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Expanding The Horizons Of Nonagonal Neutrosophic Numbers As A Versatile Framework For Decision-Making And Scientific Applications In Covid-19, Muhammad Naveed Jafar, Kainat Muniba, Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa, Fahd Jarad Apr 2025

Expanding The Horizons Of Nonagonal Neutrosophic Numbers As A Versatile Framework For Decision-Making And Scientific Applications In Covid-19, Muhammad Naveed Jafar, Kainat Muniba, Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa, Fahd Jarad

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

In this article, the concept of nonagonal neutrosophic numbers has been introducing in the disjunctive frame of reference. We also proposed the dependency and independency of membership function in regards to nonagonal neutrosophic number. We also introduce a new score function and its computation also formulated in a distinct rational viewpoint. We developed the concept of weighted arithmetic averaging operator and weighted geometric averaging operator for nonagonal neutrosophic numbers. It will open new doors for MCDM and develop the concept with new approaches. Additionally, we analyze the effect of COVID-19 for different ages.


Assessing The Sustainable Blockchain-Metaverse-Iot Platform In The Healthcare Industry: An Intelligent Decision Support Model, Ibrahim M. Hezam, Ahmed M. Ali, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Karam Sallam, Mohamed Abdel-Basset Apr 2025

Assessing The Sustainable Blockchain-Metaverse-Iot Platform In The Healthcare Industry: An Intelligent Decision Support Model, Ibrahim M. Hezam, Ahmed M. Ali, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Karam Sallam, Mohamed Abdel-Basset

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Healthcare services must fulfill patients' desires for secure data sharing and high accessibility. Blockchain technology, through blockchain platforms (BPs), can overcome healthcare challenges. This study develops a decision-making methodology for selecting the best BP, by integrating blockchain with IoT and Metaverse, the proposed approach ensures data integrity, quality, privacy and security, secure data sharing, and interoperability. The decision-making methodology uses the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology to handle conflicting criteria. Two MCDM methods are used in this study: CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) for weight computation, and Ranking of Alternatives with Weights of Criterion (RAWEC) for alternative ranking. To deal …


Appraisal Of Uncertainty-Driven Financial Performance: Bringing Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques With Neutrosophic Theory, Mona Mohamed, Nurhan Alaa, Eman Sayed Apr 2025

Appraisal Of Uncertainty-Driven Financial Performance: Bringing Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques With Neutrosophic Theory, Mona Mohamed, Nurhan Alaa, Eman Sayed

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Evaluating financial performance is essential yet challenging due to various factors, including ambiguity, insufficient information, and conflicting evaluation criteria. Conventional Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques often struggle to manage these complexities effectively. To address these limitations and enhance financial performance assessments, this research proposes an innovative approach integrating Single-Valued Neutrosophic Sets (SVNS) with established MCDM methodologies. SVNS uniquely manages uncertainty by concurrently quantifying degrees of truth, indeterminacy, and falsity within financial data. This research specifically employs entropy-based weighting methods integrated with Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) and Multi-Objective Optimization by Ratio Analysis (MOORA) methodologies in the SVNS environment to systematically rank enterprises …


A Novel Neutrosophic Decision-Making Approach For Optimizing Metaverse Headphone Design: Balancing Technical Performance And User Emotional Needs, Mai Mohamed, Amira Salam, Karam Sallam, Bilal Arain Apr 2025

A Novel Neutrosophic Decision-Making Approach For Optimizing Metaverse Headphone Design: Balancing Technical Performance And User Emotional Needs, Mai Mohamed, Amira Salam, Karam Sallam, Bilal Arain

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

The concept of the metaverse, which combines various technologies to create a wide range of virtual experiences, has gained significant popularity in recent years. To fully engage in these metaverse environments, users rely on access devices such as virtual reality (VR) headsets and smartphones for augmented reality (AR). These devices must be lightweight, compact, and user-friendly to ensure comfort and enhance customer satisfaction. There is a growing focus on innovating and designing products that not only meet technical requirements but also address the emotional needs of users, ultimately improving the overall experience. Selecting the ideal design for Metaverse headphones is …


A Comprehensive Intelligent Traffic Monitoring System Based On A Novel Integration Of Neutrosophic Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques, Mai Mohamed, Amira Salam, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Muhammad Gulistan Apr 2025

