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Conventional methods used for solving greenhouse environment multi-objective conflict control problems lay excessive emphasis on control performance and have inadequate consideration for both energy consumption and special requirements for plant grow...

Exposure to natural green environments, whether through visual media or in person, can bring numerous benefits to physical and mental health. Given the restorative effects that natural forest environments have on the human mind, it is plausible to as...

The present paper concerns the synthesis of robot movement control systems in the cases of disturbances of natural position constraints, which are the result of surface susceptibility and inaccuracies in its description. The study contains the synthe...

This paper presents the development of a cost-effective automatic system for greenhouse environment control. The architectural and functional features were analyzed in the context of the realization of a controlled-environment agricultural system thr...

Technology and innovation are important in mitigating the risks imposed by climate change in many areas, including agriculture and food production. Many novel and emerging agri-food technologies are marching their way to market; however, consumer per...

Cooperative formation control is the research basis for various tasks in the multi-UAV network. However, in a complex environment with different interference sources and obstacles, it is difficult for multiple UAVs to maintain their connectivity whil...

This paper proposes a model predictive control method based on dynamic multi-objective optimization algorithms (MPC_CPDMO-NSGA-II) for reducing freeway congestion and relieving environment impact simultaneously. A new dynamic multi-objective optimiza...

The concept of a local audio environment is to have sound playback locally restricted such that, ideally, adjacent regions of an indoor or outdoor space could exhibit their own individual audio content without interfering with each other. This would...

Air pollution is one of the most important environmental problems in the world, it does harm to human health as well as hindering the sustainable development of the economy. The grim situation deserves wide attention and active participation in impro...

With the development of intelligent vehicle technologies, vehicles can obtain more and more information from various sensors. Many researchers have focused on the vertical and horizontal relationships between vehicles in a vehicle cluster environment...

This article presents the lessons learned from an online teaching experience in the field of managerial control. The study aims to identify the determinants which influence collaborative behaviors between students in management studies and more speci...

The sand/dust environment is an important cause of aircraft failure. A sand/dust environment simulation experiment must be devised to meet the standard technical requirements. Therefore, this article designs the control system for a sand/dust environ...

The purpose of this research is to examine how relationships between corporate control environments and stakeholders mediate the different dimensions of pressure on auditor independence. In France, two (joint) auditors are required by law for listed...

This paper is dedicated to some aspects of maritime on-board safety improvement. The contribution of this article is a proposal to extend wireless communication on the ship, supported by examples of solutions that have not previously been used on boa...

Information service platforms or management information systems of various institutions or sectors of enterprises are gradually interconnected to form a multi-domain environment. A multi-domain environment is convenient for managers to supervise and...

With the application and popularization of the Internet of Things (IoT), while the IoT devices bring us intelligence and convenience, the privacy protection issue has gradually attracted people’s attention. Access control technology is one of t...

This study focuses on gathering environmental data concerning the indoor climate within a dormitory, encompassing variables such as air temperature, relative humidity, CO₂ concentration, fine dust concentration, illuminance, and total volatile organi...

The lighting design of large-space buildings in gymnasiums can impact the indoor luminous and thermal environment, resulting in an uneven light and thermal distribution. This paper investigates the luminous and thermal environment control strategies...

In the industrial internet environment, the operation and control of production equipment have become increasingly complex, and their performance directly affects the efficiency, benefits and sustainable development of manufacturing enterprises. From...

The thermal environment is crucial for livestock production. Accurately detecting thermal environmental conditions enables the implementation of appropriate methods to control the thermal environment in livestock buildings. This study reviewed a comp...

With the rapid increase of aging workforces, companies worldwide are concerned with improving the health and working status of older workers. Sense of control is an important psychological variable in sociology but has attracted less attention in stu...

To be applicable to real-world networks, a realistic evaluation of network measurement tools requires the conditions of the test network to be as similar as possible to the networks in which they are later deployed. Thus, having an existing real-worl...

During the past year, health care environments have struggled to cope with the various impacts of COVID-19 around the world. Health care facilities need to help strengthen resistance to pathogen threats and provide care for patients and health worker...

In the Internet age, the development of intelligent software has broken the limits of multilingual communication. Recognizing that the data collected on rumor propagation are inherently discrete, this study introduces a novel SIR discrete Internet ru...

Background: This study aimed to examine the relationship between the work environment, job stress, and health locus of control and presenteeism among clinical nurses in South Korea. Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive correlational study was cond...

