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A Multimodal Closed-Loop Framework for Vital Sign Monitoring and Intelligent Diagnosis of Amusement Ride Passengers Under High-Dynamic Motion
by Yikun Wu, Yulong Song, Hao Yang and Ming Zhang
Sensors 2026, 26(13), 4003; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26134003 - 24 Jun 2026
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High-dynamic amusement ride conditions involving impacts, rapid rotations, and abrupt posture changes introduce severe motion artifacts that degrade vital sign quality and destabilize physiological state recognition. This study aims to develop an engineering-ready closed-loop framework for robust passenger monitoring and intelligent diagnosis. A [...] Read more.
High-dynamic amusement ride conditions involving impacts, rapid rotations, and abrupt posture changes introduce severe motion artifacts that degrade vital sign quality and destabilize physiological state recognition. This study aims to develop an engineering-ready closed-loop framework for robust passenger monitoring and intelligent diagnosis. A multimodal sensing and modeling pipeline was designed to jointly leverage physiological signals such as heart rate and SpO2 and kinematic measurements, including acceleration, angular rate, velocity, and attitude. Inertial and PPG signals were preprocessed into supervised samples through wavelet multiresolution denoising and coordinate frame unification, while a strapdown inertial navigation system was used to propagate a 12-channel physical quantity sequence. To ensure interpretability and standards compliance, constraints from GB 8408-2018 were translated into executable threshold rules, enabling standards-driven auto-labeling and rule-based early warning. Building on this foundation, three learning modules were developed: a fusion model for high-dynamic heart rate estimation, a CNN–LSTM dynamic-threshold-enhanced network TAPNet for rapid kinematic anomaly screening, and an attention-augmented hybrid model HS-BANet integrating one-dimensional residual blocks, bidirectional LSTM, and multi-head attention for fine-grained arrhythmia classification. Experimental results demonstrated accurate and consistent heart rate estimation with RMSE of 1.18 bpm on HSSH-I and 1.24 bpm on the independent HSSH-II set, strong agreement with training and testing correlations of 0.9928 and 0.9865, and near-zero bias in Bland–Altman analysis. TAPNet achieved 96.9% validation accuracy and 98.2% test accuracy for kinematic anomaly recognition, maintaining robust generalization under class imbalance. HS-BANet enabled multi-class identification of PVC, PAC, VT, SVT, and AF, achieving an accuracy of 92.37%, an F1-score of 86.87%, a precision of 88.45%, a sensitivity of 88.14%, and a specificity of 89.42%. Overall, the proposed two-stage multimodal closed-loop—fast, interpretable early warning based on physical quantity thresholds followed by fine-grained diagnosis from physiological signals—supports stable feature extraction and reliable decision-making under strong motion artifacts and non-stationary dynamics, balancing responsiveness and diagnostic credibility, while showing potential for practical safety early warning and future deployment-oriented operational support in amusement ride scenarios. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
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A Joint Fault Diagnosis and Severity Prediction Framework for Rolling Bearings Using PPCA-EMD and 1DCNN-BiGRU
by Wangshen Hao, Chunhui Zhu, Dongliang Zou, Chenyang Li, Shenglin Song and Shilong Zhang
Machines 2026, 14(6), 701; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines14060701 - 18 Jun 2026
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Rolling bearing fault diagnosis remains challenging due to environmental noise, insufficient information sharing between diagnosis and prediction tasks, and poor model generalization ability. To address these issues, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis and severity prediction method integrating probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) [...] Read more.
