Electrical & Electronic Engineering: Recent submissions

  • Automatic Fan Speed Controlled Laptop Cooling Pad System using Microcontroller 
    Indushan, S.; Ishara, M.; Buddhika, N. (IET Young Professionals' Technical Conference 2023 (IET YPTC), 2023)
    A human way of life increasingly relies on automatic controls. The development of control techniques that boost system performance is the main goal of the large field of automatic control technology. The elimination ...
  • Smart, Fast, and Low Memory Beam-Steering Antenna Configurations for 5G and Future Wireless Systems 
    Pirapaharan, K.; Ajithkumar, N.; Sarujan, K.; Fernando, X.; Hoole, P.R.P. (MDPI, 2022)
    Smart Antennas are important to provide mobility support for many enhanced 5G and future wireless applications and services, such as energy harvesting, virtual reality, Voice over 5G (Vo5G), connected vehicles, ...
  • Microgrid Energy Management and Methods for Managing Forecast Uncertainties 
    Vinothine, S.; Widanagama Arachchige, L.N.; Rajapakse, A. D.; Roshani, K. (MDPI, 2022)
    The rising demand for electricity, economic benefits, and environmental pressures related to the use of fossil fuels are driving electricity generation mostly from renewable energy sources. One of the main challenges in ...
  • Overlapped Speech Detection for Improved Speaker Diarization on Tamil Dataset 
    Jarashanth, S.T.; Ahilan, K.; Valluvan, R.; Thiruvaran, T.; Kaneswaran, A. (IEEE, 2022)
    Speaker diarization is the task of partitioning a speech signal into homogeneous segments corresponding to speaker identities. We introduce a Tamil test dataset, considering that the existing literature on speaker ...
  • Evaluating Deep Neural Network-based Speaker Verification Systems on Sinhala and Tamil Datasets 
    Anuraj, S.P.D.; Jarashanth, S.T.; Ahilan, K.; Valluvan, R.; Thiruvaran, T.; Kaneswaran, A. (IEEE, 2022)
    Speaker verification, a biometric identifier, determines whether an input speech belongs to the claimed identity. The existing models for speaker verification have reported performances mainly in English, and no study ...
  • Application of Layered Medium Green's Function in Low Frequency Models for Numerical Solutions 
    Pirapaharan, K. (First International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS, 2006)
    An accurate and efficient technique is presented for obtaining numerical solutions of microstrip structures at low frequencies. In this approach, a new form of the electric-field spatial-domain Green's function is used ...
  • Integral Equation Solution for Microstrip Structures at Low Frequencies 
    Pirapaharan, K.; Chew, W.C.; Zhao, J.S. (IEEE, 2003)
    Microstrip StmCNrCS have bcen shldied extensively using various types of full wave analysis techniques. However, these techniques are having difficulties because they usually involve the solution ofa very large system ...
  • Energy Harvesting Through the Radio Frequency Wireless Power Transfer 
    Pirapaharan, K.; Gunawickrama, K.; De Silva, D.S.; De Silva, M.S.S.R.; Dharmawardhana, T.L.K.C; Indunil, W.G.D.C; Wickramasinghe, C.B.; Aravind, C.V. (International RF and Microwave Conference, 2013)
    Mobile communication, radio and television towers, satellites orbiting earth and even the cellular phones are continuously transmitting Radio Frequency waves. This immense amount of energy source around us is un-utilized ...
  • Three Dimensional Electric Dipole Model for Lightning-Aircraft Electrodynamics and its Application to Low Flying Aircraft 
    Fisher, J.; Hoole, P.R.P.; Pirapaharan, K.; Thirukumaran, S.; Hoole, S.R.H. (International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP), 2014)
    In this paper we review a new electric charge based circuit model for studying aircraft-lightning electrodynamics and its application to an aircraft taking off or landing. As commercial and military aircraft continue ...
  • Characterisation and Separation of Brain Wave Signals 
    Saadha, A.; Manic, K.S.; Pirapaharan, K. (eureca, 2014)
    Neurons in the brain communicate through electrical impulses that give rise to both electrical and magnetic fields which are categorized into five different band limits. These waves can be measured outside the skull ...
