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This article proposes a new intelligent trajectory tracking control law for the precise maneuvering of an autonomous vehicle in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. The controller design includes a fuzzy sliding mode algorithm for smooth motion control subjected to steering saturation and curvature constraints. Along with the Salp Swarm Optimization technique, explored for optimal selection of surface coefficient in fractional order Proportional-Derivative type (P{D}^{alpha }) sliding manifold. The sliding variable on the surface approaches zero in a finite time. Further, the trajectory tracking control rule offers the stability of closed-loop tracking on the predetermined path and ensures finite time convergence to the sliding surface. In addition, to estimate the hitting gain in online mode, a supervisory fuzzy logic controller system is used. Therefore, it is not necessary to determine upper bounds on uncertainty in the dynamic parameters of autonomous vehicles. Lyapunov theory verifies the global asymptotic stability of the entire closed-loop control strategy. The major control issue is the input constraints arising primarily due to the capability of the steering actuating module, which causes significant deviation or vehicle instability. Consequently, it is desirable to design a robust adaptive stable controller, such as Adaptive Backstepping Control (ABC), even though it requires vehicle model information. Therefore, the proposed model-free intelligent sliding mode technique offers better tracking performance and vehicle stability in adverse conditions. Finally, the efficacy of the proposed control technique was confirmed through a comparative analysis based on numerical simulation using MATLAB/SIMULINK and experimental validation using Quanser’s self-driving car module. A quantitative study was conducted to elucidate the superior tracking performance of intelligent control over the traditional SMC and adaptive backstepping control methods.

Date fruit, a vital agricultural product in the Middle East area, is harvested annually in millions of metric tons and is renowned for its abundant nutrients. With computer vision and machine learning techniques, automatic date fruit classification enables farmers and supermarkets to differentiate between various varieties and qualities of date fruits within their inventory. Date fruits have unique physical characteristics, such as shape, size, color, texture, and skin type that are important in determining their variety and quality. These characteristics can vary significantly depending on the cultivar, growing conditions, and ripening stage of the date fruits. This paper presents a novel date fruit type classification and grading system achieved through the feature-level fusion of deep learning features and wavelet scattering features. Wavelet scattering features are extracted at varying levels of decomposition; enabling reliable extraction of information from diverse channels. To extract deep features this study utilizes pre-trained architectures, including Alexnet, Googlenet, Resnet, and MobileNetV2. The proposed methodology has been experimentally evaluated with the Date Fruit in Controlled Environment dataset, which has nine classes, and has yielded an accuracy of 95.9% for date species classification. Various date fruit species from the TU-DG dataset were graded, and for Ajwa species, the accuracy is 97.8%, for Mabroom, 92.6% accuracy, and for Sukkary, 99.5% accuracy.

Gait recognition can exploit the signals from wearables, e.g., the accelerometers embedded in smart devices. At present, this kind of recognition mostly underlies subject verification: the incoming probe is compared only with the templates in the system gallery that belong to the claimed identity. For instance, several proposals tackle the continuous recognition of the device owner to detect possible theft or loss. In this case, assuming a short time between the gallery template acquisition and the probe is reasonable. This work rather investigates the viability of a wider range of applications including identification (comparison with a whole system gallery) in the medium-long term. The first contribution is a procedure for extraction and two-phase selection of the most relevant aggregate features from a gait signal. A model is trained for each identity using Logistic Regression. The second contribution is the experiments investigating the effect of the variability of the gait pattern in time. In particular, the recognition performance is influenced by the benchmark partition into training and testing sets when more acquisition sessions are available, like in the exploited ZJU-gaitacc dataset. When close-in-time acquisition data is only available, the results seem to suggest re-identification (short time among captures) as the most promising application for this kind of recognition. The exclusive use of different dataset sessions for training and testing can rather better highlight the dramatic effect of trait variability on the measured performance. This suggests acquiring enrollment data in more sessions when the intended use is in medium-long term applications of smart ambient intelligence.

The expected spatial coverage of a crowdsensing platform is an important parameter that derives from the mobility data of the crowdsensing platform users. We tackle the challenge of estimating the anticipated coverage while adhering to privacy constraints, where the platform is restricted from accessing detailed mobility data of individual users. Specifically, we model the coverage as the probability that a user detours to a point of interest if the user is present in a certain region around that point. Following this approach, we propose and evaluate a centralized as well as a distributed implementation model. We examine real-world mobility data employed for assessing the coverage performance of the two models, and we show that the two implementation models provide different privacy requirements but are equivalent in terms of their outputs.

