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  • Article
  • Open Access
835 Views
31 Pages

9 August 2025

With the accelerated electrification of engineering machinery, the battery pack mounting system plays a critical role in enhancing the vehicle’s structural safety and vibration-damping performance. This paper proposes an optimization framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,161 Views
21 Pages

Optimization Study on the Comfort of Human-Seat Coupling System in the Cab of Construction Machinery

  • Lei Cheng,
  • Hansheng Wen,
  • Xiangyu Ni,
  • Chao Zhuang,
  • Wenjian Zhang and
  • Haibo Huang

27 December 2022

The seat of a construction machinery cab is used as the research object. For the current human-seat coupling system comfort research methods and optimization index deficiencies, the seat body pressure comfort and vibration comfort at the same time op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
27 Pages

Optimization of Electro-Hydraulic System Power Matching for the Main Transmission Chain of Heavy Machinery

  • Yue Wang,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Yuhang Zhao,
  • Mingyue Wang,
  • Jiaxin Sui,
  • Ying Li and
  • Xiangdong Kong

19 February 2026

Crawler cranes suffer from power mismatch in their electro-mechanical–hydraulic main drive system under sudden load variations and multi-action coupling conditions, which results in low energy utilization efficiency. This study establishes an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,674 Views
29 Pages

Safe navigation for maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) is a challenging task, and generally highly dependent on effective collaboration between multiple sub-systems in environments with various levels of uncertainty. This paper presents a novel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,784 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2020

When considering waste heat recovery systems for marine applications, which are estimated to be suitable to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions up to 20%, the use of organic Rankine cycle power systems has been proven to lead to higher savings compar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,548 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2023

Present agricultural practices confront issues such as mismatches between tractors and implements, imprecise machinery allocation, and excessive machinery investment. Optimization of agricultural machinery systems was a potent remedy for these concer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,347 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2019

The selection of a proper machinery system is one of the primary decisions to be taken during the ship design phase. Nonetheless, this selection is made challenging by the presence of a variety of alternatives, and by the limited data availability at...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,445 Views
9 Pages

The present article shows the most significant steps to be taken in the process of the development of an automated system for fuel tank level monitoring and machinery location checking to optimize accessibility and mobile tracking. Fuel or energy con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,119 Views
25 Pages

An Intelligent CFD-Based Optimization System for Fluid Machinery: Automotive Electronic Pump Case Application

  • Qiaorui Si,
  • Rong Lu,
  • Chunhao Shen,
  • Shuijing Xia,
  • Guochen Sheng and
  • Jianping Yuan

3 January 2020

Improving the efficiency of fluid machinery is an eternal topic, and the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology provides an opportunity to achieve optimal design in limited time. A multi-objective design process based on CFD and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2026

With advancements in simulation technology, fluid–thermal interaction (FTI) has become a vital tool in machinery powertrain development. Traditional engine cooling systems, with mechanically coupled components like water pumps and fans, lack ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,969 Views
16 Pages

8 March 2022

Agricultural machinery rental is a new service form that uses big data in agriculture to improve the utilization rate of agricultural machinery and promote the development of the agricultural economy. To realize agricultural machinery scheduling opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,175 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Analysis and Parameter Optimization of the Cutting System for Castor Harvester Picking Devices

  • Fanting Kong,
  • Defu Wang,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Huinan Huang,
  • Qing Xie,
  • Teng Wu,
  • Yongfei Sun and
  • Changlin Chen

7 February 2023

Our study aimed to identify a design which would reduce cutting resistance during the harvesting of castor. This paper presents a theoretical study of the wave-type disc cutter, which plays an important role in castor harvesting. Based on the SPH&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,070 Views
19 Pages

Research on an Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Unmanned Driving System

  • Haoling Ren,
  • Jiangdong Wu,
  • Tianliang Lin,
  • Yu Yao and
  • Chang Liu

28 September 2023

Intelligent agricultural machinery refers to machinery that can independently complete tasks in the field, which has great significance for the transformation of agricultural modernization. However, most of the existing research on intelligent agricu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,282 Views
19 Pages

12 July 2022

Path-tracking control algorithms in agriculture typically focus on how to improve the trajectory-tracking performance of autonomous agricultural machinery, and the agricultural productivity is optimized in a two-layer way. The upper operational layer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
921 Views
23 Pages

