Smart sensing technologies and their inherent data-processing techniques have drawn considerable research and industrial attention in recent years. Recent developments in nanometer CMOS technologies have shown great potential to deal with the increas...
The sparse representation error (SRE) exists when the images are represented sparsely. The SRE is particularly large in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) images due to the disturbance of the harsh environment or the instability of its flight, which will...
For electromagnetic (EM)-driven design, we summarize surrogate modeling and inverse design based on full-wave simulations and, when available, measurements, use adjacent-domain EM exemplars only as methodological templates where direct closed-loop RF...
This paper presents the hardware design and integration process employed to develop an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) helicopter. The design process evolves from the bare airframe (without any electronics), to become a complete and advanced UAS platf...
Array design is the primary consideration for array signal processing, and sparse array design is an important and challenging task. In underwater acoustic environments, the vector hydrophone array contains more information than the scalar hydrophone...
Laser absorption spectroscopy (LAS) is a promising diagnostic method capable of providing high-bandwidth, species-specific sensing, and highly quantitative measurements. This review aims at providing general guidelines from the perspective of LAS sen...
Designing and optimizing systems by end-to-end deep learning is a recently emerging field. We present a novel physics-constrained autoencoder (PyCAE) for the design and optimization of a physically realizable sensing model. As a case study, we design...
Next-generation communication systems demand the integration of sensing, communication, and power transfer (PT) capabilities, requiring high spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, and low cost while also necessitating robustness in high-speed scenar...
In the context of sustainability, the development of optical fiber sensing technology and 3D printing technology brings new sustainable manufacturing solutions for the furniture industry. Based on the current status and development situation of the a...
It is challenging for robots to improve their ability to pass through unstructured environments while maximizing motion performance in cities and factories. This paper presents an omnidirectional deformable wheeled robot based on a heterogeneous sens...
This paper studies the pilot design for compressed sensing (CS)-based sparse channel estimation in multi-input–multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. To improve the performance of estimating multiple jointl...
This paper provides guidelines for designing and modeling sensing coils in high-voltage, high-frequency transformers to enable a cost-efficient design of isolated converter topologies. The objective is to design a magnetic structure in which an addit...
The design of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) waveform compatible with the 5G new radio (NR) system is crucial in enabling ISAC by utilizing the hardware of existing base stations (BSs). In this paper, we design an inner-frame time div...
With the development of 5G communication systems, it is a hot topic to embed integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on the existing 5G base station by sharing the hardware and the same frequency spectrum. In this paper, we propose a dual p...
A method for adjusting the working distance and spot size of a fiber probe while suppressing or enhancing the back-coupling to the lead-in fiber is presented. As the optical fiber probe, a lensed optical fiber (LOF) was made by splicing a short piece...
With the increasingly severe problems of global climate change and resource scarcity, sustainable development has become an important issue of common concern in various industries. The construction industry is one of the main sources of global energy...
This paper presents Geo-Esthetics, an application-oriented workflow that uses remote sensing imagery as source morphology for generative design. The study addresses a design problem: how can large-scale terrestrial textures be extracted, abstracted,...
Gas sensor arrays, also known as electronic noses, leverage a diverse set of materials to identify the components of complex gas mixtures. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as promising materials for electronic noses due to their high-surf...
A novel series of N-sulfonyl homoserine lactone derivatives 5a–l has been designed, synthesized and evaluated for quorum sensing inhibitory activities towards violacein production. Of the compounds synthesized, compound 5h was found to possess an exc...
High-resolution long-wave infrared imaging is critical for lunar mineralogy. However, it must balance a large FOV, a small F-number, chromatic aberration correction, optical efficiency, and system compactness. We introduce a push-broom multispectral...
Target detection is a core function of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The traditional likelihood ratio test (LRT) target detection algorithm performs inadequately under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, and the perform...
High Temperature Events (HTE) are relevant in Earth Observations (EO) and their study would benefit from high-spatial-resolution data in the Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) range. However, this presents technological challenges, particularly regarding the a...
Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have emerged as promising materials for selectively targeting biomolecules, including quorum sensing autoinducers that regulate bacterial communication and biofilm formation. In this study, both single-template a...
In precision machining, expanding mandrels are used for jobs with close tolerances. An expanding mandrel consists of a tapered arbor or shaft, with a thin-slotted clamping sleeve or collet made of hardened steel. The internal tapered and external cyl...
Machine learning classifiers are being increasingly used nowadays for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) mapping from remote sensing images. However, arriving at the right choice of classifier requires understanding the main factors influencing their per...
Creating a sense of place and community is a guiding principle in designing livable and high-quality built environments. This paper presents a framework for understanding the relationship between design and people’s perceptions about a place, within...
