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5 Citations
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5 February 2023

This article offers an optimal control tracking method using an event-triggered technique and the internal reinforcement Q-learning (IrQL) algorithm to address the tracking control issue of unknown nonlinear systems with multiple agents (MASs). Relyi...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,211 Views
22 Pages

Event-triggering mechanisms reported in the existing prescribed-time (PT) control do not adequately capture the dynamic nature of network environments, and are not applied to distributed consensus tracking problems with unknown time delays. Therefore...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,445 Views
20 Pages

11 December 2023

An effective path-following controller is a guarantee for stable sailing of underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). This paper proposes an event-triggered robust control approach considering an unknown model nonlinearity, external disturbance...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,974 Views
14 Pages

The origin of the myofascial trigger point (TrP), an anomalous locus in muscle, has never been well-described. A new trigger point hypothesis (the new hypothesis) presented here addresses this lack. The new hypothesis is based on the concept that exi...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
526 Views
38 Pages

To meet the requirement for high-precision dynamic positioning of fully actuated vessels under wave-frequency disturbances, and to achieve clock-synchronous triggering for system analysis, decision-making and reliable communication, this paper propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicle—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,974 Views
14 Pages

16 October 2018

With the simple functionalization method and good biocompatibility, an aptamer-integrated DNA hydrogel is used as the protein delivery system with an adjustable release rate and time by using complementary sequences (CSs) as the biomolecular trigger....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,899 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2021

The distributed attitude synchronization control problem for spacecraft formation flying subject to limited energy and computational resources is addressed based on event-triggered mechanism. Firstly, a distributed event-driven controller is designed...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,306 Views
20 Pages

4 July 2017

In control systems of power grids, conveying observations to controllers and obtaining control outputs depend greatly on communication and computation resources. Particularly for large-scale systems, the costs of computation and communication (cyber...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Integrated Energy Systems Design, Control and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
264 Views
21 Pages

1 August 2026

The issue of mean-square bounded synchronization for complex networks subject to random disturbances, time-varying delays, and cyber-attacks is investigated in this paper. We employ static and dynamic self-triggered impulsive control strategies, whic...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,638 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2020

This paper investigates the problem of the time-varying formation control of a second-order dynamic agent based on a distributed dynamic event-triggered algorithm. In this problem, each agent can exchange the information of its position and velocity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
625 Views
25 Pages

23 June 2026

To address the problems of communication delay and waste of communication resources in the formation process of UAVs, a dynamic event-triggered formation control method for second-order multi-leader UAV systems with communication delay is studied. On...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flight Control and Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,606 Views
14 Pages

Asymmetry Evolvement and Controllability of a Symmetric Hyperchaotic Map

  • Sixiao Kong,
  • Chunbiao Li,
  • Haibo Jiang,
  • Yibo Zhao and
  • Yanling Wang

9 June 2021

Trigonometric functions were used to construct a 2-D symmetrical hyperchaotic map with infinitely many attractors. The regime of multistability depends on the periodicity of the trigonometric function, which is closely related to the initial conditio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chaotic Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,573 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2022

Time-delay is an inevitable factor in practice, which may affect the performance of optimal control. In this paper, the event-triggered impulsive optimal control for linear continuous-time dynamic systems is studied. The event-triggered impulsive opt...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,199 Views
12 Pages

25 September 2024

This paper focuses on event-triggered state estimation and control of positive complex networks. An event-triggered condition is provided for discrete-time complex networks by which an event-based state estimator and an estimator-based controller are...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,723 Views
16 Pages

This paper introduces an event-triggered sigmoid prescribed performance control method, enhanced by an adaptive characteristic model, for tracking the trajectory of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The AUV model is simplified into a function re...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,994 Views
20 Pages

15 May 2025

Event-triggered state estimation has attracted significant attention due to the advantage of efficiently utilizing communication resources in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, an adaptive robust event-triggered variational Bayesian filtering m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart City)
  • Article
  • Open Access
810 Views
27 Pages

Associative vs. Distributional: Two Regimes of Backdoor Learning in LoRA-Adapted Code-Generation Models

  • Sai Kiran Chillimuntha,
  • Amrutha Gowri Jayasimha Hanumesh and
  • Jeong Yang

Developers increasingly reuse third-party Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters for code-generation models without visibility into how they were trained, creating a supply-chain risk: a maliciously trained adapter can behave normally on clean inputs wh...