Rolling bearing fault diagnosis remains challenging due to environmental noise, insufficient information sharing between diagnosis and prediction tasks, and poor model generalization ability. To address these issues, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis and severity prediction method integrating probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) with a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1DCNN) and bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU). The proposed model consists of two parallel branches for fault diagnosis and fault severity prediction. A self-attention mechanism is integrated into both branches to enhance feature extraction via adaptive feature weighting. In addition, parameter sharing and weighted loss functions are adopted to improve the training efficiency and collaborative learning between the two tasks. PPCA and EMD are employed for signal denoising and reconstruction while preserving fault-related features. Experiments on public datasets and industrial production-line data show that the proposed method improves the fault classification accuracy from 92.43% to 99.71% under different load conditions, while achieving 98.99% accuracy in fault severity prediction. Noise interference tests further demonstrate the effectiveness of the model. A production-line case study further illustrates the feasibility of applying the proposed method to real monitoring signals. These results confirm the effectiveness and practical potential of the proposed method for rolling bearing fault diagnosis and health assessment. Full article
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Lithium-Ion Battery State of Health Prediction Using a Hybrid BiLSTM–Random Forest Framework
by Nur Mohamed Mohamud, Shahrin Md Ayob, Siti Mahfuza Saimon, Ahmed M. Nahhas, Zeeshan Ahmad Arfeen, Muhammad I. Masud and Mohammed Aman
Batteries 2026, 12(6), 210; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries12060210 - 8 Jun 2026
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The accurate estimation of lithium-ion battery state of health (SOH) is crucial for battery monitoring, safety, and degradation assessment; however, it remains challenging because of the nonlinear nature of battery degradation, measurement noise, and variability in the battery aging trajectory. This study aims [...] Read more.
The accurate estimation of lithium-ion battery state of health (SOH) is crucial for battery monitoring, safety, and degradation assessment; however, it remains challenging because of the nonlinear nature of battery degradation, measurement noise, and variability in the battery aging trajectory. This study aims to solve these problems by proposing a hybrid attention-based BiLSTM–RF model, which combines wavelet-based signal denoising, incremental capacity analysis (ICA)-based feature extraction, stacked Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) networks, multi-head self-attention, principal component analysis (PCA)-based feature compression, and ensemble regression using a Random Forest (RF) model with adaptive weighted fusion. The proposed framework was tested on the NASA battery datasets (B0005, B0006, B0007 and B0018) and was further validated on the Oxford Battery Degradation Dataset using leave-one-battery-out cross validation conditions. Experimental results indicated that, in general, the proposed framework outperformed the evaluated benchmark models (CNN-LSTM, BiLSTM, and RF models) in terms of the prediction error, with a minimum RMSE value of 0.0229 for NASA battery B0007 and 0.0024 for Oxford Cell3. Ablation analysis also showed that the combination of wavelet denoising, PCA compression, temporal sequence learning and ensemble regression played a role in the overall SOH estimation performance. These results show that the proposed hybrid approach is effective and stable for SOH estimation in different battery degradation trajectories under the tested experimental conditions. Full article
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Development of an Expert Experience Simulator and Hybrid Prediction Model for MPC-Oriented Temperature Regulation in Solar Greenhouses
by Hui Xu, Yubo Zhang, Fuxing Li, Zhulin Li, Yihan Wang, Juanjuan Ding and Tianlai Li
Agriculture 2026, 16(11), 1191; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16111191 - 28 May 2026
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To meet the requirements of precise temperature regulation in solar greenhouses, traditional machine learning algorithms often suffer from poor adaptability, high energy consumption, and difficulties in integrating agronomic expertise. This study developed an intelligent greenhouse temperature regulation framework based on Model Predictive Control [...] Read more.
