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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,676 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2019

To increase the reliability and accuracy of tolerance design, more and more research works are considering not only orientation and position deviations; they are also forming errors in tolerance modeling. As a direct cause of form errors in industria...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,396 Views
28 Pages

Lithium-ion batteries experience nonlinear degradation characteristics during long-term operation. Accurate estimation of their remaining useful life (RUL) is of significant importance for early fault diagnosis and residual value evaluation. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,544 Views
23 Pages

Interpretable Machine Learning Methods for Monitoring Polymer Degradation in Extrusion of Polylactic Acid

  • Nimra Munir,
  • Ross McMorrow,
  • Konrad Mulrennan,
  • Darren Whitaker,
  • Seán McLoone,
  • Minna Kellomäki,
  • Elina Talvitie,
  • Inari Lyyra and
  • Marion McAfee

28 August 2023

This work investigates real-time monitoring of extrusion-induced degradation in different grades of PLA across a range of process conditions and machine set-ups. Data on machine settings together with in-process sensor data, including temperature, pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,318 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2024

In recent years, preventive maintenance has emerged as a focal point of research in the aerospace field. The concept of equipment maintenance, exemplified by prognosis and health management (PHM), has permeated every aspect of development and design....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,401 Views
18 Pages

Data-Driven Prediction of Li-Ion Battery Degradation Using Predicted Features

  • Wei W. Xing,
  • Akeel A. Shah,
  • Nadir Shah,
  • Yinpeng Wu,
  • Qian Xu,
  • Aphichart Rodchanarowan,
  • Puiki Leung,
  • Xun Zhu and
  • Qiang Liao

23 February 2023

For their emergent application in electric vehicles, the development of fast and accurate algorithms to monitor the health status of batteries and aid decision-making in relation to maintenance and replacement is now of paramount importance. Data-dri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,532 Views
16 Pages

5 January 2023

Laboratory-scale data on a component level are frequently used for prognostics because acquiring them is time and cost efficient. However, they do not reflect actual field conditions. As prognostics is for an in-service system, the developed prognost...

  • Article
  • Open Access
358 Views
22 Pages

A Lightweight Degradation-Aware Framework for Robust Object Detection in Adverse Weather

  • Seungun Park,
  • Jiakang Kuai,
  • Hyunsu Kim,
  • Hyunseong Ko,
  • ChanSung Jung and
  • Yunsik Son

29 December 2025

Object detection in adverse weather remains challenging due to the simultaneous degradation of visibility, structural boundaries, and semantic consistency. Existing restoration-driven or multi-branch detection approaches often fail to recover task-re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,834 Views
20 Pages

25 July 2019

Degradation analysis has been widely used in reliability modeling problems of complex systems. A system with complex structure and various functions may have multiple degradation features, and any of them may be a cause of product failure. Typically,...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,074 Views
5 Pages

ProgMachina: Feature Extraction and Processing Package for Prognostic Studies

  • Tarek Berghout,
  • Mohamed Benbouzid and
  • Jaouher Ben Ali

15 November 2023

Prognostic studies of industrial systems essentially focus on health deterioration analysis that has recently been oriented toward data analytics and learning systems. In general, real degradation phenomena suffer from complex drifted data in which d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,694 Views
15 Pages

17 February 2019

This paper presents a new method to assess the performance degradation of roller bearings based on the fusion of multiple features, with the aim of improving the early degradation detection ability of the electrostatic monitoring system. At first, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,887 Views
19 Pages

Research on State Recognition and Failure Prediction of Axial Piston Pump Based on Performance Degradation Data

  • Rui Guo,
  • Zhiqian Zhao,
  • Saiyu Huo,
  • Zhijie Jin,
  • Jingyi Zhao and
  • Dianrong Gao

20 May 2020

Degradation state recognition and failure prediction are the key steps of prognostic and health management (PHM), which directly affect the reliability of the equipment and the selection of preventive maintenance strategy. Given the problem that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,735 Views
21 Pages

