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  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
16,357 Views
15 Pages

6 August 2012

The traditional urban public transport system generally cannot provide an effective access service for people with disabilities, especially for disabled, wheelchair and blind (DWB) passengers. In this paper, based on advanced information & communicat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends towards Automatic Vehicle Control and Perception Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,181 Views
11 Pages

XOR Multiplexing Technique for Nanocomputers

  • Lianhua Yu,
  • Ming Diao,
  • Xiaobo Chen and
  • Xiaochun Cheng

19 April 2020

In emerging nanotechnologies, due to the manufacturing process, a significant percentage of components may be faulty. In order to make systems based on unreliable nano-scale components reliable, it is necessary to design fault-tolerant architectures....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Information Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,383 Views
27 Pages

17 February 2025

The advent of the New Space Era has significantly accelerated the development of space equipment systems using commercial off-the-shelf components. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are increasingly favored for their ability to be easily modified, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On-Board Systems Design for Aerospace Vehicles (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,744 Views
39 Pages

27 September 2023

With the continuous development of satellite payload and system-on-chip (SoC) technology, spaceborne real-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems play a crucial role in various defense and civilian domains, including Earth remote sensing,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spaceborne High-Resolution SAR Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,911 Views
20 Pages

Efficient and robust power electronic converters are vital to the success of the electrification of aircraft. Especially, low voltage auxiliary converters, which usually supply high current and low voltage loads, are not readily available industriall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement in Power Electronics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,356 Views
32 Pages

Event-Driven Decentralized Control for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation

  • Javier Felix-Rendon,
  • Alejandro Díaz,
  • Gustavo Hernández-Melgarejo and
  • Rita Q. Fuentes-Aguilar

In this work, we present a decentralized, event-driven control architecture for collaborative rigid object manipulation using omnidirectional wheeled mobile robots. Unlike fixed manipulators, mobile manipulation requires complex coordination between...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control and Optimization for Robotic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,054 Views
29 Pages

Route-Aware AI-Assisted Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Energy Management for Hybrid Hydrogen Electric Vehicles: SIL and PIL Validation

  • Sihem Nasri,
  • Aymen Mnassri,
  • Nouha Mansouri,
  • Abderezak Lashab and ,
  • Juan C. Vasquez and
  • Adnane Cherif
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 February 2026

This paper proposes a unified energy management, fault detection, and fault-tolerant control (EMS–FDI–FTC) framework for Hybrid Hydrogen Electric Vehicles (HHEVs) integrating a fuel cell (FC), battery (Bat), and supercapacitor (SC). While...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuator Fault Diagnosis, State Detection and Fault Tolerant Control for Ground and Rail Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,664 Views
21 Pages

Modeling and Fault Tolerance Analysis of ZigBee Protocol in IoT Networks

  • Paweł Dymora,
  • Mirosław Mazurek and
  • Krzysztof Smalara

8 December 2021

This paper presents the essence of IoT (Internet of Things) works and design challenges, discusses its principles of operation, and presents IoT development concepts. WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) was characterized in detail as an essential component...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Issues of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Mechatronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,774 Views
23 Pages

Maximizing the Inner Resilience of a Network-on-Chip through Router Controllers Design

  • Douglas R. Melo,
  • Cesar A. Zeferino,
  • Luigi Dilillo and
  • Eduardo A. Bezerra

9 December 2019

Reducing component size and increasing the operating frequency of integrated circuits makes the Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) more susceptible to faults. Faults can cause errors, and errors can be propagated and lead to a system failure. SoCs employing many...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
577 Views
24 Pages

28 April 2026

To satisfy the stringent functional-safety requirements of steer-by-wire steering systems for advanced autonomous driving, this paper proposes a novel dual-motor collaborative fault-tolerant control strategy. The proposed approach aims to overcome th...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,101 Views
15 Pages

On-Line Diagnostics of Electrolytic Capacitors in Fault-Tolerant LED Lighting Systems

  • Khaled Laadjal,
  • Fernando Bento and
  • Antonio J. Marques Cardoso

As technology advances, the utilization of lighting systems based on light-emitting diode (LED) technology is becoming increasingly essential, given its benefits in terms of efficiency, reliability, and lifespan. Unfortunately, the power electronic c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics of Energy Storage Systems Components)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,460 Views
19 Pages

22 February 2024

As the number of machine learning applications increases, growing concerns about data privacy expose the limitations of traditional cloud-based machine learning methods that rely on centralized data collection and processing. Federated learning emerg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
724 Views
18 Pages

Design Methodology for Interleaved Converters Based on Coupled Inductors with ZVS and Closed-Loop Controllability Constraints

  • Javier Ballestín-Fuertes,
  • Ruben Clavero-Yebra,
  • Antonio-Miguel Muñoz-Gómez,
  • Ivan De-Gracia-Farrerons and ,
  • Manuel-Pedro Jimenez-Jimenez and
  • Antonio Mollfulleda
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft demand onboard power conversion systems that simultaneously achieve high gravimetric power density, robustness, and fault-toler...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,301 Views
42 Pages

Leveraging the DAO for Edge-to-Cloud Data Sharing and Availability

  • Adnan Imeri,
  • Uwe Roth,
  • Michail Alexandros Kourtis,
  • Andreas Oikonomakis and ,
  • Achilleas Economopoulos,
  • Lorenzo Fogli,
  • Antonella Cadeddu,
  • Alessandro Bianchini,
  • Daniel Iglesias and
  • Wouter Tavernier
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

