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22 April 2025

Real-world plants have various nonlinear characteristics such as friction and hysteresis, so nonlinear control is essential for precise control. In addition, actuators of plants have input constraints, which cause the integrator of the controller to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Control of Complex Dynamic Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,335 Views
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10 June 2022

In this paper, we investigate a class of nonlinear Schrödinger systems containing a nonlinear operator under Osgood-type conditions. By employing the iterative technique, the existence conditions for entire positive radial solutions of the above...

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3 Citations
2,656 Views
15 Pages

In this paper, a second-order operator splitting method combined with the barycentric Lagrange interpolation collocation method is proposed for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The equation is split into linear and nonlinear parts: the linear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and New Challenges in Coupled Systems and Networks: Theory, Modelling, and Applications)
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1 Citations
2,264 Views
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24 December 2022

In this paper, we study the Liouville-type behaviors of the generalized Greiner operators with nonlinear boundary value conditions. We use the technique based upon the method of moving planes.

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, 2nd Edition)
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2 Citations
2,461 Views
18 Pages

This paper studies operator and fractional order nonlinear robust control for a spiral counter-flow heat exchanger with uncertainties and disturbances. First, preliminary concepts are presented concerning fractional order derivative and calculus, fra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from The 11th International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS 2021))
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7 Citations
4,888 Views
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10 July 2024

Accurate flight training trajectory prediction is a key task in automatic flight maneuver evaluation and flight operations quality assurance (FOQA), which is crucial for pilot training and aviation safety management. The task is extremely challenging...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining and Machine Learning with Applications, 2nd Edition)
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5 Citations
2,209 Views
11 Pages

Optimal Auxiliary Function Method for Analyzing Nonlinear System of Belousov–Zhabotinsky Equation with Caputo Operator

  • Azzh Saad Alshehry,
  • Humaira Yasmin,
  • Muhammad Wakeel Ahmad,
  • Asfandyar Khan and
  • Rasool Shah

28 August 2023

This paper introduces the optimal auxiliary function method (OAFM) for solving a nonlinear system of Belousov–Zhabotinsky equations. The system is characterized by its complex dynamics and is treated using the Caputo operator and concepts from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fractional Differential Equations and Inequalities)
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3 Citations
2,932 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2021

Recently, the development of SiC and GaN high-performance semiconductor devices has led to higher efficiency in power conversion equipment. In order to perform thermal design of power conversion equipment and evaluation of the equipment, it is necess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Control of Advanced Mechatronics Systems)
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13 Citations
7,204 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2015

A meshless numerical scheme combining the operator splitting method (OSM), the radial basis function (RBF) interpolation, and the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is developed for solving transient nonlinear bioheat problems in two-dimensional (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Anisotropic and Smart Materials)
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This paper presents an action potential detector (APD) based on a high-order non-linear energy operator (HONEO). The APD consists of a HONEO, a positive threshold generator, a negative threshold generator, and an XOR. The APD is capable of detecting...

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45 Citations
5,631 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2020

In this paper, we consider a boundary value problem for a nonlinear partial differential equation of mixed type with Hilfer operator of fractional integro-differentiation in a positive rectangular domain and with spectral parameter in a negative rect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
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22 Citations
7,270 Views
13 Pages

2 June 2018

Recently, many kinds of soft actuators composed of flexible materials, such as silicon rubber, have been studied in the mechatronics field with increasing attention on the artificial muscle in welfare, medical care and biotechnology. Particularly, pn...

