Sustainable design methods and tools abound, but their implementation in practice remains marginal. This article brings together results from previous literature reviews and analyses of sustainable design methods and tools, as well as input from desi...
In the era of rapid technological advancement and the ascent of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing the persistent gap between education and employment is crucial to ensure “decent work for all” and...
Graphene (GR) has engrossed immense research attention as an emerging carbon material owing to its enthralling electrochemical (EC) and physical properties. Herein, we debate the role of GR-based nanomaterials (NMs) in refining EC sensing performance...
Technology roadmaps have been widely adopted as an important management tool during the past three decades after their invention by Motorola in the 1980s. Technology roadmapping processes can be integrated with a firm’s competence sets and play...
In the dynamic field of robotics engineering, nanorobot technology has witnessed rapid advancements. Developing a technology roadmap is essential for quickly identifying the trends and key technological aspects of nanorobotics from an array of multi-...
Although Industry 4.0 has successfully advanced lean manufacturing through digitalization and automation, its primary focus on operational efficiency leaves emerging strategic priorities—human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience—ou...
In robot motion planning in a space with obstacles, the goal is to find a collision-free path for robots from the start to the target position. Numerous fundamentally different approaches, and their many variants, address this problem depending on th...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in industry and daily life, where safety is the primary consideration, resulting in their use in open outdoor environments, which are wider than complex indoor environments. However, the demand is...
In the industrial era, production equipment serves as an essential mother machine. In the global manufacturing industry, components such as laptop computers, mobile phones, and automotive parts all strive for aesthetic appearance. Taiwan’s mach...
Autonomous exploration in unknown environments is a fundamental problem for the practical application of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). However, existing exploration methods face difficulties when directly applied to UGVs due to limited sensory cov...
This review paper gives an overview of the method of multipliers for partial differential equations (PDEs). This method has made possible a lot of solutions to PDEs that are of interest in many areas such as applied mathematics, mathematical physics,...
Coal spontaneous combustion (CSC) is a multifaceted research domain that has been widely explored in the literature, ranging from analytical and numerical modeling to the development of fire suppression materials and methods. A comprehensive review o...
Background: Unexpected events or major supply chain disruptions have demonstrated the vulnerability in which supply chains operate. While supply chains are usually prepared for operational disruptions, unexpected or black swan events are widely disre...
Great potential for saving carbon emissions lies in modernizing European buildings. Multi-year modernization roadmaps can plan modernization measures in terms of time and are able to consider temporal interactions. Therefore, we have developed a mixe...
The process of project portfolio selection is crucial in many organizations, especially R&D organizations. There is a need to make informed decisions on the investment in various projects or lack thereof. As the projects may continue over more th...
Companies facing transformation in the automotive industry will need to adapt to new trends, technologies and functions, in order to remain competitive. The challenge is to anticipate such trends and to forecast their development over time. The aim o...
Path planning is a very important step for mobile smart vehicles in complex environments. Sampling based planners such as the Probabilistic Roadmap Method (PRM) have been widely used for smart vehicle applications. However, there exist some shortcomi...
Sustainable digital transformation in SMEs not only simplifies operations and increases efficiency but also fosters innovation, facilitates data-driven decision-making, and minimizes negative environmental and social impacts, paving the way for a sus...
To foster sustainable regional development, many regions rely on innovations. To safeguard the generation of innovations and their market introduction, companies have increasingly used technology roadmapping and open innovation. The project INNOrura...
With the rapid development of the construction industry, construction waste (CW) has recently attracted much attention in many developing countries such as Türkiye. As a result, the effective management of construction waste has emerged as a cri...
An industry technology roadmap (hereafter ITRM) is a strategic planning tool to predict the technologies and innovations demanded by the future market, allowing the industry to leverage capital and other investments in a range of alternative technolo...
The search for competitiveness has led organizations to recognize the importance of implementing collaborative methods. In this context, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) seek to relate customer demands to replenishment ne...
Various navigation tasks involving dynamic scenarios require mobile robots to meet the requirements of a high planning success rate, fast planning, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and shortest path. PRM (probabilistic roadmap method), as one of the class...
Graphene, with high biocompatibility, physiological solubility and stability, has been reported as an emerging material for biomedical applications such as biosensors, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. Recently, identifying the technological com...
Determining natural background levels (NBLs) is a fundamental step in assessing the chemical status of groundwater bodies in the EU, as stipulated by the Water Framework and Groundwater Directives. The major challenges in deriving NBLs for trace meta...
