorithm. The proposed heuristic, but statistically well motivated, fusion mechanism allows one to combine practically all kinds of smoothers, from simple local averaging or order statistic filters, to parametric smoothers designed...
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Shielded coupled strip and slot guides with a thin omega pseudochiral medium layer
PublikacjaA method of moments combined with mode matching technique is applied to analyze the shielded coupled strip and slot line structures containing a thin plate of Omega pseudochiral medium. The boundary problems are simplified by introducing for omega medium the approximate continuity conditions. Such mathematical model allows to examine the field displacement effect appearing in the considered guide resulting from the coupling between...
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Coupled-Resonator Waveguide Filter in Quadruplet Topology With Frequency-Dependent Coupling - A Design Based on Coupling Matrix
PublikacjaThis letter presents an application of a recently developed coupling matrix synthesis technique to design of coupled-resonator filters with dispersive inter-resonator couplings. This technique is used to design a novel coupled-cavity bandpass filter. Measurements validate the design and confirm effectiveness of the synthesis method. The filter is a four-pole generalized Chebyshev filter with three transmission zeros. Resonators...
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Recent developnents in wastewater treatment in constructed wetlands in Poland
PublikacjaNowadays more than 100 constructed wetlands are in operation in Poland. Most of them are one stage wetland systems with horizontal subsurface flow. Such constructed wetlands ensure efficient removal of organic matter (BOD5, CODCr) and suspended solids but efficiency of nitrogen compounds removal in many cases is insufficient.In the period from 1995 to 2003 measurements of removal of contaminations in 11 individual pilot household...
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Long-term operating conditions for different sorption materials to capture phosphate from domestic wastewater
PublikacjaThis paper presents the results of a study on the possibility of applying various configured filters filled with a mixture of Rockfos® and Leca® material for the effective capture of phosphate from domestic wastewater. The tests were carried out for two years at two wastewater flow rates (20 and 40 L/day) in three pairs of filtration columns with a volume of filter material equal to 20 liters each. Columns 1A and 1B were filled...
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Application of Complementary Signals in Built-In Self Testers for Mixed-Signal Embedded Electronic Systems
PublikacjaThis paper concerns the implementation of shape-designed complementary signals (CSs), matched to the frequency characteristic of the circuit under test, in built-in self testers (BISTs), dedicated to mixed-signal embedded electronic systems for testing their analog sections. The essence of the proposed method and solution of CS BIST is low-cost realization on the base of hardware and software resources of microcontrollers used...
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New Algorithms for Adaptive Notch Smoothing
PublikacjaThe problem of extraction/elimination of a nonstationary complex sinusoidal signal buried in noise is considered. This problem is usually solved using adaptive notch filtering (ANF)algorithms. It is shown that accuracy of signal estimation can be increased if the results obtained from ANF are further processed using a cascade of appropriately designed filters. The resulting adaptive notch smoothing (ANS) algorithms can be employed...
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Identification of quasi-periodically varying systems with quasi-linear frequency changes
PublikacjaThe problem of identification of linear quasi-periodically varying systems is considered. This problem can be solved using generalized adaptive notch filtering (GANF) algorithms. It is shown that accuracy of system parameter estimation can be increased if the results obtained from GANF are further processed using a cascade of appropriately designed filters. The resulting generalized adaptive notch smoothing (GANS) algorithms can...
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Generalized adaptive comb filters/smoothers and their application to the identification of quasi-periodically varying systems and signals
PublikacjaThe problem of both causal and noncausal identification of linear stochastic systems with quasiharmonically varying parameters is considered. The quasi-harmonic description allows one to model nonsinusoidal quasi-periodic parameter changes. The proposed identification algorithms are called generalized adaptive comb filters/smoothers because in the special signal case they reduce down to adaptive comb algorithms used to enhance...
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Stability of softly switched multiregional dynamic output controllers with a static antiwindup filter: A discrete-time case
PublikacjaThis paper addresses the problem of model-based global stability analysis of discrete-time Takagi–Sugeno multiregional dynamic output controllers with static antiwindup filters. The presented analyses are reduced to the problem of a feasibility study of the Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs), derived based on Lyapunov stability theory. Two sets of LMIs are considered candidate derived from the classical common quadratic Lyapunov...
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FIReWORK: FIR Filters Hardware Structures Auto-Generator
PublikacjaThe paper presents application called FIReWORK, that allows for automatic creation of the VHDL hardware structures of FIR filters. Automat- ically generated specialized hardware solutions dedicated to the FPGA and ASIC are commonly known as Intellectual Property Cores. The essential fu- ture of the application is easy initialization of FIR filter parameters in GUI, and then automatically design, calculate and generate the IP Core...
