2022 September-1 - 401 articles
As deep learning technology paves its way, real-world applications that make use of it become popular these days. Edge computing architecture is one of the service architectures to realize the deep learning based service, which makes use of the resou...
Inspecting the sealing integrity of lead tabs is an important means of ensuring the reliability and safety of pouch-type lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries with a thin multi-layered aluminum (Al) laminated film. This paper presents a new air-coupled ultr...
Active research on crack detection technology for structures based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted considerable attention. Most of the existing research on localization of cracks using UAVs mounted the Global Positioning System (GPS)...
As a part of the intelligent transportation system, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide timely information about road events and traffic to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. However, VANETs face many challenges, such as attacks from...
To improve the motion distortion caused by LiDAR data at low and medium frame rates when moving, this paper proposes an improved algorithm for scanning matching of estimated velocity that combines an IMU and odometer. First, the information of the IM...
EnOcean, a commonly used control protocol in smart lighting systems, provides authentication, as well as message integrity verification services, and can resist replay attack and tamper attack. However, since the device identity information transmitt...
Fumonisin B1 (FB1) is a strong mycotoxin that is ubiquitous in agricultural products. The establishment of rapid detection methods is an important means to prevent and control FB1 contamination. In this study, an improved enzyme-linked oligonucleotid...
Machine learning approaches are employed to analyze differences in real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction scans to differentiate between COVID-19 and pneumonia. However, these methods suffer from large training data requirements, u...
TDLAS (tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy) is an important gas analysis method that can be employed to obtain characteristic parameters non-invasively by the infrared absorption spectra of tracer molecules such as CH4, H2O and O2. In this st...
In recent years, with the development of science and technology, people have more and more choices for daily travel. However, assisting with various mobile intelligent services by transportation mode detection has become more urgent for the refinemen...
The elderly population in China is continuously increasing, and the disabled account for a large proportion of the elderly population. An effective solution is urgently needed for incontinence among disabled elderly people. Compared with disposable a...
The thermal imaging pedestrian-detection system has excellent performance in different lighting scenarios, but there are problems regarding weak texture, object occlusion, and small objects. Meanwhile, large high-performance models have higher latenc...
Quantitatively assessing personal health status is gaining increasing attention due to the improvement of diagnostic technology and the increasing occurrence of chronic pathologies. Monitoring physiological parameters allows for retrieving a general...
Aiming at the problems of nonlinearity and inaccuracy in the model of the pneumatic control valve position in the industrial control process, a valve position control method based on a fractional-order PID controller is proposed. The working principl...
With the development of smart logistics, current small distribution centers have begun to use intelligent equipment to indirectly read bar code information on courier sheets to carry out express sorting. However, limited by the cost, most of them cho...
In this work, a new method is proposed that allows the use of a single RGB camera for the real-time detection of objects that could be potential collision sources for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. For this purpose, a new network with an encoder–dec...
In order to overcome the problems of object detection in complex scenes based on the YOLOv4-tiny algorithm, such as insufficient feature extraction, low accuracy, and low recall rate, an improved YOLOv4-tiny safety helmet-wearing detection algorithm...
We propose a novel approach for drone detection and classification based on RF communication link analysis. Our approach analyses large signal record including several packets and can be decomposed of two successive steps: signal detection and drone...
In this paper, we design a silica-cladded Germania-doped ring-core fiber (RCF) that supports orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. By optimizing the fiber structure parameters, the RCF possesses a near-zero flat dispersion with a total variation of &...
Typhoons in summer and cold snaps during winter in Taiwan often cause huge aquaculture losses. Simultaneously, the lack of human resources is a problem. Therefore, we used wireless transmission technology with various sensors to transmit the temperat...
With the development of portable EEG acquisition systems, the collected EEG has gradually changed from being multi-channel to few-channel or single-channel, thus the removal of single-channel EEG signal artifacts is extremely significant. For the art...
This paper presents a novel substrateless packaging solution for the D-band active e mixer MMIC module, using a waveguide line with a glide-symmetric periodic electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) hole configuration. The proposed packaging concept has the be...
Tactile sensing has attracted significant attention as a tactile quantitative evaluation method because the tactile sensation is an important factor while evaluating consumer products. Although the human tactile perception mechanism has nonlinearity,...
Six-axis force/torque sensors are widely installed in manipulators to help researchers achieve closed-loop control. When manipulators work in comic space and deep sea, the adverse ambient environment will cause various degrees of damage to F/T sensor...
This paper proposes an innovative methodology for finding how many lifting techniques people with chronic low back pain (CLBP) can demonstrate with camera data collected from 115 participants. The system employs a feature extraction algorithm to calc...
