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An LLM-Based Framework for the Automatic Generation of SysML Models
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5133; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165133 - 13 Aug 2026
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Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) takes Systems Modeling Language (SysML) as the industrial standard modeling language, yet cloud Large Language Model (LLM)-based SysML generation faces limited domain data, model hallucinations, high hardware cost and confidential data leakage risks. This paper builds a 914-sample SysML
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Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) takes Systems Modeling Language (SysML) as the industrial standard modeling language, yet cloud Large Language Model (LLM)-based SysML generation faces limited domain data, model hallucinations, high hardware cost and confidential data leakage risks. This paper builds a 914-sample SysML PlantUML corpus and proposes a fully offline lightweight framework based on Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct, integrating 4-bit NF4 Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA) fine-tuning, vector-free Jaccard same-diagram reference retrieval and a three-round syntax correction loop. PlantUML executes syntax parsing while Graphviz only renders layouts. Tested on 131 samples covering five structural and behavioral SysML v1 diagram types, the plain-prompt baseline achieves word-set semantic F1 of 52.94%, and the retrieval-enhanced variant lifts the zero-retry syntax pass rate from 92.37% to 99.28%, with F1 slightly dropping to 50.64%. Running fully local without cloud data transmission, this pipeline offers a privacy-safe lightweight solution for SysML PlantUML modeling and does not support SysML-exclusive requirement or parametric diagrams.
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Multimodal Data Fusion for a Self-Adaptive, Smart, Serious-Game Ecosystem Under Development
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Xiya Tao, Peng Chen and Martina Eckert
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5132; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165132 - 13 Aug 2026
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This article presents the implementation and technical feasibility evaluation of the multimodal sensing and feature-level fusion layer of BLEXER v3, a broader serious-game ecosystem under development for upper-limb rehabilitation. The implemented framework integrates Kinect-based motion tracking, Polar H10 and Bangle.js physiological sensing, wearable
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This article presents the implementation and technical feasibility evaluation of the multimodal sensing and feature-level fusion layer of BLEXER v3, a broader serious-game ecosystem under development for upper-limb rehabilitation. The implemented framework integrates Kinect-based motion tracking, Polar H10 and Bangle.js physiological sensing, wearable accelerometer data, and facial affective cues within a middleware-based architecture. Heterogeneous sensor streams are locally preprocessed, temporally aligned, and transformed into a common quality-aware multimodal feature representation containing motion, heart-rate and heart-rate-variability-related descriptors, affective information, availability indicators, signal-quality metadata, and freshness descriptors. The fused representation is additionally mapped, using predefined rules, to heuristic operational descriptors, including low demand, moderate stable, active engagement, physical load, affective activation, high demand, and uncertain. These descriptors are not intended as clinical diagnoses, independently validated user states, or final adaptation decisions. An exploratory K-means analysis of 12,675 complete multimodal windows reveals partial correspondence between the data-driven cluster structure and the predefined operational descriptors. Some descriptors show comparatively concentrated cluster patterns, whereas others exhibit overlap and internal heterogeneity. The results demonstrate the technical feasibility of generating structured multimodal representations that can provide input for subsequent context-aware reasoning. Independent validation of the operational descriptors, completion and evaluation of the whole system, and clinical validation with rehabilitation patients remain future work.
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Brain Activity and Connectivity in Fatigued People with Multiple Sclerosis During a Static Balance Task: An fNIRS Study
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Davide Cattaneo, Alessandro Torchio, Augusto Bonilauri, Chiara Corrini, Nora E. Fritz, Francesca Baglio and Elisa Gervasoni
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5131; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165131 - 13 Aug 2026
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Fatigue and balance disorders are common in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), but the neural mechanisms linking them during postural control remain unclear. This cross-sectional study aims to examine associations between fatigue, balance impairment, and task-evoked cortical hemodynamics/connectivity. Sixteen PwMS (relapsing-remitting MS; EDSS
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Fatigue and balance disorders are common in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), but the neural mechanisms linking them during postural control remain unclear. This cross-sectional study aims to examine associations between fatigue, balance impairment, and task-evoked cortical hemodynamics/connectivity. Sixteen PwMS (relapsing-remitting MS; EDSS < 3.5) and 19 healthy controls (HC) were enrolled. Based on the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS), PwMS were classified as fatigued (f_PwMS, MFIS ≥ 38; n = 10) or non-fatigued (nf_PwMS, n = 6). Participants performed five 30 s trials of static stance on foam with eyes closed. fNIRS recorded frontal, temporal, and occipital cortical activity, while stabilometry measured center-of-pressure sway. In PwMS, MFIS showed a trend toward association with sway (r = 0.49; p = 0.06). Sway was higher in f_PwMS than nf_PwMS and HC but not significantly different (ANOVA p = 0.341). Compared with HC, PwMS showed increased bilateral prefrontal and reduced occipital HR. Stratified analyses showed greater HR in f_PwMS versus HC and nf_PwMS in bilateral BA10 and in temporo-parietal regions, with a right-hemisphere predominance. Global coherence did not differ across groups, but exploratory BA10 analysis showed higher prefrontal coherence in f_PwMS than nf_PwMS (p = 0.02). Fatigued PwMS exhibit amplified, right prefrontal and temporo-parietal activation and focal prefrontal hyper-connectivity, consistent with compensatory top–down control to maintain balance.
