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Sensors and Methods for Diagnostics and Early Fault Detection

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 14 articles | Viewed by 34729

Keywords: early fault detection; structural health monitoring; ; reliability; safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Piezoelectric Resonator-Based Sensors

edited by

Boris D. Zaitsev

and

Irina A. Borodina

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 11 articles | Viewed by 33264

Keywords: piezoelectric resonators with longitudinal or lateral exciting electric field; resonators on plate or surface acoustic wave; calculation of resonator’ s characteristics; measurement of resonator parameters; gas; liquid and biological sensors; meters for measurement of pressure; temperature; magnetic and electric fields

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Image/Video Restoration Based on Deep Learning and Its Application in Sensing

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 32989

Keywords: image/video restoration; deep learning; super-resolution and video frame interpolation; denoising and compression artifact reduction; deblurring; dehazing and deraining; restoration-assisted image/video analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Quantum Sensors and Quantum Sensing

edited by

Yutaka Shikano

and

Masazumi Fujiwara

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 31475

Keywords: quantum sensor; quantum measurement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Advanced Technologies in Medical and Surgical Robotics

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 30994

Keywords: surgical robot; medical robot; soft robot; continuum robot; shape and position sensing; tactile and force sensing; haptics; autonomous robotic surgery; localization and navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

AI and Sensing Technology in Medicine and Public Health

edited by

Cihun-Siyong Gong

and

Chien-Chang Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 30869

Keywords: geometric deep learning; computer vision; theoretical mathematics applied in neural networks; lightweight neural networks; machine learning; artificial intelligence; sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Automated Guided Vehicle Integrated with Collaborative Robot

edited by

Adam Ziębiński

Erik Kyrkjebø

and

Daniel Großmann

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 29570

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Machine Learning Based Remote Sensing Image Classification

edited by Yifan Zhang, Tao Gao,

Jiangtao Peng

and Xiangchao Meng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 10 articles | Viewed by 27610

Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; classification; remote sensing image

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Feature Papers in the Internet of Things Section 2023

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 25899

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Recent Advances in Robotics and Intelligent Mechatronics Systems

edited by

JunZhi Yu

Hesheng Wang

and

Ning Sun

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 24169

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)

Advanced Materials and Technologies for Radiation Detectors

edited by Alla Reznik and

Oleksandr Bubon

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 22564

Keywords: X-ray detectors; photoconductors; scintillators; perovskite; radiation imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)

Feature Papers in Remote Sensors 2023

edited by

Antonio Iodice

and

David Lopez-Carr

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 20903

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

Feature Papers in "Sensing and Imaging" Section 2023

edited by

Sylvain Girard

and

Christoph M. Friedrich

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 19972

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Biomedical Sensors for Diagnosis and Rehabilitation

edited by

Cecilia García Cena

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 19521

Keywords: physiological monitoring; biosensors; rehabilitation; electronics development; software development; communication; human– machine interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Feature Papers in Wearables 2023

edited by

Roozbeh Ghaffari

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 17046

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Sensors for Vibration Control and Structural Health Monitoring

edited by

Fook Fah Yap

and

Nader Vahdati

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17005

Keywords: condition monitoring; structural health monitoring; vibration; accelerometers; predictive maintenance; damage detection; optical fiber sensors; wireless sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Flexible Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications Based on Sensors and Actuators

edited by

Georg C. Schmidt

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14664

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Application and Framework Development for Agriculture

edited by

José Manuel Cadenas

María Carmen Garrido

and

Raquel Martínez España

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14299

Keywords: precision agriculture; artificial intelligence; machine learning; applications; recommender systems; predictor systems; control systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Feature Papers in Vehicular Sensing 2023

edited by

Felipe Jiménez

Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

and

Piedad Garrido Picazo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10079

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Evolution of IoT and IIoT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications

edited by

Nicoleta Cristina Gaitan

and

Ioan Ungurean

submission deadline 1 Jan 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 140850

Keywords: Internet of Things; sensors; Industrial Internet of Things; real time systems; embedded systems; LoRa; tensors decompositions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

MIMO Technologies in Sensors and Wireless Communication Applications

edited by

Xinyu Zhou

Wing-Shing Chan

and Liheng Zhou

submission deadline 1 Jan 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 19431

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Advanced Inertial Sensors, Navigation, and Fusion

edited by

Itzik Klein

and

Yiqing Yao

submission deadline 10 Jan 2024 | 14 articles | Viewed by 37582

Keywords: inertial sensing; artificial intelligence in navigation and fusion; innovative autonomous navigation approaches; nonlinear estimation for sensor fusion; cooperative navigation; emerging technologies; localization; global navigation satellite systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)

