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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,868 Views
17 Pages

21 October 2019

In this study, we investigated a novel method for high-accuracy autonomous alignment of a strapdown inertial navigation system assisted by Doppler radar on a vehicle-borne moving base, which effectively avoids the measurement errors caused by wheel-s...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,949 Views
22 Pages

A Polar Moving Base Alignment Based on Backtracking Scheme

  • Jianhua Cheng,
  • Jiaxin Liu,
  • Yu Wang and
  • Jing Cai

In the polar region, the gravity vector and Earth’s rotation vector tend to be in the same direction, leading to a slower convergence speed and longer alignment time of the moving base alignment. When the alignment time is short, the alignment...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,321 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2017

Initial alignment of the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) is intended to determine the initial attitude matrix in a short time with certain accuracy. The alignment accuracy of the quaternion filter algorithm is remarkable, but the converge...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,481 Views
28 Pages

In-Motion Initial Alignment Method Based on Multi-Source Information Fusion for Special Vehicles

  • Zhenjun Chang,
  • Zhili Zhang,
  • Zhaofa Zhou,
  • Xinyu Li,
  • Shiwen Hao and
  • Huadong Sun

25 February 2025

To address the urgent demand for autonomous rapid initial alignment of vehicular inertial navigation systems in complex battlefield environments, this study overcomes the technical limitations of traditional stationary base alignment methods by propo...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
337 Views
26 Pages

17 August 2026

To address the degradation in attitude accuracy caused by mismatched rotation-axis tilt parameters after inertial measurement unit (IMU) reinstallation in rotational inertial navigation systems (RINSs) on large marine platforms, an interleaved rotati...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,106 Views
29 Pages

Under large azimuth misalignment conditions, the initial alignment of strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS) is challenged by the nonlinear characteristics of the error model. Traditional particle filter (PF) algorithms suffer from the inapprop...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,254 Views
40 Pages

Single-Axis Rotational Inertial Navigation Systems for USVs: A Review of Key Technologies

  • Enqing Su,
  • Junwei Wang,
  • Weijie Sheng,
  • Yi Mou,
  • Teng Li and
  • Jianguo Liu

30 April 2026

In complex marine environments, achieving low-cost, highly reliable, and continuous navigation is crucial for the intelligent and autonomous operation of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Currently, the integrated Global Navigation Satellite System a...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,791 Views
10 Pages

15 November 2023

Moving animal groups consist of many distinct individuals but can operate and function as one unit when performing different tasks. Effectively evading unexpected predator attacks is one primary task for many moving groups. The current explanation fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,861 Views
23 Pages

A Fast North-Finding Algorithm on the Moving Pedestal Based on the Technology of Extended State Observer (ESO)

  • Yunchao Bai,
  • Bing Li,
  • Haosu Zhang,
  • Sheng Wang,
  • Debao Yan,
  • Ziheng Gao and
  • Wenchao Pan

5 October 2022

We propose a kind of fast and high-precision alignment algorithm based on the ESO technology. Firstly, in order to solve the problems of rapid, high-accuracy, and anti-interference alignment on the moving pedestal in the north-seeker, the ESO technol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robots for Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,735 Views
14 Pages

Glucose Concentration Measurement by All-Grating-Based System

  • Hung-Chih Hsieh,
  • Yi-Ming Lu and
  • Ke-Cheng Huang

23 April 2023

An accurate, easy setup, low-cost, and time-saving method for measuring glucose concentration was proposed. An all-grating-based glucose concentration measurement system contained moving-grating-based heterodyne interferometry and a grating-based sel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing Technology in Blood Glucose Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,725 Views
12 Pages

Towards Realizing High-Throughput, Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Flexible Electronic Systems

  • Xiaohui Lin,
  • Harish Subbaraman,
  • Zeyu Pan,
  • Amir Hosseini,
  • Chris Longe,
  • Klay Kubena,
  • Paul Schleicher,
  • Phillip Foster,
  • Sean Brickey and
  • Ray T. Chen

