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15 Citations
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17 January 2021

Nine-link type double-toggle mold/die clamping mechanisms are widely used in modern injection molding machines and die casting machines in order to provide sufficient mold/die clamping force for counteracting the pressure occurred inside molds/dies....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Tolerance Analysis in the Era of Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,923 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2018

Inductive transducers are widely applied to active magnetic bearings (AMBs). However, when the rotor rotates at a high speed, the rotor defects will affect the measuring signal (the magnetic field generated by transducer coils) and then reduce the tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,333 Views
12 Pages

Error Averaging Effect in Parallel Mechanism Coordinate Measuring Machine

  • Peng-Hao Hu,
  • Chang-Wei Yu,
  • Kuang-Chao Fan,
  • Xue-Ming Dang and
  • Rui-Jun Li

25 November 2016

Error averaging effect is one of the advantages of a parallel mechanism when individual errors are relatively large. However, further investigation is necessary to clarify the evidence with mathematical analysis and experiment. In the developed paral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dimensional Micro and Nanometrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,243 Views
19 Pages

A Mechanical Error Correction Algorithm for Laser Human Body Scanning System

  • Yue Wang,
  • Jun Ren,
  • Yuan Xue,
  • Kaixuan Liu and ,
  • Fei Ma and
  • Maoya Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 January 2026

Human body measurement involves large-scale measurement. The acquisition of three-dimensional spatial coordinate data is a complex process. The errors which are generated in each stage of the process can potentially affect the final measurement data....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Revolutionizing Smart Manufacturing: Cutting-Edge Technologies in the Industry's Future)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,767 Views
10 Pages

5 February 2021

This paper systematically summarized the technical state of art and research results on the motion error of a linear guideway, corrected some misconceptions, and further clarified the relationship between the straightness error of the guide rail itse...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Review
  • Open Access
490 Views
34 Pages

A Review of Research on Travel Error in Planetary Roller Screw Mechanisms

  • Xiaoman Li,
  • Li Zu,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Haonan Cai and ,
  • Qizhi Wang,
  • Haoran Jin and
  • Huangkai He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 September 2026

Planetary roller screw mechanisms (PRSMs) are critical transmission components in high-end equipment and precision electromechanical systems, and their travel error directly affects motion accuracy and operational stability. This review systematicall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Precision Mechanical Transmission Systems: Design, Dynamics, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,253 Views
21 Pages

15 May 2020

A thermal-induced measurement error induced by thermal deformation of digital camera in photo mechanics methods that has the same magnitude of the error as that in the resistance strain measurement method reduces the accuracy of high-precision measur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimental Mechanics, Instrumentation and Metrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,079 Views
14 Pages

30 November 2016

Due to the urgent need for high precision surgical equipment for minimally invasive spinal surgery, a novel robot-assistant system was developed for the accurate placement of pedicle screws in lumbar spinal surgeries. The structure of the robot was b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,707 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2016

This paper presents technology for the suppression of the mechanical coupling errors for an improved decoupled dual-mass micro-gyroscope (DDMG). The improved micro-gyroscope structure decreases the moment arm of the drive decoupled torque, which bene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inertial Sensors and Systems 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,329 Views
26 Pages

Prediction Method of Aeroengine Rotor Assembly Errors Based on a Novel Multi-Axis Measuring and Connecting Mechanism

  • Tianyi Zhou,
  • Hang Gao,
  • Xuanping Wang,
  • Lun Li and ,
  • Jianfeng Chen and
  • Can Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The aeroengine industry has set strict upper limits for assembly errors in rotor-connecting processes, because assembly errors significantly affect aeroengine stability. Applications of multi-axis mechanisms have the potential to solve the low effici...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,927 Views
21 Pages

Research on Pose Error Modeling and Compensation of Posture Adjustment Mechanism Based on WOA-RBF Neural Network

  • Hongyu Shen,
  • Honggen Zhou,
  • Yiyang Jin,
  • Lei Li and ,
  • Bo Deng and
  • Jiawei Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 November 2024

This paper is aimed to address the issue of decreased accuracy in the ship block docking caused by the structural errors of posture adjustment mechanism. First, inverse kinematic analysis is performed to investigate the sources of static errors in th...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,453 Views
19 Pages

Error Fusion of Hybrid Neural Networks for Mechanical Condition Dynamic Prediction

  • Wentao Zhang,
  • Yucheng Liu,
  • Shaohui Zhang,
  • Tuzhi Long and
  • Jinglun Liang

