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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,839 Views
19 Pages

27 May 2024

The regulation of the melting point of zinc smelting slag has an important impact on the subsequent smelting processes of the metal. In actual production, uncontrollable melting points may result in inconsistent product quality, which has a great neg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,698 Views
29 Pages

8 November 2023

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are one of the core technologies for building unmanned autonomous integrated automated electric meter verification workshops in metrology centers. However, complex obstacles on the verification lines, frequent AGV cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing: Recent Applications—Second Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,528 Views
23 Pages

Capacity Optimization of Wind–Solar–Storage Multi-Power Microgrid Based on Two-Layer Model and an Improved Snake Optimization Algorithm

  • Mintong Zhao,
  • Yuling He,
  • Yunfeng Tian,
  • Kai Sun and ,
  • Lingyu Jiao and
  • Haipeng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2024

A two-layer optimization model and an improved snake optimization algorithm (ISOA) are proposed to solve the capacity optimization problem of wind–solar–storage multi-power microgrids in the whole life cycle. In the upper optimization mod...

(This article belongs to the Topic Control and Optimization of Networked Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,427 Views
16 Pages

An improved snake optimization algorithm (ISO) is proposed to obtain an effective and reliable three-dimensional path for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to navigate seabed barrier environments and ocean currents. First, a three-dimensional se...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,172 Views
24 Pages

18 March 2025

To enhance the working efficiency of a wafer-handling robotic arm and simultaneously alleviate the impact and vibration during the motion process, a trajectory planning approach based on an improved snake optimization (ISO) algorithm is proposed. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,536 Views
19 Pages

5 November 2024

In the paradigm of mobile edge computing (MEC), providing low-latency and high-reliability services for users is garnering increasing attention. Appropriate edge-server placement is the crucial first step to realizing such services, as it can meet co...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,850 Views
16 Pages

This paper considers the tracking control of curved paths for an underwater snake robot, and investigates the methods used to improve energy efficiency. Combined with the path-planning method based on PCSI (parametric cubic-spline interpolation), an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Theory and Applications in Marine Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,474 Views
25 Pages

16 June 2024

The precision of short-term photovoltaic power forecasts is of utmost importance for the planning and operation of the electrical grid system. To enhance the precision of short-term output power prediction in photovoltaic systems, this paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sensor Technologies for Microgrid and Energy Storage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,456 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2024

Accurately predicting the cold load of industrial buildings is a crucial step in establishing an energy consumption management system for industrial constructions, which plays a significant role in advancing sustainable development. However, due to d...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,551 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2025

As extreme weather events become more frequent, the icing of transmission lines in winter has become more common, causing significant economic losses to power systems and drawing increasing attention. However, owing to the complexity of the conductor...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Operation, Control, and Planning of Intelligent Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,301 Views
27 Pages

In this paper, we propose a cubic spline interpolation method to generate a desired curve path and present an integral line of sight (ILOS) method and a control strategy for course tracking control based on nonsingular terminal sliding mode to enable...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,777 Views
30 Pages

To address the drawbacks of the traditional snake optimization method, such as a random population initialization, slow convergence speed, and low accuracy, an adaptive t-distribution mixed mutation snake optimization strategy is proposed. Initially,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms and Designs for Engineering Applications: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,202 Views
15 Pages

Controlling the Crawling Speed of the Snake Robot along a Cable Based on the Hopf Oscillator

  • Zhiyong Yang,
  • Fan Wang,
  • Jianguo Liu,
  • Zhen Fang and ,
  • Chen Tian and
  • Daode Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To make the snake robot crawl quickly along the high-voltage cable, this paper employs the Simulated Annealing Algorithm (SAA) to find the optimal step size for the spiral-winding gait of the snake robot and improve its crawling speed along the high-...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,099 Views
14 Pages

10 December 2025

Snake-like robots, characterized by their high flexibility and multi-joint structure, exhibit exceptional adaptability to complex terrains such as snowfields, jungles, deserts, and underwater environments. Their ability to navigate narrow spaces and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Application of Bioinspired Robotics and Intelligent Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,432 Views
16 Pages

