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10 Citations
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Fuel Cell Characteristic Curve Approximation Using the Bézier Curve Technique

  • Mohamed Louzazni,
  • Sameer Al-Dahidi and
  • Marco Mussetta

1 October 2020

Accurate modelling of the fuel cell characteristics curve is essential for the simulation analysis, control management, performance evaluation, and fault detection of fuel cell power systems. However, the big challenge in fuel cell modelling is the m...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,075 Views
32 Pages

Generalized Fractional Bézier Curve with Shape Parameters

  • Syed Ahmad Aidil Adha Said Mad Zain,
  • Md Yushalify Misro and
  • Kenjiro T. Miura

2 September 2021

The construction of new basis functions for the Bézier or B-spline curve has been one of the most popular themes in recent studies in Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD). Implementing the new basis functions with shape parameters provides a differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,564 Views
21 Pages

Caputo Fabrizio Bézier Curve with Fractional and Shape Parameters

  • Muhammad Awais,
  • Syed Khawar Nadeem Kirmani,
  • Maheen Rana and
  • Raheel Ahmad

19 August 2024

In recent research in computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), one of the most popular concerns has been the creation of new basis functions for the Bézier curve. Bézier curves with high degrees often overshoot, which makes it challengin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,137 Views
35 Pages

How Null Vector Performs in a Rational Bézier Curve with Mass Points

  • Lionel Garnier,
  • Jean-Paul Bécar and
  • Laurent Fuchs

20 January 2025

This article points out the kinematics in tracing a Bézier curve defined by control mass points. A mass point is a point with a non-positive weight, a non-negative weight or a vector with a null weight. For any Bézier curve, the speeds...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,057 Views
14 Pages

Curve and Surface Geometric Modeling via Generalized Bézier-like Model

  • Moavia Ameer,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Kenjiro T. Miura,
  • Abdul Majeed and
  • Tahir Nazir

24 March 2022

Generalized Bernstein-like functions (gB-like functions) with different shape parameters are used in this work. Parametric and geometric conditions in generalized form are developed. Some numerical examples of the parametric continuity (PC) and geome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,428 Views
24 Pages

The local controlled generalized H-Bézier model is one of the most useful tools for shape designs and geometric representations in computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), which is owed to its good geometric properties, e.g., symmetry and shape...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,678 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2023

Due to problems such as the shooting light, viewing angle, and camera equipment, low-light images with low contrast, color distortion, high noise, and unclear details can be seen regularly in real scenes. These low-light images will not only affect o...

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  • Open Access
601 Views
19 Pages

2 October 2025

This paper proposes a fast midcourse trajectory optimization method by using the Bézier curve as a transcription scheme to represent the interceptor trajectories. First, the trajectory optimization problem is established with the constraints d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,855 Views
31 Pages

12 June 2020

The main objective of this paper is to construct the various shapes and font designing of curves and to describe the curvature by using parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized hybrid trigonometric Bézier (GHT-Bézi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,966 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we propose two Maple procedures and some related utilities to determine the maximum curvature of a cubic Bézier-spline curve that interpolates an ordered set of points in R2 or R3. The procedures are designed from closed-form fo...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,268 Views
28 Pages

Research on Risk Avoidance Path Planning for Unmanned Vehicle Based on Genetic Algorithm and Bezier Curve

  • Gaoyang Xie,
  • Liqing Fang,
  • Xujun Su,
  • Deqing Guo,
  • Ziyuan Qi,
  • Yanan Li and
  • Jinli Che

9 February 2025

In the process of autonomous driving, the identification and avoidance of risk points is of great significance for the safe and efficient navigation of unmanned vehicles. To solve this problem, a new strategy combining a Bezier curve and the genetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,271 Views
22 Pages

Obstacle Avoidance Path Planning for Worm-like Robot Using Bézier Curve

  • Yifan Wang,
  • Zehao Liu,
  • Akhil Kandhari and
  • Kathryn A. Daltorio

Worm-like robots have demonstrated great potential in navigating through environments requiring body shape deformation. Some examples include navigating within a network of pipes, crawling through rubble for search and rescue operations, and medical...

