Recent development in mobile technology has significantly improved the quality of life. Everyday life is increasingly becoming dependent on mobile devices as mobile applications are targeting the needs of the end users. However, many end users strugg...
The strengthening of regulations such as EEXI, EEDI, and CII on ship emissions is underway. Despite their application, objective comparisons of ships are hindered by diverse navigation patterns and varying velocity regulations in different seas and p...
Gamified virtual reality (VR) environments are increasingly used to enhance engagement and learning, yet most designs still adopt a one-size-fits-all approach that overlooks motivational diversity. The HEXAD framework, which classifies users into six...
Promoting consumers’ willingness to pay is crucial to creating a sustainable e-commerce environment, and the interaction design of the product configurator plays a key role in this. In the present study, the product configurator, which is indis...
The navigation field of agricultural machinery has entered the intelligent stage, but the navigation control performance of paddy field agricultural machinery represented by rice transplanters is not stable in complex environments. Therefore, this st...
Navigating vessels leave traces of their motion in the form of wake patterns on the water surface. Wakes are visible in high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar maps and bear information related to the kinematic variables of the vessel motion. A prop...
To enhance the anti-interference capabilities and increase flexibility in frequency allocation between the lower and upper sidebands of the navigation signal, we introduce frequency-hopping binary offset carrier modulation with independent frequency-...
This paper presents the design, development, and testing of a robot that combines soft-body grasping and crawling locomotion to navigate tubular objects. Inspired by the natural snakes’ climbing locomotion of tubular objects, the soft robot inc...
A vessel must navigate along designated routes within a harbor area to ensure navigation safety. The impact of strong currents is one of the most dangerous factors in coastal navigation. However, it is challenging to determine the deviation of a ship...
Design methods are presented for chip pulses and a constant envelope multiplexing (CEM) scheme for a new navigation satellite system in the S band. If we assume three equal-power signals are needed to transmit, the chip pulses of at least two signals...
This paper focuses on the use of Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave radars as an aiding source to provide precision navigation during approach and landing operations in Advanced Air Mobility scenarios. Specifically, the radar system requirements are...
With the increasing number of cislunar space missions, real-time and reliable navigation and communication services have become critical. It is necessary to develop the navigation constellations dedicated to cislunar space services. However, there ar...
The paper presents an analysis of ship traffic using the port of Świnoujście and the problems associated with modelling vessel traffic flows. Navigation patterns were studied using the Automatic Identification System (AIS); an analysis of vessel traf...
Terrain-aided navigation (TAN) is a technology that estimates the position of the vehicle by comparing the altitude measured by an altimeter and height from the digital elevation model (DEM). The particle filter (PF)-based TAN has been commonly used...
Head-Up Display (HUD) systems are widely used in vehicles to overlay navigation prompts in the driver’s field of view, thereby reducing eyes-off-road time. However, suboptimal information presentation may impose extra cognitive demands and lead...
On-site search has become a critical component of e-commerce platforms, shaping product discovery, navigation, and purchasing decisions. While prior research has extensively examined search algorithms and information retrieval, less attention has bee...
It is essential to promote the intelligence and autonomy of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASSs). This study proposed an automatic collision-avoidance method based on an improved Artificial Potential Field (APF) with the formation of MASSs (F-MA...
To address the limitations of existing perception methods for nighttime encounter situation recognition of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), this study proposes an image-based method for navigation-light recognition and encounter situation recognition...
With advancements in inertial navigation measurement units (IMUs), the focus of inertial navigation accuracy has shifted from hardware limitations to algorithm performance. To effectively test algorithms using high-precision IMUs, trajectory generato...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) require robust decision-making capabilities to navigate dynamic environments securely and effectively. Furthermore, advanced sensors and computational models are utilized to perceive the environment and predict the behavior...
An integrated navigation system is a promising solution to improve positioning performance by complementing estimated positioning in each sensor, such as a global positioning system (GPS), an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and an odometer sensor. H...
Recognition and understanding of ship motion patterns have excellent application value for ship navigation and maritime supervision, i.e., route planning and maritime risk assessment. This paper proposes a semantic recognition method for ship motion...
The trend of gated communities is becoming the new alternative housing for the high-end residents of Jordan, reflecting global patterns of urbanisation. However, their emergence on the outskirts of Amman on vacant lands requires an early proactive pl...
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are vital technologies of our age and serve a plethora of industries that rely on precise positioning for automation, efficiency, and safety. Emerging applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in critic...
When autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) perform underwater tasks, the absence of GPS position assistance can lead to a decrease in the accuracy of traditional navigation systems, such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF), due to the accumulation of...