A Compact Snake Optimization Algorithm in the Application of WKNN Fingerprint Localization

  • Weimin Zheng,
  • Senyuan Pang,
  • Ning Liu,
  • Qingwei Chai and
  • Lindong Xu

10 July 2023

Indoor localization has broad application prospects, but accurately obtaining the location of test points (TPs) in narrow indoor spaces is a challenge. The weighted K-nearest neighbor algorithm (WKNN) is a powerful localization algorithm that can imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
400 Views
19 Pages

Intelligent Diagnosis Method for Constrained Primary Frequency Regulation Capacity of Coal-Fired Units Based on ISO-MLRF

  • Yuliang Dong,
  • Hongkun Lv,
  • Huahua Wu,
  • Jinghui Yang and ,
  • Zhenya Lai,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Jing Li and
  • Dongyu Hua
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 May 2026

To address the challenges of low diagnostic accuracy of constrained primary frequency regulating (PFR) capacity for coal-fired units due to complex and strongly coupled restricting factors, an intelligent diagnosis method based on an improved snake o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Optimization of Heat Engines and Thermal Power Plants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,674 Views
24 Pages

Phase-Angle-Encoded Snake Optimization Algorithm for K-Means Clustering

  • Dan Xue,
  • Sen-Yuan Pang,
  • Ning Liu,
  • Shang-Kun Liu and
  • Wei-Min Zheng

27 October 2024

The rapid development of metaheuristic algorithms proves their advantages in optimization. Data clustering, as an optimization problem, faces challenges for high accuracy. The K-means algorithm is traditaaional but has low clustering accuracy. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Algorithm Optimization and Computational Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,730 Views
16 Pages

TDOA-AOA Localization Algorithm for 5G Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

  • Yuexia Zhang,
  • Changbao Liu,
  • Yuanshuo Gang and
  • Yu Wang

6 November 2024

5G positioning technology has become deeply integrated into daily life. However, in wireless signal propagation environments, there may exist non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions, which lead to signal blockage and subsequently hinder the provision of...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,869 Views
17 Pages

The challenging terrain and deep ravines that characterize mountainous regions often result in slower path planning and suboptimal flight paths for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) when traditional meta-heuristic optimization algorithms are employed....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Intelligent Vehicle Path Planning Algorithm)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,500 Views
49 Pages

30 May 2024

The Snake Optimizer (SO) is an advanced metaheuristic algorithm for solving complicated real-world optimization problems. However, despite its advantages, the SO faces certain challenges, such as susceptibility to local optima and suboptimal converge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence Optimization Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,729 Views
22 Pages

11 February 2025

The linear variable differential transformer is a key component for measuring vibration noise and active vibration isolation. The nonlinear output associated with increased differential displacement in LVDT constrains the measurement range. To extend...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
968 Views
19 Pages

Sleep Staging Method Based on Multimodal Physiological Signals Using Snake–ACO

  • Wenjing Chu,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Liuwang Yang,
  • Lin Guo and ,
  • Chuquan Wu,
  • Binhui Wang and
  • Xiangkui Wan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 January 2026

Non-invasive electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiratory signals are easy to acquire via low-cost sensors, making them promising alternatives for sleep staging. However, existing methods using these signals often yield insufficient accuracy. To address t...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,975 Views
12 Pages

15 December 2022

For path following of snake robots, many model-based controllers have demonstrated strong tracking abilities. However, a satisfactory performance often relies on precise modelling and simplified assumptions. In addition, visual perception is also ess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Robots II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,771 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2024

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors significantly impact the accuracy of ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor positioning, posing a major barrier to its advancement. This study addresses the challenge of effectively distinguishing line-of-sight (LOS) from NLOS si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor Positioning Technologies for Internet-of-Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,365 Views
25 Pages

19 August 2024

The design and optimization of sensor array configurations is a significant challenge for distributed SAR-GMTI radar systems because the system performance of distributed array radar is a comprehensive result of several conflicting evaluation indicat...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
492 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2026