A Comprehensive Intelligent Traffic Monitoring System Based On A Novel Integration Of Neutrosophic Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques, Mai Mohamed, Amira Salam, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Muhammad Gulistan

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

With the spread of road accidents and traffic congestion that costs countries and governments a lot of money in addition to the loss of human lives, and since traditional methods of monitoring traffic have not been as effective as desired, attention has been drawn to the search for more effective solutions to the problem of monitoring and regulating traffic. With the spread of technology and the Internet of Things, UAVs have emerged as a promising tool for monitoring traffic, as they can fly for a sufficient period and operate in difficult climatic conditions, in addition to their ability to monitor …


Nash Equilibrium Solutions For Continuous Static Games Under Neutrosophic Environment, M. G. Brikaa Apr 2025

Nash Equilibrium Solutions For Continuous Static Games Under Neutrosophic Environment, M. G. Brikaa

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Neutrosophic set theory plays an important role in dealing with the impreciseness and inconsistency in data encountered in solving real life problems. This paper presents a novel approach to solving a new class of continuous static games within a neutrosophic framework. In the proposed methodology, the neutrosophic continuous static games are redefined into two separate crisp problems: the lower problem and the upper problem. The study further establishes the necessary conditions for determining equilibrium strategies in neutrosophic continuous static games. To demonstrate its effectiveness and practical applicability, the proposed method is validated through a numerical example.


Digital Thread: Bridging Macro–Micro Services In System-Of-Systems, Joshit Mohanty Apr 2025

Digital Thread: Bridging Macro–Micro Services In System-Of-Systems, Joshit Mohanty

Graduate Student Government Association Research Conference

Organizations and industries increasingly rely on distributed services in decentralized environments—ranging from large-scale, system-of-system architectures to fine-grained, agent-based microservices. While this distributed paradigm offers flexibility and innovation, it presents critical challenges such as interoperability gaps, inconsistent data formats, and a lack of holistic oversight. Traditional integration approaches, including ad-hoc middleware or enterprise service buses, tend to solve these issues reactively. As a result, technical debt accumulates, stakeholder misalignments persist, and scaling to new demands becomes complex.

This research proposes digital thread (DT) as the unifying framework to create an authoritative source of truth: a continuous flow of information across the …


Meta-Clustering For Specialized Language Models: Enhancing Contextual Adaptation And Mitigating Hallucinations In Diverse Healthcare Environments, Joshit Mohanty, Vaishali Vaishali, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Sumit Lahiri Apr 2025

Meta-Clustering For Specialized Language Models: Enhancing Contextual Adaptation And Mitigating Hallucinations In Diverse Healthcare Environments, Joshit Mohanty, Vaishali Vaishali, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Sumit Lahiri

Graduate Student Government Association Research Conference

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced conversational AI by enabling dialogic information-seeking and task execution across diverse domains. However, their extensive parameters and broad domain scope lead to “data hallucinations.” These shortcomings are particularly evident in dynamic and diverse environments like India’s healthcare sector, where myriad languages, regional practices, and cultural nuances demand specialized, localized expertise rather than one-size-fits-all generalist models. This paper introduces a meta-clustering framework that integrates Distilled Language Models (DLMs) and Small/Specialized Language Models (SLMs) with meta-learning principles to address these limitations. By drawing on evidence from works such as MedHalu and Med-HALT, the framework seeks …


Tamos: Task-Aware Multi-Agent Orchestrator System, Joshit Mohanty, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Sumit Lahiri Apr 2025

Tamos: Task-Aware Multi-Agent Orchestrator System, Joshit Mohanty, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Sumit Lahiri

Graduate Student Government Association Research Conference

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly at the core of multi-agent systems (MAS). However, the high resource demand, error propagation, and lack of adaptive evaluation mechanisms pose significant challenges in deploying these agentic solutions at scale. To address these concerns, this research proposes a Task-Aware Multi-Agent Orchestrator System designed to refine the agentic framework, categorizing tasks autonomously, assigning specialized evaluation datasets, and balancing token usage against functional effectiveness. This approach underscores robust data management, including AsyncHow, Mosaic AI, and Synthetic Preference Optimization (PO) corpora. Each dataset targets specific dimensions of agent performance, such as dynamic task decomposition and tool integration …


Graphtreemed: A Hybrid Graph-Tree Rag Architecture For Mission-Critical Medical Applications, Joshit Mohanty, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Sumit Lahiri Apr 2025