(This article belongs to the Collection Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,799 Views
14 Pages

21 April 2022

Hazardous surface processes such as floods and mass movements are often induced by a common trigger such as extreme precipitation. The relationship between the intensity of the trigger and the surface hazard is generally assumed to be monotonically i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulations and Modelling of Extreme Flood Events)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,007 Views
21 Pages

10 January 2026

The adaptive event-triggered fault-tolerant control problem for bidirectional consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to sensor faults and external disturbances is investigated. A hierarchical algorithm is first introduced to eliminate the de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Adaptive Control Theory and Applications for Nonlinear Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
437 Views
24 Pages

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive event-triggered control with prescribed performance for a class of strictly feedback-controlled nonlinear systems with unknown initial tracking conditions. To overcome the dependence of traditional pres...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
13,391 Views
41 Pages

Light-Responsive and Dual-Targeting Liposomes: From Mechanisms to Targeting Strategies

  • Ahmed M. Agiba,
  • José Luis Arreola-Ramírez,
  • Verónica Carbajal and
  • Patricia Segura-Medina

30 January 2024

In recent years, nanocarriers have played an ever-increasing role in clinical and biomedical applications owing to their unique physicochemical properties and surface functionalities. Lately, much effort has been directed towards the development of s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,204 Views
19 Pages

5 August 2019

Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN), a multifunctional multi-domain deadenylase, is crucial to the regulation of mRNA turnover and the maturation of various non-coding RNAs. Despite extensive studies of the well-folding domains responsible for PARN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nucleolar Organization and Functions in Health and Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,483 Views
18 Pages

Photothermally Triggered Endosomal Escape and Its Influence on Transfection Efficiency of Gold-Functionalized JetPEI/pDNA Nanoparticles

  • Lotte M. P. Vermeulen,
  • Juan C. Fraire,
  • Laurens Raes,
  • Ellen De Meester and ,
  • Sarah De Keulenaer,
  • Filip Van Nieuwerburgh,
  • Stefaan De Smedt,
  • Katrien Remaut and
  • Kevin Braeckmans
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Plasmonic nanoparticles for drug delivery have attracted increasing interest over the last few years. Their localized surface plasmon resonance causes photothermal effects on laser irradiation, which allows for delivering drugs in a spatio-temporally...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanomedicine/Molecular Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,400 Views
18 Pages

Hippocampal Impairment Triggered by Long-Term Lead Exposure from Adolescence to Adulthood in Rats: Insights from Molecular to Functional Levels

  • Ana Carolina Alves Oliveira,
  • Aline Dionizio,
  • Francisco Bruno Teixeira,
  • Leonardo Oliveira Bittencourt and ,
  • Giza Hellen Nonato Miranda,
  • Géssica Oliveira Lopes,
  • Everton L. P. Varela,
  • Mariane Nabiça,
  • Paula Ribera and
  • Rafael Rodrigues Lima
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

21 September 2020

Lead (Pb) is an environmental and occupational neurotoxicant after long-term exposure. This study aimed to investigate the effects of systemic Pb exposure in rats from adolescence to adulthood, evaluating molecular, morphologic and functional aspects...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Mechanisms of Lead Neurotoxicity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,388 Views
16 Pages

PEDF-Mediated Mitophagy Triggers the Visual Cycle by Enhancing Mitochondrial Functions in a H2O2-Injured Rat Model

  • Jae Yeon Kim,
  • Sohae Park,
  • Hee Jung Park,
  • Se Ho Kim and ,
  • Helen Lew and
  • Gi Jin Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 May 2021

Retinal degenerative diseases result from oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, leading to the loss of visual acuity. Damaged retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) and photoreceptor cells undergo mitophagy. Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PED...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aging and Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,167 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2017

