Sensors, Volume 23, Issue 9

Cross-interference is not only an important factor that affects the measuring accuracy of three-dimensional force sensors, but also a technical difficulty in three-dimensional force sensor design. In this paper, a cross-interference suppression metho...

The leaf phenotypic traits of plants have a significant impact on the efficiency of canopy photosynthesis. However, traditional methods such as destructive sampling will hinder the continuous monitoring of plant growth, while manual measurements in t...

The main question of this paper is what factors influence willingness to participate in a smartphone-application-based data collection where participants both fill out a questionnaire and let the app collect data on their smartphone usage. Passive di...

Virtual testing requires hazardous scenarios to effectively test autonomous vehicles (AVs). Existing studies have obtained rarer events by sampling methods in a fixed scenario space. In reality, heterogeneous drivers behave differently when facing th...

Recent developments in robotics have enabled humanoid robots to be used in tasks where they have to physically interact with humans, including robot-supported caregiving. This interaction—referred to as physical human–robot interaction (p...

We consider tracking a moving target in a wireless communication system that is based on the radio signal. Considering a bounded workspace with many unknown obstacles, we handle tracking a non-cooperative transmitter using multiple signal receivers....

Ship collision avoidance is a complex process that is influenced by numerous factors. In this study, we propose a novel method called the Optimal Collision Avoidance Point (OCAP) for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to determine when to take appropri...

Energy-optimal adaptive cruise control (EACC) is becoming increasingly popular due to its ability to save energy. Considering the negative impacts of system noise on the EACC, an improved modified model predictive control (MPC) is proposed, which com...

The sound amplification ratios of sealed air chambers with different shapes were quantitatively compared to design a body-conduction microphone to measure animal scratching sounds. Recently, quantitative monitoring of scratching intensity in dogs has...

Magnetic sensors are key elements in many industrial, security, military, and biomedical applications. Heusler alloys are promising materials for magnetic sensor applications due to their high spin polarization and tunable magnetic properties. The dy...

The directional multiple signal classification (Dir-MUSIC) algorithm based on the antenna gain array manifold has been proposed to find the direction of the partial discharge (PD) source in substations. However, PD signals are wideband signals and th...

Deep learning technology has advanced rapidly and has started to be applied for the detection of welding defects. In the manufacturing process of power batteries for new energy vehicles, welding defects may occur due to the high directivity, converge...

Tunable/switchable devices are more and more required in modern communication systems. However, the realization of the tuning requires the presence of active devices, which in turn must be biased. The current paper comes up with a solution for design...

Developing computer-aided approaches for cancer diagnosis and grading is currently receiving an increasing demand: this could take over intra- and inter-observer inconsistency, speed up the screening process, increase early diagnosis, and improve the...

Soft biological tissues perform various functions. Sensory nerves bring sensations of light, voice, touch, pain, or temperature variation to the central nervous system. Animal senses have inspired tremendous sensors for biomedical applications. Follo...

With the advancement of science and technology, the development and application of unmanned mobile vehicles (UMVs) have emerged as topics of crucial concern in the global industry. The development goals and directions of UMVs vary according to their...

Wearable electroencephalography (EEG) has the potential to improve everyday life through brain–computer interfaces (BCI) for applications such as sleep improvement, adaptive hearing aids, or thought-based digital device control. To make these i...

By using AFM as a nanografting tool, we grafted micrometer-sized DNA platforms into inert alkanethiol SAMs. Tuning the grafting conditions (surface density of grafting lines and scan rate) allowed us to tailor the molecular density of the DNA platfor...

A link between inappropriate physical behaviour patterns (low physical activity and high sedentary behaviour) and poor health outcomes has been observed. To provide evidence to quantify this link, it is important to have valid and reliable assessment...

Sensors based on the field-effect principle have been used for more than fifty years in a variety of applications ranging from bio-chemical sensing to radiation detection or environmental parameter monitoring [...]

The work carried out in this paper consists of the classification of the physiological signal generated by eye movement called Electrooculography (EOG). The human eye performs simultaneous movements, when focusing on an object, generating a potential...

Public transportation is a crucial component of urban transportation systems, and improving passenger sharing rates can help alleviate traffic congestion. To enhance the punctuality and supply–demand balance of dedicated buses, we propose a hie...

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a low-cost imaging method which reconstructs two-dimensional cross-sectional images, visualising the impedance change within the thorax. However, the reconstruction of an EIT image is an ill-posed inverse prob...

Detecting vital signs by using a contactless camera-based approach can provide several advantages over traditional clinical methods, such as lower financial costs, reduced visit times, increased comfort, and enhanced safety for healthcare professiona...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming various domains, including smart energy management, by enabling the integration of complex digital and physical components in distributed cyber-physical systems (DCPSs). The design of DCPSs has so far been...

