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38 Citations
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Quantitative Ship Collision Frequency Estimation Models: A Review

  • Mirko Čorić,
  • Sadko Mandžuka,
  • Anita Gudelj and
  • Zvonimir Lušić

Ship collisions are one of the most common types of maritime accidents. Assessing the frequency and probability of ship collisions is of great importance as it provides a cost-effective and practical way to mitigate risk. In this paper, we present a...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,816 Views
13 Pages

Collision Frequency and Energy Transfer Rate in e–He Scattering

  • Yeldos Seitkozhanov,
  • Karlygash Dzhumagulova,
  • Erik Shalenov and
  • Murat Jumagulov

30 December 2024

Using the optical interaction potential between an electron and a helium atom, we have calculated the momentum-transfer cross-section, collision frequency, and energy transfer rate during elastic electron–helium scattering, focusing on energies...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,726 Views
37 Pages

20 September 2025

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom of using uniform random resource selection for collision resolution in distributed scheduling, particularly in wireless protocols. Bluetooth, being one such technology, is analyzed through its frequency h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Empowering the IoT: Scalable, Sustainable, and Ultra-Low Power Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,149 Views
20 Pages

13 June 2024

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology plays a crucial role in various Internet of Things (IoT) applications, necessitating the integration of RFID systems into dense networks. However, the presence of numerous readers leads to collisions,...

(This article belongs to the Topic Wireless Energy Harvesting and Power Transfer for Communications and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,126 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2022

Electric spark and femtosecond-laser surface texture are very effective in antifriction systems, but there are few applications and studies in dry friction. In this study, a groove texture was prepared on the surface of 0Cr17Ni7Al stainless steel via...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Coatings: Invited Papers in "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification" Section)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,926 Views
23 Pages

9 September 2025

This study proposes a hybrid deep learning framework for predicting vehicle crash frequency (Fi) using nationwide traffic accident and traffic volume data from the United States (2019–2022). Crash frequency is defined as the product of exposure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,963 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2020

Bed-load discharge of a river can be monitored by indirectly measuring the acoustic pulses generated when the bed load collides with a steel pipe installed on the riverbed (i.e., pipe hydrophone measurement). However, existing methods used for filter...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,615 Views
20 Pages

Slot Occupancy-Based Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Very-High-Frequency Data Exchange System Network in Maritime Internet of Things

  • Sol-Bee Lee,
  • Jung-Hyok Kwon,
  • Bu-Young Kim,
  • Woo-Seong Shim and ,
  • Taeshik Shon and
  • Eui-Jik Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 December 2024

The maritime industry is undergoing a paradigm shift driven by rapid advancements in wireless communication and an increase in maritime traffic data. However, the existing automatic identification system (AIS) struggles to accommodate the increasing...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,134 Views
17 Pages

10 March 2018

In order to solve the problem of tag collision in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system, the paper proposes a Multi-Bit Identification Collision Tree (MICT) algorithm based on a collision tree. The algorithm uses an array scheme to mark the co...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,846 Views
18 Pages

A RFID-Integrated Framework for Tag Anti-Collision in UAV-Aided VANETs

  • Yixin He,
  • Dawei Wang,
  • Fanghui Huang,
  • Yufei Zhang and ,
  • Ruonan Zhang and
  • Xiaohong Yan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 November 2021

In this paper, we investigate tags in anti-collision applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The integration of RFID technology in UAV-aided VANETs ca...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,585 Views
19 Pages

22 June 2022

Laser surface texture is very effective in antifriction systems, but its applications and research in dry friction are not enough. In this study, the groove texture was prepared on the surface of 0Cr17Ni7Al stainless steel, a common material of slidi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Friction and Wear of Materials Surfaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,034 Views
16 Pages

Energy-Aware RFID Anti-Collision Protocol

  • Laura Arjona,
  • Hugo Landaluce Simon and
  • Asier Perallos Ruiz

11 June 2018

The growing interest in mobile devices is transforming wireless identification technologies. Mobile and battery-powered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers, such as hand readers and smart phones, are are becoming increasingly attractive. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue RFID-Based Sensors for IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,468 Views
19 Pages

7 May 2019

The fruitfulness of the method of a non-equilibrium statistical operator (NSO) and generalized linear response theory is demonstrated calculating the permittivity, dynamical conductivity, absorption coefficient, and dynamical collision frequency of p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,630 Views
26 Pages