11 June 2021

It is important for equipment to operate safely and reliably so that the working state of mechanical parts pushes forward an immense influence. Therefore, in order to enhance the dependability and security of mechanical equipment, to accurately predi...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,624 Views
18 Pages

The accuracy of the end-effector motion trajectory is a critical performance indicator for cable-driven parallel mechanisms. This study aims to address the problem of trajectory error during the end-effector motion in a cable-driven parallel mechanis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Applications of Parallel Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,679 Views
26 Pages

Statistical Analysis for Transmission Error of Gear System with Mechanical and Thermal Deformation Uncertainties

  • Joon-Ho Lee,
  • Hee-Sun Choi,
  • Jong-Hyeon Sohn,
  • Geun-Ho Lee and ,
  • Dong-Il Park and
  • Jin-Gyun Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 July 2021

We establish a robust algorithm to analyze the influence of system uncertainties on the transmission error of a spur gear pair under 2D simplification. The algorithm provides a way of generating smooth cutter profiles with machining uncertainties and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tribology and Mechanical Transmissions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,040 Views
13 Pages

10 April 2021

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of detecting and correcting various grammatical errors in texts. Many previous approaches to the GEC have used various mechanisms including rules, statistics, and their combinations. Recently, the perfor...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,031 Views
17 Pages

Thermal Error Transfer Prediction Modeling of Machine Tool Spindle with Self-Attention Mechanism-Based Feature Fusion

  • Yue Zheng,
  • Guoqiang Fu,
  • Sen Mu,
  • Caijiang Lu and ,
  • Xi Wang and
  • Tao Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 October 2024

Thermal errors affect machining accuracy in high-speed precision machining. The variability of machine tool operating conditions poses a challenge to the modeling of thermal errors. In this paper, a thermal error model based on transfer temperature f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Error Measurement, Analysis, and Compensation Technology for CNC Machine Tools)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,623 Views
21 Pages

Investigation of the Mechanical Characteristics of Linear Rolling Guides Considering Multiple Errors

  • Cheng Huang,
  • Wentao Zhou,
  • Wanli Liu,
  • Yupeng Yi and ,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Rulin Xiong,
  • Xiaobing Li and
  • Xing Du
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Existing research on the linear rolling guide has predominantly focused on performance under ideal conditions or isolated error types, while systematic studies concerning multi-error coupling mechanisms and their impact on internal contact parameters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,476 Views
24 Pages

Unraveling the Vibration Mechanism in Robotic Harmonic Drive: Coupled Dynamics Under Cyclic Inertial Loading and Installation Errors

  • Guolin He,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Yuan Zheng,
  • Huibin Lin and ,
  • Lei Xu and
  • Ziheng Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 November 2025

As a key component in robots, the harmonic drive directly impacts the reliability and lifespan of the whole system. Due to the cyclic inertial loading and installation errors, the harmonic drive possesses unique but complicated vibration features. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
707 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2026

To address the limitations of traditional analytical modeling in capturing complex surface topographies, this paper presents comprehensive research on the error sensitivity mechanism, loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA), and load-bearing contact cha...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,986 Views
24 Pages

Assembly Error Modeling and Tolerance Dynamic Allocation of Large-Scale Space Deployable Mechanism toward Service Performance

  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Lianyu Zheng,
  • Yiwei Wang,
  • Weiwei Yang and ,
  • Binbin Wang and
  • Bo Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 April 2023

As a satellite’s critical load-bearing structure, the large-scale space deployable mechanism (LSDM) is currently assembled using ground precision constraints, which ignores the difference between the ground and space environments. This has resu...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
525 Views
29 Pages

15 June 2026

Robotic belt finishing of turbine-blade edges is difficult to control because local edge radius, contact compliance, and the incoming profile state jointly affect the final residual profile error. This study develops a sensor-derived, mechanism-infor...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
290 Views
28 Pages

Assessing Gamma Index Sensitivity to Selected Linear Accelerator Mechanical Errors Using Various Dosimetric Systems

  • Hande Bas Ayata,
  • Gokhan Aydin,
  • Emrah Gokay Ozgur,
  • Zeynep Ozen and ,
  • Talip Celik and
  • Ozcan Gundogdu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 September 2026

Background: Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) involves highly modulated dose distributions and steep dose gradients, increasing the importance of patient-specific quality assurance (QA). Gamma index ana...