Currently, the move from traditional healthcare to smart healthcare systems is greatly aided by current technology. Healthcare proposes a new healthcare model that is patient-centered using advancements in wearable sensors, connectivity, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The administration of enormous amounts of data, including reports and pictures of every individual, increases human labour requirements and security hazards. This study shows how a blockchain-based Internet of Things might improve patient care while lowering costs by using medical resources more wisely. Initially, Resource Provider’s IoT data will be sensed and encrypts using Diffie Hellman Galois–Elliptic-curve cryptography (DHG-ECC). Next, from the extracted attributes, the optimal features will be selected by using Pearson Correlation Coefficient based Sand Cat Optimization Algorithm (PCC-SCOA). After that, the selected optimal features will be combined and converted into hashcode using the Digit Folding–Streebog Hashing algorithm. This hashcode will be constructed in the form of Smart Contract. Next, the Resource Requester (Doctor or Nurse) sends the Role Request with the Combined Linear Congruential Generator–Digital Signature Algorithm (CLCG-DSA). The next Resource Requester will be matching the hashed access policy with Blockchain. The proposed models are used to compare the performance of proposed design using feature selection time, Encryption time, Decryption time, security level, signature creation time and signature verification time. Our proposed method DHGECC approach achieves 96.123% higher security.

A W-operator is an image transformation that is locally defined inside a window W, invariant to translations. The automatic design of the W-operators consists of the design of functions, whose domain is a set of patterns or vectors obtained by translating a window through training images and the output of each vector is a class or label. The main difficulty to consider when designing W-operators is the generalization problem that occurs due to lack of training images. In this work, we propose the use of membership functions to solve the generalization problem in gray level images. Membership functions are defined from the training images to model regions that are often inaccurate due to ambiguous gray levels in the images. This proposal was applied to brain magnetic resonance image segmentation to test its performance in a field of interest in biomedical images. The experiments were carried out with different numbers of training and test images, windows sizes of (3times 3), (5times 5), (7times 7), (11times 11), and (15times 15), and images with noise levels at 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9(%). To calculate the performance of each designed W-operator, the classification error, sensitivity, and specificity were used. From the experimental results, it was concluded that the best performance is achieved with a window of size (3times 3). In images with noise levels from 1 to 5(%), the classification error is less than 4(%) and the sensitivity and specificity are greater than 94 and 98(%), respectively.

The fuzzy set theory was introduced to handle uncertainty due to imprecision, vagueness and partial information. Then, its extensions such as intuitionistic fuzzy set, intuitionistic interval-valued fuzzy set, Pythagorean fuzzy set were introduced and applied successfully in many fields. Then another extension of orthopair fuzzy set was introduced as Fermatean fuzzy set which is characterized by membership degree and non-membership degree which makes it to provide an excellent tool to present imprecise opinions of humans in decision-making processes. This study is devoted to construct a novel Fermatean fuzzy divergence measure along with its evidence of legitimacy and to deliberate its key properties. The proposed divergence measure for Fermatean fuzzy sets with weighted aggregation operators is applied to fix decision-making problems through numerical illustrations. A comparative study is given between the proposed Fermatean fuzzy divergence measure and the extant methods to test its effectiveness, viability and expediency. Their results were compared in order to check the superiority of the proposed measure.

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Bayesian inference is one of the important topics in modern statistics. The information of the parameter in Bayesian statistics which is regarded as some random variable will be updated by that of the posterior distribution. In other words, all the inferences in Bayesian statistics are based on the updated posterior information, which has been proven to be a very powerful technique. In this paper, we study the Bayesian inference in the framework of uncertainty theory based on the uncertain Bayesian rule developed by Lio and Kang in 2022. To be more precise, issues on the point estimation, credible intervals and hypothesis testing in Bayesian statistics under uncertain theory are explored, and one application of our method in an IQ test problem is also given in this paper.

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Mobile charging provides a new way for energy replenishment in the Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Network (WRSN), where the Mobile Charger (MC) is employed for charging nodes sequentially via wireless energy transfer according to the mobile charging sequence scheduling result. Mobile Charging Sequence Scheduling for Optimal Sensing Coverage (MCSS-OSC) is a critical problem for providing network application performance; it aims to maximize the Quality of Sensing Coverage (QSC) of the network by optimizing the MC’s mobile charging sequence and remains a challenging problem due to its NP-completeness in nature. In this paper, we propose a novel Improved Q-learning Algorithm (IQA) for MCSS-OSC, where MC is taken as an agent to continuously learn the space of mobile charging strategies through approximate estimation and improve the charging strategy by interacting with the network environment. A novel reward function is designed according to the network sensing coverage contribution to evaluate the MC charging action at each charging time step. In addition, an efficient exploration strategy is also designed by introducing an optimal experience-strengthening mechanism to record the current optimal mobile charging sequence regularly. Extensive simulation results via Matlab2021 software show that IQA is superior to existing heuristic algorithms in network QSC, especially for large-scale networks. This paper provides an efficient solution for WRSN energy management and new ideas for performance optimization of reinforcement learning algorithms.