Fatigue increases the risk of injury during sports training and rehabilitation. Early detection of fatigue during exercises would help adapt the training in order to prevent over-training and injury. This study lays the foundation for a data-driven m...
In the study of braking force distribution of trucks, the accurate estimation of the state parameters of the vehicle is very critical. However, during the braking process, the state parameters of the vehicle present a highly nonlinear relationship th...
This article presents a new data-driven model design for rendering force responses from elastic tool deformation. The new design incorporates a six-dimensional input describing the initial position of the contact, as well as the state of the tool def...
Encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles are of increasing interest for biomedical applications. However, up to now, it is still not possible to characterize their localized magnetic properties within the capsules. Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) has prov...
The realistic representation of deformations is still an active area of research, especially for soft objects whose behavior cannot be simply described in terms of elasticity parameters. Most of existing techniques assume that the parameters describi...
The force ripple of a permanent magnet synchronous linear motor (PMSLM) caused by multi-source disturbances in practical applications seriously restricts its high-precision motion control performance. The traditional single-mechanism model has diffic...
The countermovement jump (CMJ) is an important test in rugby league (RL), and the force plate is the recommended assessment device, as it permits the calculation of several variables that explain jump strategy, alongside jump height. The purpose of t...
Pneumatic force control has a broad application background in the automation field, such as in industrial polishing, robotic grasping, and humanoid robots. Nonlinear hysteresis characteristics are one of the major factors that affect the feedforward...
Centrifugal pumps are essential in various industries, where their operational stability and efficiency are crucial. This study aims to analyze the composition and variation characteristics of the hydraulic radial force on the impeller using a data-c...
Microsurgery serves as the foundation for numerous operative procedures. Given its highly technical nature, the assessment of surgical skill becomes an essential component of clinical practice and microsurgery education. The interaction forces betwee...
For practical problems with non-convex, large-scale and highly constrained characteristics, evolutionary optimisation algorithms are widely used. However, advanced data-driven methods have yet to be comprehensively applied in related fields. In this...
In the digital economy, promoting enterprise data asset trading and cultivating enterprises’ new quality productive forces are systemic issues. The present paper employs a combined method of QCA and regression analysis to construct a complex me...
Ever increasing data volumes of satellite constellations call for multi-sensor analysis ready data (ARD) that relieve users from the burden of all costly preprocessing steps. This paper describes the scientific software FORCE (Framework for Operation...
In this paper, a novel surrogate model for shape-parametrized vehicle drag force prediction is proposed. It is assumed that only a limited dataset of high-fidelity CFD results is available, typically less than ten high-fidelity CFD solutions for diff...
This work presents a time-domain approach for characterizing the Ground Reaction Forces (GRFs) exerted by a pedestrian during running. It is focused on the vertical component, but the methodology is adaptable to other components or activities. The ap...
Disparities between fold amplitude (A) and intrusion thickness (Hsill) are critical in identifying elastic or inelastic deformation in a forced fold. However, accurate measurements of these two parameters are challenging because of the limit in separ...
Hydrodynamic forces are an important input value for the design, navigation and station keeping of underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). The experiment investigated the forces imparted by currents (with representative real world turbulence) a...
This paper takes the quasi-natural experiment from the National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone (NBDCPZ) in China as an example to examine the impact of market-oriented allocation of data elements on enhancing enterprises’ New Quality Product...
Foot progression angle (FPA) is a gait-related clinical measurement commonly used for assessing the rotational profile of the lower extremity. This study examined the accuracy of two methods based on force-plate data for estimating FPA during walking...
As manufacturing and assembly processes continue to require more adaptable systems for automated handling, innovative solutions for universal gripping are emerging. These grasping systems can enable the handling of wide varieties of shapes, with grip...
Kinetic models of human motion rely on boundary conditions which are defined by the interaction of the body with its environment. In the simplest case, this interaction is limited to the foot contact with the ground and is given by the so called grou...
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to inspect the behavior of zinc(II)-proteins at the atomic level, hence the need to properly model the zinc(II) ion and the interaction with its ligands. Different approaches have been dev...
In the context of rapid urbanization development, exploring the driving forces and characteristics of urban agglomerations’ spatial expansion not only enriches the depth and breadth of research on urban agglomerations’ expansion in China,...
Neuromusculoskeletal models often require three-dimensional (3D) body motions, ground reaction forces (GRF), and electromyography (EMG) as input data. Acquiring these data in real-world settings is challenging, with barriers such as the cost of instr...
This study aimed to develop a wearable sensor system, using machine-learning models, capable of accurately estimating peak ground reaction force (GRF) during ballet jumps in the field. Female dancers (n = 30) performed a series of bilateral and unila...
