The thermal perception of different body parts can vary greatly throughout the human body and have different influences on overall thermal sensation and comfort. Various personal comfort systems (PCS) have been developed to stimulate local body parts...
The thermal comfort of local body parts is the essential factor that affects people’s health and comfort as well as a buildings’ energy. This study aims to (1) investigate the characteristics of the local thermal comfort of different body...
Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds in drivable areas is very important for unmanned vehicles. Due to the imbalance between the size of various outdoor scene objects and the sample size, the object boundaries are not clear, and small sample feat...
Globalization and urbanization have made many Chinese cities lose their distinct characteristics and have led to emotional sense of loss for individuals. Place attachment, as encompassing place dependence and place identity, is the positive emotion t...
Virtual reality (VR) creates immersive environments that allow users to interact with digital content, fostering a sense of presence and engagement comparable to real-world experiences. VR360 technology, combined with affordable head-mounted displays...
In the light of climate change and burgeoning urbanization, heat loads in urban areas have emerged as serious issues, affecting the well-being of the population and the environment. In response to a pressing need for more standardised and communicabl...
In our previous study, we proposed a vision-based ranging algorithm (LRA) that utilized a monocular camera with four lasers (MC4L) for indoor positioning in dark environments. The LRA achieved a positioning error within 2.4 cm using a logarithmic reg...
Local humidity and temperature monitoring of ground parking aircraft were carried out in this study. Changes in the humidity of different bays and the relationship between local humidity and local temperature were investigated. Moreover, the concept...
Localization for estimating the position and orientation of a robot in an asymmetrical environment has been solved by using various 2D laser rangefinder simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approaches. Laser-based SLAM generates an occupancy...
This paper proposes a method for the on-site localization of autonomous vehicles in large-scale outdoor environments, where a single sensor cannot achieve the high precision for localization. The method is based on an improved Kalman filter by fusion...
The concept of a local audio environment is to have sound playback locally restricted such that, ideally, adjacent regions of an indoor or outdoor space could exhibit their own individual audio content without interfering with each other. This would...
Reverberation in real environments is an important factor affecting the high resolution of target sound source localization (SSL) methods. Broadband low-frequency signals are common in real environments. This study focuses on the localization of this...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been widely used in industrial, construction, and other fields. In recent years, demands for pedestrian localization have been increasing rapidly. In most cases, these applications...
In real-world robotic navigation, some ambiguous environments contain symmetrical or featureless areas that may cause the perceptual aliasing of external sensors. As a result of that, the uncorrected localization errors will accumulate during the loc...
This study examined the relationship between the perception of community environment, local government, and quality of life (QoL). Previous studies on QoL have not comprehensively analyzed factors related to community environments or local government...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a key driver of the low-altitude economy, where precise localization is critical for autonomous flight and complex task execution. However, conventional global positioning system (GPS) methods suffer from signal in...
The problem of estimating the indoor position of a person or an object, also known as indoor localization, has gained a lot of interest in the last decades. Actually, this feature would be valuable in many application contexts, from logistics to robo...
The precise localization of an underground mine environment is key to achieving unmanned and intelligent underground mining. However, in an underground environment, GPS is unavailable, there are variable and often poor lighting conditions, there is v...
When performing indoor tasks, miniature swarm robots are suffered from their small size, poor on-board computing power, and electromagnetic shielding of buildings, which means that some traditional localization methods, such as global positioning sys...
Accurate localization of robots in unstructured environments poses challenges due to low localization accuracy and local trajectory oscillation caused by complex feature points when using Euclidean-based filtering methods. In this study, we propose a...
Current drone navigation systems primarily rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), but their signals are susceptible to interference, spoofing, or suppression in complex environments, leading to degraded positioning performance or even f...
Accurate and scalable indoor localization is a key enabler of intelligent automation in smart environments and industrial systems. In this paper, we present SelfLoc, a self-supervised indoor localization system that combines IEEE 802.11az Round Trip...
Indoor emitter localization is a topic of continued interest for improving wireless security as wireless technologies continue to become more advanced. Conventional methods have focused on the localization of devices relative to multi-sensor systems...
This work proposes an innovative approach to enhance the localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. The methodology integrates a sophisticated object-tracking algorithm to augment the established simultaneous localizatio...
The accurate and reliable localization and tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are essential for the success of various underwater missions, such as environmental monitoring, subsea resource exploration, and military operations. long-ba...
This paper addresses the challenge of optimizing objective functions in engineering problems influenced by multiple environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity. Traditional modeling approaches often struggle to capture the complexities of...
