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16 Citations
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This paper proposes a fixed-time prescribed performance control technique to address the challenge of precise trajectory tracking control for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in the presence of external time-varying disturbances and input saturation....

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,376 Views
26 Pages

20 January 2023

Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol (PETG) is a fused deposition modeling (FDM)-compatible material gaining popularity due to its high strength and durability, lower shrinkage with less warping, better recyclability and safer and easier printing. FDM,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Polymers)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,011 Views
14 Pages

Research on Generating Gear Grinding Machining Error Based on Mapping Relationship between Grinding Wheel Surface and Tooth Flank

  • Hong Jiang,
  • Jiang Han,
  • Xiaoqing Tian,
  • Yiguo Lu and ,
  • Guanghui Li and
  • Lian Xia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 December 2022

This paper proposes a method to study the machining error when one is generating gear grinding based on the mapping relationship between the grinding wheel surface and the tooth flank. The profile of the grinding wheel after grinding is collected, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,074 Views
29 Pages

14 October 2020

Based on the three-dimensional (3D) finite element method (FEM) and Taguchi method (TM), this paper analyzes the tooth surface contact stress (TSCS) of spur gears with three different influence factors: tooth profile deviations (TPD), meshing errors...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Fatigue and Fracture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,597 Views
22 Pages

Multiscale Evaluation and Error Characterization of HY-2B Fused Sea Surface Temperature Data

  • Xiaomin Chang,
  • Lei Ji,
  • Guangyu Zuo,
  • Yuchen Wang and ,
  • Siyu Ma and
  • Yinke Dou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 September 2025

The Haiyang-2B (HY-2B) satellite, launched on 25 October 2018, carries both active and passive microwave sensors, including a scanning microwave Radiometer (SMR), to deliver high-precision, all-weather global observations. Sea surface temperature (SS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,223 Views
15 Pages

24 August 2018

This paper presents a torque error compensation algorithm for a surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous machine (SPMSM) through real time permanent magnet (PM) flux linkage estimation at various temperature conditions from medium to rated speed....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Power Electronics Technologies for Power Systems and Machine Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,490 Views
24 Pages

30 November 2018

Korea’s first geostationary satellite, the “Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite” (COMS), has been operating since 2010. The Meteorological Imager (MI), an sensor on-board the COMS, has observed sea-surface radiances f...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,256 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2019

Military infrared (IR) imaging systems utilize one or more IR wavelength-bands, among short wavelength IR (SWIR), middle wavelength IR (MWIR), and long wavelength IR (LWIR) band. The IR image wavelength-band conversion which transforms one arbitrary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infrared Sensors and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,183 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2025

Quantum error correction codes (QECCs) are essential for reliable quantum computing as they protect quantum states against noise and errors. Limited research has explored the resilience of QECCs to biased noise, critical for selecting optimal codes....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resource Management for Emerging Computing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,661 Views
9 Pages

22 July 2020

The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope has been the key optical module for remote sensing instruments (RSI), in which the root mean square (RMS) random surface wavefront error and the alignment error of the primary and the secondary mirror takes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Joint Special Issue With OPTIC 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,678 Views
26 Pages

Multifaceted Geometric Assessment towards Simplified Urban Surfaces Built by 3D Reconstruction

  • Sheng’en Liu,
  • Hui Yi,
  • Xiangning Chen,
  • Decheng Wang and
  • Wei Jin

Large-scale three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction from multi-view images is used to generate 3D mesh surfaces, which are usually built for urban areas and are widely applied in many research hotspots, such as smart cities. Their simplification is a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15,265 Views
23 Pages

Developing and Analyzing the Defect-Based Surface Codes Using Optimization Algorithms

  • Samira Sayedsalehi,
  • Nader Bagherzadeh,
  • Alberto A. Del Barrio,
  • Guillermo Botella and
  • Ratko Pilipović

Fault tolerance is crucial for enabling large-scale quantum computations, with surface codes emerging as prominent error correction techniques due to their high error threshold and reliance on nearest-neighbor interactions. Despite the advantages of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,041 Views
17 Pages

Grid-to-Point Deep-Learning Error Correction for the Surface Weather Forecasts of a Fine-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction System

  • Yu Qin,
  • Yubao Liu,
  • Xinyu Jiang,
  • Li Yang and ,
  • Haixiang Xu,
  • Yueqin Shi and
  • Zhaoyang Huo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 January 2023

Forecasts of numerical weather prediction models unavoidably contain errors, and it is a common practice to post-process the model output and correct the error for the proper use of the forecasts. This study develops a grid-to-multipoint (G2N) model...