Water-soluble upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) that exhibit significant ultraviolet, blue, and red emissions under 980-nm laser excitation were successfully synthesized for performing near infrared (NIR)-triggered photodynamic therapy (PDT). The la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanoparticles in Vivo and in Vitro Studies: A Collection of Parallel Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,911 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2024

As an azo dye, OG has toxic and harmful effects on ecosystems. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a green, environmentally friendly, and efficient catalyst to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the degradation of OG. In this study, the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study on Synthesis and Photochemistry of Dyes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,668 Views
23 Pages

In the centralized scheduling mode of automated container terminals, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) often experience decision-making delays caused by system information-processing bottlenecks, which significantly affect path-planning efficiency and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Intelligent Vehicle Path Planning Algorithm)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,572 Views
12 Pages

A Novel Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanism for Distributed Secondary Control in Islanded AC Microgrids

  • Boyang Huang,
  • Yong Xiao,
  • Xin Jin,
  • Junhao Feng and ,
  • Xin Li and
  • Li Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2022

In this paper, the frequency/voltage restoration and active power sharing problems of islanded AC microgrids are studied. A novel distributed dynamic event-triggered secondary control scheme is proposed to reduce the communication burden. The continu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power System Dynamics and Renewable Energy Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,020 Views
15 Pages

22 March 2023

Complex space missions require more space robotic extravehicular operations required to crawl on spacecraft surfaces with discontinuous features at the graspable point, greatly increasing the difficulty of space robot motion manipulation. Therefore,...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
2,980 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, a low-computation adaptive self-triggered tracking control scheme is proposed for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with input saturation. By introducing two novel error transformation functions, the designed low-computation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,990 Views
14 Pages

5 October 2024

This article investigates a class of multi-agent systems (MASs) with known dynamics external disturbances, where the communication graph is directed, and the followers have undirected connections. To eliminate the impacts of external disturbance, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods Applied in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,582 Views
33 Pages

18 September 2020

The basidiomycete Ustilago hordei causes covered smut disease of barley and oats. Virulence effectors promoting infection and supporting pathogen lifestyle have been described for this fungus. Genetically, six avirulence genes are known and one codes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smut Fungi)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,546 Views
9 Pages

12 August 2021

In order to better understand the role of binder content, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to study the interfacial interactions, sensitivity and mechanical properties of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane/2,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promising High-Energy-Density Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,947 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2022

In this paper, the adaptive neural network event-triggered tracking problem is investigated for a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and average dwell time switching. To reduce the communication network traff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Advanced Control Technologies Using Digital Signal Processors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Views
18 Pages

Event-Based Robust Reinforcement Learning Course Tracking for MSVs with Actuator Faults

  • Xiaoyang Gao,
  • Lirong Kou,
  • Dakuan Song,
  • Quan Shi and
  • Xin Hu

5 November 2026

This paper investigates the robust course control for marine surface vehicles (MSVs) by using reinforcement learning and a dynamic event-triggered mechanism under rudder faults. A fault-tolerant optimized tracking control scheme is designed based on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Control and Navigation of Unmanned Marine Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,681 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2022

This paper is concerned with the problem of event-triggered state estimation for a class of fractional-order neural networks. An event-triggering strategy is proposed to reduce the transmission frequency of the output measurement signals with guarant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well-Posedness, Dynamics, and Control of Nonlinear Differential System with Initial-Boundary Value)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,440 Views
26 Pages

29 October 2023

This paper studies the design of dual-mode resilient event-triggered control strategy for Markov jump cyber–physical systems (MJCPSs) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Firstly, a novel resilient event-triggering scheme dependent on the DoS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Attack Detection and Secure State Estimation for Cyber–Physical Systems (CPS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
467 Views
21 Pages

13 May 2026

This paper investigates finite-time practical incremental stability (FTPIS) for impulsive systems with application to the design of impulsive control. The notions of FTPIS and finite-time practical stability (FTPS) are proposed for impulsive systems....

