Defanging equipment layout in multi-floor satellites consists of two primary tasks: (i) allocating the equipment to the satellite’s layers and (ii) placing the equipment in each layer individually. In reviewing the previous literature in this f...
Automotive industries require constant technological development and the capacity to adapt to market needs. Hence, component suppliers must be able to adapt to persistent trend changes and technical improvements, acting in response to customers&rsquo...
Material handling is a widely used process in manufacturing and is generally considered a non-value-added process. The Dynamic Facility Layout Problem (DFLP) considered in this paper minimizes the total material handling and re-arrangement cost. In t...
Helmet comfort has always been important for the evaluation of infantry equipment accessories and has for decades not been well addressed. To evaluate the stability and comfort of the helmet, this paper proposes a novel type of helmet comfort measuri...
Due to market competition, manufacturers typically produce their products with different customized features, leading to the production of product variants (or a product family). Since the market trend can change swiftly, the demands of individual pr...
Assembly Workshops with Island Layout (AWIL) possess flexible production capabilities that realize product diversification. To cope with the complex scheduling challenges in flexible workshops, improve resource utilization, reduce waste, and enhance...
This study proposes an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to optimize the workstation layout in multi-product handcrafted furniture workshops with simultaneous manufacturing. The algorithm models the arrangement of workstations within a limited space, enhan...
Fully autonomous vehicles are not yet available for consumers to experience; however, as experts predict they will be ready for the consumer market in the not-too-distant future, it is important to consider the spatial design of such vehicles. As the...
The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) and multi-row workshop layout problem (MRWLP) are two major focuses in sustainable manufacturing processes. There is a close interaction between them since the FJSSP provides the material handling info...
The increasing prevalence of hypertension necessitates continuous blood pressure monitoring. This can be safely and painlessly achieved using non-invasive wearable electronic devices. However, the integration of analog, digital, and power electronics...
Poor layout designs in manufacturing facilities severely reduce production efficiency and increase short- and long-term costs. Analyzing and deriving efficient layouts for novel line designs or improvements to existing lines considering both the layo...
Openings such as windows and doors are essential components of architectural wall surfaces. It is still a challenge to reconstruct them robustly from unstructured 3D point clouds because of occlusions, noises and non-uniformly distributed points. Cur...
Layout design is the process in which industrial robots and other manufacturing components are positioned within a manufacturing system so that the intended operations can be handled appropriately. The traditional layout design process presents sever...
The proportions of container transshipment is the key factor in determining the proportion of automated guided vehicle (AGV) and external container truck operations. In terms of parallel and perpendicular layouts of automated container terminals (ACT...
Monitoring geotechnical structures and providing real-time early warning is a key measure to mitigate the impacts of disasters (slope slip, subsidence, dam deformation, bridge settlement, etc.). The fiber Bragg grating (FBG) flexible sensor, develope...
This paper discusses a flexible design method of cell traps based on the topology optimization of fluidic flows. Being different from the traditional method, this method obtains the periodic layout of the cell traps according to the cell trapping req...
We address issues in existing house layout generation methods, including chaotic room layouts, limited iterative refinement, and restricted style diversity. We propose Graph-RWGAN, a generative adversarial network based on a multi-relational graph at...
This study investigated how icon array layouts influence comprehension of medical risk information, particularly in relation to users’ cognitive abilities. In a within-subjects experiment (N = 121), participants reviewed clinical scenarios with...
The problem of soft coal-seam wall spalling is more prominent in the deep mining process, which seriously restricts the safety and sustainability of mining. The horizontal ground stress is usually ignored in the analysis of the coal-wall spalling mec...
This paper proposes a comprehensive Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation for the simultaneous scheduling of machines and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) within a partitioned Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). The main objective is t...
This paper investigates how the layout strategies of Xuanying’s Yiqiejing yinyi (mid-7th c.), the earliest surviving Chinese Buddhist glossary, evolved across manuscripts, Buddhist Canon editions, and Qing-era scholarly reprints from the 7th to...
The idea of this paper comes from the need for a practical layout design for the subsea pipe line network and the power transmission network of offshore wind farms with subsea cables, which are both subsea transmission networks with line-shaped condu...
Traditional urban design is time-consuming and laborious. We propose a computer-generated architecture (CGA)-based workflow in this work, with the goal of allowing designers to take advantage of a high level of automation. This workflow is based on p...
The recent global pandemic has sped up architectural research in residential design aimed at rethinking housing layouts, services, and construction methods to accommodate the changing needs of the rapidly evolving contemporary society. New typologica...
The curation design of cultural heritage sites, such as museums, influence the level of visitor satisfaction and the possibility of revisitation; therefore, an efficient exhibit layout is critical. The difficulty of determining the behavior of visito...
