Air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) share some anthropogenic emission sources. However, their source-category contributions, city-level emission magnitudes, and spatial patterns are not fully consistent. Therefore, universal co-control effects...
China has long sought to address climate change in line with other development goals. However, research supporting this alignment often employs data-driven models that downplay the policies and institutions needed to achieve the multiple benefits tha...
Importance: The protective efficacy of COVID-19 vaccinations has declined over time such that booster doses are required. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and adverse events of booster doses of two inactivated COVID-19 vaccines. Design: This is a...
While integrating greenhouse gas and air pollutant (AP) mitigation is essential for urban sustainability and public health, municipal-level prioritisation of co-control targets remains hindered by fragmented microdata and decoupled emission inventori...
Understanding the synergistic effects of pollution reduction (PR) and carbon mitigation (CM) and their driving factors is essential for achieving environmental improvement and dual-carbon targets. On the basis of panel data from 13 cities in the Beij...
Cyber–physical systems are created at the intersection of physical processes, networking, and computation. For applications developed to implement cyber–physical interactions, in the face of limited resources, an optimization of efficienc...
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is widely applied in the industry to develop new software functions and integrate them into the existing run-time environment of a Cyber-Physical System (CPS). The design of a software component involves designers from...
Dengue and malaria fever infections are mosquito-borne diseases that pose significant threats to human health. There is an urgent need for effective strategies to prevent, control, and raise awareness about the public health risks of dengue and malar...
High speed and heavy loads have become more prevalent in the traction power supply system recently. To ensure system operating stability, better power quality, and sufficient power capacity, improvements are needed over the conventional traction syst...
Flight testing in a realistic three-dimensional virtual environment is increasingly being considered a safe and cost-effective way of evaluating aircraft models and their control systems. The paper starts by reviewing and comparing the most popular p...
A current goal for microactuators is to extend their usually small working ranges, which typically result from mechanical connections and restoring forces imposed by cantilevers. In order to overcome this, we present a bistable levitation setup to re...
A co-infection model for onchocerciasis and Lassa fever (OLF) with periodic variational vectors and optimal control is studied and analyzed to assess the impact of controls against incidence infections. The model is qualitatively examined in order to...
A plant–controller co-design methodology is proposed in which the reference model dynamics are parameterized and incorporated directly into the optimization rather than prescribed a priori. Within an Explicit Model Following (EMF) architecture,...
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) can be used in various popular fields due to their good biocompatibility, easy chemical modification, and high theoretical specific capacity. However, for different applications, there are different requirements for t...
Conventional myoelectric controllers provide a mapping between electromyographic signals and prosthetic functions. However, due to a number of instabilities continuously challenging this process, an initial mapping may require an extended calibration...
Historically, humans have been infected by mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue fever and malaria fever. There is an urgent need for comprehensive methods in the prevention, control, and awareness of the hazards posed by dengue and malaria fever...
Substance abuse addictions and hepatitis B infections are two major public health problems facing humanity globally, especially in areas where the two problems co-exist. A mathematical model was used in this work to study the co-dynamics of substance...
China is currently focusing on the cooperative control of air pollution and CO2 emissions, as well as the mitigation of economic policy uncertainty (EPU). By using panel data from 282 cities spanning from 2003 to 2017 and a newly constructed city-lev...
Formation control is one of the most concerning topics within the realm of swarm intelligence. This paper presents a metaheuristic approach that leverages a natural co-evolutionary strategy to solve the formation control problem for a swarm of missil...
A novel dynamic co-simulation methodology of overall wind turbine systems is presented. This methodology combines aerodynamics, mechanism dynamics, control system dynamics, and subsystems dynamics. Aerodynamics and turbine properties were modeled in...
To address the challenge that existing vehicle chassis coordinated control methods struggle to balance the nonlinear couplings and control conflicts among Four-Wheel Steering (4WS), Direct Yaw-moment Control (DYC), and Active Suspension Systems (ASS)...
Multicomponent crystallisation is a widely studied technique in pharmaceutical chemistry to enhance physical properties of API’s such as solubility, stability and bioavailability without chemically modifying the drug moiety itself. Methods to produce...
The aircraft nose-wheel steering system serves as a critical component for ensuring ground taxiing safety and maneuvering efficiency. However, its dynamic control stability faces significant challenges under complex operational conditions. Existing r...
The solid backfilling support robot is key equipment for intelligent backfill mining, but its dual-top-beam structure, multiple closed-loop linkages and hydraulically actuated compaction mechanism make posture representation, inverse actuator mapping...
China’s electric power industry contributes a significant amount of carbon emissions as well as air pollutants such as SO2, NOx, and fine particles. In order to detect co-benefits of carbon reduction and air pollution control, this study analyz...