Information in the Glider Snake Optimizer (GSO) propagates through a leader–predecessor chain. This structure is simple, but it can lose diversity when adjacent agents converge to the same region. The proposed Multi-Strategy Glider Snake Optimi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Bio-Inspired Algorithms: Theory, Design, and Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,961 Views
24 Pages

31 January 2024

Behavior recognition in beef cattle is a crucial component of beef cattle behavior warning and intelligent farming. Traditional beef cattle behavior recognition faces challenges in both difficulty in identification and low accuracy. In this study, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Cattle)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
497 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2026

For surface crack detection in in-service concrete buildings, this study proposes DCFYOLO, a lightweight crack instance segmentation algorithm improved from YOLO11n-seg, which enhances feature representation and multi-scale contextual fusion to impro...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,089 Views
23 Pages

In order to improve the control of a moving mirror control system and enhance the anti-interference ability of the system, active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) with parameter autotuning is proposed and applied to control a rotary voice coil mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,274 Views
16 Pages

28 May 2023

With the continued rapid growth of urban areas, problems such as traffic congestion and environmental pollution have become increasingly common. Alleviating these problems involves addressing signal timing optimization and control, which are critical...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Views
56 Pages

4 November 2026

Hybrid microgrids featuring renewables, combined heat and power (CHP), and storage are highly promising systems; however, they suffer from several optimization difficulties, such as degradation, uncertainty, and multi-objective problems. In this pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Engineering Applications of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,071 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2022

With the intensification of global environmental pollution and the energy crisis, the new energy EV industry is developing rapidly, and FWID-EV is a popular direction for future vehicle development. For the sake of improving the swing regulate steadi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Power Electronics Technologies in Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,193 Views
27 Pages

28 July 2023

Efficient UAV path-planning algorithms significantly improve inspection efficiency and reduce costs. However, due to the limitation of battery capacity, the endurance of existing UAVs is limited, making it difficult for them to directly undertake inf...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,065 Views
14 Pages

4 September 2024

Inertia is the measure of a power system’s ability to resist power interference. The accurate estimation and prediction of inertia are crucial for the safe operation of the power system. To obtain the accurate power system inertia provided by g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Optimization of Electric Energy System—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
405 Views
20 Pages

Research on Master–Slave Game Strategy of Integrated Energy System Considering Integrated Demand Response: Improved Snake Optimizer-Quadratic Programming

  • Dequan Yang,
  • Chang Peng,
  • Zeming Yang,
  • Miao Zhang and ,
  • Haotian Wang,
  • Pengchong Dou and
  • Zhihua Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2026

With the advancement of energy market reform, integrated energy systems (IESs) have achieved rapid development. Considering insufficient research on an electricity–heat coupled master–slave game and the local optimum defect of traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,936 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2022

In this paper, the seven degrees of freedom (DOF) nonlinear system model of articulated vehicles, including the vehicle dynamics model, tire and hydraulic steering system model, and the linearized ideal reference model, is constructed. A layered stab...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,865 Views
22 Pages

14 November 2024

Understanding the impact of creep on the long-term mechanical features of concrete is crucial, and constructing an accurate prediction model is the key to exploring the development of concrete creep under long-term loads. Therefore, in this study, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,526 Views
38 Pages

To address the insufficient exploration ability, susceptibility to local optima, and limited convergence accuracy of the standard Student Psychology-Based Optimization (SPBO) algorithm in three-dimensional UAV trajectory planning, we propose an enhan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploration of Bio-Inspired Computing: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
4,798 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient Parallel Reptile Search Algorithm and Snake Optimizer Approach for Feature Selection

  • Ibrahim Al-Shourbaji,
  • Pramod H. Kachare,
  • Samah Alshathri,
  • Salahaldeen Duraibi and ,
  • Bushra Elnaim and
  • Mohamed Abd Elaziz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 July 2022

Feature Selection (FS) is a major preprocessing stage which aims to improve Machine Learning (ML) models’ performance by choosing salient features, while reducing the computational cost. Several approaches are presented to select the most Optim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,536 Views
42 Pages

