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7 Citations
2,919 Views
19 Pages

To realize high-performance control for the inertially stabilized platform, a compound control method based on the adaptive linear extended state observer and global fast terminal sliding mode control is proposed. For estimating the unknown disturban...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,204 Views
16 Pages

13 April 2023

To overcome the sensitivity of voltage source inverters (VSIs) to parameter perturbations and their susceptibility to load variations, a fast terminal sliding mode control (FTSMC) method is proposed as the core and combined with an improved nonlinear...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,023 Views
27 Pages

30 January 2024

This paper proposes a trajectory tracking control scheme consisting of a fast finite-time super-twisting sliding mode control (FSTSMC) approach and an extended state higher-order sliding mode observer (ESHSMO) for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,751 Views
31 Pages

An adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with extended state observer (ESO) is proposed for the trajectory tracking of an underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS), where the system is subjected to the lumped disturbances...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,510 Views
20 Pages

30 January 2025

In manufacturing, the position tracking accuracy and stability of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors are often challenged by uncertainties, especially in complex environments. Existing control methods struggle to balance fast response with high-prec...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
875 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates the trajectory-tracking control problem of a two-degree-of-freedom underwater manipulator operating in a complex disturbance environment. A dynamic model of the multi-link serial manipulator is first established. In this study...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
915 Views
20 Pages

17 July 2025

With the development of digital power systems, the establishment of digital twin models for transformers is of great significance in enhancing power system stability. Consequently, greater demands are placed on the real-time performance and accuracy...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,509 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2021

High dynamic performance of a deep-sea electric oil-filled joint actuator is an important premise to guarantee the working performance of an electric underwater manipulator. However, the unfavorable factors (i.e., extremely high water pressure, near...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,121 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2024

Since robustness is only maintained on the sliding-mode surface, sliding mode control is inherently non-globally stable. Therefore, reducing the time to reach the sliding mode is crucial for enhancing sliding mode robustness. To improve the performan...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,337 Views
10 Pages

9 December 2018

Methods of machine learning and data mining are becoming the cornerstone in information technologies with real-time image and video recognition methods getting more and more attention. While computational system architectures are getting larger and m...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,283 Views
48 Pages

Extended Equal Area Criterion Revisited: A Direct Method for Fast Transient Stability Analysis

  • Alireza Bahmanyar,
  • Damien Ernst,
  • Yves Vanaubel,
  • Quentin Gemine,
  • Camille Pache and
  • Patrick Panciatici

3 November 2021

For transient stability analysis of a multi-machine power system, the Extended Equal Area Criterion (EEAC) method applies the classic Equal Area Criterion (EAC) concept to an approximate One Machine Infinite Bus (OMIB) equivalent of the system to fin...

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  • Open Access
460 Views
21 Pages

28 November 2025

As one of the vital research directions in hyperspectral image (HSI) processing, anomaly detection is dedicated to identifying anomalous pixels in HSIs that have significant spectral differences from the surrounding background, and it has attracted e...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,154 Views
19 Pages

2 October 2021

To address the difficulty of separating background materials from similar materials associated with the use of “single-spectral information” for hyperspectral anomaly detection, a fast hyperspectral anomaly detection algorithm based on what we term t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,276 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2023

In this paper, a scheme for zero-voltage ride through of a permanent magnet synchronous generator wind power system is proposed. Maintaining the stability of DC-link voltage is the key to realizing zero-voltage ride through. A braking chopper is used...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,001 Views
29 Pages

Sensitivity analysis (SA) is often applied to evaluate the behavior of ecological models in which the integrated soil and crop processes often vary over time. In this study, the time dependence of the parameter sensitivity of a process-based agro-eco...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,577 Views
24 Pages

Two size classes of piroxicam (PXC) pellets (mini (380–550 μm) and conventional (700–1200 μm)) were prepared using extrusion/spheronization and medium viscosity chitosan (CHS). Mixture experimental design and numerical optimization...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,711 Views
24 Pages

An Anti-Disturbance Extended State Observer-Based Control of a PMa-SynRM for Fast Dynamic Response