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Constant-Envelope Waveform Design and Phase Recovery for Integrated Sensing and Communication in High-Mobility Multipath Environments
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Wenhui Xue, Peng Chen, Chunguo Li, Zhenxin Cao and Shuqin Zhang
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5130; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165130 - 13 Aug 2026
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High-mobility dual-functional radar–communication systems require a common waveform that combines delay–Doppler information organization, sensing resolution, and power-efficient transmission. We present a cyclically closed constant-envelope orthogonal time frequency space–continuous phase modulation–linear frequency modulation (OTFS–CPM–LFM) waveform and matched transceiver architecture. Hermitian delay–Doppler mapping and direct-current
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High-mobility dual-functional radar–communication systems require a common waveform that combines delay–Doppler information organization, sensing resolution, and power-efficient transmission. We present a cyclically closed constant-envelope orthogonal time frequency space–continuous phase modulation–linear frequency modulation (OTFS–CPM–LFM) waveform and matched transceiver architecture. Hermitian delay–Doppler mapping and direct-current (DC) row nulling create a real, zero-sum drive with a reversible frame-level phase representation. The communication receiver combines a Tikhonov-regularized waveform inverse with reference-aided unwrapping and tail-biting phase regression, while the radar receiver reconstructs the data-dependent current-frame reference. Numerical results verify the structural waveform properties and characterize communication, radar, and computational tradeoffs. They also quantify degradation under controlled complex-gain channel-state-information mismatch and show that phase regression is less reliable at a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The constant-envelope claim applies only to ideal discrete complex-baseband samples and does not include pulse shaping or radio-frequency hardware. The framework therefore provides a self-consistent waveform interface while exposing tradeoffs among payload, recovery reliability, sensing sidelobes, and implementation cost.
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A FEM-Based Machine Learning Framework for Online Stress Field Estimation in Hydropower Regulating Rings
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Ronny Francis Ribeiro Junior, Paulo Henrique Favero Loss, Bruno Correia Macedo, Frederico de Oliveira Assuncao, Erik Leandro Bonaldi and Luiz Eduardo Borges-da-Silva
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5129; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165129 - 13 Aug 2026
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Data-driven surrogate methods are increasingly applied to real-time structural health monitoring of critical engineering systems, but their use is often limited by the computational cost of high-fidelity finite element (FEM) simulations. This work proposes an FEM-based machine learning framework combining FEM, Principal Component
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Data-driven surrogate methods are increasingly applied to real-time structural health monitoring of critical engineering systems, but their use is often limited by the computational cost of high-fidelity finite element (FEM) simulations. This work proposes an FEM-based machine learning framework combining FEM, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Random Forest regression to reconstruct full-field von Mises stress distributions of a hydropower regulating ring from a reduced set of proximity sensor measurements. A calibrated 3D FEM model generated a representative dataset of operating conditions using a Design of Experiments (DOE) sampling strategy, reducing the simulation space. The resulting stress fields were reduced using a single global PCA model, and the retained principal components were predicted by a single Random Forest model trained on the guide vane opening and four displacement sensors installed on the turbine unit. Stress reconstruction was obtained via inverse PCA transformation and validated against FEM results through a leave-one-opening-out cross-validation, in which each guide vane opening was entirely withheld from training. The method achieved an average PSNR of 17.4 dB and SSIM of 0.837 across the eleven withheld openings, with 8 to 9 PCA components sufficient to preserve over 95% of the cumulative explained variance. A sensitivity analysis of the ensemble size showed that 100 decision trees provide accuracy comparable to larger ensembles at lower computational cost, and a feature importance analysis revealed the guide vane opening as the dominant predictor, with the four sensors providing complementary, fine-grained corrections. The framework enables near real-time reconstruction, requiring approximately 1.5 s per condition versus several hours for FEM. These results show that combining physics-based modeling with machine learning enables efficient structural monitoring for predictive maintenance and operational decision-making in hydroelectric systems.
