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A Gradient System for Low Rank Matrix Completion

  • Carmela Scalone and
  • Nicola Guglielmi

24 July 2018

In this article we present and discuss a two step methodology to find the closest low rank completion of a sparse large matrix. Given a large sparse matrix M, the method consists of fixing the rank to r and then looking for the closest rank-r matrix...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical Methods in Applied Sciences)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,173 Views
13 Pages

Redispersible Reduced Graphene Oxide Prepared in a Gradient Solvent System

  • Yitian Sheng,
  • Youliang Zhou,
  • Changwei Tang,
  • Xiangnan Cheng and
  • Chaocan Zhang

9 June 2022

We designed a gradient solvent strategy for the reduction of graphene oxide, matching the hydrophilic properties of graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO), respectively. A third solvent was added dropwise to regulate the hydrophilic var...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,318 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2022

Prior work has introduced a form of explainable artificial intelligence that is able to precisely explain, in a human-understandable form, why it makes decisions. It is also able to learn to make better decisions without potentially learning illegal...

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  • Open Access
610 Views
27 Pages

2 April 2026

Integrated Demand Response (IDR) enhances the operational flexibility of Integrated Energy Systems (IES) and promotes renewable energy integration. However, limited interaction between the Integrated Energy Operator (IEO) and users during actual ener...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,001 Views
24 Pages

Fractional Gradient-Based Model Reference Adaptive Control Applied on an Inverted Pendulum-Cart System

  • Maibeth Sánchez-Rivero,
  • Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud,
  • Lisbel Bárzaga-Martell,
  • Marcos E. Orchard and
  • Gustavo Ceballos-Benavides

This study introduces a novel model reference adaptive control (MRAC) framework that incorporates fractional-order gradients (FGs) to regulate the displacement of an inverted pendulum-cart system. Fractional-order gradients have been shown to signifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Continuous/Discrete-Time Fractional Systems: Modelling, Design and Estimation)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,871 Views
23 Pages

16 June 2017

The existing literature predominantly concentrates on the utilization of the gradient descent algorithm for control systems’ design in power systems for stability enhancement. In this paper, various flavors of the Conjugate Gradient (CG) algorithm ha...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,063 Views
21 Pages

4 May 2022

The three dimensional thermal model of a forced air-cooling battery thermal management system (BTMS) using aluminium foam heat sink (AFHS) is established, and the effects of porosity, pore density, and mass flow rate on the thermal and flow performan...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,396 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2022

The existing forward collision warning (FCW) systems that adopt kinematic or perceptual parameters have some drawbacks in the warning performance because of poor adaptability to the users or ineffectiveness of the warnings. To solve the problems of a...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,896 Views
25 Pages

20 August 2021

The use of gradient descent training to optimize the performance of a rule-fact network expert system via updating the network’s rule weightings was previously demonstrated. Along with this, four training techniques were proposed: two used a single p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Paper in Computers)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,607 Views
17 Pages

15 April 2021

The detailed metabolite profiling of Laguncularia racemosa was accomplished by high-performance countercurrent chromatography (HPCCC) using the three-phase system n-hexane–tert-butyl methyl ether–acetonitrile–water 2:3:3:2 (v/v/v/v) in step-gradient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Preparative Hyphenation of Countercurrent Chromatography (CCC/CPC) to Structure Elucidation Methods in the Field of Natural Product Recovery and Identification)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,227 Views
20 Pages

12 April 2023

Currently, automatic optical zoom setups are being extensively explored for their applications in search, detection, recognition, and tracking. In visible and infrared fusion imaging systems with continuous zoom, dual-channel multi-sensor field-of-vi...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,547 Views
24 Pages

Enhancing the Prediction of Influent Total Nitrogen in Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System–Gradient-Based Optimization Algorithm

  • Misbah Ikram,
  • Hongbo Liu,
  • Ahmed Mohammed Sami Al-Janabi,
  • Ozgur Kisi and ,
  • Wang Mo,
  • Muhammad Ali and
  • Rana Muhammad Adnan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2024

For the accurate estimation of daily influent total nitrogen of sewage plants, a novel hybrid approach is proposed in this study, where a gradient-based optimization (GBO) algorithm is employed to adjust the hyper-parameters of an adaptive neuro-fuzz...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,983 Views
29 Pages

4 March 2025

Against the background of the development of control systems, Data Driven Control (DDC) methods are becoming more and more popular, given the system’s independence from physical models and the possibility of quickly tuning the controller. The u...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,275 Views
26 Pages

13 November 2024

Mountainous land types are characterized by a scarcity of observational data, particularly in remote areas such as the Kunlun Mountains, where conventional Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) typically do not record land surface temperature (LST) data....

