2022 March-2 - 349 articles
Motion Shield is an automatic crash notification system that uses a mobile phone to generate automatic alerts related to the safety of a user when the user is boarding a means of transportation. The objective of Motion Shield is to improve road safet...
Ballistocardiography (BCG) is considered a good alternative to HRV analysis with its non-contact and unobtrusive acquisition characteristics. However, consensus about its validity has not yet been established. In this study, 50 healthy subjects (26.2...
Exoskeletons have been assessed by qualitative and quantitative features known as performance indicators. Within these, the ergonomic indicators have been isolated, creating a lack of methodologies to analyze and assess physical interfaces. In this s...
This paper provides a conceptual foundation for stochastic duels and contains a further study of the game models based on the theory of stochastic duels. Some other combat assessment techniques are looked upon briefly; a modern outlook on the applica...
This paper provides a new solution to identify the internal forces of segmental tunnel linings by combining laser scanning and hybrid structural analysis. First, a hybrid structural analysis method for quantifying the internal forces based on displac...
This study investigates the performance of a passive time-reversal mirror (TRM) combined with acoustic ray theory in localizing underwater sound sources with high frequencies (3–7 kHz). The TRM was installed on a floating buoy and comprised fou...
Containers and microservices have become the most popular method for hosting IoT applications in cloud servers. However, one major security issue of this method is that if a container image contains software with security vulnerabilities, the associa...
Water features (e.g., water quantity and water quality) are one of the most important environmental factors essential to improving climate-change resilience. Remote sensing (RS) technologies empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) have become one o...
The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new concept, named “one4all” in the realm of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, used by a regional company (particularly a water supplying company) for managing the d...
The proliferation of wireless applications, the ever-increasing spectrum crowdedness, as well as cell densification makes the issue of interference increasingly severe in many emerging wireless applications. Most interference management/mitigation me...
This work proposes a novel virtual reality system which makes use of wearable sensors for testing and validation of cooperative workplaces from the ergonomic point of view. The main objective is to show, in real time, the ergonomic evaluation based o...
Patients after stroke with paretic or plegic hands require frequent exercises to promote neuroplasticity and to improve hand joint mobilization. Available devices for hand exercising are intended for persons with some level of hand control or provide...
Finding a low-cost and highly efficient method for identifying subway tunnel damage can greatly reduce catastrophic accidents. At present, tunnel health monitoring is mainly based on the observation of apparent diseases and vibration monitoring, whic...
Production system modeling (PSM) for quality propagation involves mapping the principles between components and systems. While most existing studies focus on the steady-state analysis, the transient quality analysis remains largely unexplored. It is...
In this paper, to balance power supplement from the solar energy’s intermittent and unpredictable generation, we design a solar energy generation and trading platform (EggBlock) using Internet of Things (IoT) systems and blockchain technique. W...
Predicting the degradation of mechanical components, such as rolling bearings is critical to the proper monitoring of the condition of mechanical equipment. A new method, based on a long short-term memory network (LSTM) algorithm, has been developed...
In on-grid microgrids, electric vehicles (EVs) have to be efficiently scheduled for cost-effective electricity consumption and network operation. The stochastic nature of the involved parameters along with their large number and correlations make suc...
Gesture recognition is an important direction in computer vision research. Information from the hands is crucial in this task. However, current methods consistently achieve attention on hand regions based on estimated keypoints, which will significan...
Despite the unprecedented success of deep learning in various fields, it has been recognized that clinical diagnosis requires extra caution when applying recent deep learning techniques because false prediction can result in severe consequences. In t...
In this paper, we consider integrated resource management for fog networks inclusive of intelligent energy perception, service level agreement (SLA) planning and replication-based hotspot offload (RHO). In the beginning, we propose an intelligent ene...
Fiber-optic dynamic interrogators, which use periodic frequency scanning, actually sample a time-varying measurand on a non-uniform time grid. Commonly, however, the sampled values are reported on a uniform time grid, synchronized with the periodic s...
Currently, a number of positioning systems are in use to locate trains on the railway network; but these generally have limited precision. Thus, this paper focuses on testing and validating the suitability of radio frequency identification (RFID) tec...
To satisfy the need to develop highly sensitive methods for detecting the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and further enhance detection efficiency and capability, a new method was created for detecting SARS-CoV-2 of...
In this work, the design of an integrated
Brain shift is an important obstacle to the application of image guidance during neurosurgical interventions. There has been a growing interest in intra-operative imaging to update the image-guided surgery systems. However, due to the innate limitati...
The security issue of wireless communication is a common concern because of its broadcast nature, especially when the relay becomes an eavesdropper. In the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) relay system, when the relay is untrusted, t...
