{"title":"Characteristic Portrait Construction of Voltage in Substation Areas Using ISSA-Based Cluster Prediction","authors":"Sicheng Huang, Lijia Ren, Dongbing Tong","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70313","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70313","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To effectively utilize power data for monitoring and issuing warnings in distribution-substation areas, a clustering prediction model was developed by integrating an improved salp swarm optimization algorithm. First, power characteristics related to the target were collected using original data mining and dimensionality reduction techniques. A voltage-characteristic label model for the substation areas was then developed, focusing on three dimensions: safety (S), stability (S), and economy (E). Next, because the improved salp swarm algorithm (ISSA) has better optimization effect and less iteration time, the fusion ISSA was combined with the K-means clustering algorithm to analyse the data, while the ISSA-BP neural network algorithm was used for time-series prediction. This approach generated a voltage profile and detected abnormal conditions in the substation areas. Finally, the model was validated using real data from a substation area in Shanghai. The results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm was more efficient, with improved prediction accuracy and performance metrics.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoshu Cheng, Siyi Pan, Yiwen Wang, Weiran Ding, Ping Li
{"title":"A Bit-Serial Compute-Transfer Architecture for High-Speed Data Processing in Chip-to-Chip Systems","authors":"Xiaoshu Cheng, Siyi Pan, Yiwen Wang, Weiran Ding, Ping Li","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70352","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70352","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This brief proposes a bit-serial compute-transfer architecture tailored for high-speed data processing across chip-to-chip links. Our design merges computation and transmission at the physical layer via a voltage-mode logic (VML) interface, without intermediate packing or unpacking. In SMIC 0.13 µm CMOS, the architecture achieves 1 Gbps per channel at 1 GHz, delivering 0.625 GOPS to resource-constrained edge devices. While overall energy efficiency is lower than that of computing-only designs, the proposed structure excels in area, gate density, and scalability. This compute-transfer architecture reduces bandwidth bottlenecks and deserialization overhead in multi-chip systems, offering a modular building block for future neural network accelerators.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Feature Retrieval With Human-in-the-Loop for Underwater Hull Fouling Segmentation","authors":"Yajuan Gu, Jiawen Zhao, Junjie Zhang","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70332","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70332","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The inherent blurriness of underwater images, diversity of fouling patterns, and indistinct boundaries present significant challenges for underwater hull fouling segmentation tasks. To address these challenges, we propose a human–machine collaborative approach for underwater hull fouling segmentation, leveraging deep feature retrieval and local optimisation. Specifically, we first employ an image enhancement model as a preprocessing step to enhance underwater image clarity. Subsequently, a fine-grained segmentation model is utilised to generate initial segmentation results, which are then combined with a prior pixel label retrieval and propagation mechanism to identify locally optimised regions requiring refinement. Finally, manual correction of these localised regions is integrated with the segmentation model's predictions to achieve optimal segmentation performance. Experimental results on our self-constructed underwater hull fouling images dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vehicle Target Detection Based on Cross-Modality Projective-Invariant Features Extracted from Unpaired SAR and Infrared Images","authors":"Zhe Geng, Chongqi Xu, Chen Xin, Xiang Yu, Daiyin Zhu","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70336","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) is remarkably challenging since the SAR image defies the foundation for human and computer vision, i.e., the Gestalt perceptual principles. We propose to address this problem by fusing the target features reflected in SAR and infrared (IR) images via a novel dual-channel context-guided feature-alignment network (CGFAN) that is capable of fusing the cross-modality projective-invariant features extracted from unpaired SAR and IR images. First, region of interest (ROI) matching between SAR and IR images is realized based on special landmarks exhibiting consistent cross-modality features. After that, generative models trained with historical SAR and IR images are used to synthesize SAR images based on the IR images collected in real time for the current mission. Since SAR imaging takes more time than IR imaging, by using these synthesized SAR images as auxiliary data, the spatial-coverage rate in a typical collaborative SAR/IR ATR mission carried out by drone swarms is effectively improved. The proposed CGFAN is tested against the proprietary monostatic-bistatic circular SAR and IR dataset constructed by the researchers at our institution, which consists of nine types of military vehicles. Experimental results show that the proposed CGFAN offers better ATR performance than the baseline networks.A novel dual-channel CGFAN that is capable of fusing the cross-modality projective-invariant features extracted from unpaired SAR and IR images is proposed. First, ROI matching between SAR and IR images are realized based on special landmarks exhibiting consistent cross-modality features. After that, generative models trained with historical SAR and IR images are used to synthesize SAR images based on the IR images collected in real time for the current mission.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Energy-Delay Tradeoff in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems","authors":"Linglin Kong, Chi Wan Sung","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70349","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This letter investigates the workload allocation in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The optimal energy-delay tradeoff is completely characterized by identifying all the Pareto optimal solutions in a bi-objective optimization problem. For the scenario with a large number of subtasks, the problem is approximated by continuous relaxation, which can be solved with the time complexity of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>O</mi>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>N</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$mathcal {O}(N^2)$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, where <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>N</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$N$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the number of computing devices. Numerical studies show the effectiveness of our approaches and demonstrate the energy-delay tradeoff in distributed computing systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144514760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhen Sun, Zhenggang Guan, Qinghua Li, Mengyang Yuan, Haonan Sun
