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18 Citations
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25 November 2021

Many of the current research works are focused on the development of different control systems for commercial vehicles in order to reduce the incidence of risky driving situations, while also improving stability and comfort. Some works are focused on...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,249 Views
30 Pages

Novel Robust Estimation-Based Control of One-Sided Lipschitz Nonlinear Systems Subject to Output and Input Delays

  • Sohaira Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Rehan,
  • Anas Ibrar,
  • Muhammad Umair Ali and ,
  • Amad Zafar and
  • Seong Han Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 April 2024

This paper highlights the design of a controller established on estimated states for one-sided Lipschitz (OSL) nonlinear systems subject to output and input delays. The controller has been devised by involving Luenberger-like estimated states. The st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning-Based Control and Nonlinear Optimization: Theory, Models, Algorithms, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,871 Views
15 Pages

7 September 2024

In this paper, we propose a new data-aided (DA) joint angle and delay (JADE) maximum likelihood (ML) estimator. The latter consists of a substantially modified and, hence, significantly improved gray wolf optimization (GWO) technique by fully integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in the 'Sensor Networks' Section 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,785 Views
22 Pages

28 October 2022

Strategic emerging industries are gradually becoming the main driving force promoting the development of the national economy. As one of the strategic emerging industries, the New Generation of Information Technology Companies (NGITCs) play a crucial...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,974 Views
13 Pages

30 January 2018

Due to the influence on the sectors and industries that have strong relationships with the air transportation industry, flight delays have a huge impact on China’s economy. In this study, the input–output method and the Ghosh model were used to analy...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
511 Views
16 Pages

15 May 2026

In this work, high-resolution sparse channel estimation in multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems is addressed. Firstly, a block-structured compressed channel sensing (CCS) model with high spectr...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,319 Views
21 Pages

14 May 2025

Three factors that complicate the position and orientation control of unmanned autonomous vehicles are the hardware-induced delays, delays caused by teleoperated modes of operation, and persistent disturbances such as wind. In this article, we study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Computer Science in Mobile Robots II)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,911 Views
32 Pages

Novel Dielectric Resonator-Based Microstrip Filters with Adjustable Transmission and Equalization Zeros

  • David Espinosa-Adams,
  • Sergio Llorente-Romano,
  • Vicente González-Posadas,
  • José Luis Jiménez-Martín and
  • Daniel Segovia-Vargas

This work presents a comprehensive technological study of dielectric resonator-based microstrip filters (DRMFs), encompassing the design, fabrication, and rigorous characterization of the TE01δ mode. Through systematic coupling analysis, we dem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Low Power Circuit and System Design and Applications)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,686 Views
26 Pages

A Quantitative Parametric Study on Output Time Delays for Autonomous Underwater Cleaning Operations

  • Fredrik Fogh Sørensen,
  • Malte von Benzon,
  • Jesper Liniger and
  • Simon Pedersen

Offshore pipelines and structures require regular marine growth removal and inspection to ensure structural integrity. These operations are typically carried out by Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and demand reliable and accurate feedback signals f...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,759 Views
11 Pages

25 June 2017

When medium- or high-voltage power conversion is preferred for renewable energy sources, multilevel power converters have received much of the interest in this area as methods for enhancing the conversion efficiency and cost effectiveness. In such ca...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,802 Views
25 Pages

Guaranteeing QoS for NOMA-Enabled URLLC Based on κ–μ Shadowed Fading Model

  • Jie Zeng,
  • Yuxin Song,
  • Teng Wu,
  • Tiejun Lv and
  • Shidong Zhou

14 July 2022

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication scenarios are complex and diverse. Small-scale fading is a key part of wireless channels and its impact on performance in scenarios with time sensitivity and 6G ultrareliable and low latency communications...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-orthogonal Transmission Technologies for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,255 Views
26 Pages

A Model-Driven Co-Design Framework for Fusing Control and Scheduling Viewpoints

  • Sakthivel Manikandan Sundharam,
  • Nicolas Navet,
  • Sebastian Altmeyer and
  • Lionel Havet

20 February 2018

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is widely applied in the industry to develop new software functions and integrate them into the existing run-time environment of a Cyber-Physical System (CPS). The design of a software component involves designers from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Implementation of Future CPS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,507 Views
19 Pages

Unpredictable Oscillations for Hopfield-Type Neural Networks with Delayed and Advanced Arguments

  • Marat Akhmet,
  • Duygu Aruğaslan Çinçin,
  • Madina Tleubergenova and
  • Zakhira Nugayeva

7 March 2021

This is the first time that the method for the investigation of unpredictable solutions of differential equations has been extended to unpredictable oscillations of neural networks with a generalized piecewise constant argument, which is delayed and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Numerics and Dynamics of Artificial Neural Networks: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,445 Views
13 Pages

This paper presents a CMOS active rectifier with a time-domain technique to enhance power efficiency. A delay compensation circuit was designed using a time-domain technique. It converts the delay buffer’s delay time to a voltage value. The voltage i...