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11 Citations
3,407 Views
12 Pages

A New Class of Iterative Processes for Solving Nonlinear Systems by Using One Divided Differences Operator

  • Alicia Cordero,
  • Cristina Jordán,
  • Esther Sanabria and
  • Juan R. Torregrosa

23 August 2019

In this manuscript, a new family of Jacobian-free iterative methods for solving nonlinear systems is presented. The fourth-order convergence for all the elements of the class is established, proving, in addition, that one element of this family has o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Iterative Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations and Systems)
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16 Citations
3,388 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2021

Recently, the studies of soft actuators have been getting increased attention among various fields. Soft actuators are very safe for fragile objects and have an affinity to humans because they are composed of flexible materials. A miniature flexible...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,759 Views
15 Pages

This paper investigates the problem of trajectory tracking control in the presence of bounded model uncertainty and external disturbance. To cope with this problem, we propose a novel intelligent operator-based sliding mode control scheme for stabili...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
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184 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2026

In this paper, an operator- and observer-based nonlinear tracking control scheme is proposed. Initially, the error-based extended state observer (eESO) is employed on the objective nonlinear plant, which addresses the compensation for perturbations l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Actuators Based on Shape Memory Alloys—2nd Edition)
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1 Citations
231 Views
22 Pages

30 September 2026

In nonlinear mechatronic systems with multiple coupled actuators, the allocation of control inputs affects both the feedback-system structure and the required actuator effort. This paper develops an operator-based nonlinear multi-input control framew...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Control Strategies and Applications for Mechatronic Systems)
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2 Citations
1,753 Views
30 Pages

15 April 2026

Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) delivers high tracking accuracy for industrial processes but requires solving a nonlinear program at each sampling instant, limiting its applicability under tight real-time constraints. The Koopman operator p...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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2 Citations
1,349 Views
30 Pages

19 December 2025

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) offer intrinsically high open-circuit voltages in the kilovolt range; however, conventional diode rectifier interfaces clamp the voltage prematurely, restricting access to the high-energy portion of the mechanical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamics and Vibration Control in Mechanical Engineering)
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1 Citations
590 Views
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13 January 2026

Currently, machine learning (ML) methods provide a practical approach to model complex systems. Unlike purely analytical models, ML methods can describe the uncertainties (e.g., hysteresis, temperature effects) that are difficult to deal with, potent...

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2 Citations
3,083 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2020

This work presents the first-order comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (1st-CASAM) for computing efficiently the first-order sensitivities (i.e., functional derivatives) of operator-valued responses (i.e., model results) of general...

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5 Citations
4,836 Views
15 Pages

22 December 2016

Reduction operators, i.e., the operators of nonclassical (or conditional) symmetry of a class of variable coefficient nonlinear wave equations with power nonlinearities, are investigated within the framework of a singular reduction operator. A classi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lie and Conditional Symmetries and Their Applications for Solving Nonlinear Models)
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4 Citations
3,213 Views
15 Pages

16 April 2021

The number of actuators of an underactuated robot is less than its degree of freedom. In other words, underactuated robots can be designed with fewer actuators than fully actuated ones. Although an underactuated robot is more complex than a fully act...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Analysis and Control of Systems with Uncertainties)
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7 April 2025

In recent years, with the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) and decarbonization, energy harvesting has been attracting attention. Energy harvesting is a technology that converts ambient energy such as light, heat, and vibration into el...

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4 Citations
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1 June 2020

The necessary and sufficient conditions of existence of the nonlinear operator equations’ branches of solutions in the neighbourhood of branching points are derived. The approach is based on the reduction of the nonlinear operator equations to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solvability of Nonlinear Equations with Parameters: Branching, Regularization, Group Symmetry and Solutions Blow-Up)
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8 Citations
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1 April 2022

In this article, we study the JF iterative algorithm to approximate the fixed points of a non-linear operator that satisfies condition (E) in uniformly convex Banach spaces. Further, some weak and strong convergence results are presented for the same...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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1 Citations
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30 October 2024

In recent years, vibration control utilizing smart materials has garnered considerable attention. In this paper, we aim to achieve vibration suppression of a plate structure with a tail-fin shape by employing piezoelectric actuators—one of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Performance Control and Industrial Applications)
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3 Citations
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On Inequalities and Filtration Associated with the Nonlinear Fractional Operator

  • Maryam Nazir,
  • Syed Zakir Hussain Bukhari,
  • Jong-Suk Ro,
  • Fairouz Tchier and
  • Sarfraz Nawaz Malik

In this paper, we study a new filtration class MFα,βμ, associated with the filtration of infinitesimal generators, by using the nonlinear fractional differential operator and study certain properties, like sharp Fekete–Szegö...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Inequalities in Fractional Calculus and Applications)
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29 March 2026

Spectral methods form a cornerstone of linear dynamics, where evolution is resolved into harmonic modes governed by eigenvalues and spectral measures of normal operators. For nonlinear dynamical systems, however, the harmonic eigenfunction paradigm t...

