This paper investigates the state estimation and event-triggered control for positive nonlinear multi-agent systems. Firstly, a proportional–integral observer is established to estimate the states of the considered nonlinear positive multi-agen...
Multi-agent systems are widely used in modern power systems, but they face challenges such as low data utilization, stringent triggering conditions, and poor environmental adaptability. This study proposes a multi-agent event-triggered control method...
In this study, the state consensus problem is investigated for a class of nonlinear fractional-order multi-agent systems (FOMASs) by using a dynamics event-triggered sliding mode control approach. The main objective is to steer all agents to some bou...
Advances in microfluidics, optogenetics and electronics have enabled the study of dynamically controlled inputs on cellular fate. Here, we applied a microfluidic system to deliver periodic inputs of growth factors to pheochromocytoma cells and measur...
The consensus problem in stochastic multi-agent systems (MASs) with Markovian switching is addressed by proposing a novel distributed dynamic event-triggered (DDET) technique based on periodic sampling to reduce information transmission. Unlike tradi...
This paper investigates dynamic event-triggered control (DETC) and encoding–decoding schemes to achieve the synchronization of T-S fuzzy neural networks (FNNs). DETC allows the transmission signals to be controlled aperiodically during the actu...
This paper investigates the interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy adaptive fixed-time bipartite consensus self-triggered control for multiple quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles with deferred full-state constraints and input saturation under cooperative-antagon...
Background/Objectives: The wall-associated kinases (WAKs) and WAK-like proteins (WAKLs) comprise a unique receptor-like kinase subfamily in plants, which have been shown to regulate plant development and defense responses by sensing cell wall-derived...
In heart failure and atrial fibrillation, a persistent Na+ current (INaL) exerts detrimental effects on cellular electrophysiology and can induce arrhythmias. We have recently shown that NaV1.8 contributes to arrhythmogenesis by inducing a INaL. Geno...
Currently, the widely used active form of plant elicitor peptide 1 (PEP1) from Arabidopsis thaliana is composed of 23 amino acids, hereafter AtPEP1(1–23), serving as an immune elicitor. The relatively less conserved N-terminal region in AtPEP f...
This paper presents an adaptive event-triggered control strategy for guaranteeing predefined tracking performance of uncertain nonlinear underactuated underwater vehicles (UUVs) in the three-dimensional space. Compared with the related results in the...
Stimuli-responsive liposomal membranes have attracted growing interest as dynamic soft materials capable of regulating permeability, fusion, and cargo release in response to external or internal triggers. By incorporating functional molecular or nano...
This study proposes an adaptive broad learning strategy for a two-degree-of-freedom helicopter system based on specified performance and dynamic event-triggered. First, broad learning is employed to approximate system uncertainties. Compared to radia...
Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is an under-diagnosed common health problem that impairs quality of life. Migraine and IBS are comorbid disorders that are triggered by foods. We aim to investigate IBS frequency in medication overuse headac...
The acoustical characteristics of auditory triggers often recommended to generate the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) on Internet platforms were investigated by parameterizing their sound qualities following Zwicker’s procedure and...
A quantized-feedback-based adaptive event-triggered tracking problem is investigated for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown nonlinearities and external disturbances. All state variables are quantized through a uniform quantizer and the qu...
A conduction transformation-based coordination method for product structure optimization design was proposed for the conflict between satisfying product functional requirements and realizing adaptive modification. Customer functional requirements wer...
In this paper, the extraction of the life activity spectrum based on the millimeter (mm) wave radar is designed to realize the detection of target objects and the threshold trigger module. The maximum likelihood estimation method is selected to compl...
Even though the Obg protein is essential for bacterial viability, the cellular functions of this universally conserved GTPase remain enigmatic. Moreover, the influence of GTP and GDP binding on the activity of this protein is largely unknown. Previou...
Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging biomedical imaging technique that enables non-invasive visualization of the optical absorption properties of biological tissues in vivo. Although numerous studies have used contrast agents to achieve high-contrast...
Aimed at the objective of anti-disturbance and reducing data transmission, this article discusses a novel dynamic neural network (DNN) modeling-based anti-disturbance control for a system under the framework of an event trigger. In order to describe...
This paper presents the communication strategy for second-order multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics. To address the problem of the scarcity of communication channel resources and get rid of using continuous signals among the followers in lead...
This paper addresses the communication issue encountered by a hybrid controller when finding consensus in terms of the rendezvous target point in a broadcast and communication environment. This issue may result in a high level of computation and the...
Neutrophil granulocytes are a central component of the innate immune system. In recent years, they have gained considerable attention due to newly discovered biological effector functions and their involvement in various pathological conditions. They...
A promising therapeutic strategy to delay and/or prevent the onset of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) could be to restore neuroprotective pathways physiologically triggered by neurons against stress injury. Recently, we identified the accumulation o...