  • Design of a Battery-less Micro-scale RF Energy Harvester for Medical Devices 
    Pirapaharan, K; Gunathillake, W.L.A.D.A.; Lokunarangoda, G.I.; Nissansani, M.V.; Palihena, H.C.; Hoole, P.R.P.; Aravind, C.V.; Hoole, S.R.H. (International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, 2012)
    This paper presents a micro-scale RF (radio frequency) energy harvesting circuit that can be used for RF signals for milliwatt to microwatt scale DC power units. Both at hospitals and homes, radio waves are always present ...
  • Autism, EEG and Brain Electromagnetics Research 
    Hoole, P.R.P.; Pirapaharan, K.; Sofia, S.A.; Roslina, I.; Liyanage, D.L.D.A.; Senanayake, S.S.H.M.U.L.; Hoole, S.R.H. (International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, 2012)
    There has been a significant increase in the incidence of autism. We report the work on autism by our international group, on the growing attention paid to EEG based diagnosis and the interest in tracing EEG changes ...
  • Accuracy of Perceptron Based Beamforming for Embedded Smart and MIMO Antennas 
    Senthilkumar, K.S.; Pirapaharan, K.; Lakshmanan, G.A.; Hoole, P.R.P.; Hoole, S.R.H. (University Politehnica of Bucharest, 2016)
    Array antennas have a nonlinear, complex relationship between the antenna beams generated and the array input functions that generate the steerable beams. In this paper we demonstrate the use of a simple, computationally ...
  • Implementation of Real Time Brainwave Visualisation and Characterisation 
    Suresh Manic, K.; Aravind, C.V.; Saadha, A.; Pirapaharan, K. (Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 2015-01)
    Human brain is the most complex organ in the body which controls all conscious and unconscious aspects of the body. Numerous neurons combine together to make up the brain and gives us the power of speech, imagination and ...
  • An Electromagnetic Signal Processor for Beam-forming a Wireless Mobile Sensor Station: Strengthening the Desired Signal and Nulling Main Interference 
    Hoole, P.R.P.; Abdul Rahim, L.M.; Julai, N.; Othman, Al-Hj; Hikmah Shabani, S.H.; Marzuki, Ade S.W.; Senthilkumar, K.S.; Pirapaharan, K.; Aravind, C.V.; Hoole, S.R.H. (International Journal of Control Theory and Applications, 2017)
    This paper presents an electromagnetic signal processor of the electric field radiated by a three-element antenna array as a mobile station receiver which can increase power reception in the direction of the desired ...
  • Applying a 3D Dipole Model for Lightning Electrodynamics of Low-Flying Aircraft 
    Fisher, J.; Hoole, P.R.P.; Pirapaharan, K.; Ratnajeevan, S.; Hoole, H. (IETE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH, 2015)
    In this paper we apply a detailed electrostatic model of an aircraft to be used in an experimentally validated, new elec- tric-charge-based circuit model for studying aircraft-lightning electrodynamics. The model is used ...
  • Aircraft-lightning electrodynamics using The transmission line model part I: review Of the transmission line model 
    Thirukumaran, S.; Hoole, P.R.P; Harikrishnan, R.; Jeevan, K.; Pirapaharan, K.; Ratnajeevan, S.; Hoole, H. (Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 31, 85–101, 2013, 2013)
    This work presents a self-consistent and self-contained model to study and analyze aircraft-lightning electrodynamics. In this paper, we review the well developed and reported transmission line model of the cloud-to-ground ...
  • SPEAKERS IN THE WILD (SITW): The QUT Speaker Recognition System 
    Ghaemmaghami, H.; Rahman, M.H.; Himawan, I.; Dean, D.; Kanagasundaram, A.; Sridharan, S.; Fookes, C. (International Speech Communication Association, 2016)
    This paper presents the QUT speaker recognition system, as a competing system in the Speakers In The Wild (SITW) speaker recognition challenge. Our proposed system achieved an overall ranking of second place, in the main ...
  • Open Source Mobile Network 
    Sajeev, U.; Muralitharan, R.; Ramsan, M.M.M; Zamrath, M.N.M.; Dileeka, D. (2021)
  • Photovoltaic emulator for smart grid test facility 
    Amirthagunaraj, Y.; Fazil, F.M.; Sawsan, M.M.A.; Binduhewa, P.J.; Ekanayake, J.B.; Liyanage, K.M.; Atputharajah, A.; Samarakoon, K. (University of Jaffna, 2014)
    Growth in installed photovoltaic (PV) systems in the past decade has increased and the trend will continue. Different types of photovoltaic panels are available for purchase in the market with different specifications by ...