10 July 2020

Performance degradation prediction plays a key role in realizing aviation pump health management and condition-based maintenance. Thus, this paper proposes a new approach that combines a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and optimized support vector regre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,740 Views
15 Pages

11 April 2023

In light of the increasing demand for the reliability analysis of self-recovery products, with features of limited storage period and multistage degradation, a reliability evaluation model in whole life cycle is proposed. The degradation process comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,689 Views
20 Pages

22 February 2025

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) serves as a fundamental preprocessing step in ocean remote sensing applications, encompassing marine life detection, archaeological surveying, and subsea resource exploration. However, UIE encounters substantial tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,307 Views
27 Pages

23 May 2021

High precision and multi information prediction results of bearing remaining useful life (RUL) can effectively describe the uncertainty of bearing health state and operation state. Aiming at the problem of feature efficient extraction and RUL predict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,200 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2022

The evaluation of rolling bearing performance degradation has important implications for the prediction and health management (PHM) of rotating equipment. A method for evaluation of rolling bearing performance degradation based on comprehensive index...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,631 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2022

Predictive maintenance based on performance degradation is a crucial way to reduce maintenance costs and potential failures in modern complex engineering systems. Reliable remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is the main criterion for decision-maki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,050 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2025

Recently, studies on driver inattention state recognition as an advanced mobility application technology are being actively conducted to prevent traffic accidents caused by driver drowsiness and distraction. The driver inattention state recognition s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,167 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2021

Vibration signals contain abundant information that reflects the health status of wind turbine high-speed shaft bearings ((HSSBs). Accurate health assessment and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction are the keys to the scientific maintenance of win...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,039 Views
18 Pages

26 June 2023

In the existing rolling bearing performance degradation assessment methods, the input signal is usually mixed with a large amount of noise and is easily disturbed by the transfer path. The time information is usually ignored when the model processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,933 Views
26 Pages

Low-Light Image Dehazing and Enhancement via Multi-Feature Domain Fusion

  • Jiaxin Wu,
  • Han Ai,
  • Ping Zhou,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Gaopeng Zhang and
  • Weining Chen

25 August 2025

The acquisition of nighttime remote-sensing visible-light images is often accompanied by low-illumination effects and haze interference, resulting in significant image quality degradation and greatly affecting subsequent applications. Existing low-li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,262 Views
22 Pages

In the context of predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of rolling bearings, many models often encounter challenges in identifying the starting point of the degradation stage, and the accuracy of predictions is not high. Accordingly, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,029 Views
33 Pages

9 September 2023

Contact fatigue is one of the most common failure forms of typical basic components such as bearings and gears. Accurate prediction of contact fatigue performance degradation trends in components is conducive to the scientific formulation of maintena...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,175 Views
19 Pages

Real Image Deblurring Based on Implicit Degradation Representations and Reblur Estimation

  • Zihe Zhao,
  • Man Qin,
  • Haosong Gou,
  • Zhengyong Wang and
  • Chao Ren

30 June 2023

Most existing image deblurring methods are based on the estimation of blur kernels and end-to-end learning of the mapping relationship between blurred and sharp images. However, since different real-world blurred images typically have completely diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,134 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2025

In the process of few-shot class-incremental learning, the limited number of samples for newly introduced classes makes it difficult to adequately adapt model parameters, resulting in poor feature representations for these classes. To address this is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,043 Views
19 Pages

Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rolling Bearings Based on ECA-CAE and Autoformer

  • Jianhua Zhong,
  • Huying Li,
  • Yuquan Chen,
  • Cong Huang,
  • Shuncong Zhong and
  • Haibin Geng

In response to the need for multiple complete bearing degradation datasets in traditional deep learning networks to predict the impact on individual bearings, a novel deep learning-based rolling bearing remaining life prediction method is proposed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,939 Views
21 Pages

A Hybrid Degradation Modeling and Prognostic Method for the Multi-Modal System

  • Jun Peng,
  • Shengnan Wang,
  • Dianzhu Gao,
  • Xiaoyong Zhang,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Yijun Cheng,
  • Yingze Yang,
  • Wentao Yu and
  • Zhiwu Huang