8 January 2026

Reliable data availability and transparent governance are fundamental requirements for distributed edge-to-cloud systems that must operate across multiple administrative domains. Conventional cloud-centric architectures centralize control and storage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT–Edge–Cloud Computing and Decentralized Applications for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,460 Views
20 Pages

The Harvest Coach Architecture: Embedding Deviation-Tolerance in a Harvest Logistic Solution

  • Hugo Daniel Macedo,
  • René Søndergaard Nilsson and
  • Peter Gorm Larsen

We introduce a deviation-tolerance software architecture, which is devised for a prototype of a cloud-based harvest operation optimisation system issuing harvest plans. The deviation-tolerance architecture adapts the fault tolerance notions originati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,118 Views
50 Pages

Safety-Aware Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control in Sensor-Lean Industrial Systems: Validation in Beverage CIP

  • Apolinar González-Potes,
  • Ramón A. Félix-Cuadras,
  • Luis J. Mena,
  • Vanessa G. Félix and ,
  • Rafael Martínez-Peláez,
  • Rodolfo Ostos,
  • Pablo Velarde-Alvarado and
  • Alberto Ochoa-Brust
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Fault-tolerant control in safety-critical industrial systems demands adaptive responses to equipment degradation, parameter drift, and sensor failures while maintaining strict operational constraints. Traditional model-based controllers struggle unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Smart Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
331 Views
21 Pages

Sixth-generation (6G) communication technologies are projected to enable exceptionally low-latency services, massive device connectivity, edge intelligence, and real-time processing of more complicated data. However, meeting these requirements using...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Technologies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,099 Views
57 Pages

21 August 2026

Autonomous vehicles depend on heterogeneous sensing systems whose performance varies with range, illumination, weather, object material, traffic geometry, contamination, calibration quality, and cyber-physical interference. This PRISMA 2020 and PRISM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Sensor-Based Learning for Intelligent Driving and Smart Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,277 Views
26 Pages

23 May 2026

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is straining terrestrial data center infrastructure, motivating exploration of space-based data centers (SBDCs) as a scalable and energy-efficient alternative. While orbital platforms...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,510 Views
11 Pages

This article presents a model for orchestrating data extraction, processing, and storage, addressing the challenges posed by diverse data sources and increasing data volumes. The proposed model includes three primary components: data production, data...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 14th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2025—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,841 Views
34 Pages

17 November 2025

Cloud-centric IoT frameworks remain dominant; however, they introduce major challenges related to data privacy, latency, and system resilience. Existing open-source solutions often lack standardized principles for scalable, local-first deployment and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,283 Views
29 Pages

21 August 2025

The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled the implementation of interconnected intelligent systems in extremely dynamic contexts with limited resources. However, traditional paradigms, such as those using ECC-based heuristics...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,570 Views
21 Pages

A Decentralized Voting and Monitoring Flight Control Actuation System for eVTOL Aircraft

  • Ruichen He,
  • Florian Holzapfel,
  • Johannes Bröcker,
  • Yi Lai and
  • Shuguang Zhang

29 February 2024

The emergence of eVTOL (electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft necessitates the development of safe and efficient systems to meet stringent certification and operational requirements. The primary state-of-the-art technology for flight cont...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flight Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,054 Views
29 Pages

10 October 2020

While there is no rigorous framework to develop nanosatellites flight software, this manuscript aimed to explore and establish processes to design a reliable and reusable flight software architecture for cost-efficient student Cubesat missions such a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Verification Approaches for Nano- and Micro-Satellites II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,175 Views
22 Pages

Bot-Based Emergency Software Applications for Natural Disaster Situations

  • Gabriel Ovando-Leon,
  • Luis Veas-Castillo,
  • Veronica Gil-Costa and
  • Mauricio Marin

Upon a serious emergency situation such as a natural disaster, people quickly try to call their friends and family with the software they use every day. On the other hand, people also tend to participate as a volunteer for rescue purposes. It is unli...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,643 Views
19 Pages

13 March 2024

There is growing concern regarding air pollutants (NOx, SOx, and PM) and carbon emissions from ocean-going vessels in harbor areas and the role of high-voltage shore connection (HVSC) systems in mitigating these emissions during vessel berthing. The...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,493 Views
12 Pages

4 October 2025

Current medical informatics systems face critical challenges, including limited scalability across distributed institutions, insufficient real-time AI-driven decision support, and lack of standardized interoperability for heterogeneous medical data e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Medical Informatics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,003 Views
22 Pages

Overview of Sensing and Data Processing Technologies for Smart Building Services and Applications

  • Hamza Elkhoukhi,
  • Abdellatif Elmouatamid,
  • Achraf Haibi,
  • Mohamed Bakhouya and
  • Driss El Ouadghiri

29 April 2025

Internet of things (IoT) and big data technologies are increasingly gaining significance in the implementation of various services and applications. Consequently, much of the research focused on energy efficiency and building management revolves arou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Integration and Application in Buildings for Carbon Neutrality 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,044 Views
19 Pages

A Study on an IoT-Based SCADA System for Photovoltaic Utility Plants

  • Sergio Ferlito,
  • Salvatore Ippolito,
  • Celestino Santagata,
  • Paolo Schiattarella and
  • Girolamo Di Francia

Large-scale photovoltaic (PV) electricity production plants rely on reliable operation and maintenance (O&M) systems, often operated by means of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platforms aimed at limiting, as much as possible, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of IoT: Advanced AI Based IoT Technologies and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
409 Views
80 Pages

28 October 2026

The continuous expansion of data-intensive applications, including deep learning, autonomous control, and real-time analytics, has pushed conventional electronic computing toward its limits in performance and energy efficiency. Combining silicon phot...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)