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2020

Patch Antenna-in-Package for 5G Communications with Dual Polarization and High Isolation

Authors
Santos, H; Pinho, P; Salgado, H;

Publication
ELECTRONICS

Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design of a dual polarized packaged patch antenna for 5G communications with improved isolation and bandwidth for K-band. We introduce a differential feeding technique and a heuristic-based design of a matching network applied to a single layer patch antenna with parasitic elements. This approach resulted in broader bandwidth, reduced layer count, improved isolation and radiation pattern stability. The results were validated through finite element method (FEM) and method of moments (MoM) simulations. A peak gain of 5 dBi, isolation above 40 dB and a radiation efficiency of 60% were obtained.

2020

Design of an Anechoic Chamber for W-Band and mmWave

Authors
Pinho, P; Santos, H; Salgado, H;

Publication
ELECTRONICS

Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design of an electrically large anechoic chamber for usage on millimetre-wave bands. Ansys Savant sotware was used to perform a simulation of the chamber, using physical optics coupled with uniform theory of diffraction (PO/UTD). Moreover, a method based on an open waveguide probe is described in this paper to obtain the electrical properties of the RF absorbers at millimetre-wave frequencies. Two different source antennas were simulated in this work and the corresponding quiet zones predicted. The largest quiet zone was 30 mm x 30 mm x 50mm, for a chamber size of 1.2 m x 0.6 m x 0.6 m.

2020

LASER diode-based transmitter module for optical wireless communications

Authors
Araujo, JH; Kraemer, R; Santos, HM; Pereira, F; Salgado, HM; Pessoa, LM;

Publication
2020 12th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2020

Abstract
In this paper, we present the design of an analog transmitter based on a blue LD targeting optical wireless communications, suitable for OFDM signals. The approach relies on a thorough characterization of the individual components of the module, whence a detailed circuit model is obtained to design an impedance matching circuit for improved performance, prior to fabrication. The impedance matching is based on non-uniform transmission lines and works well over a wide frequency range (100 MHz to 2 GHz). The results are experimentally validated by the transmitter response exhibiting an increased 6 dB bandwidth limit and 1 GHz bandwidth improvement. © 2020 IEEE.

2020

5.36 Gbit/s OFDM optical wireless communication link over the underwater channel

Authors
Araujo, JH; Kraemer, R; Tavares, JS; Pereira, F; Salgado, HM; Pessoa, LM;

Publication
2020 12th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2020

Abstract
An OFDM transmission system is reported based on a directly modulated blue LASER diode, for high bit rate under-water optical communication applications. The 256 subcarriers 16-QAM signal is transmitted over a total distance of 2.4 m underwater with an EVM lower than -28.5 dB for a 250 MHz bandwidth and -16.5 dB for a 2 GHz bandwidth, the BER being lower than the forward error corrector limit. At the maximum bandwidth of 2 GHz a transmission rate of 5.36 Gbit/s is achieved. © 2020 IEEE.

2020

Semantic Storytelling Automation: A Context-Aware and Metadata-Driven Approach

Authors
Viana, P; Carvalho, P; Andrade, MT; Jonker, PP; Papanikolaou, V; Teixeira, IN; Vilaça, L; Pinto, JP; Costa, T;

Publication
MM '20: The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Virtual Event / Seattle, WA, USA, October 12-16, 2020

Abstract
Multimedia content production is nowadays widespread due to technological advances, namely supported by smartphones and social media. Although the massive amount of media content brings new opportunities to the industry, it also obfuscates the relevance of marketing content, meant to maintain and lure new audiences. This leads to an emergent necessity of producing these kinds of contents as quickly and engagingly as possible. Creating these automatically would decrease both the production costs and time, particularly by using static media for the creation of short storytelling animated clips. We propose an innovative approach that uses context and content information to transform a still photo into an appealing context-aware video clip. Thus, our solution presents a contribution to the state-of-the-art in computer vision and multimedia technologies and assists content creators with a value-added service to automatically build rich contextualized multimedia stories from single photographs. © 2020 Owner/Author.

2020

Humanoid Robot Kick in Motion Ability for Playing Robotic Soccer

Authors
Teixeira, H; Silva, T; Abreu, M; Reis, LP;

Publication
2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIONS (ICARSC 2020)

Abstract
This work seeks to design and implement a humanoid robotic kick for situations where the robot is moving for the RoboCup simulation 3D robotic soccer league. It employs Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques, namely the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm to create fast and reliable skills. The kick was divided into 6 cases according to initial conditions and separately trained for each of the cases. A series of kicks, both static and in motion, using two different gaits were developed. The kicks obtained show very high reliability and, when compared to state of the art kicks, displayed a very high time performance improvement. This opens the door to more dynamic games with faster kicks in the RoboCup simulation 3D league.

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