Thin-walled structures have problems such as low stiffness, large deflection, and vibration. The layout of rib reinforcement in thin-walled structures plays a vital role in providing structural strength and rigidity and reducing structural weight. A...
With the growth of residential rooftop PV adoption in recent decades, the problem of effective layout design has become increasingly important in recent years. Although a number of automated methods have been introduced, these tend to rely on simplif...
Effective Construction Site Layout Planning (CSLP) ensures the organized placement and sizing of temporary facilities, enhancing workflow and logistical efficiency. Poorly planned layouts, however, can increase material handling times, create bottlen...
With the increasing aging of the global population, the efficiency and accuracy of the elderly monitoring system become crucial. In this paper, a sensor layout optimization method, the Fusion Genetic Gray Wolf Optimization (FGGWO) algorithm, is propo...
This paper investigates the hydroelastic responses of offshore floating solar photovoltaic farms (OFPVs). OFPVs usually occupy a large sea space in the order of hectares and structural deformation under wave action has to be taken into consideration...
In large-scale photovoltaic (PV) power plants, the integration of a battery energy storage system (BESS) permits a more flexible operation, allowing the plant to support grid stability. In hybrid PV+BESS plants, the storage system can be integrated b...
EAF steelmaking based on renewable electricity allows for low-CO2 steel production. However, the increased integration of volatile renewable energies into the energy system requires the provision of flexibility options. In view of the substantial oxy...
The operations performance of a railway station depends on the compatibility of its layout and the traffic pattern. It is necessary to determining an adaptable station layout for a railway station in accordance with its complex traffic pattern during...
The paper deals with the issue of the mixed-reality usage in the design of production systems, its changes during expansion, or technological changes in the production, where it is necessary to flexibly and quickly verify the integration of a new mac...
Floating breakwater layouts require flexible adjustment to accommodate sheltered area bathymetry. However, most studies have focused solely on straight layouts and have neglected the influence of complex nearshore bathymetry and structures. This work...
Compared with the traditional rigid solar wings, flexible solar arrays are characterized by light weight and high stowing/deployment ratio, and the repeatable stowing/deployment flexible solar arrays have become one of the hotspots of solar arrays re...
A nuclear power plant is one of the power sources that shares a large portion of base-load. However, as the proportion of renewable energy increases, nuclear power plants will be required to generate power more flexibly due to the intermittency of th...
This paper presents an enhanced Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm tailored for optimizing CMOS physical design in VLSI circuits. As device complexity escalates, traditional placement techniques struggle with multiobjective goals such as minimiz...
A cellular-based evolutionary topology optimization scheme over a small curvature big contour wing surface is proposed for the design of an ultralight surface structure. Using this method, a ground-structure technique is first applied to obtain homog...
Feature Analysis has become a very critical task in data analysis and visualization. Graph structures are very flexible in terms of representation and may encode important information on features but are challenging in regards to layout being adequat...
Wavelength selective switches (WSSs) are essential elements for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks, as they offer cost-effective, high port-count and flexible spectral channel switching. This work proposes a new hybrid WSS archit...
The design of the work area of a robotic cell is currently an iterative process of trial and improvement, where, in the best cases, the user places the workstations and robotic manipulators in a 3D virtual environment to then semi-automatically verif...
The dynamics of milling circuits, particularly those involving Semi-Autogenous Grinding (SAG) mills, are not adequately studied, despite their critical importance in mineral processing. This paper aims to investigate the dynamic behavior of an SAG mi...
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are widely used in flexible manufacturing systems for material handling inside the factory. Traffic management strategies, required to guarantee a conflict-free operation of the overall fleet, discretize the workspace...
This research article proposes a compact frequency and pattern reconfigurable flexible antenna for heterogeneous applications. A triangular monopole antenna with a semicircular stub is made frequency and pattern tunable by connecting and disconnectin...
With the expansion of Chinese university campuses, electric bikes (E-bikes) have become the most sustainable and effective commuting option because they are a flexible and energy-saving travel mode. Consequently, campus E-bike charging piles have bec...
With the widespread application and functional complexity of deep neural networks (DNNs), the demand for training samples is increasing. This elevated requirement also extends to DNN-based SAR object detection. Most public SAR object detection datase...
In this paper, we propose a novel design and optimization environment for inertial MEMS devices based on a computationally efficient schematization of the structure at the a device level. This allows us to obtain a flexible and efficient design optim...
Aesthetic evaluation of increasingly complex and personalized human–computer interaction interfaces serves as a critical bridge between humans and machines, fundamentally enhancing various interaction factors. This study addresses the challenge...
In the context of the great research pulse on clean energy transition, distributed energy systems have a key role, especially in the case of integration of both renewable and traditional energy sources. The stable interest in small-scale gas turbines...
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