Considering the growing demand for modern facility agriculture, it is essential to develop non-destructive technologies for assessing lettuce nutritional status. To overcome the limitations of traditional methods, which are destructive and time-consu...
In recent years, many new technologies have been used in indoor positioning. In 2016, IEEE 802.11-2016 created a Wi-Fi fine timing measurement (FTM) protocol, making Wi-Fi ranging more robust and accurate, and providing meter-level positioning accura...
This study aims to address the issue of redundancy and interference in data-collection systems by proposing a novel feature-selection method based on maximum information coefficient (MIC) and graph symmetry structure in complex-network theory. The me...
The large number of estimated parameters in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) makes it difficult to achieve accurate channel estimation accuracy in 6G. Therefore, we suggest a novel two-phase channel estimation framework for uplink multiuser...
The long-term demand forecast for annual national electricity and energy consumption plays a vital role in future strategic planning, power system installation programming, energy investment planning, and next-generation unit construction. Three mach...
To solve the failure problem of the visible/near infrared (VIS/NIR) spectroscopy model, soluble solids content (SSC) detection for fresh jujubes cultivated in different modes was carried out based on the method of variable optimization and model upda...
Based on the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) and differential evolution (DE), a hybridization algorithm (H-GWO) is proposed to avoid the local optimum, improve the diversity of the population, and compromise the exploration and exploitation appropriately....
In order to study the similarity law of penetration of concrete targets by shaped charges, penetration tests of concrete targets with different sizes of shaped-charge jets were carried out, and the prototype and the model projectiles met the similari...
In this study, an indoor positioning shift correction architecture was developed with an improved adaptive Kalman filter (IAKF) algorithm for the people interference condition. Indoor positioning systems (IPSs) use ultra-wideband (UWB) communication...
Information security in a controller area network (CAN) is becoming more important as the connections between a vehicle’s internal and external networks increase. Encryption and authentication techniques can be applied to CAN data frames to enh...
The Conventional Weapons Effects Program (CONWEP) algorithm often lacks sufficient accuracy in predicting blast responses of reinforced concrete (RC) slabs, while the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) algorithm demands prohibitively high comp...
Although they have achieved great success in optical images, deep convolutional neural networks underperform for ship detection in SAR images because of the lack of color and textual features. In this paper, we propose our framework which integrates...
This paper proposes two novel phase-based algorithms for the passive localization of a single source with a uniform circular array (UCA) under the case of measuring phase ambiguity based on two phase difference observation models, which are defined a...
To authenticate a controller area network (CAN) data frame, a message authentication code (MAC) must be sent along with the CAN frame, but there is no space reserved for the MAC in the CAN frame. Recently, difference-based compression (DBC) algorithm...
More recently, the ability of the coprime array to yield large array apertures and high degrees of freedom in comparison with the uniform linear array (ULA) has drawn an enormous amount of attention. In light of this, we propose a low-rank matrix com...
The light curve period of an asteroid plays an important role in determining the rotation period, the collision evolution and the YORP effect. There are many period extraction algorithms used to find the light curve period of asteroids with long term...
An effective Hamiltonian finite element method is presented in this paper to investigate the three-dimensional dynamic responses of a towed cable-payload system with large deformation. The dynamics of a flexible towed system moving in a medium is a c...
The rapid detection of the elements nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) is beneficial to the control of the compound fertilizer production process, and it is of great significance in the fertilizer industry. The aim of this work was to co...
In this paper, a set of transmission schemes are proposed for the delivery of multicast (MC) signals, in which an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assists the transmission from an access point (AP) to a set of multicast users. It is known that th...
In this work, we present and evaluate a hardware architecture for the LOCO-ANS (Low Complexity Lossless Compression with Asymmetric Numeral Systems) lossless and near-lossless image compressor, which is based on JPEG-LS standard. The design is implem...
For any rural area, a suitable ecological civilization model is of great significance and must be recommended taking into account its natural, social, and cultural characteristics so that the model is conducive to the sustainable development of its e...
To reduce the influence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors in the ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning process, a UWB positioning algorithm based on fuzzy inference and adaptive anti-NLOS Kalman filtering (KF) was proposed in this paper. First of all, th...
This study proposes an Automatic Branch Modeling (ABM) framework that combines AdTree and AdQSM algorithms to reconstruct individual tree models and estimate timber volume from fused Hand-held Laser Scanners (HLS) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Laser Sc...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks often use botnets to generate a high volume of packets and adopt controlled zombies for flooding a victim’s network over the Internet. Analysing the multiple sources of DDoS attacks typically involves reco...
This paper proposes energy-efficient swarm intelligence (SI)-based approaches for efficient mobile wireless charging in a distributed large-scale wireless sensor network (LS-WSN). This approach considers the use of special multiple mobile elements, w...