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Delay–Energy-Aware Partial Offloading and Coupled Resource Allocation in Hybrid NOMA-MEC Networks: Derivations and Reproducible Evaluation
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Jamil K. J. Bataineh, Ahlam Shebli Jawarneh, Khaled F. Hayajneh and Zaid Albataineh
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5128; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165128 - 13 Aug 2026
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This paper considers priority-aware partial computation offloading in an uplink mobile edge computing (MEC) network. Devices assigned to different groups occupy orthogonal subbands, whereas devices within each group use power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with successive interference cancellation. Task-input size determines the transmitted
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This paper considers priority-aware partial computation offloading in an uplink mobile edge computing (MEC) network. Devices assigned to different groups occupy orthogonal subbands, whereas devices within each group use power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with successive interference cancellation. Task-input size determines the transmitted and processed workload, while queue backlog and application urgency determine the service weight. The Gaussian multiple-access-channel rate region is convex, but the complete allocation problem is not jointly convex in the adopted variables because the offloaded workload is coupled with reciprocal transmission rate and reciprocal edge-CPU allocation. A structure-exploiting block-coordinate projected-gradient method is developed. It combines exact finite-candidate offloading updates, an exact edge-CPU allocation bounded below by deadline feasibility and above by local-path saturation, and an analytical projected power step with Armijo backtracking. For eight users at 23 dBm, pairwise group-based NOMA reduces the weighted delay–energy cost and device energy by 6.18% and 23.44%, respectively, relative to orthogonal access. Queue-aware weighting reduces upper-backlog-quartile delay by 2.69 ms (95% confidence half-width: 0.78 ms) while increasing lower-quartile delay by 8.34 ms (half-width: 2.07 ms). In a paired 15-iteration ablation, generic projected block-coordinate updates have a cost ratio of 1.0098 (half-width: 0.0086) relative to the structured method. A hybrid deep deterministic policy-gradient policy, evaluated over five training seeds, has an 11.77% higher cost while requiring 0.84% of the median online decision time. Of 432 allocations, 392 satisfy the residual-qualified stopping tests and 40 are explicitly reported as iteration-safeguard terminations.
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Hybrid Event–Frame Sensing for Human-Perceptual Imaging and Machine Vision
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Paul K. J. Park, Junseok Kim and Juhyun Ko
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5127; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165127 - 13 Aug 2026
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Frame-based RGB image sensors and event-based vision sensors provide complementary sensing capabilities for human-perceptual imaging and machine vision. RGB image sensors capture dense spatial, color, and texture information that is essential for human-viewable imaging, semantic recognition, and conventional image signal processing pipelines. In
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Frame-based RGB image sensors and event-based vision sensors provide complementary sensing capabilities for human-perceptual imaging and machine vision. RGB image sensors capture dense spatial, color, and texture information that is essential for human-viewable imaging, semantic recognition, and conventional image signal processing pipelines. In contrast, dynamic vision sensors (DVSs) and event vision sensors (EVSs) asynchronously detect local brightness changes and provide sparse temporal information with low latency, high temporal resolution, and reduced redundant data output. Because neither modality alone satisfies all requirements of emerging vision systems, hybrid event–frame sensing has become an important direction for compact, low-latency, and energy-efficient sensing. This review presents a sensor-oriented taxonomy of hybrid event–frame sensing architectures and systems, including dual-camera event–frame systems, optically aligned event–frame systems, pixel-level shared hybrid image sensors, stacked CIS–DVS hybrid image sensors, homogeneous-pixel sensing systems, and event-only reconstruction systems. We analyze key sensor specifications, including latency, spatial resolution, color fidelity, power consumption, and form factor, and discuss how these specifications guide sensor configuration and design. The review identifies stacked CIS–DVS sensors as one of the most balanced and competitive architectures because they can support compact integration, synchronized event–frame sensing, and on-chip processing. However, important challenges remain, including color fidelity, demosaicing, event-pixel ratio optimization, calibration, benchmarking, and edge-AI deployment. Finally, we emphasize that future hybrid event–frame sensing systems should be developed through sensor–algorithm–ISP–AI co-design. This review provides practical guidelines for developing next-generation hybrid event–frame sensing systems for both human-perceptual imaging and machine vision.
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A Real-Time Cascade Framework for UAV-Based Insulator Defect Detection with Attention-Guided Lightweight CNN
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Zeliha Doğan Ersoy, Mustafa Gelmez, Durmuş Ersoy, M. Erdem Isenkul, Fırat Kaçar and Ali Ataş
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5126; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165126 - 13 Aug 2026
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The physical condition of insulators on electrical transmission lines is critical for system reliability. Early fault detection such as broken discs or flashovers prevents outages and accidents. Traditional inspection methods are costly and difficult, driving demand for UAV-based autonomous systems. This article proposes
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The physical condition of insulators on electrical transmission lines is critical for system reliability. Early fault detection such as broken discs or flashovers prevents outages and accidents. Traditional inspection methods are costly and difficult, driving demand for UAV-based autonomous systems. This article proposes a novel dataset enhancement method and a cascade deep learning model for detecting and classifying insulator disc conditions. Existing datasets were enriched by approximately 30% with wide-background, real-field images to improve model generalization. After comparative analyses, YOLO was selected for detection due to superior performance, while MobileNetV2 was chosen as the classifier for its processing speed advantage. CBAM attention module and Focal Loss function were integrated to boost classification performance and handle class imbalance. The resulting YOLO + MobileNetV2 model achieved 99.76% overall accuracy across “Normal”, “Broken”, and “Flashover” classes, with an F1-score of 0.99 for broken discs, operating with 185.60 ms latency, confirming its viability for real-time inspection.