Despite the existence of standardized collision regulations such as the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs), ship collisions continue to occur, indicating persistent gaps in how navigators interpret and apply these ru...
Rice is the predominant grain crop in China, with its consumption showing a steady annual increase. Due to the diminishing labor force, China’s rice cultivation industry faces significant challenges and has an urgent requirement for automated r...
ky polarization patterns can be used both as indicators of atmospheric turbidity and as a sun compass for navigation. The objective of this study is to improve the precision of sky light polarization measurements by optimal design of the device used....
Two recent studies addressed the problem of reducing transitional turbulence in applications developed in C# on .NET. The first study investigated this problem in desktop and Web GUI applications and the second in virtual and augmented reality applic...
This study investigates the demand for high-precision trajectory similarity assessment in intelligent maritime navigation. This is done by analyzing discrepancies between GPS-derived trajectories and actual vessel paths, while identifying critical li...
Effective indoor navigation remains a challenge in complex built environments such as hospitals and airports, where disorientation can lead to anxiety, inefficiency, and safety risks. While prior research has focused on outdoor wayfinding or single-m...
In this paper, We present how we combined visualization and machine learning techniques to provide an analytic tool for web log data.We designed a visualization where advertisers can observe the visits to their different pages on a site, common web a...
Global navigation satellite systems are the best means of navigation for dynamic platforms. However, interference, line-of-sight blockages, and multipath are destructive to receiver operations. Advanced receiver architectures like vector tracking loo...
Access to complex graphical information is essential when connecting blind and visually impaired (BVI) people with the world. Tactile graphics readers enable access to graphical data through audio-tactile user interfaces (UIs), but these have yet to...
The polarization patterns of skylight which arise due to the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere can be used by many insects for deriving compass information. Inspired by insects’ polarized light compass, scientists have developed a new kind of...
Autonomous odor source localization remains a challenging problem for aerial robots due to turbulent airflow, sparse and delayed sensory signals, and strict payload and computation constraints. While prior unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based olfactio...
In this paper, a wideband small cavity-backed magneto-electric (ME) antenna is proposed. This antenna is linearly polarized and designed to cover all the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) bands. It exhibits small external dimensions of 90 × 9...
Biophilic design as a new design approach promotes the integration of natural elements into the built environment, leading to a significant impact on human health, well-being, and productivity. On the other hand, scholars have explored Virtual Enviro...
The recent advancements in mobile technologies have enabled the widespread adoption of augmented reality (AR) to enrich cultural heritage (CH) digital experiences. Mobile AR leverages visual recognition capabilities and sensor data to superimpose dig...
The inherent errors of low-cost inertial sensors cause significant heading drift that accumulates over time, making it difficult to rely on Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) for navigation over a long period. Moreover, the flexible portability of the s...
This qualitative study explored the perceived relationships between outdoor built environments and sensory sensitivities, focusing on autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants who had lived exp...
This paper presents a quantitative investigation into the hydrodynamic characteristics of a floating breakwater system encompassing an artificial floating island. The floating breakwater’s cross-section is configured as a collection of multiple...
To address Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing threats to Inertial Navigation System (INS)/GNSS integrated navigation systems, this paper analyzes the internal error propagation mechanisms and quantifies perturbation patterns within th...
Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) exhibits sophisticated chemotaxis behavior with a unique locomotion pattern using a simple nervous system only and is, therefore, well suited to inspire simple, cost-effective robotic navigation schemes. Chemotaxis...
This paper presents a case study on the integration of embedded IoT hardware with a modern Android application, demonstrated through the development of a compact autoclave system for small-scale food sterilization. The device is controlled by an ESP8...
Existing ship emission inventories for coastal seas are typically gridded at 500 m to 1 km, a resolution too coarse to distinguish navigation channels from anchorage zones. Whether the hotspot patterns reported at such scales reflect true emission ge...
This paper reports a more complete description of the design process of the Center Support Quadruple Mass Gyroscope (CSQMG), a gyro expected to provide breakthrough performance for flat structures. The operation of the CSQMG is based on four lumped m...
The legibility of residential space pertains to the clarity and intelligibility of spatial organisation, facilitating intuitive navigation and an immediate grasp of spatial structure. Despite its significance, legibility remains an underexplored fact...
This study presents a systematic analysis of wave propagation dynamics at Taiping Bay Port in Dalian, characterized by its deep navigation channel, narrow port entrance, and complex bathymetric features. This study addresses the gap in numerical simu...
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the future water traffic environment will present a new pattern of coexistence of manned ships and unmanned ships, because unmanned ships are different from manned ships in situation underst...
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