• Microwave radiometer calibration using low-noise amplifier as calibration source 

  Neate, Reuben; Stander, Tinus (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024)
• Direct modulation in MMC-based multiterminal hybrid microgrid : a solution for arm capacitor voltage balancing under unbalanced power distribution 

  Abo-Khalil, Ahmed G.; Bashir, Safia Babikir; Farag, Mena Maurice; Ismail, Ali A. Adam; Hamid, Abdul Kadir; Mbungu, Nsilulu Tresor; Bansal, Ramesh C.; Elnady, A.; Patel, Nirav (Elsevier, 2024-11)

  The rising interest in hybrid alternating current (AC)/ direct current (DC) microgrids among the global research community can be attributed to the widespread adoption of distributed generation systems (DGs). Therefore, ...
• Active transfer learning for audiogram estimation 

  Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Myburgh, Hermanus Carel; Barbour, Dennis L. (Frontiers Media, 2024-03)

  Computational audiology (CA) has grown over the last few years with the improvement of computing power and the growth of machine learning (ML) models. There are today several audiogram databases which have been used to ...
• SVPWM-based power control strategy for a three-port four-leg DC/AC converter with enhanced power transfer mode 

  Wu, Jingyuan; Hu, Shiming; Kumar, Abhishek; Naidoo, Raj M.; Deng, Yan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024-11)

  The single-stage T-type three-port converter enables efficient and accurate power distribution between two dc ports and one ac port without embedding an auxiliary dc/dc converter. Considering the diversity of loads, this ...
• Stochastic planning for transition from shopping mall parking lots to electric vehicle charging stations 

  Yu, Gang; Ye, Xianming; Gong, Dunwei; Xia, Xiaohua (Elsevier, 2025-02)

  Shopping mall parking lots are promising and popular sites across nations to be transitioned into charging stations due to the nature of land availability and attractiveness to people. Sufficient charging poles contribute ...
• A review on state-of-charge estimation methods, energy storage technologies and state-of-the-art simulators : recent developments and challenges 

  Kunatsa, Tawanda; Myburgh, Hermanus C.; De Freitas, Allan (MDPI, 2024-09)

  Exact state-of-charge estimation is necessary for every application related to energy storage systems to protect the battery from deep discharging and overcharging. This leads to an improvement in discharge efficiency and ...
• Homomorphic encryption-based resilient distributed energy management under cyber-attack of micro-grid with event-triggered mechanism 

  Zhang, Huifeng; Yu, Chengqian; Zeng, Meilian; Ye, Tao; Yue, Dong; Dou, Chunxia; Xie, Xiangpeng; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024-09)

  Privacy disclosures and malevolent data intrusions targeting adversarial agents pose significant menaces to cyber-physical systems, a reality that extends to the intricate realm of micro-grid energy management. This paper ...
• A dynamic coordination of microgrids 

  Mbungu, Nsilulu T.; Siti, Mukwangu M.; Bansal, Ramesh C.; Naidoo, Raj; Elnady, A.; Ismail, Ali A. Adam; Abokhali, Ahmed G.; Hamid, Abdul-Kadir (Elsevier, 2025-01)

  Sustainable energy resource implementation has several advantages in terms of energy efficiency, reliability, and resilience. However, there are still challenges with the power quality in suitable energy balance and ...
• State-of-the-art review on energy sharing and trading of resilient multi microgrids 

  Kumar, Abhishek; Singh, Arvind R.; Raghav, L. Phani; Deng, Yan; He, Xiangning; Bansal, Ramesh C.; Kumar, Praveen; Naidoo, Raj (Elsevier, 2024-04)

  Independently run single microgrids (MGs) encounter difficulties with inadequate self-consumption of local renewable energy and frequent power exchange with the grid. Combining numerous MGs to form a multi-microgrid (MMG) ...
• Natural gas well production network state-space model development and validation for process control 

