2023 February-2 - 725 articles
THz-Time domain spectroscopic imaging is demonstrated combining a robotic scanning method with continuous signal acquisition and holographic reconstruction of the object to improve the imaging resolution. We apply the method to a metallic Siemens sta...
Cycling—as a sustainable and convenient exercise and travel mode—has become increasingly popular in modern cities. In recent years, with the proliferation of sport apps and GPS mobile devices in daily life, the accumulated cycling traject...
The advent of connected vehicle (CV) technology offers new possibilities for a revolution in future transportation systems. With the availability of real-time traffic data from CVs, it is possible to more effectively optimize traffic signals to reduc...
Because of the strategic importance of the Abydos archaeological site in Egypt as a source of wealth for Egyptian tourism, this study was concerned with carrying out geophysical measurements to detect subsurface succession and measure variations in t...
Energy efficiency financing is considered among the top priorities in the energy sector among several stakeholders. In this context, accurately estimating the energy savings achieved by energy efficiency actions before being approved and implemented...
In order to better utilize and protect marine organisms, reliable underwater object detection methods need to be developed. Due to various influencing factors from complex and changeable underwater environments, the underwater object detection is ful...
This paper proposes a new hybrid algorithm for grey wolf optimization (GWO) integrated with a robust learning mechanism to solve the large-scale economic load dispatch (ELD) problem. The robust learning grey wolf optimization (RLGWO) algorithm imitat...
Groundwater level (GWL) refers to the depth of the water table or the level of water below the Earth’s surface in underground formations. It is an important factor in managing and sustaining the groundwater resources that are used for drinking...
The development of adaptive and intelligent clamping devices allows for the reduction of rejects and defects based on weld discontinuities in laser-beam welding. The utilization of fixture-integrated sensors and actuators is a new approach, realizing...
Energy harvesting is a promising technique for supplying low-power devices as an alternative to conventional batteries. Energy harvesters can be integrated into Autonomous Internet of Things (AIoT) systems to create a wireless network of sensor nodes...
We present calculation results of the temperature interval δTg characterizing the liquid–glass transition in amorphous materials obtained on the basis of available data of the empirical parameters C1 and C2 in the Williams–Landel&nd...
The growing interest in improving optoelectronic devices requires continuous research of the materials and processes involved in manufacturing. From a chemical point of view, the study of this sector is crucial to optimize existing manufacturing proc...
Rockbursts are serious threats to the safe production of mining, resulting in great casualties and property losses. The accurate prediction of rockburst is an important premise that influences the safety and health of miners. As a classical machine l...
The production of bioactive products from microalgae biomass with efficient and environmentally friendly technologies is a field of great research interest. The present work focuses on the recovery of high-added value bioactive components from Chlore...
Non-destructive testing (NDT) of aerospace structures has gained significant interest, given its non-destructive and economic inspection nature enabling future sustainable aerospace maintenance repair operations (MROs). NDT has been applied to many d...
The inevitable depletion of exploited fossil fuel deposits motivates the investigation of every possibility of saving them. One of the ways to do that is to combine fossil fuels with renewable plant-derived fuels. This paper studies the specific aspe...
Hinged total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a valid option to treat patients during revision of an implant; however, in case of varus/valgus deformity, the force transmission from the femur to the tibia could be altered and therefore the performance of t...
When the complex Morlet function (CMOR) is used as a wavelet basis, it is necessary to select optimal bandwidth and center frequency. However, the method to select the optimal CMOR wavelet parameters for one specific frequency is still unclear. In th...
In complex and extreme environments, such as pipelines and polluted waters, gait programming has great significance for multibody segment locomotion robots. The earthworm-like locomotion robot is a representative multibody bionic robot, which has the...
The anionic and cationic species of elements from deeply buried deposits migrate to the near surface driven by various geological forces. The geoelectrochemical exploration method (GEM), derived from CHIM, consists of the application of an electric f...
This paper proposes a clothoid-curve-based trajectory tracking control method for autonomous vehicles to solve the problem of tracking errors caused by the discontinuous curvature of the control curve calculated by the pure pursuit tracking algorithm...
The main purpose of this paper is to compare the results of modal analysis for two types of domes. The first one is a low-rise Schwedler dome. The second one is a high-rise geodesic dome. The low-rise Schwedler dome is subjected to large displacement...
Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs) are software packages that support or organize the maintenance tasks of assets or equipment. They are found in the background of any ship maintenance operation and are an important part of maintenan...
This work proposes a simple procedure to characterize 1.0 mm thick sheets of superplastic magnesium alloy AZ31. The simplest mathematical function that models the behavior of a superplastic material is a power law between stress and strain rate with...
The growing interest in high-quality food leads to looking for new solutions in the production of natural fruit snacks. Osmotic dehydration is one of the processes, which can be used to obtain a minimally processed product as well as to give it speci...