Beacon Success Rate versus Gateway Density in Sub-GHz Sensor Networks

  • Başak Can,
  • Bora Karaoğlu,
  • Srikar Potta,
  • Franklin Zhang and ,
  • Artur Balanuta,
  • Muhammed Faruk Gencel,
  • Uttam Bhat,
  • Johnny Huang,
  • Pooja Patankar and
  • Vinay Sagar Krishnamurthy Vijaya Shankar
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

30 November 2023

Multiple Gateways (GWs) provide network connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in a Wide Area Network (WAN). The End Nodes (ENs) can connect to any GW by discovering and acquiring its periodic beacons. This provides GW diversity, improving...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Mobile Things and Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,167 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Frame Update Policy for UHF RFID Sensor Tag Collisions

  • Laura Arjona,
  • Hugo Landaluce,
  • Asier Perallos and
  • Enrique Onieva

9 May 2020

The current growing demand for low-cost edge devices to bridge the physical–digital divide has triggered the growing scope of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology research. Besides object identification, researchers have also examin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Applications and Challenges of RFID for the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,525 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2019

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the radio frequency identification (RFID) system becomes increasingly important. Tag identification is a basic problem of the RFID system, whose purpose is to inventory tags. However, in rec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Applications and Challenges of RFID for the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
787 Views
22 Pages

Wafer-edge uniformity is a critical issue in plasma etching because local variations in ion bombardment can directly affect the etch profile and process yield. Ion transport near the wafer-edge is strongly influenced by the sheath formed around the b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Materials Processing for Modern Applications: Advancements and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,560 Views
14 Pages

Frequency Sweep Keying CDMA for Reducing Ultrasonic Crosstalk

  • Ga-Rin Park,
  • Sang-Ho Park and
  • Kwang-Ryul Baek

13 June 2022

Various sensors are embedded in automobiles to implement intelligent safety technologies such as autonomous driving and front–rear collision avoidance technology. In particular, ultrasonic sensors have been used in the past because they have an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,073 Views
21 Pages

4 December 2025

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a core enabler of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), yet dense deployments suffer from tag collisions and reader interference that degrade reliability and inflate infrastructure cost. This study propose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue RFID and Zero-Power Backscatter Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,917 Views
13 Pages

In our study, we revisited a previously reported method for evaluating the mixing intensity of uniform colloidal spheres in terms of their collision frequency, with the aim of evaluating the validity of this method in the case of a small stirred vess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,953 Views
14 Pages

12 April 2018

Radio frequency identification is a wireless communication technology, which enables data gathering and identifies recognition from any tagged object. The number of collisions produced during wireless communication would lead to a variety of problems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue RFID-Based Sensors for IoT Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,512 Views
38 Pages

Probing Collisional Plasmas with MCRS: Opportunities and Challenges

  • Bart Platier,
  • Tim Staps,
  • Peter Koelman,
  • Marc van der Schans and ,
  • Job Beckers and
  • Wilbert IJzerman
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 June 2020

Since the 1940s, Microwave Cavity Resonance Spectroscopy (MCRS) has been used to investigate a variety of solids, gases, and low-pressure plasmas. Recently, the working terrain of the diagnostic method has been expanded with atmospheric-pressure plas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Applications of Plasma Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,794 Views
16 Pages

7 December 2019

Ship collision accidents account for the majority of marine accidents. The collision risk can be even greater in ports where the traffic density is high and terrain conditions are difficult. The proximity assessment model of the Korea Maritime Safety...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maritime Safety)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,049 Views
12 Pages

9 January 2024

This paper proposes the Lock-Position-Based RFID Adaptive Parallel Collision Tree (LAPCT) algorithm to address the issues of excessive time slots required in the identification process of collision tree algorithms for multiple tags and the high commu...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,836 Views
15 Pages

29 January 2021

Providing ideal conditions for the study of ion-neutral collisions, we investigate here the properties of the saturated, steady state of a three-dimensional Paul trap, loaded from a magneto-optic trap. In particular, we study three assumptions that a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
863 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2025

Precise distinguishing of maize blends and the evaluation of kernel losses enhances the accurate measurement of harvest loss. To address the low accuracy and poor anti-interference ability of traditional maize kernel detection methods under complex c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,656 Views
11 Pages

Shape-Dependent Aggregation of Silver Particles by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

  • Xue Wang,
  • Chaofeng Hou,
  • Chengxiang Li and
  • Yongsheng Han

27 October 2018

In crystallization, nanoparticle aggregation often leads to the formation of orderly structures, even single crystals. Why can nanoparticles form orderly structures and what is the mechanism dominating their orderly aggregation? These questions raise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,489 Views
19 Pages

A Low-Power Communication Strategy for Terminal Sensors in Power Status Monitoring