South Korea must submit its targets for greenhouse gas reduction by 2030 to comply with the Paris Agreement. While South Korea’s government has announced a roadmap for achieving greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030, issues are present regar...
In this study, we suggest methodologies for identifying promising and vacant technologies on smart farms by analyzing patent information. Additionally, a technology roadmap for smart farms is suggested using network analysis. The database of patents...
The semi-automatic construction and analysis of technology roadmaps are at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence techniques. To clarify the development path of the core technologies in the field of agricultural machinery, we propose a cor...
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The success of sustainable product strategies is widely recognized as pivotal to the successful development of sustainable products. Despite some existing research on sustainable product strategies, there is a notable lack of investigation into the t...
Efficient AGV/AMR path planning is essential for intelligent warehouse logistics, where regular shelves, narrow aisles, local bottlenecks, and heterogeneous obstacles strongly affect roadmap quality. This study proposes LE-HG-PRM, a structure-aware e...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) make decisions in several domains, namely strategic and internal management, without using systematized data that support these decisions, which may jeopardize the success of their actions or even their efficiency...
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has abundant biomass resources, which are difficult to collect and thus are underutilized. However, the potential estimation of biomass energy can result in a comprehensive understanding of bioenergy resources in orde...
This paper presents an efficient path planning method for the lunar rover to improve the autonomy and exploration ability in the complex and unstructured lunar surface environment. Firstly, the safe zone for the rover’s motion is defined, based...
Probabilistic roadmap (PRM) methods are widely used for robot navigation in both 2D and 3D environments; however, a major drawback is that the raw paths tend to be jagged. Executing a trajectory along such paths can lead to significant overshoots and...
The climate crisis requires a global transition toward sustainable practices. In this transition, policy makers face the challenge to take along a wide variety of stakeholders with own interests, needs, and concerns. This research explores the combin...
In response to the pressing need for effective implementation of the Circular Economy (CE), this research introduces a comprehensive theoretical framework for CE roadmapping. This study addresses the prevalent issue of fragmented and inconsistent CE...
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This paper describes a methodology based on 40 criterions as well as a mixture of MCDM methods to evaluate different technologies applied in modern training systems. The criterions are grouped in a three-dimensional (3D) model in accordance with thei...
The COVID-19 pandemic, a transformative event in modern society, has disrupted routine, work, behavior, and human relationships. Organizations, amidst the chaos, have innovatively adapted to the evolving situation. However, many countries were unprep...
Autonomous, flexible, and human–robot collaboration are the key features of the next-generation robot. Such unstructured and dynamic environments bring great challenges in online adaptive path planning. The robots have to avoid dynamic obstacles and...
Objectives: This study presents a generic taxonomic framework as a roadmap for users who wish to implement systems for detecting fraud and waste in health data; this roadmap outlines which unsupervised machine learning techniques can be used to detec...
Graphene-based sensors and biosensors are attractive candidates for chemical and biological threat detection due to their high surface sensitivity, rapid transduction, and low-power operation, yet real-world deployment remains constrained by cross-se...
While Industry 4.0 has played a significant role in advancing smart logistics, it has yet to provide adequate solutions for widespread concerns such as human centricity, sustainability, and resilience. The emergence of Industry 5.0 addresses and comp...
In this paper, an improved probabilistic roadmap (IPRM) algorithm is proposed to solve the energy consumption problem of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning with an angle. Firstly, in order to simulate the real terrain environment, a ma...
Bridges are assets in every society, and their deterioration can have severe economic, social, and environmental consequences. Therefore, implementing effective asset management strategies is crucial to ensure bridge infrastructure’s long-term...
ZnO nanowires are excellent candidates for energy harvesters, mechanical sensors, piezotronic and piezophototronic devices. The key parameters governing the general performance of the integrated devices include the dimensions of the ZnO nanowires use...
Background: Cervical cancer, caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, is the second-largest cancer killer of women in low- and middle-income countries. The brunt of the global burden is borne predominantly in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2020 alone,...
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission (STM) Land Altimetry provides valuable surface elevation information over inland waters, sea ice, and land ice, thanks to its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) altimeter and its orbit that covers high...
In the present paper, we introduce a decision-support framework to (a) classify and prioritize the municipalities of a country based on their suitability to host PV energy projects and (b) pinpoint and evaluate suitable technically and economically v...
Currently, fastener installation within the narrow, confined space of a wing box must be performed manually, as existing robotic systems are unable to adequately meet the internal assembly requirements. To address this problem, a new robot with one p...
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