Unsupervised context detection using wireless signals

The sensing context plays an important role in many pervasive and mobile computing applications. Continuing from previous work [D. Phung, B. Adams, S. Venkatesh, Computable social patterns from sparse sensor data, in: Proceedings of First International Workshop on Location Web, World Wide Web Conference (WWW), New York, NY, USA, 2008, ACM 69–72.], we present an unsupervised framework for extracting user context in indoor environments with existing wireless infrastructures. Our novel approach casts context detection into an incremental, unsupervised clustering setting. Using WiFi observations consisting of access point identification and signal strengths freely available in office or public spaces, we adapt a density-based clustering technique to recover basic forms of user contexts that include user motion state and significant places the user visits from time to time. High-level user context, termed rhythms, comprising sequences of significant places are derived from the above low-level context by employing probabilistic clustering techniques, latent Dirichlet allocation and its n-gram temporal extension. These user contexts can enable a wide range of context-ware application services. Experimental results with real data in comparison with existing methods are presented to validate the proposed approach. Our motion classification algorithm operates in real-time, and achieves a 10% improvement over an existing method; significant locations are detected with over 90% accuracy and near perfect cluster purity. Richer indoor context and meaningful rhythms, such as typical daily routines or meeting patterns, are also inferred automatically from collected raw WiFi signals.     

A Visible and Near-Infrared Light-Fueled Omnidirectional Twist-Bend Crawling Robot

In recent years, although light-driven soft actuators have attracted intense scientific attention and achieved remarkable progress, the design and construction of an intelligent robotic system with maneuverability, self-adaptability, untethered control, and greater freedom of action, in particular the omnidirectional motion capability on a plane, remains challenging. Herein, four types of photo-thermal fillers and an unprecedented twist-bend actuation mode is introduced into a liquid crystal elastomer-based soft robot. The obtained twist-bend crawling robot not only exhibits in situ rotation, four-way turning, and four-way linear motion under light irradiation with four wavelength bands (520, 655, 808, and 980 nm), but also demonstrates the ability to avoid obstacles in complex geographical environments. This work may bring a new perspective for fabrication and development of soft robots that can adapt to dynamic and complex environmental conditions.     

An Ophthalmic Evaluation of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy

Nowadays in the medical field, imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are mainly used to identify retinal diseases. In this paper, the Central Serous Chorio Retinopathy (CSCR) image is analyzed for various stages and then compares the difference between CSCR before as well as after treatment using different application methods. The first approach, which was focused on image quality, improves medical image accuracy. An enhancement algorithm was implemented to improve the OCT image contrast and denoise purpose called Boosted Anisotropic Diffusion with an Unsharp Masking Filter (BADWUMF). The classifier used here is to figure out whether the OCT image is a CSCR case or not. 150 images are checked for this research work (75 abnormal from Optical Coherence Tomography Image Retinal Database, in-house clinical database, and 75 normal images). This article explicitly decides that the approaches suggested aid the ophthalmologist with the precise retinal analysis and hence the risk factors to be minimized. The total precision is 90 percent obtained from the Two Class Support Vector Machine (TCSVM) classifier and 93.3 percent is obtained from Shallow Neural Network with the Powell-Beale (SNNWPB) classifier using the MATLAB 2019a program.     

Optimal and Effective Resource Management in Edge Computing

Edge computing is a cloud computing extension where physical computers are installed closer to the device to minimize latency. The task of edge data centers is to include a growing abundance of applications with a small capability in comparison to conventional data centers. Under this framework, Federated Learning was suggested to offer distributed data training strategies by the coordination of many mobile devices for the training of a popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) model without actually revealing the underlying data, which is significantly enhanced in terms of privacy. Federated learning (FL) is a recently developed decentralized profound learning methodology, where customers train their localized neural network models independently using private data, and then combine a global model on the core server together. The models on the edge server use very little time since the edge server is highly calculated. But the amount of time it takes to download data from smartphone users on the edge server has a significant impact on the time it takes to complete a single cycle of FL operations. A machine learning strategic planning system that uses FL in conjunction to minimise model training time and total time utilisation, while recognising mobile appliance energy restrictions, is the focus of this study. To further speed up integration and reduce the amount of data, it implements an optimization agent for the establishment of optimal aggregation policy and asylum architecture with several employees’ shared learners. The main solutions and lessons learnt along with the prospects are discussed. Experiments show that our method is superior in terms of the effective and elastic use of resources.     

