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  • Open Access
5 Citations
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Robots play a crucial role in experimental smart cities and are ubiquitous in daily life, especially in complex environments where multiple robots are often needed to solve problems collaboratively. Researchers have found that the swarm intelligence...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence: Building a Sustainable Future for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,023 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2023

In this paper, we propose a C51-Duel-IP (C51 Dueling DQN with Independent Policy) dynamic destination path-planning algorithm to solve the problem of autonomous navigation and avoidance of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,960 Views
20 Pages

Multiple Fuel Machines Power Economic Dispatch Using Stud Differential Evolution

  • Naila,
  • Shaikh Saaqib Haroon,
  • Shahzad Hassan,
  • Salman Amin and ,
  • Intisar Ali Sajjad,
  • Asad Waqar,
  • Muhammad Aamir,
  • Muneeb Yaqoob and
  • Imtiaz Alam
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

30 May 2018

This paper presents an optimization method for solving the Power Economic Dispatch (PED) problem of thermal generation units with multiple fuels and valve point loadings. The proposed optimizer is a variant of Differential Evolution (DE) characterize...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,108 Views
22 Pages

24 August 2022

This paper proposes a human gait tracking system using a dual foot-mounted IMU and multiple 2D LiDARs. The combining system aims to overcome the disadvantages of each single sensor system (the short tracking range of the single 2D LiDAR and the drift...

(This article belongs to the Collection Inertial Sensors and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,624 Views
34 Pages

Modeling and Control of Satellite Formations: A Survey

  • Boris Andrievsky,
  • Alexander M. Popov,
  • Ilya Kostin and
  • Julia Fadeeva

19 September 2022

This survey deals with the problem of the group motion of spacecraft, which is rapidly developing and relevant for many applications, in terms of developing the onboard control algorithms to ensure the fulfillment of a given mission. The paper provid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anniversary Feature Papers-2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
416 Views
23 Pages

Runtime Firmware Update for 32-Bit Microcontrollers with Instruction Cache Under Concurrent Task Execution

  • Bernardino Pinto Neves,
  • Victor D. N. Santos,
  • José Eduardo G. Oliveira and
  • António Valente

14 September 2026

Smart sensor devices increasingly require remote firmware updates to deploy new functionality, security patches and algorithmic improvements without interrupting services. Runtime firmware updates remain a significant challenge in embedded sensing sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Technologies and Applications in Engineering Sensing Through Deep and Machine Learning—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,505 Views
11 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Downlink Multi-Beam Massive MIMO with Simple Transmission Scheme at Both Base and Terminal Stations

  • Shota Ogawa,
  • Kentaro Nishimori,
  • Ryotaro Taniguchi,
  • Tsutomu Mitsui and
  • Takefumi Hiraguri

Multi-beam massive multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) configurations that utilize high-power beam selection in the analog parts and blind algorithms such as the constant modulus algorithm (CMA), which do not require channel state information (CSI)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Antennas and MIMO Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,260 Views
15 Pages

A Cloud-Based In-Field Fleet Coordination System for Multiple Operations

  • Caicong Wu,
  • Zhibo Chen,
  • Dongxu Wang,
  • Bingbing Song and ,
  • Yajie Liang,
  • Lili Yang and
  • Dionysis D. Bochtis
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 February 2020

In large-scale arable farming, multiple sequential operations involving multiple machines must be carried out simultaneously due to restrictions of short time windows. However, the coordination and planning of multiple sequential operations is a nont...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supply Chain Management for Bioenergy and Bioresources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,817 Views
23 Pages

17 May 2024

Accurately classifying targets and clutter plots is crucial in radar data processing. It is beneficial for filtering out a large amount of clutters and improving the track initiation speed and tracking accuracy of real targets. However, in practical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,201 Views
17 Pages

25 February 2022

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is an important tool to prevent potential threats to systems and data. Anomaly-based IDSs may deploy machine learning algorithms to classify events either as normal or anomalous and trigger the adequate response. W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Integration with Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,275 Views
18 Pages

4 September 2024

In Korea, decisions for high-speed railway (HSR) construction are made based on long-term demand forecasting. A calibration process that simulates current trip patterns is an important step in long-term demand forecasting. However, a trial-and-error...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,067 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2022

Dynamic virtual auditory displays (VADs) are increasingly used for generating various auditory objects and scenes in virtual and augmented reality. Dynamic VADs are required to generate virtual sources in various directions and distances by using HRT...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,829 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2022