5 November 2025

An early and precise diagnosis is essential for successful intervention in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurological illness. In this study, we present a deep learning-based framework for multiclass classification of AD severity leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
381 Views
26 Pages

Epilepsy is a challenging brain disease that requires significant clinical findings. (1) Background: The aim of this study is to improve the success rate of epilepsy detection using a newly developed method by optimizing the high-dimensional dataset...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Biomimetics: Bioinspired Sensing, Information Processing and Intelligent Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
867 Views
17 Pages

A Variational Mode Snake-Optimized Neural Network Prediction Model for Agricultural Land Subsidence Monitoring Based on Temporal InSAR Remote Sensing

  • Zhenda Wang,
  • Huimin Huang,
  • Ruoxin Wang,
  • Ming Guo and ,
  • Longjun Li,
  • Yue Teng and
  • Yuefan Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 October 2025

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology is crucial for large-scale land subsidence analysis in cultivated areas within hilly and mountainous regions. Accurate prediction of this subsidence is of significant importance for agricult...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,221 Views
25 Pages

11 June 2025

Renewable energy, especially wind power, is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use. Variable wind patterns and weather make wind energy integration into modern grids difficult. Energy trading, resource planning, and grid stab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,759 Views
31 Pages

Neural-Network-Based Adaptive MPC Path Tracking Control for 4WID Vehicles Using Phase Plane Analysis

  • Yang Sun,
  • Xuhuai Liu,
  • Junxing Zhang,
  • Bin Tian and ,
  • Sen Liu,
  • Wenqin Duan and
  • Zhicheng Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 September 2025

To improve the adaptability of 4WID electric vehicles under various operating conditions, this study introduces a model predictive control approach utilizing a neural network for adaptive weight parameter prediction, which integrates four-wheel steer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
344 Views
32 Pages

Economic–Environmental Dispatch of a Hybrid Microgrid Using an Improved Red-Billed Blue Magpie Optimizer

  • Hongwei Duan,
  • Xiaofeng Han,
  • Shenghan Piao,
  • Tian Dong and ,
  • Cong Peng and
  • Shanshan Guan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 September 2026

The intermittency and seasonal variation of wind and photovoltaic generation complicate the economic–environmental dispatch of microgrids with high renewable-energy penetration. This study develops a grid-connected hybrid microgrid dispatch mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,142 Views
34 Pages

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation remains a major obstacle to high-accuracy ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor positioning. To address this issue, this study investigates solutions from two complementary perspectives: NLOS identification and error mitiga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,117 Views
24 Pages

Bio-Inspired Compliant Joints and Economic MPC Co-Design for Energy-Efficient, High-Speed Locomotion in Snake-like Robots

  • Shuai Zhou,
  • Gengbiao Chen,
  • Mingyu Gong,
  • Jing Liu and ,
  • Peng Xu,
  • Binshuo Liu and
  • Nian Yin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Snake-like robots face critical challenges in energy-efficient locomotion and smooth gait transitions, limiting their real-world deployment. This study introduces a bio-inspired compliant joint design integrated with a hierarchical neural oscillator...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biorobotics: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
313 Views
32 Pages

Soil temperature wireless sensor networks provide essential data for continuous soil temperature monitoring in cotton fields and support agricultural environmental regulation and crop growth management. However, conventional sensor node deployment me...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,152 Views
15 Pages

19 October 2025

The intelligent transformation of power systems necessitates robust insulator condition detection to ensure grid safety. Existing methods, primarily reliant on manual inspection or conventional image processing, suffer significantly degraded target i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,713 Views
23 Pages

A New Method for Non-Destructive Identification and Tracking of Multi-Object Behaviors in Beef Cattle Based on Deep Learning

  • Guangbo Li,
  • Jiayong Sun,
  • Manyu Guan,
  • Shuai Sun and ,
  • Guolong Shi and
  • Changjie Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 August 2024

The method proposed in this paper provides theoretical and practical support for the intelligent recognition and management of beef cattle. Accurate identification and tracking of beef cattle behaviors are essential components of beef cattle producti...

(This article belongs to the Section Cattle)

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