2012

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Articles

Abu-Mahfouz A, Hancke GP, Isaac: 2012. Positioning system in wireless sensor networks using NS-2. In Software Engineering, 2(4), pp. 91–100.

Ackermann E, Grobler TL, Kleynhans W, Olivier  J, Salmon BP, van Zyl AJ: 2012. Cavalieri  Integration. In Quaestiones Mathematicae,  35, pp. 265–296.

Bogalecki A, Du Plessis M, Venter PJ, Janse van Rensburg C: 2012. Spectralmeasurement and analysis of silicon CMOS light sources. In SAIEE Africa Research Journal (Transactions of the South African Insitute of Electrical Engineers), 103(1), pp. 18–23.

Chiwewe TM, Hancke GP: 2012. A distributed topology control technique for low interference and energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks. In IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 8(1), pp. 11–19.

Dhuness K, Maharaj BTJ 2012. Comparative performance of OM-OFDM in broadband systems. In Electronics Letters, 48(2), pp. 127–129.

Ekpenyong UE, Zhang J, Xia X 2012. An improved robust model for generator maintenance scheduling. In Electric Power Systems Research, 92, pp. 29–36.

Elaiw A, Xia X, Shehata A: 2012. Application of model predictive control to optimal dynamic dispatch of generation with emission limitations. In Electric Power Systems Research, 84, pp. 31–44.

Elaiw A, Xia X, Shehata A: 2012. Dynamic economic dispatch using hybrid DE-SQP for generating units with valve-point effects. In Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2012. pp. 1–10.

Fahrioglu M, Nwulu NI: 2012. Investigating a ranking of loads in avoiding potential power system outages. In Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, 88, pp. 239–242.

Goosen M, Du Plessis M, Venter PJ, Bogalecki A, Alberts A, Rademeyer P: 2012. CMOS avalanche electroluminescence applications – microdisplay and high speed data communication. In SAIEE Africa Research Journal (Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers), 103(1), pp. 24–28.

Grobler TL, Ackermann E, Olivier J, van Zyl AJ, Kleynhans W: 2012. Land-cover separability analysis of MODIS time-series data using a combined simple harmonic oscillator and a mean reverting stochastic process. In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5(3), pp. 857–866 .

Grobler TL, Van Zyl AJ, Olivier J, Kleynhans W, Salmon BP, Penzhorn T: 2012. Wu’s algorithm and its possible application in cryptanalysis. In African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR), 5(1), pp. 1–8.

Gungor V, Sahin D, Kocak T, Ergut S, Buccella C, Cecati C, Hancke GP: 2012. Smart grid and smart homes. In IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 6(4), pp. 18–34.

Heyns T, de Villiers JP, Heyns PS: 2012. Consistent haul road condition monitoring by means of vehicle response normalisation with Gaussian processes. In Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 25, pp. 1752–1760.

Heyns T, Godsill S, de Villiers JP, Heyns PS:  2012. Statistical gear health analysis which  is robust to fluctuating loads and operating  speeds. In Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 27, pp. 651– 666.

Heyns T, Heyns PS, de Villiers JP: 2012. A method for real-time condition monitoring of haul roads based on Bayesian parameter estimation. In Journal of Terramechanics, 49, pp. 103–113.

Heyns T, Heyns PS, de Villiers JP: 2012. Combining synchronous averaging with a Gaussian mixture model novelty detection scheme for vibration-based condition monitoring of a gearbox. In Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 32, pp. 200–215.

Jacobs B, Odendaal JW, Joubert J: 2012. An improved design for a 1-18GHz double-ridged guide horn antenna. In IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 60(9), pp. 4110–4118.

Jacobs JP: 2012. Bayesian support Vector regression with automatic relevance determination kernel for modelling of antenna input characteristics. In IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 60(4), pp. 2114–2118.

Joubert J, Vardaxoglou Y, Whittow W, Odendaal JW: 2012. CPW-Fed cavity-backed slot radiator loaded with an AMC reflector. In IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 60(2), pp. 735–742.

Kleynhans W, Salmon BP, Olivier J, Van den Bergh F, Wessels K, Grobler TL, Steenkamp K: 2012. Land cover change detection using autocorrelation analysis on MODIS time-series data: Detection of new human settlements in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5(3), pp. 777–783.

Maclean W, Du Plessis M, Schoeman J: 2012. Optimisation of CMOS compatible microbolometer device performance. In SAIEE Africa Research Journal (Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers), 103(1), pp. 3–8.

Merensky AM, Van Wyk JH< Linde LP: 2012. A multi-dimensional code-division-multiplexed OFDMA modem using cyclic rotated orthogonal complete complementary codes. In SAIEE Africa Research Journal (Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers), 103,(2), pp. 94-102.

