This study investigated the effects of the steering wheel center module mass on driver airbag deployment and driver injury through finite element analyses under FMVSS 208 frontal-impact conditions. The module mass was varied up to 500 g and extended...
The industrial dismantling and recycling of end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) modules require robust visual inspection under dust contamination, inter-class similarity, and constrained edge-computing conditions. This study proposes an end-to-end framewor...
Drone delivery has a great potential to change the traditional parcel delivery service in consideration of cost reduction, resource conservation, and environmental protection. This paper introduces a novel drone fleet deployment and planning problem...
Air Quality (AQ) and the management of low-emission zones are critical issues in densely populated urban areas. In such environments, human activity significantly impacts AQ, prompting increased efforts to monitor it using a range of devices. Traditi...
Infrared defects in photovoltaic (PV) modules captured during unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection are typically small and low-contrast, while onboard edge platforms are constrained by memory, logic resources, and power consumption. To address th...
In civil engineering, there is an occasional need to assure an additional support for a structure due to the loss of the load carrying capacity (e.g., as a result of natural disasters or aging) or for a lightweight structure to support temporary obje...
Research has implicated immune system inflammation as an underlying etiology of multi-symptom illnesses, and vitamin D has been shown to have a significant role in immune system function. In this retrospective review performed on the medical charts o...
Plant electrical signals are closely related to light conditions, and changes in light intensity lead to variations in the amplitude, frequency, and other characteristics of plant electrical signals. Therefore, real-time analysis of the relationship...
Deployable structures based on origami are widely used in the application of actuators. In this paper, we present a novel family of origami-based deployable structures with constant curvature. Two categories of non-flat-foldable and non-developable d...
The evolution towards 6G is set to transform Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks by introducing advanced technologies such as Six-Dimensional Movable Antenna (6DMA). This technology endows Roadside Units (RSUs) with dynamic beam-steering capabilitie...
Decades after its introduction, endovascular aneurysm repair remains a challenging procedure with risks of collateral patency failure. Here, we investigate the ability of a porous stent, the Multilayer Flow Modulator (MFM), to maintain renal perfusio...
With the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, demand for optical modules surges—alongside faster upgrades and stricter low-power requirements. However, traditional optical driver integrated circuits (ICs) rely on devic...
The mast of the rover is a device used to carry precision instruments such as cameras on the rover, and its performance directly affects the working quality of these devices. The replaceable interface mast can effectively solve the problems of a sing...
Several tests were conducted to ratify the reliability and durability of the solar photovoltaic (PV) devices before deployment in the real field (non-ideal conditions). In the real field, the temperature of the PV modules was varied during the day an...
It is thought that there are 14 million standardised sea containers out of order, equal to 23.3 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), which could be devoted for other purposes. The COR-TEN®steel containers are the best, due to the features of th...
The current geometric increase in the global deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, both at utility-scale and residential roof-top systems, is majorly attributed to its affordability, scalability, long-term warranty and, most importantly, the...
The structural safety of solar cells mounted on deployable solar panels in the launch vibration environment is a significant aspect of a successful CubeSat mission. This paper presents a novel highly damped deployable solar panel module that is effec...
Currently, deep learning-based segmentation methods are capable of achieving accurate segmentation. However, their deployment and training are costly and resource-intensive. To reduce deployment costs and facilitate the application of segmentation mo...
Rapidly deployable floating bridges face coupled challenges in compact deployment, structural load-bearing, and controllable module maneuvering, which cannot be fully evaluated through a single-stage structural or hydrodynamic assessment. To close th...
Discrete particle dynamics is one of the least understood aspects of river bedload transport, but in situ measurement of stone movement during floods poses a significant technical challenge. A promising approach to address this knowledge gap is to us...
Fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is crucial for ensuring the maintenance and reliability of industrial equipment. Existing cross-domain diagnostic methods often struggle to maintain performance under evolving mechanical and environmental condition...
In ITU-T standards, auxiliary management and control channels (AMCCs), as defined, facilitate the rapid deployment and efficient management of wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) systems. The super-imposition of an AMCC...
This paper deals with the interface-relevant activity of a vehicle integrated intelligent safety system (ISS) that includes an airbag deployment decision system (ADDS) and a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). A program is developed in LabWindows...
To address the degradation of low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) radar waveform recognition caused by noise dispersion and the masking of modulation-dependent structures in low-SNR Choi–Williams distribution (CWD) images, this paper proposes Re...
Reliable state of health (SOH) and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation is essential for lithium-ion battery diagnostics, prognosis, and management across cell, module, and pack levels. Yet the reported performance metrics often remain tied to cont...