18 February 2020

Engineering systems typically go through complicated degradation processes, partially due to their multiple operating modes. Therefore, how to accurately estimate their remaining useful life is a critical issue. To address this challenge, a hybrid de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,427 Views
23 Pages

Lifetime Estimation for Multi-Phase Deteriorating Process with Random Abrupt Jumps

  • Jianxun Zhang,
  • Xiaosheng Si,
  • Dangbo Du,
  • Chen Hu and
  • Changhua Hu

26 March 2019

Owing to operating condition changing, physical mutation, and sudden shocks, degradation trajectories usually exhibit multi-phase features, and the abrupt jump often appears at the changing time, which makes the traditional methods of lifetime estima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,206 Views
15 Pages

No-Reference Quality Assessment of Extended Target Adaptive Optics Images Using Deep Neural Network

  • Guoqing Gao,
  • Lingxiao Li,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Ning Jiang,
  • Shuqi Li,
  • Qing Bian,
  • Hua Bao and
  • Changhui Rao

19 December 2023

This paper proposes a supervised deep neural network model for accomplishing highly efficient image quality assessment (IQA) for adaptive optics (AO) images. The AO imaging systems based on ground-based telescopes suffer from residual atmospheric tur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,883 Views
22 Pages

System-Level Fault Diagnosis for an Industrial Wafer Transfer Robot with Multi-Component Failure Modes

  • Inu Lee,
  • Hyung Jun Park,
  • Jae-Won Jang,
  • Chang-Woo Kim and
  • Joo-Ho Choi

12 September 2023

In the manufacturing industry, robots are constantly operated at high speed, which degrades their performance by the degradation of internal components, eventually reaching failure. To address this issue, a framework for system-level fault diagnosis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,147 Views
11 Pages

12 June 2023

This paper established a mathematical method for the spectral feature extraction of ratholes, based on UAV hyperspectral imaging technology. The degradation of grasslands is a major challenge to terrestrial ecosystems. Rodents not only promote soil e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,677 Views
20 Pages

27 July 2023

For many machines with turning process systems, the application of economical indirect Tool Condition Monitoring (TCM) is enhanced by utilizing internal encoder spindle motor current signals. In this study, we proposed a novel approach to extract the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,833 Views
22 Pages

Battery degradation is a complex nonlinear problem, and it is crucial to accurately predict the cycle life of lithium-ion batteries to optimize the usage of battery systems. However, diverse chemistries, designs, and degradation mechanisms, as well a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,644 Views
17 Pages

4 August 2021

Rotating machines such as induction motors are crucial parts of most industrial systems. The prognostic health management of induction motor rotors plays an essential role in increasing electrical machine reliability and safety, especially in critica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,688 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2020

Axial piston pumps are crucial for the safe operation of hydraulic systems and usually work under variable operating conditions. However, deterioration status recognition for such pumps under variable conditions has rarely been reported until now. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,595 Views
13 Pages

Degradation of Plastics in Simulated Landfill Conditions

  • Quecholac-Piña Xochitl,
  • Hernández-Berriel María del Consuelo,
  • Mañón-Salas María del Consuelo,
  • Espinosa-Valdemar Rosa María and
  • Vázquez-Morillas Alethia

25 March 2021

Different degradable plastics have been promoted as a solution for the accumulation of waste in landfills and the natural environment; in Mexico, the most popular options are oxo-degradable, which degrade in a sequential abiotic–biotic process, and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,063 Views
17 Pages

27 April 2025

With the development of intelligent grid systems, smart circuit breakers are widely used. The control circuit is the core component of the smart circuit breaker, making its performance degradation characteristics highly significant. This paper focuse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,274 Views
16 Pages

USP25 Regulates EGFR Fate by Modulating EGF-Induced Ubiquitylation Dynamics

  • Carlos A. Niño,
  • Nadine Wollscheid,
  • Giovanni Giangreco,
  • Elena Maspero and
  • Simona Polo

