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  • Open Access
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Optimization-Oriented Vision-Guided Robotic Grasping for Bolt Handling in Intelligent Manufacturing

  • Pengzhan Fu,
  • Zhenlin Zhang,
  • Long Liu,
  • Yingze Xi and ,
  • Xingwei Zhao and
  • Xuan Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 June 2026

Accurate detection and reliable grasping of small bolts are essential for intelligent manufacturing and automated assembly. However, this remains a challenge due to the small size, slender geometry, and metallic reflective surfaces of bolts. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Dynamic Scheduling: Optimization and Management, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,058 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2023

To ensure safe, effective, and efficient marine operations, the optimization of maritime communication workflows with a task-oriented scheduling framework is of the utmost importance. Navigation, vessel traffic management, emergency response, and car...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sensor Technology in Smart Ships and Offshore Facilities)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
63 Views
10 Pages

A Web Platform for Generating Optimization-Ready V2V/V2I Connectivity Data from SUMO Vehicular Scenarios

  • Edison Xavier Espinel Sevilla,
  • Soraya Lucía Sinche Maita,
  • Martha Cecilia Paredes-Paredes and
  • Luis Urquiza-Aguiar

2 November 2026

Roadside-unit (RSU) deployment models need data that tell which vehicles can reach each candidate RSU, in which mobility snapshot, and with how many hops. Producing these data is not trivial: it means combining traffic mobility, urban geometry, direc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,231 Views
24 Pages

Query Optimization for Hybrid Plans in Row–Column Dual Store HTAP Databases

  • Xiaojun Shi,
  • Chaoyuan Shen,
  • Lianpeng Qiao,
  • Tianze Hu and
  • Guoren Wang

25 May 2026

As data volumes grow and business requirements become increasingly complex, Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) technologies, capable of handling both Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workload...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Data Science and Database Systems, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,720 Views
23 Pages

10 March 2025

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a modern technique that has led to substantial progress in wireless networks. To address the challenge of efficient task implementation in resource-limited environments, this work strengthens system performance through...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,233 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2025

This work proposes a design technique to facilitate the design and optimization of a highperformance power amplifier (PA) in an automated manner. The proposed optimizationoriented strategy consists of the implementation of four deep neural networks (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments and Challenges in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Advanced Sensing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,459 Views
16 Pages

25 January 2021

Coverage-oriented and target-oriented fuzzing are widely used in vulnerability detection. Compared with coverage-oriented fuzzing, target-oriented fuzzing concentrates more computing resources on suspected vulnerable points to improve the testing eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
184 Views
33 Pages

16 October 2026

The construction sector faces persistent challenges in productivity, workforce availability, and safety, motivating the adoption of robotics, automation, and digitization across planning and execution. Within construction-scale robotic 3D printing, c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Construction Automation and Robotic Fabrication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
824 Views
21 Pages

Navigation planning and execution for underwater gliders operating in thermocline-affected environments is challenging due to the coupled influence of energy constraints, spatially distributed environmental disturbances, and limited control authority...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
28 Pages

Dynamic Uplink Power Control for Cell-Free Massive MIMO

  • Hussein A. Jasim,
  • Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid,
  • Fazirulhisyam Hashim and
  • Syamsiah Mashohor

22 July 2026

Dynamic uplink power allocation is a critical challenge in cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks, where distributed access points (APs) jointly serve multiple user equipment (UEs) under mobility, time-varying propagation conditions, and strong i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Communications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,328 Views
15 Pages

The growing demand for high-performance and energy-efficient processing in edge-oriented Systems-on-Chip is driving the adoption of dedicated integrated circuits that accelerate computationally intensive workloads. To minimize area and performance ov...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,113 Views
9 Pages

14 June 2026

In the ongoing data-rich era, intelligent cognition is playing an increasingly important role in advancing remote sensing applications. However, traditional intelligent methods for remote sensing processing no longer fully meet the growing demands of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,210 Views
19 Pages

Orientation-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of 3D Printed Polylactic Acid Parts: An Experimental–Numerical Study

  • Saeedeh Vanaei,
  • Mohammadali Rastak,
  • Anouar El Magri,
  • Hamid Reza Vanaei and ,
  • Kaddour Raissi and
  • Abbas Tcharkhtchi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 December 2023

In Additive Manufacturing, wherein the construction of parts directly from 3D models is facilitated, a meticulous focus on enhancing the mechanical characteristics of these components becomes imperative. This study delves into the nuanced impact of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Additive Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
837 Views
22 Pages

Bi-Objective Optimization with Mode-Oriented Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling

  • Mingcong Xia,
  • Guokai Liang,
  • Rui Tong,
  • Jianxin Zhu and ,
  • Xin Xie,
  • Jintao Chen,
  • Weihua Tan and
  • Yuting Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 November 2025