  • Dongyang Li,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Chunyang Gu,
  • Yuli Bao,
  • Xiaochen Zhang,
  • Chris Gerada and
  • He Zhang

26 August 2024

The control system of PMa-SynRMs (Permanent Magnet-assisted Synchronous Reluctance Machines) exhibit susceptibility to external disturbances, thereby emphasizing the utmost significance of employing an observer to effectively observe and suppress sys...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,263 Views
24 Pages

10 June 2022

This paper focuses on the control method of small cross-domain robots (CDR) on the water surface and the ground. The maximum size of the robot is 85 cm and the weight of the robot is 6.5 kg. To solve the problem that CDRs cannot handle the lateral ve...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,469 Views
21 Pages

1 December 2022

Marine transportation and operations have attracted the attention of more and more countries and scholars in recent years. A full-state finite time feedback control scheme is designed for the model parameters uncertainty, unknown ocean environment di...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,441 Views
18 Pages

25 July 2025

An electro-hydraulic servo loading system for a pavement mechanical properties test device was designed. The simulation analysis and test results showed that the PID control met the design requirements, but the output’s maximum error did not. T...

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  • Open Access
329 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2026

To achieve high-precision trajectory tracking for multi-joint robotic manipulators in the presence of model uncertainties, external disturbances, and strong coupling effects, this paper proposes a nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (NFTSM...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,505 Views
20 Pages

This paper studies the fast finite-time path following of underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USV) with sideslip compensation, time-varying disturbances and input saturation. In the guidance module, the fast finite-time predictor-based line-of-s...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
18,329 Views
14 Pages

Factors Influencing Repurchase Intention in Drive-Through Fast Food: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

  • Yogi Tri Prasetyo,
  • Allysa Mae Castillo,
  • Louie John Salonga,
  • John Allen Sia,
  • Thanatorn Chuenyindee,
  • Michael Nayat Young,
  • Satria Fadil Persada,
  • Bobby Ardiansyah Miraja and
  • Anak Agung Ngurah Perwira Redi

27 May 2021

The drive-through fast-food industry has been one of the fastest businesses growing over the past decades in developing countries, including the Philippines. The purpose of this study was to evaluate factors influencing costumers’ repurchase intentio...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,051 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2022

To maintain the safe operation and acceptable performance of robot manipulators when faults occur inside the system, fault-tolerant control must deal differently uncertainties and disturbances, especially with the occurrence of loss-effective faults....

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,861 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2017

Abstract: Non-uniformity of Lithium-ion cells in a battery pack is inevitable and has become the bottleneck to the pack capacity, especially in the fast charging process. Therefore, a balancing approach is essentially required. This paper proposes an...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,733 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2025

To enhance the speed-control performance of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system, an improved sliding-mode anti-interference control strategy is presented. Firstly, to tackle the speed fluctuation issue caused by cogging torque (a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,999 Views
27 Pages

6 March 2020

Necessary intermittence after heat extraction for a deep borehole heat exchanger (DBHE) is beneficial for sustainable operation. This paper centers on the fast simulation for thermal recovery characteristics of DBHE under intermittent condition. Firs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,824 Views
17 Pages

2 November 2022

This paper investigates the problem of fault tolerant control (FTC) for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with multiple thrusters in the presence of current disturbances, thruster faults, and modelling uncertainty. This paper focuses on the probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,833 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Shape Memory Alloy Actuated System

  • Xiaoguang Li,
  • Wenzhuo Zhi,
  • Enming Shi,
  • Xiaoliang Fan,
  • Ming Zhao and
  • Bi Zhang

19 September 2024

Due to its high power-to-weight ratio, low weight, and silent operation, shape memory alloy (SMA) is widely used as a muscle-like soft actuator in intelligent bionic robot systems. However, hysteresis nonlinearity and multi-valued mapping behavior ca...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,474 Views
15 Pages

13 December 2021

This paper proposes an effective extended reweighted 1 minimization algorithm (ERMA) to solve the basis pursuit problem minuRn{||u||1:Au=f} in compressed sensing, where ARm×n, mn. The fast algorithm is based on lineari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,603 Views
27 Pages

Fast Finite-Time Composite Controller for Vehicle Steer-by-Wire Systems with Communication Delays

  • Kamal Rsetam,
  • Jasim Khawwaf,
  • Yusai Zheng,
  • Zhenwei Cao and
  • Zhihong Man

The modern steer-by-wire (SBW) systems represent a revolutionary departure from traditional automotive designs, replacing mechanical linkages with electronic control mechanisms. However, the integration of such cutting-edge technologies is not withou...