When solving the control co-design (CCD) problem using the simultaneous strategy in a deterministic manner, the uncertainty stemming from the stochastic design variables is ignored, and might have a negative influence on the performance of the dynami...
Dynamic stall control of a S809 airfoil is numerically investigated by implementing a co-flow jet (CFJ). The numerical methods of the solver are validated by comparing results with the baseline experiment as well as a NACA 6415-based CFJ experiment,...
The EHA is a highly integrated closed hydraulic system which is widely used in aerospace, vehicles, and robotics because of its high power and lightweight size. Due to the high non-linearity of the control system, it is difficult to reach a high robu...
A mathematical model for a transmission of TB-HIV/AIDS co-infection that incorporates prevalence dependent behaviour change in the population and treatment for the infected (and infectious) class is formulated and analyzed. The two sub-models, when e...
This study presents a computational investigation of an ingenious Twain co-flow jet (CFJ) airfoil system featuring independently controlled micro-compressors for active flow control. Unlike conventional single-point or synchronously controlled CFJ co...
The conversion and control for the utilization of power generated from energy sources can be performed using a power electronic converter system. The voltage source inverter (VSI) is one of the commonly used converter topologies, being controlled by...
Determining the parameters of a manipulator for optimal performance is a challenging task. This is primarily due to possible conflicting objectives, various tasks that should be considered, and the highly non-linear behavior that is involved. This wo...
Closed-loop regulation of the bispectral index (BIS) during propofol–remifentanil co-administration is challenging because of nonlinear drug interactions, patient variability, model uncertainty, external disturbances, and infusion constraints....
All-wheel-independent-drive electric vehicles (AWID-EVs) have considerable advantages in terms of energy optimization, drivability and driving safety due to the remarkable actuation flexibility of electric motors. However, in their current implementa...
This paper presents a method based on co-simulation of a mechatronic system to optimize the control parameters of a two-axis inertially stabilized platform system (ISP) applied in an unmanned airship (UA), by which high control performance and reliab...
Innovations in today’s energy grids are mainly driven by the need to reduce carbon emissions and the necessary integration of decentralized renewable energy sources. In this context, a transition towards hybrid distribution systems, which effec...
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly involved in creative processes, designers encounter a fundamental tension regarding creative control—the degree to which they dominate design direction and iterative decision-makin...
This research proposes a regenerative braking co-operative control system for the automatic transmission (AT)-based hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). The brake system of the subject HEV consists of the regenerative braking and the electronic wedge brake...
The missions of modern aircraft require multiple abilities, such as highly efficient taking-off and landing, fast arrival, and long-endurance hovering. It is difficult to achieve all technical objectives using traditional aircraft design technology....
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To assess the green and low-carbon development of the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China, this study utilizes an evaluation index system based on the framework of driving force, pressure, state, impacts, response, and management, and it measured the c...
India faces severe PM2.5–O3 compound pollution, and the 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi provided a valuable case for examining how short-term emission controls interact with unfavorable late-monsoon meteorology. In this study, the WRF-CMAQ modelin...
Offshore drilling operations face the critical challenge of maintaining precise weight-on-bit (WOB) control during automatic drilling feed while subjected to vessel heave disturbances. This study investigates an integrated closed-circuit hydraulic cy...
Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) technology is gaining interest for circular economy integration in the water sector. However, its complexity, arising from the integration of anaerobic processes with membrane technology, poses a key challenge. D...
This study aims to develop dynamic co-simulation and control for analyzing the IEA 15 MW semi-submersible floating wind turbine under Taiwan offshore-wind-farm conditions of wind and wave. The IEA 15 MW wind turbine is mounted on a UMaine VolturnUS-S...
Smart homes and virtual power plant (VPP) controls are growing fields of research with potential for improved electric power grid operation. A novel testbed for the co-simulation of electric power distribution systems and distributed energy resources...
Homogeneous CaCO3 microspheres were controllably synthesized via a simple hydrothermal method without using extraneous additives by Ca(OH)2 saturated solution reacted with CO2 storage material (CO2SM), which was obtained by absorbing CO2 gas in a sys...
Post-combustion CO2 capture using monoethanolamine (MEA) is a mature mitigation technology, yet its high energy demand and complex dynamics remain major challenges. This study presents a unified dynamic modeling and control framework for an MEA-based...
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has contributed to significant challenges in dealing with congestion within IoT communications due to high packet error rates, latency, and interference in networks. With an emphasis on the Constrained...
The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a representative messaging protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It is noted that a lot of IoT-based streaming applications have been recently deployed. Typically, CoAP uses User Datagram P...
Models for must fermentation kinetics are investigated and used in simulations for enabling control strategies based on temperature adjustment during the alcoholic fermentation process using the estimated CO2 rate. An acoustic emission digital proces...
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