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  • Open Access
23 Citations
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Detection of Wheel Polygonization Based on Wayside Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence

  • António Guedes,
  • Ruben Silva,
  • Diogo Ribeiro,
  • Cecília Vale,
  • Araliya Mosleh,
  • Pedro Montenegro and
  • Andreia Meixedo

15 February 2023

This research presents an approach based on artificial intelligence techniques for wheel polygonization detection. The proposed methodology is tested with dynamic responses induced on the track by passing a Laagrss-type rail vehicle. The dynamic resp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,732 Views
24 Pages

1 September 2022

The lightweight representation of 3D building models has played an increasingly important role in the comprehensive application of urban 3D models. Polygonization is a compact and lightweight representation for which a fundamental challenge is the fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,403 Views
24 Pages

25 November 2021

With the development of UAV and oblique photogrammetry technology, the multi-view stereo image has become an important data source for 3D urban reconstruction, and the surface meshes generated by it have become a common way to represent the building...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,691 Views
20 Pages

17 August 2021

This paper reports sophistication levels in third grade children’s understanding of polygon concept and polygon classes. We consider how children endow mathematical meaning to parts of figures and reason to identify relationships between polygons. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access

PolygonTailor: A Parallel Algorithm for Polygon Boolean Operations in IC Layout Processing

  • Zhirui Niu,
  • Ruian Ji,
  • Guan Wang,
  • Siao Guo,
  • Shijie Ye and
  • Lan Chen

10 February 2026

Polygon Boolean operations are widely used in integrated circuit (IC) layout processing tasks such as design rule checking (DRC) and optical proximity correction (OPC). Single-threaded Boolean algorithms cannot meet the efficiency demand of modern IC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,229 Views
13 Pages

23 January 2025

Polygon reconstruction is widely used across various fields. Although the current polygon reconstruction algorithms have achieved near-linear time complexity, they still fail to meet the speed demands imposed by the exponential growth in polygon numb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,804 Views
26 Pages

11 October 2018

This paper provides a full theoretical and experimental analysis of a serial algorithm for the point-in-polygon test, which requires less running time than previous algorithms and can handle all degenerate cases. The serial algorithm can quickly dete...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,519 Views
34 Pages

Centered Polygonal Lacunary Sequences

  • Keith Sullivan,
  • Drew Rutherford and
  • Darin J. Ulness

11 October 2019

Lacunary functions based on centered polygonal numbers have interesting features which are distinct from general lacunary functions. These features include rotational symmetry of the modulus of the functions and a notion of polished level sets. The b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,000 Views
15 Pages

9 July 2019

Modern degradation of Arctic permafrost promotes changes in tundra landscapes and leads to degradation of ice wedge polygons, which are the most widespread landforms of Arctic wetlands. Status assessment of polygon degradation is important for variou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,837 Views
10 Pages

Any Monotone Function Is Realized by Interlocked Polygons

  • Erik D. Demaine,
  • Martin L. Demaine and
  • Ryuhei Uehara

19 March 2012

Suppose there is a collection of n simple polygons in the plane, none of which overlap each other. The polygons are interlocked if no subset can be separated arbitrarily far from the rest. It is natural to ask the characterization of the subsets that...

  • Article
  • Open Access

9 February 2026

Building polygon extraction is a critical task in remote sensing analysis and a fundamental component of modern urban management. Conventional segmentation-based methods often suffer from geometric distortions during the conversion from masks to poly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,142 Views
20 Pages

The centerlines of polygons can be generated with the use of various methods. The aim of this study was to propose an algorithm for generating the centerline of an elongated polygon based on the transformation of vector data. The proposed method invo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,263 Views
26 Pages

28 October 2019

This work is on the nature and properties of graphs which arise in the study of centered polygonal lacunary functions. Such graphs carry both graph-theoretic properties and properties related to the so-called p-sequences found in the study of centere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,417 Views
12 Pages

Convex Polygon Triangulation Based on Symmetry

  • Predrag V. Krtolica,
  • Predrag S. Stanimirović,
  • Sead H. Mašović,
  • Islam A. Elshaarawy and
  • Alena Stupina

2 August 2023

A polygon with n nodes can be divided into two subpolygons by an internal diagonal through node n. Splitting the polygon along diagonal δi,n and diagonal δni,n, i{2,,n/2} results in mirror images. Obvi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,296 Views
29 Pages

4 October 2022

In this paper, a semi-analytical method has been developed for the hydrodynamic analysis of a floating polygonal platform that is centrally placed within a floating polygonal ring structure under wave action. In view to understand the wave interactio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,392 Views
14 Pages

7 January 2024

In this paper, we present a general version of polygonal fitting problem called Unconstrained Polygonal Fitting (UPF). Our goal is to represent a given 2D shape S with an N-vertex polygonal curve P with a known number of vertices, so that the Interse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,505 Views
19 Pages

