To respond to the rapid growth of shipping container throughput, terminals urgently need to improve the efficiency of thier operations and reduce operational costs through automation and intellectualization upgrades, thereby improving service levels and enhancing market competitiveness. Due to the advantages of reliable transportation, efficient operation, and environmental friendliness, AGV-based automated container terminal (ACT) has become the development trend of container terminals. To help ACT improve its operational management capabilities, plenty of scholars have explored the transportation system of ACT. Through the analysis of operational management issues, the paper defines the four main research topics in vehicle transportation of the ACT including equipment scheduling, path planning, exception handling, and vehicle management. Then, in each topic, the works in the recent 25 years are summarized and several research opportunities for possible follow-up research directions in different fields are proposed. We expect our survey could not only provide references for more scholars on the research of operation and management of terminals, but also provide guidance for system evaluation and improvement for terminal system engineers and operation managers.

The sixth-generation communication networks aim to integrate space, air, and ground communications into a robust network. However, maritime communications are confronted with the challenge of the atmospheric duct, which could capture wireless signals and propagate beyond the line of sight. In this paper, a parabolic equation-based modeling approach is proposed to characterize the maritime evaporation duct channel. The constant coefficients of each variable in the modeling are calculated by the least square method, and the specific distribution of shadow fading in channel modeling is determined by the Kullback-Leibler divergence method. Furthermore, the partitioning around medoids method is utilized to reduce the average deviation and improve the accuracy of the model. Numerical results illustrate that the statistical channel model possesses satisfactory calculation ability at the distance of signal interference caused by the evaporation duct. In addition, the paper analyzed the influence of the antenna height and downtilt angle on signal propagation.

Electroencephalogram (EEG) has been widely utilized in emotion recognition due to its high temporal resolution and reliability. However, the individual differences and non-stationary characteristics of EEG, along with the complexity and variability of emotions, pose challenges in generalizing emotion recognition models across subjects. In this paper, an end-to-end framework is proposed to improve the performance of cross-subject emotion recognition. A novel evolutionary programming (EP)-based optimization strategy with neural network (NN) as the base classifier termed NN ensemble with EP (EPNNE) is designed for cross-subject emotion recognition. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated on the publicly available DEAP, FACED, SEED, and SEED-IV datasets. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to state-of-the-art cross-subject emotion recognition methods. The proposed end-to-end framework for cross-subject emotion recognition aids biomedical researchers in effectively assessing individual emotional states, thereby enabling efficient treatment and interventions.

Path planning is an important step in ensuring the safety of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) navigation and executing missions quickly and efficiently. However, current USV path planning methods lack comprehensive consideration of electronic nautical charts and meteorological data, resulting in planned paths being unable to fully utilize marine environmental conditions, which may easily lead to collisions and long navigation times. Based on the above considerations, our study designs a USV path planning system that comprehensively considers the multimodal information from electronic nautical charts and meteorological data. The system consists of three parts: (1) image processing module, (2) meteorological analysis module, and (3) path planning module. In detail, the image processing module obtains the geographical feature information from the electronic chart and constructs a static obstacle environment. The meteorological analysis module obtains the meteorological feature information from meteorological data and constructs a dynamic meteorological vector field environment. The path planning module introduces a designed double deep Q-Network (DQN) structure, a multivariate weighted Dueling network, and a priority sampling mechanism to enhance the DQN algorithm for promising performance in USV path planning. Extensive experiments illustrate the superior performance of the proposed fusion DQN algorithm. Furthermore, the feasibility of the entire path planning system is confirmed.

Due to the influence of sparse scattering, wave movement and variable climate, maritime wireless channel modeling is particularly difficult. In this letter, a maritime channel measurement scheme is designed and implemented. A clustering algorithm-based channel modeling framework is further proposed to process the measurement data and build a maritime propagation model. Specifically, the clustering algorithm is introduced in the framework to adaptively discover data characteristics in complex environments, which avoids error accumulation. Numerical results illustrate that the proposed model outperforms existing empirical path loss models in describing the signal propagation at sea, which provides good guidance for designing and deploying of maritime communication systems.

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) massive access is a significant scenario for sixth-generation (6G) communications. However, low-power IoT devices easily suffer from remote interference caused by the atmospheric duct under the 6G time-division duplex (TDD) mode. It causes distant downlink wireless signals to propagate beyond the designed protection distance and interfere with local uplink signals, leading to a large outage probability. In this paper, a remote interference discrimination testbed is originally proposed to detect interference, which supports the comparison of different types of algorithms on the testbed. Specifically, 5,520,000 TDD network-side data collected by real sensors are used to validate the interference discrimination capabilities of nine promising AI algorithms. Moreover, a consistent comparison of the testbed shows that the ensemble algorithm achieves an average accuracy of 12% higher than the single model algorithm.