Electronics, Volume 14, Issue 1

Respiratory diseases pose a significant threat to global public health, as exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Molecular communication (MC), as a new method in communication systems, provides a framework for the modeling of diseases. Current studie...

A number of computer experiments have investigated the effectiveness in terms of accuracy of the method for simultaneously determining the distributions of electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability in the subsurface zone of planar conductive...

Car fine recognition is a typical scenario for fine-grained image classification, which has great research and application value in both civilian and military fields. However, current research on fine-grained classification is often limited to improv...

Since the mid-1990s, X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) has attracted increasing interest in the industrial and bioimaging fields due to its high sensitivity to weakly absorbing materials and has gained widespread acceptance. XPCI can simultaneously...

The segmentation of visible ship images is an important part of intelligent ship monitoring systems. However, this task is faced with many difficulties in practical applications, such as complex background environments, variations in illumination, an...

Regular inspection of urban drainage pipes can effectively maintain the reliable operation of the drainage system and the production safety of residents. Aiming at the shortcomings of the CCTV inspection method used in the drainage pipe defect detect...

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict potential user interactions within an anonymous session. It utilizes learned user interests to recommend items. As research has progressed, researchers have shifted towards exploring user initial int...

This paper proposes a relational extraction framework based on entity–type information fusion by Transformer model. Relational extraction, as an important part of knowledge graph construction, has been paid much attention in recent years. The e...

To address the optimal scheduling of islanded microgrids under extreme operating conditions, this paper proposes a demand response (DR) economic optimization scheduling strategy based on model predictive control (MPC). The strategy improves the utili...

In the stratosphere, the use of winds to navigate balloons has emerged as a practical approach for Earth observation, collecting meteorological data, and other applications. However, controlling such balloons is challenging due to imperfect wind data...

With services becoming increasingly complex and network scales expanding, hybrid network architectures that combine bus and switch networks while supporting deterministic transmission will play a crucial role in future networks. Time-Triggered Protoc...

This paper introduces the nonideal latch model for the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for statistical signal integrity (SI) analysis. The DFE equalizes inter-symbol-interference (ISI) noise from the channel in the time domain. The nonideal DFE may...

Common underwater target recognition systems suffer from low accuracy, high energy consumption, and low levels of automation. This paper introduces an underwater target recognition system based on the Jetson Xavier NX platform, which deploys an impro...

In wireless power transfer systems, the relative positional misalignment between transmitting and receiving coils significantly impacts the system’s mutual inductance characteristics, thereby constraining the system’s output power stabili...

Interference gating (iGate) has emerged as a groundbreaking technique for ultrafast time-resolved electron holography in transmission electron microscopy, delivering nanometer spatial and nanosecond temporal resolution with minimal technological over...

Wheeled-bipedal robots (WBRs) integrate the locomotion efficiency and terrain adaptability of legged and wheeled robots. However, terrain adaptability is significantly influenced by the control system. This paper proposes a hierarchical control metho...

The Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm (DBO) is characterized by its great convergence accuracy and quick convergence speed. However, like other swarm intelligent optimization algorithms, it also has the disadvantages of having an unbalanced ability...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a sustainable development skill that involves learners actively monitoring and adjusting their learning processes, which is essential for lifelong learning. Learning feedback plays a crucial role in SRL by aiding in s...

The high demands on datasets and computing resources in deep learning make the models vulnerable to a range of security threats such as backdoor learning. The study of backdoor learning also helps to improve the understanding of model security. In or...

The paper addresses the dynamics modeling of underwater vehicles that are inertia propelled, i.e., they can move based upon the change of the amount of water in their water tanks and the motion of an internal mass, enabling maneuvers. Underwater vehi...

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV), a burgeoning technology, merges advancements in the internet, vehicle electronics, and wireless communications to foster intelligent vehicle interactions, thereby enhancing the efficiency and safety of transportation s...

Partial discharge (PD) is a commonly encountered discharge-related fault in transformers. Due to the unique characteristics of the environment where PD occurs, challenges such as difficulty in data acquisition and scarcity of samples arise. Convoluti...

A global prescribed performance control method is proposed for a class of uncertain high-order odd-rational-power nonlinear systems (a chain of integrators whose power is the ratio of odd integers) with actuator faults, where the high-order odd-ratio...

The working mode classification of a triple-active-bridge converter (TAB) is the prerequisite and foundation of modulation optimization research based on time-domain analysis. Currently, systematic research on mode classification is lacking. Inadequa...

The combination of human cognitive skills and dexterity with the endurance and repeatability of robots is a promising approach to modern assembly. However, efficiently allocating tasks and planning an assembly sequence between humans and robots is a...

