This paper proposes a methodology for reliability analysis of seismic slope stability that incorporates interactions among multiple sliding blocks. The primary sliding direction is first determined using the vector sum method and then the imbalance t...
The mechanics and motion behavior of granular materials affect the production and life of human beings. In order to study the influence of the sliding friction coefficients corresponding to different contact types in the block discrete element method...
In this study, the problem of the stabilisation of a class of nonautonomous nonlinear systems was studied. First, a fractional stability theorem based on a fractional-order Lyapunov inequality was formulated. Then, a novel fractional-order sliding su...
Fractional calculus is widely used in engineering fields. In complex mechanical systems, multi-body dynamics can be modelled by fractional differential-algebraic equations when considering the fractional constitutive relations of some materials. In r...
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The accurate, high-fidelity modeling of moving geometries involving translation and rotation is important in fluid mechanics applications, particularly turbomachinery. These simulations facilitate the analysis of various turbomachinery stages, where...
The low-earth-orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can achieve enhanced remote-sensing capabilities by exploiting the large-scale and long-duration beam coverage of a geosynchronous (GEO) SAR illuminator. Different bistatic imaging modes can be imple...
This paper introduces a novel model-free nonsingular fixed-time sliding mode control (MF-NFxTSMC) strategy for precise trajectory tracking in robot arm systems. Unlike conventional sliding mode control (SMC) approaches that require accurate dynamic m...
Low sidelobes are important and essential in all SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images, regardless of the imaging mode, for fewer artificial targets. For strip-map mode all targets overlap in frequency, which is convenient to suppress sidelobes. Howe...
With the rapid development of unmanned agricultural machinery technology, the accuracy and stability of agricultural machinery path tracking have become key challenges in achieving precision agriculture. To address the issues of insufficient accuracy...
Fractured seepage is an important factor affecting the interface stability of rock mass. It is closely related to fracture properties and hydraulic conditions. In this study, the law of seepage in a single fracture surface based on modified cubic law...
In this paper, a control method of a novel tilt-rotor UAV with a blended wing body layout is studied. The novel UAV is capable of vertical take-off and landing and has strong stealth capabilities that can be applied to carrier-borne reconnaissance ai...
Background: Whole-slide images (WSIs) are crucial in pathology for digitizing tissue slides, enabling pathologists and AI models to analyze cancer patterns at gigapixel scale. However, their large size incorporates artifacts and non-tissue regions th...
The evolution law of internal force and deformation of an anti-slide pile affects the slope stability and prevention design in a significant way. Based on the similarity theory, a test system for the bearing characteristics of a cantilever anti-slide...
This paper describes a sliding friction model for an electro-deposited coating. Reciprocating sliding tests using ball-on-flat plate test apparatus are performed to determine an evolution of the kinetic friction coefficient. The evolution of the fric...
A class of controlled objects is considered, the dynamics of which are determined by a vector system of ordinary differential equations with a partially known right-hand side. It is presumed that the state variables and their velocities can be measur...
The materials involved in geotechnical engineering are objects of concern in granular mechanics. In order to study the influence of the sliding friction coefficient corresponding to different-sized elements in the discrete element method (DEM) on the...
Sliding bearings are vital components in modern industry, exerting a crucial influence on equipment performance, with wear being one of their primary failure modes. In addressing the issue of wear diagnosis in sliding bearings, this paper proposes an...
To resolve the problem of high-precision trajectory tracking control under interference conditions in a missile’s mid-guidance phase, according to the constructed nominal trajectory, an improved adaptive high-order sliding mode trajectory track...
In response to the trajectory tracking control problem of manipulators under measurement disturbances, a novel multi-input multi-output discrete integral terminal sliding mode control scheme is proposed. Initially, this scheme establishes a dynamic m...
In order to achieve the speed sensorless control of a bearingless induction motor (BL-IM), a novel sliding mode observation (SMO) method of motor speed is researched. First of all, according to the mathematical model of a BL-IM system, the observatio...
This paper proposes a transformer temperature early warning method based on an adaptive sliding window and stacking ensemble learning algorithm, aiming to improve the accuracy and robustness of temperature prediction. The transformer temperature earl...
On the basis of the circular arc sliding model of the limit equilibrium method, an axisymmetric arc sliding method (AASM) is proposed to analyze the basal heave stability of braced circular excavations. The proposed method considers the stiffness of...
Anti-sliding short piles, a novel technique for slope stabilization, have been applied in engineering practices. Nonetheless, a mature structural calculation theory for these piles is still lacking. In this paper, the study presents an internal force...
This paper proposes a video summarization algorithm called the Mutual Information and Entropy based adaptive Sliding Window (MIESW) method, which is specifically for the static summary of gesture videos. Considering that gesture videos usually have u...
In this paper, a new sliding window-based joint sparse representation (SWJSR) anomaly detector for hyperspectral data is proposed. The main contribution of this paper is to improve the judgments about the probability of anomaly presence in signals us...