To meet the requirements of precise temperature regulation in solar greenhouses, traditional machine learning algorithms often suffer from poor adaptability, high energy consumption, and difficulties in integrating agronomic expertise. This study developed an intelligent greenhouse temperature regulation framework based on Model Predictive Control (MPC). The core components of the framework include: (1) an expert-experience-based simulator using a Sparrow Search Algorithm-optimized Random Forest (SSA-RF) model to digitize the temperature management strategies of high-yield farmers into dynamic reference trajectories and (2) a hybrid prediction model (CNN-BiLSTM-Attention) combining Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise-Permutation Entropy (CEEMDAN-PE) denoising with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), and Attention mechanism to achieve high-precision multi-step temperature forecasting. Validation in a cucumber solar greenhouse demonstrated that the SSA-RF model achieved an R2 of 0.976 on the test set, showing a significant improvement over the traditional RF model. Compared to the conventional LSTM model, the hybrid prediction model reduced the RMSE to 0.642 and 0.947 for 15 min and 30 min predictions, respectively, with a maximum R2 of 0.994 and excellent generalization capabilities. Finally, these two components were theoretically integrated into an MPC-oriented decision framework. The framework describes how expert reference trajectories, multi-step predictions, actuator constraints, and control increments can be combined in a receding-horizon optimization problem. Since online actuator control data were not available, the MPC module was formulated as a theoretical decision framework rather than a fully validated closed-loop controller. This study provides a modelling basis and technical path for future real-time greenhouse temperature control. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
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Improved Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm for Deep Learning Denoising of Controlled Source Electromagnetic Method Data
by Yangang Tang, Xian Zhang, Jiaqi Zhao, Weiliang Guo, Qiang Zou and Qiongying Zeng
Electronics 2026, 15(11), 2319; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15112319 - 27 May 2026
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To address the limitations of the hippopotamus optimization (HO) algorithm, primarily its insufficient global exploration capability and susceptibility to premature convergence to local optima, this paper proposes a hybrid-strategy-improved HO (HSIHO) algorithm for deep learning denoising of controlled source electromagnetic method (CSEM) data. [...] Read more.
To address the limitations of the hippopotamus optimization (HO) algorithm, primarily its insufficient global exploration capability and susceptibility to premature convergence to local optima, this paper proposes a hybrid-strategy-improved HO (HSIHO) algorithm for deep learning denoising of controlled source electromagnetic method (CSEM) data. Initially, various strategies are evaluated, and the most effective strategy incorporating lens opposite-based learning (LOBL) and adaptive t-distribution perturbation (ATP) is selected to enhance the hippopotamus optimization algorithm. Subsequently, the HSIHO algorithm is employed to optimize key hyperparameters of the deep learning model, including the learning rate, number of neurons, and number of iterations. Finally, the optimized deep learning model is applied to CSEM data denoising, and its performance is compared with that of the unoptimized deep learning model. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed HSIHO algorithm outperforms other intelligent optimization algorithms in terms of convergence speed, solution accuracy, flexibility, and scalability in benchmark functions tests. In the application of CSEM data denoising, the optimized bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) network significantly surpasses the probabilistic neural network (PNN), convolutional neural network (CNN), long short-term memory network (LSTM) and unoptimized BiLSTM methods in noise identification and denoising accuracy. The quality of the processed CSEM data is notably enhanced, with a more stable electric field curve profile. The satisfactory performance in the results verifies the effectiveness of the design and optimization method. Full article
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Multi-Scale Spatiotemporal Attention Network for Early Warning of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway
by Yangyang Liu, Guoli Li and Qunjing Wang
Sensors 2026, 26(10), 3083; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26103083 - 13 May 2026
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Lithium-ion battery thermal runaway has become a key safety hazard restricting the development of electric vehicles. Early precursor signals of thermal runaway are characterized by multi-scale features, weak signal strength and spatial coupling, posing significant challenges for traditional methods in achieving accurate early [...] Read more.