(This article belongs to the Section Oncology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,276 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2025

Every experimental measurement is affected by random and/or systematic error sources, causing the measurand to have an associated uncertainty quantified in terms of a confidence interval and confidence level. For high-accuracy spherical near-field an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Antenna Measurement Techniques)
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  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,526 Views
11 Pages

In this article, the information value is used in numeric analysis as both a method for data approximation and a measure of data equality among a set of values. To this end, a surface segmentation, based on a study for constructing a hierarchy for ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,033 Views
23 Pages

2 August 2022

This paper designs a new class of actuators for the downhole traction robot system to achieve high-accuracy transmission, which is realized by the planetary roller screw mechanism (PRSM). As the downhole environment is a non-structure one, which incr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oil and Gas Well Engineering Measurement and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
9,906 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2020

The rate of software development has increased dramatically. Conventional compilers cannot assess and detect all source code errors. Software may thus contain errors, negatively affecting end-users. It is also difficult to assess and detect source co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing: Emerging Neural Approaches and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
960 Views
17 Pages

Influence Mechanism of Quantization Error on the Key Parameters of the Whole-Angle Hemisphere Resonator Gyroscope

  • Xiuyue Yan,
  • Jingyu Li,
  • Pengbo Xiao,
  • Tao Xia and ,
  • Xingyuan Tang,
  • Yao Pan,
  • Kaiyong Yang and
  • Hui Luo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 January 2026

The whole-angle hemispherical resonator gyroscope (WA-HRG) is critical to high-precision attitude control and navigational positioning, boasting significant deployment potential in both highly dynamic inertial navigation systems and industrial instru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
30 Pages

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to interpret mechanical engineering drawings, yet the main risk is a wrong answer that reads as correct. We report an exploratory empirical study of how prompt design and evaluation shape the reliabi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Engineering: Intelligent Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Non-Destructive Techniques for Machinery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,783 Views
25 Pages

27 September 2021

Kinematic accuracy is a crucial indicator for evaluating the performance of mechanisms. Low-mobility parallel mechanisms are examples of parallel robots that have been successfully employed in many industrial fields. Previous studies analyzing the ki...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,932 Views
13 Pages

Coupled-Error-Based Formation Control for Rapid Formation Completion by Omni-Directional Robots

  • Ji-Wook Kwon,
  • Sung-Jo Yun,
  • Hyogon Kim,
  • Jungwoo Lee and ,
  • Na-Hyun Lee,
  • Young-Ho Choi and
  • Goobong Chung
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 May 2024

This paper proposes a coupled-error-based formation control algorithm for the rapid formation completion of multi-robot systems. We consider a multi-robot system with omni-directional robots with swerve-driving mechanisms and a communication system w...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,118 Views
19 Pages

Secure Cryptographic Key Encapsulation and Recovery Scheme in Noisy Network Conditions

  • Dina Ghanai Miandoab,
  • Michael Logan Garrett,
  • Mahafujul Alam,
  • Saloni Jain and ,
  • Sareh Assiri and
  • Bertrand Cambou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 March 2025

In this study, we present the Response-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism (R-KEM), an ephemeral key encapsulation and recovery scheme tailored for cryptographic systems in high-noise, high-jamming network environments. By adopting the Challenge–...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Prospects for Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,679 Views
28 Pages

The industrial application motivating this work is the fatigue computation of aircraft engines’ high-pressure turbine blades. The material model involves nonlinear elastoviscoplastic behavior laws, for which the parameters depend on the tempera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning, Low-Rank Approximations and Reduced Order Modeling in Computational Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,698 Views
23 Pages

18 September 2024

This study presents a comprehensive geometric modeling and error propagation analysis for a 3-degrees-of-freedom spindle head, focusing on an over-constrained parallel mechanism. Four geometric error models are established for the over-constrained sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,468 Views
18 Pages

21 January 2021

Due to the requirements of manufacturing miniaturized high-tech products, micromachining with micromachine tools has come to be regarded as an important technology. The main goal of this study is to build up the key technologies, including optimal st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Applied Sciences: Invited Papers in Mechanical Engineering Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,090 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2026

This paper proposes a high-speed static random access memory (SRAM) architecture that integrates a self-refresh mechanism with a novel single error and adjacent-bit errors correction (SEABEC) scheme to enhance resilience against single-event upsets (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Reliability Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,887 Views
20 Pages

Positioning Error Analysis and Control of a Piezo-Driven 6-DOF Micro-Positioner

  • Chao Lin,
  • Shan Zheng,
  • Pingyang Li,
  • Zhonglei Shen and
  • Shuang Wang

17 August 2019

This paper presents a positioning error model and a control compensation scheme for a six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) micro-positioner based on a compliant mechanism and piezoelectric actuators (PZT). The positioning error model is established by means...