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which offers two outstanding advantages, high-quality food and localized production, has come to the fore. In CSA, the output of picking scheduling is the input of delivery scheduling. Hence, only by scheduling...
In the data-driven healthcare sector, balancing privacy protection and model performance is critical. This paper enhances accuracy and reliability in survival analysis by integrating differential privacy, deep learning, and the Cox proportional hazar...
An estimation of the power battery state of charge (SOC) is related to the energy management, the battery cycle life and the use cost of electric vehicles. When a lithium-ion power battery is used in an electric vehicle, the SOC displays a very st...
With the increasing interest in online shopping, the Last Mile delivery is regarded as one of the most expensive and pollutive—and yet the least efficient—stages of the e-commerce supply chain. To address this challenge, a novel location-routing prob...
The minimum weight vertex independent dominating set (MWVIDS) problem is an important version of the minimum independent dominating set. The MWVIDS problem has a number of applications in many fields. However, the MWVIDS problem is known to be NP-har...
The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) consists of finding the best scheduling for a set of jobs that should be processed in a specific order using a set of machines. This problem belongs to the NP-hard class problems and has enormous industrial appl...
Lynch syndrome (LS) and constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD) are hereditary disorders characterised by a highly increased risk of cancer development. This is due to germline aberrations in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes, which results i...
Color index and water content are important indicators for evaluating the quality of fresh-cut potato tuber slices. In this study, hyperspectral imaging combined with multivariate analysis was used to detect the color parameters (L*, a*, b*, Browning...
Our aim was to characterize and validate that the location and age of onset of the tumor are both important criteria to classify colorectal cancer (CRC). We analyzed clinical and molecular characteristics of early-onset CRC (EOCRC) and late-onset CRC...
Aircraft-skin maintenance requires complete surface-cell visitation, admissible cross-component transfers and local exclusion bypasses. This study develops an offline open complete-coverage planner on the NASA Common Research Model using a multi-stra...
To address the performance degradation of existing base station-based indoor localization algorithms in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments, we propose a novel intersection-statistics-based localization method. The proposed algorithm introduces an...
Accurate position information plays an important role in wireless sensor networks (WSN), and cooperative positioning based on cooperation among agents is a promising methodology of providing such information. Conventional cooperative positioning algo...
Horizon-based optical navigation (OPNAV) is an attractive solution for deep space exploration missions, with strong autonomy and high accuracy. In some scenarios, especially those with large variations in spacecraft distance from celestial bodies, th...
The activities of enzymes are the basis of evaluating the quality of honey. Beekeepers usually use concentrators to process natural honey into concentrated honey by concentrating it under high temperatures. Active enzymes are very sensitive to high t...
The leaf area index (LAI) is an essential indicator used in crop growth monitoring. In the study, a hybrid inversion method, which combined a physical model with a statistical method, was proposed to estimate the crop LAI. The simulated compact high-...
Detection of skin defects in Cerasus humilis fruit is a critical process to guarantee its quality and price. This study presents a valid method for the detection of defective features in Cerasus humilis fruits based on hyperspectral imaging. A total...
In this work, discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based channel estimation is proposed in generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) system. In the GFDM system, the subcarriers are non-orthogonal; therefore, the pilot symbols cannot be easily ob...
A neural network (NN)-based method is presented in this paper which allows the identification of parameters for material cards used in Finite Element simulations. Contrary to the conventionally used computationally intensive material parameter identi...
Universal time (UT1-UTC) is a key component of Earth orientation parameters (EOP), which is important for the study of monitoring the changes in the Earth’s rotation rate, climatic variation, and the characteristics of the Earth. Many existing...
The kuruma shrimp (Penaeus japonicus), a globally high-value aquaculture species, faces critical challenges in sustainable development due to genetic diversity degradation and declining disease resistance. This study employed whole-genome resequencin...
Escherichia coli LS5218 is an attractive host for producing polyhydroxybutyrate. The strain, however, strongly requires heterologous gene expressions like phaC for efficient production. For enhancing the production, the whole gene expressions relatin...
The zinc–iron redox battery (ZIRB) has become one of the hot technologies of electrochemical energy storage due to its safety, stability and low cost of the electrolyte. In this paper, a collaborative control strategy for an MW-level zinc&ndash...
This study aimed to develop an approach for quickly and noninvasively differentiating the roasting degrees of coffee beans using hyperspectral imaging (HSI). The qualitative properties of seven roasting degrees of coffee beans (unroasted, light, mode...
For an underwater Strapdown Inertial Navigation System/Doppler velocity log (SINS/DVL) integrated navigation system, the short-term failure of DVL may lead to the loss of reliable external velocity information from DVL, which will cause the SINS erro...
Accurate Earth orientation parameter (EOP) predictions are needed for many applications, e.g., for the tracking and navigation of interplanetary spacecraft missions. One of the most difficult parameters to forecast is the length of day (LOD), which r...
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