With recent advances in airborne weapons, air combat tends to occur in the form of beyond-visual-range (BVR) combat and multi-aircraft cooperation. Target assignment is critical in multi-aircraft BVR air combat decision-making. Most previous research...
In multi-UAV cooperative tasks, dynamic communication topologies and resource heterogeneity present significant challenges for distributed task allocation, leading to high communication overhead and poor task-resource matching, which in turn increase...
Owing to the stringent spatio-temporal coupling and kinematic constraints, the task allocation problem for heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is generally regarded as an NP-hard problem. To address this, this paper proposes the Sequen...
The task allocation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is a crucial aspect of ocean exploration and mission execution tasks. In a mine countermeasures (MCM) combat scenario, when a new suspicious mission point is detected in the mission area, t...
The multi-satellite on-board observation planning (MSOOP) is a variant of the multi-agent task allocation problem (MATAP). MSOOP is used to complete the observation task allocation in a fully cooperative mode to maximize the profits of the whole syst...
Due to its vulnerability to a variety of cyber attacks, research on cyber security for power systems has become especially crucial. In order to maintain the safe and stable operation of power systems, it is worthwhile to gain insight into the complex...
In dynamic and extreme space environments, current multi-robot systems inevitably encounter failures during autonomous task execution. Addressing these failures requires human-in-the-loop collaboration with astronauts, who first conduct fault analysi...
An edge-weighted consensus-based formation control strategy is presented for mobile robots. In the edge-weighted strategy, a desired formation pattern is achieved by adjusting gain weights related to the distance between robots. Moreover, the edge-we...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used in swarms to achieve multiple tasks cooperatively. Multi-UAV and multi-target cooperative task assignments are difficult. To solve the problem of unbalanced, phased, cooperative assignment between UAVs and...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, offer unprecedented flexibility for complex missions such as area surveillance, search and rescue, and cooperative inspection. This paper presents a unified evaluation framework for the compa...
The proper operation of microgrids depends on Economic Dispatch. It satisfies all requirements while lowering the microgrids’ overall operating and generation costs. Since distributed generators constitute a large portion of microgrids, seamles...
In dynamic complex environments, it is inevitable for UAVs to be damaged due to their confrontational nature. The challenge to minimize the adverse effects of the damage and reallocate the mission is vital for achieving the operational goal. This pap...
To solve the real-time complex mission-planning problem for Multiple heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the dynamic environments, this paper addresses a new approach by effectively adapting the Consensus-Based Bundle Algorithms (CBBA) u...
Smart charging stations require mobile charging robots to respond to dynamically arriving charging requests with heterogeneous priorities, varying travel costs, and uneven workloads while maintaining online scheduling feasibility. Conventional single...
Large multi-UAV mission systems operate over time-varying communication graphs with heterogeneous platforms, where classical distributed task assignment may incur excessive message passing and suboptimal task–resource matching. To address these...
Cooperative task allocation is one of the critical enablers for multi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) missions, but existing approaches often assume reliable communication that rarely holds in real underwater acoustic environments. We study here...
In this paper, power-sharing management control on an AC islanded microgrid is investigated to achieve accurate reactive power sharing. The droop control method is primarily used to manage the active and reactive power sharing among the DGs in the mi...
To defend against insider attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), trust mechanisms (TMs) using the notion of trust in human society have been proposed and are still actively researched. In the WSN with a trust mechanism (TM), each sensor node eva...
In response to challenges posed by the Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) consensus algorithm, where all nodes are involved in the consensus process, issues such as high communication overhead in the three-phase procedure, random selection of...
Traditional intellectual property authentication relies on centralized intermediaries, which makes it difficult to address issues such as forgery, lack of trust, and opaque information. Combined with the characteristics of blockchain, such as decentr...
As the core of blockchain technology, the consensus algorithm plays an important role in determining the security, data consistency, and efficiency of blockchain systems. The existing mainstream consensus algorithm is experiencing difficulties satisf...
This paper presents the research undertaken with the goal of designing a consensus algorithm for cryptocurrencies with less latency than the current state-of-the-art while maintaining a level of throughput and scalability sufficient for real-world pa...
As blockchain technology plays an increasingly important role in the Internet of Vehicles, how to further enhance the data consensus between the areas of the Internet of Vehicles has become a key issue in blockchain design. The traditional blockchain...
Internet of things is widely used in the current era to collect data from sensors and perform specific tasks through processing according to the requirements. The data collected can be sent to a blockchain network to create secure and tamper-resistan...
Aiming at the problems of significant communication overheads, the low reliability of primary nodes, and the insufficient dynamic adaptability of traditional consensus algorithms in intellectual property transaction scenarios, an Improved Practical B...