With the progress of signal processing technology and the emergence of new system radars, the space electromagnetic environment becomes more and more complex, which puts forward higher requirements for the deinterleaving method of radar signals. Trad...
Path planning is one of the key technologies for unmanned driving. However, global paths are unable to avoid unknown obstacles, while local paths tend to fall into local optimality. To solve the problem of unsmooth and inefficient paths on multi-angl...
Previous work has demonstrated that end-to-end neural sequence models work well for document-level event role filler extraction. However, the end-to-end neural network model suffers from the problem of not being able to utilize global information, re...
The machining system based on an industrial robot is a new type of equipment to meet the requirements of high quality, high efficiency and high flexibility for large and complex components of aircraft and spacecraft. The error compensation technology...
Intelligent customer service system is timely, efficient, and accurate, which is more and more popular in grid electric power companies, and the amount of customer consultation is increasing day by day. It is infeasible for human customer service to...
Circuit breakers (CBs) are mainly designed to interrupt current flow when faults are detected and have been widely used in industrial applications. The existing CBs manufacturing method is semi-automatic and requires a lot of labor. To realize flexib...
Hybrid wire arc additive-milling subtractive manufacturing (HWMM) is an effective way to improve the quality of complex metal components, but the difference in the properties of the aluminum alloy and magnesium alloy fabricated by HWMM has been not a...
Our research team previously identified a weight illusion in which a lifted object feels heavy when it continuously presents a sinusoidal vibration to the fingertips. However, the mechanism underlying this illusion remains unknown. We thus hypothesiz...
Fatigue affects operators’ safe operation in a nuclear power plant’s (NPP) main control room (MCR). An accurate and rapid detection of operators’ fatigue status is significant to safe operation. The purpose of the study is to explor...
Short-term load forecasting is an essential instrument in power system planning, operation, and control. It is involved in the scheduling of capacity dispatch, system reliability analysis, and maintenance planning for turbines and generators. Despite...
Evaluation of the impact of new static-pressure pile penetration on used piles is vitally important for the reutilization of the used piles. The cavity expansion theory in semi-infinite soil is adopted to obtain the displacement field of the surround...
With the widespread use of end devices, online multi-label learning has become popular as the data generated by users using the Internet of Things devices have become huge and rapidly updated. However, in many scenarios, the user data are often gener...
It is well-known that performance of the classical algorithms for active noise control (ANC) systems severely degrades when implemented for controlling the impulsive sources. The objective of this paper is to propose a new recursive least squares (RL...
Shearer-cutting units are important parts of coal production. However, they have high fault frequency, and their maintenance activities are costly and time-consuming. Coal enterprises urgently need an effective fault analysis method for shearer-cutti...
The visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method under dynamic environments is a hot and challenging issue in the robotic field. The oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB) SLAM algorithm is one of the most effective methods. However, the...
Rapid post-earthquake damage assessment forms a critical element of resilience, ensuring a prompt and functional recovery of the built environment. Monitoring-based approaches have the potential to significantly improve upon current visual inspection...
Sandy gravel stratum is very common in tunnels and underground engineering projects. The accurate determination of mechanical parameters is crucial for engineering design and construction. The Hardening Soil (HS) Model, which accounts for both shear...
Images captured on rainy days are prone to rain streaking on various scales. These images taken on a rainy day will be disturbed by rain streaks of varying degrees, resulting in degradation of image quality. This study sought to eliminate rain streak...
A computer system generates logs to record all relevant operational data about the system and all operations performed in such systems. System log examination is crucial in the identification of network- and system-level assaults. In comparison to es...
Recently, the deep neural network (DNN) has become one of the most advanced and powerful methods used in classification tasks. However, the cost of DNN models is sometimes considerable due to the huge sets of parameters. Therefore, it is necessary to...
Advice-giving systems such as decision support systems and recommender systems (RS) utilize algorithms to provide users with decision support by generating ‘advice’ ranging from tailored alerts for situational exception events to product...
The field of signal processing using machine and deep learning algorithms has undergone significant growth in the last few years, with a wide scope of practical applications for electroencephalography (EEG). Transcutaneous electroacupuncture stimulat...
In order to accurately locate personnel in underground spaces, positioning equipment is required to be mounted on wearable equipment. But the wearable inertial personnel positioning equipment moves with personnel and the phenomenon of measurement ref...
Hard-to-heal chronic wounds associated with aging and high-prevalence pathologies, such as diabetes, are a global health problem. Therefore, it is necessary to advance effective treatments to accelerate wound healing. Among these potential treatments...
Transparent thin layers of cobalt-doped ZnO were produced with the pulsed laser deposition method. The cobalt content of the original solid solution was 20% at. The crystallographic structure was examined by X-ray diffraction, which showed that the f...
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