To address the time–cost trade-off challenge in real-world practices, a bi-objective optimization model of the Multi-mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem is proposed with simultaneously minimizing both the project makespan and t...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,909 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Constraint Optimized Planning of Tasks on Virtualized-Service Pool for Mission-Oriented Swarm Intelligent Systems

  • Kailong Zhang,
  • Chao Fei,
  • Baorong Xie,
  • Yujia Wang and ,
  • Zheng Gong,
  • Chenyu Xie,
  • Thi Mai Trang Nguyen,
  • Yuan Yao and
  • Kejian Miao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

26 July 2019

With the emergence of swarm intelligent systems, especially the swarming of aircraft and ground vehicles, cooperation in multiple dimensions has becoming one of the great challenges. How to dynamically schedule the resources within a swarm intelligen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,788 Views
37 Pages

28 January 2026

The deployment of autonomous robots in construction remains constrained by the complexity and variability of real-world environments. Conventional programming and single-agent approaches lack the adaptability required for dynamic multi-robot operatin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotics, Automation and Digitization in Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,120 Views
11 Pages

Cognitive Behavioral Model of an Operation Crew in the Main Control Room of a Nuclear Power Plant Based on a State-Oriented Procedure

  • Tao Qing,
  • Zhaopeng Liu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Yaqin Tang and ,
  • Hong Hu and
  • Shuai Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 January 2022

The team’s cognitive behavior plays a crucial role in dealing with accidents at nuclear power plants. Herein, the main behaviors of reactor operators and coordinators in performing accident management were analyzed in executing a state-oriented...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in Process Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,733 Views
28 Pages

Smart Process Optimization and Adaptive Execution with Semantic Services in Cloud Manufacturing †

  • Luca Mazzola,
  • Philipp Waibel,
  • Patrick Kaphanke and
  • Matthias Klusch

13 November 2018

A new requirement for the manufacturing companies in Industry 4.0 is to be flexible with respect to changes in demands, requiring them to react rapidly and efficiently on the production capacities. Together with the trend to use Service-Oriented Arch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web)
  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
19 Pages

An FPGA-Oriented Offline–Online Framework for Multi-Robot Task Allocation

  • Lei Zhang,
  • Jiangbei Li,
  • Xiaoyuan Zheng,
  • Xindi Yang and
  • Changhua Hu

9 September 2026

With the increasing deployment of multi-robot systems in autonomous applications, efficient task allocation is essential for coordinating multiple robots and improving system performance. To address this challenge, this paper proposes an FPGA-oriente...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,423 Views
41 Pages

Multi-Phase Demand Modeling and Simulation of Mission-Oriented Supply Chains Using Digital Twin and Adaptive PSO

  • Jianbo Zhao,
  • Ruikang Wang,
  • Yijia Jing,
  • Yalin Wang and ,
  • Chenghao Pan and
  • Yifei Tong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 January 2026

Mission-oriented supply chains involve multi-phase tasks, strong resource interdependencies, and stringent reliability requirements, which make demand planning complex and uncertain. This study develops a structured demand modeling framework to suppo...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
28 Pages

QC-MM: A Metadata and Schema Model for Traceable Quantum-Circuit Experiments

  • Nawel Huenchuleo,
  • Samuel Sepúlveda and
  • Alejandro Fernández

24 June 2026

Context: Modern quantum-computing experimentation generates heterogeneous, context-dependent execution data whose scientific value depends on preserving calibration state, compilation decisions, and run outcomes in a traceable and repository-ready fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Database Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,871 Views
34 Pages

2 November 2025

The increasing adoption of high-performance DC motor control in embedded systems has driven the development of cost-effective solutions that extend beyond traditional software-based optimization techniques. This work presents a refined hardware-centr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Electric Machines: Design, Control, and Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,907 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2016

In large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in order to enhance network security, it is crucial for a trustor node to perform social milieu oriented routing to a target a trustee node to carry out trust evaluation. This challenging social milieu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Sensor Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,247 Views
28 Pages

Beyond Composting Basics: A Sustainable Development Goals—Oriented Strategic Guidance to IoT Integration for Composting in Modern Urban Ecosystems

  • Uvin Eksith Senadheera,
  • Jasintha Jayasanka,
  • Dhanushka Udayanga,
  • Choolaka Hewawasam and ,
  • Buddhika Amila,
  • Yuya Takimoto,
  • Masashi Hatamoto and
  • Nakayama Tadachika
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 November 2024

IoT-based composting provides clear advantages over conventional urban composting in areas such as enhanced monitoring, efficiency, resource utilization, and management. Bibliometric analysis of 121 publications on IoT-based urban composting identifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,070 Views
30 Pages