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A CPU–NPU Heterogeneous Edge Fault Diagnosis Framework for Industrial Sensor Data
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Kangli Xu, Haozhou Wang, Chao Li, Hongxuan Liu and Chunxiao Xing
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5125; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165125 - 13 Aug 2026
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Industrial sensor-based fault diagnosis often requires continuous data acquisition, local data processing, and timely model inference on edge devices. Although deep learning-based diagnostic methods have achieved promising performance, many existing approaches rely on cloud-centered processing pipelines that introduce communication overhead and potential data
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Industrial sensor-based fault diagnosis often requires continuous data acquisition, local data processing, and timely model inference on edge devices. Although deep learning-based diagnostic methods have achieved promising performance, many existing approaches rely on cloud-centered processing pipelines that introduce communication overhead and potential data privacy concerns. This paper presents a CPU–NPU heterogeneous edge fault diagnosis framework for industrial sensor data. The framework runs on an RK3588 local edge device and includes SQLite- and RingBuffer-based data management, sliding window generation, micro-batch construction, and model inference. The CPU is responsible for data access and buffering, preprocessing, and micro-batch preparation, while the NPU executes fault diagnosis models using the RKNN runtime environment. By performing inference locally, the framework reduces the continuous transmission of raw sensor data and supports real-time fault diagnosis under resource-constrained edge devices. Experimental results demonstrate high consistency between ONNX-based CPU inference and RKNN-based NPU inference after model conversion. Furthermore, the effects of different data input paths and micro-batch configurations are systematically evaluated. A cross-platform comparison between server-class CPU/GPU execution and embedded NPU deployment is also conducted in terms of latency, throughput, and energy efficiency. The results show that RingBuffer-based streaming input significantly reduces data access overhead, while the effectiveness of NPU acceleration depends on both model structure and micro-batch size. The cross-platform results further demonstrate the energy efficiency advantages of the RK3588 platform, making it more suitable for practical deployment in resource-constrained edge scenarios. These findings provide practical insights for deploying fault diagnosis models on heterogeneous edge devices.
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Umberto Amato, Anestis Antoniadis, Italia De Feis, Anastasiia Doinychko, Irène Gijbels, Antonino La Magna, Daniele Pagano, Francesco Piccinini, Easter Selvan Suviseshamuthu, Carlo Severgnini, Andres Torres and Patrizia Vasquez
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5124; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165124 - 13 Aug 2026
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Bridging High-Resolution Environmental Sensor Observations and Process-State Prediction: A Distribution-Shift-Robust Time–Frequency Transformer (FT-Crossformer)
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Yiran Guan, Zhaoxu Yu and Hui Guo
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5123; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165123 - 13 Aug 2026
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High-resolution online sensors are now common in environmental process systems, yet turning their non-stationary, heterogeneous observation streams into reliable predictions of the underlying process state remains difficult. The statistical distribution of a sensor stream changes over time, the measured variables do not coincide
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High-resolution online sensors are now common in environmental process systems, yet turning their non-stationary, heterogeneous observation streams into reliable predictions of the underlying process state remains difficult. The statistical distribution of a sensor stream changes over time, the measured variables do not coincide with the state variables of interest, and repeatedly running a mechanistic process model for forward prediction is computationally costly. We present FT-Crossformer, a time–frequency Transformer that acts as a data-driven surrogate between multi-sensor observations and multivariate process-state prediction. To handle distribution shift in the sensor streams, a time-domain distribution-transformation module, together with an inverse-mapping module, performs an affine bias correction that removes per-window non-stationary statistics at the input and restores them at the output, so the gap between training and test distributions is reduced without discarding non-stationary information. We show that this affine correction, including its learnable per-variable scale and shift, acts in the frequency domain on every non-zero frequency component as one common scaling factor that does not depend on the frequency index, so it cannot change the relative magnitudes among the components. A frequency-stability measurement module and a frequency-weighting module therefore re-weight the spectral components of the observation signal so that the stable, task-relevant ones contribute more to the reconstructed signal. The cross-dimension attention of the Crossformer backbone serves as a multi-sensor fusion mechanism that models the dependencies among the measured variables. We validate the method on public benchmark datasets from different domains as a check of generality and, most relevantly, for environmental modeling on two real cases: a wastewater nitrogen-and-phosphorus-removal process and chlorophyll forecasting from an in situ estuary sensor mooring in San Francisco Bay. On the estuary chlorophyll data, which carries a strong train-to-test distribution shift, the full FT-Crossformer demonstrates superior accuracy among the evaluated models at the next-day nowcasting horizon, and an ablation shows that both the time-domain trans- formation and the frequency-domain weighting contribute to this accuracy. FT-Crossformer produces forward predictions from distribution-shifted sensor data with a single fixed-cost forward pass in place of a repeated mechanistic solve, which makes it a practical building block for sensor-data integration and assimilation in environmental process modeling.
