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7 Citations
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28 September 2024

The allocation of tasks among multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with energy constraints in underwater environments presents an NP-complete problem with far-reaching consequences for marine exploration, environmental monitoring, and under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers for the 2024 4th International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems (4th ICAUS 2024))
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,666 Views
17 Pages

Task-Oriented Motion Planning of a Space Manipulator under Multiple Constraints

  • Changchun Liang,
  • Dong Pan,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Pengfei Xin and
  • Xiaodong Zhang

26 May 2022

During task execution by a space manipulator, many factors need to be considered, such as joint motion range, external environment interference, running speed and task time. Studying the motion planning strategy under multi-constraint conditions is i...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,848 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2022

This paper studies the distributed adaptive cooperative control of multiple urban rail trains with position output constraints and uncertain parameters. Based on an ordered set of trains running on the route, a dynamic multiple trains movement model...

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  • Open Access
313 Views
26 Pages

20 August 2026

Maglev trains are susceptible to various types of operational challenges, including track irregularities, load variations, and actuator faults. It is evident that these factors can compromise suspension performance and even pose a serious risk to ope...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Control Systems, 3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1,061 Views
31 Pages

9 June 2026

This study examines how entrepreneurial ecosystem constraints shape MSME resilience in the Jakarta–Bogor–Depok Indonesia corridor using a qualitative multiple-case design. Drawing on 20 MSME case reports across food and beverage, retail,...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,271 Views
24 Pages

18 September 2018

The modeling and control of the multi-rope parallel suspension lifting system (MPSLS) are investigated in the presence of different and spatial distributed tensions; unknown boundary disturbances; and multiple constraints, including time varying geom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,807 Views
11 Pages

GNSS Precise Kinematic Positioning for Multiple Kinematic Stations Based on A Priori Distance Constraints

  • Kaifei He,
  • Tianhe Xu,
  • Christoph Förste,
  • Svetozar Petrovic,
  • Franz Barthelmes,
  • Nan Jiang and
  • Frank Flechtner

1 April 2016

When applying the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for precise kinematic positioning in airborne and shipborne gravimetry, multiple GNSS receiving equipment is often fixed mounted on the kinematic platform carrying the gravimetry instrumenta...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,628 Views
25 Pages

20 February 2024

This paper focuses on the formation tracking issue of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to multiple constraints in three-dimensional space. We developed a novel distributed Lyapunov-based model predictive controller (DLMPC) with a fast fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Autonomous Vehicles: Design, Test and Operation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,170 Views
23 Pages

27 February 2025

Consensus tracking control for multiple UAVs demonstrates critical theoretical value and application potential, improving system robustness and addressing challenges in complex operational environments. This paper addresses the challenge of event-tri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,538 Views
28 Pages

Multiple UAV Swarms Collaborative Firefighting Strategy Considering Forest Fire Spread and Resource Constraints

  • Pei Zhu,
  • Rui Song,
  • Jiangao Zhang,
  • Ziheng Xu,
  • Yaqi Gou,
  • Zhi Sun and
  • Quan Shao

27 December 2024

To address the demands of efficient forest fire detection and suppression, an adaptive multiple UAV swarm collaborative firefighting strategy considering dynamic forest fire spread and resource constraints was proposed in this paper. The multiple UAV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drones for Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,661 Views
20 Pages

This paper investigates swarm control for unmanned surface vessels subject to multiple constraints. These constraints can be summarized as model parameter uncertainty, the unavailability of velocity measurements, time-varying environmental disturbanc...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,190 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2023

Aiming at the intelligent production line scheduling problem, a production line scheduling method considering multiple constraints was proposed. Considering the constraints of production task priority, time limit, and urgent task insertion, a product...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing & Automation Control Systems for Industry 4.0/5.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
935 Views
33 Pages