Considering the rapid convergence of the longitudinal and lateral tracking errors of the platoon, a finite-time tracking control method for the longitudinal and lateral directions of the intelligent bus platoon is proposed. Based on the bus platoon m...
The impact of the pantograph of a rail vehicle on the overhead contact line depends on many factors. Among other things, the type of pantograph, i.e., the material of the sliding strip, influences the wear and possible damage to the sliding strip. Th...
This study introduces a method based on fine torque control to evaluate traction in rolling—liding line contacts under small slide-to-roll ratios (SRRs). To accomplish this, we engineered an innovative testing machine—a two-roller tribome...
To enable a carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to track the desired glide trajectory and safely land on the deck with the presence of system faults, this paper proposes a neural network-based adaptive sliding mode fault-tolerant control (NAS...
A novel data-driven-based adaptive sliding-mode control scheme is proposed for unmanned surface vehicle course control in the presence of disturbances. The proposed method utilizes the model-free adaptive control (MFAC) theory. On account of the unkn...
To verify the performance of the high-resolution fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor carried by the Xinzhou 60 remote-sensing aircraft, we used corner reflectors to calibrate the acquired data. The target mechanism in high-resolu...
In the realm of railroad transportation, the switch sliding baseplate constitutes one of the most crucial components within railroad crossings. Wear defects occurring on the switch sliding baseplate can give rise to issues such as delayed switch oper...
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis is based on variability between each heartbeat which is used as a diagnosis method for assessing the cardiovascular modulation of autonomic nerve system. Up to now, most HRV analysis has been done offline. Howeve...
The problem of vision-based fixed-wing UAV formation control under communication limitations and the presence of measurement errors was investigated. In the first part of this paper, the single UAV motion model and the process of estimating the neigh...
Carrier-based aircraft landing involves complex system engineering characterised by strong nonlinearity, significant coupling and susceptibility to environmental disturbances, and autonomous landing of carrier-based aircraft under fault states is eve...
A modified method for predicting the wear coefficient of reciprocating sliding wear was proposed in this study, which is less time-consuming. Based on this method, reciprocating sliding wear tests of three chain alloys (CM490, SS316, and TC4) under d...
In this paper, a nonlinear integral sliding-mode controller (SMC) based on a radial basis function (RBF) neural network is proposed to address the challenges of high nonlinearity, parameter uncertainty, and unmodeled dynamics in the electro-hydraulic...
For the multi-rope structure of the container crane system and its large mass payload anti-swing positioning problem, an equivalent double-swing model based on radial spring-dampers is established and a time-varying PD sliding mode controller (TVPD-S...
High-performance control of surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors (SPMSMs) is critical for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) rotor servo systems, which demand fast dynamic response, high steady-state accuracy, and strong robustness against...
One of the predominant technologies for multi-source navigation in vehicles involves the fusion of GNSS/IMU/ODO through a factor graph. To address issues such as the asynchronous sampling frequencies between the IMU and ODO, as well as diminished acc...
In addressing the challenges of low path tracking accuracy and poor robustness during tractor autonomous operation, this paper proposes a path tracking control method for tractors that integrates prescribed performance with sliding mode control (SMC)...
In this study, to further improve the dynamic performance and steady-state accuracy of the electromagnetic linear actuator (EMLA) for the direct-drive system, the adaptive non-singular terminal sliding mode controller (ANTSMC) based on an improved di...
The present work reports the evaluation of a sliding mode observer (SMO) for a passive interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope (IFOG). To achieve that, the experimental setup was designed and evaluated to provide two out-of-phase signals as required by...
To address the limitations of current DC residual current protection methods, which primarily rely on the amplitude of DC residual current for fault detection and fail to safeguard against electric shocks at two points on the same side in DC Isolated...
A novel method for Li-ion battery state of charge (SOC) estimation based on a super-twisting sliding mode observer (STSMO) is proposed in this paper. To design the STSMO, the state equation of a second-order RC equivalent circuit model (SRCECM) is de...
To improve the data quality of underwater point clouds acquired by UAV-borne LiDAR bathymetry, a scanline-based sliding window filtering method is proposed based on an analysis of scanline data characteristics. Scanline data of underwater point cloud...
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) circulating current suppression is an effective method in improving power conversion quality. However, due to the complex composition of circulation under a three-phase imbalanced state, as well as the limitations o...
The characteristics of wind turbine systems such as nonlinearity, uncertainty and strong coupling, as well as external interference, present great challenges in wind turbine controller design. In this paper, a quasi-continuous high-order sliding mode...
Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) is a technique used to sound the atmosphere and derive vertical profiles of refractivity. Signals from GNSS satellites are received in a low-Earth orbit, and they are then processed to pr...
Aiming at the lack of active willingness of patients to participate in the current upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation training control methods, this study proposed a radial basis function (RBF) sliding mode impedance control method based on surfac...
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