The millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar technology has attracted significant attention because it is susceptible to environmental lighting, wall shielding, and privacy concern. This article proposes a novel noninvasive human activity recognition system using a mmWave radar. The proposed framework first transforms mmWave signals into point clouds. Generally speaking, it consists of four major components: denosing, enhanced voxelization, data augmentation, and dual-view machine learning to lead to accurate and efficient human activity recognition. The proposed new methodology considers the spatial–temporal point clouds in physical environments through a modified voxelization approach, enriches the sparse data based on the symmetry property of radar rotations, and learns the activity using a dual-view convolutional neural network. To evaluate the performance of the proposed learning models, a dataset involving seven different activities has been established using a mmWave radar platform. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed system can achieve 97.61% and 98% accuracies during the tests of fall detection and activity classification, respectively. In comparison, the proposed scheme greatly outperforms four other conventional machine learning schemes in terms of the overall accuracy.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, AI-based UAVs are increasingly utilized in various industrial and civilian applications. This paper presents a distributed Edge-Cloud collaborative framework for UAV object detection, aiming to achieve real-time and accurate detection of ground moving targets. The framework incorporates an Edge-Embedded Lightweight ( ${{\rm{E}}^{2}}\rm{L}$ ) object algorithm with an attention mechanism, enabling real-time object detection on edge-side embedded devices while maintaining high accuracy. Additionally, a decision-making mechanism based on fuzzy neural network facilitates adaptive task allocation between the edge-side and cloud-side. Experimental results demonstrate the improved running rate of the proposed algorithm compared to YOLOv4 on the edge-side NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, and the superior performance of the distributed Edge-Cloud collaborative framework over traditional edge computing or cloud computing algorithms in terms of speed and accuracy.

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are the fundamental component in the next-generation factories. Due to massive heterogeneous data generated from large-scale IWSNs, it is still challenging to achieve predictable, deterministic, and real-time transmission scheduling. In this paper, a framework of priority-aware packet transmission scheduling (PPTS) in cluster-based IWSNs is proposed, where the PPTS strategy, the optimization theory, and the implementation design are systematically considered. In particular, the proposed PPTS strategy not only minimizes the transmission delay of high priority packets but also greatly improves the transmission delay of low priority packets. The optimization theory for end-to-end priority-aware scheduling in cluster-based IWSNs is formalized, which contributes to the optimal solution for multidimensional network resources allocation and achieves the minimum of average transmission delay. Finally, the advantages of the PPTS framework over some existing solutions are demonstrated by a case study.

In the mobile industrial human-machine interaction (HMI), to establish the data connection, the engineer has to manually select the target machine from a long list, which may lead to wrong connection and waste of time. We observe that the engineer should face to the machine during the interaction to ensure that the machine works accurately, and this characteristic makes the proximity estimation algorithm suitable to simplify the data connection. However, due to the densely deployed machines, the existing algorithms cannot provide sufficient accuracy with limited latency. In this paper, we implement a testbed to evaluate the performance in the mobile industrial HMI. Based on the experimental results, we propose the definition of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) difference and then use it to design the face-to-machine proximity estimation (FaceME) algorithm. The experimental results prove that FaceME can provide guaranteed estimation accuracy and low-time complexity.