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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,613 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2021

The improved element-free Galerkin (IEFG) method is proposed in this paper for solving 3D Helmholtz equations. The improved moving least-squares (IMLS) approximation is used to establish the trial function, and the penalty technique is used to enforc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
2,978 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2022

Material production processes are special processes. As part of continuous improvement, it is extremely important to find the causes of the incompatibilities that occur in them. To increase the effectiveness of these actions, different methods are us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,407 Views
14 Pages

2 September 2019

In order to improve the scientific and rationality of power quality (PQ) comprehensive evaluation, an improved Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) strategy in consideration of the correlation between indices is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,521 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2017

As an important implementing body of the national energy strategy, grid enterprises bear the important responsibility of optimizing the allocation of energy resources and serving the economic and social development, and their levels of sustainable de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,164 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2024

In the current stage of urbanization in China, urban construction has gradually shifted from incremental construction dominated by real estate to stock transformation based on improving urban quality. The evaluation of urban renewal projects is cruci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,107 Views
16 Pages

Proposed Commutation Method for Performance Improvement of Brushless DC Motor

  • Chang-Sung Jin,
  • Chang-Min Kim,
  • In-Jin Kim and
  • Iksang Jang

22 September 2021

This study focused on the efficiency improvement and acoustic noise reduction of brushless DC (BLDC) motors by reducing current harmonics using a novel BLDC commutation method. To achieve these goals, we designed an improved 150° commutation method f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,206 Views
11 Pages

The Improvement and Application of the Geoelectrochemical Exploration Method

  • Ming Kang,
  • Huanzhao Guo,
  • Wende Zhu,
  • Xianrong Luo and
  • Jianwen Yang

20 February 2023

The anionic and cationic species of elements from deeply buried deposits migrate to the near surface driven by various geological forces. The geoelectrochemical exploration method (GEM), derived from CHIM, consists of the application of an electric f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,523 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2021

With the rise of smart robots in the field of industrial automation, the motion control theory of the robot servo controller has become a research hotspot. The parameter mismatch of the controller will reduce the efficiency of the equipment and damag...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,031 Views
43 Pages

A Review of Biodiesel Cold Flow Properties and Its Improvement Methods: Towards Sustainable Biodiesel Application

  • Yano Surya Pradana,
  • I Gusti B. N. Makertihartha,
  • Antonius Indarto,
  • Tirto Prakoso and
  • Tatang Hernas Soerawidjaja

10 September 2024

Significant concerns over energy security and environmental impact reduction will drive all stakeholders to generate proper alternative energies. Biodiesel is a prospective cleaner-burning biofuel that can contribute on addressing these concerns glob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
841 Views
12 Pages

Improved Quantization Method of Coupled Circuits in Charge Discrete Space

  • Jin-Ying Ma,
  • Weiran Zhao,
  • Weilin Wang and
  • Zhan-Yuan Yan

28 November 2024

A quantum theory of mesoscopic circuits, based on the discreteness of electric charges, was recently proposed. However, it is not applied widely, mainly because of the difficulty of the mathematical solution to the finite-difference Schrödinger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,308 Views
19 Pages

1 December 2022

In order to improve the stability of the evaluation results and the gross error resistance of the algorithm in view of the widespread gross errors in geometric error evaluation, an improved self-born weighted least square method (ISWLS) is proposed i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,509 Views
15 Pages

Improved Artificial Potential Field and Dynamic Window Method for Amphibious Robot Fish Path Planning

  • Wenlin Yang,
  • Peng Wu,
  • Xiaoqi Zhou,
  • Haoliang Lv,
  • Xiaokai Liu,
  • Gong Zhang,
  • Zhicheng Hou and
  • Weijun Wang

27 February 2021

Aiming at the problems of “local minimum” and “unreachable target” existing in the traditional artificial potential field method in path planning, an improved artificial potential field method was proposed after analyzing the fundamental causes of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,064 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Method in Surface Water Quality Assessment Based on Improved Variable Fuzzy Set Pair Analysis

