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The exponential growth of autonomous systems demands robust security mechanisms that can operate within the extreme constraints of real-time embedded environments. This paper introduces SMART DShot, a groundbreaking machine learning-enhanced framework that transforms the security landscape of unmanned aerial vehicle motor control systems through seamless integration of adaptive timing correction and real-time anomaly detection within Digital Shot (DShot) communication protocols. Our approach addresses critical vulnerabilities in Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) interfaces by deploying four synergistic algorithms—Kalman Filter Timing Correction (KFTC), Recursive Least Squares Timing Correction (RLSTC), Fuzzy Logic Timing Correction (FLTC), and Hybrid Adaptive Timing Correction (HATC)—each optimized for specific error characteristics and attack scenarios. Through comprehensive evaluation encompassing 32,000 Monte Carlo test iterations (500 per scenario × 16 scenarios × 4 algorithms) across 16 distinct operational scenarios and PolarFire SoC Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation, we demonstrate exceptional performance with 88.3% attack detection rate, only 2.3% false positive incidence, and substantial vulnerability mitigation reducing Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) severity from High (7.3) to Low (3.1). Hardware validation on PolarFire SoC confirms practical viability with minimal resource overhead (2.16% Look-Up Table utilization, 16.57 mW per channel) and deterministic sub-10 microsecond execution latency. The Hybrid Adaptive Timing Correction algorithm achieves 31.01% success rate (95% CI: [30.2%, 31.8%]), representing a 26.5% improvement over baseline approaches through intelligent meta-learning-based algorithm selection. Statistical validation using Analysis of Variance confirms significant performance differences (F(3,1996) = 30.30, p < 0.001) with large effect sizes (Cohen’s d up to 4.57), where 64.6% of algorithm comparisons showed large practical significance. SMART DShot establishes a paradigmatic shift from reactive to proactive embedded security, demonstrating that sophisticated artificial intelligence can operate effectively within microsecond-scale real-time constraints while providing comprehensive protection against timing manipulation, de-synchronization, burst interference, replay attacks, coordinated multi-channel attacks, and firmware-level compromises. This work provides essential foundations for trustworthy autonomous systems across critical domains including aerospace, automotive, industrial automation, and cyber–physical infrastructure. These results conclusively demonstrate that ML-enhanced motor control systems can achieve both superior security (88.3% attack detection rate with 2.3% false positives) and operational performance (31.01% timing correction success rate, 26.5% improvement over baseline) simultaneously, establishing SMART DShot as a practical, deployable solution for next-generation autonomous systems. Full article

Hyperspectral anomaly detection is used to recognize unusual patterns or anomalies in hyperspectral data. Currently, many spectral–spatial detection methods have been proposed with a cascaded manner; however, they often neglect the complementary characteristics between the spectral and spatial dimensions, which easily leads to yield high false alarm rate. To alleviate this issue, a spectral–spatial information fusion (SSIF) method is designed for hyperspectral anomaly detection. First, an isolation forest is exploited to obtain spectral anomaly map, in which the object-level feature is constructed with an entropy rate segmentation algorithm. Then, a local spatial saliency detection scheme is proposed to produce the spatial anomaly result. Finally, the spectral and spatial anomaly scores are integrated together followed by a domain transform recursive filtering to generate the final detection result. Experiments on five hyperspectral datasets covering ocean and airport scenes prove that the proposed SSIF produces superior detection results over other state-of-the-art detection techniques. Full article

The real-time identification of time-varying cable force is critical for accurately evaluating the fatigue damage of cables and assessing the safety condition of bridges. In the context of unknown wind excitations and only one available accelerometer, this paper proposes a novel cable force identification method based on an improved adaptive extended Kalman filter (IAEKF). Firstly, the governing equation of the stay cable motion, which includes the cable force variation coefficient, is expressed in the modal domain. It is transformed into a state equation by defining an augmented Kalman state vector with the cable force variation coefficient concerned. The cable force variation coefficient is then recursively estimated and closely tracked in real time by the proposed IAEKF. The contribution of this paper is that an updated fading-factor matrix is considered in the IAEKF, and the adaptive noise error covariance matrices are determined via an optimization procedure rather than by experience. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the numerical model of a real-world cable-supported bridge and an experimental scaled steel stay cable. Results indicate that the proposed method can identify the time-varying cable force in real time when the cable acceleration of only one measurement point is available. Full article

The original Hyperspectral image (HSI) has different degrees of Hughes phenomenon and mixed noise, leading to the decline of classification accuracy. To make full use of the spatial-spectral joint information of HSI and improve the classification accuracy, a novel dual feature extraction framework joint transform domain-spatial domain filtering based on multi-scale-superpixel-dimensionality reduction (LRS-HRFMSuperPCA) is proposed. Our framework uses the low-rank structure and sparse representation of HSI to repair the unobserved part of the original HSI caused by noise and then denoises it through a block-matching 3D algorithm. Next, the dimension of the reconstructed HSI is reduced by principal component analysis (PCA), and the dimensions of the reduced images are segmented by multi-scale entropy rate superpixels. All the principal component images with superpixels are projected into the reconstructed HSI in parallel. Secondly, PCA is once again used to reduce the dimension of all HSIs with superpixels in scale with hyperpixels. Moreover, hierarchical domain transform recursive filtering is utilized to obtain the feature images; ultimately, the decision fusion strategy based on a support vector machine (SVM) is used for classification. According to the Overall Accuracy (OA), Average Accuracy (AA) and Kappa coefficient on the three datasets (Indian Pines, University of Pavia and Salinas), the experimental results have shown that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. The conclusion is that LRS-HRFMSuperPCA can denoise and reconstruct the original HSI and then extract the space-spectrum joint information fully. Full article

In recent decades, in order to enhance the performance of hyperspectral image classification, the spatial information of hyperspectral image obtained by various methods has become a research hotspot. For this work, it proposes a new classification method based on the fusion of two spatial information, which will be classified by a large margin distribution machine (LDM). First, the spatial texture information is extracted from the top of the principal component analysis for hyperspectral images by a curvature filter (CF). Second, the spatial correlation information of a hyperspectral image is completed by using domain transform recursive filter (DTRF). Last, the spatial texture information and correlation information are fused to be classified with LDM. The experimental results of hyperspectral images classification demonstrate that the proposed curvature filter and domain transform recursive filter with LDM(CFDTRF-LDM) method is superior to other classification methods. Full article