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A Systematic Review of Self-Adaptive Mobile Applications with Cooperative Dimension

  • Berhanyikun Amanuel Gebreselassie,
  • Nuno M. Garcia and
  • Dida Midekso
IoT2026, 7(1), 6;https://doi.org/10.3390/iot7010006 
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31 December 2025

The proliferation of mobile devices has driven significant growth in adaptive mobile applications (AMAs) that dynamically adjust their behavior based on contextual changes. While existing research has extensively studied individual adaptive systems,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,482 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2018

Starting with the Internet of Things (IoT), new forms of system operation concepts have emerged to provide creative services through collaborations among autonomic devices. Following these paradigmatic changes, the ability of each participating syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,467 Views
23 Pages

A Model to Support Fluid Transitions between Environments for Mobile Augmented Reality Applications

  • Tiago Davi Oliveira de Araújo,
  • Carlos Gustavo Resque dos Santos,
  • Rodrigo Santos do Amor Divino Lima and
  • Bianchi Serique Meiguins

30 September 2019

The adaptability between different environments remains a challenge for Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR). If not done seamlessly, such transitions may cause discontinuities in navigation, consequently disorienting users and undermining the acceptance o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,942 Views
23 Pages

Self-Adaptation of a Heterogeneous Swarm of Mobile Robots to a Covered Area

  • Ján Zelenka,
  • Tomáš Kasanický,
  • Marek Bundzel and
  • Rudolf Andoga

21 May 2020

An original swarm-based method for coordination of groups of mobile robots with a focus on the self-organization and self-adaptation of the groups is presented in this paper. The method is a nature-inspired decentralized algorithm that uses artificia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,382 Views
13 Pages

3 August 2020

Due to the rapid popularization of various short distance communication mobile devices, the use scenarios of opportunistic networks are increasing day by day. However, in opportunistic networks, because of the complexity of community structure, many...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,934 Views
30 Pages

Tomato Urban Gardening Supported by an IoT-Based System: A Latin American Experience Report on Technology Adoption

  • Manuel J. Ibarra-Cabrera,
  • Irwin Estrada Torres,
  • Mario Aquino Cruz,
  • Ronald A. Rentería Ayquipa,
  • Sergio F. Ochoa and
  • Juan Manuel Ochoa

28 November 2024

When urban agriculture is addressed at a family scale, known as urban gardening, it is assumed as a non-commercial activity where some family members voluntarily take care of the plantation during their free time. If technology is going to be used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
710 Views
31 Pages

Design, Simulation, Construction and Experimental Validation of a Dual-Frequency Wireless Power Transfer System Based on Resonant Magnetic Coupling

  • Marian-Razvan Gliga,
  • Calin Munteanu,
  • Adina Giurgiuman,
  • Claudia Constantinescu,
  • Sergiu Andreica and
  • Claudia Pacurar

Wireless power transfer (WPT) has emerged as a compelling solution for delivering electrical energy without physical connectors, particularly in applications requiring reliability, mobility, or encapsulation. This work presents the modeling, simulati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,200 Views
36 Pages

The increase in private car usage in cities has led to limited knowledge and uncertainty about traffic flow. This results in difficulties in addressing traffic congestion. This study proposes a novel technique for dynamically calculating the shortest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,242 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2022

Mobile laser scanning technology used for deformation detection of shield tunnel is usually two-dimensional, which is expanded into three-dimensional (3D) through mileage, resulting in low positioning accuracy. This study proposes a 3D laser point cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,489 Views
26 Pages

Architecture for Self-Evolution of 6G Core Network Based on Intelligent Decision Making

  • Lu Lu,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Chunhong Zhang,
  • Zheng Hu,
  • Shangjing Lin,
  • Zihao Liu,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Xinshu Liu and
  • Jinhao Chen

The rapid progress of 6G mobile communication technologies has sparked a great deal research interests. The 6G core network architecture faces formidable challenges due to the escalating complexity of network service demands and diverse application s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,121 Views
21 Pages

14 September 2016

Using mobile robots or unmanned vehicles to assist optimal wireless sensors deployment in a working space can significantly enhance the capability to investigate unknown environments. This paper addresses the issues of the application of numerical op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,932 Views
11 Pages

21 April 2021

Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic disease treated by maintaining and managing a lifelong restrictive gluten-free diet. The purpose of this study was to develop a mobile application, Plan My C-Day, to promote self-management skills among youth with CD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,987 Views
17 Pages

Distributed Joint Cooperative Self-Localization and Target Tracking Algorithm for Mobile Networks