Blockchain technology is an emerging decentralized and distributed technology that can maintain data security. It has the potential to transform many sectors completely. The core component of blockchain networks is the consensus algorithm because its...
Recent Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) protocols increasingly focus on scalability and security to meet the growing demand for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications across various domains. Current BFT consens...
In response to the problems of random selection of primary nodes, high communication complexity, and low consensus efficiency in the current consensus mechanism for intellectual property transactions, a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) cons...
When performing linear fitting on datasets containing outliers, common algorithms may face problems like inadequate fitting accuracy. We propose a linear fitting algorithm based on Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) and Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC)...
With services in cloud manufacturing expanding, cloud manufacturers increasingly use service level agreements (SLAs) to guarantee business processing cooperation between CSPs and CSCs (cloud service providers and cloud service consumers). Although bl...
In response to the shortcomings of the consensus algorithm for intellectual property transactions, such as high communication overhead, random primary node selection, and prolonged consensus time, a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) improvem...
For the microgrids to operate securely, distributed generators must be able to interact with one another without experiencing any communication delays or noise. To develop a more effective economic dispatch strategy, this research focuses on noise&rs...
Dynamic heterogeneous redundancy (DHR) architectures combine heterogeneity, redundancy, and dynamism to create security-centric frameworks that can be used to mitigate network attacks that exploit unknown vulnerabilities. However, conventional DHR ar...
This paper presents a distributed optimization algorithm for time-varying objective functions utilizing a prescribed-time convergent multi-agent system within undirected communication networks. Departing from conventional time-invariant optimization...
While the practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) consensus algorithm provides excellent theoretical fault tolerance, its performance in practical blockchain applications is often constrained by high communication overhead, especially in scenarios...
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) has been widely used in consortium blockchain systems; however, it suffers from performance degradation and susceptibility to Byzantine faults in complex environments. To overcome these limitations, this pap...
Networked multiple sensors are used to solve the problem of maneuvering target tracking. To avoid the linearization of nonlinear dynamic functions, and to obtain more accurate estimates for maneuvering targets, a novel adaptive information-weighted c...
Realizing the distributed adaptive network construction of multi-UAV networks is an urgent challenge, as they lack a reliable common control channel and can only maintain a limited sensing range in crowded electromagnetic environments. Multi-unmanned...
A high-power charging station for electric vehicles usually adopts a parallel structure of multiple power modules. However, due to the parameter differences among power modules, a parallel system always has circulating current issues. This paper take...
The AC/DC hybrid microgrid is the main trend of microgrids’ development, and the dynamic economic dispatch is regarded as an important way to ensure the economic and safe operation of a microgrid system. In this paper, a dynamic economic dispat...
In this paper, a control strategy of a cell-based multi-agent system is proposed to solve the problem of inconsistency of series lithium-ion battery packs. The bidirectional Cuk converter is utilized as an equalizing circuit serving for balancing adj...
Blockchain is a distributed database technology that operates in a P2P network and is used in various domains. Depending on its structure, blockchain can be classified into types such as public and private. A consensus algorithm is essential in block...
With the integration of high-penetration distributed renewable energy sources and grid-forming inverters, AC microgrids face significant challenges in maintaining autonomous voltage and frequency stability. While traditional droop control can achieve...
Chronic constipation is a common gastrointestinal disorder, and its management is critical. However, it is extremely difficult to assess its subjective symptoms when patients are unable to report them due to cognitive or physical disabilities, especi...
The problem of collision avoidance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) group is studied in this paper. A collision avoidance method of UAV group formation based on second-order consensus algorithm and improved artificial potential field is proposed....
Group decision-making is important in many real-world applications, particularly in smart grid planning, where different stakeholders need to work together to identify appropriate strategies for energy infrastructure deployment. In this study, we dev...
With the deep integration of distributed network technology and intelligent medical care, how to achieve efficient collaboration under the premise of safeguarding data security and system efficiency has become an important challenge for intelligent m...
Proof-of-Work (PoW) was the first blockchain consensus protocol discovered, followed by Proof-of-Stake and others. The disadvantage of the PoW is that it requires high energy consumption compared to other consensus protocols. Based on this weakness,...
Blockchain-based forensic evidence management for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments requires tamper-evident custody records and accountable interorganizational access. Yet, Hyperledger Fabric evaluations often use generic workloads or...
Supply chain management can significantly benefit from contemporary technologies. Among these technologies, blockchain is considered suitable for anti-counterfeiting and traceability applications due to its openness, decentralization, anonymity, and...
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