{"title":"Fine-Grained Temporal Encoding and Decoding-Based Underwater Object Tracking","authors":"Zhen Sun, Zhenggang Guan, Qinghua Li, Mengyang Yuan, Haonan Sun","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70346","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70346","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Underwater object tracking is a highly challenging task in the field of computer vision. This study focuses on this domain and proposes an innovative fine-grained temporal encoding and decoding-based underwater object tracking method. Due to the complex and dynamic underwater environment, such as uneven lighting, turbid water quality, and complex target motion patterns, existing underwater object tracking methods face significant limitations in accuracy and stability. By carefully designing a refinement module that combines fine-grained consistency and candidate elimination, this method can accurately extract fine-grained features of the target and effectively mitigate the interference of various underwater complexities during feature extraction, thereby improving the precision of target features. Furthermore, leveraging the temporal encoding–decoding module, the target features are continuously propagated along the temporal sequence, allowing full utilization of the relational information between frames, which further enhances tracking stability. Experiments were conducted on the UVOT400 dataset, which is large-scale and rich in attributes with diverse target categories. The results demonstrate that, compared to existing methods, this approach significantly outperforms in both accuracy and stability of underwater object tracking, providing new insights and effective solutions for the advancement of underwater object tracking technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70346","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Low Power, High Input Dynamic Range and High Precision Current-Mode Loser-Take-All Circuit","authors":"Bashir Makki Jebur, Doaa Hameed Majeed, Hossein Yaghoobzadeh Shadmehri, Ehsan Rahiminejad","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70347","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, a current-mode loser-take-all (LTA) circuit is proposed. The proposed circuit has a high input dynamic range and offers very high precision. The circuit maintains high precision not only at low currents close to zero but also at currents in the range of several hundred microamperes. Additionally, the power consumption per cell in the proposed circuit is very low. The circuit is designed using 180 nm technology, operating at a supply voltage of 1.8 V, with a power consumption of 18 µW per cell in a 3-input structure. In the proposed circuit, the maximum error occurs at an input range of 200 µA and an input frequency of 2 MHz, which is 1.3%.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144492745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaheuristic Algorithm-Based Antenna Selection Collaborative Beamforming for Remote Sensors","authors":"Semyoung Oh, Daejin Park","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70343","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70343","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this letter, we propose a metaheuristic-based antenna selection (AS) technique for collaborative beamforming (CB). While AS can retain more power at the intended base station (BS) than CB with all sensors participating, it suffers from interference caused by proximal sidelobes. To optimally leverage the benefits of AS while mitigating its drawbacks, we employ non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) for AS. Additionally, we conduct a series of random simulations to evaluate and validate the performance of these approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70343","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144482083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Training Sample Selection Method With Fusing GIP Statistic and Geographic Information for Airborne Radar","authors":"Chenran Gao, Wenchong Xie, Yuanyi Xiong, Wei Chen, Buqiu Tian","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70345","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A training sample selection method is proposed by fusing the generalized inner product (GIP) statistic with geographic information to construct the fused metric of the sample set. Based on this metric, more suitable training samples are selected. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits excellent robustness in different clutter environments, particularly in complex ground environments containing discrete moving scatterers, where its clutter suppression performance is superior to that of both GIP and knowledge-aided space-time adaptive processing (KA-STAP) methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144472786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhenglong Luo, Zhiyong Chen, Shijian Liu, James Welsh
{"title":"Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning With Deep Networks for Diverse \u0000 \u0000 Q\u0000 $Q$\u0000 -Vectors","authors":"Zhenglong Luo, Zhiyong Chen, Shijian Liu, James Welsh","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70342","DOIUrl":"10.1049/ell2.70342","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) tasks, the state-action value, commonly referred to as the <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>Q</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$Q$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-value, can vary among agents because of their individual rewards, resulting in a <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>Q</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$Q$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-vector. Determining an optimal policy is challenging, as it involves more than just maximizing a single <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>Q</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$Q$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-value. Various optimal policies, such as a Nash equilibrium, have been studied in this context. Algorithms like Nash Q-learning and Nash Actor-Critic have shown effectiveness in these scenarios. This paper extends this research by proposing a deep Q-networks algorithm capable of learning various <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>Q</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$Q$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-vectors using Max, Nash, and Maximin strategies. We validate the effectiveness of our approach in a dual-arm robotic environment, a representative human cyber-physical systems (HCPS) scenario, where two robotic arms collaborate to lift a pot or hand over a hammer to each other. This setting highlights how incorporating MARL into HCPS can address real-world complexities such as physical constraints, communication overhead, and dynamic interactions among multiple agents.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144472846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}