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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,723 Views
24 Pages

Industrial Cyber-Physical System Evolution Detection and Alert Generation

  • Aitziber Iglesias,
  • Goiuria Sagardui and
  • Cristobal Arellano

17 April 2019

Industrial Cyber-Physical System (ICPS) monitoring is increasingly being used to make decisions that impact the operation of the industry. Industrial manufacturing environments such as production lines are dynamic and evolve over time due to new requ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Industry 4.0 Advances in Industrial IoT and Visual Computing for Manufacturing Processes)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,375 Views
27 Pages

Tool Wear State Monitoring in Titanium Alloy Milling Based on Wavelet Packet and TTAO-CNN-BiLSTM-AM

  • Zongshuo Yang,
  • Li Li,
  • Yunfeng Zhang,
  • Zhengquan Jiang and
  • Xuegang Liu

24 December 2024

To effectively monitor the nonlinear wear variation of tools during the processing of titanium alloys, this study proposes a hybrid deep neural network fault diagnosis model that integrates the triangulation topology aggregation optimizer (TTAO), con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Manufacturing Processes: Data Modelling and Fusion-Driven Optimization Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
390 Views
23 Pages

Multimedia recommenders can use behavioral records together with visual and textual item information, but unreliable interactions and sparse histories still make user preference modeling difficult. Most graph-based methods propagate messages over obs...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,523 Views
20 Pages

7 August 2022

The use of Transformer-based networks has been proposed for the processing of general point clouds. However, there has been little research related to multispectral LiDAR point clouds that contain both spatial coordinate information and multi-wavelen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning Based 3D Scene Understanding from LiDAR)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,166 Views
16 Pages

Development and Analysis of a Modular LED Array Light Source

  • Stefan Mitterhofer,
  • Žiga Korošak,
  • Žiga Rojec,
  • Marko Jankovec and
  • Marko Topič

14 October 2020

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have experienced rapid technological development in the past decade, making them a winning alternative to conventional light sources in many applications. LED arrays allow precise control of the desired irradiance profile...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
824 Views
21 Pages

Centralized reactive orchestration in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks struggles with heavy-tailed traffic surges that trigger signaling storms and topology instability. To address this challenge, we develop a LEO-specific predictive resource allocatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,452 Views
27 Pages

21 October 2025

We address the challenge that occlusions in on-branch soybean images impede accurate pod-level phenotyping. We propose a lab on-branch pipeline that couples a prior-guided synthetic data generator (producing synchronized visible and amodal labels) wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Smart Agriculture 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
345 Views
21 Pages

2 September 2026

The precise detection and pose estimation of electric vehicle (EV) charging ports in unstructured outdoor environments remain challenging due to small sizes, variable illumination, and stringent tolerance requirements for robotic plug-in operations....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensor Signal Processing for Physical AI and World Models)
  • Review
  • Open Access
306 Views
28 Pages

19 September 2026

Thermal runaway (TR) initiation and propagation tests are essential for evaluating the safety of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, differences among existing standards in application scenarios, test levels, initiation methods, boundary condition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Management Technologies of New Energy Batteries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,084 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2020

Analyte flow influences the performance of every gas sensor; thus, most of these sensors usually contain a diffusion barrier (layer, cover, inlet) that can prevent the negative impact of a sudden change of direction and/or the rate of analyte flow, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,553 Views
13 Pages

Single Inductor-Multiple Output DPWM DC-DC Boost Converter with a High Efficiency and Small Area

  • Young Jun Park,
  • Zaffar Hayat Nawaz Khan,
  • Seong Jin Oh,
  • Byeong Gi Jang,
  • Nabeel Ahmad,
  • Danial Khan,
  • Hamed Abbasizadeh,
  • Syed Adil Ali Shah,
  • Young Gun Pu and
  • Kang Yoon Lee
  • + 3 authors

23 March 2018

In this paper, a small-area and high-efficiency single-inductor multiple output (SIMO) boost converter with digital pulse-width modulation (DPWM) is proposed. The DPWM comprises a delay line using interlaced hysteresis delay cells (IHDCs) that occupy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
19 Pages