To address the issue of agricultural robot loss of control caused by GNSS signal degradation or loss in complex agricultural environments such as farmland and orchards, this study proposes a neural network-based SLAM/GNSS fusion localization algorith...
Cooperative localization is critical for UAV swarm operations in GNSS-denied environments. The backbone-listener scheme, using a small subset of agents as active backbone nodes and others as passive listeners, offers notable advantages in reducing co...
Localization is one of the most important issues in mobile robotics, especially when an autonomous mobile robot performs a navigation task. The current and popular occupancy grid map, based on 2D LiDar simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), is...
This paper proposes a distance estimation error reduction framework to improve ground node localization accuracy in urban environments using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and path loss measurements. The primary goal of the framework is to bound di...
In search and rescue activities, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) should exploit sound information to compensate for poor visual information. This paper describes the design and implementation of a UAV-embedded microphone array system for sound source...
In this paper, a new localization system utilizing afocal optical flow sensor (AOFS) based sensor fusion for indoor service robots in low luminance and slippery environment is proposed, where conventional localization systems do not perform well. To...
WiFi-based human sensing has emerged as a transformative technology for advancing sustainable living environments and promoting well-being by enabling non-intrusive and device-free monitoring of human behaviors. This offers significant potential in a...
Repeated fires cause peatlands to degrade. Fire management has been carried out, but fires continue to occur, especially during the dry season. Through social capital that exists in the community based on the local wisdom of the Banjar people in envi...
Cultural heritage refers to the set of tangible and intangible assets that a society inherits from its ancestors and transmits to future generations. The training of future teachers in this subject is vital, as they will be responsible for using reso...
Background: In Korea, substantial disparities exist in physical environments across regions, exacerbating the polarization between metropolitan and provincial areas and urban and rural regions. Objectives: This study examines the differences in the p...
Agricultural robots can mitigate labor shortages and advance precision farming. However, the dense vegetation canopies and uneven terrain in orchard environments reduce the reliability of traditional GPS-based localization, thereby reducing navigatio...
Recent European policies fostering sustainable mobility target urban proximity as a core strategy for a modal shift towards low-carbon modes. Urban proximity, as a characteristic of the built environment, can be studied as a sub-thread of a broad and...
A growing number of higher-education institutions are implementing synchronous hybrid delivery, which provides both online and on-campus learners with simultaneous instruction, especially for facilitating discussions in Active Learning (AL) contexts....
Urban heat islands (UHIs) caused by urbanization have become a major issue affecting the sustainable development of the ecological environment. The distribution of UHIs is mainly affected by the reflection and transmission of heat radiation caused by...
As an essential structural indicator of buildings, sky view factor (SVF) is one of the most critical factors affecting the urban thermal environment. However, the relationship between SVF and the thermal environment at the neighborhood scale has not...
Privacy is a major concern in the digital era and is intensively addressed in academic research, in industry, and by regulators. However, almost all references to privacy in the digital world relate to the Wide Area Network (WAN) environment, which i...
Thermal environment deterioration has seriously threatened urban habitat quality and urban sustainable development. The evolution of the urban built environment (UBE) is an important cause for urban thermal environment variation. However, the dynamic...
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More than half the world’s population now live in urban settlements. Worldwide, cities are expanding at their fringe to accommodate population growth. Low-density residential development, urban sprawl, and car dependency are common, contributin...
It has become undeniable that global land surface temperature (LST) has continued to rise in recent years. The threat of extreme heat to humans has become self-evident, especially in arid regions. Many studies have clarified the temperature rise/fall...
The urban morphology has impacts on the urban thermal environment, which has drawn extensive attention, especially in metropolitan regions with intensive populations and high building densities. This study explored the relationship between the urban...
In order to assess the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban thermal environment in Zhengzhou City to supplement climate adaptation design work, based on the Landsat 8–9 OLI/TIRS C2 L2 data for 12 periods from 2019–2023, combi...
In current mobile networks, users’ identity privacy is threatened by long-term observation attacks. To resist such attacks, identity-anonymity technology has been proposed. However, existing anonymity schemes cannot adapt to diverse, dynamic bu...
Ice cover is a natural phenomenon unique to rivers in cold regions, and its existence is one of the reasons for the collapse of structural foundations of bridge piers across rivers. In order to understand the influence of different scouring environme...
Densification through infill developments is a common planning strategy where both advantages and problems have been brought forward. However, the knowledge on how such developments affect residents and their relations to local outdoor environments i...
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