Logical-qubit operations in an error-detecting surface code

Reliability Engineering and Computational Intelligence

Computational intelligence is rapidly becoming an essential part of reliability engineering. This book offers a wide spectrum of viewpoints on the merger of technologies. Leading scientists share their insights and progress on reliability engineering techniques, suitable mathematical methods, and practical applications. Thought-provoking ideas...

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Quantum dot arrays in silicon and germanium

Electrons and holes confined in quantum dots define excellent building blocks for quantum emergence, simulation, and computation. Silicon and germanium are compatible with standard semiconductor manufacturing and contain stable isotopes with zero nuclear spin, thereby serving as excellent hosts for spins with long quantum coherence. Here, we...

Privacy friendly aggregation of smart meter readings, even when meters crash

A well studied privacy problem in the area of smart grids is the question of how to aggregate the sum of a set of smart meter readings in a privacy friendly manner, i.e., in such a way that individual meter readings are not revealed to the adversary. Much less well studied is how to deal with arbitrary meter crashes during such aggregation...

Control reconfiguration for cooperative adaptive cruise control ensuring safety and comfort

A Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) system normally consists of different operation modes such as CC (in case no object is detected), ACC and/or CACC. The objective of this study is to find a method for control reconfiguration which ensures a stable, safe and comfortable switching between these operation modes. The approach of mixing...

Fault tolerancy in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

Future mobility requires sound solutions in the field of fault tolerance in real-time applications amongst which Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC). This control system cannot rely on the driver as a backup and is constantly active and therefore more prominent to the occurrences of faults (such as packet loss in the wireless...

Low power and self-reconfigurable WBAN controller for continuous bio-signal monitoring system

The WBAN controller with Branched Bus (BB) topology and Continuous Data Transmission (CDT) protocol with low power consumption and self- reconfigurability is proposed for wearable healthcare applications. The BB topology and CDT protocol is a combination of conventional Bus and Star topology and a variation from TDMA protocol, respectively,...

Trader: Reliability of high-volume consumer products : A collaborative research project on the reliability of complex embedded systems

SCOPE: An intelligent maintenance system for supporting crew operations

This paper describes an intelligent maintenance system for Supporting Crew OPErations (SCOPE). SCOPE supports the astronauts onboard the ISS and helps them to maximize the availability of complex payload systems. SCOPE detects system failures, guides the isolation of the root causes of failure, and presents the relevant repair procedures in...

Design methodology for fault-tolerant control of advanced driver assistance systems

The objective of this project is to develop a methodology for the design, testing, evaluation and implementation of control systems for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Examples of ADAS are collision avoidance systems, lane departure warning systems, pre-crash sensing, and adaptive cruise control [1]. In this project we focus on the...

Runtime support for reconfigurable real-time embedded systems

As the embedding environment becomes more and more complex so does the embedded system itself. An aspect of the complexity, the demand for robust and fault tolerant embedded solutions is ever increasing. Consequently the embedded system design and development face new challenges including modeling, representation, execution and implementation...

Vervormde textstrings herkennen met een spatio-temporeel patroon herkennings (SPR) neuraal netwerk

FEL heeft een SPR (Spatio-temporeel Pattern Recognition) neuraal nerwerk geïmplementeerd om vervormde woorden en/of delen van zinnen, in dit geval de namen van schepen, te herkennen in een real-time toepassing. Deze namen kunnen vervormd worden door transmissie en/of type fouten. SPR legt de nadruk op de volgorde van de karakters in een woord....