Hypersonic targets have complex motion states and high maneuverability. The traditional interactive multi-model (IMM) has low tracking accuracy and a slow convergence speed. Therefore, this paper proposes a strong tracking cubature Kalman filter (CKF...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,878 Views
23 Pages

Remote Sensing Change Detection Based on Unsupervised Multi-Attention Slow Feature Analysis

  • Weipeng Jing,
  • Songyu Zhu,
  • Peilun Kang,
  • Jian Wang and ,
  • Shengjia Cui,
  • Guangsheng Chen and
  • Houbing Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 June 2022

With the development of big data, analyzing the environmental benefits of transportation systems by artificial intelligence has become a hot issue in recent years. The ground traffic changes can be overlooked from a high-altitude perspective, using t...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,265 Views
35 Pages

High-dimensional complex optimization problems are pervasive in engineering and scientific computing, yet conventional algorithms struggle to meet collaborative optimization requirements due to computational complexity. While Chicken Swarm Optimizati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploration of Bio-Inspired Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,552 Views
14 Pages

An Improved Jacobi-Based Detector for Massive MIMO Systems

  • Xiaoqing Zhao,
  • Zhengquan Li,
  • Song Xing,
  • Yang Liu and ,
  • Qiong Wu and
  • Baolong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the key technologies in the fifth generation (5G) cellular communication systems. For uplink massive MIMO systems, the typical linear detection such as minimum mean square error (MMSE) presents...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,566 Views
17 Pages

13 December 2022

Barrel-type structures are ubiquitous in industry and life. A novel construction platform of barrel-type structures is introduced, and it involves a multi-motor system. The synchronous control of multiple motors has great importance. To guarantee the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,417 Views
40 Pages

Cooperative Multi-Sensor Tracking of Vulnerable Road Users in the Presence of Missing Detections

  • Martin Dimitrievski,
  • David Van Hamme,
  • Peter Veelaert and
  • Wilfried Philips

26 August 2020

This paper presents a vulnerable road user (VRU) tracking algorithm capable of handling noisy and missing detections from heterogeneous sensors. We propose a cooperative fusion algorithm for matching and reinforcing of radar and camera detections usi...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,035 Views
29 Pages

Risk Assessment Edge Contract for Efficient Resource Allocation

  • Minghui Sheng,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Maode Ma,
  • Yiying Sun and
  • Run Zhou

26 March 2024

The rapid growth of edge devices and mobile applications has driven the adoption of edge computing to handle computing tasks closer to end-users. However, the heterogeneity of edge devices and their limited computing resources raise challenges in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mobile Network and Intelligent Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,142 Views
24 Pages

Online Support Vector Machine with a Single Pass for Streaming Data

  • Lisha Hu,
  • Chunyu Hu,
  • Zheng Huo,
  • Xinlong Jiang and
  • Suzhen Wang

30 August 2022

In this paper, we focus on training a support vector machine (SVM) online with a single pass over streaming data.Traditional batch-mode SVMs require previously prepared training data; these models may be unsuitable for streaming data circumstances. O...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Based Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,343 Views
12 Pages

An Accelerated Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algorithm Using Extrapolation

  • Peitao Wang,
  • Zhaoshui He,
  • Jun Lu,
  • Beihai Tan and ,
  • YuLei Bai,
  • Ji Tan,
  • Taiheng Liu and
  • Zhijie Lin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 July 2020

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SNMF) approximates a symmetric nonnegative matrix by the product of a nonnegative low-rank matrix and its transpose. SNMF has been successfully used in many real-world applications such as clustering. In th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Symmetric Tensor Decomposition Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,964 Views
17 Pages

Improved Variational Bayes for Space-Time Adaptive Processing

  • Kun Li,
  • Jinyang Luo,
  • Peng Li,
  • Guisheng Liao and ,
  • Zhixiang Huang and
  • Lixia Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 February 2025

To tackle the challenge of enhancing moving target detection performance in environments characterized by small sample sizes and non-uniformity, methods rooted in sparse signal reconstruction have been incorporated into Space-Time Adaptive Processing...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,998 Views
13 Pages

A Threshold-Based Max-log-MPA Low Complexity Multiuser Detection Algorithm

  • Guanghua Zhang,
  • Zonglin Gu,
  • Qiannan Zhao,
  • Jingqiu Ren and
  • Weidang Lu