14 November 2014

High-rate roll-to-roll (R2R) tracker systems are utilized for large volume flexible electronic device manufacturing, and the current alignment mechanism between layers is mainly achieved by relying on passive techniques. In this paper, we present a m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flexible Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,310 Views
20 Pages

4 May 2019

During the construction of prefabricated building, there are some problems such as a time consuming, low-level of automation when precast concrete members are assembled and positioned. This paper presents vision-based intelligent assembly alignment g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,586 Views
14 Pages

A simple and effective method for camera positioning and alignment control for robotic pick-and-place tasks is described here. A parallelogram feature is encoded into each 3D object or target location. To determine the pose of each part and guide the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,475 Views
9 Pages

Alignment System and Application for a Micro/Nanofluidic Chip

  • Junyao Wang,
  • Lu-lu Han,
  • Ye-ming Sun and
  • Tian-yi Su

24 November 2018

In this paper, a direct pre-bonding technology after alignment of the chip is presented to avoid the post-misalignment problem caused by the transferring process from an alignment platform to a heating oven. An alignment system with a high integratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,299 Views
19 Pages

11 June 2018

A visual-servo automatic micromanipulating system was developed and tested for gripping the moving microparticle suspended in liquid well. An innovative design of microgripper integrated with flexible arms was utilized to constrain particles in a mov...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micromanipulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,476 Views
16 Pages

Muti-Frame Point Cloud Feature Fusion Based on Attention Mechanisms for 3D Object Detection

  • Zhenyu Zhai,
  • Qiantong Wang,
  • Zongxu Pan,
  • Zhentong Gao and
  • Wenlong Hu

2 October 2022

Continuous frames of point-cloud-based object detection is a new research direction. Currently, most research studies fuse multi-frame point clouds using concatenation-based methods. The method aligns different frames by using information on GPS, IMU...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Smart Sensors for Autonomous Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
26 Pages

Rapid global urbanization is increasing the need for accurate, large-scale traffic monitoring to support sustainable transportation and city governance. Satellite video remote sensing offers a unique way to continuously observe urban road networks ov...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Theories and Applications on Geo-Spatial Databases, Models and AI in Urban Science, Planning, Development and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,495 Views
15 Pages

Speed Estimation of Multiple Moving Objects from a Moving UAV Platform

  • Debojit Biswas,
  • Hongbo Su,
  • Chengyi Wang and
  • Aleksandar Stevanovic

Speed detection of a moving object using an optical camera has always been an important subject to study in computer vision. This is one of the key components to address in many application areas, such as transportation systems, military and naval ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision for GeoInformation Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,545 Views
18 Pages

18 August 2024

The conventional feature point-based image stitching algorithm exhibits inconsistencies in the quality of feature points across diverse scenes. This may result in the deterioration of the alignment effect or even the inability to align two images. To...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing with Symmetry/Asymmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,024 Views
23 Pages

19 January 2019

Transfer alignment on a moving base under a complex dynamic environment is one of the toughest challenges in a strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS). With the aim of improving rapidity and accuracy, velocity plus attitude matching is applied in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inertial Sensors and Systems 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,259 Views
20 Pages

Vertically Moving Target Localization Based on Interference Feature Matching Using a Single Hydrophone

  • Chunpeng Zhao,
  • Guolong Liang,
  • Longhao Qiu,
  • Jinjin Wang and
  • Wenfeng Dong

13 February 2025

To address the performance degradation of traditional underwater target localization algorithms in high-speed motion scenarios, this paper proposes a vertically moving localization method based on interference feature matching using a single hydropho...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
779 Views
15 Pages

Precision alignment and target contact are critical tasks for mobile manipulators in industrial inspection and flexible manufacturing. However, achieving high accuracy after navigation remains challenging due to accumulated errors from mobile base lo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Electronic Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,822 Views
7 Pages