Graphtreemed: A Hybrid Graph-Tree Rag Architecture For Mission-Critical Medical Applications, Joshit Mohanty, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Sumit Lahiri

Graduate Student Government Association Research Conference

Studies within engineering management indicate that decision-making is often based on the cognitive processing of grouped and pictographic information clusters entangled with high-level pattern recognition. Similarly, graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures substantially improve diagnostic accuracy and interpretability, while tree-structured systems reduce critical misses through hierarchical reasoning. However, existing solutions often lack a unified framework that seamlessly integrates these two paradigms to address the multifaceted demands of mission-critical healthcare settings. This proposal introduces GraphTreeMed, a novel hybrid RAG architecture designed to harness the complementary strengths of graph-based and tree-based retrieval mechanisms, thereby advancing the safety and efficacy of clinical decision support …


Stereotyping In Language (Technologies): An Examination Of Racial And Gender Stereotypes In Natural Language And Language Models, Messi Lee Apr 2025

Stereotyping In Language (Technologies): An Examination Of Racial And Gender Stereotypes In Natural Language And Language Models, Messi Lee

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation examines stereotyping across natural language and language technologies through three interconnected studies. The first chapter applies a contemporary model of race relations from social psychology to investigate America's racial framework within American English, revealing how language encodes hierarchical associations between racial/ethnic groups and attributes of superiority and Americanness. The second chapter extends this analysis to Large Language Models (LLMs), finding that these language technologies portray socially subordinate groups as more homogeneous compared to dominant groups. The third chapter investigates stereotyping in Vision Language Models (VLMs), showing that these language technologies generate more uniform representations for women than men …


Predicting The Unpredictable: Predicting The March Madness Champion Using Statistical Modeling, Jack Sweeney Apr 2025

Predicting The Unpredictable: Predicting The March Madness Champion Using Statistical Modeling, Jack Sweeney

Honors Projects in Information Systems and Analytics

One of the more exciting and hardest parts of the men's college basketball postseason tournament, named March Madness, is to pick who wins each game and determine the overall champion of the tournament. The data analysis conducted will help determine the overall tournament winner. A machine learning model is implemented using college basketball metrics from previous years to determine the overall winner of this prestigious tournament in 2025. The model was able to pick up the winner in 2024. The result also finds that the most important features in determining the winner of the tournament are shooting guard height, small …


Collaborative Network Traffic Management Strategies Using The Distributed Reinforcement Learning And Large Language Models, Saeed Rashed Alkuwaiti Apr 2025

Collaborative Network Traffic Management Strategies Using The Distributed Reinforcement Learning And Large Language Models, Saeed Rashed Alkuwaiti

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

The focus of this research is to explore collaborative network traffic management strategies using the Distributed Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Large Language Models (LLMs) approaches. It emphasizes exploring a new tool for addressing network traffic by utilizing Distributed Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Large Language Models (LLMs). This is achieved by utilizing self-organizing and self-directing techniques to optimize the network performance. Using the NF-TON-IOT dataset, various classifiers such as Random Forest, AdaBoost, C4. 5, Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), and SVM with an RBF kernel were tested for traffic classification and intrusion detection. Research recommends that DRL optimizes the complexity of the network …


Perceptions Of Employability With Ai Skills, Brandy Whitford, Patrick J. Cooper Apr 2025

Perceptions Of Employability With Ai Skills, Brandy Whitford, Patrick J. Cooper

Student Publications and Presentations

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making AI proficiency a key factor in hiring and career advancement. By late 2023, 75% of knowledge workers integrated AI into their workflows, with 92% reporting increased productivity and creativity (Kimbrough, 2024). Employers are adapting—66% prefer candidates with AI expertise, and 77% consider AI skills essential for career growth (Microsoft & LinkedIn, 2024). However, hiring biases related to AI-skilled applicants remain underexplored, particularly concerning gender disparities in employability perceptions. This study examines how AI-related skills influence perceived employability and whether these perceptions vary based on applicant gender. Specifically, it explores whether AI-skilled female applicants receive higher …


