The measurement of six-degrees-of-freedom (6-DOF) of rigid bodies plays an important role in many industries, but it often requires the use of professional instruments and software, or has limitations on the shape of measured objects. In this paper,...
We propose a method to reconstruct a 3D coordinate system and a vascular map for the operation of magnetic medical robots (MMRs) controlled by a magnetic navigation system (MNS) using two 2D X-ray images and four corners of an MNS. Utilizing the prop...
This paper introduces a theoretical market framework (TMF) for conceptualizing and designing electricity markets, integrating transmission system operator and distribution system operator (TSO–DSO) coordination mechanisms. The TMF represents a...
Drones equipped with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver for absolute localization provide high-precision autonomous flight and hovering. However, the GNSS signal reception sensitivity is considerably lower in areas such as those bet...
Calibration is a critical step in structured light 3D imaging systems. However, in the traditional calibration process, since the calibration plate is based on a two-dimensional model, the flatness of the calibration plate and the angle of the photo...
Airport surface movement operations are complex processes with many types of adverse events which require resilient, safe, and efficient responses. One regularly occurring adverse event is that of runway reconfiguration. Agent-based distributed plann...
Due to their great potential for a variety of applications, digital building models are well established in all phases of building projects. Older stock buildings however frequently lack digital representations, and creating these manually is a tedio...
When a single pilot is responsible for managing a multi-drone system, the task may demand varying levels of autonomy, from direct control of individual UAVs to group-level coordination to fully autonomous swarm behaviors for accomplishing high-level...
In this paper we propose a mathematical model for cognitive phenomena such as abstraction, generalization and extension. The main concept is the coordination of the observable world with relevant features, a concept defined mathematically in the pape...
Autonomous navigation and localization are the foundations of unmanned intelligent systems, therefore, continuous, stable, and reliable position services in unknown environments are especially important for autonomous navigation and localization. Aim...
Although the performance of 3D human pose and shape estimation methods has improved considerably in recent years, existing approaches typically generate 3D poses defined in a camera or human-centered coordinate system. This makes it difficult to esti...
The benefits of multi-robot systems are substantial, bringing gains in efficiency, quality, and cost, and they are useful in a wide range of environments from warehouse automation, to agriculture and even extend in part to entertainment. In multi-rob...
For a robot to pick up an object viewed by a camera, the object’s position in the image coordinate system must be converted to the robot coordinate system. Recently, a neural network-based method was proposed to achieve this task. This methodol...
Recently, it is believed that lighting and communication technologies are being replaced by high power LEDs, which are core parts of the visible light communication (VLC) system. In this paper, by taking advantages of VLC, we propose a novel design f...
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has been increasingly widely used in natural disaster rescue. To enable fast and accurate localization of rescue targets in disaster environments, this paper proposes a multi-level coordinate...
In this study, we developed a new haptic–mixed reality intravenous (HMR-IV) needle insertion simulation system, providing a bimanual haptic interface integrated into a mixed reality system with programmable variabilities considering real clinic...
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is one of the most remarkable inventions of the last 100 years. Much research has been invested in the development of this flying robot. The landing system is one of the more challenging aspects of this system’...
Digital twin technology can be used for disaster safety management of underground utility tunnels, which are social infrastructures. To verify its efficiency in an underground utility tunnel, it must be implemented and monitored in the real world. Th...
Urban agglomeration is a new carrier of regional economic development, whose spatial structure can be reflected by the transportation system. The coordination between urban economic development and the transportation system is conducive to promoting...
After the low-carbon economy (LCE) was proposed, countries all over the world examined their national economic structures and found the necessity for developing a LCE. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously develop low-carbon technologies and impro...
Road traffic is responsible for the majority of air pollutant emissions in the cities, often presenting high concentrations that exceed the limits set by the EU. This poses a serious threat to human health. In this sense, modelling methods have been...
Orthogonally splitting imaging pose sensor is a new sensor with two orthogonal line array charge coupled devices (CCDs). Owing to its special structure, there are distortion correction and imaging model problems during the calibration procedure. This...
This review examines the evolution and architectural foundations of agentic artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on collaborative multi-agent systems for complex task execution. The paper analyzes the core components, agent architectures, coord...
Traditional methods on crack inspection for large infrastructures require a number of structural health inspection devices and instruments. They usually use the signal changes caused by physical deformations from cracks to detect the cracks, which is...
Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models unify visual perception, natural-language understanding, and action generation within a single foundation model, allowing a robot to follow instructions such as “fold the towel” or “fl...