Lithium-ion battery thermal runaway has become a key safety hazard restricting the development of electric vehicles. Early precursor signals of thermal runaway are characterized by multi-scale features, weak signal strength and spatial coupling, posing significant challenges for traditional methods in achieving accurate early warning. To solve this problem, a multi-scale spatiotemporal attention network (MSTA-Net) is proposed for battery thermal runaway early warning. First, a systematic feature engineering process is designed, including signal denoising, normalization processing and multi-level feature construction, to fully extract discriminative information from voltage and temperature signals. Then, the MSTA-Net architecture is constructed, which includes three parallel feature extraction branches: local fine perception branch based on 1D depthwise separable convolution to capture transient anomalies, a temporal evolution modeling branch based on bidirectional gated recurrent units to learn long-term trends, and a global spatial dependence branch based on a graph attention network to model the spatial propagation of thermal runaway. Finally, an adaptive fusion gate is designed to dynamically fuse the features of each branch according to the input context. The experimental results on the self-built battery thermal runaway dataset show that the proposed MSTA-Net achieves a recall rate of 98.7%, an average early warning time of 115 s and a false alarm rate of 0 times/h. Compared with traditional machine learning and deep learning models such as Random Forest, LSTM and Transformer, the model has significant advantages in early warning accuracy, timeliness and robustness. Ablation experiments verify the effectiveness of each component of the MSTA-Net. The proposed method can provide reliable early warning of thermal runaway only by using the existing voltage and temperature sensors of the battery management system, which has important engineering application value. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing Technology for Detection of Battery States)
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A Novel Lithology Recognition Framework Based on Auxiliary Classification-Guided Denoising Diffusion and Multi-Scale Deep Learning
by Yong Zhang, Chunsen Wan, Jiajie Yang and Juan Zhai
Modelling 2026, 7(3), 90; https://doi.org/10.3390/modelling7030090 - 8 May 2026
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Lithology identification is a key task in petroleum geological exploration and development, essential for evaluating sweet spots and characterizing reservoirs. A significant challenge in lithology identification is the insufficient accuracy of traditional machine learning methods due to the uneven distribution of geological data [...] Read more.
Lithology identification is a key task in petroleum geological exploration and development, essential for evaluating sweet spots and characterizing reservoirs. A significant challenge in lithology identification is the insufficient accuracy of traditional machine learning methods due to the uneven distribution of geological data categories. To address this, we propose a novel lithology identification framework combining a denoising diffusion model with auxiliary classification, a neural network with channel attention mechanisms, and a bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). The proposed framework first employs the Auxiliary Classification Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (A-CDPM) to generate high-quality well log data, effectively balancing the data classes. Secondly, it utilizes a multi-scale convolutional model with channel attention mechanisms and a Bidirectional GRU classification model, which automatically adjusts feature weights and effectively integrates information from different well log data. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly improves lithology identification accuracy, achieving 86.66% on datasets from the Hugoton and Panoma fields in Kansas, USA. Compared to traditional methods, this framework substantially enhances recognition precision, providing a novel and effective solution for lithology identification in petroleum geological exploration. Full article
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A Lightweight Method for Power Quality Disturbance Recognition Based on Optimized VMD and CNN–Transformer
by Dongya Xiao, Jiaming Liu, Haining Liu and Yang Zhao
Electronics 2026, 15(9), 1832; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15091832 - 26 Apr 2026
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Aiming at the issues of low recognition accuracy and high model computational complexity for power quality disturbances (PQDs) in strong-noise environments, this paper proposes a novel lightweight PQD-recognition method that integrates a hybrid architecture of variational mode decomposition (VMD), convolutional neural network (CNN), [...] Read more.
Aiming at the issues of low recognition accuracy and high model computational complexity for power quality disturbances (PQDs) in strong-noise environments, this paper proposes a novel lightweight PQD-recognition method that integrates a hybrid architecture of variational mode decomposition (VMD), convolutional neural network (CNN), and transformer. Firstly, a hybrid optimization algorithm named the monkey–genetic hybrid optimization algorithm (MGHOA) is proposed to optimize VMD parameters for denoising disturbance signals, thereby enhancing recognition accuracy in noisy environments. Secondly, to fully extract disturbance signal features and reduce the computational complexity of the model, a lightweight CNN–transformer model is designed. Depthwise separable convolution (DSC) is employed to extract local features and the multi-head attention mechanism of transformer is utilized to mine the long-distance dependence and global features, thereby enhancing the feature representation. Thirdly, a multitask joint-learning method is proposed to collaboratively optimize classification accuracy and temporal localization tasks, enhancing the discrimination of similar disturbances. Additionally, a dual-pooling global feature fusion strategy is designed to further enhance the model’s ability to discriminate complex disturbances. Comparative experiments on 16 typical PQD types demonstrate that the proposed method achieves excellent performance in recognition accuracy, model robustness, and computational efficiency. The integration of the MGHOA–VMD module improves recognition accuracy by 1.08%, while the multitask joint-learning method contributes an additional 0.55% improvement. When achieving recognition accuracy comparable to complex models, the training time of the proposed method is 36.51% of that required by DeepCNN and merely 5.90% of that required by bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), with a 31.22% reduction in parameter scale. This work provides a novel solution for intelligent power quality disturbance recognition. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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AD-PDAF-Net: Noise-Adaptive and Dual-Attention Cooperative Network for PQD Identification
by Tianwei He and Yan Zhang
Energies 2026, 19(8), 1930; https://doi.org/10.3390/en19081930 - 16 Apr 2026
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Classifying power quality disturbances (PQDs) under strong noise conditions remains challenging for existing deep learning models. These models typically separate denoising from feature extraction, often rely on attention mechanisms that operate along only a single dimension, and tend to achieve high accuracy at [...] Read more.