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  • Open Access
431 Views
32 Pages

10 January 2026

This paper describes a composite control approach that improves the accuracy and dynamic performance of the control of a voice-coil-driven, two-dimensional fast steering mirror (FSM). Strong nonlinearity, perturbation of parameters, unmodeled dynamic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,303 Views
18 Pages

18 October 2024

Aiming at the problems of low trajectory tracking accuracy, serious chattering and poor robust performance of ball screw feed systems in traditional sliding mode control (SMC), in this paper, a global nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,504 Views
22 Pages

Global Sensitivity Analysis of the Advanced ORYZA-N Model with Different Rice Types and Irrigation Regimes

  • Ya Gao,
  • Chen Sun,
  • Tiago B. Ramos,
  • Junwei Tan,
  • Ana R. Oliveira,
  • Quanzhong Huang,
  • Guanhua Huang and
  • Xu Xu

17 January 2024

Identifying important parameters in crop models is critical for model application. This study conducted a sensitivity analysis of 23 selected parameters of the advanced rice model ORYZA-N using the Extended FAST method. The sensitivity analysis was a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,767 Views
30 Pages

AEKF-SLAM: A New Algorithm for Robotic Underwater Navigation

  • Xin Yuan,
  • José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega,
  • José Antonio Sánchez Fernández and
  • Martina Eckert

21 May 2017

In this work, we focus on key topics related to underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) applications. Moreover, a detailed review of major studies in the literature and our proposed solutions for addressing the problem are presented....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,609 Views
14 Pages

A Fast and Cost-Effective (FACE) Instrument Setting to Construct Focus-Extended Images

  • Gilbert Audira,
  • Ting-Wei Hsu,
  • Kelvin H.-C. Chen,
  • Jong-Chin Huang,
  • Ming-Der Lin,
  • Tzong-Rong Ger and
  • Chung-Der Hsiao

29 November 2022

Image stacking is a crucial method for micro or macro photography. It captures images at different focal planes and then merges them into a single, all-in-focus image with extended focus. This method has been extensively used for digital documentatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
20,654 Views
10 Pages

Extending the Overnight Fast: Sex Differences in Acute Metabolic Responses to Breakfast

  • Fiona S. Atkinson,
  • Gabriella A. Heruc,
  • Verena M. H. Tan,
  • Peter Petocz and
  • Jennie C. Brand-Miller

22 July 2020

Fasting for over 24 h is associated with worsening glucose tolerance, but the effect of extending the overnight fast period (a form of time-restricted feeding) on acute metabolic responses and insulin sensitivity is unclear. The aim of this pilot stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,548 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2018

Optical scanning holography (OSH) is a powerful and effective method for capturing the complex hologram of a three-dimensional (3-D) scene. Such captured complex hologram is called optical scanned hologram. However, reconstructing a focused image fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,499 Views
23 Pages

A Fast North-Finding Algorithm on the Moving Pedestal Based on the Technology of Extended State Observer (ESO)

  • Yunchao Bai,
  • Bing Li,
  • Haosu Zhang,
  • Sheng Wang,
  • Debao Yan,
  • Ziheng Gao and
  • Wenchao Pan

5 October 2022

We propose a kind of fast and high-precision alignment algorithm based on the ESO technology. Firstly, in order to solve the problems of rapid, high-accuracy, and anti-interference alignment on the moving pedestal in the north-seeker, the ESO technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,706 Views
22 Pages

14 June 2018

The manipulation of the bidirectional power in a dual-active-bridge converter relies on the adjustment of several phase-shift angles. Improper implementation of those adjustments during the transient process of a step load change may induce transient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,165 Views
18 Pages