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  • Open Access
1,515 Views
18 Pages

Optimization Design of Centrifugal Fan Blades Based on Bézier Curve Method

  • Jiaju Wang,
  • Kunfeng Liang,
  • Tao He,
  • Haijiang He,
  • Dayuan Zheng,
  • Min Li,
  • Dewu Gong and
  • Lihua Jiang

1 May 2025

In order to improve the aerodynamic performance of the voluteless centrifugal fan, a multi-objective optimization design system was established by combining parametric modeling, experimental design, surrogate models, and optimization algorithms, with...

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  • Open Access
557 Views
14 Pages

This work introduces a wine glass-shaped planar ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna. The antenna achieves a compact form factor by reducing lateral width through Bézier curve shaping and a trident feed, while maintaining length for low-frequency oper...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
546 Views
25 Pages

31 October 2025

Power line sag monitoring is critical for ensuring transmission system reliability and optimizing grid capacity utilization. Traditional sag detection methods rely on hyperbolic cosine models that assume ideal catenary behavior under uniform loading...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,980 Views
18 Pages

Visual Scratch Defect Detection System of Aluminum Flat Tube Based on Cubic Bezier Curve Fitting Using Linear Scan Camera

  • Jianbin Tang,
  • Songxiao Cao,
  • Jiaze Chen,
  • Tao Song,
  • Zhipeng Xu,
  • Qiaojun Zhou and
  • Qing Jiang

14 June 2022

This paper presents a scratch detection system based on a cubic Bezier curve fitting using a linear scan camera. The objective was to detect the scratch defects of an aluminum flat tube stably in real-time under complex uncertain background noise. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,519 Views
29 Pages

Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimisation for Multi-Robot Path Planning with Bezier Curve Smoothing

  • Yi-Ler Poy,
  • Zhi-Yu Loke,
  • Shalini Darmaraju,
  • Choon-Hian Goh,
  • Ban-Hoe Kwan,
  • Haipeng Liu and
  • Danny Wee Kiat Ng

24 September 2024

This paper presents an Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimisation (EPSO) algorithm to improve multi-robot path planning by integrating a new path planning scheme with a cubic Bezier curve trajectory smoothing algorithm. Traditional PSO algorithms often res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,501 Views
14 Pages

29 March 2019

In this paper a concept of the second order digital infinite impulse response narrow band-reject filter with reduced transient response is proposed. In order to suppress the transient response of the considered infinite impulse response (IIR) notch f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,758 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Generalization of Bézier-like Curves and Surfaces with Shape Parameters

  • Moavia Ameer,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad and
  • Tahir Nazir

26 January 2022

Bézier curves and surfaces with shape parameters have received more attention in the field of engineering and technology in recent years because of their useful geometric properties as compared to classical Bézier curves, as well as tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
207 Views
26 Pages

3 December 2025

To address the industry pain points of high seed breakage rate and uncontrollable miss-filling rate, multiple-filling rate in traditional rapeseed roller-type precision centralized seed metering devices—while breaking the adaptation limitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,529 Views
11 Pages

This paper aims to simplify the continuity conditions of Bézier curves. For this purpose, a special family of Bézier curves with three parameters, to be called adjustable Bézier curves, is constructed. They have the same structure as the quartic Bézi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,768 Views
11 Pages

On Self-Intersections of Cubic Bézier Curves

  • Ying-Ying Yu,
  • Xin Li and
  • Ye Ji

17 March 2024

Cubic Bézier curves are widely used in computer graphics and geometric modeling, favored for their intuitive design and ease of implementation. However, self-intersections within these curves can pose significant challenges in both geometric m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,737 Views
23 Pages

25 October 2018

The modeling of free-form engineering complex curves is an important subject in product modeling, graphics, and computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM). In this paper, we propose a novel method to construct free-form complex curv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,850 Views
15 Pages