Numerical Study of a PVDF-Based Strain Sensor for Damage Detection of an Asphalt Concrete Pavement Subject to Dynamic Loads

  • Jiayue Shen,
  • Korkut Bekiroglu,
  • Ali Tekeoglu,
  • Ilker Boz,
  • Weiru Chen and
  • Minghao Geng

1 November 2022

This paper studies the performance of Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)–based strain sensor subject to dynamic loads with different load-moving velocities and the strain sensor’s performance for bottom-up crack detection of an asphalt paveme...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 9th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,319 Views
25 Pages

Hierarchical Motion Field Alignment for Robust Optical Flow Estimation

  • Dianbo Ma,
  • Kousuke Imamura,
  • Ziyan Gao,
  • Xiangjie Wang and
  • Satoshi Yamane

22 April 2025

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental and long-standing task in computer vision, facilitating the understanding of motion within visual scenes. In this study, we aim to improve optical flow estimation, particularly in challenging scenarios involvi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,596 Views
26 Pages

Inferring Directed Road Networks from GPS Traces by Track Alignment

  • Xingzhe Xie,
  • Kevin Bing-YungWong,
  • Hamid Aghajan,
  • Peter Veelaert and
  • Wilfried Philips

11 November 2015

This paper proposes a method to infer road networks from GPS traces. These networks include intersections between roads, the connectivity between the intersections and the possible traffic directions between directly-connected intersections. These in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,839 Views
18 Pages

Imitating Human Go Players via Vision Transformer

  • Yu-Heng Hsieh,
  • Chen-Chun Kao and
  • Shyan-Ming Yuan

24 January 2025

Developing AI algorithms for the game of Go has long been a challenging task. While tools such as AlphaGo have revolutionized gameplay, their focus on maximizing win rates often leads to moves that are incomprehensible to human players, limiting thei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Games AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,254 Views
22 Pages

In side-channel analysis, simple power analysis (SPA) is a widely used technique for recovering secret information by exploiting differences between operations in traces. However, in realistic measurement environments, SPA is often hindered by noise,...

(This article belongs to the Section Hardware Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,012 Views
19 Pages

Voice Transformation Using Two-Level Dynamic Warping and Neural Networks

  • Al-Waled Al-Dulaimi,
  • Todd K. Moon and
  • Jacob H. Gunther

14 July 2021

Voice transformation, for example, from a male speaker to a female speaker, is achieved here using a two-level dynamic warping algorithm in conjunction with an artificial neural network. An outer warping process which temporally aligns blocks of spee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,221 Views
16 Pages

Deep HDR Deghosting by Motion-Attention Fusion Network

  • Yifan Xiao,
  • Peter Veelaert and
  • Wilfried Philips

16 October 2022

Multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) methods for high dynamic range (HDR) imaging suffer from ghosting artifacts when dealing with moving objects in dynamic scenes. The state-of-the-art methods use optical flow to align low dynamic range (LDR) images be...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,558 Views
22 Pages

Experiment-Based Design of Stirling Cryocooler Compressor Using Response-Controlled Testing

  • Suna Güçyılmaz Çetin,
  • Taylan Karaağaçlı and
  • Ahmet H. Ertas

Flexure-based Stirling cryocooler compressors are a critical technology in providing cryogenic temperatures in various advanced engineering fields, such as aerospace, defense, and medical imaging. The most challenging problem in the design of this ty...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration Damping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,239 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2020

Recently, numerous wall-climbing robots have been developed for petrochemical tank maintenance. However, most of them are difficult to be widely applied due to common problems such as poor adsorption capacity, low facade adaptability, and low detecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotic Non-destructive Testing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
488 Views
21 Pages

Social media has become a critical channel for public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet how official health messaging aligns with broader public discourse remains insufficiently understood. This study develops an end-to-end infov...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining and Healthcare Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,238 Views
28 Pages