Fast, Spectroscopy-Based Prediction of In Vitro Dissolution Profile of Extended Release Tablets Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Dorián László Galata,
  • Attila Farkas,
  • Zsófia Könyves,
  • Lilla Alexandra Mészáros,
  • Edina Szabó,
  • István Csontos,
  • Andrea Pálos,
  • György Marosi,
  • Zsombor Kristóf Nagy and
  • Brigitta Nagy

The pharmaceutical industry has never seen such a vast development in process analytical methods as in the last decade. The application of near-infrared (NIR) and Raman spectroscopy in monitoring production lines has also become widespread. This work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,264 Views
20 Pages

7 September 2024

Categorical (either binary or ordinal) quantitative traits are widely observed to measure count and resistance in plants. Unlike continuous traits, categorical traits often provide less detailed insights into genetic variation and possess a more comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
26,796 Views
11 Pages

30 April 2021

There has been increasing interest in time-restricted eating to attain intermittent fasting’s metabolic benefits. However, a more extended daily fast poses many challenges. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of a 200-calorie fasting-mimi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,930 Views
17 Pages

The trend of fasting until noon (omission or delayed breakfast) is increasingly prevalent in modern society. This eating pattern triggers discordance between endogenous circadian clock rhythms and the feeding/fasting cycle and is associated with an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,187 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2024

Dynamic simulation is widely applied in the real-time and realistic physical simulation field. How to achieve natural dynamic simulation results in real-time with small data sizes is an important and long-standing topic. In this paper, we propose a d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,262 Views
15 Pages

A Randomized, Crossover, Single-Dose Bioequivalence Study of Two Extended-Release Tablets of Donepezil 23 mg in Healthy Human Volunteers under Fasting and Fed States

  • Chaitanya GADIKO,
  • Sudhakar KOUNDINYA TIPPABHOTLA,
  • Satyanarayana THOTA,
  • Ramakrishna BATTULA,
  • Sohel Md. KHAN and
  • Venkateswarlu VOBALABOINA

25 April 2013

To assess the bioequivalence of two extended-release tablets of donepezil 23 mg, open label, randomized, single-dose, two-sequence, two-period cross-over studies under fasting (n=74) and fed (n=94) conditions in healthy adult human volunteers were co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,145 Views
12 Pages

Fast Analgesic Effect in Response Test with Topical Phenytoin Cream Correlates with Prolonged Pain Relief After Extended Use in Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

  • David J. Kopsky,
  • Alexander F. J. E. Vrancken,
  • Ruben P. A. van Eijk,
  • Ricardo Alvarez-Jimenez,
  • Karolina M. Szadek,
  • Remko Liebregts and
  • Monique A. H. Steegers

7 February 2025

Background: Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) poses several challenges due to the limited effectiveness, high incidence of side effects, and potential drug interactions of oral neuropathic pain medication. Lacking systemic side effects,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,684 Views
17 Pages

Topical Inserts: A Versatile Delivery Form for HIV Prevention

  • M. Melissa Peet,
  • Vivek Agrahari,
  • Sharon M. Anderson,
  • Homaira Hanif,
  • Onkar N. Singh,
  • Andrea R. Thurman,
  • Gustavo F. Doncel and
  • Meredith R. Clark

The development of topical inserts for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), represents a promising alternative to oral and parenteral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) dosage forms....

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  • Open Access
594 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2025

Time-varying lumped disturbance and measurement noise are primary obstacles that restrict the control performance of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. To tackle these obstacles, an adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode (ANTSM) al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,280 Views
16 Pages

Leveraging Physiologically Based Modelling to Provide Insights on the Absorption of Paliperidone Extended-Release Formulation under Fed and Fasting Conditions

  • Saima Subhani,
  • Viera Lukacova,
  • Chaejin Kim,
  • Leyanis Rodriguez-Vera,
  • Paula Muniz,
  • Monica Rodriguez,
  • Rodrigo Cristofoletti,
  • Sandra Van Os,
  • Elena Suarez and
  • Valvanera Vozmediano
  • + 1 author

Paliperidone was approved by the US FDA in 2006 as an extended-release (ER) tablet (Invega®) for the once-daily treatment of schizophrenia. This osmotic-controlled release oral delivery system (OROS) offers advantages, such as the prevention of p...

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