It is challenging to ensure satisfying co-evolution efficiency for the multi-agents in dynamic environments since during Actor-Critic training there is a high probability of falling into local optimality, failing to adapt to the suddenly changed envi...
The problem of detecting point like targets over a glistening surface is investigated in this manuscript, and the design of an optimal waveform through a two-step process for a multipath exploitation radar is proposed. In the first step, a non-adapti...
This study addresses the challenges of real-time channel state estimation and adaptive parameter adjustment in dynamic LoRa networks, where the existing methods often fail to adapt efficiently to highly variable channel conditions. This study present...
Smart environments play a key role in improving user comfort, energy efficiency, and sustainability through intelligent automation. Nevertheless, real-world deployments still face major challenges, including network instability, delayed responsivenes...
The construction of a virtual debris flow disaster environment is of great significance in debris flow disaster prevention, risk assessment, accurate simulation, and disaster emergency response. However, existing research on virtual disaster environm...
As a complex ecosystem, a business environment plays a structural role in shaping enterprise vitality, yet its multidimensional mechanisms remain underexplored, particularly within transitioning economies. This study employs a time-series Global Prin...
Greeting in social robotics is typically studied as a first-encounter event performed by a discrete, often humanoid agent. This paper reframes greeting as adaptive spatial acknowledgment: a non-humanoid, environment-scale operation conveying presence...
This paper presents a novel approach to address the challenges of self-adaptive privacy in cloud computing environments (CCE). Under the Cloud-InSPiRe project, the aim is to provide an interdisciplinary framework and a beta-version tool for self-adap...
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been applied in many fields owing to their mature flight control technology and easy-to-operate characteristics. No doubt, these UAV-related applications rely heavily on location information provi...
Maintaining reliable communication while ensuring collision-free motion is a central challenge for mobile relay robots operating in indoor disaster environments, where abrupt non-line-of-sight (NLOS) degradation and narrow structural bottlenecks can...
The increasing heterogeneity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments makes intrusion diagnosis challenging because device behaviours, traffic patterns, and attack distributions can vary across deployment conditions, while data-locality requirements...
As a significant manifestation of interaction between building occupants and the built environment, adaptive shading adjustment behavior exerts a substantial influence on building energy consumption and indoor lighting and thermal environments. Exist...
Modern navigation systems are inseparable from an integrated solution consisting of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and an inertial navigation system (INS) since they serve as an important cornerstone of national comprehensive positioning...
Traditional industry is seeing an increasing demand for more autonomous and flexible manufacturing in unstructured settings, a shift away from the fixed, isolated workspaces where robots perform predefined actions repetitively. This work presents a c...
At the current stage, indoor Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positioning systems often encounter challenges in achieving high localization accuracy under non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions within workshop environments when employing the Double-Sided Two-Way Ra...
Reliable human target detection in smoke-filled environments is essential for firefighting robots and rescue perception systems. However, conventional RGB cameras are severely degraded by dense smoke, while a single infrared or thermal imaging sensor...
With the continuous expansion of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, generating near-optimal paths and achieving effective obstacle avoidance in complex environments remain highly challenging tasks. To address the problems of multi-objective...
Pedestrian localisation in emergency environments is challenged by degraded Global Positioning System (GPS) availability, mobile-anchor uncertainty, radio-frequency interference, non-line-of-sight distortion, and inertial drift. Reporting only valid-...
To address the issue of decreased localization accuracy and robustness in existing visual SLAM systems caused by imprecise identification of dynamic regions in complex dynamic scenes—leading to dynamic interference or reduction in valid static...
In this paper, an adaptive activity and environment recognition algorithm running on a mobile phone is presented. The algorithm makes inferences based on sensor and radio receiver data provided by the phone. A wide set of features that can be extract...
The aim of this study is to synthesise the scientific evidence on the implications of urban and rural environments on older adults’ adaptation strategies to heatwaves. Methods: The methodology follows PRISMA guidelines, which involves a systema...
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become a dominated media streaming paradigm in today’s Internet, which enriches the user’s experience by matching the video quality with the dynamic network conditions. A range of HAS mechanisms have been...
The research and development of special robots such as excavation robots is an important way to achieve safe and efficient production in coal mines. Affected by the unstructured environment such as complex working conditions and unsteady factor distu...
Environment is recognized as a huge reservoir for bacterial species and a source of human pathogens. Some environmental bacteria have an extraordinary range of activities that include promotion of plant growth or disease, breakdown of pollutants, pro...
Sexual adaptation plays an important role in psychosexual health. Our study aimed to investigate the relationship between the family environment and sexual adaptability among adolescents with different personality traits. A cross-sectional study was...