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Anomaly Detection and Data Repair for Smart Meter Data in Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives
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Bensong Zhang, Guoying Lin, Kaihong Zheng and Jinyang Du
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5122; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165122 - 13 Aug 2026
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Smart meters are the core terminals for distribution network data acquisition in smart cities, yet their collected data commonly suffer from quality issues caused by harsh operating environments, communication failures, hardware degradation, and human factors. This paper presents a systematic review of anomaly
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Smart meters are the core terminals for distribution network data acquisition in smart cities, yet their collected data commonly suffer from quality issues caused by harsh operating environments, communication failures, hardware degradation, and human factors. This paper presents a systematic review of anomaly detection and data repair methods for smart meter data based on a critical analysis of many publications. First, we characterize five typical anomalies—sudden jumps, reading stagnation, reverse readings, pulse spikes, and gradual drifts—from physical root causes to data manifestations and provide unified mathematical definitions with explicit traceability to the existing literature. Additional anomaly types including meter replacement jumps, data duplication from retransmission, complete missing segments, and timestamp errors are also discussed to present a more complete picture of operational data quality challenges. Second, existing anomaly detection methods are systematically reviewed and classified into four categories—statistical, machine learning, deep learning, and dedicated time-series methods—with representative studies, quantitative performance metrics, and scenario-specific applicability examined for each. Third, data repair approaches are reviewed across four categories—traditional interpolation, matrix completion, generative models, and time-series prediction—with systematic comparison of their accuracy and limitations across different anomaly types and durations. Based on the synthesized evidence, we identify three cross-cutting structural limitations that persist across method categories: the performance ceiling of data-only detection without physical constraint embedding, the open-loop architecture that separates detection from repair and allows error propagation, and the exclusive reliance on statistical error metrics that fails to distinguish physically plausible repairs from those violating conservation laws. To address these gaps, we discuss a physics-guided integrated framework incorporating physical constraint embedding, joint anomaly diagnosis, scenario-adaptive repair, and posterior verification as a promising forward-looking direction. Finally, open challenges and future research directions are outlined, including parameter adaptation in unlabeled scenarios, multi-source data fusion for physical disambiguation, new power system extensions, explainable AI integration, edge-computing deployment, and standardized benchmark development. This review provides a comprehensive theoretical reference and technical roadmap for smart meter data quality research in the context of smart city energy systems.
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Electrophysiological Signatures of Sarcopenia: A Systematic Review of sEMG Features, Fatigue Indices and AI-Based Classifiers
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Karen-Victoria Villanueva-De-Luna, Laura-Ivoone Garay-Jimenez, Joel Lomelí-González, Javier M. Antelis, Omar Mendoza-Montoya, Blanca-Alicia Rico-Jiménez and Blanca Tovar-Corona
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5121; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165121 - 13 Aug 2026
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Age-related sarcopenia involves structural and functional neuromuscular changes. Electrophysiological measures from surface electromyography (sEMG) capture activation dynamics, spectral fatigue indices and motor unit properties that may constitute objective signatures of sarcopenia. The objective of this work is to systematically review sEMG features, fatigability
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Age-related sarcopenia involves structural and functional neuromuscular changes. Electrophysiological measures from surface electromyography (sEMG) capture activation dynamics, spectral fatigue indices and motor unit properties that may constitute objective signatures of sarcopenia. The objective of this work is to systematically review sEMG features, fatigability metrics and AI-based classification/regression approaches reported for sarcopenia assessment between 2019 and 2026. PRISMA guidelines were followed, and IEEE Xplore, PubMed and Scopus were searched for open access human studies. Extracted information comprised sample characteristics, muscles and tasks, signal acquisition and preprocessing, extracted time/frequency/time–frequency and motor unit features, fatigue metrics, machine learning pipelines, validation schemes and dataset accessibility. Studies were classified into activation, fatigue, ML, and neural control groups; risk of bias was assessed. A total of 12 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Recurrent electrophysiological signatures included reduced distal activation with compensatory proximal recruitment and higher antagonist co-activation; diminished MF/IMDF fatigue slopes indicative of Type II fiber loss and altered motor unit recruitment; motor unit analyses revealed decreased discharge rates and larger MUAP amplitudes. AI-based models combining multidomain features (time, spectral, CWT/EMD, and motor unit metrics) yielded reasonable screening performance (AUC/accuracy 0.73–0.89) when using robust feature selection and explainability tools. Heterogeneity in acquisition, normalization, small cohorts and sparse data sharing limited comparability and external validity. The findings indicate that sEMG-derived electrophysiological signatures are promising for sarcopenia detection and monitoring. To translate signatures into reliable clinical tools, standardized protocols, larger shared datasets, multimodal features, including motor unit metrics, and rigorous external validation of AI models are required.
