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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
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17 Pages

Study on Trajectory Optimization for a Flexible Parallel Robot in Tomato Packaging

  • Tianci Guo,
  • Jiangbo Li,
  • Yizhi Zhang,
  • Letian Cai and
  • Qicheng Li

11 December 2024

Currently, flexible robots, exemplified by parallel robots, play a crucial role in the automated packaging of agricultural products due to their rapid, accurate, and stable characteristics. This research systematically explores trajectory planning st...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,786 Views
18 Pages

3D Airborne EM Forward Modeling Based on Time-Domain Spectral Element Method

  • Changchun Yin,
  • Zonghui Gao,
  • Yang Su,
  • Yunhe Liu and ,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Xiuyan Ren and
  • Bin Xiong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 February 2021

Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) method uses aircraft as a carrier to tow EM instruments for geophysical survey. Because of its huge amount of data, the traditional AEM data inversions take one-dimensional (1D) models. However, the underground earth is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,893 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2020

In this paper, a graphics simulator that allows for characterizing the kinematic and dynamic behavior of redundant planar manipulator robots is presented. This graphics simulator is implemented using the Solidworks software and the SimMechanics Toolb...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access

12 November 2026

Exact sizes of Levenshtein spheres are hard to compute because different edit scripts can produce the same string. We study run strings u=x1n1…xmnm in the stable regime, where every run length is at least the radius r. For r=2 we prove a close...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,750 Views
16 Pages

22 January 2020

The issue of image completion has been developed considerably over the last two decades, and many computational strategies have been proposed to fill-in missing regions in an incomplete image. When the incomplete image contains many small-sized irreg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Processing on Image and Optical Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
904 Views
21 Pages

Robotic Arm Trajectory Planning for Tunnel Lighting Cleaning Based on the CAW-PSO Algorithm

  • Zhibin Yao,
  • Taibo Song,
  • Hui Li,
  • Hongwei Zhang and
  • Zhanlong Li

9 March 2026

Tunnel lighting cleaning is of significant practical importance for improving driving safety. To address the low operational efficiency of tunnel lighting cleaning tasks, a trajectory planning method based on the chaotic adaptive whale–particle...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,792 Views
16 Pages

5 July 2023

Piezoresistive pressure sensors exhibit inherent nonlinearity and sensitivity to ambient temperature, requiring multidimensional compensation to achieve accurate measurements. However, recent studies on software compensation mainly focused on develop...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Data-Driven Advancements in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,007 Views
16 Pages

A Preprocessing Pipeline for Pupillometry Signal from Multimodal iMotion Data

  • Jingxiang Ong,
  • Wenjing He,
  • Princess Maglanque,
  • Xianta Jiang and ,
  • Lawrence M. Gillman,
  • Ashley Vergis and
  • Krista Hardy
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 July 2025

Pupillometry is commonly used to evaluate cognitive effort, attention, and facial expression response, offering valuable insights into human performance. The combination of eye tracking and facial expression data under the iMotions platform provides...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,191 Views
20 Pages

To build a more accurate motor efficiency model with a strong generalization ability in order to evaluate and improve the efficiency characteristics of electric vehicles, this paper researches motor efficiency modeling based on the bench tests of two...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Application of Agricultural Equipment in Tillage System)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,127 Views
6 Pages

Techniques to Compensate Propagation Impairments for Greater Accuracy in Localization for Sensors in Indoor Environments

  • Alvaro Alonso Garcia-Davila,
  • Cesar Vargas-Rosales,
  • Erasmo Ortega-Chavarria and
  • Jose Luis Gordillo-Moscoso

14 November 2016

Position location estimation in sensor networks is a valuable supplement since it supports the deployment of location-based services. Sensor networks have changing conditions in the environment due to propagation issues, noise and placement of sensor...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 15–30 November 2016; Available online: https://sciforum.net/conference/ecsa-3.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,479 Views
22 Pages

This study addresses the clinical requirements of a transoral surgery-assisting continuum robot. This application requires both high bendability and stiffness in order to ensure precise positioning and stable fixation of surgical tools. To meet these...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development of Biomedical Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,326 Views
23 Pages

9 May 2022

Ultra−high spatial resolution, which can bring more detail to ground observation, is a constant pursuit of the modern space−borne synthetic aperture radar. However, the exact imaging in this case has always been a complex technical proble...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,418 Views
14 Pages

