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28 Citations
3,744 Views
23 Pages

A Novel Parallel Processing Model for Noise Reduction and Temperature Compensation of MEMS Gyroscope

  • Qi Cai,
  • Fanjing Zhao,
  • Qiang Kang,
  • Zhaoqian Luo,
  • Duo Hu,
  • Jiwen Liu and
  • Huiliang Cao

21 October 2021

To eliminate the noise and temperature drift in an Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) gyroscope’s output signal for improving measurement accuracy, a parallel processing model based on Multi-objective particle swarm optimization based on variati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in MEMS Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,939 Views
23 Pages

20 December 2024

Optimizing tolerance allocation is crucial for balancing cost and performance in the remanufacturing of used electromechanical products. However, the traditional remanufacturing model of “individual part precision restoration + secondary machin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Manufacturing and Energy-Efficient Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,982 Views
32 Pages

Scale Accuracy Evaluation of Image-Based 3D Reconstruction Strategies Using Laser Photogrammetry

  • Klemen Istenič,
  • Nuno Gracias,
  • Aurélien Arnaubec,
  • Javier Escartín and
  • Rafael Garcia

7 September 2019

Rapid developments in the field of underwater photogrammetry have given scientists the ability to produce accurate 3-dimensional (3D) models which are now increasingly used in the representation and study of local areas of interest. This paper addres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater 3D Recording & Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,644 Views
14 Pages

Performance Analysis of Nonlinear Stiffness Suspension Based on Multi-Objective Optimization

  • Xinling Feng,
  • Yu Peng,
  • Yujie Shen,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Yongchao Li and
  • Tianyi Zhang

2 November 2025

This study optimizes vehicle suspension dynamics by introducing a controllable degree of nonlinearity, characterized by a parameter ε, into the spring element of Inerter-Spring-Damper (ISD) systems. Quarter-vehicle models for parallel and ser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Journeys in Vehicle System Dynamics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,064 Views
31 Pages

21 July 2026

The increasing demand for sustainable building materials has motivated the search for alternative supplementary cementitious materials to reduce the use of Portland cement while maintaining concrete performance. The present study aims to investigate...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,005 Views
18 Pages

Identifying Optimal Precursors for Geopolymer Composite Mix Design for Different Regional Settings: A Multi-Objective Optimization Study

  • Mariam Abdulkareem,
  • Anastasija Komkova,
  • Jouni Havukainen,
  • Guillaume Habert and
  • Mika Horttanainen

Global objectives to mitigate climate change in the construction industry have led to increasing geopolymer development as an alternative to carbon-intensive cement. Geopolymers can have similar mechanical properties and a lower carbon footprint. How...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Materials from Waste and Renewable Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,047 Views
26 Pages

22 November 2024

Designing onshore wind farms presents unique challenges related to interactions between terrain and landscape characteristics. This research focuses on optimizing the layout of onshore wind farms while considering the effect of the terrain and land c...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,879 Views
21 Pages

30 November 2022

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which offers two outstanding advantages, high-quality food and localized production, has come to the fore. In CSA, the output of picking scheduling is the input of delivery scheduling. Hence, only by scheduling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Optimization and Its Applications to Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,924 Views
17 Pages

Intelligent Design of Building Materials: Development of an AI-Based Method for Cement-Slag Concrete Design

  • Fei Zhu,
  • Xiangping Wu,
  • Mengmeng Zhou,
  • Mohanad Muayad Sabri Sabri and
  • Jiandong Huang

27 May 2022

Cement-slag concrete has become one of the most widely used building materials considering its economical advantage and satisfying uniaxial compressive strength (UCS). In this study, an AI-based method for cement-slag concrete design was developed ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mix-Design and Behavior of Special Concrete)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,592 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Objective Electrical Power System Design Optimization Using a Modified Bat Algorithm

  • Khaled Guerraiche,
  • Latifa Dekhici,
  • Eric Chatelet and
  • Abdelkader Zeblah

1 July 2021

The design of energy systems is very important in order to reduce operating costs and guarantee the reliability of a system. This paper proposes a new algorithm to solve the design problem of optimal multi-objective redundancy of series-parallel powe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring and Automation of Complex Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
305 Views
25 Pages

