Transportation Science & Technology

Article Engineering, Civil

Mobility-Aware Multi-Hop Task Offloading for Autonomous Driving in Vehicular Edge Computing and Networks

Lei Liu, Ming Zhao, Miao Yu, Mian Ahmad Jan, Dapeng Lan, Amirhosein Taherkordi

Summary: This paper proposes a task offloading scheme in Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) that utilizes multi-hop vehicle computation resources to improve response delay and enhance user experience.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2023)

Article Engineering, Civil

Cognitive AmBC-NOMA IoV-MTS Networks With IQI: Reliability and Security Analysis

Xingwang Li, Yike Zheng, Mohammad Dahman Alshehri, Linpeng Hai, Venki Balasubramanian, Ming Zeng, Gaofeng Nie

Summary: This study focuses on the reliable and secure performance of Internet-of-Vehicle enabled Maritime Transportation Systems communication. Analytical expressions for outage probability and intercept probability are obtained. The results show specific characteristics of system performance in high signal-to-noise ratio and high main-to-eavesdropper ratio regimes, and a trade-off between reliability and security can be achieved by carefully selecting system parameters.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2023)

Article Engineering, Civil

An Adaptive Clustering-Based Algorithm for Automatic Path Planning of Heterogeneous UAVs

Jinchao Chen, Ying Zhang, Lianwei Wu, Tao You, Xin Ning

Summary: This study focuses on the automatic path planning of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with different capabilities using linear programming and clustering algorithms to minimize the time consumption of search tasks.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

Perceptual Enhancement for Autonomous Vehicles: Restoring Visually Degraded Images for Context Prediction via Adversarial Training

Feng Ding, Keping Yu, Zonghua Gu, Xiangjun Li, Yunqing Shi

Summary: This study introduces a generative adversarial network to improve various degraded images, with a novel architecture to handle additional attributes between image styles, enhancing the accuracy and training efficiency of restoration. Compared to other methods, it shows better performance in restoration and is reliable for assisting context prediction in autonomous vehicles.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

Deep Learning on Traffic Prediction: Methods, Analysis and Future Directions

Xueyan Yin, Genze Wu, Jinze Wei, Yanming Shen, Heng Qi, Baocai Yin

Summary: Traffic prediction is crucial for intelligent transportation systems, and deep learning methods have greatly improved the accuracy of traffic prediction. This study provides a comprehensive survey on deep learning-based approaches in traffic prediction, summarizing the latest methods and discussing open challenges in the field.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

Digital Twins in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Rapid Medical Resource Delivery in Epidemics

Zhihan Lv, Dongliang Chen, Hailin Feng, Hu Zhu, Haibin Lv

Summary: This study explores the impact of Digital Twins in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on providing medical resources during COVID-19 prevention and control, introducing deep learning algorithms and proposing a UAV DTs information forecasting model. The model shows better performance in terms of transmission delays, energy consumption, task completion time, and resource utilization rate compared to other state-of-art models as end-users and task proportion increase.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

FedCPF: An Efficient-Communication Federated Learning Approach for Vehicular Edge Computing in 6G Communication Networks

Su Liu, Jiong Yu, Xiaoheng Deng, Shaohua Wan

Summary: In this study, an efficient communication approach called FedCPF is proposed to achieve fast convergence and improve testing accuracy in vehicular edge computing. By customizing local training strategies, introducing partial client participation rules, and implementing flexible aggregation policies, FedCPF outperforms the traditional FedAVG algorithm and performs well in various FL settings.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Future Directions of Intelligent Vehicles: Potentials, Possibilities, and Perspectives

Dongpu Cao, Xiao Wang, Lingxi Li, Chen Lv, Xiaoxiang Na, Yang Xing, Xuan Li, Ying Li, Yuanyuan Chen, Fei-Yue Wang

Summary: This is the brief report of the first IEEE Distributed/Decentralized Hybrid Workshop on Future Directions of Intelligent Vehicles. The workshop addressed various issues related to intelligent vehicles and potential topics for future research and development.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT VEHICLES (2022)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Automatic detection method of tunnel lining multi-defects via an enhanced You Only Look Once network

Zhong Zhou, Junjie Zhang, Chenjie Gong

Summary: This research proposes a deep learning-based model, YOLOv4-ED, to solve the challenges in traditional tunnel lining defect detection methods. By using EfficientNet as the backbone and introducing DSC, YOLOv4-ED achieves higher detection accuracy and efficiency. A tunnel lining defect detection platform (TLDDP) is built based on the robust and cost-effective YOLOv4-ED, enabling automated detection of various lining defects.

COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING (2022)

Article Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Impacts of Sensing Energy and Data Availability on Throughput of Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks

Xiaoying Liu, Bin Xu, Xiong Wang, Kechen Zheng, Kaikai Chi, Xianzhong Tian

Summary: This paper investigates the impacts of sensing energy and data availability on the secondary throughput of energy harvesting cognitive radio networks. It considers two extreme cases of data arrival processes and studies the effects on secondary throughput. The paper also compares non-cooperative spectrum sensing and cooperative spectrum sensing scenarios. It utilizes an energy threshold approach to balance energy harvesting and data transmission. Simulation results show the relationship between sensing energy, data availability, and secondary throughput.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY (2023)

Article Engineering, Civil

A Novel Spatio-Temporal Synchronization Method of Roadside Asynchronous MMW Radar-Camera for Sensor Fusion

Yuchuan Du, Bohao Qin, Cong Zhao, Yifan Zhu, Jing Cao, Yuxiong Ji

Summary: A novel spatio-temporal synchronization method is proposed for roadside MMW radar-camera sensor fusion, which effectively reduces temporal deviation and spatial deviation between the camera and radar. The method is validated using measurement data from Donghai Bridge in Shanghai, demonstrating significant improvements in spatial alignment.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

Human Trajectory Forecasting in Crowds: A Deep Learning Perspective

Parth Kothari, Sven Kreiss, Alexandre Alahi

Summary: This study explores the development of human trajectory forecasting, comparing handcrafted representations with deep learning methods, and proposing two data-driven approaches to effectively capture social interactions. By establishing the TrajNet++ benchmark and introducing new performance metrics, the superiority of the proposed method on real-world and synthetic datasets is validated.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

A3C-Based Intelligent Event-Triggering Control of Networked Nonlinear Unmanned Marine Vehicles Subject to Hybrid Attacks

Zehua Ye, Dan Zhang, Zheng-Guang Wu, Huaicheng Yan

Summary: This paper focuses on the intelligent event-triggering-based positioning control of networked unmanned marine vehicle (UMV) systems with hybrid attacks. A stochastic switched Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy system model is proposed for the UMV systems subject to DoS and Deception attacks, and an asynchronous advantage actor-critic (A3C) learning-based event-triggering approach is introduced to reduce communication load. The stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed using Lyapunov stability theory and switched system analysis, and the effectiveness of the proposed resilient control strategy is verified through a networked UMV system example.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

A Comparative Analysis of LiDAR SLAM-Based Indoor Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles

Qin Zou, Qin Sun, Long Chen, Bu Nie, Qingquan Li

Summary: SLAM is crucial for indoor navigation in autonomous vehicles and robots, with visual SLAM having drawbacks in tracking feature points in environments lacking texture. On the other hand, LiDAR SLAM can offer more robust localization by utilizing 3D spatial information directly captured by LiDAR point clouds.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Transportation Science & Technology

Decision making of autonomous vehicles in lane change scenarios: Deep reinforcement learning approaches with risk awareness

Guofa Li, Yifan Yang, Shen Li, Xingda Qu, Nengchao Lyu, Shengbo Eben Li

Summary: This study proposes a lane change decision-making framework based on deep reinforcement learning to find a risk-aware driving decision strategy with the minimum expected risk for autonomous vehicles. The proposed methods are evaluated in CARLA and show better driving performances than previous methods.

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (2022)

Review Energy & Fuels

A review on comprehensive recycling of spent power lithium-ion battery in China

Wenhao Yu, Yi Guo, Zhen Shang, Yingchao Zhang, Shengming Xu

Summary: The high demand for electric vehicles in China has led to an increase in power lithium-ion battery (LIB) production, resulting in a large number of spent power LIBs. Comprehensive recycling, including recovery and reuse, is a promising direction to maximize the utilization of spent power LIBs. This article reviews the current situation of comprehensive recycling of spent LIBs in China and discusses the pretreatment, recovery of materials, and reuse process of spent power LIBs.

ETRANSPORTATION (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for 6G Backscatter-Enabled NOMA IoV Networks

Wali Ullah Khan, Muhammad Awais Javed, Tu N. Nguyen, Shafiullah Khan, Basem M. Elhalawany

Summary: This paper introduces an energy-efficient resource allocation framework for the AmBC-enabled NOMA IoV network, aiming to maximize the total energy efficiency of the network while ensuring the minimum data rate of all IoVs. The proposed framework outperforms a benchmark conventional IoV framework in terms of performance.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

A Data-Driven Method for Battery Charging Capacity Abnormality Diagnosis in Electric Vehicle Applications

Zhenpo Wang, Chunbao Song, Lei Zhang, Yang Zhao, Peng Liu, David G. Dorrell

Summary: In this article, a data-driven method based on massive real-world EV operating data is proposed for diagnosing battery charging capacity abnormalities. By utilizing multiple input parameters and a tree-based prediction model for training, along with a statistical method for abnormality diagnosis, the proposed method demonstrates the highest prediction accuracy.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

A Sound-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Railway Point Machines Based on Two-Stage Feature Selection Strategy and Ensemble Classifier

Yuan Cao, Yongkui Sun, Guo Xie, Peng Li

Summary: This study introduced a sound-based fault diagnosis method for railway point machines, achieving over 99% diagnosis accuracy through feature selection and ensemble classifier optimization.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)

Article Engineering, Civil

Key Points Estimation and Point Instance Segmentation Approach for Lane Detection

Yeongmin Ko, Younkwan Lee, Shoaib Azam, Farzeen Munir, Moongu Jeon, Witold Pedrycz

Summary: The proposed traffic line detection method, PINet, based on key points estimation and instance segmentation, is adaptive to various environments and computing power. PINet allows for choosing the size of trained models based on the target environment's computing power, achieving competitive accuracy and false positive rates on popular public datasets like CULane and TuSimple.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (2022)