13 February 2020

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) technology is a new multiple access scheme based on non-orthogonal spread spectrum technology, which was proposed by Huawei in 2014. In the algorithm application of this technology, the original Message Passing Algo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,527 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Variable Design Algorithm for Improving Topology Optimization in Additive Manufacturing Guided Design

  • Abraham Vadillo Morillas,
  • Jesús Meneses Alonso,
  • Alejandro Bustos Caballero,
  • Cristina Castejón Sisamón and
  • Alessandro Ceruti

CAD-CAE software companies have introduced numerous tools aimed at facilitating topology optimization through Finite Element Simulation, thereby enhancing accessibility for designers via user-friendly interfaces. However, the imposition of intricate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in 3D Printing 3.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,771 Views
25 Pages

22 November 2024

Starting from a symmetrical multiple-choice individual, I build a sociophysics model of decision-making. Reducing the choices to two and interactions to pairs recovers the Ising model from physics at zero temperature. The associated equilibrium state...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,696 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2024

The accurate estimation of the state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries is crucial for the safe and reliable operation of battery systems. In order to overcome the practical problems of low accuracy, slow convergence a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,107 Views
31 Pages

4 May 2026

Multiple string matching is a fundamental operation in real-time analytics, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, and large-scale information retrieval. Nevertheless, existing approaches continue to face inherent trade-offs among preprocessing efficiency, v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithmic Innovations: Bridging Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,493 Views
18 Pages

Robust Hybrid Beamforming Scheme for Millimeter-Wave Massive-MIMO 5G Wireless Networks

  • Saleem Latteef Mohammed,
  • Mohammed H. Alsharif,
  • Sadik Kamel Gharghan,
  • Imran Khan and
  • Mahmoud Albreem

18 November 2019

Wireless networks employing millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies are a key approach to boost network capacity, coverage, and quality of service (QoS) for future communications. They deploy symmetric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technologies and Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,827 Views
22 Pages

12 April 2022

This work considers a two-user multiple access channel in which both users have Age of Information (AoI)-oriented traffic with different characteristics. More specifically, the first user has external traffic and cannot control the generation of stat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,202 Views
22 Pages

12 April 2024

Joint transceiver beamforming is a fundamental and crucial research task in the field of signal processing. Despite extensive efforts made in recent years, the joint transceiver beamforming of frequency diverse array (FDA)-based multiple-input and mu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,456 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2024

To address the issues of poor population diversity, low accuracy, and susceptibility to local optima in the Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA), an Improved Butterfly Optimization Algorithm with multiple strategies (IBOA) is proposed. The algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,742 Views
30 Pages

This article proposes a near-optimal control strategy based on reinforcement learning, which is applied to the six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) attitude control of dual-control aircraft. In order to solve the problem that the existing reinforcement lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,683 Views
26 Pages

Multi-Controllers Placement Optimization in SDN by the Hybrid HSA-PSO Algorithm

  • Neamah S. Radam,
  • Sufyan T. Faraj Al-Janabi and
  • Khalid Sh. Jasim

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a developing architecture that provides scalability, flexibility, and efficient network management. However, optimal controller placement faces many problems, which affect the performance of the overall network. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Views
19 Pages

20 October 2026

Partial shading conditions (PSCs) produce multiple peaks in photovoltaic (PV) power–voltage curves, which can trap maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers at local optima. This study introduces a Dream Optimization Algorithm (DOA)-deriv...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,222 Views
22 Pages

Optimized Multiple Regression Prediction Strategies with Applications

  • Yiming Zhao,
  • Shu-Chuan Chu,
  • Ali Riza Yildiz and
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan

7 July 2025

As a classical statistical method, multiple regression is widely used for forecasting tasks in power, medicine, finance, and other fields. The rise of machine learning has led to the adoption of neural networks, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (L...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,540 Views
20 Pages

27 June 2011

This paper investigates the use of wireless sensor networks for multiple event source localization using binary information from the sensor nodes. The events could continually emit signals whose strength is attenuated inversely proportional to the di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Collaborative Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,109 Views
28 Pages

14 August 2025

Maneuvering extended object tracking has garnered significant attention owing to the continuous advancements in the resolution capabilities of modern high-precision radar sensors. The efficacy of tracking algorithms for such objects is heavily contin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Data Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,445 Views
19 Pages

Superpixels with Content-Awareness via a Two-Stage Generation Framework

  • Cheng Li,
  • Nannan Liao,
  • Zhe Huang,
  • He Bian and ,
  • Zhe Zhang and
  • Long Ren
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 August 2024