15 December 2025

Inspired by the adaptive flexible motion coordination of biological systems, this study presents a bioinspired control strategy that enables robotic manipulators to achieve precise and compliant motion–force coordination for embodied intelligen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Application of Bioinspired Robotics and Intelligent Control)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,823 Views
19 Pages

29 April 2022

Modeling errors, external loads and output constraints will affect the tracking control of the n-joint manipulator driven by the permanent magnet synchronous motor. To solve the above problems, the smooth-switching for backstepping gain control strat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of Robot Manipulators)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,839 Views
19 Pages

To address the issue of misclassification and diminished accuracy that is prevalent in existing intent recognition models for non-cooperative spacecraft due to the omission of environmental influences, this paper presents a novel recognition framewor...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,352 Views
25 Pages

An In-Orbit Stereo Navigation Camera Self-Calibration Method for Planetary Rovers with Multiple Constraints

  • Xinchao Xu,
  • Mingyue Liu,
  • Song Peng,
  • Youqing Ma,
  • Hongxi Zhao and
  • Aigong Xu

16 January 2022

In order to complete the high-precision calibration of the planetary rover navigation camera using limited initial data in-orbit, we proposed a joint adjustment model with additional multiple constraints. Specifically, a base model was first establis...

(This article belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,882 Views
24 Pages

20 October 2025

Recently, various forms and purposes of autonomous mobility have been widely developed and commercialized. To control the various iterations of shaped and purposeful mobility, control technology that can adapt to the dynamic characteristics of the mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automated Driving Systems: Latest Advances and Prospects)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,624 Views
22 Pages

11 June 2023

This paper investigates a novel robust adaptive dynamic surface control scheme based on the barrier Lyapunov function (BLF), online composite learning, disturbance observer, and improved saturation function. It is mainly designed for a class of skid-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of Aerospace Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,142 Views
27 Pages

27 December 2025

Grid-forming (GFM) converters are promising for renewable energy integration, but their overcurrent limitation during grid faults remains a critical challenge. Existing overcurrent-limiting strategies were primarily developed for two-level converters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 4th Edition)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,757 Views
32 Pages

14 June 2024

Container drayage involves the transportation of containers by trucks. Although the distance is relatively short compared to maritime and rail transport, container drayage accounts for 25% to 40% of the total container transportation costs and signif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management of Logistic and Supply Chain)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
909 Views
23 Pages

24 November 2025

As the global energy system accelerates its transition towards high penetration of renewable energy and high penetration of power electronic devices, regional power grids have undergone profound changes in their structural forms and component composi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Power Systems: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,521 Views
24 Pages

17 May 2025

This paper proposes a fixed-time formation-tracking control problem for a heterogeneous multi-agent system (MAS) consisting of six unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and three unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) under actuator attacks, external disturbances...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,264 Views
18 Pages

MILDMS: Multiple Instance Learning via DD Constraint and Multiple Part Similarity

  • Chao Wen,
  • Zhan Li,
  • Jian Qu,
  • Qingchen Fan and
  • Aiping Li

28 August 2019

As a subject area of symmetry, multiple instance learning (MIL) is a special form of a weakly supervised learning problem where the label is related to the bag, not the instances contained in it. The difficulty of MIL lies in the incomplete label inf...

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9 Citations
3,842 Views
28 Pages

9 January 2024

Stereo cameras can capture the rich image textures of a scene, while LiDAR can obtain accurate 3D coordinates of point clouds of a scene. They complement each other and can achieve comprehensive and accurate environment perception through data fusion...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,921 Views
19 Pages

Trajectory Planning for Coal Gangue Sorting Robot Tracking Fast-Mass Target under Multiple Constraints

  • Peng Wang,
  • Hongwei Ma,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Xiangang Cao,
  • Xudong Wu,
  • Xiaorong Wei and
  • Wenjian Zhou

30 April 2023

Aiming at the problems of grab failure and manipulator damage, this paper proposes a dynamic gangue trajectory planning method for the manipulator synchronous tracking under multi-constraint conditions. The main reason for the impact load is that the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,769 Views
20 Pages