  • Junjie Zhang,
  • Jianhua Cui,
  • Zhongyong Wang,
  • Yingqiang Ding and
  • Yujie Xia

4 September 2019

Location information is a key issue for applications of the Internet of Things. In this paper, we focus on mobile wireless networks with moving agents and targets. The positioning process is divided into two phases based on the factor graph, i.e., a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,571 Views
26 Pages

Kinematic In Situ Self-Calibration of a Backpack-Based Multi-Beam LiDAR System

  • Han Sae Kim,
  • Yongil Kim,
  • Changjae Kim and
  • Kang Hyeok Choi

21 January 2021

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing technology provides a more efficient means to acquire accurate 3D information from large-scale environments. Among the variety of LiDAR sensors, Multi-Beam LiDAR (MBL) sensors are one of the most ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,893 Views
23 Pages

1 August 2023

The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) is a matching technique used to determine the transformation matrix that best minimizes the distance between two point clouds. Although mostly used for 2D and 3D surface reconstruction, this technique is also widely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,010 Views
16 Pages

Towards an Open Medical School without Checkerboards during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How to Flexibly Self-Manage General Surgery Practices in Hospitals?

  • Héctor Guadalajara,
  • Álvaro Palazón,
  • Olatz Lopez-Fernandez,
  • Pilar Esteban-Flores,
  • José Miguel Garcia,
  • Alicia Gutiérrez-Misis,
  • Enrique Baca-García and
  • Damián Garcia-Olmo

Background: Can we create a technological solution to flexibly self-manage undergraduate General Surgery practices within hospitals? Before the pandemic, the management of clerkships was starting to depend less on checkerboards. This study aims to ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,299 Views
17 Pages

13 September 2017

Environment perception is essential for autonomous mobile robots in human-robot coexisting outdoor environments. One of the important tasks for such intelligent robots is to autonomously detect the traversable region in an unstructured 3D real world....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,270 Views
31 Pages

Dynamic Task Allocation in Multi-Hop Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks with Low Mobility

  • Yichao Jin,
  • Serdar Vural,
  • Alexander Gluhak and
  • Klaus Moessner

16 October 2013

This paper presents a task allocation-oriented framework to enable efficient in-network processing and cost-effective multi-hop resource sharing for dynamic multi-hop multimedia wireless sensor networks with low node mobility, e.g., pedestrian speeds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,584 Views
16 Pages

1 December 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the revolutionary paradigm to empower sixth generation (6G) edge computing based e-healthcare for everyone. Thus, this research aims to promote an AI-based cost-effective and efficient healthcare application. The cyber...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,442 Views
18 Pages

9 August 2024

The self-excited oscillation system, owing to its capability of harvesting environmental energy, exhibits immense potential in diverse fields, such as micromachines, biomedicine, communications, and construction, with its adaptability, efficiency, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
710 Views
11 Pages

The Persian Version of the SIGAM Mobility Scale Was Cross-Culturally Adapted and Validated in Adults with Lower Limb Amputation

  • Fatemeh Azadinia,
  • Mahshid Mosharaf,
  • Atefeh Lesani,
  • Nicola Ryall and
  • Ebrahim Sadeghi-Demneh

Background: Mobility assessment is a crucial aspect of rehabilitation for individuals with lower limb amputation, as it directly influences their independence and quality of life. The objective of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,949 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2019

The appearance of a large number of mobile intelligent devices boosts the fast rise of mobile health (mHealth) application. However, due to the sensitivity and complexity of medical data, an efficient and secure mobile communication mode is a very di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,428 Views
27 Pages

Mamba-VNPS: A Visual Navigation and Positioning System with State-Selection Space

  • Longyang Huang,
  • Zhiyuan Wang,
  • Qiankai Xiong,
  • Ruokun Qu,
  • Chenghao Yao and
  • Chenglong Li

10 November 2024

This study was designed to address the challenges of autonomous navigation facing UAVs in urban air mobility environments without GPS. Unlike traditional localization methods that rely heavily on GPS and pre-mapped routes, Mamba-VNPS leverages a self...