20 January 2021

With the development trends of multistatic spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), geosynchronous SAR (GEO SAR) employing several formation-flying small satellites also has great potential for remote sensing. The small satellites can cooperate to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,629 Views
19 Pages

Self-Supervised Learning of End-to-End 3D LiDAR Odometry for Urban Scene Modeling

  • Shuting Chen,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Chengxi Hong,
  • Yanwen Sun,
  • Hong Jia and
  • Weiquan Liu

1 August 2025

Accurate and robust spatial perception is fundamental for dynamic 3D city modeling and urban environmental sensing. High-resolution remote sensing data, particularly LiDAR point clouds, are pivotal for these tasks due to their lighting invariance and...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,857 Views
18 Pages

Optimization of Cellular Automata Model for Moving Bottlenecks in Urban Roads

  • Weijie Xiu,
  • Shijie Luo,
  • Kailong Li,
  • Qi Zhao and
  • Li Wang

24 March 2025

One of the key reasons why the road capacity of urban roads in China often fails to meet the designed capacity is the mixture of heavy vehicles (slow-moving) and light vehicles (fast-moving). This paper presents a two-lane cellular automaton model su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,678 Views
16 Pages

We propose an induction link based on overlapping arrays to eliminate blank spots on the electromagnetic field for moving object applications. We use two arrays of four aligned coils that have a 50% overlap between the two plates. This mechanism comp...

(This article belongs to the Collection Wireless Power Transfer: Material, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,354 Views
30 Pages

Semantic Mapping of AI-for-Government Research: Uncovering the Knowledge Architecture of Digital-Era Governance

  • Dragan Čišić,
  • Saša Drezgić,
  • Vesna Buterin,
  • Ivan Gržeta,
  • Božidar Kovačić,
  • Patrizia Poščić,
  • Francesco Molinari and
  • Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

30 December 2025

This study presents a comprehensive bibliographic and semantic analysis of 3957 scientific publications on artificial intelligence (AI) in government and public administration. Using an integrated text- and network-based approach, we identify the mai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
550 Views
14 Pages

This study conducts a technical analysis of frontier generative AI algorithms—including Meta’s Self-Rewarding Language Models, DeepMind’s EVA (Evolving Alignment via Asymmetric Self-Play) framework, and DeepSeek’s pure reinfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phenomenological Philosophy of Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,290 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2019

When the camera moves quickly and the image is blurred or the texture in the scene is missing, the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm based on point feature experiences difficulty tracking enough effective feature points, and the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,170 Views
17 Pages

Modeling the Efficiency of Resource Consumption Management in Construction Under Sustainability Policy: Enriching the DSEM-ARIMA Model

  • Pruethsan Sutthichaimethee,
  • Grzegorz Mentel,
  • Volodymyr Voloshyn,
  • Halyna Mishchuk and
  • Yuriy Bilan

13 December 2024

The aim of this research is to study the influence of factors affecting the efficiency of resource consumption under the sustainability policy based on using the DSEM-ARIMA (Dyadic Structural Equation Modeling based on the Autoregressive Integrated M...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
698 Views
11 Pages

TOTEMS: Histogram of Evolutionarily Conserved Amino Acids

  • Michael J. Fajardo,
  • Adam G. Marsh and
  • John R. Jungck

We have developed a tool that allows us to easily visualize evolutionary variation via complementary multiple sequence alignments and frequency-based stacked Sequence Logos. This tool, TOTEMS (hisTogram of evOluTionarily consErved aMino acidS), visua...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,920 Views
13 Pages

This study introduced a novel force-driven automated staging design method for clear aligners, aimed at enhancing treatment planning efficiency and outcomes. The method simplified the alignment process into a force-driven mechanics model that calcula...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomechanics and Sports Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
306 Views
28 Pages

Actively Steered Open On-Limb Robot with Alignment Control and Online Diameter Estimation