Strain is one of the most frequently monitored parameters in civil structural health monitoring (SHM) applications, and strain-based approaches were among the first to be explored and applied in SHM. There are multiple reasons why strain plays such a...
Piezoelectric ceramics have good electromechanical coupling characteristics and a high sensitivity to load. One typical engineering application of piezoelectric ceramic is its use as a signal source for Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) systems in road traffic m...
Partial discharge (PD) is a common phenomenon of insulation aging in air-insulated switchgear and will change the gas composition in the equipment. However, it is still a challenge to diagnose and identify the defect types of PD. This paper conducts...
Ultrasound-based haptic feedback is a potential technology for human–computer interaction (HCI) with the advantages of a low cost, low power consumption and a controlled force. In this paper, phase optimization for multipoint haptic feedback ba...
Autonomous trust mechanisms enable Internet of Things (IoT) devices to function cooperatively in a wide range of ecosystems, from vehicle-to-vehicle communications to mesh sensor networks. A common property desired in such networks is a mechanism to...
To achieve rapid and precise non-contact measurements of coating emissivity at room temperature, a measurement method based on infrared thermal imager was proposed. By applying two irradiations with different energies to the target and reference surf...
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) are emerging as an effective technology capable of improving the spectral and energy efficiency of future wireless networks. The proposed scenario consists of a multi-antenna base station and a single-antenna us...
In this work, a novel sensing approach to realize a force optical fiber sensor is designed, developed, and experimentally tested. The proposed sensing methodology exploits the effects of deformation due to an applied force on a patch of plastic optic...
This paper presents an implementation of the parallelization of genetic algorithms. Three models of parallelized genetic algorithms are presented, namely the Master–Slave genetic algorithm, the Coarse-Grained genetic algorithm, and the Fine-Gra...
Most commercially successful face recognition systems combine information from multiple sensors (2D and 3D, visible light and infrared, etc.) to achieve reliable recognition in various environments. When only a single sensor is available, the robustn...
Visual navigation is of vital importance for autonomous mobile robots. Most existing practical perception-aware based visual navigation methods generally require prior-constructed precise metric maps, and learning-based methods rely on large training...
With the advancement of technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are being used in numerous applications. However, the illegal use of UAVs, such as in terrorism and spycams, has also increased, which has led to active resear...
Temperature field calculation is an important step in infrared image simulation. However, the existing solutions, such as heat conduction modelling and pre-generated lookup tables based on temperature calculation tools, are difficult to meet the requ...
This study compares two methods to quantify the amplitude and frequency of head movements in patients with head tremor: one based on video-based motion analysis, and the other using a miniature wireless inertial magnetic motion unit (IMMU). Concomita...
We present the design, fabrication, and testing of a drone-mountable gas sensing platform for environmental monitoring applications. An array of graphene-based field-effect transistors in combination with commercial humidity and temperature sensors a...
Detection of bacterial pathogens is significant in the fields of food safety, medicine, and public health, just to name a few. If bacterial pathogens are not properly identified and treated promptly, they can lead to morbidity and mortality, also pos...
This paper seeks to evaluate and calibrate data collected by low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors in different environments and using different aggregated temporal units (i.e., 5-s, 1-min, 10-min, 30 min intervals). We first collected PM concentr...
This paper presents an approach and a case study for threat detection during human–computer interaction, using the example of driver–vehicle interaction. We analyzed a driver monitoring system and identified two types of users: the driver...
Reconstruction algorithms are at the forefront of accessible and compact data collection. In this paper, we present a novel reconstruction algorithm, SpecRA, that adapts based on the relative rarity of a signal compared to previous observations. We l...
Mobile-cloud-based healthcare applications are increasingly growing in practice. For instance, healthcare, transport, and shopping applications are designed on the basis of the mobile cloud. For executing mobile-cloud applications, offloading and sch...
Recognizing human emotions by machines is a complex task. Deep learning models attempt to automate this process by rendering machines to exhibit learning capabilities. However, identifying human emotions from speech with good performance is still cha...
Making a new font requires graphical designs for all base characters, and this designing process consumes lots of time and human resources. Especially for languages including a large number of combinations of consonants and vowels, it is a heavy burd...
Road traffic accidents regarding commercial vehicles have been demonstrated as an important culprit restricting the steady development of the social economy, which are closely related to the distracted behavior of drivers. However, the existing drive...
Multi-hole probes can simultaneously measure the velocity and direction of a flow field, obtain the distribution of the flow field in a three-dimensional space, and obtain the vortex information in the flow field. Moreover, a multi-hole probe needs t...
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