(This article belongs to the Section Microelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,034 Views
20 Pages

Observer-Based Coordinated Control for Blended Braking System with Actuator Delay

  • Wenfei Li,
  • Huiyun Li,
  • Chao Huang,
  • Kun Xu and ,
  • Tianfu Sun and
  • Haiping Du
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 August 2021

The coordinated control of a blended braking system is always a difficult task. In particular, blended braking control becomes more challenging when the braking actuator has an input time-delay and some states of the braking system cannot be measured...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicle Modeling and Control)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,139 Views
17 Pages

28 October 2025

This paper presents a Prescribed Performance Control (PPC) approach for robotic systems experiencing communication delay and disturbances. Under input and feedback delays, a state feedback controller is designed to maintain the output tracking error...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,508 Views
13 Pages

This paper proposes an all-digital duty cycle corrector with synchronous fast locking, and adopts a new quantization method to effectively produce a phase of 180 degrees or half delay of the input clock. By taking two adjacent rising edges input to t...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
528 Views
19 Pages

An Enhanced Smith-Predictor-Based Control Law for a MIMO CSTR with Multiple Time Delays

  • Morteza Mohammadzaheri,
  • Ali Al-Humairi,
  • Gholamreza Vakili-Nezhaad,
  • Aydin Azizi and ,
  • Mojtaba Ghodsi and
  • Payam Soltani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2026

This paper introduces an enhanced Smith-predictor-based control system (SPCS) for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) time delay processes. A conventional SPCS for an MIMO process is composed of a Smith predictor matrix providing predicted outputs and an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Adaptive Control Theory and Applications for Nonlinear Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,146 Views
16 Pages

7 June 2020

Grid-connected and grid-forming inverters play essential roles in the utilization of renewable energy. One problem of such a converter system is the voltage deviations in the DC-link between the source and the inverter that can disrupt the inverter o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems Ⅱ)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,875 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2024

In this article, we propose a control scheme with predictors in a decentralized manner for coupled networked control systems (NCSs) under uncertain, large time-delays and event-triggered inputs. The network-induced delays are handled via the predicti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Networked Robotics and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,703 Views
13 Pages

Disturbance-Improved Model-Free Adaptive Prediction Control for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems with Time Delay

  • Honghai Ji,
  • Yuzhou Wei,
  • Lingling Fan,
  • Shida Liu and ,
  • Yulin Wang and
  • Li Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 November 2021

This study proposes a Disturbance-improved Model-free Adaptive Prediction Control (DMFAPC) algorithm for a discrete-time nonlinear system with time delay and disturbance. The algorithm is shown to have good robustness. On the one hand, the Smith pred...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,480 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Multi-Output LUT Mapping Technique for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

  • Sheng Lu,
  • Liuting Shang,
  • Qianhou Qu,
  • Sungyong Jung and ,
  • Qilian Liang and
  • Chenyun Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The use of multi-output look-up tables (LUTs) is a widely adopted approach in contemporary commercial field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Larger LUT configurations (e.g., six-input LUTs) can be partitioned into smaller LUTs (e.g., two five-input...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,898 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Floating High-Voltage Level Shifter with Pre-Storage Technique

  • Qiang Li,
  • Yuan Yang,
  • Haohao Ma,
  • Yangle Zhou and ,
  • Guolong You,
  • Minmin Zhang and
  • Wei Xiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 February 2022

This paper proposes a novel floating high-voltage level shifter (FHV-LS) with the pre-storage technique for high speed and low deviation in propagation delay. With this technology, the transmission paths from input to output are optimized, and thus t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,047 Views
27 Pages

Discrete vs. Discretized Control in Voltage Source Inverters for UPS Systems

  • Zbigniew Rymarski,
  • Wojciech Oliwa and
  • Grzegorz Wieczorek

25 June 2025

Digital control in UPS systems is currently the only reasonable way of controlling a voltage source inverter (VSI). The control frequency range is restricted to up to about 1 kHz owing to the output low-pass LC filter, which should also maintain the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management and Optimization for Renewable Energy and Power Systems)
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  • Open Access
3,135 Views
18 Pages