  • Qingqing Wu,
  • Yufei Wang,
  • Di Zhai,
  • Yang Lu and ,
  • Cheng Zhong,
  • Yihan Liu and
  • Yuxuan Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 February 2025

The widespread application of terminal sensors in power pipe galleries (PPGs) has significantly improved our ability to monitor power equipment status. However, the difficulties in battery replacement caused by confined space and energy loss caused b...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,248 Views
15 Pages

1 December 2023

Ultrasonic sensors are inexpensive and provide highly accurate measurements, even with simple hardware configurations, facilitating their use in various fields. When multiple ultrasonic sensors exist in the measurement space, crosstalk occurs due to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,598 Views
19 Pages

A Self-Adaptable Angular Based K-Medoid Clustering Scheme (SAACS) for Dynamic VANETs

  • Akhilesh Bijalwan,
  • Kamlesh Chandra Purohit,
  • Preeti Malik and
  • Mohit Mittal

26 September 2022

Prior study suggests that VANET has two types of communications: Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications. V2V is very important and ensures cooperative communications between vehicles and safety measures. It is als...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advanced Control, Applications, and Optimization for WSN and the IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
9,688 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2019

Robot manipulators should be able to quickly detect collisions to limit damage due to physical contact. Traditional model-based detection methods in robotics are mainly concentrated on the difference between the estimated and actual applied torque. I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Signal and Information Processing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
22,231 Views
28 Pages

A Comparison of RFID Anti-Collision Protocols for Tag Identification

  • Nikola Cmiljanic,
  • Hugo Landaluce and
  • Asier Perallos

1 August 2018

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio frequency signals to identify objects. RFID is one of the key technologies used by the Internet of Things (IoT). This technology enables communication between the main devices used...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative RFID Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,984 Views
19 Pages

Numerical Study of Electrostatic Desalting Process Based on Droplet Collision Time

  • Marco A. Ramirez-Argaez,
  • Diego Abreú-López,
  • Jesús Gracia-Fadrique and
  • Abhishek Dutta

15 July 2021

The desalting process of an electrostatic desalting unit was studied using the collision time of two droplets in a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion based on force balance. Initially, the model was solved numerically to perform a process analysis and to in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Design and Sustainable Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
919 Views
14 Pages

30 January 2026

Harmful algal blooms pose significant risks to water resource management and aquatic ecosystem health, rendering early detection of algal bloom proliferation essential. In this study, we present an electrochemical strategy for the real-time detection...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low-Cost Chemosensors for Applications in Environment, Health, Food, and Industry Process Control, 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,724 Views
20 Pages

Grinding Media Motion and Collisions in Different Zones of Stirred Media Mills

  • Greta Fragnière,
  • Aleksandra Naumann,
  • Marcel Schrader,
  • Arno Kwade and
  • Carsten Schilde

11 February 2021

Product fineness during grinding in stirred media mills is mainly influenced by the specific energy input, the stress energy transferred by the colliding grinding media and the stress frequency. The stress energy from grinding media collisions is het...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation Using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in the Minerals Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,361 Views
24 Pages

Vibration–Collision Coupling Modeling in Grape Clusters for Non-Damage Harvesting Operations

  • Baocheng Xu,
  • Jizhan Liu,
  • Yucheng Jin,
  • Kaiyu Yang and ,
  • Shengyi Zhao and
  • Yun Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In the table grape production process, issues such as berry detachment and damage caused by cluster vibrations and berry collisions are significant challenges. To investigate the underlying mechanisms and dynamics of these phenomena, a vibration&ndas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Collaborative Robots for Smart Farming)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
805 Views
17 Pages

Nonlinear Response of Four-Tier Container Multiple Stacks with Different Lashing Approach Under Dynamic Excitation

  • Qingbo Zeng,
  • Yuheng Ji,
  • Juyan Zheng,
  • Pengyu Wei and ,
  • Chuntong Li and
  • Deyu Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study delves into the nonlinear dynamic response of four-tier dual stacks subjected to dynamic excitation and employs internal and external lashing methods to identify causes of container damage and lashing failure. Researchers constructed a sca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Analysis of Ship and Offshore Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,468 Views
21 Pages

Broadband Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Applications Using Frequency Upconversion

  • Jinglun Li,
  • Habilou Ouro-Koura,
  • Hannah Arnow,
  • Arian Nowbahari and ,
  • Matthew Galarza,
  • Meg Obispo,
  • Xing Tong,
  • Mehdi Azadmehr,
  • Einar Halvorsen and
  • Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

2 June 2023

Silicon-based kinetic energy converters employing variable capacitors, also known as electrostatic vibration energy harvesters, hold promise as power sources for Internet of Things devices. However, for most wireless applications, such as wearable te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Harvesting Technologies and Applications for the Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,057 Views
21 Pages