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Sensor-Based and AI-Driven Ergonomic Seated Posture Detection for Workplace Risk Prevention
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Tatiana Teixeira, Guilherme Barbosa, Bruno Areias, Ana Guerra, Maria Covas, Sara Faria, Rita Machado, João Amorim, Luís Ferreira, Beatriz Costa, Júlio Martins, Emanuel Dias, Sérgio Fonseca, Renato Costa and Nilza Ramião
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5120; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165120 - 13 Aug 2026
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Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) remain one of the most prevalent occupational health problems worldwide. To prevent the development of these WMSDs in an office space, a chair designed for office monitoring capable of accurately identifying ten representative seated postures and measuring environmental
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Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) remain one of the most prevalent occupational health problems worldwide. To prevent the development of these WMSDs in an office space, a chair designed for office monitoring capable of accurately identifying ten representative seated postures and measuring environmental factors was developed and validated. Methods: To evaluate office working conditions, the chair has three embedded Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs): one directed towards seat pressure management, one directed towards environmental measurements and one PCB to manage the entire system. Machine learning approaches were then applied to establish a model that effectively predicts the seated position. The environmental data were also analyzed. Results: The seated position classification presented an accuracy of 80.99% in controlled conditions, while in a real-world context the accuracy was 65.98%. The environmental management showed low errors, except for the PM2.5 and PM10, with relative errors above 30%. Conclusions: This work presents an initial promising first step for an ergonomic office management solution.
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Study on the Influence of Rotation Axis Misalignment of the Exoskeleton Knee Joint on Human Knee Joint Torque
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Changlong Jiang, Xiaorong Guan, Zheng Wang, Dingzhe Li and Long He
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5119; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165119 - 12 Aug 2026
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Misalignment between the rotation axis of a lower-limb exoskeleton knee joint and the human knee joint in the sagittal plane introduces additional human-exoskeleton interaction forces, affecting gait and assistance efficiency. This study proposes an equivalent stiffness-damping scheme that simultaneously accounts for the serial
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Misalignment between the rotation axis of a lower-limb exoskeleton knee joint and the human knee joint in the sagittal plane introduces additional human-exoskeleton interaction forces, affecting gait and assistance efficiency. This study proposes an equivalent stiffness-damping scheme that simultaneously accounts for the serial characteristics of both the exoskeleton’s strapping and human soft tissues, and establishes a human-exoskeleton coupling model based on OpenSim that allows for precise adjustment of the misalignment magnitude along the sagittal coordinate system. Simulation results indicate that the effects of misalignment exhibit significant directional dependence: at a misalignment of 0.05 m, the peak increase in extension torque in the positive y-axis direction reached 38.9%, while the peak increase in flexion torque in the negative x-axis direction reached 211.2%. The trends in human-exoskeleton interaction torque and electromyographic signals measured experimentally were consistent with the simulation results. Considering that, at a misalignment of 0.02 m, the maximum difference in torque in the negative x-axis direction was 54.65% and the assist efficiency in the positive x-axis direction dropped to −5.13%, it is recommended that the misalignment of the exoskeleton knee joint be controlled within 0.02 m. This provides quantitative evidence for the structural design and wear calibration of the exoskeleton.
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Forecasting Univariate Root-Mean-Square Vibration Sequences: A Benchmark of Statistical, Deep Learning, and Foundation Models on Two Rotating-Machinery Datasets
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Thi-Thu-Huong Le, Dawit Shin, Sohaeng Lee and Howon Kim
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5118; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165118 - 12 Aug 2026
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Forecasting vibration-derived health indicators is distinct from fault diagnosis and remaining-useful-life estimation, yet controlled comparisons that preserve temporal order, physical scale, and dependence among forecast errors remain limited. This study presents a systematic empirical benchmark for point forecasting univariate root-mean-square (RMS) vibration sequences
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Forecasting vibration-derived health indicators is distinct from fault diagnosis and remaining-useful-life estimation, yet controlled comparisons that preserve temporal order, physical scale, and dependence among forecast errors remain limited. This study presents a systematic empirical benchmark for point forecasting univariate root-mean-square (RMS) vibration sequences from two public rotating-machinery datasets with different experimental meanings: “Vibration, Acoustic, Temperature, and Motor Current Dataset of Rotating Machine Under Varying Load Conditions for Fault Diagnosis” (DB1), which provides separately recorded operating and fault conditions, and the “Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) Bearings” record (DB2), from which one run-to-failure recording is used. Twelve methods span naive, statistical, supervised deep-learning, and zero-shot foundation-model families. Every method receives the same 128-step observed context and is evaluated at horizons of 1, 8, and 32 steps on common forecast origins after chronological point-level splitting and training-only scaling. Original-scale errors, per-lead behavior, paired skill, circular moving-block-bootstrap intervals, conditioned cross-regime tests, controlled corruptions, and a desktop central processing unit (CPU) reference workload provide complementary evidence. On DB1 0 Nm Normal, the lowest observed mean absolute error (MAE) is 0.0202 g at the one-step horizon (long short-term memory (LSTM)), 0.0283 g at the eight-step horizon (TimeMixer), and 0.0290 g at the 32-step horizon (inverted Transformer (iTransformer)), although the leading supervised intervals overlap. On DB2 2nd_test, persistence is lowest at the one- and eight-step horizons (0.00788 and 0.01491 dataset acceleration units), while drift is lowest at the 32-step horizon (0.02948); several statistical and zero-shot intervals overlap these leaders. The benchmark combines an explicitly specified waveform-to-target construction, a leakage-safe common-origin design across four model families, dependence-aware inference, and matched robustness and efficiency analyses. The findings show that model value is dataset- and horizon-dependent and that sophisticated forecasters should be judged against strong local baselines under the intended operating context.
