Table Of ContentLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 738
Sergio Saponara
Alessandro De Gloria Editors
Applications
in Electronics
Pervading Industry,
Environment and
Society
APPLEPIES 2020
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Preface
The 2020 edition of the Conference on “Applications in Electronics Pervading
Industry, Environment and Society” was exceptionally held fully online during
November 19 and 20, 2020
During the 2 days, 87 registered participants, from 27 different entities (20
Universities and seven industries), discussed electronic applications in several
domains, demonstrating how electronics has become pervasive and ever more
embedded in everyday objects and processes.
The conference had the technical and/or financial support of University of Pisa,
University of Genoa, SIE (Italian Association for Electronics), Giakova and of the
H2020 European Processor Initiative.
After a strict blind-review selection process, 12 short presentations and 24 lec-
tureshavebeenaccepted(withco-authorsfrom14differentnations)in11sessions
focused on circuits and electronic systems and their relevant applications in the
followingfields:Wireless andIoT,healthcare, vehicles androbots(electrifiedand
autonomous), power electronics and energy storage, cybersecurity, AI and data
engineering.
More in detail, the short presentation sessions involved contributions on SS1
mechatronics, energies and Industry 4.0 and SS2 IoT, AI and ICT applications,
whilethefulloralsessionsinvolvedcontributionsonS1AIandMLtechniques,S2
environmental monitoring and E-health, S3 electronics for health and assisted
living, S4 digital techniques for mechatronics, energy and critical systems and S5
photonic circuits and IoT for communications.
Therewerealsotwoscientifickeynotes,givenbyCeciliaMetra(IEEEComputer
Society Past President) and by John David Davies (Barcelona Super Computing)
and three industrial keynotes, by Carlo Cavazzoni (Leonardo Spa), Paolo Gai
(Huawei) and Luca Poli (Giakova Spa).
Thearticlesfeaturedinthisbook,togetherwiththetalksandroundtablesofthe
specialevents,provethat thecapabilities ofnowadayselectronicsystems,interms
ofcomputing,storageandnetworking,areabletosupportaplethoraofapplication
domains, such as mobility, health care, connectivity, energy management, smart
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production, ambient intelligence, smart living, safety and security, education,
entertainment, tourism and cultural heritage.
In order to exploit such capabilities, multidisciplinary knowledge and expertise
are needed to support a virtuous iterative cycle from user needs to the design,
prototyping and testing of new products and services that are more and more
characterized by a digital core.
Thedesignandtestingcyclesgothroughthewholesystemengineeringprocess,
which includes analysis of user requirements, specification definition, verification
plan definition, software and hardware co-design, laboratory and user testing and
verification, maintenance management and life cycle management of electronics
applications.Thedesignofelectronics-enabledsystemsshouldbecharacterizedby
innovation, high performance, real-time operations and budget compliance (in
terms of time, cost, device size, weight, power consumption, etc.). Design
methodologiesandtoolshaveemergedinordertosupportteamsdealingwithsuch
a complexity.
AllthesechallengingaspectscallfortheimportanceoftheroleofAcademiaasa
place where new generations of designers can learn and practice with the
cutting-edgetechnologicaltools,andwherenewsolutionsarestudied,startingfrom
challenges coming from a variety of application domains. This approach is sus-
tainedbyindustriesthatunderstandtheroleofahigh-leveleducationalsystem,able
to nurture new generations of designers and developers.
The APPLEPIES conference has reached, in 2020, its eight edition, confirming
its role as a reference point for a growing research community in the field of
electronics systems design, with a particular focus on applications.