Gender Bias Within Ai Imaging, Drew Quattrocchi Apr 2025

Gender Bias Within Ai Imaging, Drew Quattrocchi

Student Publications and Presentations

This study investigates AI-created gender bias in AI-created images through content analysis, contrasting the way gender is depicted in professions in leading AI image-creation tools such as Chat smith, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. Employing a quantitative research method, this study contrasts AI-created images of gender-stereotypical careers for both male and female. Non-gendered careers will be used as well to identify patterns of stereotyping and bias. The area of emphasis lies in individual subjects within the images and scrutinizing visual elements such as clothing, accessories, background, face expressions, and gendered roles assigned to each. Particular emphasis is focused to …


Technology Anxiety In Virtual Reality Adoption: Examining The Impact Of Age, Past Experience, And Cybersickness, Eman Al Khalifah, Ramy Hammady, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Mostafa Marghany, Hatana El-Jarn, Alyaa Darwish, Yusuf Kurt Apr 2025

Technology Anxiety In Virtual Reality Adoption: Examining The Impact Of Age, Past Experience, And Cybersickness, Eman Al Khalifah, Ramy Hammady, Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Mostafa Marghany, Hatana El-Jarn, Alyaa Darwish, Yusuf Kurt

All Works

This study examines the role of Technology Anxiety (TA), age, past use, and cybersickness in the adoption of Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Using an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the research integrates age and past use as antecedents of TA and evaluates their influence on perceived ease of use (PEoU), perceived enjoyment (PENJ), and user attitudes. Data from 206 participants were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) following a VR pilgrimage experience. The findings challenge conventional assumptions, revealing that past VR use increased TA, contradicting prior studies that associate familiarity with reduced anxiety. Additionally, older users exhibited …


Survey On Intelligent Planning Methods From Large Language Models Perspective, Yanzhong Zhou, Junren Luo, Xueqiang Gu, Wanpeng Zhang Apr 2025

Survey On Intelligent Planning Methods From Large Language Models Perspective, Yanzhong Zhou, Junren Luo, Xueqiang Gu, Wanpeng Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Starting from the perspective of large language models, this paper gives an overview of the definition and development of intelligent planning, and briefly introduces the traditional methods of intelligent planning; based on the close relationship between large language model intelligent agents and intelligent planning, introduces the architecture of large language models and typical large model intelligent agents; focusing on the intelligent planning for large language models, combs through the learning of planning languages, chain of thought, feedback optimization, and process automation; combining with the current challenges and difficulties, introduces the outlook of cutting-edge research on intelligent planning with large …


Simulation Environment Construction Of Track Segment Association And Algorithm Performance Evaluation, Dian Ding, Guangfen Wei, Zheng Cao, Shaohui Wen Apr 2025

Simulation Environment Construction Of Track Segment Association And Algorithm Performance Evaluation, Dian Ding, Guangfen Wei, Zheng Cao, Shaohui Wen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to study the applicability of Track Segment Association (TSA) algorithms in actual radar working environment , a TSA simulation environment which can simulate the real movement of the target is constructed. By constructing a rich set of target motion sets, the state switching process of target motion is described based on Markov state transition matrix, and the density is flexibly controlled through track translation. The simulation results show that this environment can evaluate the performance of the current classical TSA algorithms. The evaluation results provide a good reference for the practical engineering application of interrupted track association.


A Method For Road Extraction Using Masked Image Modeling And Contrastive Learning, Jiangjiang Wu, Zhenghong Li, Zhichao Sha, Hao Chen, Shuang Peng, Chun Du, Jun Li Apr 2025

A Method For Road Extraction Using Masked Image Modeling And Contrastive Learning, Jiangjiang Wu, Zhenghong Li, Zhichao Sha, Hao Chen, Shuang Peng, Chun Du, Jun Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the occlusion problem of road extraction from remote sensing images, a road extraction method combining MIM and CL is proposed, the model training process includes a masked pretraining stage and a contrast training stage. The masked pre-training stage mainly carries out mask image reconstruction, and trains the model to recover the whole image from some areas that are randomly occluded. The comparison training stage is mainly for the prediction error and low confidence regions to learn the comparison, to narrow the distance between the features of the same category and increase the distance between the features of …


Fids: Accelerating Network Intrusion Detection Through Strategic Feature Selection, James Elmore Apr 2025

Fids: Accelerating Network Intrusion Detection Through Strategic Feature Selection, James Elmore