(This article belongs to the Topic A Themed Issue in Memory of Academician Duzheng Ye (1916–2013))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,051 Views
12 Pages

14 December 2020

In computer-aided geometric design, a polynomial surface is usually represented in Bézier form. The usual form of evaluating such a surface is by using an extension of the de Casteljau algorithm. Using error-free transformations, a compensated...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,523 Views
13 Pages

22 June 2023

Surface wind speed measurements from a satellite radar altimeter are used to adjust altimeter sea level measurements via sea state bias range correction. We focus here on previously neglected ocean radar backscatter and subsequent wind speed variatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Satellite Altimetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
457 Views
20 Pages

Impact Study of Assimilating Fengyun-3 GNSS-R Ocean Surface Winds in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Sensitivity Analysis on Observation Error Specifications

  • Guanyi Wang,
  • Weihua Bai,
  • Feixiong Huang,
  • Yueqiang Sun and ,
  • Junming Xia,
  • Xianyi Wang,
  • Xiangguang Meng,
  • Peng Hu,
  • Cong Yin and
  • Xiaofeng Meng
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

8 June 2026

The Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) technique provides global ocean surface wind observations unaffected by rainfall with high spatiotemporal resolution. The Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) mission, as the first operational GNSS-R satell...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Multi-Instrument Remote Sensing in Climate Change and Sustainability Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,587 Views
16 Pages

Block-Circulant Approximation of the Precision Matrix for Assimilating SWOT Altimetry Data

  • Max Yaremchuk,
  • Christopher Beattie,
  • Gleb Panteleev and
  • Joseph D’Addezio

29 May 2024

The recently deployed Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission for the first time has observed the ocean surface at a spatial resolution of 1 km, thus giving an opportunity to directly monitor submesoscale sea surface height (SSH) variations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Satellite Altimetry in Ocean Observation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,486 Views
24 Pages

13 December 2022

Studies of surface topography including processes of measurement and data analysis have an influence on the description of machined parts with their tribological performance. Usually, surface roughness is analysed when a scale-limited (S-L) surface,...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,482 Views
14 Pages

5 March 2026

Near-surface air temperature measurements are sensitive to solar radiation and ambient longwave irradiance, which can introduce measurement errors of approximately 1 °C. This study presents the design and experimental validation of a high-accurac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Impact on the Low Atmosphere Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,010 Views
12 Pages

1 July 2016

Surface temperature is an important parameter in clinical diagnosis, equipment state control, and environmental monitoring fields. The Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) temperature sensor possesses numerous significant advantages over conventional electrical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Fiber Sensors 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,461 Views
12 Pages

23 March 2020

Optical aspheric components are inevitably affected by various disturbances during their precision machining, which reduces the actual machining accuracy and affects the optical performance of components. In this paper, based on the theory of multi-b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Advancements in Micro Nano Molding Technologies – Process Developments and Optimization, Materials, Applications, Key Enabling Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,916 Views
14 Pages

26 July 2024

In order to resolve the issues of low efficiency and poor precision in the traditional finishing process of hardened internal gears, a method is proposed for calculating the profile curves of a drum-shaped grinding tool suitable for mass finishing of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,714 Views
14 Pages

Error Analysis of a Coordinate Measuring Machine with a 6-DOF Industrial Robot Holding the Probe

  • Yaowei Sun,
  • Lei Lu,
  • Fengzhou Wu,
  • Songlu Xiao and ,
  • Junjie Sha and
  • Lei Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 April 2023

A complex surface measurement is important for quality control and manufacturing processes. Articulated arm coordinate measuring machines (AACMMs) are widely used in measuring the complex surface. However, the AACMMs that are currently used always re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Actuation, Intelligent Sensor and Precise Manipulation Technology in Human–Robot Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,905 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2025

To rapidly evaluate the meshing performance of manufactured face-gear drives, this study proposes an efficiency-optimized tooth contact analysis (TCA) method for measured gear flanks based on Ease-off surface. Initially, mathematical models of the pi...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,320 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Load Characteristics of Aerostatic Spindle Considering Straightness Errors

  • Guoqing Zhang,
  • Yu Guo,
  • Guangzhou Wang,
  • Wenbo Wang and ,
  • Youhua Li,
  • Hechun Yu and
  • Suxiang Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

As the core component of ultra-precision machine tools, the manufacturing errors of aerostatic spindles are inevitable due to the limitations of machining and assembly processes, and these errors significantly affect the spindle’s static and dy...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Manufacturing and Surface Technology, 2nd Edition)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,256 Views
10 Pages

