A hybrid framework, that can be used in face recognition applications, to enhance system recognition efficiency and speed by extracting the most efficient features of face images is proposed. The proposed framework is based on features obtained using Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG)...

In this work, an artificial pancreas (AP) system, implemented on a mobile device is described. The proposed AP platform integrates hardware (insulin pump, glucose monitor, various sensors for vital signs and physical activities) and software (closed-loop control algorithm, sensor fusion, data...

In the last two decades, the indoor positioning systems (IPS) have attracted many researchers because of the great importance in many pervasive applications. Different techniques have been developed for IPS, a method that fingerprints the Received Signal Strength (RSS) of WLAN at specific places...

The proliferation of mobile devices such as smart phones and other handheld appliances has stimulated the development of a broad range of functionality, including medical, retail, gaming, and personal applications. Technology that has been leveraged to enable many of these uses includes embedded...

Toggle buttons are intuitive gadgets widely used in software GUI design and mobile app interfaces with increasing popularity on mobile devices. However, the current practice of toggle button design is prone to semantic ambiguity, which causes confusions to the users. This paper presents an...

In this paper, we present the experimental testing results of distributed cooperative control algorithms for multiple mobile robots with limited sensing/communication capacity and kinematic constraints. Rendezvous and formation control problems are considered, respectively. To deal with the...

Embedding Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within education is continually evolving research topic, because of the fast changes in information technology, software applications, and speed of internet. Therefore, many researchers around the globe are working in new projects of...

Due to proliferation of smart cities and other smart services, extensive data collection needs to be accomplished by mobile sensor networks (MSNs). However, sensing and data collection are voluntary tasks for many MSN users. For example, drivers are not required to report traffic condition...

In this article, the authors propose a new distributed least-squares algorithm to address the sensor fusion problem in using wireless sensor networks (WSN) to monitor the behaviors of large-scale multiagent systems. Under a mild assumption on network observability, that is, each sensor can take...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used in numerous critical applications, and require the network to have a prolonged lifetime and high tolerance to failures. However, the battery-operated sensor nodes used in WSNs cause the network to be resource-constrained. On the one hand, there is...