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,930 Views
12 Pages

The Generation of an Artificial ATP Deficit Triggers Antibiotic Production in Streptomyces lividans

  • Nicolas Seghezzi,
  • Emmanuelle Darbon,
  • Cécile Martel,
  • Michelle David and ,
  • Clara Lejeune,
  • Catherine Esnault and
  • Marie-Joelle Virolle
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In most Streptomyces species, antibiotic production is triggered in a condition of phosphate limitation, a condition that is known to be correlated with a low intracellular ATP content compared to growth in a condition of phosphate proficiency. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,243 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2022

This paper investigates the problem of event-triggered, adaptive, asymptotic tracking control for a class of non-strict feedback stochastic nonlinear systems with symmetrical structures and sensor faults. Based on the negative exponential function, t...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
701 Views
14 Pages

31 January 2026

In this paper, we consider the consensus of leader-following multi-agent systems. We extend a window-based periodic event-triggered strategy to leader-following multi-agent systems. This strategy was originally proposed by Seidel et al. for leaderles...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modeling, Stability, and Control of Dynamic Systems and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,419 Views
13 Pages

30 May 2019

Functional electrical stimulation systems are used as neuroprosthetic devices in rehabilitative interventions such as gait training. Stimulator triggers, implemented to control stimulation delivery, range from open- to closed-loop controllers. Finite...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Sensors for Gait and Motion Analysis 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
368 Views
26 Pages

20 June 2026

This paper investigates the problems of anti-synchronization for a class of inertial neural networks (INNs) with time-varying delays under the influence of deception attacks and hybrid triggered control. A novel dynamic hybrid-triggered control (DHTC...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric and Symmetric Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,684 Views
27 Pages

13 November 2024

This research digs into the dynamics of sustainable development in complex fragile ecosystems, with a focus on the Trentino alpine region in Northern Italy to identify the main triggers to foster it. In particular, this study emphasizes the critical...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,011 Views
26 Pages

Guaranteed Performance Event-Triggered Adaptive Consensus Control for Multiagent Systems under Time-Varying Actuator Faults

  • Kairui Chen,
  • Yixiang Gu,
  • Hai Lin,
  • Zhonglin Zhang and ,
  • Xiaoyang Zhou and
  • Xiaodong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 May 2024

A guaranteed performance event-triggered adaptive consensus control is established for uncertain multiagent systems under time-varying actuator faults. To eliminate the impact caused by actuator faults, an adaptive neural network compensation strateg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,694 Views
16 Pages

Twelve-Month Real-World Outcomes of Tezepelumab in Severe Asthma: Clinical Remission, Biomarker Changes, and Trigger Burden—A SANI Multicenter Cohort

  • Stefania Nicola,
  • Simone Negrini,
  • Fulvia Ribolla,
  • Giuseppe Guida and ,
  • Rocco Francesco Rinaldo,
  • Benedetta Bondi,
  • Iuliana Badiu,
  • Federica Corradi,
  • Anna Quinternetto and
  • on behalf of the SANI Study Group
  • + 25 authors+ 20 authors

15 June 2026

Background/Objectives: Tezepelumab targets thymic stromal lymphopoietin and has broad efficacy in severe asthma, yet real-world evidence on patient-reported trigger burden remains limited. We assessed 12-month outcomes after tezepelumab, focusing on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanisms of Airway Inflammation in Asthma)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,707 Views
5 Pages

28 December 2022

Stomatal immunity is regulated by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)- and abscisic acid (ABA)-triggered signalling in different ways. Cytoplasmic Ca2+ signature in the guard cells plays a vital function in stomatal immunity, but the mecha...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,405 Views
19 Pages

The current study explores the fully distributed containment control problem of fractional-order time-delay multi-agent systems by introducing a novel pull-based dynamic event-triggered approach. Firstly, to reduce communication overhead and mitigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Modeling of Fractional-Order Dynamical Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,767 Views
24 Pages

5 June 2024

This paper investigates the state estimation and event-triggered control for positive nonlinear multi-agent systems. Firstly, a proportional–integral observer is established to estimate the states of the considered nonlinear positive multi-agen...

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