With the rapid development of the internet, network security threats are becoming increasingly complex and diverse, making traditional intrusion detection systems (IDSs) inadequate for handling the growing variety of sophisticated attacks. In particu...

In order to reduce the sensitivity of an inductive power transfer (IPT) system to the misalignment coupling coil, an S-SP-compensated IPT system with high misalignment tolerance based on a switch-controlled capacitor (SCC) is proposed. Firstly, the m...

Stance detection seeks to identify the public’s position on a specific topic, providing critical insights for applications such as recommendation systems and rumor detection, which are essential for maintaining a secure social media environment...

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) aims to assign the most appropriate label or labels to each input text. Previous studies have focused on mining textual information, ignoring the interdependence of labels and texts, thus leading to the loss of...

This paper proposes a terminal matching network (TMN) technology, which can realize wideband matching of microwave rectifiers in a wide input power range. At the same time, it is proposed to realize ultra-wideband microwave rectifiers by connecting t...

Robots have made significant contributions across various industries due to their efficiency and effectiveness. However, indoor navigation remains challenging due to complex environments and sensor signal interference. Changes in indoor conditions an...

Self-distillation has been widely applied in the field of deep learning. However, the lack of interaction between the multiple shallow branches in the self-distillation framework reduces the effectiveness of self-distillation methods. To address this...

In this study, an active fault-tolerant control problem was addressed for a rigid spacecraft in the presence of unknown actuator faults, uncertainties, and disturbances. First, an adaptive sliding mode iterative learning-based observer (ASILO) is pro...

Traditional image classification often misclassifies unknown samples as known classes during testing, degrading recognition accuracy. Open-set image recognition can simultaneously detect known classes (KCs) and unknown classes (UCs) but still struggl...

The accuracy and stability of front-end point cloud registration algorithms are crucial for the mapping and localization precision in laser SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) systems. Traditional point-to-line and point-to-plane iterative c...

The dispatching telephone functionality acts as a pivotal interconnection between the power grid dispatch business and telecommunications business, playing a vital role in ensuring the efficient conduct of grid dispatch activities. Nonetheless, the c...

Secure aggregation of local learning model parameters is crucial for achieving privacy-preserving federated learning. This paper presents a novel and practical aggregation method that effectively combines the advantages of masking-based aggregation w...

Online path planning for UAVs that are following a moving target is a critical component in applications that demand a soft landing over the target. In highly dynamic situations with accelerating targets, the classical potential field (PF) method, wh...

Flash memory, as the core unit of a compute-in-memory (CIM) array, requires multiple positive and negative (PN) high voltages (HVs) for word lines (WLs) to operate during storage and computation. A traditional WL driver generates these voltages using...

Artificial intelligence is having a strong impact on healthcare services, improving their quality and efficiency. This paper proposes and evaluates a prediction system of hospital readmissions for diabetes patients. This system is based on a Transfor...

Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH), first launched in 2005, was the first free-electron laser that provided ultrashort radiation pulses in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray spectral range. In 2017, it was decided to improve the existing FLASH fa...

A localization system is essential for providing crucial position information in various applications, such as three-dimensional (3D) warehousing, smart cities, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) control, and other services that heavily rely on accurate l...

This paper deals with the operation method of an intelligent fault isolation device (IFID), which can detect and estimate faults in rapid and accurate ways considering the slope characteristics of fault currents with distribution line constants. Name...

This paper focuses on the robust adaptive control of a coaxial-ducted-fan aircraft under the context of significant system uncertainty. To ensure accurate tracking even in the presence of model uncertainties and disturbances for a ducted-fan flight p...

FPGA-based convolutional accelerators have been widely used in image recognition scenarios. Many convolutional accelerators utilize the systolic array structure to enhance parallelism. Developing a method to efficiently estimate the utilized hardware...

This study introduces a decentralized control framework designed to improve energy efficiency in vehicle platooning by optimizing inter-vehicle gaps to minimize aerodynamic drag, a significant factor in energy consumption. The proposed framework inte...

Due to the rapid emergence of malware and its greater harm, the successful execution of malware often brings incalculable losses. Consequently, the detection of malware has become increasingly crucial. The sequence of API calls in software embodies s...

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based routing protocol has been proposed to establish paths in mobile ad hoc networks. However, due to the overhead of updating reward values according to frequent topology changes, existing protocols based on RL suffer fr...

Specific emitter identification (SEI) is a highly active research area in physical layer security. In this paper, we propose a SEI scheme based on time-frequency domain channel, spatial, and self-attention mechanisms (TF-CSS) for deep networks with f...

The distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar observes targets from different angles, which can overcome the adverse effects of target glint and avoid the situation where the target’s tangential flight cannot be effectively detect...