A Generalized Slimmable INR Framework for Scalable Video Coding

  • Qingyu Mao,
  • Jiacong Chen,
  • Shuai Liu,
  • Fanyang Meng,
  • Yongsheng Liang and
  • Youneng Bao

13 August 2026

Implicit neural representations (INRs) encode video frames as network weights, offering a new compression paradigm. A persistent limitation is that existing INR codecs train one model per target bitrate, so multi-rate deployment needs separate runs,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of AI in Image/Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,031 Views
20 Pages

Gate Driver for High-Frequency Power Converter

  • Liron Cohen,
  • Joseph B. Bernstein and
  • Ilan Aharon

This work explores the principle of utilizing gallium nitride devices as a gate driver for silicon carbide power devices. As silicon has long reached its performance limits, Wide Bandgap semiconductors such as gallium nitride and silicon carbide have...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Power Electronics for Microgrids)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,865 Views
22 Pages

This paper reviews the current state of research on half-bridge (HB) inverters used in induction heating power supplies, emphasizing their topological structures, output power control methods, and switching strategies. The study explores various cont...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Power Converter Design, Control and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,811 Views
16 Pages

Network clustering for mining protein complexes from protein–protein interaction (PPI) networks has emerged as a prominent research area in data mining and bioinformatics. Accurately identifying complexes plays a crucial role in comprehending c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,593 Views
48 Pages

16 July 2020

Due to its scalability, reliability, high power quality and flexibility, the modular multilevel converter is the standard solution for high-power high-voltage applications in which an AC–DC–AC connection is required such as high-voltage d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modular Multilevel Converters MMC)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,204 Views
35 Pages

22 May 2026

Urban traffic congestion presents a complex challenge driven by intricate spatial dependencies and non-stationary temporal dynamics. While Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning has shown promise for Traffic Signal Control, existing approaches often...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,200 Views
23 Pages

24 July 2025

Network security courses rely on hands-on labs where students configure virtual Linux networks to practice attack and defense. Automated feedback is scarce because no standard exists for exchanging detailed configurations—interfaces, bridging,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching)
  • Article
  • Open Access
200 Views
30 Pages

31 August 2026

Larch casebearer (Coleophora laricella) poses a serious threat to forest ecological security, and remote sensing object detection is essential for early warning and targeted intervention. However, existing detectors are hindered by insufficient featu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Forest Degradation and Deforestation Monitoring with AI and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,725 Views
22 Pages

Design and Implementation of 150 W AC/DC LED Driver with Unity Power Factor, Low THD, and Dimming Capability

  • Ngo Thanh Tung,
  • Nguyen Dinh Tuyen,
  • Nguyen Minh Huy,
  • Nguyen Hoai Phong,
  • Ngo Cao Cuong and
  • Le Minh Phuong

This paper presents the implementation of a two-stage light-emitting diode (LED) driver based on commercial integrated circuits (IC). The presented LED driver circuit topology, which is designed to drive a 150 W LED module, consists of two stages: AC...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Developments in LED Drivers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
868 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2026

Accurate prediction of separated flows remains a critical challenge for Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulations, primarily due to the tendency of standard turbulence models to overpredict separation. To address this limitation, this...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,137 Views
13 Pages

10 September 2024

This paper proposes an adaptive acceleration lock compensation technology for phase-locked loops (PLLs) based on a novel dual-mode programmable ring voltage-controlled oscillator (ring-VCO). In addition, a time-to-digital converter (TDC) is designed...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
412 Views
21 Pages

Efficient detection of aircraft surface defects (ASD) is a cornerstone of aviation safety. However, ASD detection is challenged by microscopic defect scales, extremely low contrast, and severe background interference. This paper proposes the Multi-Sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Multidisciplinary Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Aerospace Engineering (Volume III))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,175 Views
20 Pages

Machine-Learning-Based Ground-Level Mobile Network Coverage Prediction Using UAV Measurements