Myburgh HC, Olivier J, van Zyl AJ: 2012. Reduced complexity turbo equalization using a dynamic Bayesian network. In EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 136, pp. 1–38.

Olivier LE, Craig IK, Chen Y: 2012. Fractional order and BICO disturbance observers for a run-of-mine ore milling circuit. In Journal of Process OL, 22, pp. 3–10.

Olivier LE, Huang B, Craig IK: 2012. Dual particle filters for state and parameter estimation with application to a run-of-mine ore mill. In Journal of Process OL, 22, pp. 710–717.Propagation, 60(2), pp. 735–742.

Opperman AK, Sinha S: 2012. A 4.3GHz BiCMOS VCO with multiple 360° variable phase outputs using the vector sum method. In Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 72(2), pp. 375–381

Ricker N, Muller CJ, Craig IK: 2012. Fuel gas blending benchmark for economic performance evaluation of advanced control and state estimation. In Journal of Process OL, 22, pp. 968–974.

Schoeman J, Du Plessis M: 2012. Characterisation of the electrical response of a novel dual element thermistor for low frequency applications. In SAIEE Africa Research Journal (Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers), 103(1), pp. 9–13.

Siewe Siewe M, Tchawoua C, Rajasekar S: 2012. Parametric resonance in the Rayleigh-Duffing oscillator with time-delayed feedback. In Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17, pp. 4485–4493.

Swanepoel R, Oosthuizen DJJ, Hanekom JJ: 2012. The relative importance of spectral cues for vowel recognition in severe noise. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(4), pp. 2652–2662

Thomas RR, Maharaj BTJ: 2012. Towards a bandwidth efficient cognitive positioning system. In Electronics Letters, 48(12), pp. 736–737.

Venter PJ, du Plessis M, Bogalecki A, Goosen M, Rademeyer P: 2012. An 8 x 64 pixel dot matrix microdisplay in 0.35-um complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology. In Optical Engineering, 5(1), pp. 1–7.

Weststrate M, Mukherjee A, Sinha S, Schroter M: 2012. Sensitivity of narrow- and wideband LNA performance to individual transistor model parameters. In International Journal of Electronics, online, pp. 1-12.

Xia X, Siewe Siewe M: 2012. Nonlinear dynamics and small damping signal control of chaos in a model of flow-induced oscillations of cylinders. In Mechanics Research Communications, 46, pp. 8–14.

Xia X, Zhang J, Cass W: 2012. Energy management of commercial buildings - A case study from a POET perspective of energy efficiency. In Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 23(1), pp. 23–31.

Ye X, Zhang J, Chen Y: 2012. Effects of trends and seasonalities on robustness of the Hurst parameter estimators. In IET Signal Processing, 6(9), pp. 849–856.

Yu H,  Xia X: 2012. Adaptive consensus of multi-agents in networks with jointly connected topologies. In Automatika, 48(8), pp. 1783-1790.

Zhang H, Xia X, Zhang J: 2012. Optimal sizing and operation of pumping systems to achieve energy efficiency and load shifting. In Electric Power Systems Research, 86(May), pp. 41–50.

Conferences

Abu-Mahfouz A, Steyn LP, Isaac S, Hancke GP, “Multi-level infrastructure of interconnected testbeds of large-scale wireless sensor networks”, Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, United States of America, 16 – 19 Jun 2012.

Balaguer P, Alfonso J, Zhang J, Xia X, “A new approach to optimal energy management with discrete control”,  20th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED) MED 2012, Barcelona, Spain, 3 Jun–6 Jun 2012.

Barnes SD, Dhuness K, Thomas RR, Maharaj BTJ, “Proactive dynamic spectrum access based on energy detection”, Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2012, George, South Africa, 2–5 Sept 2012.

Beyers HQ, Hancke GP, Olivier MS, “Arguments and methods for database date model forensics”, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Incident Analysis (WDFIA 2012), Crete, Greece, 6–8 Jun 2012.

Bhatt DV, Du Toit, Hancke GP, “Design of a controller for a universal input/output port”, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), pp. 647 - 652, May 2012.

Bogalecki A, du Plessis M, Venter PJ, Janse van Rensburg C, “Spectral characteristics of electroluminescent silicon CMOS light emitters”, Proceedings of SPIE Silicon Photonics VII, San Francisco, California, USA, 22 - 25 Jan 2012.

Broich R, Grobler H, “Analysis of the computational requirements of a pulse-doppler radar signal processor”,  IEEE Radar Conference – Radarcon 2012, Atlanta, Georgia, 7 June –11 May 2012.