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13 Citations
3,705 Views
20 Pages

19 April 2018

This paper presents the application of an economic model predictive control (MPC) for the operational management of water distribution networks (WDNs) with periodic operation and nonlinear constraint relaxation. In addition to minimizing operational...

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8 Citations
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A Nonlinear Convergence Consensus: Extreme Doubly Stochastic Quadratic Operators for Multi-Agent Systems

  • Rawad Abdulghafor,
  • Sultan Almotairi,
  • Hamad Almohamedh,
  • Badr Almutairi and ,
  • Abdullah Bajahzar and
  • Sulaiman Sulmi Almutairi
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3 April 2020

We investigate a novel nonlinear consensus from the extreme points of doubly stochastic quadratic operators (EDSQO), based on majorization theory and Markov chains for time-varying multi-agent distributed systems. We describe a dynamic system that ha...

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3 Citations
2,642 Views
17 Pages

12 August 2020

In this paper, a novel approach that uses a deep learning technique is proposed to detect and identify a variety of image operations. First, we propose the spatial domain-based nonlinear residual (SDNR) feature extraction method by constructing resid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Imaging Technology Ⅱ)
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1 Citations
1,672 Views
12 Pages

An algorithm for the symbolic computation of recursion operators for systems of nonlinear differential-difference equations (DDEs) is presented. Recursion operators allow one to generate an infinite sequence of generalized symmetries. The existence o...

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7 Citations
2,442 Views
13 Pages

11 July 2022

Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of interesting models of fractional partial differential equations. In the current work, a class of parabolic equations with regularized Hyper-Bessel derivative and the exponential source is investigated. M...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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18 June 2023

The purpose of the research is the study of a nonconstant gradient constrained problem for nonlinear monotone operators. In particular, we study a stationary variational inequality, defined by a strongly monotone operator, in a convex set of gradient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Models and Applications)
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8 Citations
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23 Pages

Nonlinear Consensus Protocol Modified from Doubly Stochastic Quadratic Operators in Networks of Dynamic Agents

  • Rawad Abdulghafor,
  • Sultan Almotairi,
  • Hamad Almohamedh,
  • Sherzod Turaev and
  • Badr Almutairi

15 December 2019

This article explores nonlinear convergence to limit the effects of the consensus problem that usually occurs in multi-agent systems. Most of the existing research essentially considers the outline of linear protocols, using complex mathematical equa...

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8 Citations
3,039 Views
18 Pages

An Integrated Variance-COPRAS Approach with Nonlinear Fuzzy Data for Ranking Barriers Affecting Sustainable Operations

  • K. N. S. Venkata Ramana,
  • Raghunathan Krishankumar,
  • Maja Sudjicki Trzin,
  • P. P. Amritha and
  • Dragan Pamucar

18 January 2022

Sustainability is becoming the core theme of every organization to protect the planet from the drastic effects of climate change. Many organizations have drastically changed their practices to encourage green habits for sustainable operations. Practi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Soft Computing for Smart Practices of Circular Economy in the Era of Covid-19)
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3 Citations
2,773 Views
22 Pages

7 July 2025

Current risk assessment in railway track maintenance operations faces challenges (low spatiotemporal accuracy, limited adaptability to various scenarios, and tendency of linear fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) methods to underestimate high-risk f...