27 August 2020

In this paper, a comparative study has been made between different algorithms to find the numerical solutions of the fractional-order clock chemical model (FOCCM). The spectral collocation method (SCM) with the shifted Legendre polynomials, the two-s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
427 Views
29 Pages

25 June 2026

For the trajectory tracking control problem of a 7-DOF redundant hydraulic manipulator, an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control method based on a novel fast reaching law is proposed. Based on the kinematic analysis of the manipulator, its dynamic equa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,170 Views
11 Pages

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a common form of sleep apnea generally caused by a collapse of the upper respiratory airway, is associated with one of the leading causes of death in adults: hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,182 Views
25 Pages

2 November 2021

Industry 4.0 is envisioned to transform the entire economical ecosystem by the inclusion of new paradigms, such as cyber-physical systems or artificial intelligence, into the production systems and solutions. One of the main benefits of this revoluti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from WISA 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,159 Views
30 Pages

21 July 2022

As various fields and industries have progressed, the use of drones has grown tremendously. The problem of path planning for drones flying at low altitude in urban as well as mountainous areas will be crucial for drones performing search-and-rescue m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,804 Views
19 Pages

Measurement of Free-Form Curved Surfaces Using Laser Triangulation

  • Zhixu Dong,
  • Xingwei Sun,
  • Weijun Liu and
  • Heran Yang

18 October 2018

Laser triangulation (LT) is widely used in many fields due to its good stability, high resolution and fast speed. However, the accuracy in these applications suffers from severe constraints on the data acquisition accuracy of LT. To solve this proble...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
952 Views
24 Pages

7 January 2026

Amid fossil-fuel depletion and worsening environmental impacts, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are pivotal to the energy transition. Energy management in BEVs relies on accurate motor efficiency maps, yet real-time onboard control demands models th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Research Trends of Energy Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,053 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2023

Kinematic modeling is essential for planning and controlling continuum robot motion. The traditional Denavit Hartenberg (DH) model involves complex matrix multiplication operations, resulting in computationally intensive inverse solutions and traject...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Robotics and Intelligent Robots Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,170 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2019

The demand for extensive data rates in dense-traffic wireless networks has expanded and needs proper controlling schemes. The fifth generation of mobile communications (5G) will accommodate these massive communications, such as massive Machine Type C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things and Sensors Networks in 5G Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,200 Views
16 Pages

Theoretical Feasibility Analysis of Fast Back-Projection Algorithm for Moon-Based SAR in Time Domain

  • Guoqiang Chen,
  • Huadong Guo,
  • Da Liang,
  • Chunming Han and ,
  • Yixing Ding,
  • Huiping Jiang and
  • Ke Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 April 2022

Nowadays, the Earth observation based on the Moon has attracted attention from many researchers and relevant departments. There also exists a considerable amount of interest in monitoring large-scale and long-term geoscience phenomena using the Moon-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,554 Views
19 Pages

Aiming to acquire ultrahigh resolution images, algorithms for spaceborne spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging typically confront challenges of curved orbit and azimuth spectral aliasing. In order to conquer these difficulties, a method is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology Related to Radar Signal, Imaging, and Radar Cross-Section Measurement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,920 Views
22 Pages

7 January 2025

Today, topological structural optimisation is a valuable computational technique for designing mechanical components with optimal mass-to-stiffness ratios. Thus, this work aims to assess the performance of the Radial Point Interpolation Method (RPIM)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Applications of Numerical Analysis and Intelligent Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,347 Views
21 Pages

Experimental Design and Implementation of Vision-Based Sorting Using SCARA Robotic Arms

  • Huiping Jin,
  • Chenxi Shen,
  • Tianshi Lu,
  • Yong Ling and ,
  • Feng Gao,
  • Kang Han and
  • Xiaojun Jin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Conventional industrial manipulators are often costly and come with steep learning curves, which limits their scalability in hands-on robotics education. This paper presents a compact and modular vision-guided sorting platform based on a 4-DOF SCARA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,970 Views
43 Pages

2 September 2024

This study primarily investigates advanced object detection and time series prediction methods in image-based visual servoing systems, aiming to capture targets better and predict the motion trajectory of robotic arms in advance, thereby enhancing th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Image Processing Detection and Classification Analysis for Multidisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
502 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2026