7 November 2025

Efficient scheduling of agricultural machinery is critical for optimizing resource utilization and reducing operational costs in modern farming operations. This study proposes an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm integrated with Ant Colony Optimization (AGA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,553 Views
17 Pages

A Low-Cost Add-On Sensor and Algorithm to Help Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Monitor Machinery and Schedule Processes

  • Yi-Chung Chen,
  • Kuo-Cheng Ting,
  • Yo-Ming Chen,
  • Don-Lin Yang,
  • Hsi-Min Chen and
  • Josh Jia-Ching Ying

14 April 2019

Since the concept of Industry 4.0 emerged, an increasing number of major manufacturers have incorporated relevant technologies to monitor machinery and schedule processes so as to increase yield and optimize production. However, most machinery monito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,013 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Criteria Approach for Selecting Optimal Dozer Type in Open-Cast Coal Mining

  • Ivan Jankovic,
  • Stevan Djenadic,
  • Dragan Ignjatovic,
  • Predrag Jovancic,
  • Tomislav Subaranovic and
  • Ivica Ristovic

12 June 2019

In a continuous system of production in open-cast coal mining, in addition to the basic machinery which consists of highly productive machines (bucket-wheel excavators, bucket-chain excavators, spreaders, conveyor-belt transporters, etc.) that provid...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,964 Views
38 Pages

Key Technologies in Intelligent Seeding Machinery for Cereals: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

  • Wei Liu,
  • Jinhao Zhou,
  • Tengfei Zhang,
  • Pengcheng Zhang,
  • Mengjiao Yao,
  • Jinhong Li,
  • Zitong Sun,
  • Guoxin Ma,
  • Xinxin Chen and
  • Jianping Hu

The operational performance of cereal seeding machinery influences the yield and quality of cereals. In this article, we review the existing literature on intelligent technologies for cereal seeding machinery, encompassing active controllable seeding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,422 Views
19 Pages

1 December 2017

Firms engaged in remanufacturing activities generally adopt more than one recycling channel to collect more used products and gain more profits. This paper explores the optimal strategies for a retailer-dominated closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,664 Views
18 Pages

To improve the speed regulating characteristics of continuously variable transmission for agricultural machinery, in order to meet the engineering and technical requirements of precision agriculture and intelligent agriculture, the paper researches a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
6,638 Views
18 Pages

28 January 2022

In view of the problems existing in the process of agricultural machinery selection, such as inadequate decision-making information, strong subjectivity and quantification difficulty of the index weight assignment, and accuracy deficiency of the sele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,113 Views
23 Pages

Control Strategy of Speed Segmented Variable Constant Power Powertrain of Electric Construction Machinery

  • Zhongshen Li,
  • Yuanzheng Lin,
  • Qihuai Chen,
  • Kai Wu,
  • Tianliang Lin,
  • Haoling Ren and
  • Wen Gong

27 September 2022

Energy conservation and emission reduction have become a global development consensus. Traditional construction machinery driven by an engine has high energy consumption and poor emission. Electric construction machinery is considered to be one of th...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,752 Views
4 Pages

This editorial discusses the importance of Advanced Fluid Machinery in the sustainable development of energy. Fluid machinery is crucial in many engineering applications, including aerospace, civil, mechanical, and chemical engineering. This Special...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,442 Views
20 Pages

A Consortium Blockchain-Based Agricultural Machinery Scheduling System

  • Haotian Yang,
  • Shuming Xiong,
  • Samuel Akwasi Frimpong and
  • Mingzheng Zhang

6 May 2020

The introduction of a consortium blockchain-based agricultural machinery scheduling system will help improve the transparency and efficiency of the data flow within the sector. Currently, the traditional agricultural machinery centralized scheduling...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,252 Views
28 Pages

The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is an innovative numerical computational approach. This method is employed to study and resolve the motion patterns of particles within discrete systems, contact mechanics properties, mechanisms of separation process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,001 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of Cab Vibration Comfort for Construction Machinery Based on Multi-Target Regression Forests

  • Chao Zhuang,
  • Hansheng Wen,
  • Xiangyu Ni,
  • Da Zhang,
  • Yangyang Bao and
  • Haibo Huang