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Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with Real-Time Concept Drift Detection for Enhanced IoT Security
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Muath A. Obaidat, Meryem Abouali and Aneeza Shakeel
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5117; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165117 - 12 Aug 2026
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The rapid deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across smart cities, healthcare systems, industrial automation, transportation networks, smart grids, and cyber-physical infrastructures has expanded the modern cyberattack surface. IoT devices are often constrained by limited processing capacity, memory, battery power, and communication
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The rapid deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across smart cities, healthcare systems, industrial automation, transportation networks, smart grids, and cyber-physical infrastructures has expanded the modern cyberattack surface. IoT devices are often constrained by limited processing capacity, memory, battery power, and communication bandwidth, making conventional security mechanisms difficult to deploy consistently at scale. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) provide an important defensive layer; however, many machine-learning-based IDSs are developed under static assumptions and may experience performance degradation as traffic distributions evolve due to firmware changes, device onboarding, protocol updates, user behavior variation, or adaptive attacks. This paper presents a hybrid IDS framework that integrates supervised Random Forest classification, unsupervised Isolation Forest anomaly monitoring, and Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS)-based concept drift monitoring. In the experimental pipeline, Isolation Forest is trained exclusively on benign traffic to ensure that the anomaly detector models normal behavior rather than an attack-dominated training distribution. The evaluation uses a large-scale chronologically sampled subset of the CICIoT2023 dataset containing 3,890,621 records while preserving the natural class distribution of 2.35% benign traffic and 97.65% attack traffic. The chronological 80/20 train/test split is established first at the file level, followed by systematic sampling within each split to reduce the risk of leakage across the evaluation boundary. On the 746,094-record test set, the proposed hybrid IDS achieved 99.73% accuracy, 99.89% precision, 99.83% recall, 99.86% F1-score, and a false positive rate of 4.77%. The corresponding confusion matrix contains TN = 16,683, FP = 836, FN = 1205, and TP = 727,370, yielding 95.23% specificity and 97.53% balanced accuracy. Standalone Random Forest marginally outperformed the hybrid model in raw accuracy and false positive rate; therefore, the contribution of the proposed framework is centered on deployment-oriented anomaly monitoring, drift awareness, and generalization rather than absolute superiority in static classification metrics. A leave-one-attack-family-out experiment withholding MITM-ArpSpoofing from training showed that the hybrid model detected 85.26% of the unseen attack-family samples, compared with 85.18% for Random Forest alone and 7.05% for Isolation Forest alone. These findings provide initial evidence of generalization to one held-out attack family but should not be interpreted as proof of broad zero-day detection capability. The framework is therefore positioned as a competitive IDS that combines supervised detection with anomaly monitoring and concept drift awareness for deployment-oriented IoT security.
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SpaSE-UNet3D: Sensor-Driven Wildfire Detection and Progression Prediction from VIIRS Multispectral Imagery
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Nikolaos Mavros and Dimitrios Katsaros
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5116; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165116 - 12 Aug 2026
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Timely wildfire monitoring depends critically on optical and thermal infrared sensor observations from spaceborne instruments. The TS-SatFire benchmark (2025) consolidates multispectral VIIRS image stacks from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 for three tasks: active fire (AF) detection, burned area (BA) mapping, and fire progression (FP)
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Timely wildfire monitoring depends critically on optical and thermal infrared sensor observations from spaceborne instruments. The TS-SatFire benchmark (2025) consolidates multispectral VIIRS image stacks from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 for three tasks: active fire (AF) detection, burned area (BA) mapping, and fire progression (FP) prediction. We make two contributions. First, a systematic label-quality audit reveals that many fires lack ground-truth annotations; 18 training fires and 2 test fires were excluded for AF, and the two unannotated test fires cannot be scored by any model. We further document the benchmark’s scoring procedure, which differs from ours in ways that make the two sets of figures incomparable, and the BA label encoding in the released GeoTIFFs; the BA task is only audited. Second, we propose SpaSE-UNet3D, a spatial squeeze-and-excitation 3D U-Net whose spatial-only convolutions avoid temporal mixing on short observation windows, while SE channel attention reweights the VIIRS spectral bands dynamically. With micro-averaging over all test pixels, it reaches F1 = on AF and on FP at TS = 2, matching or exceeding the strongest published baselines on their respective terms. A single-day AF input reaches , within 0.003 of the two-day figure, indicating that one acquisition carries most of the detectable signal, whereas published baselines use up to six days; on FP, we use one third of their temporal context. An ablation shows the spatial-only design matches the accuracy of a full network with fewer parameters. Code and results are publicly available.
