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30 August 2024
Unitree Demos New $16k Robot
At ICRA 2024, Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman sat down with Unitree founder and CEO Xingxing Wang and Tony Yang, VP of Business Development, to talk about the company’s newest humanoid, the G1 model. Smaller, more flexible, and elegant, the G1 robot is designed for general use in service and industry,...
23 July 2024
DIY: Classic 555 Timer Kit
Follow along as we build and test one of our favorite kits of all time, the Discrete 555 Timer! Build a huge version of one of the most iconic and surprisingly versatile integrated circuits of all time from transistor and resistors. The 555 chip has been used at one time...
09 May 2019
360 Video: Zoom Over Zanzibar With Tanzania’s Drone Startups
With 360-degree video, IEEE Spectrum puts you aboard drones that are flying high above the Tanzanian landscape: You’ll ride along as drones soar above farms, towns, and the blue expanse of Lake Victoria. You’ll also meet the local entrepreneurs who are creating a new industry, finding applications for their drones...
06 May 2019
360 Video: Go on a Mission With Zipline’s Delivery Drones
With 360 video, IEEE Spectrum takes you behind the scenes with one of the world’s first drone-delivery companies. Zipline, based in California, is using drones to deliver blood to hospitals throughout Rwanda. At an operations center in Muhanga, you’ll watch as Zipline technicians assemble the modular drones, fill their cargo holds, and...
17 October 2018
A Techie’s Tour of New York City
Do your travel plans include New York City? Are you a techie? If the answer to those questions is yes, let IEEE Spectrum be your guide! We've put together a list of some of our favorite places to visit, including important locations in the history of electrotechnology (New York was...

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Latest Publications

08 January 2025
Multiobjective Multitask Optimization via Diversity- and Convergence-Oriented Knowledge Transfer
Multiobjective multitask optimization (MO-MTO) aims to exploit the similarities among different multiobjective optimization tasks through knowledge transfer (KT), facilitating their simultaneous resolution. The effective design of KT techniques embedded in multiobjective evolutionary optimizers is crucial for enhancing the performance of multiobjective multitask evolutionary algorithms (MO-MTEAs). However, a significant limitation of...
08 January 2025
Consensus Control of Nonlinear Stochastic Multiagent Systems With Unknown and Time-Varying Control Coefficients Based on Novel Nussbaum Functions
This article investigates the distributed control of a group of stochastic high-order nonlinear systems in which the subsystems are with unknown and time-varying control coefficients of unknown signs, inherent nonlinear drift and diffusion terms. To solve the control problem with unknown control directions, where traditional available Nussbaum functions are not...
07 January 2025
Optimal Group Consensus of Multiagent Systems in Graphical Games Using Reinforcement Learning
This article investigates the optimal group consensus problem (GCP) in multiagent systems (MASs). To address this problem, a novel distributed optimal control policy is designed in the framework of off-policy reinforcement learning (RL). First, a framework for multiagent differential graphical games is formulated. Second, a min-max strategy is then introduced...
06 January 2025
Multibranch Horizontal Augmentation Network for Continuous Remaining Useful Life Prediction
Aiming at the large differences between tasks in continuous remaining useful life (RUL) prediction and the limited information capturing capability of the existing continuous learning (CL) methods, this article develops a novel multibranch horizontal augmentation network (MBHAN). First, a hierarchical self-attention (HSA) mechanism is proposed to capture the local degradation...

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27 December 2024
Human-Following Control Method Based on Adaptive Recurrent PID Controller With Self-Tuning Filter
The research on human-following robot is important for practical applications. It is a hot field of human–machine technology. This article proposes an adaptive recurrent proportional integral differential (PID) control algorithm with self-tuning filter based on vision to address the issue of insufficient recognition accuracy of specific following targets in the...
27 December 2024
Cognitive Load-Based Affective Workload Allocation for Multihuman Multirobot Teams
The interaction and collaboration between humans and multiple robots represent a novel field of research known as human multirobot systems. Adequately designed systems within this field allow teams composed of both humans and robots to work together effectively on tasks, such as monitoring, exploration, and search and rescue operations. This...
19 December 2024
Modeling Shared Control System Between Human Pilot and Autopilot for a Carrier-Based Aircraft Landing Task
This article proposes a shared control system model between the human pilot and autopilot for the special issue of carrier-based aircraft landing task. A key point of the shared and cooperative control is that the decision-sharing system depends on the longitudinal safety boundaries for manual/automatic landing. Two strategies of the...
11 December 2024
Fatigue Assessment and Control With Lower Limb Exoskeletons
Acknowledging the vital importance of fatigue management for improving rehabilitation results, customizing treatment, safeguarding patient well-being, and enhancing the quality of life of hemiplegic patients, this study presents the development of a tailored fatigue model and a corresponding human-in-the-loop (HiL) control system for exoskeleton-assisted walking. For this, the selected three-compartment...
04 December 2024
A Game-Theoretic Model of Trust in Human–Robot Teaming: Guiding Human Observation Strategy for Monitoring Robot Behavior
In scenarios involving robots generating and executing plans, conflicts can arise between cost-effective robot execution and meeting human expectations for safe behavior. When humans supervise robots, their accountability increases, especially when robot behavior deviates from expectations. To address this, robots may choose a highly constrained plan when monitored and a...