In this article, deployable cylindrical vaults of reciprocal linkages with frustoconical ends are analysed. Deployable cylindrical vaults with quadrangular scissors modules have low stiffness in the longitudinal direction, which requires the use of s...
In urban intelligent transportation systems, the real-time acquisition of network-wide traffic states is constrained by limited sensor density and high deployment costs. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a learnable Detection Point Selec...
Underwater acoustic (UWA) communication supports many critical applications but still faces several physical-layer signal processing challenges. In response, recent advances in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) offer promising solutions to...
Vehicle-ejected debris detection is a practical but insufficiently studied problem in intelligent traffic enforcement. Unlike static road litter, objects thrown from moving vehicles are usually small, irregular, transient, and easily confused with ro...
Quick and efficient mission planning is essential in maritime search and rescue (SAR). This includes defining the search area and developing an effective strategy. The task is fraught with challenges due to the difficulty of determining location info...
With the continuous deepening of Mars exploration missions, the Mars helicopter has become a key platform for acquiring high-resolution near-ground imagery. However, accurate semantic segmentation of the Martian surface remains challenging due to com...
Automated wildlife monitoring systems are essential for studying bat populations in natural environments, where nocturnal behavior, high flight speeds, and limited illumination make conventional observation difficult. This paper presents a modular mu...
Fire detection in warehouse scenarios is challenged by complex background interference, weak features of small flame targets, and indistinct flame textures, which can reduce detection performance and constrain model deployment. To address these issue...
Fish observation is a key component of marine ecological monitoring and is valuable for understanding ecological processes and fish population dynamics. In practical applications, observation equipment is often constrained by limited memory and compu...
To address the deployment bottleneck of high-capacity detectors on edge hardware, this study proposes MAC-Lite, an optimized architecture that integrates the Multi-Scale Pyramid Pooling (MSPP) and Asymmetric Padding Convolution (APC) modules to captu...
With the deployment of the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G), 25 and 100 Gb/s directly modulated lasers and modules will become the mainstream optical transmitters. A directly modulated InGaAlAs/InP distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser is f...
To tackle the challenges of weak sensing capacity for multi-scale objects, high missed detection rates for occluded targets, and difficulties for model deployment in detection tasks of intelligent roadside perception systems, the PDT-YOLO algorithm b...
Reliable detection of cable surface defects is important for the safety of power transmission systems, but existing methods still face difficulties in small-target representation, multi-scale variation, and complex industrial backgrounds. To address...
The offshore environment is complex during automatic target annotation at sea, and the difference between the focal lengths of visible and infrared sensors is large, thereby causing difficulties in matching multitarget electro-optical images at sea....
Ship detection plays a pivotal role in safeguarding maritime security, regulating vessel traffic, and bolstering national maritime defense. While contemporary lightweight models predominantly emphasize parameter reduction, efforts to curtail computat...
Metro Computer Interlocking Systems are crucial for ensuring the safe and efficient operation of rail transit. However, existing vision-based signal detection methods face challenges including small target sizes, high target density, low image resolu...
To address the dual challenges of discriminating weeds from rice seedlings for precision weed management operations, such as targeted spraying and robotic weeding, in complex paddy-field scenes and deploying high-precision models on resource-limited...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as an efficient solution for numerous real-time applications, attributable to their compactness, cost-effectiveness, and ease of deployment. The rapid advancement of 5G technology and mobile edge computing...
Korean forests are highly vulnerable to forest fires, which can severely damage property and human life. This necessitates the establishment of a rapid response system and the construction of firebreaks to prevent the spread of fires and protect key...
Maritime search and rescue (SAR) is a time-critical public safety mission that increasingly relies on unmanned vehicles to localize persons overboard. However, reliable onboard perception is challenged by extreme scale variation and heavy sea clutter...
An Internet of Things (IoT) system for managing and coordinating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has revolutionized the industrial sector. The largest issue with the design of the Internet of UAVs (IoUAV) is security. Conspicuously, the novel contrib...
In resource-constrained edge agricultural environments, the accurate recognition of toxic weeds poses dual challenges related to model lightweight design and the few-shot generalization capability. To address these challenges, a multi-strategy recogn...
Large deployment of photovoltaic (PV) installation worldwide demands reliability assurance of the systems to maintain the confidence in the markets. With the diversity of PV applications, it is essential the detection of circumstances that can be the...
The increasing deployment of photovoltaic (PV) installations presents critical challenges related to module safety and efficiency. Early detection of hotspots on PV modules is crucial to prevent degradation and mitigate fire risk. This study investig...
The lack of privileged access to emergent and operational deployments is one of the key matters during validation and testing of novel telecommunication systems and technologies. This matter jeopardizes the repeatability of experiments, which results...
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