2025 October - 94 articles
This study introduces an autonomous framework for grasping moving objects on a conveyor belt, enabling unsupervised detection, grasping, and categorization. The work focuses on two common object shapes—cylindrical cans and rectangular cartons&m...
Automated production plays a vital role in the long-term development of industrial enterprises, and automated production has high requirements for defect detection of industrial parts. In this study, we construct a complex atom network based on Swin...
The difficulty in precisely extracting single-fault signatures from hydraulic pump composite faults, which stems from structural complexity and coupled multi-source vibrations, is tackled herein via a new diagnostic technique based on underdetermined...
Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) and wear are the primary types of damage found in rails and wheels, and these often compete with each other. This paper presents a comprehensive review of studies on RCF and wear of rails and wheels, focusing on their co...
Data augmentation is crucial for electric motor fault diagnosis and lifetime prediction. However, the diversity of operating conditions and the challenge of augmenting small datasets often limit existing models. To address this, we propose an enhance...
Mixed eccentricity faults in squirrel cage induction motors (SCIMs) are challenging to diagnose due to their subtle influence on the stator-current signal. Several research gaps remain in this field, including the limited investigation of fault sever...
As the intelligent transformation of manufacturing accelerates, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly being deployed for workshop operations, making efficient obstacle avoidance path planning a critical requirement. This paper introduces a parame...
This study presents a gradient boosting-based machine learning (ML) approach developed to predict cutting speed and feed rate in band sawing operations. The model was built using a dataset of 1701 experimental samples from three industrially common m...
End-to-end autonomous driving has demonstrated remarkable potential due to its strong scene-understanding capabilities. However, its performance degrades significantly in the presence of occlusions and complex multi-agent interactions, posing serious...
Abrasive air jet machining is a burgeoning non-traditional machining technology particularly suitable for machining brittle non-metallic materials and metals with high hardness. It is very challenging to select the optimal process parameters to achie...
In this paper, the rail mean vertical alignment is estimated through double integration of wheel–rail contact forces measured using dynamometric wheelsets on a dedicated track recording vehicle (TRV). A simplified three degrees of freedom (DOF)...
Temperature control plays a critical role in mitigating the lifespan degradation mechanisms and ensuring thermal safety of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). However, current energy management strategies (E...
Rolling Element Bearing (REB) failures represent a critical challenge in rotating machinery maintenance, accounting for approximately 45% of industrial breakdowns. Considering the variable operating conditions of speeds and loads, vibration fault sig...
Rotating machinery is a core component of modern industry, and its operational state directly affects system safety and reliability. In order to achieve intelligent fault diagnosis of bearings under complex working conditions, the health management o...
This paper presents a lower-limb hip exoskeleton system integrated with an adjustable-stiffness flexible energy-storage module for three-dimensional gait correction. This system features a modular flexible mechanical design and a stiffness-gain sched...
The conical pick is an essential component of roadheaders used for cutting rock. During the rock-breaking process, these picks interact with the rock, resulting in self-rotation, which enhances the wear uniformity of conical picks, thereby prolonging...
Asteroids are remnants of primordial material from the early stages of solar system formation, approximately 4.6 billion years ago, and they preserve invaluable records of the processes underlying planetary evolution. Investigating asteroids provides...
This paper presents an innovative primary control strategy for a modular multilevel converter aimed at enhancing reliability and dynamic performance for power electronics applications. The proposed method utilises interactive modelling tools, includi...
This paper presents a design of spring static-balanced manipulators for reduced spring attachment adjustments. Gravitational joint torque is balanced by spring torque to maintain static balance, but joint reaction force by gravity force and spring fo...
Conventional permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance machine (PMaSynRM) suffers from limited power factor and efficiency. To boost these, the use of sintered rare earth permanent magnets (PMs) is an option, with respect to sintered ferrite,...
Currently, fastener installation within the narrow, confined space of a wing box must be performed manually, as existing robotic systems are unable to adequately meet the internal assembly requirements. To address this problem, a new robot with one p...
Recent advances in exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation have highlighted the significance of lower limb movement intention recognition through deep learning. However, discrete motion phase classification and continuous real-time joint kinematics estim...
The inlet pressure steel pipe is an important part of the hydropower unit, and its inspection tasks mainly include cleaning with high-pressure water, surface anti-corrosion layer detection and internal flaw detection. In order to accomplish the above...
In recent years, the powerful feature extraction capabilities of deep learning have attracted widespread attention in the field of bearing fault diagnosis. To address the limitations of single-modal and single-channel feature extraction methods, whic...
Additive manufacturing via fused deposition modeling (FDM) offers a versatile method for fabricating complex polymer parts; however, enhancing their mechanical properties remains a significant challenge, particularly for biopolymers such as polylacti...