7 April 2020

In this paper, properties and algorithms of q-Bézier curves and surfaces are analyzed. It is proven that the only q-Bézier and rational q-Bézier curves satisfying the boundary tangent property are the Bézier and rational B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,680 Views
23 Pages

30 January 2024

Adequate mathematical description of magnetization curves is indispensable in engineering. The accuracy of the description has a significant impact on the design of electric machines and devices. The aim of this paper was to analyze the capability of...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,255 Views
24 Pages

25 January 2025

In the field of Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), a proper model can be achieved depending on certain characteristics of the predefined blending basis functions. The presence of these characteristics ensures the geometric properties necessary f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,825 Views
20 Pages

Degree Reduction of Q-Bézier Curves via Squirrel Search Algorithm

  • Xiaomin Liu,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Gang Hu and
  • Samia BiBi

9 September 2021

Q-Bézier curves find extensive applications in shape design owing to their excellent geometric properties and good shape adjustability. In this article, a new method for the multiple-degree reduction of Q-Bézier curves by incorporating the swarm inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,179 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2019

SG-Bézier curves have become a useful tool for shape design and geometric representation in computer aided design (CAD), owed to their good geometric properties, e.g., symmetry and convex hull property. Aiming at the problem of approximate deg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,152 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2018

The aim of this work was to introduce new ways to model the I-V characteristic of a photovoltaic (PV) cell or PV module using straight lines and Bézier curves. This is a complete novel approach, Bézier curves being previously used mainl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,453 Views
23 Pages

Bézier Curves and Surfaces with the Blending (α, λ, s)-Bernstein Basis

  • İlhan Karakılıç,
  • Sedef Karakılıç,
  • Gülter Budakçı and
  • Faruk Özger

1 February 2025

This study presents a generalized approach to Bézier curves and surfaces by utilizing the blending (α,λ,s)-Bernstein basis. The (α,λ,s)-Bernstein basis introduces shape parameters α, λ, and s, which allow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,472 Views
16 Pages

Research on Trajectory Planning Method Based on Bézier Curves for Dynamic Scenarios

  • Hongluo Li,
  • Hai Pang,
  • Hongyang Xia,
  • Yongxian Huang and
  • Xiangkun Zeng

With the increase in car ownership, traffic congestion, and frequent accidents, autonomous driving technology, especially for dynamic driving scenarios in the whole domain, has become a technological challenge for today’s researchers. Trajector...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
255 Views
14 Pages

16 November 2025

Affine invariance is one of the most fundamental properties of free-form curves, ensuring that transformations such as translation, scaling, rotation, and shearing preserve the essential characteristics of the geometric shape. It is exploited by almo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,330 Views
22 Pages

Global Time-Varying Path Planning Method Based on Tunable Bezier Curves

  • Longfei Jia,
  • Si Zeng,
  • Lei Feng,
  • Bohan Lv,
  • Zhiyuan Yu and
  • Yuping Huang

18 December 2023

In this paper, a novel global time-varying path planning (GTVP) method is proposed. In the method, real-time paths can be generated based on tunable Bezier curves, which can realize obstacle avoidance of manipulators. First, finite feature points are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,308 Views
16 Pages

Planar Typical Bézier Curves with a Single Curvature Extremum

  • Chuan He,
  • Gang Zhao,
  • Aizeng Wang,
  • Shaolin Li and
  • Zhanchuan Cai

3 September 2021

This paper focuses on planar typical Bézier curves with a single curvature extremum, which is a supplement of typical curves with monotonic curvature by Y. Mineur et al. We have proven that the typical curve has at most one curvature extremum and giv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
984 Views
20 Pages

Smooth UAV Path Planning Based on Composite-Energy-Minimizing Bézier Curves

  • Huanxin Cao,
  • Zhanhe Du,
  • Gang Hu,
  • Yi Xu and
  • Lanlan Zheng

21 July 2025

Path smoothing is an important part of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) path planning, because the smoothness of the planned path is related to the flight safety and stability of UAVs. In existing smooth UAV path planning methods, different characterist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,114 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2021