Achieving accurate and reliable kinematic hand pose reconstructions represents a challenging task. The main reason for this is the complexity of hand biomechanics, where several degrees of freedom are distributed along a continuous deformable structu...
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This study investigated the current design circumstances of an office as well as employees’ perceptions of the office environment in relation to their perceived health, drawing on sense of coherence theory (comprehensibility, manageability, and...
We examine a multiple object tracking problem by jointly optimizing the transmit waveforms used in a multimodal system. Coexisting sensors in this system were assumed to share the same spectrum. Depending on the application, a system can include rada...
Charge-based Self-Sensing Actuation (SSA) is a cost and space-saving method for accurate piezoelectric based-actuator positioning. However, the performance of its implementation resides in the choice of its geometry and the properties of the constitu...
This paper aims to facilitate the integration of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and symbiotic radio (SR), which studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted ISAC-SR system in single-user and multi-user scenarios. In the IS...
Sixth generation (6G) wireless networks require very low latency and an ultra-high data rate, which have become the main challenges for future wireless communications. To effectively balance the requirements of 6G and the extreme shortage of capacity...
Deep eutectic solvent (DES), when used as the continuous phase of eutectogels, can significantly improve their electrical and mechanical properties due to its excellent conductivity, freeze resistance and chemical stability. The development of eutect...
This paper presents an in-plane sandwich nano-g microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer. The proof-mass fabrication is based on silicon etching through technology using inductive coupled plasma (ICP) etching. The capacitive detection syst...
This study aims to assess a sense of place in the context of an Indonesian city through real-time walking experience. With rapid urban development, the cityscape may change, leading to a lack of a sense of place. Here, the sense of place was measured...
In this paper the concept and design of an integrated optical device featuring evanescent field sensing and spectrometric analysis is presented. The device, termed integrated optics sensing spectrometer (IOSS), consists of a modified arrayed waveguid...
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has become a key enabler in 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and future 6G systems, with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) widely adopted as the underlying waveform. However, due to the inherent structure...
Ensuring access to water and sanitation for all is Goal No. 6 of the 17 UN Sustainability Development Goals to transform our world. As one step towards this goal, we present an approach that leverages remote sensing data to plan optimal water supply...
Despite their high sensitivity and their suitability for miniaturization, biosensors are still limited for clinical applications due to the lack of reproducibility and specificity of their detection performance. The design and preparation of sensing...
Locked-in Syndrome (LIS) is a neurological condition in which individuals remain conscious but experience complete paralysis of voluntary muscles, except for eye movements—highlighting the need for reliable assistive communication technologies....
Driven by the rapid advancement of routine health management and intelligent human–machine interaction technologies in the post-pandemic era, wearable flexible sensing electrodes have emerged as key enabling platforms for long-term physiologica...
Robotic grasping is a common operation scenario in industry and agriculture, in which the force sensing function is a significant factor to achieve reliable grasping. Existing force sensing methods of flexible grippers require intelligent materials o...
This study reports a design of an e-textile microstrip patch antenna for wireless sensing of the moisture content of a fabric substrate. The microstrip patch antenna with a proximity coupled feeding line is implemented on two layers of polyester felt...
In this study, a flexible tactile sensing array based on a capacitive mechanism was designed, fabricated, and characterized for sensitive robot skin. A device with 8 × 8 sensing units was composed of top and bottom flexible polyethyleneterephthalate...
Among nanocomposite materials, multifunctional polymer nanocomposites have prompted important innovations in the field of sensing technology. Polymer-based nanocomposites have been successfully utilized to design high-tech sensors. Thus, conductive,...
To address the issues of traditional high-resolution spatial remote sensing cameras—complex optical systems, heavy weight, long development cycles, and high costs—this study combines the optical design parameters and product characteristi...
We fabricated silica nanotubes with hexagonally ordered mesopores (6 nm) inside a membrane disc with a uniform channel neck size of 200 nm and a longitudinal thickness of 60 μm to design an optical sensor membrane (OSM) for the screening and sensing...
The design and optimization of plasmonic nanohole arrays (NHAs) as transducers for efficient bioanalytical sensing is a rapidly growing field of research. In this work, we present a rational method for tailoring the optical and functional properties...
Many stroke patients are expected to rehabilitate at home, which limits their access to proper rehabilitation equipment, treatment, or assessment by therapists. We have developed a novel telerehabilitation system that incorporates a human-upper-limb-...
In the quest to develop large-area soft sensors, we can look to nature for many examples. Spiderwebs show many fascinating properties that we can seek to understand and replicate in order to develop large-area, soft, and deformable sensing structures...
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