  • Article
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879 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2025

This paper proposes a geometrically intuitive error modeling method for planar parallel mechanisms (PPMs) based on conformal geometric algebra (CGA). First, the end point of each limb is determined through rotational transformations in geometric alge...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,996 Views
14 Pages

This article studies the convolutional kernel function of fractal operators in bone fibers. On the basis of the micro-nano composite structure of compact bone, we abstracted the physical fractal space of bone fibers and derived the fractal operators....

(This article belongs to the Section Life Science, Biophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,532 Views
14 Pages

24 December 2020

The flat-plate momentum test bench is a widely used experimental device in the verification of the momentum law of fluid mechanics, and its error characteristics are of positive significance for theoretical research and engineering innovation and exp...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,373 Views
18 Pages

15 May 2025

Accurate current sensing in rectangular conductors is challenged by mechanical deformations, including eccentricity (X/Y-axis shifts) and inclination (Z-axis tilt), which distort magnetic field distributions and induce measurement errors. To address...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,331 Views
27 Pages

Forecasting in Blockchain-Based Local Energy Markets

  • Michael Kostmann and
  • Wolfgang K. Härdle

16 July 2019

Increasingly volatile and distributed energy production challenges traditional mechanisms to manage grid loads and price energy. Local energy markets (LEMs) may be a response to those challenges as they can balance energy production and consumption l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Forecasting Intraday Electricity Markets)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
3,017 Views
18 Pages

Online Measurement Error Detection for the ElectronicTransformer in a Smart Grid

  • Gu Xiong,
  • Krzysztof Przystupa,
  • Yao Teng,
  • Wang Xue and ,
  • Wang Huan,
  • Zhou Feng,
  • Xiang Qiong,
  • Chunzhi Wang,
  • Mikołaj Skowron and
  • Mykola Beshley
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

15 June 2021

With the development of smart power grids, electronic transformers have been widely used to monitor the online status of power grids. However, electronic transformers have the drawback of poor long-term stability, leading to a requirement for frequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,453 Views
18 Pages

Intelligent Calibration of a Heavy-Duty Mechanical Arm in Coal Mine

  • Yunhong Jia,
  • Xiaodong Zhang,
  • Zhenchong Wang and
  • Wei Wang

Accurate positioning of an airborne heavy-duty mechanical arm in coal mine, such as a roof bolter, is important for the efficiency and safety of coal mining. Its positioning accuracy is affected not only by geometric errors but also by nongeometric e...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Views
26 Pages

1 November 2026

This paper investigates the performance-constrained formation control issues for multiple underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) under uncertain dynamics and the limited communication bandwidth. Firstly, an auxiliary input–output transf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Cooperative Control and Application of Unmanned Surface/Underwater Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
837 Views
11 Pages

25 August 2025

This paper presents an investigation into the mechanical performance of a subway station prefabricated assembly air duct (PAAD), constructed by assembling the prefabricated reinforced concrete segments. The study is implemented through numerical anal...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,373 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2022

It is common to estimate underground mining-induced subsidence from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) displacement observations by Neglecting hOrizontal moVements (NOV). Such a strategy would cause large errors in the NOV-estimated sub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Remote Sensing for Planning, Management, and Maintenance of Renewable Energy Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,272 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2022

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with a 28-nm process have become popular devices for computing systems. Although current generation FPGAs have advantages over previous models, the phenomenon of circuit aging has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
621 Views
29 Pages

Mechanism Modeling and Hybrid Algorithm-Based Calibration Method for Current Setting Range of Motor Starters

  • Xin Ru,
  • Lihe Li,
  • Zongjun Nie,
  • Jianguo Hu and ,
  • Jianqiang Li and
  • Laihu Peng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 March 2026

Motor starter calibration requires long-distance rotation of a setting cam to locate current graduation points, generating substantial non-value-added mechanical travel time on production lines. This paper proposes a cam pre-adjustment angle predicti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
561 Views
21 Pages

Error Analysis and Drive Optimization of a Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot

  • Suyang Yu,
  • Yihao Song,
  • Changlong Ye,
  • Huaiyong Li and
  • Chaoben Shi

Cable-driven minimally invasive surgical robots suffer from significant motion inaccuracies due to nonlinear transmission effects such as friction, elasticity, and hysteresis. These factors lead to strong nonlinear and direction-dependent behaviors,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Control of Surgical Robots)

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