In order to solve the problem of geometric design and architectural design of complex engineering surface, we introduce the parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized C-Bézier curves and surfaces with shape parameters. Firstly, ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,204 Views
11 Pages

Creating Digital Watermarks in Bitmap Images Using Lagrange Interpolation and Bezier Curves

  • Aigerim Yerimbetova,
  • Elmira Daiyrbayeva,
  • Ekaterina Merzlyakova,
  • Andrey Fionov,
  • Nazerke Baisholan,
  • Mussa Turdalyuly,
  • Nurzhan Mukazhanov and
  • Almas Turganbayev

29 September 2023

The article is devoted to the introduction of digital watermarks, which formthe basis for copyright protection systems. Methods in this area are aimed at embedding hidden markers that are resistant to various container transformations. This paper pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,328 Views
14 Pages

16 October 2020

This work is devoted to the second order rational Bézier curve coefficients estimation. We present the methodology of unique coefficients for each type of ship computation. In the presented formulas of ship’s length, a draft and angular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,852 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2023

This paper considers the problem of minimum-time smooth trajectory planning for wheeled mobile robots. The smooth path is defined by several Bézier curves and the calculated velocity profiles on individual segments are minimum-time with contin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,196 Views
16 Pages

Parametric Hull Design with Rational Bézier Curves and Estimation of Performances

  • Tommaso Ingrassia,
  • Antonio Mancuso,
  • Vincenzo Nigrelli,
  • Antonio Saporito and
  • Davide Tumino

In this paper, a tool able to support the sailing yacht designer during the early stage of the design process has been developed. Cubic Rational Bézier curves have been selected to describe the main curves defining the hull of a sailing yacht. The ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,826 Views
17 Pages

30 January 2023

In terms of mobile robot path planning, the traditional A* algorithm has the following problems: a long searching time, an excessive number of redundant nodes, and too many path-turning points. As a result, the shortest path obtained from planning ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,577 Views
16 Pages

Genetic Algorithm-Based Optimization Methodology of Bézier Curves to Generate a DCI Microscale-Model

  • Jesus A. Basurto-Hurtado,
  • Roque A. Osornio-Rios,
  • Arturo Y. Jaen-Cuellar,
  • Aurelio Dominguez-Gonzalez and
  • L. A. Morales-Hernandez

28 November 2017

The aim of this article is to develop a methodology that is capable of generating micro-scale models of Ductile Cast Irons, which have the particular characteristic to preserve the smoothness of the graphite nodules contours that are lost by discreti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,190 Views
20 Pages

Improving Path Accuracy of Mobile Robots in Uncertain Environments by Adapted Bézier Curves

  • Ioana-Alexandra Șomîtcă,
  • Stelian Brad,
  • Vlad Florian and
  • Ștefan-Eduard Deaconu

1 November 2022

An algorithm that presents the best possible approximation for the theoretical Bézier curve and the real path on which a mobile robot moves in a dynamic environment with mobile obstacles and boundaries is introduced in this paper. The algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,224 Views
12 Pages

The computer-aided design of fruits are used for different purposes, e.g., to determine mechanical properties by applying engineering simulations, to design postharvest equipment, and to study the natural changes related to the topology. This paper d...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,246 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2024

Developing autonomous navigation techniques for surface vehicles remains an important research area, and accurate global path planning is essential. For mobile robots—particularly for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)—a key challenge is en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,135 Views
26 Pages

Navigation relayed by multiple stations (NRMS) is a promising technique that can significantly extend the operational range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and hence facilitate the execution of long-range tasks. However, NRMS employs multiple exte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,789 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2020

Based on quintic trigonometric Bézier like basis functions, the biquintic Bézier surfaces are modeled with four shape parameters that not only possess the key properties of the traditional Bézier surface but also have exceptional...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,681 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2019

The study was performed at Brasov County Hospital, in the Internal Medicine, Diabetes, Gastroenterology and Cardiology Wards with the collaboration of Transylvania University of Brasov, as a study approved by the Ethical Board of the university. The...

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