2022 October-1 - 595 articles
In a cyberphysical production system, the connectivity between the physical entities of a production system with the digital component that controls and monitors that system takes fundamental importance. This connectivity has been increasing from the...
The main goals of the following paper are to evaluate the performance of two multispectral airborne sensors and compare their image data with in situ spectral measurements. Moreover, the authors aim to present an enhanced workflow for processing mult...
Building energy consumption prediction has become an important research problem within the context of sustainable homes and smart cities. Data-driven approaches have been regarded as the most suitable for integration into smart houses. With the wide...
Multi-path transmission can well solve the data transmission reliability problems and life cycle problems caused by single-path transmission. However, the accuracy of the routing scheme generated by the existing multi-path routing algorithms is diffi...
Feedback control of functional neuromuscular stimulation has the potential to improve daily function for individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) by enhancing seated stability. Our fully implanted networked neuroprosthesis (NNP) can provide real-...
Deep summarization models have succeeded in the video summarization field based on the development of gated recursive unit (GRU) and long and short-term memory (LSTM) technology. However, for some long videos, GRU and LSTM cannot effectively capture...
In recent years, knitted strain sensors have been developed that aim to achieve reliable sensing and high wearability, but they are associated with difficulties due to high hysteresis and low gauge factor (GF) values. This study investigated the elec...
The single-beam bathymetric light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system 1 (SBLS-1), which is equipped with a 532-nm-band laser projector and two concentric-circle receivers for shallow- and deep-water echo signals, is a lightweight and convenient prot...
In the energy management of district cooling plants, the thermal energy storage tank is critical. As a result, it is essential to keep track of TES results. The performance of the TES has been measured using a variety of methodologies, both numerical...
The purpose of this review is to aggregate technical information on existent optomechanical eye models (OME) described in the literature, for image quality assessment in different applications. Several physical eye models have been reviewed from peer...
The exponential growth in remote sensing, coupled with advancements in integrated circuits (IC) design and fabrication technology for communication, has prompted the progress of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). WSN comprises of sensor nodes and hubs f...
Drowning is a major health issue worldwide. The World Health Organization’s global report on drowning states that the highest rates of drowning deaths occur among children aged 1–4 years, followed by children aged 5–9 years. Young c...
Light sources emitting short pulses are needed in many particle physics experiments using optical sensors as they can replicate the light produced by the particles being detected and are also an important calibration and test element. This work prese...
Lane marking recognition is one of the most crucial features for automotive vehicles as it is one of the most fundamental requirements of all the autonomy features of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Researchers have recently made promising...
Designing and developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems that can be trusted justifiably is one of the main issues aviation must face in the coming years. European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has developed a user guide that could b...
Aquaponic health is a very important in the food industry field, as currently there is a huge amount of fishing farms, and the demands are growing in the whole world. This work examines the process of developing an innovative aquaponics health monito...
As the main power source of new energy electric vehicles, the accurate estimation of State of Charge (SOC) of Li-ion batteries is of great significance for accurately estimating the vehicle’s driving range, prolonging the battery life, and ensu...
The roughness of the ocean surface significantly impacts air-to-sea imaging, oceanographic monitoring, and optical communication. Most current and previous methods for addressing this roughness and its impact on optical propagation are either entirel...
Personalised healthcare has seen significant improvements due to the introduction of health monitoring technologies that allow wearable devices to unintrusively monitor physiological parameters such as heart health, blood pressure, sleep patterns, an...
Crowdfunding has seen an enormous rise, becoming a new alternative funding source for emerging companies or new startups in recent years. As crowdfunding prevails, it is also under substantial risk of the occurrence of fraud. Though a growing number...
Image novelty detection is a repeating task in computer vision and describes the detection of anomalous images based on a training dataset consisting solely of normal reference data. It has been found that, in particular, neural networks are well-sui...
Because of their strong surface evanescent field, micro-/nanofibers have been used to develop optical sensors and modulation devices with a high performance and integration [...]
Trees in urban environments hold significant value in providing ecosystem services, which will become increasingly important as urban populations grow. Tree phenology is highly sensitive to climatic variation, and resultant phenological shifts have s...
The amount and localization of boron-10 atoms delivered into tumor cells determines the therapeutic effect of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) and, consequently, efforts have been directed to develop fluorescence sensors to detect intracellular b...
Sweat analysis offers non-invasive real-time on-body measurement for wearable sensors. However, there are still gaps in current developed sweat-sensing devices (SSDs) regarding the concerns of mixing fresh and old sweat and real-time measurement, whi...
