Road damage is an inconvenience and a safety hazard, severely affecting vehicle condition, driving comfort, traffic safety. The traditional manual visual road inspection process pricey, dangerous, exhausting, cumbersome. Also, results are qualitative subjective, as they depend entirely on the inspector’s personal experience. Therefore, there ever-increasing need for automated systems. This chap...

Meta-heuristic algorithms are applied in optimization problems in a variety of fields, including engineering, economics, and computer science. In this paper, seven population-based meta-heuristic algorithms are employed for size and geometry optimization of truss structures. These algorithms consist of the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm, Cyclical Parthenogenesis Algorithm, Cuckoo Search algori...

agricultural sector experiences the application of automated systems since two decades ago. these systems are applied to harvest fruits in agriculture. computer vision is one of the technologies that are most widely used in food industries and agriculture. in this paper, an automated system based on computer vision for harvesting greenhouse tomatoes is presented. a ccd camera takes images from ...