The Motion of a Point Vortex in Multiply-Connected Polygonal Domains

  • El Mostafa Kalmoun,
  • Mohamed M. S. Nasser and
  • Khalifa A. Hazaa

16 July 2020

We study the motion of a single point vortex in simply- and multiply-connected polygonal domains. In the case of multiply-connected domains, the polygonal obstacles can be viewed as the cross-sections of 3D polygonal cylinders. First, we utilize conf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,689 Views
12 Pages

Calibration of a Rotary Encoder and a Polygon Using a Two-Autocollimator Method

  • Tsung-Han Hsieh,
  • Ming-Xian Lin,
  • Kuan-Ting Yeh and
  • Tsukasa Watanabe

31 January 2023

In this work, we propose a two-autocollimator method in which all pitch angle deviations of a polygon and angle errors of a rotary encoder can be calibrated simultaneously. A polygon with any number of faces can be calibrated. Any face of the polygon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,484 Views
25 Pages

NLP Formulation for Polygon Optimization Problems

  • Saeed Asaeedi,
  • Farzad Didehvar and
  • Ali Mohades

27 December 2018

In this paper, we generalize the problems of finding simple polygons with minimum area, maximum perimeter, and maximum number of vertices, so that they contain a given set of points and their angles are bounded by α + π where &alp...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,701 Views
9 Pages

16 November 2022

Polygonal terrains on a Martian southern polar cap have been observed in high-resolution images by the Mars Orbiter Camera. However, their formation mechanism is enigmatic due to the lack of constraints from their geometric and physical properties. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,814 Views
13 Pages

Study on the Interaction between Wheel Polygon and Rail Corrugation in High-Speed Railways

  • Xiaotian Xu,
  • Xiaolu Cui,
  • Jia Xu,
  • Xiaoxia Wen and
  • Zongchao Yang

8 December 2022

The wheel polygonization and rail corrugation are typical wheel–rail periodic wear problems, which seriously affect the safe operation of high-speed railways. In the present paper, the interaction between the wheel polygon and the rail corrugat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,155 Views
21 Pages

Numerical Study on Ultrasonic Guided Waves for the Inspection of Polygonal Drill Pipes

  • Xiang Wan,
  • Xuhui Zhang,
  • Hongwei Fan,
  • Peter W. Tse,
  • Ming Dong and
  • Hongwei Ma

8 May 2019

The polygonal drill pipe is one of the most critical yet weakest part in a high-torque drill machine. The inspection of a polygonal drill pipe to avoid its failure and thus to ensure safe operation of the drilling machine is of great importance. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
547 Views
24 Pages

Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for Convex Polygon Decomposition

  • Johana Milena Martínez Contreras,
  • Germán Fernando Pantoja Benavides,
  • Astrid Xiomara Rodríguez,
  • John Willmer Escobar and
  • David Álvarez-Martínez

18 December 2025

Convex decomposition plays a central role in computational geometry and is a key preprocessing step in applications such as robotic motion planning, 2D packing, pattern recognition, and manufacturing. This work revisits the minimum convex decompositi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,745 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2024

Polygonal wear affects driving safety and drastically shortens a wheel’s life. This work establishes a wheel–rail coupled system’s rotor dynamics model and a wheel polygonal wear model, taking into account the wheelset’s flexi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,852 Views
30 Pages

The hydrodynamic behaviour of floating regular polygonal platforms under wave action was studied by conducting parametric studies. Considering triangular, square, hexagonal, and circular platforms of similar size and draft, the results show that thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,986 Views
10 Pages

Generating Integrally Indecomposable Newton Polygons with Arbitrary Many Vertices

  • Petar Ðapić,
  • Ivan Pavkov,
  • Siniša Crvenković and
  • Ilija Tanackov

7 July 2022

In this paper we shall give another proof of a special case of Gao’s theorem for generating integrally indecomposable polygons in the sense of Minkowski. The approach of proving this theorem will enable us to give an effective algorithm for con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,234 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Visualization Method for Polygonal Data with Dynamic Simplification

  • Mingguang Wu,
  • Taisheng Chen,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Zhimin Jing,
  • Yangli Han,
  • Menglin Chen,
  • Hong Wang and
  • Guonian Lv

Polygonal data often require rendering with symbolization and simplification in geovisualization. A common issue in existing methods is that simplification, symbolization and rendering are addressed separately, causing computational and data redundan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,744 Views
15 Pages

10 December 2023

The paper deals with the exploration of subsequences of polygonal numbers of different sides derived through step-by-step elimination of terms of the original sequences. Eliminations are based on special rules similarly to how the classic sieve of Er...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,566 Views
22 Pages

25 August 2020

The polygonal wear of train wheels occurs commonly in rail transport and increases the wheel–rail interaction force dramatically and has a bad effect on the safety and comfort of the train. The mechanism of polygonal wear needs to be studied. T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,397 Views
36 Pages

Formation of Low-Centered Ice-Wedge Polygons and Their Orthogonal Systems: A Review

  • Yuri Shur,
  • Benjamin M. Jones,
  • M. Torre Jorgenson,
  • Mikhail Z. Kanevskiy,
  • Anna Liljedahl,
  • Donald A. Walker,
  • Melissa K. Ward Jones,
  • Daniel Fortier and
  • Alexander Vasiliev