This work presents an open-source simulation framework designed to extend the capabilities of the VRX environment for developing and validating control strategies for surface robotic vehicles. The platform features a custom monohull, kayak-type USV w...

Transit priority control is not only an important means for improving the operating speed and reliability of public transport systems, but it is also a key measure for promoting green and sustainable urban transportation development. A review of sign...

With the increasingly prominent demand for building energy efficiency and occupant-centric design, accurate and reliable personal thermal comfort models (PTCMs) are playing an important role in various residential and energy applications (e.g., build...

Cell culture medium replacement is necessary to replenish nutrients and remove waste products, and perfusion and batch media exchange methods are available. The former can establish an environment similar to that in vivo, and microfluidic devices are...

Nowadays, the issue of teachers’ psychological well-being causes serious concern, especially in Malaysia. Many studies related to psychological well-being have focused on students rather than on the health and well-being of teachers. Thus, the curren...

To address the issue of coating accumulation model failure in unstable environments, this paper proposes a dynamic control method based on visual differential feedback. An image difference model is constructed through online image data modeling and r...

This research presents a preliminary proposal for a rehabilitation exercise aimed at patients with muscle weakness in the distal upper limb. A virtual environment was developed, where the user engages in a rehabilitation activity focused on rehabilit...

Water pollution is a serious problem in China and abroad. Revealing the source types and their spatio-temporal characteristics is the premise of effective watershed management and pollution prevention. Since the national control unit can better match...

Nowadays, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are widely used for many applications. UGVs have sensors including multi-channel laser sensors, two-dimensional (2D) cameras, Global Positioning System receivers, and inertial measurement units (GPS–IMU). Mul...

The application of attached sunspace passive solar heating systems (ASPSHS) for farmhouses can improve building performance, reduce heating energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. In order to take better use of the attached sunspace to preve...

This paper investigates the issue of tuning the Proportional Integral and Derivative (PID) controller parameters for a greenhouse climate control system using an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) based on multiple performance measures such as good static-d...

This paper presents a hybrid control strategy, combining Radial Basis Function (RBF) network with conventional proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controllers, for the greenhouse climate control. A model of nonlinear conservation laws of ent...

There has recently been a considerable and dramatic change in the system design of some future aircraft. The use of electrical energy has led to a demand for rapid technology development in the environment control system (ECS). Extracting energy from...

Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication are two essential aspects of Building Information Modeling (BIM) [...]

This paper presents a new approach for the optimal trajectory planning of nonlinear systems in a dynamic environment. Given the start and end goals with an objective function, the problem is to find an optimal trajectory from start to end that minimi...

Increasing construction depth, changeable failure formations, and redistributed stress conditions inevitably make the mechanical response of mining shaft rock mass complicated. The design method and construction technology of deep shaft need to be pe...

This paper investigates the connection of internal control environment to sustainable development goals to curb fraud in Brazil. We drew on the interpretivist and constructivist perspectives with discourse analysis. Data corpus consists of interviews...

Crop production in open fields is increasingly limited by weather extremes and water shortages, in addition to pests and soil-borne diseases. In order to increase crop yield, quality, and productivity, controlled environment agriculture (CEA) can pla...

This paper addresses the challenge of optimizing objective functions in engineering problems influenced by multiple environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity. Traditional modeling approaches often struggle to capture the complexities of...

This paper presents a formal description and analysis of an SIR (involving susceptible- infectious-recovered subpopulations) epidemic model in a patchy environment with vaccination controls being constant and proportional to the susceptible subpopula...

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) has emerged as a vital solution to address the escalating global food demand amidst urbanization and diminishing arable land. However, the high energy consumption of CEA poses significant challenges for sustai...

At present, most of the environmental control systems of pigsties use direct control methods; when factors, such as temperature and humidity, exceed the set threshold value, the corresponding actuator is turned on for regulation. However, such method...

We consider the problem of evolutionary self-organization of control strategies using the example of speculative trading in a non-stationary immersion market environment. The main issue that obstructs obtaining real profit is the extremely high insta...

The number of devices connected within organisational networks through ”Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) initiatives has steadily increased. BYOD security risks have resulted in significant privacy and security issues impacting organisationa...

This study addresses multi-robot distributed rendezvous controls in cluttered underwater environments with many unknown obstacles. In underwater environments, a Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) cannot localize itself, since a Global Positioning Syst...