The superpixel usually serves as a region-level feature in various image processing tasks, and is known for segmentation accuracy, spatial compactness and running efficiency. However, since these properties are intrinsically incompatible, there is st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing and Symmetry: Topics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,520 Views
17 Pages

5 June 2023

Accurate wind power prediction is vital for improving grid stability. In order to improve the accuracy of wind power prediction, in this study, a hybrid prediction model combining time-varying filtered empirical modal decomposition (TVFEMD), improved...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Technological Innovation on Renewable Energy Production: Simulation and Control of New Energy Power Generation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,429 Views
20 Pages

The objective of task allocation in unmanned systems is to complete tasks at minimal costs. However, the current algorithms employed for coordinating multiple unmanned systems in task allocation tasks frequently converge to local optima, thus impedin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,135 Views
21 Pages

Self-Regulated Particle Swarm Multi-Task Optimization

  • Xiaolong Zheng,
  • Deyun Zhou,
  • Na Li,
  • Tao Wu and ,
  • Yu Lei and
  • Jiao Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 November 2021

Population based search techniques have been developed and applied to wide applications for their good performance, such as the optimization of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning problems. However, the search for optimal solutions for an...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,623 Views
28 Pages

27 May 2023

With the accelerated development of smart cities, the concept of a “smart industrial park” in which unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have wide application has entered the industrial field of vision. When faced with multiple tasks and heter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,676 Views
33 Pages

The Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm (GWO) is a member of the swarm intelligence algorithm family, which possesses the highlights of easy realization, simple parameter settings and wide applicability. However, in some large-scale application problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,691 Views
27 Pages

Adapting an Ant Colony Metaphor for Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing

  • Qing-Hao Meng,
  • Wei-Xing Yang,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Fei Li and
  • Ming Zeng

12 April 2012

We consider chemical plume tracing (CPT) in time-varying airflow environments using multiple mobile robots. The purpose of CPT is to approach a gas source with a previously unknown location in a given area. Therefore, the CPT could be considered as a...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,815 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2022

The time-sampling control strategy has communication discontinuities in the control of multiple AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles). To overcome this problem, a distributed event-triggered communication mechanism is proposed to make each AUV commun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biologically Inspired Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,092 Views
26 Pages

Incremental Structured Dictionary Learning for Video Sensor-Based Object Tracking

  • Ming Xue,
  • Hua Yang,
  • Shibao Zheng,
  • Yi Zhou and
  • Zhenghua Yu

17 February 2014

To tackle robust object tracking for video sensor-based applications, an online discriminative algorithm based on incremental discriminative structured dictionary learning (IDSDL-VT) is presented. In our framework, a discriminative dictionary combini...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,370 Views
31 Pages

Federated Learning over MU-MIMO Vehicular Networks

  • Maria Raftopoulou,
  • José Mairton B. da Silva,
  • Remco Litjens,
  • H. Vincent Poor and
  • Piet Van Mieghem

9 September 2025

Many algorithms related to vehicular applications, such as enhanced perception of the environment, benefit from frequent updates and the use of data from multiple vehicles. Federated learning is a promising method to improve the accuracy of algorithm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,097 Views
22 Pages

28 August 2022

The newly developed near-space vehicle has the characteristics of high speed and strong maneuverability, being able to perform vertical skips and a wide range of lateral maneuvers. Tracking this kind of target with ground-based radars is difficult be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Spaceborne SAR: Systems, Algorithms, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,131 Views
50 Pages

Improved Multi-Strategy Aquila Optimizer for Engineering Optimization Problems

  • Honglin Kan,
  • Yaping Xiao,
  • Zhiliang Gao and
  • Xuan Zhang

15 September 2025

The Aquila Optimizer (AO) is a novel and efficient optimization algorithm inspired by the hunting and searching behavior of Aquila. However, the AO faces limitations when tackling high-dimensional and complex optimization problems due to insufficient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimetics and Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,835 Views
14 Pages

Generalized Optimality Criteria Method for Topology Optimization

  • Nam H. Kim,
  • Ting Dong,
  • David Weinberg and
  • Jonas Dalidd

2 April 2021

In this article, a generalized optimality criteria method is proposed for topology optimization with arbitrary objective function and multiple inequality constraints. This algorithm uses sensitivity information to update both the Lagrange multipliers...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

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