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10 January 2025
FingHV: Efficient Sharing and Fine-Grained Scheduling of Virtualized HPU Resources
While artificial intelligence (AI) technology has advanced in real-world applications, there is a strong motivation to develop hybrid systems where AI algorithms and humans collaborate, promoting more human-centered approaches in AI system design. This has led to the emergence of a novel human-machine computing (HMC) paradigm, which combines human cognitive...
19 June 2023
Novel LKF Method on H∞ Synchronization of Switched Time-Delay Systems
This article investigates $H_{infty }$ global asymptotic synchronization (GAS) of switched nonlinear systems with delay. By introducing mode-dependent double event-triggering mechanisms (DETMs), the communication resources in both system–controller (S-C) channel and controller–actuator (C-A) channel are saved as much as possible. By designing a new multiple Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) with time-varying...
18 June 2023
Cooperative Game-Based Approximate Optimal Control of Modular Robot Manipulators for Human–Robot Collaboration
Major challenges of controlling human–robot collaboration (HRC)-oriented modular robot manipulators (MRMs) include the estimation of human motion intention while cooperating with a robot and performance optimization. This article proposes a cooperative game-based approximate optimal control method of MRMs for HRC tasks. A harmonic drive compliance model-based human motion intention estimation...
16 June 2023
Modeling Based on a Two-Step Parameter Identification Strategy for Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator Considering Dynamic Phase Transition Process
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) is a promising candidate for actuation in light-driven soft robot applications. Due to the fact that LCE has complex hysteretic nonlinearities, which are highly dependent on the environment, modeling of actuators made of LCE is a very challenging issue. In this article, a model is proposed...
20 May 2023
Robust Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control for a Riser-Vessel System With Input Hysteresis and Time-Varying Output Constraints
Recently, with the development of the marine economy, marine risers have garnered increasing attention as they present facile and reliable methods for oil and gas transportation. However, these risers are susceptible to vibrations, which can lead to system performance degradation and fatigue damage. Therefore, effective vibration control strategies are required...

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12 November 2024
Linking Across Data Granularity: Fitting Multivariate Hawkes Processes to Partially Interval-Censored Data
The multivariate Hawkes process (MHP) is widely used for analyzing data streams that interact with each other, where events generate new events within their own dimension (via self-excitation) or across different dimensions (via cross excitation). However, in certain applications, the timestamps of individual events in some dimensions are unobservable, and...
11 November 2024
On Evolutionary Analysis of Customer Purchasing Behavior by the Supervision of E-Commerce Platforms
As Internet technology undergoes rapid development and widespread adoption, e-commerce emerges as a pivotal component of the platform economy, permeating various facets of daily life. However, due to the influence of time, space, and other factors, the problem of integrity becomes severe in the real trading environment. As the platforms,...
11 November 2024
Review of Advancements in Depression Detection Using Social Media Data
A large population embraced social media to share thoughts, emotions, and daily experiences through text, images, audio, or video posts. This user-generated content (UGC) serves various purposes, including user profiling, sentiment analysis, and disease detection or tracking. Notably, researchers recognized the potential of UGC for assessing mental health due to...
08 November 2024
A Classification-Based Product Selection Method Based on Online Reviews on Multifaceted Attributes
While the development of e-commerce brings convenience to consumers, a large quantity of products and information increase the difficulty of making purchase decisions. This study constructs a classification-based product selection method driven by online reviews to assist consumers in making purchase decisions. First, the multifaceted attribute evaluations of products are...
08 November 2024
Effective Analysis of Machine and Deep Learning Methods for Diagnosing Mental Health Using Social Media Conversations
The increasing incidence of mental health issues demands innovative diagnostic methods, especially within digital communication. Traditional assessments are challenged by the sheer volume of data and the nuanced language found on social media and other text-based platforms. This study seeks to apply machine learning (ML) to interpret these digital narratives...

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  • eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024

    Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article E-CARGO/RBC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Era of AI, written by Haibin Zhu Academic Corner Meet SMC Member Prof. Domenico Lofù Meet SMC Member Prof. Sarah Power Student Corner Interview with...

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  • eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024

    Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article E-CARGO/RBC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Era of AI, written by Haibin Zhu Academic Corner Meet SMC Member Prof. Domenico Lofù Meet SMC Member Prof. Sarah Power Student Corner Interview with...

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  • eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 82, September 2024

    Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 82, September 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article Lessons Learned in the Wild West of AI Projects, written by Dr. Nihad Bassis Academic Corner Meet SMC Member Prof. Samia Bouchafa-Bruneau from Université d’Evry Paris-Saclay Student Corner Interview with Ms....

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  • eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 81, June 2024

    Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 81, June 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article Trust Management for Human-AI Symbiosis Industry Corner Interview with Dr. Antoine Fagette (Thales, Canada) Student Corner Interview with Rakesh Joshi Interview with Anne Kamatham Interview with Yong Ding Society News About...

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