Sergio Saponara
General Chair
Alessandro De Gloria
Honorary Chair
Contents
AI and ML Techniques
Implementation of Particle Image Velocimetry for Silo Discharge
and Food Industry Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Romina Molina, Valeria Gonzalez, Jesica Benito, Stefano Marsi,
Giovanni Ramponi, and Ricardo Petrino
Analysis and Design of a Yolo like DNN for Smoke/Fire Detection
for Low-cost Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Alessio Gagliardi, Marco Villella, Luca Picciolini, and Sergio Saponara
Video Grasping Classification Enhanced
with Automatic Annotations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Edoardo Ragusa, Christian Gianoglio, Filippo Dalmonte,
and Paolo Gastaldo
Enabling YOLOv2 Models to Monitor Fire and Smoke Detection
Remotely in Smart Infrastructures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sergio Saponara, Abdussalam Elhanashi, and Alessio Gagliardi
Exploring Unsupervised Learning on STM32 F4 Microcontroller . . . . . 39
Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Joseph Doyle,
and Fouad Sakr
Environmental Monitoring and E-health
Unobtrusive Accelerometer-Based Heart Rate Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Yurii Shkilniuk, Maksym Gaiduk, and Ralf Seepold
A Lightweight SiPM-Based Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
for Environmental Monitoring with Drones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Marco Carminati, Davide Di Vita, Luca Buonanno,
Giovanni L. Montagnani, and Carlo Fiorini
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Winter: A Novel Low Power Modular Platform for Wearable
and IoT Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Patrick Locatelli, Asad Hussain, Andrea Pedrana, Matteo Pezzoli,
Gianluca Traversi, and Valerio Re
Hardware–Oriented Data Recovery Algorithms for Compressed
Sensing–Based Vibration Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Federica Zonzini, Matteo Zauli, Antonio Carbone, Francesca Romano,
Nicola Testoni, and Luca De Marchi
Electronics for Health and Assisted Living
Automatic Generation of 3D Printable Tactile Paintings
for the Visually Impaired. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Francesco de Gioia, Massimiliano Donati, and Luca Fanucci
Validation of Soft Real-Time in Remote ECG Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Miltos D. Grammatikakis, Anastasios Koumarelis,
and Efstratios Ntallaris
Software Architecture of a User-Level GNU/Linux Driver
for a Complex E-Health Biosensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Miltos D. Grammatikakis, Anastasios Koumarelis,
and Angelos Mouzakitis
Enabling Smart Home Voice Control for Italian People
with Dysarthria: Preliminary Analysis of Frame Rate Effect
on Speech Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Marco Marini, Gabriele Meoni, Davide Mulfari, Nicola Vanello,
and Luca Fanucci
Brain-Actuated Pick-Up and Delivery Service for Personal Care
Robots: Implementation and Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Giovanni Mezzina and Daniela De Venuto
Digital Techniques for Mechatronics, Energy and Critical Systems
Creation of a Digital Twin Model, Redesign of Plant Structure
and New Fuzzy Logic Controller for the Cooling System
of a Railway Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Marica Poce, Giovanni Casiello, Lorenzo Ferrari,
Lorenzo Flaccomio Nardi Dei, and Sergio Saponara
HDL Code Generation from SIMULINK Environment for Li-Ion
Cells State of Charge and Parameter Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Mattia Stighezza, Valentina Bianchi, and Ilaria De Munari
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Performance Comparison of Imputation Methods in Building
Energy Data Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Hariom Dhungana, Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta,
and Alessandro De Gloria
Design and Validation of a FPGA-Based HIL Simulator
for Minimum Losses Control of a PMSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Giuseppe Galioto, Antonino Sferlazza, and Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia
x86 System Management Mode (SMM) Evaluation for Mixed
Critical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Nikos Mouzakitis, Michele Paolino, Miltos D. Grammatikakis,
and Daniel Raho
Photonic Circuits and IoT for Communications
A Novel Pulse Compression Scheme in Coherent OTDR Using
Direct Digital Synthesis and Nonlinear Frequency Modulation . . . . . . . 173
Yonas Muanenda, Stefano Faralli, Philippe Velha, Claudio Oton,
and Fabrizio Di Pasquale
Design and Analysis of RF/High-Speed SERDES in 28 nm CMOS
Technology for Aerospace Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Francesco Cosimi, Gabriele Ciarpi, and Sergio Saponara
Enabling Transiently-Powered Communication via Backscattering
Energy State Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Alessandro Torrisi, Kasım Sinan Yıldırım, and Davide Brunelli
Analysis and Design of Integrated VCO in 28 nm CMOS
Technology for Aerospace Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Paolo Prosperi, Gabriele Ciarpi, and Sergio Saponara
vrLab: A Virtual and Remote Low Cost Electronics Lab Platform . . . . 213
Massimo Ruo Roch and Maurizio Martina
Mechatronics, Energies and Industry 4.0
Mechatronic Design Optimization of an Electrical Drilling Machine
for Trenchless Operations in Urban Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Valerio Vita, Luca Pugi, Lorenzo Berzi, Francesco Grasso, Raffaele Savi,
Massimo Delogu, and Enrico Boni
Analysis and Design of a Non-linear MPC Algorithm for Vehicle
Trajectory Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Francesco Cosimi, Pierpaolo Dini, Sandro Giannetti, Matteo Petrelli,
and Sergio Saponara