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Network intrusion detection systems (IDS) typically analyze complete network flows to identify malicious traffic, requiring flows to conclude before classification. This approach creates detection delays for attacks like Slowloris that intentionally keep connections open for extended periods of time. This paper introduces a novel approach that classifies network traffic using only features available from the first few packets of a flow, enabling faster detection while maintaining high accuracy. We evaluate three random forest models on the CICIDS2017 dataset using expanding sets of features: the first-packet model trained on on features available from the first backward packet, the few-packet model which …


The Evolution Of Russian And Chinese Disinformation Tactics And The Threat They Pose To The U.S. Cybersecurity, Jehovani Sese Apr 2025

The Evolution Of Russian And Chinese Disinformation Tactics And The Threat They Pose To The U.S. Cybersecurity, Jehovani Sese

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

This paper aims to discuss how disinformation has become the most powerful tool used against the United State by foreign operatives. Of these foreign operatives, Russia and China have shown the ability to use advanced tactics to truly affect the United States security. Often these tools came in the form of state-sponsored media, influence campaigns and fake online identities. This literature review explores the evolution of Russian and Chinese disinformation tactics, examining how these approaches have changed over time and become more sophisticated. This paper will highlight major campaigns which use tools such as bot networks, and social media manipulation. …


Shaped Adversarial Patches And The Ability They Hold, Nathan Hallberg Apr 2025

Shaped Adversarial Patches And The Ability They Hold, Nathan Hallberg

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

In more recent years the development of computer vision has advanced to be more comprehensive than in the past, with newer applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to security systems. The main application I will be talking about throughout this paper is an object detection algorithm called YOLO (You only look once), this algorithm is particularly significant due to their real-time performance of being able to identify and localize objects within an image in quick timing. However, the strength of these computer vision models is increasingly challenged by adversarial attacks, which manipulate the computer's vision to block a certain part of …


A Transfer Learning-Based Hybrid Model For Pm2.5 Concentration Prediction, Xinbiao Lu, Chunlin Ye, Yisen Chen, Wen Wu, Yudan Chen Apr 2025

A Transfer Learning-Based Hybrid Model For Pm2.5 Concentration Prediction, Xinbiao Lu, Chunlin Ye, Yisen Chen, Wen Wu, Yudan Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problems of increased computational cost due to irrelevant features and decreased prediction accuracy due to the difference in probability distribution caused by the change of data distribution over time in PM2.5 concentration prediction, this paper constructs a hybrid deep learning model TraTCN-LSTM-BiGRU based on migration learning. The meteorological factors related to PM2.5 concentration are selected as the model input using the mean-value heat map algorithm features; the source domain data and target domain data are divided by KL scatter and an adaptive layer is introduced into the model to achieve inter-domain distribution adaptation; the …


An Event Ontology And Dataset Construction Method For Strategic Operations Analysis, Quanlin Chen, Jun Jia Apr 2025

An Event Ontology And Dataset Construction Method For Strategic Operations Analysis, Quanlin Chen, Jun Jia

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the lack of professional datasets for information extraction technology research in the field of strategic operations research analysis, this paper proposes an event ontology and dataset construction method for strategic operations research analysis. The method proposes an event ontology model for strategic operations research analysis according to the needs of situation judgment in strategic operations research analysis, and uses the method of "a small amount of manual annotation + fine-tuned large language model annotation" to construct the event dataset EfSOA for strategic operations research analysis. The dataset construction method proposed in this paper and the constructed dataset …


Trajectory Planning Of Quadruped Robot Over Obstacle With Single Leg Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning, Min Li, Sen Zhang, Xiangguang Zeng, Gang Wang, Tongwei Zhang, Dijie Xie, Wenzhe Ren, Tao Zhang Apr 2025

Trajectory Planning Of Quadruped Robot Over Obstacle With Single Leg Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning, Min Li, Sen Zhang, Xiangguang Zeng, Gang Wang, Tongwei Zhang, Dijie Xie, Wenzhe Ren, Tao Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of joint vibration and high energy consumption of quadruped robot in the process of walking over obstacles, a foot trajectory planning method of quadruped robot based on deep reinforcement learning SAC algorithm is proposed. Based on robot kinematics and Monte Carlo method, the motion space of the single-legged foot of quadruped robot is analyzed. A compound seventhdegree polynomial trajectory of the quadruped robot is planned. The SAC algorithm is used to train and obtain the low energy consumption obstacle crossing strategy of four-legged robot under different obstacle environment. The simulation results show that the compound …