  • Naser Tarhuni,
  • Ibtihal Al Saadi,
  • Hafiz M. Asif,
  • Mostefa Mesbah,
  • Omer Eldirdiry and
  • Abdulnasir Hossen

Future mobile network operators and telecommunications authorities aim to provide reliable network coverage. Signal strength, normally assessed using standard drive tests over targeted areas, is an important factor strongly linked to user satisfactio...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
659 Views
88 Pages

27 May 2026

The operational control of medium-voltage (MV) distribution networks has conventionally relied on a tightly integrated, multi-platform architecture comprising a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, an Advanced Distribution Managem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Computer-Aided Industrial Design: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,862 Views
19 Pages

An Averaged-Value Model of an Asymmetrical Hybrid Multi-Level Rectifier

  • Salvatore Foti,
  • Giacomo Scelba,
  • Antonio Testa and
  • Angelo Sciacca

13 February 2019

The development and the validation of an averaged-value mathematical model of an asymmetrical hybrid multi-level rectifier is presented in this work. Such a rectifier is composed of a three-level T-type unidirectional rectifier and of a two-level inv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multilevel Converters: Analysis, Modulation, Topologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,555 Views
25 Pages

Advancing Sustainable Construction: Discrete Modular Systems & Robotic Assembly

  • Yuxi Liu,
  • Boris Belousov,
  • Tim Schneider,
  • Kevin Harsono,
  • Tsung-Wei Cheng,
  • Shen-Guan Shih,
  • Oliver Tessmann and
  • Jan Peters

4 August 2024

This research explores the SL-Block system within an architecture framework by embracing building modularity, combinatorial design, topological interlocking, machine learning, and tactile sensor-based robotic assembly. The SL-Block, composed of S and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prefabrication and Modularized Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,703 Views
36 Pages

A Modular and Scalable Approach to Hybrid Battery and Converter Integration for Full-Electric Waterborne Transport

  • Ramon Lopez-Erauskin,
  • Argiñe Alacano,
  • Aitor Lizeaga,
  • Giuseppe Guidi,
  • Olve Mo,
  • Amaia Lopez-de-Heredia and
  • Mikel Alzuri

This paper presents a flexible and scalable battery system for maritime transportation, integrating modular converters and hybrid battery technologies that are effectively implemented in real-world scenarios. The proposed system is realized with modu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for New (Clean) Energy Ships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,835 Views
18 Pages

24 February 2025

This paper presents a numerical sketch-based methodology to achieve optimal product design solutions, bridging the gap between initial conceptual sketches and advanced engineering analyses. The proposed approach enables the transformation of simple h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing and Materials Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
627 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2026

Weak-bus identification is a key task for online security assessment, preventive control, maintenance verification, and resilience-oriented dispatch of interconnected power grids. In large-scale grids, conventional full-graph graph neural networks pr...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,417 Views
15 Pages

9 August 2022

In this study, a laser scanning machining system supporting on-the-fly machining and laser power follow-up adjustment was developed to address the increasing demands for high-speed, wide-area, and high-quality laser scanning machining. The developed...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modern Technologies and Manufacturing Systems, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,003 Views
23 Pages

10 November 2017

Recently, multilevel inverters are more researched due to the advantages they offer over conventional voltage source inverters in grid connected applications. Passive filters are connected at the output of these inverters to produce sinusoidal wavefo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Power Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
985 Views
27 Pages

19 March 2026

Side-scan sonar (SSS) serves as the primary perceptual instrument for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in large-scale marine search and rescue (SAR) operations. However, the detection of critical targets is frequently hindered by severe hydro-ac...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,455 Views
58 Pages

Application of Agrivoltaic Technology for the Synergistic Integration of Agricultural Production and Electricity Generation

  • Dorota Bugała,
  • Artur Bugała,
  • Grzegorz Trzmiel,
  • Andrzej Tomczewski,
  • Leszek Kasprzyk,
  • Jarosław Jajczyk,
  • Dariusz Kurz,
  • Damian Głuchy,
  • Norbert Chamier-Gliszczynski and
  • Waldemar Woźniak
  • + 1 author