Small object detection has always been a difficult direction in the field of object detection, especially the detection of small objects in UAV aerial images. The images captured by UAVs have the characteristics of small objects and dense objects. In...
With the wide application of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), the visual inertial odometer (VIO) system that realizes the positioning function through the integration of a camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) has developed rapidly, but it is st...
COVID-19 is an infectious disease mainly transmitted through aerosol particles. Physical distancing can significantly reduce airborne transmission at a short range, but it is not a sufficient measure to avoid contagion. In recent months, health autho...
Because the dielectric constant of water is greater than that of oil and gas, dielectric logging sensors can effectively distinguish oil and gas reservoirs from water layers by measuring the dielectric parameters of formations. Under the special work...
Titanium-copper alloy films with stoichiometry given by Ti
The millimeter-wave frequency band provides abundant frequency resources for the development of beyond 5th generation mobile network (B5G) mobile communication, and its relative bandwidth of 1% can provide a gigabit-level communication bandwidth. In...
Addressing the challenges of internet-based 5G technology, namely increasing density through micro-cell systems, frequency spectrum, and reducing resource costs, is needed to meet the use of IoT-based 6G technology with the goal of high-speed, high-c...
A trunk-twisting posture is strongly associated with physical discomfort. Measurement of joint kinematics to assess physical exposure to injuries is important. However, using a single Kinect sensor to track the upper-limb joint angle trajectories dur...
A coarse-to-fine multi-view stereo network with Transformer (MVS-T) is proposed to solve the problems of sparse point clouds and low accuracy in reconstructing 3D scenes from low-resolution multi-view images. The network uses a coarse-to-fine strateg...
The fusion of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensing information can effectively improve the environment modeling and localization accuracy of navigation systems. To realize the spatiotemporal unification of d...
Electrotactile stimulation is a technology that reproducibly elicits tactile sensations and can be used as an alternative channel to communicate information to the user. The presented work is a part of an effort to develop this technology into an uno...
Alzheimer’s disease is dementia that impairs one’s thinking, behavior, and memory. It starts as a moderate condition affecting areas of the brain that make it challenging to retain recently learned information, causes mood swings, and cau...
The functionalization of internal resonance (IR) is theoretically and experimentally demonstrated on a nonlinear hybrid vibration energy harvester (HVEH) based on piezoelectric (PE) and electromagnetic (EM) transductions. This nonlinear phenomenon is...
The multi-path ultrasonic flowmeter is widely used in engineering practice, and the flow algorithm is important for its accuracy. The least-squares estimation method is simple and efficient and has good engineering application value. In practical app...
This article presents a novel optimization algorithm for large array thinning. The algorithm is based on Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (DPSO) integrated with some different search strategies. It utilizes a global learning strategy to improve t...
This paper examines the large-scale path loss models for an indoor corridor environment at frequencies of 28 and 38 GHz. The measurement environment consists of an indoor corridor with both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line of sight (NLOS) scenarios u...
An optical strain gauge based on a balloon-like interferometer structure formed by a bent standard single-mode fiber combined with a 3D printer piece has been presented and demonstrated, which can be used to measure displacement. The interferometer h...
In this work, we combine some of the most relevant artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with a range-resolved interferometry (RRI) instrument applied to the maintenance of a wind turbine. This method of automatic and autonomous learning can identi...
Telehealth systems have evolved into more prevalent services that can serve people in remote locations and at their homes via smart devices and 5G systems. Protecting the privacy and security of users is crucial in such online systems. Although there...
After wars, some unexploded bombs remained underground, and these faulty bombs seriously threaten the safety of people. The ability to accurately identify targets is crucial for subsequent mining work. A deep learning algorithm is used to recognize t...
Non-destructive testing (NDT) and evaluation (NDE) are commonly referred to as the vast group of analysis techniques used in civil, medical, and industrial sectors to evaluate the properties of materials, tissues, components, or structures without ca...
Adjacent tunnel construction and environmental disturbances can lead to longitudinal deformation in pipe-jacking tunnels. The longitudinal deformation of the tunnel is closely related to the occurrence of joint dislocation, joint opening, and other d...
This paper presents a method to include unmodeled dynamics of load or a robot’s end-effector into algorithms for collision detection or general understanding of a robot’s operation context. The approach relies on the application of a prev...
As a popular spatial operation, the k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) query is widely used in various spatial application systems. How to efficiently process a kNN query on spatial big data has always been an important research topic in the field of spatial...
Continuous-wave doppler radar, which has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, and low power consumption, has attracted extensive attention in the detection of human vital signs. However, while respiration and heartbeat signals are mixed in t...
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