24 September 2026

Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent. is an ornamental foliage plant; efficient in vitro regeneration remains a challenge. This study established an integrated computational workflow combining Latin hypercube sampling (LHS), Gaussian process regression (GPR...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant Tissue Culture for Regeneration and Propagation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,804 Views
27 Pages

Power Substation Construction and Ventilation System Co-Designed Using Particle Swarm Optimization

  • Jau-Woei Perng,
  • Yi-Chang Kuo,
  • Yao-Tsung Chang and
  • Hsi-Hsiang Chang

6 May 2020

This study discusses a numerical study that was developed to optimize the ventilation system in a power substation prior to its installation. We established a multiobjective particle swarm optimizer to identify the best approach for simultaneously im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing, Modeling and Optimizing Energy and Environmental Systems for Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
448 Views
38 Pages

Adaptive MARL-Assisted Hybrid Bat-Artificial Bee Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Clustering and Routing in IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks

  • H. S. Mohammed,
  • Poria Pirozmand,
  • Sheeraz Memon,
  • Sajad Ghatrehsamani,
  • Sweta Thakur,
  • Rajan Kadel and
  • Bellal Hossain

6 August 2026

Energy efficiency remains a major challenge in IoT-enabled wireless sensor networks because sensor nodes operate with limited battery capacity and are often deployed in environments where battery replacement is impractical. Existing clustering and ro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing and Communication for 6G Wireless Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,089 Views
29 Pages

Energy-Efficient Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Hybrid Bat-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

  • Hussein S. Mohammed,
  • Poria Pirozmand,
  • Sheeraz Memon,
  • Sajad Ghatrehsamani and
  • Indra Seher

14 April 2026

This study presents a novel hybrid Bat-Artificial Bee Colony (BA-ABC) algorithm for energy-efficient optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), addressing the critical challenge of limited node energy and network lifetime degradation. The propo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
4,204 Views
24 Pages

Optimal Integration of Capacitor and Distributed Generation in Distribution System Considering Load Variation Using Bat Optimization Algorithm

  • Thangaraj Yuvaraj,
  • Kaliaperumal Rukmani Devabalaji,
  • Natarajan Prabaharan,
  • Hassan Haes Alhelou,
  • Asokkumar Manju,
  • Poushali Pal and
  • Pierluigi Siano

15 June 2021

In this article, an efficient long-term novel scheduling technique is proposed for allocating capacitors in a combined system involving distributed generation (DG) along with radial distribution systems (RDS). We introduce a unique multi-objective fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Scheduling and Trading in Microgrids and Local Energy Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,548 Views
12 Pages

11 May 2021

Modifying the structure of surface plasmon resonance based sensors by adding 2D materials has been proven to considerably enhance the sensor’s sensitivity in comparison to a traditional three layer configuration. Moreover, a thin semiconductor film p...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
4,019 Views
21 Pages

Microgrid Operations Planning Based on Improving the Flying Sparrow Search Algorithm

  • Trong-The Nguyen,
  • Truong-Giang Ngo,
  • Thi-Kien Dao and
  • Thi-Thanh-Tan Nguyen

15 January 2022

Microgrid operations planning is crucial for emerging energy microgrids to enhance the share of clean energy power generation and ensure a safe symmetry power grid among distributed natural power sources and stable functioning of the entire power sys...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Metaheuristic Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,939 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Objective Model Exploration of Banana-Canopy Management and Nutrient Input Scenarios for Optimal Banana-Legume Intercrop Performance

  • Walter Ocimati,
  • Jeroen C. J. Groot,
  • Guy Blomme,
  • Carl J. Timler,
  • Roseline Remans,
  • Godfrey Taulya,
  • Jules Ntamwira and
  • Pablo Tittonell

10 February 2021

Bananas on smallholder farmers in the African Great Lakes region are often pruned to illuminate shorter understory intercrops, reducing overall farm profitability. The impact of this practice on environmental and nutritional indicators are not known....