6 July 2021

This study presents mathematical analysis and numerical modeling for the estimation of measurement errors of height estimation over the sea surface for a precision radar altimeter installed in a low altitude flying vehicle. Reflective properties of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Altimetry: Technology and Application in Geodesy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,873 Views
19 Pages

Determination of the Accuracy of the Straight Bevel Gear Profiles by a Novel Optical Coaxial Multi-Ring Measurement Method

  • Junheng Li,
  • Dehai Zhang,
  • Yanqin Li,
  • Xuanxiong Ma and ,
  • Tao Wang and
  • Chao Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2023

Straight bevel gears are widely used in mining equipment, ships, heavy industrial equipment, and other fields due to their high capacity and robust transmission. Accurate measurements are essential in order to determine the quality of bevel gears. We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Short-Range Optical 3D Scanning and 3D Data Processing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,252 Views
23 Pages

16 May 2023

We investigated the potential impact of observation error on the calibration performance of an integrated watershed model. A three-dimensional integrated model was constructed using HydroGeoSphere and applied to the Sabgyo watershed in South Korea to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Applications of Surface Water–Groundwater Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,362 Views
20 Pages

Timeliness of Correcting Baseline Error in Wide-Swath Altimeter Based on Reference Topography Data

  • Xiangying Miao,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Hongli Miao,
  • Zhonghao Yang and ,
  • Jing Wang and
  • Qingjun Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 May 2023

The baseline error is a primary error source of the wide-swath altimeter, directly related to the cross-track distance, and can lead to serious height errors at the swath’s outer edge. Cross-calibration using discrepancies with reference data c...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,571 Views
29 Pages

Compensation Method for Current Measurement Errors in the Synchronous Reference Frame of a Small-Sized Surface Vehicle Propulsion Motor

  • Haohao Guo,
  • Tianxiang Xiang,
  • Yancheng Liu,
  • Qiaofen Zhang and ,
  • Yi Wei and
  • Fengkui Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper proposes a new method for compensating current measurement errors in shipboard permanent magnet propulsion motors. The method utilizes cascade decoupling second-order generalized integrators (SOGIs) and adaptive linear neurons (ADALINEs) a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances on Energy and Propulsion Systems for Ship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,869 Views
17 Pages

18 June 2024

Microwave holographic measurement technology is a common method used in antenna measurement. This method has high measurement efficiency and high precision. To evaluate and enhance the antenna’s performance, it is crucial to precisely determine...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,216 Views
25 Pages

13 May 2016

Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) is a phenomenon of high spatial and temporal variability. However, studies that investigate urban land surface temperature (LST) observed in different seasons frequently utilize a single satellite measurement and do n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Thermal Urban Remote Sensing to Understand and Monitor Urban Climates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,397 Views
25 Pages

Semi-rigid tool polishing is widely used in the high-precision manufacturing of electroless nickel surface due to its stable material removal and high efficiency in correcting mid- and high-frequency profile errors. However, predicting mid-frequency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,688 Views
13 Pages

1 December 2022

Nowadays, large-aperture optical components are increasingly used in high-power laser systems, remote-sensing satellites, and space-based astronomical telescopes. Fabricating these surfaces with submicron-scale shape accuracy and a nanoscale surface...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Robots and Precision Machining)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,216 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2024

This article presents the results of an experimental study on the effect of the selection of kinematic system for the drilling process on the cylindricity deviation, roundness deviation, diameter error and surface roughness of holes in brass alloy. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
412 Views
16 Pages

Calibration-Block-Based Tilt-Pose Error Identification and Compensation for Line Confocal Sensors

  • Yuan Fu,
  • Ting Chen,
  • Ning Chen,
  • Bin Guo and ,
  • Yinghui Wang,
  • Yinbao Cheng and
  • Chuan Ma
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Line confocal sensors provide non-contact, high-resolution, and high-efficiency measurement and can be integrated into optical measurement systems such as Photon for three-dimensional topography measurement of complex surfaces. However, installation-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,544 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Ultrasonic Trepanning Method for Nomex Honeycomb Core

  • Dingyi Sun,
  • Renke Kang,
  • Yidan Wang,
  • Jialin Guo and
  • Zhigang Dong

31 December 2020

The vertical surface is a common and typical characteristic structure among Nomex honeycomb core components. However, the conventional high-speed milling and ultrasonic cutting struggle to meet the high-quality machining requirements of a vertical su...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,621 Views
13 Pages

