2024 August-2 - 371 articles
Guangdong Province, home to 21 cities and a permanent population of 127.06 million people, boasts the largest provincial economy in China, contributing 11.76% to the national GDP in 2023. However, it is prone to geological hazards due to its geologic...
The use of a micropile group is an effective method for small and medium-sized slope management. However, there is limited research on the pile–soil interaction mechanism of micropile groups. Based on transparent soil and PIV technology, a test...
Drones have become essential tools across various industries due to their ability to provide real-time data and perform automated tasks. However, integrating multiple sensors on a single drone poses challenges such as payload limitations and data man...
This study introduces an innovative approach by incorporating statistical offset features, range profiles, time–frequency analyses, and azimuth–range–time characteristics to effectively identify various human daily activities. Our t...
In modern cyber-physical systems, the integration of AI into vision pipelines is now a standard practice for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to mobile devices. Traditional AI integration often relies on cloud-based processing, which fac...
Accurate and precise rigid registration between head-neck computed tomography (CT) and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is crucial for correcting setup errors in image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) for head and neck tumors. However, conventio...
This study presents a novel approach to enhancing indoor navigation in crowded multi-terminal airports using visible light communication (VLC) technology. By leveraging existing luminaires as transmission points, encoded messages are conveyed through...
This paper presents a new edge detection process implemented in an embedded IoT device called Bee Smart Detection node to detect catastrophic apiary events. Such events include swarming, queen loss, and the detection of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)...
The Two-Photon Absorption–Transient Current Technique (TPA-TCT) is a device characterisation technique that enables three-dimensional spatial resolution. Laser light in the quadratic absorption regime is employed to generate excess charge carri...
Saccharides, being one of the fundamental molecules of life, play essential roles in the physiological and pathological functions of cells. However, their intricate structures pose challenges for detection. Nanopore technology, with its high sensitiv...
Force measurement is crucial in numerous engineering applications, while traditional force sensors often face problems such as elevated expenses or significant measurement errors. To tackle this issue, we propose an innovative force sensor employing...
LiDAR sensors have been shown to generate data with various common corruptions, which seriously affect their applications in 3D vision tasks, particularly object detection. At the same time, it has been demonstrated that traditional defense strategie...
The success of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) analysis hinges on the precision and robustness of the calibration model. Shallow learning (SL) algorithms like partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) often fall short in capturing the in...
The surge in image data has significantly increased the pressure on storage and transmission, posing new challenges for image compression technology. The structural texture of an image implies its statistical characteristics, which is effective for i...
Running is the basis of many sports and has highly beneficial effects on health. To increase the understanding of running, DSPro® insoles were developed to collect running parameters during tasks. However, no validation has been carried out for r...
The implementation of Industry 4.0 has integrated manufacturing, electronics, and engineering materials, leading to the creation of smart parts (SPs) that provide information on production system conditions. However, SP development faces challenges d...
Human activity recognition (HAR) is a crucial task in various applications, including healthcare, fitness, and the military. Deep learning models have revolutionized HAR, however, their computational complexity, particularly those involving BiLSTMs,...
Background: Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is a critical parameter in the care of critically ill patients, as elevated IAP can lead to reduced cardiac output and organ perfusion, potentially resulting in multiple organ dysfunction and failure. The cu...
Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a widely used psychophysiological measurement in laboratory-based studies. In recent times, these measurements have seen a transfer from the laboratory to wearable devices due to the simplicity of EDA measurement as we...
Accurate recognition of tool state is important for maximizing tool life. However, the tool sensor data collected in real-life scenarios has unbalanced characteristics. Additionally, although graph neural networks (GNNs) show excellent performance in...
In this review, we summarize the latest advances in the design of optical frequency-domain reflectometers (OFDRs), digital signal processing, and sensors based on special optical fibers. We discuss state-of-the-art approaches to improving metrologica...
Nowadays, metamaterial absorbers still suffer from limited bandwidth, poor bandwidth scalability, and insufficient modulation depth. In order to solve this series of problems, we propose a metamaterial absorber based on graphene, VO2, gallium silver...
This paper presents a comprehensive approach to detect violent events in videos by combining CrimeNet, a Vision Transformer (ViT) model with structured neural learning and adversarial regularization, with an adaptive threshold sliding window model ba...
In this paper, we present a cost-effective system for monitoring and controlling alkaline electrolyzers, intending to improve hydrogen gas production on a laboratory scale. Our work includes two main innovations. Firstly, we suggest an approach to ca...
Independent vector analysis (IVA) can be viewed as an extension of independent component analysis (ICA) to multiple datasets. It exploits the statistical dependency between different datasets through mutual information. In the context of motor imager...