This paper evaluates the performance of coordinated control across advanced distribution management systems (ADMS), distributed energy resources (DERs), and distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) using an advanced hardware-in-the-loop...
In various regions of the world, there is an urgent need to address energy challenges by accelerating the transformation of energy and industrial systems. The problem is quite complex in rapidly developing composite regions, with the necessity to coo...
Rapid identification of vessel height within the navigable space beneath bridges is crucial for ensuring bridge safety. To prevent bridge collisions caused by vessels exceeding their height limits, this article introduces a real-time warning framewor...
Large-scale surfaces are prevalent in advanced manufacturing industries, and 3D profilometry of these surfaces plays a pivotal role for quality control. This paper proposes a novel and flexible large-scale 3D scanning system assembled by combining a...
This paper introduces a planar positioning sensing system based on orthogonal wheels and encoders for some surfaces that may float (such as ship decks). The positioning sensing system can obtain the desired position and angle information on any such...
Sandy desertification is one of the most severe ecological problems in the world. Essentially, it is land degradation caused by discordance in the Social-Ecological Systems (SES). The ability to coordinate SES is a principal characteristic of regiona...
Agriculture is one of the three major industries in China, and its level of development occupies an important position in the development of the national economy. At present, China vigorously promotes the strategy of rural revitalization, which provi...
Vision-based Lane departure warning system (LDWS) has been widely used in modern vehicles to improve drivability and safety. In this paper, a novel LDWS with precise positioning is proposed. Calibration strategy is first presented through a 3D camera...
2D-3D registration is increasingly being applied in various scientific and engineering scenarios. However, due to appearance differences and cross-modal discrepancies, it is demanding for image and point cloud registration methods to establish corres...
Vision-based traffic monitoring recovers metric quantities such as inter-vehicle distances by mapping the image to the ground plane through a planar homography. In deployed systems, this homography is often fitted from ground control points whose wor...
With the accelerating urbanization and steady economic development in China, the urban built-up area is expanding and the population in the core area is proliferating. The pressure of insufficient urban infrastructure, especially public transportatio...
Oceans are a major source of clean energy, harnessing the vast and consistent power of waves to generate electricity. Today, they are seen as a vital renewable and clean solution for transitioning to a complete fossil fuel-free future world. To get t...
The integration of distributed energy resources into modern multi-energy distribution networks introduces complexity, necessitating effective coordinated control to maintain stability. This study proposes a hierarchical distributed control strategy c...
Developing countries account for about 86.5% of the world’s population and are experiencing rapid urbanization. Globally, the increase in the urban population is generally accompanied by the expansion of the latter and construction lands, as we...
We present a novel system for detection, localization and tracking of multiple people, which fuses a multi-view computer vision approach with a radio-based localization system. The proposed fusion combines the best of both worlds, excellent computer-...
Coordinated eye and head movements simultaneously occur to scan the visual world for relevant targets. However, measuring both eye and head movements in experiments allowing natural head movements may be challenging. This paper provides an approach t...
During the braking process of electric vehicles, both the regenerative braking system (RBS) and anti-lock braking system (ABS) modulate the hydraulic braking force, leading to control conflict that impacts the effectiveness and real-time capability o...
In this paper, we propose a robotic arm grasping system suitable for complex environments. For a robotic arm, in order to achieve its accurate grasp of the target object, not only the vision but also a certain tracking ability should be provided. To...
Over the past years, new urbanization in China has accelerated steadily and led to a continuous increase in ecological-environmental (eco-environmental) stress. A deep understanding of the coupling relationship between new urbanization and ecological...
As the backbone of national strategic development, Complex Product Systems (CoPS) have made great achievements in China, the world’s largest demand market and second largest economy. However, their further development is challenged by the dynam...
This work presents an approach to solving the inverse kinematics of mobile dual-arm robots based on metaheuristic optimization algorithms. First, a kinematic analysis of a mobile dual-arm robot is presented. Second, an objective function is formulate...
With the growing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and residential photovoltaic (PV) systems around the world, the distribution system operators (DSOs) are facing several technical challenges on their network planning and operation, particularly on...
Aiming at the intelligent design of underground roadway support and the precise positioning of unmanned full excavation faces, a positioning and measurement method of bolt robots based on the monocular vision principle was proposed. In this paper, a...
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the basis for intelligent robots to explore the world. As a promising method for 3D reconstruction, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) integrated with SLAM systems has shown significant potential. However, du...
The use of augmented reality (AR) continues to increase, particularly in marketing and advertising, where virtual objects are showcased in the AR world, thereby expanding its various applications. In this paper, a method of linking coordinate systems...
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