(This article belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,723 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Area Task Path-Planning Algorithm for Agricultural Drones Based on Improved Double Deep Q-Learning Net

  • Jian Li,
  • Weijian Zhang,
  • Junfeng Ren,
  • Weilin Yu,
  • Guowei Wang,
  • Peng Ding,
  • Jiawei Wang and
  • Xuen Zhang

With the global population growth and increasing food demand, the development of precision agriculture has become particularly critical. In precision agriculture, accurately identifying areas of nitrogen stress in crops and planning precise fertiliza...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,227 Views
18 Pages

Design of Two-Degree-of-Freedom PID Controllers Optimized by Bee Algorithm for Frequency Control in Renewable Energy Systems

  • Sarawoot Boonkirdram,
  • Sitthisak Audomsi,
  • Worawat Sa-Ngiamvibool and
  • Wassana Kasemsin

13 September 2025

The increasing incorporation of renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic and wind power, results in considerable variability and uncertainty within modern power systems, thereby complicating load frequency control. Conventional controllers, inc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Power Systems: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,918 Views
22 Pages

The paper deals with a community-oriented approach to the multiobjective optimisation of sustainable takeoff and landing procedures of commercial aircraft. The objective functions to be minimised are defined as the measure of area surrounding the air...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aircraft Noise)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,360 Views
22 Pages

An Improved Discrete Bat Algorithm for Multi-Objective Partial Parallel Disassembly Line Balancing Problem

  • Qi Zhang,
  • Yang Xing,
  • Man Yao,
  • Jiacun Wang,
  • Xiwang Guo,
  • Shujin Qin,
  • Liang Qi and
  • Fuguang Huang

28 February 2024

Product disassembly is an effective means of waste recycling and reutilization that has received much attention recently. In terms of disassembly efficiency, the number of disassembly skills possessed by workers plays a crucial role in improving disa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ensemble Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning for Solving Complex Optimization and Scheduling Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,259 Views
22 Pages

In this study, a hybrid heading control framework for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is proposed, combining variable domain fuzzy Proportional–Integral–Derivative (VUF-PID) with an improved algorithmic Beetle Antennae Search–Parti...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,985 Views
17 Pages

20 June 2021

Accurately identifying potential land use conflicts (LUCs) is critical for alleviating the ever-intensifying contradictions between humans and nature. The previous studies using the method of suitability analysis did not take full advantage of the cu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Approaches to Landscape Analysis of Urban and Peri-Urban Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,923 Views
30 Pages

6 March 2023

In this paper, optimal and multi-objective planning of a hybrid energy system (HES) with wind turbine and battery storage (WT/Battery) has been proposed to drop power loss, smooth voltage profile, enhance customers reliability, as well as minimize th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Modeling and Hybrid Methods for Thermal Management, Storage, and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,916 Views
52 Pages

The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and its descendants accumulated unprecedented numbers of spike substitutions yet remained transmissible, implying compensatory mechanisms that preserve entry while eroding humoral immunity. We analyzed 32 variants for s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antimicrobial Resistance in the Post-COVID Era: A Silent Pandemic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
928 Views
23 Pages

16 December 2025

Home energy management systems have emerged as a crucial solution for enhancing energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and facilitating the integration of renewable energy sources into homes. To fully realize their potential, these systems&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,799 Views
22 Pages

Development and Optimization of an Offset Spiral Tooth Fertilizer Discharge Device

  • Longyu Fang,
  • Wenwu Yang,
  • Xiwen Luo,
  • Han Guo,
  • Shiyu Song,
  • Qinghai Liu,
  • Haoyang Xie,
  • Weiman Chen,
  • Jianxin Lu and
  • Guanjiong Li
  • + 1 author

19 February 2024

Due to factors such as a small amount of fertilizer application during rice topdressing and slow machine speed, the ordinary fertilizer discharge device fails to distribute the fertilizer uniformly and accurately as required, making it difficult to m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Machinery Design and Agricultural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
863 Views
36 Pages

10 March 2026

Central business district (CBD) hospitals must sustain reliable pressure relationships in critical rooms while reducing whole-facility carbon under tight space and disruption constraints. We developed an ontology-grounded semantic digital twin that n...