  Dzedzemane, Rudzani; Wiid, Andries Johannes; Le Roux, Johan Derik; Craig, Ian Keith (American Chemical Society, 2024-01)

  A transient state-space nonlinear model is developed for a natural gas system fed from multiple gas wellheads. The dynamic models are developed by making use of the spectral element method for pipeline spatial discretization. ...
• A survey on NB-IoT random access : approaches for uplink radio access network congestion management 

  Iiyambo, Loini; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan Mohammed (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024-06)

  Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is one of the most promising technologies for enabling reliable communication among low-power, and low cost devices present in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). In NB-IoT, ...
• Efficient microservice deployment in the edge-cloud networks with policy-gradient reinforcement learning 

  Afachao, Kevin; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan Mohammed; Hanke, Gerhard P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024-09)

  The rise of user-centric design demands ubiquitous access to infrastructure and applications, facilitated by the Edge-Cloud network and microservices. However, efficiently managing resource allocation while orchestrating ...
• Recursive learning based smart energy management with two-Level dynamic pricing demand response 

  Zhang, Huifeng; Huang, Jiapeng; Yue, Dong; Xie, Xiangpeng; Zhang, Zhijun; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024)

  Due to dynamic characteristic of demand response and stochastic nature of power generation, it brings great challenge to smart energy management. In this paper, a demand response model is created with two-level dynamic ...
• Specific emitter identification with different transmission codes and multiple receivers 

  Diedericks, Lodewicus Johannes; Du Plessis, W.P. (Warren Paul) (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024)

  A specific emitter identification (SEI) system that expands previously-published results by identifying remote keyless-entry (RKE) remotes with an accuracy of over 95% even when different digital transmission codes are ...
• The effect of temperature variation on the transient response of RF PIN diode limiters for very high frequency applications 

  Botha, Cornelius Johannes; Stander, Tinus (Wiley, 2024)

  This work presents the effect of temperature change on the capacitance of silicon PIN diodes and the resulting change in performance of RF limiters at very high frequency (VHF). Device temperatures were varied between −25 ...
• Hybrid metaheuristic schemes with different configurations and feedback mechanisms for optimal clustering applications 

  Molokomme, Daisy Nkele; Onumanyi, Adeiza James; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan Mohammed (Springer, 2024-10)

  This paper addresses the critical gap in the understanding of the effects of various configurations and feedback mechanisms on the performance of hybrid metaheuristics (HMs) in unsupervised clustering applications. Despite ...
• An intelligent IoT-based home automation for optimization of electricity use 

  Francis, Antony; Madhusudhanan, Sheema; Jose, Arun Cyril; Malekian, Reza (Wydawnictwo SIGMA, 2023)

  The world is gearing towards renewable energy sources, due to the numerous negative repercussions of fossil fuels. There is a need to increase the efficiency of power generation, transmission, distribution, and use. The ...
• Parameterisation and prediction of intra‑canal cochlear structures 

  Thiselton, Joshua; Hanekom, Tania (Springer, 2024-03)

  Accurate 3D models of the cochlea are useful tools for research in the relationship between the electrode array and nerve fbres. The internal geometry of the cochlear canal plays an important role in understanding and ...
• Modelling, analysis and validation of a dynamic dense medium separation circuit model for detecting medium losses 

  Lowry, Claire Sarah; Le Roux, Johan Derik; Craig, Ian Keith (Elsevier, 2024-05)

  Dense medium separation circuits use a dense medium to separate low density waste material from high density valuable minerals. Since the dense medium is an expensive consumable, it is recovered after separation of the ...
• Nonfragile high-gain observers for nonlinear systems with output uncertainty 

  Zhou, Fan; Shen, Yanjun; Xia, Xiaohua (Wiley, 2024-03)

  In this paper, we present the definitions of nonfragile high-gain observers and design method for lower-triangular nonlinear systems with output uncertainty. Radial basis function neural networks (RBFNNs) are used to ...

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