This study presents a new method for measuring the propagation constant of transmission lines using a single line standard and without prior calibration of a two-port vector network analyzer (VNA). The method provides accurate results by emulating mu...

Petrochemical equipment tracking is a fundamental and important technology in petrochemical industry security monitoring, equipment working risk analysis, and other applications. In complex scenes where the multiple pipelines present different direct...

The dynamic measurement and identification of structural deformation are essential for structural health monitoring. Traditional contact-type displacement monitoring inevitably requires the arrangement of measurement points on physical structures and...

The current trend in the wafer production industry is to expand the production chain with more production stations, more buffers, and robots. The goal of the present paper is to develop a distributed control architecture to face this challenge by con...

Detecting celestial bodies while in deep-space travel is a critical task for the correct execution of space missions. Major bodies such as planets are bright and therefore easy to observe, while small bodies can be faint and therefore difficult to ob...

The minimum resolvable temperature difference (MRTD) at which a four-rod target can be resolved is a critical parameter used to assess the comprehensive performance of thermal imaging systems, which is important for technological innovation in milita...

The paper was devoted to the application of saliency analysis methods in the performance analysis of deep neural networks used for the binary classification of brain tumours. We have presented the basic issues related to deep learning techniques. A s...

The Sencell sensor uses glucose-induced changes in an osmotic pressure chamber for continuous glucose measurement. A final device shall have the size of a grain of rice. The size limiting factor is the piezo-resistive pressure transducers inside the...

This study proposes a novel off-screen sound separation method based on audio-visual pre-training. In the field of audio-visual analysis, researchers have leveraged visual information for audio manipulation tasks, such as sound source separation. Alt...

In Industry 4.0, manufacturing and critical systems require high levels of flexibility and resilience for dynamic outcomes. Industrial Control Systems (ICS), specifically Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, are commonly used for...

Wood rot fungus Fulvifomes siamensis infects multiple urban tree species commonly planted in Singapore. A commercial e-nose (Cyranose 320) was used to differentiate some plant and fungi volatiles. The e-nose distinctly clustered the volatiles at 0.25...

The current technological world is growing rapidly and each aspect of life is being transformed toward automation for human comfort and reliability. With autonomous vehicle technology, the communication gap between the driver and the traditional vehi...

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for conformal arrays is challenging due to non-omnidirectional element patterns and shadow effects. Conical conformal array (CCA) can avoid the shadow effect at small elevation angles. So CCA is suitable for DOA...

Dexterous robotic manipulation tasks depend on estimating the state of in-hand objects, particularly their orientation. Although cameras have been traditionally used to estimate the object’s pose, tactile sensors have recently been studied due...

In this paper, we propose an adaptive path tracking algorithm based on the BP (back propagation) neural network to increase the performance of vehicle path tracking in different paths. Specifically, based on the kinematic model of the vehicle, the fr...

Increasing violence in workplaces such as hospitals seriously challenges public safety. However, it is time- and labor-consuming to visually monitor masses of video data in real time. Therefore, automatic and timely violent activity detection from vi...

In this paper, a stereoscopic ultra-wideband (UWB) Yagi–Uda (SUY) antenna with stable gain by near-zero-index metamaterial (NZIM) has been proposed for vehicular 5G communication. The proposed antenna consists of magneto-electric (ME) dipole st...

This article addresses how to tackle one of the most demanding tasks in manufacturing and industrial maintenance sectors: using robots with a novel and robust solution to detect the fastener and its rotation in (un)screwing tasks over parallel surfac...

Multitarget positioning technology, such as FMCW millimeter-wave radar, has broad application prospects in autonomous driving and related mobile scenarios. However, it is difficult for existing correlation algorithms to balance high resolution and lo...

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) uses customized and advanced software and hardware to create a digital 3D reality in which all of the user’s senses are stimulated with computer-generated sensations and feedback. This technology is a promising t...

There is increasing interest in the application of neuroimaging technology in exercise neurorehabilitation research among persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). The inclusion and focus on neuroimaging outcomes in MS exercise training research is criti...

In order to solve the current problems that conventional video inspection can only detect, as an internal pipeline defect and drainage pipeline radar inspection device detects in a single direction and at radar frequency in water pipeline defect dete...

This paper introduces a deep learning approach to photorealistic universal style transfer that extends the PhotoNet network architecture by adding extra feature-aggregation modules. Given a pair of images representing the content and the reference of...

This study proposes an approach to minimize the maximum makespan of the integrated scheduling problem in flexible job-shop environments, taking into account conflict-free routing problems. A hybrid genetic algorithm is developed for production schedu...

Blockchain has introduced a new era for online payment services and its economy with tamper-proof cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain, which is based on global peer-to-peer networks, has its limitations due to payment delays from global consensus a...