The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Sensor and System for Sustainable E-healthcare Services and Biomedical Applications

edited by

Jungsuk Kim

and

Imran

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 60848

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; biomedicine; sustainability; deep learning; e-healthcare services; convergence; medical images; smart health monitoring; mathematical optimization; Healthcare 4.0; biomedical discovery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

IMU Sensors for Human Activity Monitoring

edited by

Athina Tsanousa

Georgios Meditskos

Stefanos Vrochidis

Periklis Chatzimisios

and

Ioannis Yiannis Kompatsiaris

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 15 articles | Viewed by 50242

Keywords: human activity recognition; IMU sensors; IMU sensor fusion; multimodal fusion; wearable sensor fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Smart Sensing Technology and Infrastructure Health Monitoring

edited by

and

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 21032

Keywords: structural inspection; structural health monitoring; smart sensors; smart materials; disaster deduction; structural disaster prevention

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

EEG and fNIRS-Based Sensors

edited by

Ting Li

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13247

Keywords: electroencephalogram; near-infrared spectroscopy; brain– computer interface; multimode sensing; sensor

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Smart Sensing in Structural Health Monitoring of Advanced Composite Structures

edited by

Adnan Kefal

and

Claudio Sbarufatti

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9260

Keywords: shape sensing; inverse methods; structural health monitoring; structural digital twin; sensor technologies; composite materials; sandwich structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensors and Data-Driven Precision Agriculture

edited by

Takaharu Kameoka

, Kazuki Kobayashi,

Wei Guo

and Kotaro Takayama

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 40576

Keywords: multimodal sensors; MEMS multispectroscopic devices; phenotyping; drones; robot; photosynthesis; precision agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Optical Fiber Sensor Technology for Structural Health Monitoring

edited by

Weimin Chen

Zhi Zhou

Ying Huang

and Xiaohua Lei

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 24979

Keywords: optical fiber sensor technology; structural health monitoring; anisotropic heterogeneous; strain transfer; sensing technology; applications; key techniques; distributed sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Cyber Security in Industry 4.0 and Beyond

edited by

Radek Fujdiak

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 24534

Keywords: Cyber security and safety in smart factories; Threat hunting for industrial control systems; Malware detection within operational technology networks; Lightweight cryptography for industrial Internet of Things; Incident detection; response; and prevention; Cyber risk management; Digital twin and advanced virtual environment; ; Post-quantum protection in future manufacturing; Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Sensors and Fault Diagnostics in Power System

edited by

Michał Kunicki

Jan Fulneček

and

Pawel Rozga

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 22056 | Printed Edition available

Keywords: fault diagnostics; condition-based maintenance; predictive maintenance; decision support system; high voltage; cable; transformer; overhead line; insulation; dielectrics; substation; transmission; distribution; generation; reliability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Integrated Photonics for Free Space Communication and Sensing

edited by

Junfeng Song

, Guoqiang Lo, Juejun Hu and Andrea Melloni

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 20686

Keywords: free space optical communication; integrated photonics; silicon photonics; angle momentum photonics; lidar; short-wave infrared sensors; SPAD

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

The Role and Influence of Sensors in Modern Energy Systems

edited by

Federico Barrero

and

Manuel Ruiz Arahal

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 18922

Keywords: sensors in power converters; sensors in electric drives; sensors in electric generators; influence of sensing in the performance of controllers and systems.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Microwave Sensors and Antenna Topology

edited by

Ahmed Jamal Abdullah Al-Gburi

submission deadline 20 Jan 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18172

Keywords: microwave sensors; switched beam antenna; sum/difference arrays; reconfigurable antennas; reconfigurable antennas based on parasitic elements; MEMS-reconfigurable antennas; multibeam antennas; multifrequency antennas; antenna control algorithms; long-range RFID; chipless RFID; chipless sensors; modulated scattering technique (MST) sensors; radar sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Advanced Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring Applications ‖

edited by

Olga Korostynska

and

Alex Mason

submission deadline 25 Jan 2024 | 15 articles | Viewed by 71369

Keywords: Real-time monitoring; Advanced sensors and sensing systems; Novel monitoring principles; Advanced sensing materials; Data processing for sensor networks; Sensors performance benchmarking: simulation vs validation; Emerging novel sensor applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Deep Learning-Based Neural Networks for Sensing and Imaging

edited by

Xin Ning

and

Wenfa Li

submission deadline 25 Jan 2024 | 20 articles | Viewed by 56720

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Radiation Sensors and Detectors: Materials, Principles and Applications

edited by

Xin Shi

and

Michael Moll

submission deadline 25 Jan 2024 | 19 articles | Viewed by 40106

Keywords: solid-state detectors (SSDs); silicon detectors; wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors; radiation-hard; diamond; SiC; 3D; LGAD; extreme fluences; plasma diagnostics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Emerging Machine Learning, Blockchain, Sensor and Sensing Technologies for Computer Vision Applications