(This article belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
71 Citations
5,975 Views
15 Pages

It is well-known that mathematical models are the basis for system analysis and controller design. This paper considers the parameter identification problems of stochastic systems by the controlled autoregressive model. A gradient-based iterative alg...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,682 Views
15 Pages

16 August 2022

This paper researches the identification problem for the unknown parameters of the multivariate equation-error autoregressive systems. Firstly, the original identification model is decomposed into several sub-identification models according to the nu...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
1,546 Views
14 Pages

23 August 2024

In this paper, a gradient dynamics-based control method is proposed to directly tackle the singularity problem in the backstepping control design of the TORA system. This method is founded upon the construction of an energy-like positive function, wh...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,447 Views
9 Pages

5 November 2009

It is known that mechanical work, and in turn electricity, can be produced from a difference in the chemical potential that may result from a salinity gradient. Such a gradient may be found, for instance, in an estuary where a stream of soft water is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exergy: Analysis and Applications)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,746 Views
25 Pages

27 April 2024

The uncertainty in the new power system has increased, leading to limitations in traditional stability analysis methods. Therefore, considering the perspective of the three-dimensional static security region (SSR), we propose a novel approach for sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,842 Views
15 Pages

A Natural Gradient Algorithm for Stochastic Distribution Systems

  • Zhenning Zhang,
  • Huafei Sun,
  • Linyu Peng and
  • Lin Jiu

4 August 2014

In this paper, we propose a steepest descent algorithm based on the natural gradient to design the controller of an open-loop stochastic distribution control system (SDCS) of multi-input and single output with a stochastic noise. Since the control in...

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437 Views
19 Pages

6 August 2026

This study presents the development of an integrated optical system suitable for mobile atomic interferometry-based gravity gradient measurements. The system exhibits distinct technical advantages, including a simplified frequency-shifting scheme, lo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Sensing and Quantum Communication)
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  • Open Access
1,475 Views
17 Pages

9 September 2023

Solutions for enhancing parameter identification effects for multivariate equation-error systems in random interference and parameter coupling conditions are considered in this paper. For the purpose of avoiding the impact of colored noises on parame...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptive Control: Design and Analysis)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,595 Views
11 Pages

26 August 2015

This paper focuses on the parameter identification problem for Wiener nonlinear dynamic systems with moving average noises. In order to improve the convergence rate, the gradient-based iterative algorithm is presented by replacing the unmeasurable va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Equations and Systems)
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  • Open Access
643 Views
25 Pages

12 March 2026

As key power components in aviation machinery, airborne hydraulic systems exhibit significant coupling, nonlinearity, and strong noise interference, which pose enormous challenges for their mechanical fault diagnosis—an essential link in ensuri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control in Mechanical System)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,863 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2023

Disability management in information systems refers to the process of ensuring that digital technologies and applications are designed to be accessible and usable by individuals with disabilities. Traditional methods face several challenges such as p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Logic and Computational Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,562 Views
17 Pages

26 January 2018

The measurement error of the differencing (i.e., using two homogenous field sensors at a known baseline distance) magnetic gradient tensor system includes the biases, scale factors, nonorthogonality of the single magnetic sensor, and the misalignment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetic Sensors and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,413 Views
16 Pages

Decentralized Stochastic Recursive Gradient Method for Fully Decentralized OPF in Multi-Area Power Systems

  • Umair Hussan,
  • Huaizhi Wang,
  • Muhammad Ahsan Ayub,
  • Hamna Rasheed and ,
  • Muhammad Asghar Majeed,
  • Jianchun Peng and
  • Hui Jiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 September 2024