Ice wedges, which are ubiquitous in permafrost areas, play a significant role in the evolution of permafrost landscapes, influencing the topography and hydrology of these regions. In this paper, we combine a detailed multi-generational, interdiscipli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,902 Views
7 Pages

31 July 2021

In this paper, we present an arbitrary-order discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of the SN transport equation on 3D extruded polygonal prisms. Basis functions are formed by the tensor product of 2D polygonal Bernstein–Bézier function...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,725 Views
22 Pages

Star-Identification System Based on Polygon Recognition

  • Gustavo E. Ramos-Alcaraz,
  • Miguel A. Alonso-Arévalo and
  • Juan M. Nuñez-Alfonso

24 August 2023

Accurate attitude determination is crucial for satellites and spacecraft. Among attitude determination devices, star sensors are the most accurate. Solving the lost-in-space problem is the most critical function of the star sensor. Our research intro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,481 Views
12 Pages

2 September 2022

Multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index is a very interesting topological index. In this article, we compute analytical expression for the expected value of the Multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index in a random polygonal. Based on the result above, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,151 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2022

Two famous topological indices, the Gutman index and Schultz index, are studied in this article. We mainly calculate the exact analytical formulae for the expected values of the Gutman index and Schultz index of a random regular polygonal chain with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,036 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2022

The additive degree–Kirchhoff index is an important topological index. This paper we devote to establishing the explicit analytical expression for the simple formulae of the expected value of the additive degree–Kirchhoff index in a rando...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,914 Views
17 Pages

11 April 2020

This work investigates centered polygonal lacunary functions restricted from the unit disk onto symmetry angle space which is defined by the symmetry angles of a given centered polygonal lacunary function. This restriction allows for one to consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,694 Views
13 Pages

10 December 2021

Traditionally, circular cross-section towers have been used as supporting systems of wind turbines, but weaknesses have become apparent with recent upsizing of wind turbines. Thus, polygonal cross-section towers have been proposed and used in Europe....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,084 Views
18 Pages

15 August 2022

This paper introduces an efficient and robust sliding algorithm for the creation of no-fit polygons. The improved algorithm can cope with complex cases and is given an implementation in detail. The proposed concept of a touching group can simplify th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
811 Views
15 Pages

Research on Wheel Polygonal Wear Based on the Vehicle–Track Coupling Vibration of Metro

  • Yixuan Shi,
  • Qingzhou Mao,
  • Qunsheng Wang,
  • Huanyun Dai,
  • Xinyu Peng and
  • Cuijun Dong

Wheel polygonal wear of metro deteriorates the vibration environment of the vehicle system, potentially leading to resonance-induced fatigue failure of components. This poses serious risks to operational safety and increases maintenance costs. To add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,203 Views
42 Pages

26 August 2020

Flat surfaces captured by 3D point clouds are often used for localization, mapping, and modeling. Dense point cloud processing has high computation and memory costs making low-dimensional representations of flat surfaces such as polygons desirable. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,492 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Polygonal Computer Model Parameters and Influence on Fabric Drape Simulation

  • Slavenka Petrak,
  • Maja Mahnić Naglić,
  • Dubravko Rogale and
  • Jelka Geršak

21 October 2021

Contemporary CAD systems enable 3D clothing simulation for the purpose of predicting the appearance and behavior of conventional and intelligent clothing in real conditions. The physical and mechanical properties of the fabric and the simulation para...

  • Article
  • Open Access
860 Views
23 Pages

16 April 2025

The gear-transmission system plays a crucial role in power transmission for urban railway vehicles. However, it can experience abnormal meshing conditions due to wheel polygonization, which presents a potential safety hazard for vehicle operations. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,697 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2022

This work details research on the formation mechanism of wheel polygonalization in high-speed trains and its effect factors by numerical modeling in order to prevent the increasingly prevalent problem of wheel polygonal wear. The lateral self-excited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,302 Views
23 Pages

Buildings can be introduced as a fundamental element for forming a city. Therefore, up-to-date building maps have become vital for many applications, including urban mapping and urban expansion analysis. With the development of deep learning, segment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,928 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2020

The increasing need for repairs of polygonized wheels on high-speed railways in China is becoming problematic. At high speeds, polygonized wheels cause abnormal vibrations at the wheel-rail interface that can be detected via axle-box accelerations. T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,355 Views
23 Pages

16 February 2024

Lattice structures are useful in the aerospace, automotive, infrastructural, and medical fields due to the way they incorporate a lightweight design and good mechanical properties, because of their hollow shapes. This review paper documents work carr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,961 Views
10 Pages

LSP(n), the largest small polygon with n vertices, is a polygon with a unit diameter that has a maximal of area A(n). It is known that for all odd values n3, LSP(n) is a regular n-polygon; however, this statement is not valid even for values of n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,375 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2021

Deep learning-based models for building delineation from remotely sensed images face the challenge of producing precise and regular building outlines. This study investigates the combination of normalized digital surface models (nDSMs) with aerial im...

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