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 67544

Keywords: computer vision; time series data analysis; medical image processing; Internet of Medical Things; visual Internet of Things; distributed learning; data analysis; wireless sensor networks; advanced machine learning; blockchain technologies; sensor technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Human Activity Recognition Using Sensors and Machine Learning

edited by Kaixuan Chen,

Lina Yao

Chaoran Huang

and

Dalin Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 46839

Keywords: supervised learning; semi-supervised learning; unsupervised learning; active learning; transfer learning; online learning; imbalance learning; representation learning; ensemble methods; auto machine learning; data segmentation; explainable AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Advanced CMOS Integrated Circuit Design and Application II

edited by

Jong-Ryul Yang

and

Seong-Tae Han

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 43803

Keywords: CMOS; integrated circuits and systems; high-powered IC; high-frequency IC; millimeter-wave integrated circuits; terahertz-wave integrated circuits; analog circuits; digital circuits; VLSI; solid-state integrated circuits; power management integrated circuits; drivers; converters; controllers; sensor IC; interface IC; readout circuits and systems; rectennas; rectifiers; frequency synthesizers/generators; CMOS design process and methodology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)

Data Engineering in the Internet of Things

edited by

Ray-I Chang

Chia-Hui Wang

and

Yu-Hsin Hung

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 42682

Keywords: IoT; data engineering; data warehouse and database; privacy and security; data processing; data analysis; data mining; data searching; data management; data retrieval

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Security, Cybercrime, and Digital Forensics for the IoT

edited by

Jong Hyuk Park

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 42322

Keywords: Cybercrime and digital forensics for the IoT; Incident response methods for the IoT; Data analysis of the IoT for forensic investigation; System; network; and mobile forensics for the IoT; AI-accelerated intrusion detection for the IoT; Reverse-engineering and forensic activities for the IoT; Cybercrime risk management for the IoT; Cryptography protocols and algorithms for the IoT; Blockchain and digital identity management in the IoT; Intrusion and malware detection for the IoT; Security; privacy; and trust in the IoT; Other challenges and soultions for IoT security and forensics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Sensing, Control and Optimization of Networks

edited by

Guanghui Wen

Junjie Fu

and

Jialing Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 33947

Keywords: intelligent sensing; cyber-physical systems; distributed control; distributed reinforcement learning; distributed optimization; online learning; data-based coordination control; distributed artificial intelligence technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Trajectory Planning and Object Recognition for Robot Sensing and Control

edited by

Gang Peng

and

Zhun Fan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 15 articles | Viewed by 33397 | Printed Edition available

Keywords: sensor-based robot control; trajectory planning; object recognition; target tracking; pose estimation machine vision and multi-sensor fusion; 3D grasping planning; flexible operation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Fault-Tolerant Sensing Paradigms for Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 28677

Keywords: fault-tolerant sensing; sensor health monitoring; autonomous vehicles; LiDAR; RADAR; camera; multimodal fusion; fusion frameworks; sensing paradigm

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Rehabilitation Robots: Design, Development, and Control

edited by

Brahim Brahmi

and

Mohammad H. Rahman

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 22491

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Digital Signal Processing for Modern Technology

edited by

Shuo-Tsung Chen

and

Chihyu Hsu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 17602

Keywords: digital signal processing; sensors; Internet of Things; Information and communication technology; robotics; unmanned aerial vehicle; medical and nursing; industrial manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

AI & Blockchain Assisted Innovative Techniques & Solutions to Modern CPS Security for Industry 4.0/5.0

edited by

Piyush Kumar Shukla

Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

Rupak Kharel

, Udai Pratap Rao and

Prashant Kumar Shukla

submission deadline 1 Feb 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 56193

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Algorithms, Systems and Applications of Smart Sensor Networks

edited by

Raquel Caballero-Aguila

submission deadline 7 Feb 2024 | 16 articles | Viewed by 40456

Keywords: sensor networks; network configuration; system design; signal processing; image processing; sensor network algorithms; multisensor information fusion; sensor network applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) for Infrastructure and Manufacturing

edited by