13 November 2020

Deregulated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling is a key feature in different stages of oncogenesis. One important mechanism whereby cancer cells achieve increased and uncontrolled EGFR signaling is escaping down-modulation of the recep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,356 Views
15 Pages

26 May 2022

Resolution decrease and motion blur are two typical image degradation processes that are usually addressed by deep networks, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, since real images are usually obtained through multiple degradati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
219 Citations
18,969 Views
20 Pages

Degradation and Recycling of Films Based on Biodegradable Polymers: A Short Review

  • Roberto Scaffaro,
  • Andrea Maio,
  • Fiorenza Sutera,
  • Emmanuel Fortunato Gulino and
  • Marco Morreale

9 April 2019

The environmental performance of biodegradable materials has attracted attention from the academic and the industrial research over the recent years. Currently, degradation behavior and possible recyclability features, as well as actual recycling pat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,538 Views
21 Pages

Cluster Migration Distance for Performance Degradation Assessment of Water Pump Bearings

  • Zhongping Zhai,
  • Zihao Zhu,
  • Yifan Xu,
  • Xinhang Zhao,
  • Fang Liu and
  • Zhihua Feng

8 September 2022

Because the signal of water pump bearing is seriously disturbed by noise and the fault evolution is complex, it is difficult to describe the performance degradation trend of water pump bearing in a timely and accurate manner using the traditional per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,104 Views
10 Pages

Steel Surface Defect Classification Based on Small Sample Learning

  • Shiqing Wu,
  • Shiyu Zhao,
  • Qianqian Zhang,
  • Long Chen and
  • Chenrui Wu

3 December 2021

The classification of steel surface defects plays a very important role in analyzing their causes to improve manufacturing process and eliminate defects. However, defective samples are very scarce in actual production, so using very few samples to co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,811 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2022

All current deep learning-based prediction methods for remaining useful life (RUL) assume that training and testing data have similar distributions, but the existence of various operating conditions, failure modes, and noise lead to insufficient data...

  • Review
  • Open Access
600 Citations
39,178 Views
21 Pages

Melatonin as a Potent and Inducible Endogenous Antioxidant: Synthesis and Metabolism

  • Dun-Xian Tan,
  • Lucien C. Manchester,
  • Eduardo Esteban-Zubero,
  • Zhou Zhou and
  • Russel J. Reiter

16 October 2015

Melatonin is a tryptophan-derived molecule with pleiotropic activities. It is present in almost all or all organisms. Its synthetic pathway depends on the species in which it is measured. For example, the tryptophan to melatonin pathway differs in pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,756 Views
11 Pages

25 November 2024

This paper investigates the evolution of the outer surface geometry of Invisalign®—clear orthodontic aligners—caused by degradation triggered by wearing. The obtained results served to confirm whether or not the aligners could continu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,135 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2022

Aimed at the shortcomings of a single feature to characterize the health status and accurately predict the remaining life span of the equipment, a prediction method for a switch machine, based on the weighted Mahalanobis distance (WDMD), is proposed....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,486 Views
12 Pages

12 September 2018

There is a growing body of literature which recognizes the importance of mechanical equipment reliability during processing, and reliability assessment is important in guaranteeing the precision, function, and use life span of mechanical equipment. F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,479 Views
21 Pages

22 May 2025

Reliable visual monitoring is essential for industrial quality control systems under adverse weather conditions. Rain-induced degradation, such as occlusions, texture blurring, and depth distortions, can significantly hinder image clarity and comprom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,155 Views
30 Pages

17 February 2024

Accurately classifying degraded images is a challenging task that relies on domain expertise to devise effective image processing techniques for various levels of degradation. Genetic Programming (GP) has been proven to be an excellent approach for s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,280 Views
14 Pages

7 July 2022

Machine-learning models have great potential to accelerate the design and performance assessment of photocatalysts, leveraging their unique advantages in detecting patterns and making predictions based on data. However, most machine-learning models a...

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