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  • Open Access
1,435 Views
19 Pages

Coordinated Motion Control of Mobile Self-Reconfigurable Robots in Virtual Rigid Framework

  • Ruopeng Wei,
  • Yubin Liu,
  • Huijuan Dong,
  • Yanhe Zhu and
  • Jie Zhao

5 December 2024

This paper presents a control method for the coordinated motion of a mobile self-reconfigurable robotic system. By utilizing a virtual rigid framework, the system ensures that its configuration remains stable and intact, while enabling modular units...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,372 Views
12 Pages

Unmet Information Needs of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: Results of a Cross-Sectional Online Survey Study in Germany

  • Christian Becker,
  • Matthias Diener,
  • Axel J. Hueber,
  • Jörg Henes,
  • Martin Krusche,
  • Yuriy Ignatyev,
  • Susann May,
  • Ulrike Erstling,
  • Corinna Elling-Audersch and
  • Johannes Knitza
  • + 1 author

To effectively self-manage a chronic disease, patients require specific education. In clinical routines, rheumatologists and other healthcare professionals often cannot devote the necessary time to adequately educate their patients. Digital technolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,785 Views
24 Pages

A Nudge-Inspired AI-Driven Health Platform for Self-Management of Diabetes

  • Shane Joachim,
  • Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan,
  • Prem Prakash Jayaraman,
  • Ahsan Morshed and
  • Nilmini Wickramasinghe

19 June 2022

Diabetes mellitus is a serious chronic disease that affects the blood sugar levels in individuals, with current predictions estimating that nearly 578 million people will be affected by diabetes by 2030. Patients with type II diabetes usually follow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,091 Views
24 Pages

An Efficient Weed Detection Method Using Latent Diffusion Transformer for Enhanced Agricultural Image Analysis and Mobile Deployment

  • Yuzhuo Cui,
  • Yingqiu Yang,
  • Yuqing Xia,
  • Yan Li,
  • Zhaoxi Feng,
  • Shiya Liu,
  • Guangqi Yuan and
  • Chunli Lv

13 November 2024

This paper presents an efficient weed detection method based on the latent diffusion transformer, aimed at enhancing the accuracy and applicability of agricultural image analysis. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves...

  • Review
  • Open Access
420 Views
12 Pages

9 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Medication non-adherence and incomplete seizure documentation remain major challenges in epilepsy care, particularly in drug-resistant forms. Digital health tools may improve self-management by integrating seizure tracking, adh...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,687 Views
10 Pages

Non-Adherence with Physiotherapeutic Rehabilitation—A Cross-Cultural Adaption of Compliance Parameters into German

  • Hassan Tarek Hakam,
  • Jonathan Lettner,
  • Hannes Hofmann,
  • Sebastian Kersten,
  • Felix Muehlensiepen,
  • Roland Becker and
  • Robert Prill

1 September 2023

Background: Compliance with rehabilitative physiotherapeutic measures leads to an improvement in outcomes in patients suffering from a variety of musculoskeletal conditions. To date, a tool for assessing the parameters that lead to non-adherence to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,993 Views
8 Pages

Magnetorheological Elastomer-Based Self-Powered Triboelectric Nanosensor for Monitoring Magnetic Field

  • Dong Wan,
  • Ningchen Ma,
  • Taochuang Zhao,
  • Xiaojing Cui,
  • Zhaosu Wang,
  • Hulin Zhang and
  • Kai Zhuo

23 October 2021

The adaptable monitoring of the ubiquitous magnetic field is of great importance not only for scientific research but also for industrial production. However, the current detecting techniques are unwieldly and lack essential mobility owing to the com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,121 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2022

Resilience plays an important role in improving robustness for robots in harsh environments such as planetary exploration and unstructured terrains. As a naturally compliant structure, tensegrity presents advantageous flexibility for enhancing resili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
900 Views
30 Pages

11 November 2025

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) have emerged as a transformative platform for high-performance sensing technologies, yet their full potential can be realized only through coordinated performance optimization. This article provides a comprehe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,345 Views
13 Pages

Lessons Learned from Development of a Mobile App for Cardiovascular Health Awareness

  • Bryan Weichelt,
  • Jeffrey VanWormer,
  • Yin Xu,
  • Chris Kadolph and
  • Simon Lin

26 May 2021

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major public health concern in the United States. In response to the federally sponsored Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge, a team of programmers, software developers, health-information technologists, and clinicia...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,227 Views
48 Pages

Integration of AI in Self-Powered IoT Sensor Systems

  • Cosmina-Mihaela Rosca and
  • Adrian Stancu

21 June 2025

The acceleration of digitalization has caused an increase in demand for autonomous devices. In this paper, the technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially machine learning (ML), integrated into applications that use self-powered Inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,986 Views
17 Pages

Contribution of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies to Food Self-Sufficiency of Smallholder Households in Mali

  • Bouba Traore,
  • Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu,
  • Seydou Sangaré,
  • Murali Krishna Gumma,
  • Ramadjita Tabo and
  • Anthony Michael Whitbread