Research On The Resilience Of Integrated Urban Passenger Transport Network In Urban Agglomerations Considering The Intra-Urban Service Network, Shida Nie, Chengbing Li, Bowei He, Xintao Li Apr 2025

Research On The Resilience Of Integrated Urban Passenger Transport Network In Urban Agglomerations Considering The Intra-Urban Service Network, Shida Nie, Chengbing Li, Bowei He, Xintao Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problem of insufficient comprehensiveness and refinement of the urban agglomeration passenger transport network model, Space L modelling method in complex network theory is adopted to construct a comprehensive urban passenger transport network model considering the urban internal service network. A comprehensive urban passenger transport network composed of intercity networks and intra-city service networks is built, and time-dependent edge weights in the network is considered. A time-weighted network efficiency model is proposed to evaluate the network resilience. The results show that under a random attack strategy, the relative time efficiency of the network fluctuates less, …


A Multi-Robot Collaborative Path Planning Algorithm With Chain Working Mode, Zhigang He, Dayan Li, Niya Wang, Jianlin Mao, Ning Wang Apr 2025

A Multi-Robot Collaborative Path Planning Algorithm With Chain Working Mode, Zhigang He, Dayan Li, Niya Wang, Jianlin Mao, Ning Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problem that the traditional MAPF algorithms can lead to a large number of repeated paths and thus non-essential energy loss in application scenarios where multiple robots have a common goal point, a multi-robot chain work mode with a tractor is proposed, which divides the robots with common target points into subgroups for multi robot collaborative path planning, and a collaborative dynamic priority SIPP with tractor (Co-DPtSIPP) algorithm is given. The polygonal Fermat point principle and other methods are used to obtain the serial connection areas of each collaborative group robot; considering the sequence of …


Traffic Signal Detection Based On Improved Yolov7, Lanyue Zheng, Yujie Zhang Apr 2025

Traffic Signal Detection Based On Improved Yolov7, Lanyue Zheng, Yujie Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: An improved YOLOv7 is proposed to address the problem of low recognition accuracy in general object detection algorithms for traffic signal detection. The algorithm removes the 20×20 detection scale and adds a 160×160 detection scale to increase shallow features while making the model lightweight. It combines the bi-level routing attention (BRA) proposed in BiFormer with axial attention, and innovatively proposes axially-guided BRA (ABRA). This module is specifically designed for the characteristics of traffic signal positions. To address the issue of object size sensitivity to the IoU metric, the normalized wasserstein distance (NWD) measurement is introduced to improve object location …


Research On Dual-Layer Path Planning Method For Lunar Rover Based On Slip Prediction, Zhang Xingyu, Baolei Wu, Jun Wang, Miaoying Hong, Jiahui Wang, Yongqiang Qi Apr 2025

Research On Dual-Layer Path Planning Method For Lunar Rover Based On Slip Prediction, Zhang Xingyu, Baolei Wu, Jun Wang, Miaoying Hong, Jiahui Wang, Yongqiang Qi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In response to the challenges faced by lunar rovers in the process of path planning, such as safe obstacle avoidance and target deviation caused by complex terrain, a dual-layer path planning based on slip prediction is proposed. In this approach, flat terrain is adaptively selected to reduce the wheel slip of the lunar rover. The overall complexity of the terrain is calculated using digital elevation information, and a Q-learning algorithm with a three-level reward mechanism is designed to navigate around highslip areas, achieving global path planning. A depth camera is used to perceive obstacles, a dynamic window method based …


An Intelligent Tracking Control Method For Unmanned Vehicles With Time-Varying Disturbances, Jie Huang, Jie Huang Apr 2025

An Intelligent Tracking Control Method For Unmanned Vehicles With Time-Varying Disturbances, Jie Huang, Jie Huang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: An intelligent policy iteration tracking control method is proposed for the tracking control problem with bounded time-varying disturbances. An adaptive disturbance compensator is designed to counteract the bounded disturbance and guarantee the validity of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. An identifier network is proposed to estimate the unknown vehicle dynamics, and a new HJB equation is derived using the reconstructed identifier tracking error. An online optimal tracking control strategy for unmanned vehicles is obtained in the state of identifier estimation with the assistance of actor-critic network. Based on Lyapunov theory, it is demonstrated that the identifier tracking error, identifier approximation …