4 August 2014

Services composition technology provides a flexible approach to building Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Service Applications (WSA) in a service oriented tasking system for WSN. Maintaining the data security of WSA is one of the most important goals in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Computing for Mobile Security and Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,052 Views
23 Pages

Recently, prompt learning has emerged as a viable technique for fine-tuning pre-trained vision–language models (VLMs). The use of prompts allows pre-trained VLMs to be quickly adapted to specific downstream tasks, bypassing the necessity to upd...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,536 Views
17 Pages

Bidding Agents for PV and Electric Vehicle-Owning Users in the Electricity P2P Trading Market

  • Daishi Sagawa,
  • Kenji Tanaka,
  • Fumiaki Ishida,
  • Hideya Saito and ,
  • Naoya Takenaga,
  • Seigo Nakamura,
  • Nobuaki Aoki,
  • Misuzu Nameki and
  • Kosuke Saegusa
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

9 December 2021

As the world strives to decarbonize, the effective use of renewable energy has become an important issue, and P2P power trading is expected to unlock the value of renewable energy and encourage its adoption by enabling power trading based on user nee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting and Risk Management Techniques for Electricity Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
362 Views
25 Pages

28 September 2026

UAV pursuit–evasion in multi-obstacle environments constitutes a safety-critical decision-making problem in which the pursuer must intercept a maneuvering evader while satisfying obstacle-avoidance constraints. Existing safety-constrained metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Flight Dynamics and Decision-Making for UAV Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,805 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2019

With the rise in cloud computing architecture, the development of service-oriented simulation models has gradually become a prominent topic in the field of complex system simulation. In order to support the distributed sharing of the simulation model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computation in Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,201 Views
20 Pages

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN), which is considered a network architecture with great development potential, exhibits significant cross-domain collaboration characteristics at present. However, most of the existing works ignore the match...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
166 Views
34 Pages

Edge-Constrained Food Retrieval System

  • Andrea Spagnolo,
  • Simone Bianco,
  • Raimondo Schettini and
  • Danilo Pau

1 November 2026

Fine-grained food image and text retrieval requires models that can distinguish subtle differences in ingredients, preparation methods, and visual appearance. While vision language models provide strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, their comput...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI and Its Transformative Potential, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
561 Views
39 Pages

Beyond Industry 5.0: The Role of Multicloud Technologies for Sustainable Production and Proposals to Overcome Challenges

  • Renan Carriço Payer,
  • Thelma de Barros Machado and
  • João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio

21 August 2026

The transition to a new industrial paradigm beyond Industry 5.0 demands hyperconnectivity and massive processing, creating a paradox where high computational demand can threaten corporate sustainability goals (ESG). This study aims to structure and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,585 Views
14 Pages

18 June 2025

A key component in visual Simultaneous Location And Mapping (SLAM) systems is feature extraction and description. One common algorithm that accomplishes this purpose is Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB), which is used in state-of-the-art SLAM sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,213 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Game Actions and Performance in Young Soccer Players: A Study Using Sequential Analysis

  • Alejandro Sabarit,
  • Juan P. Morillo-Baro,
  • Rafael E. Reigal,
  • Juan A. Vázquez-Diz and ,
  • Antonio Hernández-Mendo and
  • Verónica Morales-Sánchez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 October 2022

The objective of this research is to analyze the performance of actions in a reduced game situation in a sample of young soccer players. This is a game format in which possession of the ball has to be maintained. The sample consisted of 85 young play...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sports Psychology and Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,255 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2022

This work discusses the proposition of the identification of electrical waveforms resulting from the executive systems’ operation, controlled by the vehicle electronic modules. This proposition results from the fact that the electric current po...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,387 Views
17 Pages

Iterative Learning Control Design for a Class of Mobile Robots

  • Dominik Zaborniak,
  • Piotr Balik,
  • Kacper Woźniak,
  • Bartłomiej Sulikowski and
  • Marcin Witczak

The paper presents the design of iterative learning control for a class of mobile robots. This control strategy allows driving the considered system, which executes the same control task in trials, to the predefined reference within the consecutive i...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,211 Views
24 Pages

2 February 2023

This paper presents a hybrid renewable energy system (RES) including wind and photovoltaic (PV) power sources. The wind energy subsystem (WES) consists of a squirrel-cage induction generator (SCIG) driven by a variable-speed wind turbine (WT) and cor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converter Control Applications in Low-Inertia Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
349 Views
22 Pages

A Multi-Objective Optimization Method for Desensitization Resource Allocation of Civil Aviation Passenger Sensitive Data

  • Shuang Wang,
  • Huan Zhao,
  • Lei Ding,
  • Zhaojun Gu and ,
  • Jingxian Zhou and
  • Zhiping Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 July 2026