Naozhou Island is located in a subtropical marine monsoon climate, with frequent windy days throughout the year, which has a significant impact on the residents’ lives. The spatial form of local traditional villages has adapted to the local win...
Building envelopes represent the interface between the outdoor environment and the indoor occupied spaces. They are often considered as barriers and shields, limiting solutions that adapt to environmental changes. Nature provides a large database of...
Cities are experiencing an increased rate of climate-related extreme events threats derived from climate change. Floods are one of the most challenging issues to address to reduce damages and losses in urban areas. Building resilience through adaptat...
We review the variety of morphological, physiological and behavioral modifications that annelids have acquired to cope with environments either unsuitable for, or on the limits of, survival for most animals. We focus on polychaetes (excluding sipuncu...
This study employed the adaptive semi-parameter model to determine the effects of environment-related rules (environment-related rules refer to laws and regulations in relation to environmental protection) on environment-related efficiency (environme...
This study presents the ALMA environment (Adaptive Learning Models from texts and Activities). ALMA supports the processes of learning and assessment via: (1) texts differing in local and global cohesion for students with low, medium, and high backg...
Transfer alignment on a moving base under a complex dynamic environment is one of the toughest challenges in a strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS). With the aim of improving rapidity and accuracy, velocity plus attitude matching is applied in...
Progressive technologies and practices are shifting the possibilities of building design and improving work efficiency. Constantly changing site conditions require different procedures and designs that take into account these changing conditions, whe...
Research on rural thermal environments has grown rapidly in recent years. However, it still relies on urban-based paradigms and lacks a framework for rural contexts. This study uses a systematic mapping and critical analysis approach to examine key a...
In the context of the energy crisis and the urgency of passive design in contemporary architecture, this study focuses on the Tujia-style Sanheyuan in southeastern Chongqing, China, which is highly adaptable to local climatic conditions. Using field...
Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb. is an economically important tree in eastern Asia, and it exhibits many traits associated with good forestation species in coastal land. However, scarce research has been conducted to elucidate the effects of rhizosphere b...
In this study, climate-responsive solutions used in traditional dwellings in the North Dong region of China were identified, and the impact of these solutions on the indoor physical environment and energy consumption was analysed. First, over the cou...
Most existing path-planning algorithms are applied in either trafficable environments or non-trafficable environments. Off-road vehicles (ORVs) are often faced with a mix of trafficable and non-trafficable environments. Therefore, trafficability shou...
Cell culture medium replacement is necessary to replenish nutrients and remove waste products, and perfusion and batch media exchange methods are available. The former can establish an environment similar to that in vivo, and microfluidic devices are...
Clarifying the mechanism through which community-built environment types influence the supply–demand adaptability of service facilities can promote the effectiveness of community service facility provision in the context of urban renewal. Exist...
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Older adults prefer to age in place, necessitating a match between person and environment, or person-environment (P-E) fit. In occupational therapy practice, home modifications can support independence, but more knowledge is needed to optimize interv...
Rural courtyard dwellings in cold regions are commonly characterized by low winter indoor temperatures, intermittent heating, solar heat gain, pronounced thermal fluctuations, and strong occupant adaptation. This study aimed to compare short-term win...
Proton exchange membrane fuel-cell (PEMFC) systems in plateau regions face reduced electrochemical performance because of lower oxygen partial pressure, while radiator heat rejection can be weakened by lower air density. This study compares an 80 kW...
Translation, adaptation, and validation of instruments for cross-cultural investigation requires a rigorous methodological procedure that should be carefully planned to deliver instruments with adequate reliability and validity. This process was appl...
Recent developments in robotics have heightened the need for visual SLAM. Dynamic objects are a major problem in visual SLAM which reduces the accuracy of localization due to the wrong epipolar geometry. This study set out to find a new method to add...
This study addresses the challenges of human–robot interactions in real-time environments with adaptive field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based accelerators. Predicting human posture in indoor environments in confined areas is a significant...
This study proposes solutions to help people with phobias through the use of virtual environments that allow a contact between the subjects and these phobias. Using neurofeedback, the systems, depending on the emotional state of the user, adapt the s...
The built environment, serving as the core spatial vehicle for human production and daily activities, constitutes a vital foundation for achieving sustainable urban development and high-quality renewal. However, amidst rapid urbanisation, certain are...
In Mediterranean environments, with mild winters and dry summers, peas are planted in autumn or early winter to profit from winter rain and to avoid terminal drought and high summer temperatures. The root parasitic weed broomrape (Orobanche crenata)...
Steady contact may provide insufficient excitation for environment identification, while probing consumes force margin, and flexible-joint dynamics limit command realization. Inspired by active haptic exploration, this study combines force-margin-gat...
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