  • Luz M. Tobar-Subía-Contento,
  • Jimmy Valenzuela,
  • Anthony Mandow and
  • Jesús M. Gómez-de-Gabriel

6 September 2026

Wearable robotics has expanded beyond conventional exoskeletons and prosthetic devices toward compact systems that attach to or move along the human body. Within this field, on-body mobile robots have emerged as a promising platform for healthcare mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Perception and Control for Robotics, 2nd Edition)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,291 Views
6 Pages

Electrical Characterization of Hydrothermally Synthesized Manganese Dioxide Nanowires with Regard to NO2 Adsorption/Desorption Thermodynamics

  • Petr Smisitel,
  • Helena Simunkova,
  • Ondrej Chmela,
  • Martha Claros,
  • Stella Vallejos and
  • Jaromir Hubalek

18 September 2023

Self-assembled MnO2 nanowires were hydrothermally synthesized and electrically characterized under different conditions. The nanowires were approximately 3–10 µm long and about 20–100 nm in diameter. Single nanowires were aligned pe...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
704 Views
19 Pages

Reliable Object Pose Alignment in Mixed-Reality Environments Using Background-Referenced 3D Reconstruction

  • Gyu-Bin Shin,
  • Bok-Deuk Song,
  • Vladimirov Blagovest Iordanov,
  • Sangjoon Park,
  • Soyeon Lee and
  • Suk-Ho Lee

16 April 2026

Accurate alignment of real-world object poses with their virtual counterparts using sensors, e.g. cameras, is essential for consistent interaction in mixed-reality systems. However, objects can undergo abrupt, untracked movements during periods when...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Technology and Image Sensing: 2nd Edition)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,669 Views
24 Pages

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has emerged as a critical indicator of corporate legitimacy, resilience, and long-term value. However, translating ESG strategic intent into tangible results remains a pressing theoretical and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,401 Views
16 Pages

Adaptive Neural-PID Visual Servoing Tracking Control via Extreme Learning Machine

  • Junqi Luo,
  • Liucun Zhu,
  • Ning Wu,
  • Mingyou Chen,
  • Daopeng Liu,
  • Zhenyu Zhang and
  • Jiyuan Liu

7 September 2022

The vision-guided robot is intensively embedded in modern industry, but it is still a challenge to track moving objects in real time accurately. In this paper, a hybrid adaptive control scheme combined with an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) and propo...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Systems and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,494 Views
14 Pages

Near-Inertial Oscillations of Thermocline in the Shelf Area off Vladivostok, the Sea of Japan, from a Set of Thermostrings

  • Olga Trusenkova,
  • Igor Yaroshchuk,
  • Alexandra Kosheleva,
  • Aleksandr Samchenko,
  • Alexander Pivovarov and
  • Vyacheslav Dubina

9 December 2024

The shelf area off Vladivostok in the Sea of Japan is known by the intense internal wave activity investigated for many years. The present contribution to these studies is based on data collected on 3–14 October 2022, from four moorings aligne...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
311 Views
29 Pages

12 September 2026

Wrist rehabilitation requires high precision, haptic transparency, and accurate alignment with the human joint’s physiological center of rotation. Conventional robotic systems often suffer from high moving inertia or joint misalignment. This pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Science of Mechanisms and Machines)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,310 Views
19 Pages

Demand-Side Food Policies for Public and Planetary Health

  • Elisabeth H.M. Temme,
  • Reina E. Vellinga,
  • Henri de Ruiter,
  • Susanna Kugelberg,
  • Mirjam van de Kamp,
  • Anna Milford,
  • Roberta Alessandrini,
  • Fabio Bartolini,
  • Alberto Sanz-Cobena and
  • Adrian Leip

23 July 2020

Background: The current food system has major consequences for the environment and for human health. Alignment of the food policy areas of mitigating climate change and public health will ensure coherent and effective policy interventions for sustain...

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