8 March 2024

Autonomous tractor–trailer robots possess a broad spectrum of applications but pose significant challenges in control due to their nonlinear and underactuated dynamics. Unlike the tractor, the motion of the trailer cannot be directly actuated,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamics and Motion Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater/Ground Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
574 Views
34 Pages

This paper investigates the conflicting multiple constraints and safety challenges in humanoid robot teleoperation for nonprehensile transportation tasks. The robot’s complex workspace and high degrees of freedom frequently conflict with highly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in Robotic Manipulation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,467 Views
35 Pages

5 December 2023

Topology optimization (TO) is currently a focal point for researchers in the field of structural optimization, with most studies concentrating on single-loading conditions. However, real engineering structures often have to work under various loading...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Optimization Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
64 Citations
5,371 Views
20 Pages

Global fruit production costs are increasing amid intensified labor shortages, driving heightened interest in robotic harvesting technologies. Although multi-arm coordination in harvesting robots is considered a highly promising solution to this issu...

(This article belongs to the Section Fruit Production Systems)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,965 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2020

In multi-target tracking scenarios with dense and heterogeneous clutter, there is a substantial increase in the false measurements that originated from the clutter within the validation gate, and consequently, the number of measurement-to-track assoc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microwave Sensors and Radar Techniques)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,828 Views
13 Pages

7 December 2022

Multiple graph and semi-supervision techniques have been successfully introduced into the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) model for taking full advantage of the manifold structure and priori information of data to capture excellent low-dimensi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Optimization Algorithms for Data Analysis and Other Engineering Applications)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,252 Views
22 Pages

5 December 2022

This paper addresses the issue of a complex three-dimension (3-D) terminal guidance process that is used against maneuvering targets while considering both the terminal impact angle (TIA) and field-of-view (FOV) angle constraints. According to the hi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flight Control)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,700 Views
7 Pages

22 June 2021

Some of industrial and real life problems are difficult to be solved by traditional methods, because they need exponential number of calculations. As an example, we can mention decision-making problems. They can be defined as optimization problems. A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Applications)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,253 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2021

In this paper, we introduce combination constraints for modeling ore bodies based on multiple implicit fields interpolation. The basic idea of the method is to define a multi-labeled implicit function that combines different sub-implicit fields by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,530 Views
16 Pages

Point of interest (POI) matching is critical but is the most technically difficult part of multi-source POI fusion. The accurate matching of POIs from different sources is important for the effective reuse of POI data. However, the existing research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,299 Views
19 Pages

Optimal Route Searching with Multiple Dynamical Constraints—A Geometric Algebra Approach

  • Dongshuang Li,
  • Zhaoyuan Yu,
  • Wen Luo,
  • Yong Hu,
  • Xiaoyu Che and
  • Linwang Yuan

The process of searching for a dynamic constrained optimal path has received increasing attention in traffic planning, evacuation, and personalized or collaborative traffic service. As most existing multiple constrained optimal path (MCOP) methods ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,964 Views
20 Pages

28 June 2024

This paper proposes a method and an algorithm called Q-sorting for reinforcement learning (RL) problems with multiple cumulative constraints. The primary contribution is a mechanism for dynamically determining the focus of optimization among multiple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational Mathematics and Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
907 Views
17 Pages

A novel polynomial guidance law is proposed for flight vehicle terminal guidance, subject to multiple constraints including launch angle, impact angle, impact time, and zero terminal acceleration. This approach reconstructs the flight path angle prof...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flight Guidance and Control)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,348 Views
20 Pages

Lightweight Chassis Design of Hybrid Trucks Considering Multiple Road Conditions and Constraints

  • Shuvodeep De,
  • Karanpreet Singh,
  • Junhyeon Seo,
  • Rakesh K. Kapania,
  • Erik Ostergaard,
  • Nicholas Angelini and
  • Raymond Aguero