Foty D, Smith B, Sinha S, Schroter M, "Expanding wireless bandwith in a power-efficient way. Developing a viable mm-wave radio technology", IEEE East-West Design & Test Symposium (EWDTS'2012), Kharkov, Ukraine, 14 – 17 September 2012.

Gerber AJ, Sinha S, Van der Merwe AJ, Kam M, “Accreditation of Academic Programmes in Computing in South Africa”,  Proceedings of the 4th Software Engineering Colloquium (SE), Cape Town, South Africa, 24 May 2012.

Golovins E, Sinha S, “System-level simulator of radio communication in the EHF band”, International Semiconductor Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology  Conference (CAS 2012), Sinaia, Romania, 15 -  17 Oct 2012.

Goosen M, Venter PJ, du Plessis M, Bogalecki A, Alberts A, Rademeyer P, “A high speed 0.35um CMOS optical communication link”,  Proceedings of SPIE Optoelectronic Interconnects XII, United States of America, San Francisco, 23 –25 Jan 2012.

Grobler TL, Ackermann ER, Van Zyl AJ, Kleynhans W, Salmon BP, Olivier JC, "Sequential classification of MODIS time series", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth, Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012.

Hancke GP, Hancke GP Jr., “Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: A Selection of Challenging Applications”, 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 26-30 March 2012.

Hancke GP, Adegboye AO, Hancke GP, “Single-pixel approach for fast people counting and direction estimation”,  Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2012, George, South Africa, 2–5 Sept 2012.

Hancke GP, Hancke GP, “Industrial wireless sensor networks: A selection of challenging applications”, Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Prazue, Czech Republic, 26–30 Mar 2012.

Kornelius G, Kruger SJ, Fouchee, van Wyk, “ A wood gasification stove for domestic use: Design, performance and emission factors”, National Association for Clean Air Annual Conference 2012 Proceedings, Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa, 31 Oct–2 Nov 2012.

Kruger C, Hancke GP, Bhatt DV, “Wireless sensor network for building evacuation”, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), pp. 2572 - 2577, May 2012.

Linde LP, De Figueiredo N, “CE-OFDM with a block channel estimator”,Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), George, South Africa, 2 Sept 2012–5 Sept 2012.

Luus FPS, Van den Bergh F, Maharaj BTJ, “The effects of shadow removal on across-date settlement type classification of quickbird images”, IEEE IGARS Symposium, Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012.

Marais J, Hancke GP, “Design of a Low Cost Video Monitor Store and Forward Device”, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), pp. 165-170, May 2012.

Opperman CA, Hancke G, “Near field communication in smart sensing applications.”,  Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2012, George, South Africa, 2–5 Sept 2012.

Ramasur D,  Hancke GP, “A wind energy harvester for low power wireless sensor networks”, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Graz, Austria, 13 – 15 May 2012.

Salmon BP, Kleynhans W, Van den Bergh F, Olivier JC, Marais WJ, Grobler TL, Wessels KJ, "A search algorithm to meta-optimize the parameters for an extended Kalman filter to improve classification on hyper-temporal images", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth, Muncih Germany, 22-27 July 2012.

Salmon BP, Kleynhans W, Van den Bergh F, Olivier JC, Wessels K, “Detecting land cover change by evaluating the internal covariance matrix of the Extended Kalman Filter”, IGARSS 2012 – IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Munich, Germany, 22 -27Jul 2012.

Silva J, Hancke GP, “Link quality aware routing in wireless underground sensor networks”,Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2012, George, South Africa, 2–5 Sept 2012.

Sinha S, Loubser E, Kam M,  “Engineering learning through cost-effective museum exhibits in the South African context,” Proceedings: IEEE International Symposium on Cost-Effective Museum Exhibits in Engineering and Applied Science, 30 Nov.-2 Dec. 2012, Hyderabad, India.

Swiatko A, “Application of De-embedding methods to characterise a mode transformer”,  Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2012, George, South Africa, 2–5 Sep 2012.

Tack SCK, Burke M, Sinha S, “Local exploration strategies for a mobile robot in a highly dynamic environment”,  Proceedings of the 2012 5th Robotics and Mechatronics Conference of South Africa (ROBMECH), Pretoria, South Africa, 26–27 Nov 2012.

Thomas RR, Barnes SD, Maharaj BTJ, “TOA location estimation based on cognitive radio channel occupancy prediction”,  IEEE 8th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMOB), Barcelona, Spain, 8-10 Oct 2012.

Van Schalkwyk JA, Hancke GP, “Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensors from Electromagnetic Fields around Overhead Power Lines”, 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Hangzhou, China, 28-31 May 2012.