To address the challenges of heterogeneous desensitization requirements, limited system resources, and inefficient resource allocation for structured sensitive data, this paper proposes a data security-oriented multi-objective optimization method for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Privacy and Application in New Intelligence Techniques: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,439 Views
18 Pages

22 June 2020

Nanoindentation became a standard non-destructive technique to measure mechanical properties at the submicron scale of various materials. A set of empirical rules were established to guarantee the validity of the results. One of those rules is the se...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,609 Views
14 Pages

Third-Order Tensor Decorrelation Based on 3D FO-HKLT with Adaptive Directional Vectorization

  • Roumen K. Kountchev,
  • Rumen P. Mironov and
  • Roumiana A. Kountcheva

21 April 2022

In this work, we present a new hierarchical decomposition aimed at the decorrelation of a cubical tensor of size 2n, based on the 3D Frequency-Ordered Hierarchical KLT (3D FO-HKLT). The decomposition is executed in three consecutive stages. In the fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidimensional Signal Processing and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
394 Views
34 Pages

Jerk-Constrained Feedrate Scheduling for Biaxial Contouring Systems: A Planning-to-Execution Simulation Study

  • Yiqian Jia,
  • Ruoqing Wu,
  • Zeyun Shang,
  • Jihang Wang and ,
  • Yilin Yang and
  • Sumin Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 June 2026

Biaxial contouring systems are widely used in planar precision motion applications, where the assigned feedrate profile strongly affects motion smoothness, contour-following accuracy, and robustness during servo execution. However, many existing stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,061 Views
36 Pages

21 April 2022

This article is oriented to the application of generalized type-2 fuzzy systems in the dynamic adjustment of the parameters of a recent metaheuristic based on nature that follows the rules of the best feeding strategies of predators and prey in ecosy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Techniques for Emerging Conditions & Digital Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
560 Views
42 Pages

18 August 2026

The lack of determinism restricts the integration of safety-critical applications into Edge–Fog–Cloud (EFC) architectures. Existing EFC schedulers are typically designed for dynamic, best-effort operation based on unmanaged resource alloc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Service Computing: Synergies, Innovations, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,331 Views
22 Pages

26 April 2024

Ensuring optimal building performance is vital for enhancing student activity comfort and fostering energy-saving initiatives toward low-carbon objectives. This paper focuses on university student centers in China, aiming to diminish building energy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
463 Views
32 Pages

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms have become the mainstream approach for solving expensive constrained multi-objective optimization problems (ECMOPs). However, existing methods suffer from blind search issues, and their selection strategies...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
605 Views
29 Pages

Hybrid Fault-Space Restructuring for Machine Learning-Based Fault Diagnosis in Power Electronic Converters

  • José M. García-Campos,
  • Abraham M. Alcaide,
  • Alejandro Letrado-Castellanos,
  • Ramon Portillo and
  • Jose I. Leon

Fault diagnosis in power electronic systems is challenging when fault categories geometrically overlap within the measurement space, limiting class separability and introducing classification ambiguity. This work proposes an edge-oriented hybrid faul...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,123 Views
18 Pages

Patient Data Analysis with the Quantum Clustering Method

  • Shradha Deshmukh,
  • Bikash K. Behera and
  • Preeti Mulay

13 February 2023

Quantum computing is one of the most promising solutions for solving optimization problems in the healthcare world. Quantum computing development aims to light up the execution of a vast and complex set of algorithmic instructions. For its implementa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,120 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Area, Multi-Service and Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud Continuum Planning

  • Anargyros J. Roumeliotis,
  • Efstratios Myritzis,
  • Evangelos Kosmatos,
  • Konstantinos V. Katsaros and
  • Angelos J. Amditis

25 June 2025

This paper presents the optimal planning of multi-area, multi-service, and multi-tier edge–cloud environments. The goal is to evaluate the regional deployment of the compute continuum, i.e., the type and number of processing devices, their pair...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
425 Views
34 Pages

Feasibility-Driven Assembly and Welding Planning for a Dual-Robot Steel Fabrication Cell

  • Muratbek A. Bulganbayev,
  • Rassim N. Suliyev,
  • Nuno M. Fonseca Ferreira,
  • Maksim Trubchaninov and ,
  • Arman Muratbekov and
  • Darkhan Yermekbay
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 September 2026

Assembling a welded steel structure with robots requires deciding whether an entire assembly—dozens of parts, each needing a collision-free pick-up, press-fit placement, and welding—is executable at all, and under which positioning of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Robots and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,637 Views
14 Pages

31 August 2025

The increasing complexity and scale of service-oriented architectures in cloud computing have heightened the demand for intelligent, decentralized, and adaptive service composition techniques. This study proposes an advanced framework that integrates...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)

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