Soft robotics has emerged as a transformative technology in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations, addressing challenges in navigating complex, hazardous environments that often limit traditional rigid robots. This paper critically examines advancements in soft robotic technologies tailored for SAR applications, focusing on their unique capabilities in adaptability, safety, and efficiency. By leveraging bio-inspired designs, flexible materials, and advanced locomotion mechanisms, such as crawling, rolling, and shape morphing, soft robots demonstrate exceptional potential in disaster scenarios. However, significant barriers persist, including material durability, power inefficiency, sensor integration, and control complexity. This comprehensive review highlights the current state of soft robotics in SAR, discusses simulation methodologies and hardware validations, and introduces performance metrics essential for their evaluation. By bridging the gap between theoretical advancements and practical deployment, this study underscores the potential of soft robotic systems to revolutionize SAR missions and advocates for continued interdisciplinary innovation to overcome existing limitations.

Community parks play a crucial role in promoting physical activity and overall well-being. This study introduces DLICP (Deep Learning Integrated Community Parks), an innovative approach that combines deep learning techniques specifically, face recognition technology with a novel walking activity measurement algorithm to enhance user experience in community parks. The DLICP utilizes a camera with face recognition software to accurately identify and track park users. Simultaneously, a walking activity measurement algorithm calculates parameters such as the average pace and calories burned, tailored to individual attributes. Extensive evaluations confirm the precision of DLICP, with a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 5.64 calories and a Mean Percentage Error (MPE) of 1.96%, benchmarked against widely available fitness measurement devices, such as the Apple Watch Series 6. This study contributes significantly to the development of intelligent smart park systems, enabling real-time updates on burned calories and personalized fitness tracking.

Federated learning is a technique of decentralized machine learning. that allows multiple parties to collaborate and learn a shared model without sharing their raw data. Our paper proposes a federated learning framework for intrusion detection in Internet of Vehicles (IOVs) using the CIC-IDS 2017 dataset. The proposed framework employs SMOTE for handling class imbalance, outlier detection for identifying and removing abnormal observations, and hyperparameter tuning to optimize the model's performance. The authors evaluated the proposed framework using various performance metrics and demonstrated its effectiveness in detecting intrusions with other datasets (KDD-Cup 99 and UNSW- NB-15) and conventional classifiers. Furthermore, the proposed framework can protect sensitive data while achieving high intrusion detection performance.

Our paper presents a robust framework for UWB-based static gesture recognition, leveraging proprietary UWB radar sensor technology. Extensive data collection efforts were undertaken to compile datasets containing five commonly used gestures. Our approach involves a comprehensive data pre-processing pipeline that encompasses outlier handling, aspect ratio-preserving resizing, and false-color image transformation. Both CNN and MobileNet models were trained on the processed images. Remarkably, our best-performing model achieved an accuracy of 96.78%. Additionally, we developed a user-friendly GUI framework to assess the model's system resource usage and processing times, which revealed low memory utilization and real-time task completion in under one second. This research marks a significant step towards enhancing static gesture recognition using UWB technology, promising practical applications in various domains.