The paper describes a fully automated process to generate a shell-based finite element model of a large hybrid truck chassis to perform mass optimization considering multiple load cases and multiple constraints. A truck chassis consists of different...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,945 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2024

The formation rendezvous of multiple underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) necessitates comprehensive consideration of various complex constraints, including kinematics, collision avoidance, and communication. However, existing methods inadequately add...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,635 Views
17 Pages

24 November 2022

Controlling the manipulator is a big challenge due to its hysteresis, deadzone, saturation, and the disturbances of actuators. This study proposes a hybrid state/disturbance observer-based multiple-constraint control mechanism to address this difficu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors for Intelligent Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,580 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2024

A comprehensive framework for the layout optimisation of rigid-jointed frame structures is proposed, addressing multiple mechanical constraints while effectively managing geometric complexity. The constraints considered include displacement, stress,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Structural Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
350 Views
23 Pages

This study focuses on the situation where multiple vehicles simultaneously intercept a maneuvering target with desired line-of-sight (LOS) angles and impact time in a three-dimensional environment. A predefined-time cooperative guidance law is propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,238 Views
20 Pages

Lithium-Ion Battery Online Rapid State-of-Power Estimation under Multiple Constraints

  • Shun Xiang,
  • Guangdi Hu,
  • Ruisen Huang,
  • Feng Guo and
  • Pengkai Zhou

24 January 2018

The paper aims to realize a rapid online estimation of the state-of-power (SOP) with multiple constraints of a lithium-ion battery. Firstly, based on the improved first-order resistance-capacitance (RC) model with one-state hysteresis, a linear state...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,450 Views
22 Pages

Emergency Relief Material Distribution Path Optimization Under Multiple Constraints

  • Haoran He,
  • Xiaoxiong Zhang,
  • Qiang Fan,
  • Jun Yang,
  • Xiaolei Zhou and
  • Bing Yu

28 October 2025

To overcome the limitations of traditional methods in emergency response scenarios—such as limited adaptability during the search process and a tendency to fall into local optima, which reduce the overall efficiency of emergency supply distribu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,182 Views
23 Pages

Motion Coordination of Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots under Hard and Soft Constraints

  • Spyridon Anogiatis,
  • Panagiotis S. Trakas and
  • Charalampos P. Bechlioulis

This paper presents a distributed approach to the motion control problem for a platoon of unicycle robots moving through an unknown environment filled with static obstacles under multiple hard and soft operational constraints. Each robot has an onboa...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,799 Views
19 Pages

Most visual–inertial navigation systems (VINSs) suffer from moving objects and achieve poor positioning accuracy in dynamic environments. Therefore, to improve the positioning accuracy of VINS in dynamic environments, a monocular visual–i...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,766 Views
6 Pages

Evasion Differential Game of Multiple Pursuers and a Single Evader with Geometric Constraints in ℓ2

  • Gafurjan Ibragimov,
  • Marks Ruziboev,
  • Ibroximjon Zaynabiddinov and
  • Bruno Antonio Pansera

29 June 2023

We investigate a differential evasion game with multiple pursuers and an evader for the infinite systems of differential equations in ℓ2. The control functions of the players are subject to geometric constraints. The pursuers’ goal is to...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Game Theory)
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  • Open Access
439 Views
19 Pages

Power Optimization Method for Multiple LCC-HVDC Systems Under System Strength Constraints

  • Jincheng Wu,
  • Ling Xu,
  • Ying Huang,
  • Xiaohu Zhang and
  • Guoteng Wang

To address the power optimization problem of LCC-HVDC systems in multi-infeed receiving-end grids under system strength constraints, this paper systematically analyzes the influence mechanism of AC system strength on conventional DC transmission powe...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,770 Views
9 Pages

23 May 2022

We propose the conditions for maximum overall efficiency at the constraint of satisfying asymmetric load power requirements for each receiver, for multiple-receivers wireless power transfer. Previously, the limitation of multiple-receiver analysis wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next Generation Wireless Charging System for Mobile Devices)

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