12 July 2021

Climate change has resulted in food insecurity for the majority of farming communities in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali. In this paper, we present a methodology for scaling climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies such as Contour Bunding (CB),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,239 Views
19 Pages

To address the challenges in ship plate detection under complex maritime scenarios—such as small target size, extreme aspect ratios, dense arrangements, and multi-angle rotations—this paper proposes a multi-module collaborative detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,564 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2024

SegContrast first paved the way for contrastive learning on outdoor point clouds. Its original formulation targeted individual scans in applications like autonomous driving and object detection. However, mobile mapping purposes such as digital twin c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
24 Pages

High-Degree Connectivity Sensor Networks: Applications in Pastured Cow Herd Monitoring

  • Geunho Lee,
  • Teruyuki Yamane,
  • Kota Okabe,
  • Fumiaki Sugino and
  • Yeunwoong Kyung

12 December 2025

This paper explores the application of mobile sensor networks in cow herds, focusing on the challenge of achieving local communication under minimal computational constraints such as restricted locality, limited memory, and implicit coordination. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,284 Views
18 Pages

An Improved DHA Star and ADA-DWA Fusion Algorithm for Robot Path Planning

  • Yizhe Jia,
  • Yong Cai,
  • Jun Zhou,
  • Hui Hu,
  • Xuesheng Ouyang,
  • Jinlong Mo and
  • Hao Dai

The advancement of mobile robot technology has made path planning a necessary condition for autonomous navigation, but traditional algorithms have issues with efficiency and reliability in dynamic and unstructured environments. This study proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,759 Views
22 Pages

MixMobileNet: A Mixed Mobile Network for Edge Vision Applications

  • Yanju Meng,
  • Peng Wu,
  • Jian Feng and
  • Xiaoming Zhang

Currently, vision transformers (ViTs) have rivaled comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the computational demands of the transformers’ self-attention mechanism pose challenges for their application on edge de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
20 Pages

This paper introduces an adaptive path-tracking control algorithm for autonomous mobility based on recursive least squares (RLS) with external conditions and covariance self-tuning. The advancement and commercialization of autonomous driving necessit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,806 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2019

Smart cities require interactive management of water supply networks and water meters play an important role in such a task. As compared to fully mechanical water meters, electromechanical water meters or fully electronic water meters can collect rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,848 Views
32 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,280 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2024

Accurate traffic prediction is pivotal when constructing intelligent cities to enhance urban mobility and to efficiently manage traffic flows. Traditional deep learning-based traffic prediction models primarily focus on capturing spatial and temporal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
10,217 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2023

Underwater object detection is a key technology in the development of intelligent underwater vehicles. Object detection faces unique challenges in underwater applications: blurry underwater images; small and dense targets; and limited computational c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,221 Views
24 Pages

Self-Powered Ultraviolet Photodetectors Based on Conductive Polymers/Ga2O3 Heterojunctions: A Review

  • Zerui Xiao,
  • Haoyan Chen,
  • Honglong Ning,
  • Dongxiang Luo,
  • Xuecong Fang,
  • Muyun Li,
  • Guoping Su,
  • Han He,
  • Rihui Yao and
  • Junbiao Peng

17 May 2025

Self-powered ultraviolet photodetectors hold significant potential for diverse applications across both military and civilian fields. Owing to its wide bandgap, high electron mobility, and adaptability to various substrates, gallium oxide (Ga2O3) ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,838 Views
38 Pages

9 October 2019

Modelling and simulation of social interaction and networks are of high interest in multiple disciplines and fields of application ranging from fundamental social sciences to smart city management. Future smart city infrastructures and management are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,518 Views
16 Pages

Self-management support is one of the most important components of the Chronic Care Model (CCM). The EMPOWER-SUSTAIN Global Cardiovascular Risks Self-Management Booklet© was developed for patients with Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), inspired by the CCM....

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,148 Views
30 Pages

13 November 2024

Over the past 50 years, the space race has potentially grown due to the development of sophisticated mechatronic systems. One of the most important is the bio-inspired mobile-planetary robots, actually for which there is no reported one that currentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,302 Views
19 Pages

A Feasibility Study of a Robotic Approach for the Gluing Process in the Footwear Industry

  • Kevin Castelli,
  • Ahmed Magdy Ahmed Zaki,
  • Yevheniy Dmytriyev,
  • Marco Carnevale and
  • Hermes Giberti

31 December 2020

Manufacturing processes in the shoe industry are still characterized to a large extent by human labour, especially in small and medium craft enterprises. Even when machinery is adopted to support manufacturing operations, in most cases an operator ha...

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