Classifying power quality disturbances (PQDs) under strong noise conditions remains challenging for existing deep learning models. These models typically separate denoising from feature extraction, often rely on attention mechanisms that operate along only a single dimension, and tend to achieve high accuracy at the cost of high complexity, which limits their performance under low signal-to-noise ratio conditions and hinders practical deployment. To address these limitations, this paper proposes AD-PDAF-Net, which organically integrates three key mechanisms through a co-design strategy. Unlike conventional methods that depend on preprocessing, an adaptive soft thresholding denoising layer is embedded into a lightweight residual network to progressively suppress noise during feature extraction, thereby unifying denoising with feature learning. A parallel dual attention module independently refines features along the channel and temporal dimensions, then adaptively fuses them using learnable weights to capture both frequency domain and temporal characteristics of disturbances. The lightweight network entry replaces aggressive downsampling with small convolutions to preserve transient details, and a bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) efficiently captures temporal dependencies. Evaluated on a dataset of 25 disturbance categories defined in IEEE Std 1159-2019, the model achieves a classification accuracy of 97.26% and a Kappa coefficient of 97.02% under 20 dB white Gaussian noise, along with an accuracy of 98.78% under mixed noise conditions. The model has only 0.36 million parameters and a computational cost of just 1.50 GFLOPS. Through this co-design, AD-PDAF-Net achieves both high noise robustness and high classification accuracy with minimal computational overhead, offering an effective solution for time series signal recognition in resource constrained environments. Full article
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A Cross-Modal Temporal Alignment Framework for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Sensing in Multilingual Risk Monitoring
by Hanzhi Sun, Jiarui Zhang, Wei Hong, Yihan Fang, Mengqi Ma, Kehan Shi and Manzhou Li
Sensors 2026, 26(8), 2319; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26082319 - 9 Apr 2026
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Against the background of highly interconnected global capital markets and rapidly propagating cross-lingual information streams, traditional anomaly detection paradigms based solely on single-modality numerical time-series sensors are insufficient for forward-looking risk sensing. From the perspective of artificial intelligence-driven sensing, this study proposes a [...] Read more.