Pedestrian detection models in autonomous driving systems heavily rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) to perceive their surroundings. Recent research has unveiled the vulnerability of DNNs to backdoor attacks, in which malicious actors manipulate the...
This paper investigates the hybrid event-triggered impulsive control problem of singular Markovian jump neural networks (SMJNNs). The simultaneous presence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and deception attacks (DAs) over the communication network...
Introduction: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a disruption of normal brain function commonly triggered by falls, violence, motor vehicle accidents, or contact sports, and is considered one of the leading causes of death and disability [...]
Insect growth is interrupted by molts, during which the insect develops a new exoskeleton. The exoskeleton confers protection and undergoes shedding between each developmental stage through an evolutionarily conserved and ordered sequence of behavior...
Direct cortical stimulation (DCS) in epilepsy surgery patients has a long history of functional brain mapping and seizure triggering. Here, we review its findings when applied to the insula in order to map the insular functions, evaluate its local an...
Synaptosomes are used to decipher the mechanisms involved in chemical transmission, since they permit highlighting the mechanisms of transmitter release and confirming whether the activation of presynaptic receptors/enzymes can modulate this event. I...
This paper investigates the surrounding control problem of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) against false data injection (FDI) attacks and proposes a learning-based prescribed performance control (PPC) integrated with a dynamic event-trigger...
The synthesis of light-responsive nanocarriers (LRNs) with a variety of surface functional groups and/or ligands has been intensively explored for space-temporal controlled cargo release. LRNs have been designed on demand for photodynamic-, photother...
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) in humans and pseudorabies virus (PRV) in pigs are both alphaherpesviruses. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) make part of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and are specialized in producing large amounts of a...
Stress significantly impacts the immune system, affecting susceptibility to illness and overall health. This review examines the intricate relationship between stress and the immune system, offering insights having practical implications for health a...
Scalable production of interactive 3D assets is a key requirement for XR-based applications, yet the functional integration of GenAI-generated assets into game engines remains challenging for non-expert users. This article proposes and validates a Pr...
Chromatin modifiers play a crucial role in maintaining cell identity through modulation of gene expression patterns. Their deregulation can have profound effects on cell fate and functions. Among epigenetic regulators, the MECP2 protein is particular...
We have previously shown that Zinc supplementation triggered ER stress/UPR in cancer cells undergoing treatment by genotoxic agents, reactivated wtp53 in cancer cells harboring mutant p53 (mutp53) and potentiated the activity of wtp53 in those carryi...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb)-encoded factors protect it against host-generated stresses and support its survival in the hostile host environment. M.tb possesses two peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerases and a probable trigger factor encoded by Rv...
Backdoor attacks remain a critical area of focus in machine learning research, with one prominent approach being the introduction of backdoor training injection mechanisms. These mechanisms embed backdoor triggers into the training process, enabling...
Hydrogels and, in particular, supramolecular hydrogels show promising properties for application in regenerative medicine because of their ability to adapt to the natural environment these materials are brought into. However, only few studies focus o...
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder that presents with telangiectases in skin and mucosae, and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in internal organs such as lungs, liver, and brain. Mutations in ENG (...
The integration of communication channels with the feedback loop in a networked control system (NCS) is attractive for many applications. A major challenge in the NCS is to reduce transmissions over the network between the sensors, the controller, an...
Lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robots (LLRERs) play an important role in lower limb rehabilitation training and assistance walking for patients with lower limb movement disorders. In order to reduce and eliminate adverse effects on the accurac...
When in contact with microbes or other pathogens plants develop an induced defense response. This reaction is triggered by pathogen-derived molecules that provoke the so-called microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP)-triggered immunity (MTI) or p...
Self-healing cementitious materials containing a microencapsulated healing agent are appealing due to their great application potential in improving the serviceability and durability of concrete structures. In this study, poly(phenol–formaldehyde) (P...
Directed grey-box fuzzers focus on testing specific target code. They have been utilized in various security applications, such as reproducing known crashes and identifying vulnerabilities resulting from incomplete patches. Distance-guided directed f...
This paper mainly researches the synchronization issue of discrete-time recurrent neural networks (DTRNNs) with time-varying delay based on event-triggered control (ETC). ETC can effectively decrease the quantity of controller updates performed and t...
This paper investigates the dynamic periodic event-triggered control (DPETC) for nonlinear networked systems with time-varying delays. Compared with traditional event-triggered control strategies, the DPETC proposed in this paper can effectively redu...
The adaptive distributed type-2 fuzzy dynamic event-triggered (DET) formation control problem of switched nonlinear multi-agent systems (SNMASs) with actuator faults is addressed in this study. Each agent has a switching subsystem and the switching m...
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