  • Yucheng Liu,
  • Chuansheng Wang,
  • Yutong Chun,
  • Luxin Yang,
  • Wei Chen and
  • Jack Ding

In the case of surface water pollution, it is important and necessary to accurately assess the level of contaminated water and ensure the safety of drinking water for people in disaster areas during floods. However, for the assessment of the strict r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
649 Views
16 Pages

Improved Block Element Method for Simulating Rock Failure

  • Yan Han,
  • Qingwen Ren,
  • Lei Shen and
  • Yajuan Yin

4 August 2025

As a discontinuous deformation method, the block element method (BEM) characterizes a material’s elastoplastic behavior through the constitutive relation of thin-layer elements between adjacent blocks. To realistically simulate rock damage path...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,063 Views
12 Pages

New Improvement of the Domain of Parameters for Newton’s Method

  • Cristina Amorós,
  • Ioannis K. Argyros,
  • Daniel González,
  • Ángel Alberto Magreñán,
  • Samundra Regmi and
  • Íñigo Sarría

8 January 2020

There is a need to extend the convergence domain of iterative methods for computing a locally unique solution of Banach space valued operator equations. This is because the domain is small in general, limiting the applicability of the methods. The ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,065 Views
16 Pages

It is very important to accurately identify the critical nodes of the power grid for its safe and stable operation. In this paper, a method for identifying the critical nodes of the power grid based on the improved entropy weight method (IEWM) is pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,084 Views
13 Pages

Numerical Analysis on Performance of the Middle-Pressure Jet Grouting Method for Ground Improvement

  • Shinya Inazumi,
  • Sudip Shakya,
  • Takahiro Komaki and
  • Yasuharu Nakanishi

This study focused on the middle-pressure jet grouting method, which has a complicated development mechanism for the columnar soil-improved body, with the aim of establishing a computer-aided engineering (CAE) system that can simulate the performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,136 Views
19 Pages

3 February 2023

In order to obtain the numerical results of 3D convection-diffusion-reaction problems with variable coefficients efficiently, we select the improved element-free Galerkin (IEFG) method instead of the traditional element-free Galerkin (EFG) method by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
11,295 Views
18 Pages

Object Detection Method for Grasping Robot Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Qisong Song,
  • Shaobo Li,
  • Qiang Bai,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Xingxing Zhang,
  • Zhiang Li and
  • Zhongjing Duan

20 October 2021

In the industrial field, the anthropomorphism of grasping robots is the trend of future development, however, the basic vision technology adopted by the grasping robot at this stage has problems such as inaccurate positioning and low recognition effi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,308 Views
25 Pages

15 July 2021

To reach the targets of carbon peaking and neutral, China needs to develop electric vehicles extensively. The service level of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) notably decides the promotion of electric vehicles. Given the current unsatisfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,344 Views
9 Pages

Improving the Extraction Process of Mehlich 3 Method for Calcareous Soil Nutrients

  • Changqing Li,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Mengyu Sun,
  • Dongxiao Li,
  • Huasen Xu,
  • Liangyu Zhang,
  • Cheng Xue,
  • Wenqi Ma and
  • Zhimei Sun

21 November 2022

Soil nutrient testing is an effective way to uncover soil nutrient status. However, the conventional testing method (CT method) and Mehlich 3 method (M3 method) demand long-time consumption, tedious testing steps, high testing cost, dangerous chemica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,361 Views
32 Pages

26 January 2022

Under the background of new-type urbanization and rural revitalization strategy, how to promote the development of urban–rural integration has become an important issue in today’s society. This paper designed a new evaluation mechanism fo...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,651 Views
9 Pages

This paper aims to present ways to increase the efficiency of the production activity implemented at the level of an important company of the Romanian car market producing car wiring, cables for photovoltaic panels, and industrial sensors. The compan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,526 Views
15 Pages