Diagnosis of bruxism is challenging because not all contractions of the masticatory muscles can be classified as bruxism. Conventional methods for sleep bruxism detection vary in effectiveness. Some provide objective data through EMG, ECG, or EEG; ot...
Triethylamine (TEA) is a typical volatile organic compound (VOC) widely present in air and water, produced in industrial production activities, with high toxicity and great harm. Fluorescence detection and resistive sensing are effective methods for...
3D object-detection based on LiDAR point clouds can help driverless vehicles detect obstacles. However, the existing point-cloud-based object-detection methods are generally ineffective in detecting small objects such as pedestrians and cyclists. The...
New applications such as augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), Internet-of-Things (IOT), autonomous mobile robot (AMR) services, etc., require high reliability and high accuracy real-time positioning and tracking of persons and devices in indoor...
Corn, as one of the three major grain crops in China, plays a crucial role in ensuring national food security through its yield and quality. With the advancement of agricultural intelligence, agricultural robot technology has gained significant atten...
This study evaluates the effects of object weight and hand dominance on the end-point kinematics of the hand-to-mouth (withdrawal) movement in a functional reach-to-drink task for typically developing school-aged children. Using 3D motion capture, sp...
This paper presents a new application of a lanthanum oxide (III)-modified carbon paste electrode (LaOX/CPE) for dopamine (DP) detection in the presence of ascorbic acid (AA). The presence of cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) facilitated the LaO...
In broadband terahertz waves generated by femtosecond lasers, spatial chirp will be simultaneously produced with the introduction of angular dispersion. The chirp characteristics of the terahertz wave will directly affect the frequency response, band...
Seals, sea lions, and other aquatic animals rely on their whiskers to identify and track underwater targets, offering valuable inspiration for the development of low-power, portable, and environmentally friendly sensors. Here, we design a single seal...
In order to effectively predict the changing trend of operating parameters in the pump unit and carry out fault diagnosis and alarm processes, a trend prediction model is proposed in this paper based on PCA-based multi-task learning (MTL) and an atte...
Recent Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) protocols increasingly focus on scalability and security to meet the growing demand for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications across various domains. Current BFT consens...
Films of piezoelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and its copolymer P(VDF-TrFE) have been studied intensively for their potential application in piezoelectric sensing devices. The present work focuses on tuning the piezoelectric properties of P...
Small-modulus gears, which are essential for motion transmission in precision instruments, present a measurement challenge due to their minuscule gear gaps. A high-precision measurement method under the influence of positioning errors is proposed, en...
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We present robust pixel design methodologies for a vertical avalanche photodiode-based CMOS image sensor, taking account of three critical practical factors: (i) “guard-ring-free” pixel isolation layout, (ii) device characteristics &ldquo...
This study investigates a novel approach for assessing the health status of rotating machinery transmission systems by analyzing the dynamic degradation of bearings. The proposed method generates multi-dimensional data by creating virtual states and...
Monitoring the integrity of aeronautical structures is fundamental for safety. Structural Health Monitoring Systems (SHMSs) perform real-time monitoring functions, but their performance must be carefully assessed. This is typically done by introducin...
Precision agriculture has revolutionized crop management and agricultural production, with LiDAR technology attracting significant interest among various technological advancements. This extensive review examines the various applications of LiDAR in...
Data-driven fault diagnosis, identifying abnormality causes using collected industrial data, is one of the challenging tasks for intelligent industry safety management. It is worth noting that practical industrial data are usually related to a mixtur...
In infrared detection scenarios, detecting and recognizing low-contrast and small-sized targets has always been a challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in complex road traffic environments. Traditional target detection methods usual...
Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) sensing has gained popularity in relative localization applications. Many localization solutions rely on using Time of Flight (ToF) sensing based on a beacon–tag system, which requires four or more beacons in the environme...
Tremor is a prevalent neurological disorder characterized by involuntary shaking or trembling of body parts. This condition impairs fine motor skills and hand coordination to varying degrees and can even affect overall body mobility. As a result, tre...
Decades of research have shown that magnetocardiography (MCG) has the potential to improve cardiac care decisions. However, sensor and system limitations have prevented its widespread adoption in clinical practice. We report an MCG system built aroun...
The unique combination of the high data rates, ultra-low latency, and massive machine communication capability of 5G networks has facilitated the development of a diverse range of applications distinguished by varying connectivity needs. This has led...
This article presents a comprehensive collection of formulas and calculations for hand-crafted feature extraction of condition monitoring signals. The documented features include 123 for the time domain and 46 for the frequency domain. Furthermore, a...
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