Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for enabling collaborative model training across distributed Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices without sharing sensitive data. Existing FL frameworks face significant challenges in healthcare settings, including vulnerability to adversarial attacks, lack of verifiable update integrity, and limited robustness under heterogeneous data distributions. These limitations hinder reliable deployment in critical medical applications. To address these challenges, this paper proposes RP-IoMT, a robust and privacy-preserving FL framework that integrates secure multi-party computation (MPC), zero-knowledge proof-based gradient verification, and robust aggregation mechanisms. The objective of this work is to ensure both the correctness and integrity of model updates while maintaining strong privacy guarantees in adversarial IoMT environments. RP-IoMT enforces bounded client updates using a zero-knowledge clipping protocol (ZKClip), performs secure aggregation using threshold-based MPC, and incorporates robust filtering techniques to mitigate poisoning and backdoor attacks. Experimental results on healthcare datasets demonstrate that RP-IoMT achieves improved predictive performance, reduced attack success rates, and stable convergence under both independent and identically distributed (IID) and non-IID conditions. These results indicate that the proposed framework provides a practical and reliable solution for secure and robust FL in real-world medical Internet of Things (IoT) systems.
This study investigates the influence of autonomous vehicle (AV) front-end geometry on pedestrian injury biomechanics using PC-Crash multibody simulations. While emerging vehicles promise improved urban safety through automation and collision avoidance technologies, their unconventional front-end architectures introduce new passive safety challenges. The research compares classical passenger vehicles with van-type and symmetric flat-front autonomous platforms under standardized impact conditions at 40 km/h. Results reveal a clear redistribution of injury mechanisms depending on vehicle geometry. Conventional sloped front-end vehicles, super-mini and compact class, generate higher Head Injury Criterion (HIC) values due to wrap-around kinematics, where pedestrians rotate onto the hood and windshield. In contrast, vertically oriented and flat-front autonomous designs significantly reduce HIC values by suppressing rotational motion. However, this reduction in head injury risk is accompanied by substantially increased thoracic peak forces, particularly in ROBO1-type configurations, where chest loads exceeded 15 kN. The findings demonstrate that lower HIC values do not necessarily indicate improved overall pedestrian safety. Instead, emerging autonomous geometries shift injury risk from the head to the thorax and lower limbs. The study highlights the need for balanced multi-criteria pedestrian assessment frameworks that incorporate thoracic injury metrics, geometric optimization, and stiffness distribution considerations in early-stage autonomous vehicle design.