24 December 2025

The growing global demand for food and energy requires land-use strategies that support agricultural production and renewable energy generation. Agrivoltaic (APV) systems allow farmland to be used for both agriculture and solar power generation. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Material, Performance and Design of Solar Cells)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,589 Views
19 Pages

Tunable Adhesion of Shape Memory Polymer Dry Adhesive Soft Robotic Gripper via Stiffness Control

  • ChangHee Son,
  • Subin Jeong,
  • Sangyeop Lee,
  • Placid M. Ferreira and
  • Seok Kim

17 April 2023

A shape memory polymer (SMP) has been intensively researched in terms of its exceptional reversible dry adhesive characteristics and related smart adhesive applications over the last decade. However, its unique adhesive properties have rarely been ta...

(This article belongs to the Section Soft Robotics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,342 Views
40 Pages

EMC-Friendly Gate Driver Design in GaN-Based DC-DC Converters for Automotive Electronics: A Review

  • Xinyu Wu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Haitao You,
  • Shizeng Zhang,
  • Dimitar Nikolov and
  • Qiang Cui

The imperative for EMC-optimized gate drivers in Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based automotive DC-DC converters stems from the stringent CISPR 25 standards and GaN’s intrinsic high-speed switching characteristics, which paradoxically exacerbate electr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Techniques for Power Converter and Drives, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
726 Views
23 Pages

30 March 2026

To address the issues of load aggregation and traffic congestion in faulty electricity–transportation coupled networks (ETCNs), this paper proposes an electric vehicle (EV) charging guidance strategy based on Graph Reinforcement Learning (GRL)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry with Power Systems: Control and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,516 Views
14 Pages

Design of Interface ASIC with Power-Saving Switches for Capacitive Accelerometers

  • Juncheng Cai,
  • Yongbin Cai,
  • Xiangyu Li,
  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Xiaowei Zhang,
  • Xinpeng Di and
  • Pengjun Wang

15 January 2025

High-precision, low-power MEMS accelerometers are extensively utilized across civilian applications. Closed-loop accelerometers employing switched-capacitor (SC) circuit topologies offer notable advantages, including low power consumption, high signa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MEMS Inertial Device, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,706 Views
17 Pages

Routing Protocol for MANET Based on QoS-Aware Service Composition with Dynamic Secured Broker Selection

  • Rajakumar Ramalingam,
  • Rajeswari Muniyan,
  • Ankur Dumka,
  • Devesh Pratap Singh,
  • Heba G. Mohamed,
  • Rajesh Singh,
  • Divya Anand and
  • Irene Delgado Noya

23 August 2022

MANET is a mobile ad hoc network with many mobile nodes communicating without a centralized module. Infrastructure-less networks make it desirable for many researchers to publish and bind multimedia services. Each node in this infrastructure-less net...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,341 Views
19 Pages

GALR: Graph-Based Root Cause Localization and LLM-Assisted Recovery for Microservice Systems

  • Wenya Zhang,
  • Zhi Yang,
  • Fang Peng,
  • Le Zhang,
  • Yiting Chen and
  • Ruibo Chen

With the rapid evolution of cloud-native platforms, microservice-based systems have become increasingly large-scale and complex, making fast and accurate root cause localization and recovery a critical challenge. Runtime signals in such systems are i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques for Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
813 Views
33 Pages

SymbioMamba: An Efficient Dual-Stream State-Space Framework for Real-Time Maize Disease and Yield Analysis on UAV Platforms

  • Zihuan Wang,
  • Yuru Wang,
  • Bocheng Zhou,
  • Xu Yan,
  • Peijiang Guo,
  • Hanyu Yang and
  • Yihong Song

In UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-enabled precision agriculture, achieving high-accuracy disease diagnosis and yield estimation simultaneously on resource-constrained edge devices remains a significant challenge. Existing solutions are commonly hinder...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensor-Based Systems for Crop Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
528 Views
32 Pages