The paper describes in detail the creation of selected aerodynamic sound sources created by the centrifugal compressor of the turbocharger in operating modes. The description of the creation of aerodynamic sources focuses on the operation of the comp...
Because they account for realistic effects in opportunistic maintenance modeling, dependency hypotheses are extremely diverse in the literature. Despite recent reviews, a clear view of the dependency hypotheses is currently missing in the literature,...
The core objective of Active Vibration and Noise Control (AVNC) is to enhance system performance by generating real-time counter-phase signals of equal amplitude to cancel out vibration and noise interference from mechanical or structural systems. As...
We propose a phase-aware complex-spectrogram autoencoder (AE) for preprocessing raw vibration signals of rotating electrical machines. The AE reconstructs normal components and separates fault components as residuals, guided by an input-phasor phase-...
Traditionally, the determination of the Denavit–Hartenberg (DH) parameters for serial robotic manipulators is a manual process that depends on manufacturer documentation or user-defined conventions, often leading to inefficiency and ambiguity i...
The monitoring and diagnostics of energy equipment aim to detect anomalies in time series data in order to support predictive maintenance and avoid unplanned shutdowns. Thus, the paper proposes a novel methodology that utilizes sequence-to-image tran...
The tooth surface geometry of harmonic gears directly affects the transmission accuracy and service life. Traditional design methods may cause tooth profile distortion when changing the radial deformation coefficient, which limits their application....
The convergence of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and digital twin technology offers new paradigms for process automation and control. This paper presents an integrated IIoT and digital twin framework for intelligent control of a gas–liqu...
Transmission error (TE) is an important parameter in gear dynamics that has a direct impact on the vibration and noise of gears. Under quasi-static conditions, gear elastic deformation and assembly errors amplify with increasing load, potentially con...
This study introduces an innovative self-regulating intelligent optimal balancing control framework for inverted pendulum-type mechatronic platforms, designed to enhance reference tracking accuracy and improve disturbance rejection capability. The co...
Promoting the green transformation of traditional diesel-powered ships is crucial for achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. This study focuses on diesel-engine ships operating in the inland river areas of Anhui Province, China. It pro...
A wheeled–legged robot has the advantage of stable and agile movement on flat ground and an excellent ability to overcome obstacles. However, when faced with a narrow footprint, there is a limit to its ability to move. We developed the control...
The interference fit connection with slug rivets is widely used in aircraft assembly, and an appropriate interference value is vital for aircraft structural integrity. This study proposed a prediction–optimization framework that a deep neural n...
With the rapid development of transportation infrastructure, bridges increasingly face prominent issues of dynamic response and fatigue damage induced by vehicle–bridge interaction (VBI). To effectively suppress the coupled vibrations and enhan...
To address the altitude control requirements of high-altitude latex balloons, this paper proposes a novel lightweight electromagnetically actuated valve design. The valve employs a permanent magnet–electromagnet–spring composite structure...
Virtual commands are significant to model human–computer interactions in autopilot flight missions. However, the huge system hysteresis makes it difficult for proportional–integral–derivative (PID) algorithms to generate the command...
In the highly competitive manufacturing environment, customers are increasingly demanding punctual, flexible, and customized deliveries, compelling enterprises to balance profit, energy efficiency, and production performance while seeking new schedul...
The upper limb stretching device plays a key role in enhancing physical function. Current commercial upper limb stretching devices often suffer from limited functionality and are poorly aligned with the biomechanics of the human arm. To address these...
Three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) games incorporating haptic feedback were developed to support upper-limb rehabilitation in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Three interactive games: fishing, archery, and mining, were designed to...
The advancement of onshore and offshore wind turbines depends on the experimental validation of new technologies, novel component designs, and innovative concepts. However, full-scale models are typically very expensive, have limited functionality, a...
A large number of practical systems show pronounced fractional-order features. In comparison with integer-order calculus, fractional-order calculus has been demonstrated to possess enhanced precision in the description of the dynamic behavior of comp...
Industrial investments include the use of advanced technologies which refine, accelerate, improve quality, and boost stakeholder profitability [...]
The operational performance of robotic arms for multi-rotor flying robots (MFRs) has attracted growing attention in recent years. To explore new possibilities for aerial manipulation, this study investigates a novel parallel mechanism, the TriVariant...
Accurate prediction of bearing temperature rise offers essential support for equipment operation and optimized design. However, traditional methods often lack accuracy under the complex operating conditions of new energy electric drive bearings. To a...
Aiming at the problems of low efficiency, high energy consumption, and poor path quality during the multi-mechanism operation of bridge cranes in spatial tasks, an improved Rapidly exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm based on multi-strategy fusion...
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