Against the background of highly interconnected global capital markets and rapidly propagating cross-lingual information streams, traditional anomaly detection paradigms based solely on single-modality numerical time-series sensors are insufficient for forward-looking risk sensing. From the perspective of artificial intelligence-driven sensing, this study proposes a multilingual semantic–numerical collaborative Transformer framework to construct a unified multimodal financial sensing architecture for intelligent anomaly sensing and risk perception. Within the proposed sensing paradigm, multilingual texts are conceptualized as semantic sensors that continuously emit event-driven sensing signals, while market prices, trading volumes, and order book dynamics are modeled as heterogeneous numerical sensor streams reflecting behavioral market sensing responses. These heterogeneous sensors are jointly integrated through a cross-modal sensor fusion architecture. A cross-modal temporal alignment attention mechanism is designed to explicitly model dynamic lag structures between semantic sensing signals and numerical sensor responses, enabling temporally adaptive sensor-level alignment and fusion. To enhance sensing robustness, a multilingual semantic noise-robust encoding module is introduced to suppress unreliable textual sensor noise and stabilize cross-lingual semantic sensing representations. Furthermore, a semantic–numerical collaborative risk fusion module is constructed within a shared latent sensing space to achieve adaptive sensor contribution weighting and cross-sensor feature coupling, thereby improving anomaly sensing accuracy and robustness under complex multimodal sensing environments. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world multi-market financial sensing datasets demonstrate that the proposed artificial intelligence-driven sensing framework significantly outperforms representative statistical and deep learning baselines. The framework achieves a Precision of 0.852, Recall of 0.781, F1-score of 0.815, and an AUC of 0.892, while substantially improving early warning time in practical risk sensing scenarios. In cross-market transfer settings, the proposed sensing architecture maintains stable anomaly sensing performance under bidirectional domain shifts, with AUC consistently exceeding 0.86, indicating strong structural generalization across heterogeneous sensing environments. Ablation analysis further verifies that temporal sensor alignment, semantic sensor denoising, and collaborative cross-sensor risk coupling contribute independently and synergistically to the overall sensing performance. Overall, this study establishes a scalable multimodal intelligent sensing framework for dynamic financial anomaly sensing, providing an effective artificial intelligence-driven sensing solution for cross-market risk surveillance and adaptive financial signal sensing. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Driven Sensing)
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Study on the Impact of Electrical Substitution Coefficient on Natural Gas Load Forecasting Under Deep Electrification Scenario for Sustainable Energy Systems
by Wei Zhao, Bilin Shao, Yan Cao, Ming Hou, Chunhui Liu, Huibin Zeng, Hongbin Dai and Ning Tian
Sustainability 2026, 18(7), 3318; https://doi.org/10.3390/su18073318 - 29 Mar 2026
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Against the backdrop of the global energy transition toward deep electrification, the natural gas industry faces challenges, including increased load forecasting uncertainty and frequent extreme weather impacts. To enhance natural gas load forecasting accuracy and support system resilience planning, this study constructs a [...] Read more.
Against the backdrop of the global energy transition toward deep electrification, the natural gas industry faces challenges, including increased load forecasting uncertainty and frequent extreme weather impacts. To enhance natural gas load forecasting accuracy and support system resilience planning, this study constructs a forecasting model based on quadratic decomposition and hybrid deep learning, incorporating an electricity substitution coefficient to characterize the coupling substitution effect between electricity and natural gas. Under the basic scenario, the VMD-WPD-TCN-BiGRU model is proposed. It employs variational mode decomposition and wavelet packet denoising for secondary signal denoising, combined with a time-series convolutional network and bidirectional gated recurrent unit to extract temporal features. Experiments demonstrate that, compared to mainstream methods such as CNN, BiLSTM, SVM, and XGBoost, this model achieves statistically significant reductions in MSE (11.11–96.21%), MAE (0.89–76.50%), and MAPE (4.10–67.94%), significantly improving forecasting accuracy. In the deep electrification scenario, the introduction of the electricity substitution coefficient further optimizes peak load forecasting for system pressure days under extreme low temperatures, elevating the overall R2 to 0.9905 in the deep electrification scenario. Research indicates that the proposed model not only effectively improves the accuracy of short-term natural gas load forecasting but also provides quantitative support for enterprises to plan peak-shaving facilities, optimize pipeline networks, and respond to extreme weather emergencies in data silo environments. This contributes to strengthening the adaptability and long-term resilience of natural gas systems during the energy transition, thereby supporting the sustainable development of energy infrastructure. Full article
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Condition Monitoring Model Development for Belt Systems Using Hybrid CNN–BiLSTM Deep-Learning Techniques
by Mortda Mohammed Sahib, Philipp Plänitz, Matthias Hackert-Oschätzchen and Christoph Lerez
Machines 2026, 14(3), 348; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines14030348 - 19 Mar 2026
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Predictive maintenance aims to monitor equipment conditions through data-driven analysis and estimate failure in advance, which enables the scheduling of maintenance prior to equipment breakdown. In this work, a deep-learning neural network is used to predict the condition of the belt-drive system. A [...] Read more.