Information in the Glider Snake Optimizer (GSO) propagates through a leader–predecessor chain. This structure is simple, but it can lose diversity when adjacent agents converge to the same region. The proposed Multi-Strategy Glider Snake Optimi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Bio-Inspired Algorithms: Theory, Design, and Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
841 Views
19 Pages

Far-field narrow-band Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation is a practical challenge in passive and active sonar applications. While the Conventional Beamformer (CBF) is a robust Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), its precision is inherently constra...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,419 Views
24 Pages

RPC-Based Orthorectification for Satellite Images Using FPGA

  • Rongting Zhang,
  • Guoqing Zhou,
  • Guangyun Zhang,
  • Xiang Zhou and
  • Jingjin Huang

1 August 2018

Conventional rational polynomial coefficients (RPC)-based orthorectification methods are unable to satisfy the demands of timely responses to terrorist attacks and disaster rescue. To accelerate the orthorectification processing speed, we propose an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,411 Views
17 Pages

Numerical Integration of Stiff Differential Systems Using Non-Fixed Step-Size Strategy

  • Joshua Sunday,
  • Ali Shokri,
  • Joshua Amawa Kwanamu and
  • Kamsing Nonlaopon

30 July 2022

Over the years, researches have shown that fixed (constant) step-size methods have been efficient in integrating a stiff differential system. It has however been observed that for some stiff differential systems, non-fixed (variable) step-size method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,181 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2020

The radial basis function (RBF) is a class of approximation functions commonly used in interpolation and least squares. The RBF is especially suitable for scattered data approximation and high dimensional function approximation. The smoothness and ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Approximation Theory and Methods 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,494 Views
27 Pages

4 June 2021

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem and, in particular, the problem of reconstructing the spectral density associated with the Yukawian potentials from the sequence of the partial-waves fℓ of the Fourier–Legendre expansion of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Geometric Functions and Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,746 Views
16 Pages

Fuzzy PID Control of the Three-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Mechanism Based on Genetic Algorithm

  • Zhifang Zhu,
  • Yuanjie Liu,
  • Yuling He,
  • Wenhao Wu and ,
  • Hongzhou Wang,
  • Chong Huang and
  • Bingliang Ye
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 November 2022

It is necessary to upgrade and transform the sorting equipment in the industrial production line. In order to improve production efficiency and reduce labor intensity, a high-speed lightweight parallel mechanism control system for the high-speed sort...

(This article belongs to the Topic Designs and Drive Control of Electromechanical Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,250 Views
31 Pages

An Intelligent Temperature Compensation Method for Pressure Sensors Under High-Temperature and High-Pressure Conditions Based on a Modified Slime Mold Algorithm

  • Yang Zhao,
  • Wanlu Jiang,
  • Enyu Tang,
  • Chengpeng Yu and ,
  • Mengda Zhang,
  • Zhenbao Li and
  • Yongyong Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2026

During deep and ultra-deep oil and gas drilling, downhole high-temperature and high-pressure conditions significantly affect the measurement accuracy of piezoresistive pressure sensors. To improve measurement accuracy under such extreme conditions, t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
707 Views
22 Pages

Enhanced Unitary Root SAMV with Toeplitz Covariance Completion and Subspace Projection for Coprime Array DOA Estimation

  • Hui Cao,
  • Zhou Yang,
  • Yuanyuan Yang,
  • Qing Lu and ,
  • Kehao Wang and
  • Yuntao Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 August 2026

To address the issues of incomplete virtual array utilization and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation performance degradation under noise interference in coprime array processing, this paper proposes the Toeplitz Assisted Subspace Projection enhanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,139 Views
21 Pages

Trajectory Planning of Robot Manipulator Based on RBF Neural Network

  • Qisong Song,
  • Shaobo Li,
  • Qiang Bai,
  • Jing Yang and ,
  • Ansi Zhang,
  • Xingxing Zhang and
  • Longxuan Zhe
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 September 2021

Robot manipulator trajectory planning is one of the core robot technologies, and the design of controllers can improve the trajectory accuracy of manipulators. However, most of the controllers designed at this stage have not been able to effectively...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,095 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of Grasping Trajectories for Manipulator with Improved OMOPSO

  • Zhen Xu,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Jin Ding,
  • Weijun Xu and ,
  • Ming Xu,
  • Huoping Yi,
  • Yongbo Wu and
  • Ping Tan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 February 2026

