Muhamad Irsan^1,2,*, Rosilah Hassan², Anwar Hassan Ibrahim³, Mohamad Khatim Hasan², Meng Chun Lam², Wan Mohd Hirwani Wan Hussain⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.2, pp. 157-174, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.042193 - 21 May 2024

Abstract One of the major causes of road accidents is sleepy drivers. Such accidents typically result in fatalities and financial losses and disadvantage other road users. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify the driver’s sleepiness and integrate it into a warning system. Most studies have examined how the mouth and eyelids move. However, this limits the system’s ability to identify drowsiness traits. Therefore, this study designed an Accident Detection Framework (RPK) that could be used to reduce road accidents due to sleepiness and detect the location of accidents. The drowsiness detection model used three facial… More >

Rodrigo Vidonscky Pinto¹, Flávio Augusto Sanzovo Fiorelli^2,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.21, pp. 427-443, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fhmt.2023.041917 - 30 November 2023

Abstract The present work provides an experimental and numerical procedure to obtain the geometrical position of the hotspots of a microprocessor using the thermal images obtained from the transient thermal response of this processor subject to pulsating stress tests. This is performed by the solution of the steady inverse heat transfer problem using these thermal images, resulting in qualitative heat source distributions; these are analyzed using the mean heat source gradients to identify the elements that can be considered hotspots. This procedure identified that the processor INTEL Core 2 Quad Q8400S contains one hotspot located in More >

Ali Murtaza¹, Muhammad Usman Qadir¹, Muhammad Awais Khan¹, Izhar ul Haq^1,*, Kamran Shah¹, Nizar Akhtar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1887-1899, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020006 - 09 October 2021

Abstract Transfemoral prostheses have evolved from mechanical devices to microprocessor-based, electronically controlled knee joints, allowing amputees to regain control of their limbs. For improved amputee experience at varying ambulation rates, these devices provide controlled damping throughout the swing and stance phases of the gait cycle. Commercially available microprocessor-based prosthetic knee (MPK) joints use linear controllers, heuristic-based methods, and finite state machine based algorithms to track the refence gait cycle. However, since the amputee experiences a variety of non-linearities during ambulation, such as uneven terrains, walking backwards and climbing stairs, therefore, traditional controllers produces error, abnormal movements,… More >