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708 Views
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This study addresses the high-precision position control problem of pilot-operated proportional directional valves under dead-zone nonlinearity. A fuzzy PID-based position control strategy optimized by the dung beetle optimizer (DBO-FPID) is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
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This paper proposes a Chebyshev spectral collocation method for nonlinear Volterra–Hammerstein integral equations of the second kind with smooth kernels. We approximate the unknown solution using a finite Chebyshev expansion and place collocati...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,623 Views
15 Pages

10 August 2023

In this paper, we study the existence/non-existence of ground states for the following type of elliptic equations with mixed local and nonlocal operators and general nonlinearity: (−▵)su−▵u+λu=f(u),x∈RN, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Differential Equations: Theory and Application)
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9 Citations
2,395 Views
11 Pages

4 April 2022

The main crux of this work is to study the existence of extremal solutions for a new class of nonlinear sequential fractional differential equations (NSFDEs) with nonlinear boundary conditions (NBCs) under the ψ-Caputo operator. The obtained outc...

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542 Views
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14 July 2026

Forced periodic operation (FPO) has emerged as a promising process intensification strategy for catalytic reactors. In this study, the nonlinear frequency response (NFR) methodology was applied to investigate square-wave FPO of an isothermal CSTR for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy in Process Engineering: Impact Assessment and Directions for Sustainability)
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18 Citations
5,421 Views
26 Pages

Urban Rail Timetable Optimization to Improve Operational Efficiency with Flexible Routing Plans: A Nonlinear Integer Programming Model

  • Qiuchi Xue,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Jianjun Wu,
  • Huijun Sun and ,
  • Haodong Yin and
  • Yunchao Qu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 July 2019

At present, most urban rail transit systems adopt an operation mode with a single long routing. The departure frequency is determined by the maximum section passenger flow. However, when the passenger flow varies greatly within different sections, th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Rail and Metro Systems)
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31 Citations
2,815 Views
16 Pages

Fractional Analysis of Nonlinear Boussinesq Equation under Atangana–Baleanu–Caputo Operator

  • Sultan Alyobi,
  • Rasool Shah,
  • Adnan Khan,
  • Nehad Ali Shah and
  • Kamsing Nonlaopon

15 November 2022

This article proposed two novel techniques for solving the fractional-order Boussinesq equation. Several new approximate analytical solutions of the second- and fourth-order time-fractional Boussinesq equation are derived using the Laplace transform...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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11 Citations
2,790 Views
17 Pages

The Fractional Analysis of a Nonlinear mKdV Equation with Caputo Operator

  • Haifa A. Alyousef,
  • Rasool Shah,
  • Nehad Ali Shah,
  • Jae Dong Chung and ,
  • Sherif M. E. Ismaeel and
  • Samir A. El-Tantawy
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this study, we aim to provide reliable methods for the initial value problem of the fractional modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equations. Fractional differential equations are essential for more precise simulation of numerous processes. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling of Real Phenomena Based on Fractional Derivatives)
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12 Citations
1,996 Views
13 Pages

On the Solitary Waves and Nonlinear Oscillations to the Fractional Schrödinger–KdV Equation in the Framework of the Caputo Operator

  • Saima Noor,
  • Badriah M. Alotaibi,
  • Rasool Shah,
  • Sherif M. E. Ismaeel and
  • Samir A. El-Tantawy

21 August 2023

The fractional Schrödinger–Korteweg-de Vries (S-KdV) equation is an important mathematical model that incorporates the nonlinear dynamics of the KdV equation with the quantum mechanical effects described by the Schrödinger equation. M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Differential and Integral Equations and Their Infinite Systems)
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6 Citations
1,874 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2021

This paper is devoted to introducing a nonlinear reconstruction operator, the piecewise polynomial harmonic (PPH), on nonuniform grids. We define this operator and we study its main properties, such as its reproduction of second-degree polynomials, a...

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157 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2026

This paper develops an adaptive model predictive control (AMPC) scheme for uncertain nonaffine nonlinear systems by integrating deep Koopman operator theory into a fully data-driven modeling framework. Complex nonlinear systems typically feature prom...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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2 Citations
2,574 Views
28 Pages

9 September 2020

This work illustrates the application of a comprehensive first-order adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (1st-CASAM) to a heat conduction and convection analytical benchmark problem which simulates heat removal from a nuclear reactor fuel rod. T...

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