Fuzzy and Deep Belief Network Based Malicious Vehicle Identification and Trust Recommendation Framework in VANETs

Wireless Personal Communications - This work aims to implement a clustering scheme to separate vehicles into a cluster that is based on various parameters, such as the total number of relay nodes,...     

Context sensitive trust based geographic opportunistic routing in mobile ad hoc networks

Sādhanā - Position based opportunistic routing (POR) is a stateless, robust, and reliable geographic routing protocol in Mobile AdHoc NETwork (MANET). The opportunistic routing embraces...     

A multisource energy harvesting utilizing highly efficient ferroelectric PMN-PT single crystal

This paper demonstrates a multi-source energy harvester that is able to utilize simultaneously both piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects in lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) single crystal. The paper presents a study of PMN-PT single crystal with a (67:33) composition grown in our laboratory via a vertical gradient freeze method without any flux. The performance of the piezoelectric and pyroelectric energy harvester using unimorph device structure was evaluated via modeling and experiment. The theoretical study was implemented based on a distributed parameter electromechanical model and the modelling procedure was approximated using finite element analysis to predict the electromechanical behavior of the harvester. The maximum power density at a resonance frequency of 50 Hz and optimum resistance of 2 MΩ was 16.7 nW/(g² cm³) under a 1 g acceleration of vibration. The measured values of electrical output parameters were in good agreement with theoretical and modelling results using MATLAB and COMSOL Multiphysics, respectively. By using the pyroelectric effect along with the piezoelectric effect, the output voltage of the energy harvester was found to be enhanced at the optimum resistance and specific frequency values. It was noticed that the output voltage was increased monotonically with temperature-difference (ΔT) and reaches up to 180 % of its original value under temperature difference of 1.7 °C at a frequency value of 49 Hz.     

Deviant auditory stimuli activate human left and right auditory cortex differently

Infrequent "deviant' auditory stimuli embedded in a homogeneous sequence of "standard' sounds evoke a neuromagnetic mismatch field (MMF), which is assumed to reflect automatic change detection in the brain. We investigated whether MMFs would reveal hemispheric differences in cortical auditory processing. Seven healthy adults were studied with a whole-scalp neuromagnetometer. The sound sequence, delivered to one ear at time, contained three infrequent deviants (differing from standards in duration, frequency, or interstimulus interval) intermixed with standard tones. MMFs peaked 9-34 msec earlier in the right than in the left hemisphere, irrespective of the stimulated ear. Whereas deviants activated only one MMF source in the left hemisphere, two temporally overlapping but spatially separate sources, one in the temporal lobe and another in the inferior parietal cortex, were necessary to explain the right-hemisphere MMFs. We suggest that the bilateral MMF components originating in the supratemporal cortex are feature specific whereas the right-hemisphere parietal component reflects more global auditory change detection. The results imply hemispheric differences in sound processing and suggest stronger involvement of the right than the left hemisphere in change detection.     

Generalized linear complementarity in a problem ofn-person games

In this paper, we introduce a generalization of the polymatrix game (a nonzero sum noncooperativen-person game) considered by Howson and relate the problem of computing an equilibrium set of strategies for such a game to the generalized linear complementarity problem of Cottle and Dantzig. For an even more general version of the game we prove the existence of an-equilibrium set of strategies. We also present a result on the stability of the equilibria based on degree theory.