This paper addresses the critical challenge of optimizing power flow in multi-area power systems while maintaining information privacy and decentralized control. The main objective is to develop a novel decentralized stochastic recursive gradient (DS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
2,583 Views
30 Pages

21 February 2023

A gradient-based optimizer (GBO) is a recently inspired meta-heuristic technique centered on Newton’s gradient-based approach. In this paper, an advanced developed version of the GBO is merged with a crossover operator (GBOC) to enhance the div...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling in Industrial Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,538 Views
25 Pages

21 December 2015

Far-infrared pedestrian detection approaches for advanced driver-assistance systems based on high-dimensional features fail to simultaneously achieve robust and real-time detection. We propose a robust and real-time pedestrian detection system charac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in New Road Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,278 Views
13 Pages

31 July 2017

Due to the lack of powerful model description methods, the identification of Hammerstein systems based on the non-uniform input-output dataset remains a challenging problem. This paper introduces a time-varying backward shift operator to describe per...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,467 Views
21 Pages

Passive Wireless Pressure Gradient Measurement System for Fluid Flow Analysis

  • Partha P. Dutta,
  • Alexander C. Benken,
  • Tao Li,
  • John Richard Ordonez-Varela and
  • Yogesh B. Gianchandani

24 February 2023

Using distributed MEMS pressure sensors to measure small flow rates in high resistance fluidic channels is fraught with challenges far beyond the performance of the pressure sensing element. In a typical core-flood experiment, which may last several...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors in MEMS)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,070 Views
21 Pages

A Computationally Efficient Gradient Algorithm for Downlink Training Sequence Optimization in FDD Massive MIMO Systems

  • Muntadher Alsabah,
  • Marwah Abdulrazzaq Naser,
  • Basheera M. Mahmmod and
  • Sadiq H. Abdulhussain

5 June 2022

Future wireless networks will require advance physical-layer techniques to meet the requirements of Internet of Everything (IoE) applications and massive communication systems. To this end, a massive MIMO (m-MIMO) system is to date considered one of...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,293 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2024

Supermarket refrigeration systems are integral to food security and the global economy. Their massive scale, characterized by numerous evaporators, remote condensers, miles of intricate piping, and high working pressure, frequently leads to problemat...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
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  • Open Access
736 Views
17 Pages

Spatial Distribution and Compartmental Allocation of Microplastics in Belowground Systems of Mulched Phyllostachys violascens Forests Along Urban–Rural Gradients

  • Gang Lu,
  • Zhukan Chen,
  • Lili Fan,
  • Liangjin Yao and ,
  • Xiaoxia Zhou,
  • Jingxiang Xu,
  • Jiamei Chen and
  • Jie Yang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 May 2026

Intensive management practices promote microplastic (MP) accumulation in Phyllostachys violascens forests, posing potential threats to ecosystem stability and the edibility safety of bamboo shoots. However, how urbanization and mulching duration join...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Ecology)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,770 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2022

The interfacial property of H2O+CO2+oil three-phase systems is crucial for CO2 flooding and sequestration processes but was not well understood. Density gradient theory coupled with PC-SAFT equation of state was applied to investigate the interfacial...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution Control)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,902 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2024

For many engineering applications, it is sufficient to use the concept of simple materials. However, higher gradients of the kinematic variables are taken into account to model materials with internal length scales as well as to describe localization...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,830 Views
22 Pages

3 October 2021

Transport properties of potential host rocks for nuclear waste disposal are typically determined in laboratory or in-situ experiments under geochemically controlled and constant conditions. Such a homogeneous assumption is no longer applicable on the...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry)
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  • Open Access

The physical configuration of the problem is a porous-fluid layer which is horizontally unbounded, in the presence of uniform heat source/sink in the layers enclosed by adiabatic and isothermal boundaries. The problem of double diffusive Bènard-Maran...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,803 Views
14 Pages

24 June 2024

Magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) technology based on the magnetic gradient tensor (MGT) has broad application prospects in fields such as unexploded ordnance detection and mineral exploration. The difference approximation method currently employed in...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
729 Views
18 Pages