1 December 2022

With the increasing awareness of the importance of environmental protection and the fierce competition in the construction machinery market, improving the vibration comfort of a whole construction machine has become a new focus of competition; theref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
952 Views
22 Pages

Detection and Tracking of Environmental Sensing System for Construction Machinery Autonomous Operation Application

  • Junyi Chen,
  • Qipeng Cai,
  • Xinhai Hu,
  • Qihuai Chen,
  • Tianliang Lin and
  • Haoling Ren

6 July 2025

There are a large number of unstructured scenes and special targets in the construction machinery application scene, which brings greater interference to the environment sensing system for Construction Machinery Autonomous Operation Application. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,388 Views
19 Pages

16 May 2024

The push for environmental sustainability has accelerated the acceptance of electric vehicles, as well as the exploration of electrified Non-Road Mobile Machinery. This study emphasizes the challenges of electrifying off-highway machinery, which incl...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,954 Views
12 Pages

10 April 2023

Although stochastic resonance (SR) has been widely used to enhance weak fault signatures in machinery and has obtained remarkable achievements in engineering application, the parameter optimization of the existing SR-based methods requires the quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,510 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2025

As a core component of agricultural machinery autonomous navigation, path tracking control holds significant research value. The pure pursuit algorithm has become a prevalent method for agricultural vehicle navigation due to its effectiveness at low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,110 Views
19 Pages

Cell Formation and Intra-Cell Optimal Machine Location in CMS: A Novel Genetic Algorithm (GA) Based on Machine Encoding

  • Xuanyi Wu,
  • Wenling Li,
  • Muhammad Rizwan,
  • Qazi Salman Khalid,
  • Mohammed Alkahtani and
  • Fahad M. Alqahtani

14 November 2023

Manufacturing industries are in a constant state of competition to attract customers in a variety of methods. Group Technology (GT) is a term used in the field of manufacturing for grouping similar elements based on their similarities in production a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,242 Views
18 Pages

The development of agricultural farming has evolved from traditional agricultural machinery due to its efficiency and autonomy. Intelligent agricultural machinery is capable of autonomous driving and remote control, but due to its limited perception...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,413 Views
35 Pages

Fault Diagnosis for Rotating Machinery Based on Dimensionless Indices: Current Status, Development, Technologies, and Future Directions

  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Naiquan Su,
  • Binbin Qin,
  • Guoxi Sun,
  • Xiaoyuan Jing,
  • Shaolin Hu,
  • Yebin Cai and
  • Lingmeng Zhou

13 December 2024

Operational safety and reliability have become increasingly paramount in large and complex rotating machinery in industrial manufacturing. Recent strides in data-driven fault diagnosis have significantly advanced the fields of machinery health assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,928 Views
25 Pages

26 December 2023

Fault detection of machinery systems is a fundamental prerequisite to implementing condition-based maintenance, which is the most eminent manufacturing equipment system management strategy. To build the fault detection model, one-class classification...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,997 Views
40 Pages

3 July 2025

The scenario adaptability of agricultural machinery chassis in hilly and mountainous regions has become a key area of innovation in modern agricultural equipment development in China. Due to the fragmented nature of farmland, steep terrain (often exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,850 Views
14 Pages

Integrating AI and IoT for Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Environments: A Practical Approach

  • Rajnish Rakholia,
  • Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo,
  • Manokamna Singh and
  • Ricardo Simón Carbajo

26 August 2025

Predictive maintenance is a crucial component of smart manufacturing in Industry 4.0, utilizing data from IoT sensor networks and machine learning algorithms to predict equipment failures before they happen. This proactive approach enables timely mai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,090 Views
12 Pages

26 July 2022

The harvesting and hauling operations of bioenergy feedstock is an important area in biofuel production. Production costs can be minimized by maintaining optimal machinery units for these operations. The objective of this study is to design an optima...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,538 Views
38 Pages

Review of Agricultural Machinery Seat Semi-Active Suspension Systems for Ride Comfort

  • Xiaoliang Chen,
  • Zhelu Wang,
  • Haoyou Shi,
  • Nannan Jiang,
  • Sixia Zhao,
  • Yiqing Qiu and
  • Qing Liu