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Efficiency of pollutant removal by five multistage constructed wetlands in a temperate climate
PublikacjaIn recent years, an increase in interest in hybrid constructed wetland systems (HCWs) has beenobserved. These systems are composed of two or more filters with different modes of sewage flow.Based on over eight years of monitoring, carried out at five local HCWs located in the PomeraniaRegion of Northern Poland, the effective removal of organic matter (from 74.9 to 95.5% COD) in theloading range 1.5-17.0 g COD·m-2·d-1 was confirmed....
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Miniaturized bandpass substrate integrated waveguide filter with frequency-dependent coupling realized using asymmetric GCPW discontinuity
PublikacjaAn asymmetric GCPW discontinuity is proposed to provide frequency-dependent coupling in microwave bandpass filters. Wider and narrow sections introduce, respectively, the capacitive and inductive component to the equivalent circuit representing coupling. By selecting the dimensions of the discontinuity and width of the inductive window in substrate integrated waveguide, an additional transmission zero can be introduced at prescribed...
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On optimal tracking of rapidly varying telecommunication channels
PublikacjaWhen parameters of mobile telecommunication channels change rapidly, classical adaptive filters, such as exponentially weighted least squares algorithms or gradient algorithms, fail to estimate them with sufficient accuracy. In cases like this, one can use identification methods based on explicit models of parameter changes such as the method of basis functions (BF). When prior knowledge about parameter changes is available the...
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Modified sliding mode control for seamless integration of P.V. energy in A.C. grid
PublikacjaSolar energy is a potentially abundant and reliable source of renewable energy. While it can undoubtedly increase grid reliability and efficiency, the inverted voltage generated from PV. sources may introduce distortion into the AC. grid. The proposed control mechanism, modified sliding mode control (MSMC), can seamlessly integrate the inverter output generated by obtaining DC. voltage from the boost converter linked with the PV....
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N-point estimators of the Instantaneous Complex Frequency
PublikacjaIn this paper estimators of the instantaneous complex frequency (ICF) are presented and discussed. The differential approach for the estimation of the ICF is used, therefore the estimators are based on maximally flat N-point FIR filters: differential and delay. The investigation of the filter performance includes static characteristics of ICF estimation and the error of the ICF estimation in the discrete frequency domain.W pracy...
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Performance evaluation of the parallel object tracking algorithm employing the particle filter
PublikacjaAn algorithm based on particle filters is employed to track moving objects in video streams from fixed and non-fixed cameras. Particle weighting is based on color histograms computed in the iHLS color space. Particle computations are parallelized with CUDA framework. The algorithm was tested on various GPU devices: a desktop GPU card, a mobile chipset and two embedded GPU platforms. The processing speed depending on the number...
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Intelligent monitoring the vertical dynamics of wheeled inspection vehicles
PublikacjaThe problem of intelligent monitoring of the vertical dynamics of wheeled inspection vehicles is addressed. With the independent MacPherson suspension system installed, the basic analysis focuses on the evaluation of the parameters of the so-called quarter car model. To identify a physically motivated continuous description, in practice, dedicated integral-horizontal filters are used. The obtained discrete model, which retains...
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On the Role of Polarimetric Decomposition and Speckle Filtering Methods for C-Band SAR Wetland Classification Purposes
PublikacjaPrevious wetlands studies have thoroughly verified the usefulness of data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors in various acquisition modes. However, the effect of the processing parameters in wetland classification remains poorly explored. In this study, we investigated the influence of speckle filters and decomposition methods with different combinations of filter and decomposition windows sizes on classification accuracy....
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Results and models for Novel high frequency components with non-conventional shape employing smooth geometry deformation of 3D solid with FFD
Dane BadawczeThe project aims to investigate the possibility of developing and manufacturing novel high frequency devices having non-standard geometries, allowing for improved electromagnetic performance over what is achievable with currently available design tools. The non-conventional geometry will be obtained by employing the free-form shape deformation technique...
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Power of the low alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Your Home Venue" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the low alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Slow Start" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Power of the SMR brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Start in High Level Championship" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Power of the low alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Successful Competition" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the high alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Your Home Venue" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the SMR brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Fitness Activity" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Power of the SMR brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Slow Start" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Power of the high alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Training Session" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the SMR brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Successful Competition" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the SMR brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Training Session" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the low alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Training Session" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the high alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Slow Start" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Power of the high alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Successful Competition" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the SMR brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Your Home Venue" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The study's main aim was to examine the cortical correlations of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with the...