Handover actions are joint actions between two people in which an object is handed over from a giver to a receiver. This necessitates precise coordination and synchronization of both the reach and grasp kinematics and the scaling of grip forces of th...
To investigate the characteristic pressure distribution patterns when gripping ski poles during skiing, this study addresses the challenges of measuring grip force on the complex curved surfaces of ski poles. A dataset of experimental samples was est...
Background/Objectives: Computational models are increasingly used in orthopedic research, such as in the context of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, the models’ actual integration in clinical practice is far from routine. Major limitatio...
The hydrodynamic forces on an oscillating circular cylinder are predicted using neural networks under flow conditions where Vortex-Induced Vibrations (VIV) are known to occur. The derived neural network approximators are then incorporated in a dynami...
Direct measurements of external forces acting on a structure are infeasible in many cases. The Augmented Kalman Filter (AKF) has several attractive features that can be utilized to solve the inverse problem of identifying applied forces, as it requir...
Walking gait data acquired with force platforms may be used for person re-identification (re-ID) in various authentication, surveillance, and forensics applications. Current force platform-based re-ID systems classify a fixed set of identities (IDs),...
Following our previous works on dioctahedral clays, we extend the classical Polarizable Ion Model (PIM) to trioctahedral clays, by considering dry Na-, Cs-, Ca- and Sr-hectorites as well as hydrated Na-hectorite. The parameters of the force field are...
Worldwide, agricultural land is a dominant part of the environment. It is very important to understand the physical properties of soil because they directly or indirectly affect the entire human population. This paper proposes a data acquisition syst...
The impact of chronic diseases on labour force participation is not frequently examined or considered as part of cost-of-illness studies. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of chronic diseases on labour force participation among South...
Nut fasteners are produced by machines working around the clock. Companies generally operate with a run-to-failure or planned maintenance approach. Even with a planned maintenance schedule, however, undetected damage to the dies and non-die parts occ...
For the longitudinal tire force estimation problem of four-wheel independent drive electric vehicles (4WIDEVs), traditional model-based observers have limitations such as high modeling complexity and strong parameter sensitivity, while pure data-driv...
The estimation of correlation matrices in high-dimensional data streams presents a fundamental conflict between computational efficiency and statistical robustness. Moment-based estimators, such as Pearson’s correlation, offer linear
With collaborative robots and the recent developments in manufacturing technologies, physical interactions between humans and robots represent a vital role in performing collaborative tasks. Most previous studies have focused on robot motion planning...
In advanced integrated circuit manufacturing processes, the quality of chemical mechanical flattening is a key factor affecting chip performance and yield. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to develop an accurate predictive model for th...
Digitizing handwriting is mostly performed using either image-based methods, such as optical character recognition, or utilizing two or more devices, such as a special stylus and a smart pad. The high-cost nature of this approach necessitates a cheap...
In this paper, the problem of trajectory design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in data collection Internet of Things (IoT) networks is studied. In the considered model, the UAV swarm is deployed to patrol a designated area and collect statu...
The recently developed smart strand can be used to measure the prestress force in the prestressed concrete (PSC) structure from the construction stage to the in-service stage. The higher cost of the smart strand compared to the conventional strand re...
The adequacy of the directional and envelope procedures for the design of the main wind force resisting system is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the directional and envelope procedures based on wind tunnel test data for...
Tool forces are a decisive parameter for manual grinding with hand-held power tools, which can be used to determine the productivity, quality of the work result, vibration exposition, and tool lifetime. One approach to tool force determination is the...
Existing studies on gait phase estimation generally involve walking experiments using inertial measurement units under limited walking conditions (WCs). In this study, a gait phase estimation algorithm is proposed that uses data from force sensing re...
Wetlands are important environmental resources that are vulnerable to droughts and floods. Studying drought-flood events and their driving factors is essential for wetland resource planning and management. However, climate change and human activities...
An innovative, robust method has been developed, based on the use of a simple, compact, expressly designed device, named PICUS (the ‘woodpecker’ in ancient Latin), and inspired by the auscultation method carried out by the experts in the field of con...
The scientific community has been looking for novel approaches to develop nanostructures inspired by nature. However, due to the complicated processes involved, controlling the height of these nanostructures is challenging. Nanoscale capillary force...
One key feature of named data networks (NDN) is supporting in-network caching to increase the content distribution for today’s Internet needs. However, previously cached contents may be threatened by side-channel timing measurements/attacks. Fo...
The healthy function of the vestibular system (VS) is of vital importance for individuals to carry out their daily activities independently and safely. This study carries out Tsallis entropy (TE)-based analysis on insole force sensor data in order to...
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