Propulsive force is a determinant of swimming performance. Several methods have been proposed to estimate the propulsive force in human swimming; however, their practical use in coaching is limited. Herein, we propose a novel method for estimating th...
With the global population surge, the consumption of nonrenewable resources and pollution emissions have reached an alarming level. Engineered bamboo is widely used in construction, mechanical and electrical product packaging, and other industries. I...
The rapid growth in wireless communications, coupled with insufficient utilization of the spectrum, led to the development of new wireless services and the promising technology of cognitive radio (CR) networks, which facilitate periodic access to the...
Heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) are two vital parameters of the body medically used for diagnosing short/long-term illness. Out-of-the-body, non-skin-contact HR/RR measurement remains a challenge due to imprecise readings. “Invisible&...
The increasing evolution of computing technologies has fostered the new intelligent concept of Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp). Ubicomp environments encompass the introduction of new paradigms, such as Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile computing, and W...
Magnetic particle spectroscopy (MPS) in the Brownian relaxation regime, also termed magnetic spectroscopy of Brownian motion (MSB), can detect and quantitate very low, sub-nanomolar concentrations of molecular biomarkers. MPS/MSB uses the harmonics o...
In this article, we describe in detail three seismic measurement campaigns based on refraction methods that we conducted at different sites in Bavaria, Germany. The measured data is published as an open data set. The particularity of this data set li...
Carrying out status monitoring and fault-diagnosis research on cutter-wear status is of great significance for real-time understanding of the health status of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) equipment and reducing downtime losses. In this work, we propos...
Chip pad inspection is of great practical importance for chip alignment inspection and correction. It is one of the key technologies for automated chip inspection in semiconductor manufacturing. When applying deep learning methods for chip pad inspec...
In some sectors of the water resources management, the digital revolution process is slowed by some blocking factors such as costs, lack of digital expertise, resistance to change, etc. In addition, in the era of Big Data, many are the sources of inf...
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key drivers of biogeochemical cycling while also exhibiting both positive and negative effects on marine ecosystem health. However, quantification of the ROS superoxide (O2−) within environmental systems is hin...
To improve the seeding motor control performance of electric-driven seeding (EDS), a genetic particle swarm optimization (GAPSO)-optimized fuzzy PID control strategy for electric-driven seeding was designed. Since the parameters of the fuzzy controll...
When a vehicle is being driven, it is excited by the road roughness and generates its own vibration. In order to improve the vehicle’s riding comfort and the physical–mental health of passengers in the vehicle, this paper proposes a formu...
This paper introduces GAUREAD, an end-to-end computer vision system that is able to autonomously read analogic gauges with circular shapes and linear scales in unstructured environments. Existing gauge reading software still relies on some manual ent...
In-vehicle communication has become an integral part of today’s driving environment considering the growing add-ons of sensor-centric communication and computing devices inside a vehicle for a range of purposes including vehicle monitoring, phy...
A new theory suggests that flammable gases generated by heated vegetation, in particular the volatile organic compounds (VOC) common to Mediterranean plants, may, under certain topographic and wind conditions, accumulate in locations where, after the...
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether a visual stimuli program during soccer training can affect reaction time (RT), cognitive function, and physical fitness in adolescent soccer players. Thirty-eight male soccer players aged 10&nda...
Non-Intrusive load monitoring (NILM) represents an emerging strategy based on the application of sevaral multidisciplinary topics [...]
Despite the potential of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), there are still many open questions on how road capacity can be influenced and what methods can be used to assess its expected benefits in the progressive transition towards fully coop...
In recent decades, networked smart devices and cutting-edge technology have been exploited in many applications for the improvement of agriculture. The deployment of smart sensors and intelligent farming techniques supports real-time information gath...
Facial expressions are divided into micro- and macro-expressions. Micro-expressions are low-intensity emotions presented for a short moment of about 0.25 s, whereas macro-expressions last up to 4 s. To derive micro-expressions, participants are asked...
Rolling bearings are key components that support the rotation of motor shafts, operating with a quite high failure rate among all the motor components. Early bearing fault diagnosis has great significance to the operation security of motors. The main...
The automatic parking system based on vision is greatly affected by uneven lighting, which is difficult to make an accurate judgment on parking spaces in the case of complex image information. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a parking spac...
The paper presents a diagnostic complex for plankton studies using the miniDHC (digital holographic camera). Its capabilities to study the rhythmic processes in plankton ecosystems were demonstrated using the natural testing in Lake Baikal in summer....
This study discusses a nonlinear electrical impedance tomography (EIT) technique under different analysis conditions to propose its optimal implementation parameters. The forward problem for calculating electric potential is defined by the complete e...
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