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Finite-Horizon Reliability-Oriented Synthesis of Cumulative Up/Down-Counter Fault-Confirmation Monitors
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Xiaoting Yuan, Xiaotong Feng, Ming Cheng and Peng Wang
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5115; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165115 - 12 Aug 2026
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Up/down counters are ubiquitous in the alarm and fault-confirmation logic of electro-mechanical systems. In aircraft, several electro-mechanical modules provide position feedback for flight control; the Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) is a representative one, converting mechanical displacement into an electrical signal whose reliable
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Up/down counters are ubiquitous in the alarm and fault-confirmation logic of electro-mechanical systems. In aircraft, several electro-mechanical modules provide position feedback for flight control; the Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) is a representative one, converting mechanical displacement into an electrical signal whose reliable monitoring is critical to flight safety. As such counters are deployed in ever more complex systems and more uncertain environments, rising safety requirements render their heuristic tuning unreliable. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a quantitative, reliability-oriented procedure for counter-based monitors, which replaces heuristic parameter tuning. Both healthy and faulty signal distributions are estimated by Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), so the framework handles non-Gaussian noise and FMEA-weighted failure modes. The threshold-and-counter logic is modeled as a finite-horizon absorbing Discrete-Time Markov Chain (DTMC), which yields the false-confirmation probability, missed-detection probability, and detection delay over a bounded horizon instead of long-run rates. Thresholds and counter parameters are then synthesized offline, leaving a lightweight online monitor that needs only threshold comparison and integer counter updates. We evaluate the method on an LVDT sum-voltage monitor using real aircraft healthy measurements and Simulink-based fault injection with 45 detectable modes, assessing the synthesized monitor on real measured samples and an FMEA-driven fault population. Results show that, among the compared confirmation logics, our workflow yields a counter that meets the false-confirmation target and the missed-detection target while attaining the lowest detection delay.
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A Single-Source Pilot Study of Machine Learning-Assisted Microwave S-Parameter Screening for Glucose Syrup and Water Adulteration in Grape Molasses
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Mustafa Alptekin Engin, Mehmet Cakir and Turan Cakil
Sensors 2026, 26(16), 5114; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26165114 - 12 Aug 2026
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Grape molasses, known as pekmez in Turkish, is a traditional concentrated fruit product that may be adulterated with cheaper sweeteners or water. This study evaluated broadband microwave S-parameter measurements as a rapid, non-destructive screening approach for detecting glucose syrup substitution and water dilution
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Grape molasses, known as pekmez in Turkish, is a traditional concentrated fruit product that may be adulterated with cheaper sweeteners or water. This study evaluated broadband microwave S-parameter measurements as a rapid, non-destructive screening approach for detecting glucose syrup substitution and water dilution in grape molasses. Nine physical mixture groups were prepared, including pure grape molasses, glucose syrup–substituted mixtures at 5–30%, pure glucose syrup as an endpoint reference, and water-diluted mixtures at 10–30%. For each group, five consecutive technical measurements were recorded using a Libre vector network analyzer connected to a WR-229 waveguide-based two-port setup over 3.30–4.90 GHz. All mixtures were prepared from a single commercial grape molasses source and a single glucose syrup source; the results should therefore be interpreted as pilot-scale, single-source evidence rather than a generalizable screening method. Glucose syrup substitution produced a systematic upward shift in S11 resonance frequency. In the practical 0–30% range, S11 resonance frequency showed a strong linear relationship with glucose syrup content on the calibration data (R2 = 0.9955; inverse prediction error = 0.72 percentage points), though this reflects calibration fit rather than independently validated prediction accuracy. Water dilution produced stronger S21 attenuation. The detection principle is based on the complementary use of S11 resonance behavior for glucose syrup substitution and S21 transmission loss for water dilution. In group-blocked point-wise classification, the Ensemble Bagged Trees classifier achieved 88.79% accuracy and a macro-F1 score of 0.874. These results indicate that S11 and S21 provide complementary proof-of-concept indicators for controlled-mixture screening of grape molasses adulteration.
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