Predictive maintenance aims to monitor equipment conditions through data-driven analysis and estimate failure in advance, which enables the scheduling of maintenance prior to equipment breakdown. In this work, a deep-learning neural network is used to predict the condition of the belt-drive system. A combined Convolutional Neural Network with Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-BiLSTM) model is assigned for processing the operational parameters along with vibrational signals to predict belt-drive system conditions in two separate binary classifications: faulty or healthy and unbalanced or balanced conditions. The data flow in the CNN-BiLSTM model initiates with the CNN to extract the features from the vibration signals and performs essential pattern detection. Consequently, the BiLSTM’s role is to capture long-term temporal relationships that cannot be captured by the CNN alone. To predict the targeted conditions, a fully connected layer with a classifier is built at the BiLSTM outputs. For efficient model training, the data is preprocessed through denoising, augmentation, and normalization. Additionally, hyperparameter tuning is conducted to explore different model configurations and select the optimal ones on the basis of relevant performance. An ablation study is conducted to investigate the use of CNN and BiLSTM models individually, confirming that combining both components is essential for accurate classification. Moreover, the cross-validation technique is used to assess the proposed model’s generality by organizing unseen data across rotational speeds, which also depicts robust performance under varying operating conditions. The key added value of this study lies in integrating deep-learning techniques to address a knowledge gap by using raw vibrational signals to establish intelligent monitoring systems, which represents a new scientific contribution to the predictive maintenance of belt-drive systems. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Reliability Analysis and Predictive Maintenance)
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A Data-Constrained and Physics-Guided Conditional Diffusion Model for Electrical Impedance Tomography Image Reconstruction
by Xiaolei Zhang and Zhou Rong
Sensors 2026, 26(5), 1728; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26051728 - 9 Mar 2026
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Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides noninvasive, high-temporal-resolution imaging for medical and industrial applications. However, accurate image reconstruction remains challenging due to the severe ill-posedness and nonlinearity of the inverse problem, as well as the limited robustness of existing single-source learning-based methods in real [...] Read more.
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides noninvasive, high-temporal-resolution imaging for medical and industrial applications. However, accurate image reconstruction remains challenging due to the severe ill-posedness and nonlinearity of the inverse problem, as well as the limited robustness of existing single-source learning-based methods in real measurement scenarios. To address these limitations, a data-constrained and physics-guided Multi-Source Conditional Diffusion Model (MS-CDM) is proposed for EIT image reconstruction. Unlike conventional conditional diffusion methods that rely on a single measurement or an image prior, MS-CDM utilizes boundary voltage measurements as data-driven constraints and incorporates coarse reconstructions as physics-guided structural priors. This multi-source conditioning strategy provides complementary guidance during the reverse diffusion process, enabling balanced recovery of fine boundary details and global topological consistency. To support this framework, a Hybrid Swin–Mamba Denoising U-Net is developed, combining hierarchical window-based self-attention for local spatial modeling with bidirectional state-space modeling for efficient global dependency capture. Extensive experiments on simulated datasets and three real EIT experimental platforms demonstrate that MS-CDM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art numerical, supervised, and diffusion-based methods in terms of reconstruction accuracy, structural consistency, and noise robustness. Moreover, the proposed model exhibits robust cross-system applicability without system-specific retraining under multi-protocol training, highlighting its practical applicability in diverse real-world EIT scenarios. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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A CPO-Optimized BiTCN–BiGRU–Attention Network for Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting
by Liusong Huang, Adam Amril bin Jaharadak, Nor Izzati Ahmad and Jie Wang
Energies 2026, 19(4), 1034; https://doi.org/10.3390/en19041034 - 15 Feb 2026
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Short-term wind power prediction is pivotal for maintaining the stability of power grids characterized by high renewable energy penetration. However, wind power time series exhibit complex characteristics, including local turbulence-induced fluctuations and long-term temporal dependencies, which challenge traditional forecasting models. Furthermore, the performance [...] Read more.