30 May 2023

With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, water resources are in increasingly short supply, and the construction of sewage treatment plants can ensure the sustainable development of water resources. To eliminate the potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,460 Views
23 Pages

31 January 2020

In order to realize the technique of quick picking and obstacle avoidance, this work proposes a trajectory optimization method for the pickup manipulator under the obstacle condition. The proposed method is based on the improved artificial potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,324 Views
10 Pages

A Simple, Low-Cost Micro-Coating Method for Accuracy Improvement and Its Application in Pressure Sensors

  • Jia-Lin Yao,
  • Yu-Xuan Chen,
  • Wen-Jiang Qiang,
  • Xi-Zi Wang,
  • Hao Wei,
  • Bo-Hang Gao and
  • Xing Yang

22 October 2019

The demand for high-accuracy pressure sensors has increased with the advancement of technology in a wide variety of applications. However, it is generally difficult and expensive to improve the accuracy of the pressure sensor because it usually depen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
819 Views
16 Pages

13 June 2025

This study focused on the monitoring of a bridge using the global navigation satellite system real-time kinematic (GNSS-RTK) sensor. An improved hybrid denoising method was developed to enhance the GNSS-RTK’s accuracy. The improved hybrid denoi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,509 Views
16 Pages

Research on Mining Subsidence Prediction Parameter Inversion Based on Improved Modular Vector Method

  • Huabin Chai,
  • Mingtao Xu,
  • Pengju Guan,
  • Yahui Ding,
  • Hui Xu and
  • Yuqiao Zhao

15 December 2023

In this study conducted in the Shendong mining area, this paper tackles the challenge of estimating mining subsidence parameters in the absence of empirical values. The study employs a tailored pattern recognition method specifically designed for min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,186 Views
14 Pages

19 February 2023

The P-S-N curve is a vital tool for dealing with fatigue life analysis, and its fitting under the condition of small samples is always concerned. In the view that the three parameters of the P-S-N curve equation can better describe the relationship b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,104 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2021

The dynamic modeling of structures in a thermal environment has become a new research topic in structural dynamics. The amount of calculation caused by the complexity of the structure and the size of the FEM, which increase the difficulty in modeling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,475 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2017

Nowadays production system processes are undergoing sweeping changes. The trends include an increase in the number of product variants to be produced, as well as the reduction of the production’s lead time. These trends were induced by new devices of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,016 Views
21 Pages

25 October 2023

As the demand for power supply increases, the investment in the power transmission system constantly increases. An accurate economic evaluation of the power transmission system is essential for future investment decisions and management. Applying a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,245 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2024

To address the need for the accurate parameterization of radiative absorption by gasses (for predicting atmospheric warming), Chou et al. developed a new k-distribution method. In this study, we compared the improved k-distribution method (hereinafte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,148 Views
27 Pages

9 August 2019

The Malian River Basin is the Longdong grain elevator and a new oil and energy base of East Gansu Province. Limited water resources programming utilization is a key for the development of the socio-economic and energy industry, as well as the improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,671 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2024

Designed to meet the demands of AGV global optimal path planning and dynamic obstacle avoidance, this paper proposes a combination of an improved A* algorithm and dynamic window method fusion algorithm. Firstly, the heuristic function is dynamically...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,337 Views
16 Pages

5 April 2023

Fatigue fracture simulation based on phase field methods is a promising numerical approach. As a typical continuum approach, phase field methods can naturally simulate complex fatigue fracture behavior. Moreover, the cracking is a natural result of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,395 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2020

External deformation monitoring of high core rock-fill dams (HCRFDs) is an important and difficult part of safety monitoring. The traditional method of external deformation monitoring and data analysis for HCRFDs is to use a total station for small a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
602 Views
16 Pages

Automatic Tuning Method for Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Based on Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm

  • Yuanqing Zhang,
  • Baolin Xiong,
  • Le Feng,
  • Liang Li,
  • Wenbo Cheng and
  • Yuguo Tang