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and robotics, the application of robotics in the chemical domain is driving a transformation toward intelligent and large-scale research in chemistry and material science. However, sample weighing...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,076 Views
19 Pages

26 June 2023

The control of the boiler-turbine unit is important for its sustainable and robust operation in power plants, which faces great challenges due to the control unit’s serious nonlinearity, unmeasurable states, variable constraints, and unknown ti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Power Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,802 Views
30 Pages

Probing Malware Propagation Model with Variable Infection Rates Under Integer, Fractional, and Fractal–Fractional Orders

  • Nausheen Razi,
  • Ambreen Bano,
  • Umar Ishtiaq,
  • Tayyab Kamran and ,
  • Mubariz Garayev and
  • Ioan-Lucian Popa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Malware software has become a pervasive threat in computer and mobile technology attacks. Attackers use this software to obtain information about users of the digital world to obtain benefits by hijacking their data. Antivirus software has been devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Order Derivatives and Their Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,922 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2020

Obtaining the inverse of a nonlinear monotonic function f(x) over a given interval is a common problem in pure and applied mathematics, the most famous example being Kepler’s description of orbital motion in the two-body approximation. In tradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On Interdisciplinary Modelling and Numerical Simulation in the Realm of Physics & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,079 Views
28 Pages

This paper introduces a fractional generalization of the classical Legendre differential equation based on the Atangana–Baleanu–Caputo (ABC) derivative. A novel fractional Legendre-type operator is rigorously defined within a functional f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,725 Views
17 Pages

Performance Analysis of Hybrid Kinematic Mechanism for Fusion Reactor Maintenance

  • Guodong Qin,
  • Huapeng Wu,
  • Changyang Li,
  • Aihong Ji and
  • Stuart Budden

29 January 2023

The hybrid kinematic mechanism (HKM) as an alternative remote handling subsystem of the Demonstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) breeding blanket (BB) is undergoing extensive theoretical analysis and feasibility verification. In this paper, the forwar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
393 Views
16 Pages

Four-Wheel Independent Steering Stability Control Based on VSR-ANMPC

  • Yuxing Bai,
  • Weixin Zhang,
  • Weiyi Kong,
  • Song Cui and
  • Liguo Zang

2 September 2026

To address the problems of poor steering smoothness and handling stability for four-wheel independent steering (4WIS) vehicles, this paper presents an adaptive nonlinear model predictive control (ANMPC) strategy based on variable steering ratio (VSR)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Intelligent Vehicle Dynamics and Control—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,294 Views
24 Pages

12 March 2024

Due to the continuous increase in the volume of spatially located information, the current requirements imposed on the Spatial Information System (SIS) concern increasing data mining capabilities. Modern measurement systems, based on devices which en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,166 Views
16 Pages

In this study, we implemented a high-performance multichannel repeater, both for FM and T-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) signals using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). In a system for providing services using wireless communication, a r...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,296 Views
26 Pages

27 April 2026

To address the complex challenge of simultaneously optimizing the operation time, motion impact, and energy consumption in industrial robotic arm trajectory planning, this study proposes a novel multi-objective optimization framework based on an impr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,111 Views
21 Pages

RAINBOW: An Operational Oriented Combined IR-Algorithm

  • Leo Pio D’Adderio,
  • Silvia Puca,
  • Gianfranco Vulpiani,
  • Marco Petracca and ,
  • Paolo Sanò and
  • Stefano Dietrich
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2020

In this paper, precipitation estimates derived from the Italian ground radar network (IT GR) are used in conjunction with Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) measurements to develop an operational oriented algorithm (RAdar INfrared...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Precipitation: Part II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,130 Views
17 Pages

14 June 2024

An effective and accurate solver for the direct-current-resistivity forward-modeling problem has become a cutting-edge research topic. However, computational limitations arise due to the substantial amount of data involved, hindering the widespread u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling in Geophysics: Concepts and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,722 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2021

Biomass estimation of multiple phytoplankton groups from remote sensing reflectance spectra requires inversion models that go beyond the traditional band-ratio techniques. To achieve this objective retrieval models are needed that are rooted in radia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,654 Views
22 Pages

20 November 2019

Great length, large weight and other factors may cause difficulty in measuring the profile accuracy of the double-headed screw rotor. To solve this problem, an on-machine measuring system based on a laser-displacement sensor (LDS) was designed and im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors and Signal Processing of Sensor Data: Recent Advances and Applications)

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