Short-term wind power prediction is pivotal for maintaining the stability of power grids characterized by high renewable energy penetration. However, wind power time series exhibit complex characteristics, including local turbulence-induced fluctuations and long-term temporal dependencies, which challenge traditional forecasting models. Furthermore, the performance of hybrid deep learning models is often compromised by the difficulty of tuning hyperparameters over non-convex optimization surfaces. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel framework: CPO—BiTCN—BiGRU—Attention. Adopting a physically motivated “Filter–Memorize–Focus” strategy, the model first employs a Bidirectional Temporal Convolutional Network (BiTCN) with dilated causal convolutions to extract multi-scale local features and denoise raw data. Subsequently, a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) captures global temporal evolution, while an attention mechanism dynamically weights critical time steps corresponding to ramp events. To mitigate hyperparameter uncertainty, the Crowned Porcupine Optimization (CPO) algorithm is introduced to adaptively tune the network structure, balancing global exploration and local exploitation more effectively than traditional swarm algorithms. Experimental results obtained from real-world wind farm data in Xinjiang, China, demonstrate that the proposed model consistently outperforms State-of-the-Art benchmark models. Compared with the best competing methods, the proposed framework reduces MAE and MAPE by approximately 30–45%, while maintaining competitive RMSE performance, indicating improved average forecasting accuracy and robustness under varying operating conditions. The results confirm that the proposed architecture effectively decouples local noise from global trends, providing a robust and practical solution for short-term wind power forecasting in grid dispatching applications. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
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Denoising Adaptive Multi-Branch Architecture for Detecting Cyber Attacks in Industrial Internet of Services
by Ghazia Qaiser and Siva Chandrasekaran
J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2026, 6(1), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp6010026 - 5 Feb 2026
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The emerging scope of the Industrial Internet of Services (IIoS) requires a robust intrusion detection system to detect malicious attacks. The increasing frequency of sophisticated and high-impact cyber attacks has resulted in financial losses and catastrophes in IIoS-based manufacturing industries. However, existing solutions [...] Read more.
The emerging scope of the Industrial Internet of Services (IIoS) requires a robust intrusion detection system to detect malicious attacks. The increasing frequency of sophisticated and high-impact cyber attacks has resulted in financial losses and catastrophes in IIoS-based manufacturing industries. However, existing solutions often struggle to adapt and generalize to new cyber attacks. This study proposes a unique approach designed for known and zero-day network attack detection in IIoS environments, called Denoising Adaptive Multi-Branch Architecture (DA-MBA). The proposed approach is a smart, conformal, and self-adjusting cyber attack detection framework featuring denoising representation learning, hybrid neural inference, and open-set uncertainty calibration. The model merges a denoising autoencoder (DAE) to generate noise-tolerant latent representations, which are processed using a hybrid multi-branch classifier combining dense and bidirectional recurrent layers to capture both static and temporal attack signatures. Moreover, it addresses challenges such as adaptability and generalizability by hybridizing a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM). The proposed hybrid model was designed to fuse feed-forward transformations with sequence-aware modeling, which can capture direct feature interactions and any underlying temporal and order-dependent patterns. Multiple approaches have been applied to strengthen the dual-branch architecture, such as class weighting and comprehensive hyperparameter optimization via Optuna, which collectively address imbalanced data, overfitting, and dynamically shifting threat vectors. The proposed DA-MBA is evaluated on two widely recognized IIoT-based datasets, Edge-IIoT set and WUSTL-IIoT-2021 and achieves over 99% accuracy and a near 0.02 loss, underscoring its effectiveness in detecting the most sophisticated attacks and outperforming recent deep learning IDS baselines. The solution offers a scalable and flexible architecture for enhancing cybersecurity within evolving IIoS environments by coupling feature denoising, multi-branch classification, and automated hyperparameter tuning. The results confirm that coupling robust feature denoising with sequence-aware classification can provide a scalable and flexible framework for improving cybersecurity within the IIoS. The proposed architecture offers a scalable, interpretable, and risk sensitive defense mechanism for IIoS, advancing secure, adaptive, and trustworthy industrial cyber-resilience. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security and Digital Forensics—2nd Edition)
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