29 December 2022

The launch of the Haiyang-2 (HY-2) satellite constellation fosters the quick acquisition of global sea surface vector winds from the perspective of remote sensing. This study intends to develop a six-hourly mesoscale analysis of sea surface winds bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HY-2 Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Ocean for 10 Years: Applications and Advances)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,593 Views
16 Pages

A Noncontact Method for Calibrating the Angle and Position of the Composite Module Array

  • Xinghua Li,
  • Jue Li,
  • Xuan Wei,
  • Xiaohuan Yang and ,
  • Zhikun Su,
  • Jiaqi Liang,
  • Zhiming Yang and
  • Fengzhou Fang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 June 2020

Freeform surface is one of the research focuses in the measurement field. A composite module is composed of a plane and rotating paraboloid. The composite module array can identify 21 geometric errors of the machine tool in a wide range, which is com...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,136 Views
23 Pages

Investigation on Modeling and Formation Mechanism of Dynamic Rotational Error for Spindle-Rolling Bearing System

  • Gaofeng Hu,
  • Ye Chen,
  • Liangyu Cui,
  • Gang Jin and ,
  • Tingjian Wang,
  • Houjun Qi and
  • Yanling Tian
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 August 2020

In the field of precision machining, the spindle-rolling bearing (SRB) system is widely used on the machine tool as one of the most fundamental and important components. The rotational error motions of the SRB system have significant effects on the m...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,021 Views
13 Pages

11 February 2020

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is an essential climate variable (ECV) for monitoring the state and detecting changes in the climate. The concept of ECVs, developed by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program of the World Meteorological Organ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Retrieval, Operationalization, Monitoring and Application of Sea Surface Temperature)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,299 Views
28 Pages

17 January 2021

Nine-link type double-toggle mold/die clamping mechanisms are widely used in modern injection molding machines and die casting machines in order to provide sufficient mold/die clamping force for counteracting the pressure occurred inside molds/dies....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Tolerance Analysis in the Era of Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,953 Views
15 Pages

7 May 2020

In wavelength-tuning interferometry, the surface profile of the optical component is a key evaluation index. However, the systematic errors caused by the coupling error between the higher harmonics and phase shift error are considerable. In this rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,829 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2020

Build orientation becomes a hot issue in 3D printing, which has a significant impact on the surface quality, support structure and final cost of the fabricated model. In this paper, we focus our attention on the surface quality of the part when fabri...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,884 Views
12 Pages

Multi-Objective Parametric Optimization Design for Mirrors Combined with Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm

  • Lu Sun,
  • Bao Zhang,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Zhihong Gan and ,
  • Pengpeng Han and
  • Yijian Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 March 2023

The process of intelligent multi-objective parametric optimization design for mirrors is discussed in detail in this paper, with the error of the mirror surface shape and the total mass being examined as the optimization objectives. The establishment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optoelectronic Devices and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,213 Views
16 Pages

Experimental Study on Grinding of Inner Raceway of Tapered Roller Bearing Outer Ring

  • Yingqi Hou,
  • Jiahao Xu,
  • Ziyue Hei,
  • Guangdi Jin and
  • Yufei Gao

28 January 2026

Tapered roller bearings are widely employed in mechanical structures such as automotive wheel hub units, transmissions, and machine tool spindles, and they have a direct impact on the performance and stability of the equipment. The shape error and su...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Materials and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,923 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2018

Inductive transducers are widely applied to active magnetic bearings (AMBs). However, when the rotor rotates at a high speed, the rotor defects will affect the measuring signal (the magnetic field generated by transducer coils) and then reduce the tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,893 Views
20 Pages

1 June 2015

This paper proposes a rapid method to detect aero-engine blade form, according to the characteristics of an aero-engine blade surface. This method first deduces an inclination error model in free-form surface measurements based on the non-contact las...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Sensors for Chemical, Biological and Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,174 Views
21 Pages

Investigating the Machining Quality of Additively Manufactured Composite: Multi-Response Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization

  • Anastasios Tzotzis,
  • Dumitru Nedelcu,
  • Simona-Nicoleta Mazurchevici and
  • Panagiotis Kyratsis

2 April 2026

This study investigates the turning performance of additive-manufactured polymer-based composite, with particular emphasis on the resulting dimensional error (DE) and surface roughness Ra. Cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut were selected as c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Prospects of Additive Manufacturing, 2nd Edition)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,490 Views
9 Pages

30 August 2022

Triple collocation analysis is an established technique for calculating the relative linear intercalibration coefficients and observation error variances for physical quantities measured simultaneously in space and time by three different observation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Winds)

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