18 March 2025

This paper systematically reviews research progress in semi-active suspension systems for agricultural machinery seats, focusing on key technologies and methods to enhance ride comfort. First, through an analysis of the comfort evaluation indicators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,880 Views
27 Pages

9 July 2025

In modern industrial systems, establishing the optimal maintenance policy for rotating machinery is essential to improve productivity and prevent catastrophic accidents. To this end, many machinery engineers have been interested in condition-based ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
955 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2025

To address the issues of signal loss and insufficient accuracy of traditional GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) navigation in agricultural machinery sheds and farm access road environments, this paper proposes a high-precision mapping method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,385 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2022

Smart farming uses advanced tools and technologies such as intelligent agricultural machines, high-precision sensors, navigation systems, and sophisticated computer systems to increase the economic benefits of agriculture and reduce the associated hu...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,644 Views
3 Pages

Energy Optimization for Agriculture and Agroengineering Systems

  • Alla Nozhevnikova,
  • Valeriy Kharchenko and
  • Vladimir Panchenko

28 June 2023

The use of energy (and renewable energy, in particular) plays an important role in agriculture, where technologies are also being improved from year to year—agricultural production is growing, and machinery and systems are becoming more autonom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,398 Views
23 Pages

Electrification of Agricultural Machinery: One Design Case of a 4 kW Air Compressor

  • Hsin-Chang Chen,
  • Yulian Fatkur Rohman,
  • Muhammmad Bilhaq Ashlah,
  • Hao-Ting Lin and
  • Wu-Yang Sean

24 July 2024

In response to the global pursuit of net-zero carbon emissions, the electrification of agricultural machinery is becoming a significant research and development trend. This study introduces the overall design of a 4 kW air compressor aimed at achievi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
25 Pages

14 December 2025

The high-precision establishment of drive motor models and “pump-motor” system models is crucial for the development of the agricultural machinery powertrain. The research of this paper studied the series combination of electric drive con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,036 Views
26 Pages

Explainable Fault Classification and Severity Diagnosis in Rotating Machinery Using Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks

  • Spyros Rigas,
  • Michalis Papachristou,
  • Ioannis Sotiropoulos and
  • Georgios Alexandridis

9 April 2025

Rolling element bearings are critical components of rotating machinery, with their performance directly influencing the efficiency and reliability of industrial systems. At the same time, bearing faults are a leading cause of machinery failures, ofte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,156 Views
19 Pages

Method and Experiment for Quantifying Local Features of Hard Bottom Contours When Driving Intelligent Farm Machinery in Paddy Fields

  • Tuanpeng Tu,
  • Lian Hu,
  • Xiwen Luo,
  • Jie He,
  • Pei Wang,
  • Li Tian,
  • Gaolong Chen,
  • Zhongxian Man,
  • Dawen Feng and
  • Yuqin Li
  • + 6 authors

23 July 2023

The hard bottom layer of a paddy field has a great influence on the driving stability and the operation quality and efficiency of intelligent farm machinery. For paddy field machinery, continuous improvements in the accuracy and operation efficiency...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,282 Views
30 Pages

16 June 2025

Automation in agricultural machinery, underpinned by the integration of advanced technologies, is revolutionizing sustainable farming practices. Key enabling technologies include multi-source positioning fusion (e.g., RTK-GNSS/LiDAR), intelligent per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,277 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2025

Voltage withstand tests on stator bars can cause destructive phenomena such as thermal breakdown and flashover discharge on the surface of the anti-corona layer. This study optimizes the anti-corona structure at a stator bar’s end to prevent su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,071 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2019

As an important part of the turbomachinery, the rotor–bearing system has been upgraded to provide a high rotating speed in order to meet the demand of high power production. With increasing demand for stability, the squeeze film damper (SFD) has been...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,322 Views
25 Pages

Research Status and Development Trends of Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Intelligent Transformation of Agricultural Machinery

  • Jiamuyang Zhao,
  • Shuxiang Fan,
  • Baohua Zhang,
  • Aichen Wang,
  • Liyuan Zhang and
  • Qingzhen Zhu

With the acceleration of agricultural intelligent transformation, deep reinforcement learning (DRL), leveraging its adaptive perception and decision-making capabilities in complex environments, has emerged as a pivotal technology in advancing the int...

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