Xudong Wang^1,2, Xueshuai Qin¹, Huiyan Zhang^2,*, Luis Ismael Minchala³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 385-400, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036633

Abstract Unmanned vehicles are currently facing many difficulties and challenges in improving safety performance when running in complex urban road traffic environments, such as low intelligence and poor comfort performance in the driving process. The real-time performance of vehicles and the comfort requirements of passengers in path planning and tracking control of unmanned vehicles have attracted more and more attentions. In this paper, in order to improve the real-time performance of the autonomous vehicle planning module and the comfort requirements of passengers that a local granular-based path planning method and tracking control based on multi-segment Bezier curve splicing and model predictive… More >

Abida Sharif¹, Imran Sharif¹, Muhammad Asim Saleem², Muhammad Attique Khan³, Majed Alhaisoni⁴, Marriam Nawaz^5,6, Abdullah Alqahtani⁷, Ye Jin Kim⁸, Byoungchol Chang^9,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5379-5393, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034413

Abstract The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a networking paradigm related to the intercommunication of vehicles using a network. In a dynamic network, one of the key challenges in IoV is traffic management under increasing vehicles to avoid congestion. Therefore, optimal path selection to route traffic between the origin and destination is vital. This research proposed a realistic strategy to reduce traffic management service response time by enabling real-time content distribution in IoV systems using heterogeneous network access. Firstly, this work proposed a novel use of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm and formulated the path planning optimization problem as an… More >

Onder Alparslan^*, Omer Cetin

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3355-3370, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035689

Abstract Unknown closed spaces are a big challenge for the navigation of robots since there are no global and pre-defined positioning options in the area. One of the simplest and most efficient algorithms, the artificial potential field algorithm (APF), may provide real-time navigation in those places but fall into local minimum in some cases. To overcome this problem and to present alternative escape routes for a robot, possible crossing points in buildings may be detected by using object detection and included in the path planning algorithm. This study utilized a proposed sensor fusion method and an improved object classification method for… More >

Gamil Ahmed¹, Tarek Sheltami^1,*, Ashraf Mahmoud¹, Ansar Yasar²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 3239-3263, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.022860

Abstract Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have drawn significant consideration thanks to their agility, mobility, and flexibility features. They play a crucial role in modern reconnaissance, inspection, intelligence, and surveillance missions. Coverage path planning (CPP) which is one of the crucial aspects that determines an intelligent system’s quality seeks an optimal trajectory to fully cover the region of interest (ROI). However, the flight time of the UAV is limited due to a battery limitation and may not cover the whole region, especially in large region. Therefore, energy consumption is one of the most challenging issues that need to… More >

K. Sreelakshmy¹, Himanshu Gupta¹, Om Prakash Verma¹, Kapil Kumar², Abdelhamied A. Ateya³, Naglaa F. Soliman^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.3, pp. 2483-2503, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032737

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones introduced for military applications are gaining popularity in several other fields as well such as security and surveillance, due to their ability to perform repetitive and tedious tasks in hazardous environments. Their increased demand created the requirement for enabling the UAVs to traverse independently through the Three Dimensional (3D) flight environment consisting of various obstacles which have been efficiently addressed by metaheuristics in past literature. However, not a single optimization algorithms can solve all kind of optimization problem effectively. Therefore, there is dire need to integrate metaheuristic for general acceptability. To address this issue,… More >

Najla Bagais^*, Etimad Fadel, Amal Al-Mansour

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1237-1267, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026070

Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are considered the backbone of the Internet of Things (IoT), which enables sensor nodes (SNs) to achieve applications similarly to human intelligence. However, integrating a WSN with the IoT is challenging and causes issues that require careful exploration. Prolonging the lifetime of a network through appropriately utilising energy consumption is among the essential challenges due to the limited resources of SNs. Thus, recent research has examined mobile sinks (MSs), which have been introduced to improve the overall efficiency of WSNs. MSs bear the burden of data collection instead of consuming energy at the routeing by SNs.… More >

Shaher Alshammrei¹, Sahbi Boubaker^2,*, Lioua Kolsi^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5939-5954, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028165

Abstract Optimal path planning avoiding obstacles is among the most attractive applications of mobile robots (MRs) in both research and education. In this paper, an optimal collision-free algorithm is designed and implemented practically based on an improved Dijkstra algorithm. To achieve this research objectives, first, the MR obstacle-free environment is modeled as a diagraph including nodes, edges and weights. Second, Dijkstra algorithm is used offline to generate the shortest path driving the MR from a starting point to a target point. During its movement, the robot should follow the previously obtained path and stop at each node to test if there… More >

Mahmoud Ragab^1,2,3,*, Ali Altalbe¹, Abdullah Saad Al-Malaise ALGhamdi⁴, S. Abdel-khalek^5,6, Rashid A. Saeed⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 365-380, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024932

Abstract The smart city comprises various interlinked elements which communicate data and offers urban life to citizen. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones were commonly employed in different application areas like agriculture, logistics, and surveillance. For improving the drone flying safety and quality of services, a significant solution is for designing the Internet of Drones (IoD) where the drones are utilized to gather data and people communicate to the drones of a specific flying region using the mobile devices is for constructing the Internet-of-Drones, where the drones were utilized for collecting the data, and communicate with others. In addition, the SIRSS-CIoD… More >

Rasha Sleem¹, Nagham Mekky¹, Shaker El-Sappagh^2,3, Louai Alarabi^4,*, Noha A. Hikal¹, Mohammed Elmogy¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5619-5638, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023716

Abstract The popularity of mobile devices with sensors is captivating the attention of researchers to modern techniques, such as the internet of things (IoT) and mobile crowdsensing (MCS). The core concept behind MCS is to use the power of mobile sensors to accomplish a difficult task collaboratively, with each mobile user completing much simpler micro-tasks. This paper discusses the task assignment problem in mobile crowdsensing, which is dependent on sensing time and path planning with the constraints of participant travel distance budgets and sensing time intervals. The goal is to minimize aggregate sensing time for mobile users, which reduces energy consumption… More >

Dong Wang^1,*, Shutong Zheng¹, Yanxi Ren², Danjie Du³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 3571-3587, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022183

Abstract Planning a reasonable driving path for trucks in mining areas is a key point to improve mining efficiency. In this paper, a path planning method based on Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star (RRT^*) is proposed, and several optimizations are carried out in the algorithm. Firstly, the selection process of growth target points is optimized. Secondly, the process of selecting the parent node is optimized and a Dubins curve is used to constraint it. Then, the expansion process from tree node to random point is optimized by the gravitational repulsion field method and dynamic step method. In the obstacle detection process, Dubins… More >