25 January 2022

The property of external positivity of dynamic systems is commonly defined as the non-negativity of the output for all time under zero initial conditions and any given non-negative input for all time. This paper investigates the extension of that pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,814 Views
22 Pages

17 January 2023

This research focused on using RGB-D images and modifying an existing machine learning network architecture to generate predictions of the location of successfully grasped objects and to optimize the control system for state delays. A five-finger gri...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,656 Views
14 Pages

6 November 2018

This paper focuses on the joint estimation of parameters and time-delays of the multiple-input single-output output-error systems. Since the time-delays are unknown, an effective identification model with a high dimensional and sparse parameter vecto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parameter Estimation Algorithms and Its Applications)
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1,896 Views
16 Pages

2 June 2023

Most industrial processes have nonlinear and time-delay characteristics leading to difficulty in prediction modeling. In addition, the working conditions of most industrial processes are complex, which results in multiple modes. Testing and modeling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing & Automation Control Systems for Industry 4.0/5.0)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,310 Views
12 Pages

10 June 2022

The incineration process in waste-to-energy plants is characterized by high levels of inertia, large delays, strong coupling, and nonlinearity, which makes accurate modeling difficult. Therefore, an intelligent modeling method for the incineration pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Power System Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,159 Views
11 Pages

A Design of a Dual Delay Line DLL with Wide Input Duty Cycle Range

  • Binyu Qin,
  • Leilei Zhao,
  • Chenyu Fang and
  • Peter Poechmueller

This article describes a dual-controller dual-delay line delay lock loop (DC-DL DLL). The proposed DLL adopted a dual delay line structure, each delay line was composed of a coarse adjustment and a fine adjustment unit, and the dual delay lines had c...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,114 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2025

Voltage-controlled AC to DC converters govern the load voltage as per requirement. They may be employed in numerous applications, including battery-charging systems, light dimming, and industrial speed drive systems. The voltage regulation is based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Wireless Power Transfer Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,724 Views
8 Pages

31 July 2023

This paper presents a wideband 4-bit true time delay IC using a 0.25 μm GaN HEMT (High-Electron-Mobility Transistor) process for the beam-squint-free phased array antennas. The true time delay IC is implemented with a switched path circuit topolog...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,801 Views
26 Pages

31 July 2023

Previous research has shown that the inverter output voltage distortions are higher for low switching frequencies, and it is impossible to increase the controller gains because it will cause oscillations of the output voltage. The main reason is the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Modeling of Power Converters and Inverters)
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  • Open Access
558 Views
15 Pages

11 June 2026

This paper investigates the tracking control problem for a class of networked nonlinear systems in a non-ideal communication environment, where both internal communication constraints (delays and packet dropouts) and external random deception attacks...

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31 Citations
6,313 Views
11 Pages

10 September 2015

This paper considers identifying the multiple input single output finite impulse response (MISO-FIR) systems with unknown time delays and orders. Generally, parameters, orders and time delays of an MISO system are separately identified from different...

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10 Citations
2,899 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2021

We consider a linear control system defined by a scalar stationary linear differential equation in the real or complex space with multiple non-commensurate lumped and distributed delays in the state. In the system, the input is a linear combination o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Differential Equations and Applications)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,117 Views
19 Pages

Observer for Nonlinear Systems with Time-Varying Delays: Application to a Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Helicopter

  • Omar Hernández-González,
  • Felipe Ramírez-Rasgado,
  • Mondher Farza,
  • María-Eusebia Guerrero-Sánchez and ,
  • Carlos-Manuel Astorga-Zaragoza,
  • Mohammed M’Saad and
  • Guillermo Valencia-Palomo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This paper deals with the problem of the estimation of non-uniformly nonlinear systems with time-varying delays in the state and input. In addition, the problem of the sampled output measurement is also been addressed. Thus, an observer design for a...

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  • Open Access
118 Views
29 Pages

15 October 2026

This work investigates non-fragile guaranteed cost control (NFGCC) of a class of fractional delay systems of variable-order subject to parametric uncertainty and varying control input delay. Adopting fractional-order (FO) Lyapunov theory along with t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fractional Calculus: Theory and Applications, 3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,612 Views
22 Pages

Radio Resource Dimensioning for Low Delay Access in Licensed OFDMA IoT Networks

  • Yi Yu,
  • Lina Mroueh,
  • Philippe Martins,
  • Guillaume Vivier and
  • Michel Terré