Quadrupole mass spectrometers are highly sensitive and specific analytical instruments, widely used in pharmaceuticals, clinical diagnostics, and other fields. Their performance depends on a tuning process to optimize key parameters, which has tradit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,807 Views
21 Pages

A Review of the Performance Improvement Methods of Phase Change Materials: Application for the Heat Pump Heating System

  • Cong Zhou,
  • Yizhen Li,
  • Fenghao Wang,
  • Zeyuan Wang,
  • Qing Xia,
  • Yuping Zhang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Boyang Liu and
  • Wanlong Cai

13 March 2023

With the development of the economy and society, energy problems have become a great concern. The heat pump-coupled thermal energy storage (TES) system is a potential form of building heating, which can improve the stability of the grid and promote t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,076 Views
16 Pages

Study on the Main Cable Curve of Suspension Bridge Based on the Improved Particle Swarm Optimization (IPSO) Method

  • Zhaolan Wei,
  • Minghui Shen,
  • Xiaodong Song,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Mengting Lv,
  • Shaomin Jia and
  • Peng Han

27 May 2022

Determining a reasonable main cable curve is the foundation of suspension bridge design, and the accuracy and efficiency of the curve-finding problem are key to the design of a suspension bridge. To accurately obtain the completed curve of a main cab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,721 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2021

The improved discrete ordinates method (IDOM) developed in our previous paper is extended to solve radiative transfer in three-dimensional radiative systems with anisotropic scattering medium. In IDOM, radiative intensities in a large number of new d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,237 Views
29 Pages

28 March 2025

The increasing demand for sustainable business practices has highlighted the need for a robust and risk-aware green supplier selection framework. Traditional supplier evaluation methods primarily focus on cost, quality, and delivery performance but o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,363 Views
17 Pages

23 May 2018

The soft ground in coastal areas should be treated when it needs to be used for the sustainably developed of urban or industrial complex constructions. The ground heating method for soft ground improvement was applied in Eastern Europe in the 1960s,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,874 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2021

Attempts are made in this paper to improve the quality of the stitching between adjacent arc-profiles in the stitching linear-scan method for the roundness measurement of a cylinder in a small dimension. The data in the edge region of an arc-profile,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,229 Views
15 Pages

An Improved Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method for Evaluating Spatial Accessibility to Urban Emergency Shelters

  • Xiaomeng Zhu,
  • Zhijun Tong,
  • Xingpeng Liu,
  • Xiangqian Li,
  • Pengda Lin and
  • Tong Wang

26 June 2018

As an important component of urban disaster prevention and mitigation systems, the balance and equity of emergency shelter distribution can be measured based on spatial accessibility utilizing the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,717 Views
13 Pages

Expression of Root Genes in Arabidopsis Seedlings Grown by Standard and Improved Growing Methods

  • Yanli Qu,
  • Shuai Liu,
  • Wenlong Bao,
  • Xian Xue,
  • Zhengwen Ma,
  • Ken Yokawa,
  • František Baluška and
  • Yinglang Wan

Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings grown in the laboratory using the traditional plant-growing culture system (TPG) were covered to maintain them in darkness. This new method is based on a dark chamber and is named the improved plant-growing met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
774 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2025

In view of the contradiction between the still-high energy consumption in Ordos and the increasingly urgent carbon-neutral goal, the adjustment of energy structures has begun, and strategic planning of photovoltaic facility construction critically su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,383 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2021

Different from traditional redundant manipulators, the redundant manipulators used in the surgical environment require the end effector (EE) to have high pose (position and orientation) accuracy to ensure the smooth progress of the operation. When an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,394 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2019

With the increasingly prominent global energy and environmental problems, more and more enterprises have been required to desulfurize the exhausted gases. Different enterprises have different demands for the desulfurization process, thus the choice o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,587 Views
23 Pages

20 September 2019

With the increasingly prominent problems of resources and environment, thermal power enterprises in China are facing more severe challenges. To improve energy efficiency, a great number of thermal power enterprises implement the technical renovation...

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