Development of a High-Speed Electric Rotating Machine

  • Miroslav Petrinić,
  • Josip Hozmec,
  • Karlo Matić,
  • Loren Frančin,
  • Vladimir Poljančić,
  • Siniša Majer,
  • Filip Hleb and
  • Zlatko Hanić

10 July 2026

High-speed electric machines enhance power density and eliminate the need for a gearbox in waste heat recovery microturbine systems. However, existing designs often suffer from high manufacturing costs and complex cooling requirements. This study pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Generation and Electromechanical Energy Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
681 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2026

Non-thermal plasma is a promising technology for odor abatement from agricultural and domestic waste. However, its widespread application is often limited by the inherent trade-off between energy efficiency and processing capacity in conventional rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,517 Views
30 Pages

Objectives: This study aimed to elucidate the multi-target therapeutic mechanisms of Camellia sinensis phytochemicals in periodontitis using an integrative multi-scale molecular modeling strategy. Methods: An integrated in silico strategy was employe...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Products)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,125 Views
16 Pages

Early Neurological Deterioration in Subcortical Infarcts: A Narrative Review

  • Juan José Mengual,
  • Carmen Montalvo,
  • Sandra Boned,
  • Carla Avellaneda-Gómez and
  • Manuel Gómez-Choco

Background/Objectives: Early neurological deterioration (END) is a frequent and clinically relevant complication in patients with a single small subcortical infarction (SSI), including lacunar infarction and branch atheromatous disease (BAD). Despite...

(This article belongs to the Section Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
472 Views
29 Pages

Research on a Dynamic Prediction Method for Rainstorm Disaster Chains Based on LLM-Optimized Sliding Window and Dynamic Bayesian Network

  • Zhengyi Wu,
  • Meng Huang,
  • Wentao Zhou,
  • Kewei Cui,
  • Yongxiong Huang,
  • Zhiwei Zhai and
  • Chao Cheng

21 June 2026

Rainstorm-induced disaster chains are characterized by high suddenness, immense destructive power, and complex chain propagation mechanisms. Traditional static assessment methods rely on fixed parameters and struggle to depict the dynamic evolution o...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
692 Views
24 Pages

bHLH Family Transcription Factors: Molecular Switches in Plant Specialized Metabolism

  • Xinpei Han,
  • Guodong Chen,
  • Jun Peng,
  • Nan Cao,
  • Fuguang Li and
  • Sumei Wan

3 August 2026

Plant specialized metabolites connect genetic programs and environmental responses with ecologically and economically valuable natural products. Their accumulation is rarely constitutive, varying instead with tissue identity, developmental stage, str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Plant Bioactive Compounds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
238 Views
21 Pages

A Lightweight Real-Time Pavement Distress Detection Network with Multi-Scale Coordinate Attention and Multi-Granularity Knowledge Distillation

  • Dongpo Chen,
  • Jiaxing Zou,
  • Taibo Fan,
  • Xinghua Wang,
  • Zhong Dai,
  • Wenjun Xing,
  • Hao Feng,
  • Zelin Qin and
  • Xu Yang

Automated pavement distress detection is essential for transportation infrastructure maintenance and road asset management. In practice, however, such detectors often need to run on embedded devices mounted on inspection vehicles, and two challenges...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pavement Performance and Maintenance: Smart Technologies and Sustainable Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
773 Views
29 Pages

Core Substances and Related Bio-Activities on Anti-Lung Cancer Cell A549 of Pleione Pseudobulb

  • Chao Huang,
  • Ge Li,
  • Surong Li,
  • Ruyu Yao,
  • Angkhana Inta,
  • Lu Gao and
  • Lixin Yang

Background/Objectives: The Naxi people in Northwest Yunnan of China have used alcohol-soaked Pleione Pseudobulbus, which is the Pseudobulbus of Pleione bulbocodioides Rolfe (PBR), for lung diseases and tumors for a long period of time. This study aim...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
46 Pages

Rolling element bearings are critical components in rotating machinery, yet assessing and predicting their reliability under heavy industrial noise remains challenging. Existing methods suffer from three major limitations: (1) single-channel signal p...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Smart Industrial Diagnostics and Manufacturing—Third Edition)

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