Magnetic actuation is a fundamental enabling technology for micro/nanorobotics and biomedical manipulation. However, the trade-off between magnetic field gradient, usable workspace, and efficient heat dissipation often conflicts and constrains its pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro-/Nano-Electromagnetic and Acoustic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,776 Views
16 Pages

29 April 2020

The previous recommendation system applied the matrix factorization collaborative filtering (MFCF) technique to only single domains. Due to data sparsity, this approach has a limitation in overcoming the cold-start problem. Thus, in this study, we fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing: Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,098 Views
27 Pages

Load Frequency Control and Automatic Voltage Regulation in Four-Area Interconnected Power Systems Using a Gradient-Based Optimizer

  • Tayyab Ali,
  • Suheel Abdullah Malik,
  • Amil Daraz,
  • Muhammad Adeel and ,
  • Sheraz Aslam and
  • Herodotos Herodotou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 February 2023

Existing interconnected power systems (IPSs) are being overloaded by the expansion of the industrial and residential sectors together with the incorporation of renewable energy sources, which cause serious fluctuations in frequency, voltage, and tie-...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,357 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2022

The magnetic navigation system (MNS) with gradient and uniform saddle coils is an effective system for manipulating various medical magnetic robots because of its compact structure and the uniformity of its magnetic field and field gradient. Since ea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biologically Inspired Robotic Mechanisms, Control, and Multimodal Sensor Fusion for Human-Robot Coexistence)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,290 Views
10 Pages

The Effect of Mn3+ Substitution on the Electric Field Gradient in a HoFe1−xMnxO3 (x = 0–0.7) System

  • Yuriy V. Knyazev,
  • Maksim S. Pavlovskii,
  • Timofei D. Balaev,
  • Sergey V. Semenov and ,
  • Stanislav A. Skorobogatov,
  • Aleksey E. Sokolov,
  • Denis M. Gokhfeld and
  • Kirill A. Shaykhutdinov
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 November 2024

The effect of the Mn3+ ion on the local distortions of FeO6 octahedra in orthoferrite samples was investigated. Mössbauer spectroscopy measurements for a series of HoFe1−xMnxO3 (x = 0–0.7) orthoferrite samples with the space group Pn...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,285 Views
18 Pages

6 September 2023

In this study, the design of fuzzy logic control (FLC) systems for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is improved. The improvement is made possible by using a gradient-based optimizer (GBO), which maximiz...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,262 Views
15 Pages

Impact of Ocean Sound Speed Horizontal Gradient on Global Navigation Satellite System–Acoustic Precise Seafloor Positioning

  • Yang Liu,
  • Tianjie Shi,
  • Yanxiong Liu,
  • Shengli Wang and ,
  • Guanxu Chen,
  • Menghao Li,
  • Qiuhua Tang and
  • Yikai Feng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 February 2025

Global Navigation Satellite System–Acoustic ranging (GNSS-A) technology can achieve centimeter-level seafloor positioning. However, the horizontal gradient of ocean sound speed limits the seafloor positioning accuracy of GNSS-A. This paper eval...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,080 Views
13 Pages

15 February 2023

The motive of this study is to provide the numerical performances of the monkeypox transmission system (MTS) by applying the novel stochastic procedure based on the radial basis scale conjugate gradient deep neural network (RB-SCGDNN). Twelve and twe...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,816 Views
23 Pages

11 October 2017

Ionospheric delay is one of the largest and most variable sources of error for Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) users because inospheric activity is unpredictable. Under normal conditions, GBAS eliminates ionospheric delays, but during extreme...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,217 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2025

Wavefront aberrations caused by thermal flows or arising from the quality of optical components can significantly impair wireless communication links. Such aberrations may result in an increased error rate in the received signal, leading to data loss...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,982 Views
25 Pages

On the Sparse Gradient Denoising Optimization of Neural Network Models for Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Illustrated by a Ship Propulsion System

  • Shuangzhong Wang,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Yuejun Fei and ,
  • Yong He,
  • Peng Li and
  • Mingqiang Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 September 2022

The drive rolling bearing is an important part of a ship’s system; the detection of the drive rolling bearing is an important component in ship-fault diagnosis, and machine learning methods are now widely used in the fault diagnosis of rolling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art in Maritime Safety and Smart Shipping)

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