15 December 2020

In this paper, we focus on the radio resource planning in the uplink of licensed Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) based Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The average behavior of the network is considered by assuming that active...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Massive and Reliable Sensor Communications with LPWANs Technologies)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,804 Views
12 Pages

31 July 2024

The state reconstruction problem for a remote robotic system with communication delay is investigated in this paper. A symmetric estimation scheme is proposed based on both input and output observers. First, a sliding-mode disturbance observer is des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,438 Views
15 Pages

Architecture and Performance Evaluation of a Novel Optical Packet Switch with Input Concentrators

  • Hongzhen Yang,
  • Xiuwei Mao,
  • Zilu Fang,
  • Wanke Chen and ,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Shuna Yang,
  • Yuhu Zhao and
  • Hao Chi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2021

In this paper, we propose a novel optical packet switch (OPS) architecture with input concentrators, which employ multi-input single-output optical buffers to aggregate all the incoming traffic into a small size switching fabric. Accordingly, the phy...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,384 Views
20 Pages

Design of a Finite-Time Bounded Tracking Controller for Time-Delay Fractional-Order Systems Based on Output Feedback

  • Jiang Wu,
  • Hao Xie,
  • Tianyi Li,
  • Wenjian He and ,
  • Tiancan Xi and
  • Xiaoling Liang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 January 2025

This paper focuses on a class of fractional-order systems with state delays and studies the design problem of the finite-time bounded tracking controller. The error system method in preview control theory is first used. By taking fractional-order der...

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2 Citations
1,613 Views
13 Pages

Automatic Word Length Selection with Boundary Conditions for HIL of Power Converters

  • Mariano Alberto García-Vellisca,
  • Carlos Quiterio Gómez Muñoz,
  • María Sofía Martínez-García and
  • Angel de Castro

17 August 2023

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) is a common technique used for testing in power electronics. It draws upon FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) because they allow for reaching real-time simulation for mid-high switching frequencies. FPGA area and delay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hardware in the Loop, Real-Time Simulation and Digital Control of Power Electronics and Drives, 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,336 Views
30 Pages

8 September 2024

This paper aims to show how the switching frequency influences the properties of the digitally controlled voltage source inverter (VSI). The measurements of the Bode plots of the inverter are shown and discussed to present the existing signal delays...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Research in Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,148 Views
17 Pages

24 March 2025

In response to the uncertainty of delay parameters within the servo control system, an adaptive estimation framework grounded in Bayes–Monte Carlo Markov chain fusion (Bayes-MCMC) is proposed. Subsequently, an uncertain delay estimation model w...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,264 Views
22 Pages

Consensus Tracking Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Subject to Distinct Unknown Delays

  • Sandy-Natalie Campos-Martínez,
  • Omar Hernández-González,
  • María-Eusebia Guerrero-Sánchez,
  • Guillermo Valencia-Palomo and ,
  • Boubekeur Targui and
  • Francisco-Ronay López-Estrada
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This article deals with the consensus tracking problem for multi-agent systems (MAS) under the influence of unknown time-varying delays. Each agent of the MAS is a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) represented as a linear continuous-time system...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of UAVs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,135 Views
22 Pages

Monotonic Asynchronous Two-Bit Full Adder

  • Padmanabhan Balasubramanian and
  • Douglas L. Maskell

Monotonic circuits are a class of input–output mode (IOM) asynchronous circuits that are relaxed compared to quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) IOM asynchronous circuits in terms of signaling the completion of internal processing. Some recent works...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design of Mixed Analog/Digital Circuits, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,955 Views
25 Pages

Quasi Delay Insensitive Majority Voters for Triple Modular Redundancy Applications

  • Padmanabhan Balasubramanian,
  • Douglas L. Maskell and
  • Nikos E. Mastorakis

10 December 2019

Mission- and safety-critical applications tend to incorporate triple modular redundancy (TMR) in their hardware implementation to reliably withstand the fault or failure of any one of the function modules during normal operation, and the function mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,745 Views
19 Pages

Optimal Control for Aperiodic Dual-Rate Systems With Time-Varying Delays

  • Ernesto Aranda-Escolástico,
  • Julián Salt,
  • María Guinaldo,
  • Jesús Chacón and
  • Sebastián Dormido

9 May 2018

In this work, we consider a dual-rate scenario with slow input and fast output. Our objective is the maximization of the decay rate of the system through the suitable choice of the n-input signals between two measures (periodic sampling) and their ti...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,793 Views
27 Pages

1 March 2023

This study compares the performance of three different neural network models to estimate daily streamflow in a watershed under a natural flow regime. Based on existing and public tools, different types of NN models were developed, namely, multi-layer...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)

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