Lidar-Based Detection and Analysis of Serendipitous Collisions in Shared Indoor Spaces

  • Addison H. Flack,
  • Thomas J. Pingel,
  • Timothy D. Baird,
  • Shashank Karki and
  • Nicole Abaid

18 September 2025

Indoor environments significantly influence human interaction, collaboration, and well-being, yet evaluating how architectural designs actually perform in fostering social connections remains challenging. This study demonstrates the use of 11 static-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,582 Views
12 Pages

A single silver (Ag) nanoparticle (NP) collision was observed and analyzed in an alkaline solution using the electrocatalytic amplification (EA) method. Previously, the observation of a single Ag NP collision was only possible through limited methods...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Nanomaterials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,713 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2021

In this paper, we propose the method to standardize acoustic frequencies for underwater wireless acoustic sensor networks (UWASNs) by applying the channel raster used in the terrestrial mobile communications. The standardization process includes: (1)...

(This article belongs to the Collection Underwater Sensor Networks and Internet of Underwater Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,470 Views
25 Pages

7 June 2024

High-velocity reentry objects suffer from plasma sheath during reentry through the atmosphere, which affects the propagation characteristics of radar signals. The existing research mainly focuses on the time-frequency characteristics of radar signals...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,379 Views
14 Pages

4 October 2022

Grain loss rate is an important indicator to evaluate the performance of combine harvesters. It is indicted that signal voltage amplitude and signal frequency are the key factors for designing a grain loss sensor. In this work, the high-speed photogr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,904 Views
19 Pages

24 October 2023

In the maritime industry, the systematic validation of collision avoidance systems of autonomous ships is becoming an increasingly important issue with the development of autonomous ships. The development of collision avoidance systems for autonomous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,346 Views
20 Pages

DMLAR: Distributed Machine Learning-Based Anti-Collision Algorithm for RFID Readers in the Internet of Things

  • Rachid Mafamane,
  • Mourad Ouadou,
  • Hajar Sahbani,
  • Nisrine Ibadah and
  • Khalid Minaoui

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is considered as one of the most widely used wireless identification technologies in the Internet of Things. Many application areas require a dense RFID network for efficient deployment and coverage, which causes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing for the IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,695 Views
14 Pages

Nanoparticles Synthesis in Wet-Operating Stirred Media: Investigation on the Grinding Efficiency

  • Marco Trofa,
  • Gaetano D’Avino,
  • Bruno Fabiano and
  • Marco Vocciante

25 September 2020

The use of nanomaterials, thanks to their peculiar properties and versatility, is becoming central in an increasing number of scientific and engineering applications. At the same time, the growing concern towards environmental issues drives the seeki...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green and Eco-Friendly Nanotechnology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,639 Views
24 Pages

Interaction of Liquid Droplets in Gas and Vapor Flows

  • A. V. Demidovich,
  • S. S. Kralinova,
  • P. P. Tkachenko,
  • N. E. Shlegel and
  • R. S. Volkov

8 November 2019

We investigated the conditions, characteristics, and outcomes of liquid droplet interaction in the gas medium using video frame processing. The frequency of different droplet collision outcomes and their characteristics were determined. Four interact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Fossil Fuels: Properties, Preparation, Transportation, Spaying, Combustion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,631 Views
9 Pages

Observation and Analysis of Staircase Response of Single Palladium Nanoparticle Collision on Gold Ultramicroelectrodes

  • Hubert Rudakemwa,
  • Ki Jun Kim,
  • Tae Eun Park,
  • Hyeryeon Son and ,
  • Jaedo Na and
  • Seong Jung Kwon
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 September 2022

Collision (or impact) of single palladium nanoparticles (Pd NPs) on gold (Au), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), and platinum (Pt) ultramicroelectrodes (UMEs) were investigated via electrocatalytic amplification method. Unlike the blip responses of previous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical and Nano-Bio Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,311 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2021

The collision avoidance system is one of the core systems of MASS (Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships). The collision avoidance system was validated using scenario-based experiments. However, the scenarios for the validation were designed based on COL...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maritime Autonomous Vessels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,653 Views
26 Pages

Application of Anti-Collision Algorithm in Dual-Coupling Tag System

  • Junpeng Cui,
  • Muhammad Mudassar Raza,
  • Renhai Feng and
  • Jianjun Zhang

17 February 2025

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a key component in automatic systems that address challenges in environment monitoring. However, tag collision continues to be an essential challenge in such applications due to high-density RFID deployments....

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

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