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Power of the high alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Fitness Activity" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Power of the low alpha brainwaves in the mental imagery experiment in sport: the "Fitness Activity" scenario.
Dane BadawczeThe data were collected to perform research on the neural oscillation during mental imagery in sport. The main aim of the study was to examine the cortical correlates of imagery depending on instructional modality (guided vs self-produced) using various sport-related scripts. The research was based on the EEG signals recorded during the session with...
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Automatic Correction of Non-Anechoic Antenna Measurements using Low-Pass Filters
PublikacjaPrototype measurements belong to key steps in the development of antenna structures. They are normally performed in expensive facilities, such as anechoic chambers (ACs). Alternatively, antenna performance can be extracted (at a low cost) in non-anechoic conditions upon appropriate post-processing. Unfortunately, existing correction algorithms are difficult to set up and prone to failure, which limits their practical usefulness....
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Viewpoint independent shape-based object classification for video surveillance
PublikacjaA method for shape based object classification is presented.Unlike object dimension based methods it does not require any system calibration techniques. A number of 3D object models are utilized as a source of training dataset for a specified camera orientation. Usage of the 3D models allows to perform the dataset creation process semiautomatically. The background subtraction method is used for the purpose of detecting moving objects...
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Step on It Bringing Fullwave Finite-Element Microwave Filter Design up to Speed
PublikacjaThere are many steps in the design of a microwave filter: mathematically describing the filter characteristics, representing the circuit as a network of lumped elements or as a coupling matrix, implementing the distributed elements, finding the initial dimensions of the physical structure, and carrying out numerical tuning using electromagnetic (EM) simulators. The whole process is painstaking and time-consuming, and it requires...
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Visual Detection of People Movement Rules Violation in Crowded Indoor Scenes
PublikacjaThe paper presents a camera-independent framework for detecting violations of two typical people movement rules that are in force in many public transit terminals: moving in the wrong direction or across designated lanes. Low-level image processing is based on object detection with Gaussian Mixture Models and employs Kalman filters with conflict resolving extensions for the object tracking. In order to allow an effective event...
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Fast Full-Wave Multilevel Zero-Pole Optimization of Microwave Filters
PublikacjaA new concept is proposed for the full-wave computer-aided design of microwave filters. The method consists of two stages and operates on the zeros and poles of the transfer function and their derivatives. These quantities are evaluated from the response computed by a full-wave electromagnetic solver with two levels of accuracy. The two stages make use of different models that are optimized using a low-accuracy electromagnetic...
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AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION OF ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER’S FREQUEN CY TRACKING
PublikacjaEstimation of instantaneous frequency of narrowband com- plex sinusoids is often performed using lightweight algo- rithms called adaptive notch filters. However, to reach high performance, these algorithms require careful tuning. The paper proposes a novel self-tuning layer for a recently intr o- ducedadaptive notch filtering algorithm. Analysis shows th at, under Gaussian random-walk type assumptions, the resultin g solution converges...
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Automatic Optimization Of Adaptive Notch Filter’s Frequency Tracking
PublikacjaEstimation of instantaneous frequency of narrowband com- plex sinusoids is often performed using lightweight algo- rithms called adaptive notch filters. However, to reach high performance, these algorithms require careful tuning. The paper proposes a novel self-tuning layer for a recently intr o- ducedadaptive notch filtering algorithm. Analysis shows th at, under Gaussian random-walk type assumptions, the resultin g solution converges...
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Variable Ratio Sample Rate Conversion Based on Fractional Delay Filter
PublikacjaIn this paper a sample rate conversion algorithm which allows for continuously changing resampling ratio has been presented. The proposed implementation is based on a variable fractional delay filter which is implemented by means of a Farrow structure. Coefficients of this structure are computed on the basis of fractional delay filters which are designed using the offset window method. The proposed approach allows us to freely...
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Multistage generalized adaptive notch filter with improved accuracy
PublikacjaGeneralized adaptive notch filters (GANFs) are estimators of coefficients of quasi-periodically time-varying systems. Current state of the art GANFs can deliver highly accurate estimates of system variations’ frequency, but underperform in terms of accuracy of the coefficient estimates. The paper proposes a novel multistage GANF with accuracy improved in this aspect. The processing pipeline consists of three stages. The preliminary...