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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,249 Views
29 Pages

Aiming at the problems of the A* algorithm’s long running time, large number of search nodes, tortuous paths, and the planned paths being prone to colliding with the corner points of obstacles, adaptive weighting and reward value theory are pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,573 Views
11 Pages

Welding Robot Collision-Free Path Optimization

  • Xuewu Wang,
  • Lika Xue,
  • Yixin Yan and
  • Xingsheng Gu

8 February 2017

Reasonable welding path has a significant impact on welding efficiency, and a collision-free path should be considered first in the process of welding robot path planning. The shortest path length is considered as an optimization objective, and obsta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,466 Views
13 Pages

7 March 2024

The uncertainty in the secondary path of active noise control (ANC) headphones affects the waterbed effect and stability of the feedback system. This study focuses on the uncertainty of the secondary path when real users wear headphones and proposes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,254 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2023

In the field of AGV, a path planning algorithm is always a heated area. However, traditional path planning algorithms have many disadvantages. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a fusion algorithm that combines the kinematical constraint A*...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,842 Views
20 Pages

17 June 2022

Aiming at the problem of automatic path planning for the whole safflower bulbs during the operation of safflower picking robots, an improved ant colony algorithm (ACA) was proposed to plan the three-dimensional path of the safflower picking points. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,104 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2024

This article addresses the common issues of insufficient computing power and path congestion for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in real-world production environments, as well as the shortcomings of traditional path-planning algorithms that mainly c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,134 Views
13 Pages

A Novel PSO-Based Adaptive Filter Structure with Switching Selection Criteria for Active Noise Control

  • Eduardo Pichardo,
  • Esteban Anides,
  • Angel Vazquez,
  • Eduardo Vazquez,
  • Juan C. Sánchez,
  • Héctor M. Pérez,
  • Gabriel Sánchez,
  • Juan G. Avalos and
  • Giovanny Sánchez

26 April 2022

In recent years, active noise control (ANC) systems have been widely used in advanced electronic appliances. Nowadays, several authors use gradient-optimization algorithms since they can be easily implemented in these devices. However, these algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,671 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2024

Some large social environments are expected to use Covered Path Planning (CPP) methods to handle daily tasks such as cleaning and disinfection. These environments are usually large in scale, chaotic in structure, and contain many obstacles. The propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,483 Views
12 Pages

Active Control of Broadband Noise Inside a Car Using a Causal Optimal Controller

  • Liping Zhu,
  • Tiejun Yang,
  • Xinhui Li,
  • Lihong Pang and
  • Minggang Zhu

12 April 2019

This paper investigates active broadband noise control inside vehicles with a multichannel controller. The noncausal inversion of a practical nonminimum-phase secondary path is formulated, and its influence on noise-reduction performance is analyzed....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,083 Views
14 Pages

Complex mountainous environments pose significant challenges for dynamic path planning and obstacle avoidance of transport vehicles. In response, this paper presents an innovative path planning approach that combines an enhanced A* algorithm with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,457 Views
18 Pages

6 March 2023

Forest-based scenic spots have received widespread attention for their landscape aesthetics and ecological value, but the rapid growth of tourism and landscape exploitation make it challenging to balance human recreational needs, landscape quality, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,626 Views
15 Pages

The UAV Path Coverage Algorithm Based on the Greedy Strategy and Ant Colony Optimization

  • Yuheng Jia,
  • Shengbang Zhou,
  • Qian Zeng,
  • Chuanqi Li,
  • Dong Chen,
  • Kezhi Zhang,
  • Liyuan Liu and
  • Ziyao Chen

25 August 2022

Today, the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted significant attention in both civil and military fields due to their flight flexibility in complex and dangerous environments. However, due to energy constraints, UAVs can only f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
812 Views
18 Pages

Study on Vibration Characteristics and Transmission Path of Mountain Rack Trains Based on the OPTA Method

  • Liangzhao Qi,
  • Xingqiao Deng,
  • Liyuan Zeng,
  • Chenglong Dong,
  • Yixin Xu,
  • Shisong Wang and
  • Yucheng Liu

The Dujiangyan–Siguniangshan mountain rack railway project is China’s first mountain rail transit. Most of its lines are located in mountainous areas and close to natural ecological protection areas, which have strict restrictions on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,170 Views
17 Pages

3 June 2022

A new and efficient analytical optimization methodology for the design of rotor features is developed and used in interior permanent magnet motors (IPM). The analytical methodology is based on an extended winding function theory to include the IPM ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
514 Views
21 Pages

Design and Analysis of Optical–Mechanical–Thermal Systems for a High-Resolution Space Camera

  • Xiaohan Liu,
  • Jian Jiao,
  • Kaihui Gu,
  • Hong Li,
  • Wenying Zhang,
  • Siqi Zhang,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Zhaohui Pei,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Feng Yang
  • + 1 author

16 December 2025

To meet the requirements of high resolution, compact size, and ultra-lightweight for micro–nano satellite optoelectronic payloads while ensuring high structural stability during launch and in-orbit operation, mirrors were designed with high sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,036 Views
22 Pages

Faulty Links’ Fast Recovery Method Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Wanwei Huang,
  • Wenqiang Gui,
  • Yingying Li,
  • Qingsong Lv,
  • Jia Zhang and
  • Xi He

24 April 2025

Aiming to address the high recovery delay and link congestion issues in the communication network of Wide-Area Measurement Systems (WAMSs), this paper introduces Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and proposes a deep reinforcement learning-based fault...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,760 Views
14 Pages

27 August 2023

This study proposes a full integration method for the double capacitances and inductance–series (LCCL-S)-compensated inductive power transfer (IPT) of electric vehicles (EVs). The transmitter and receiver coils adopt the unipolar coil, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,689 Views
22 Pages

30 November 2023

This paper presents a study on enhancing the efficiency of underwater gravity matching navigation path planning in a three-dimensional environment. Firstly, to address the challenges of the computational complexity and prolonged calculation times ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,415 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Approach for a Inverse Kinematics Solution of a Redundant Manipulator

  • Michal Kelemen,
  • Ivan Virgala,
  • Tomáš Lipták,
  • Ľubica Miková,
  • Filip Filakovský and
  • Vladimír Bulej

12 November 2018

Kinematically-redundant manipulators present considerable difficulties, especially from the view of control. A high number of degrees of freedom are used to control so-called secondary tasks in order to optimize manipulator motion. This paper introdu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,321 Views
35 Pages

10 April 2025

This paper presents a new approach to optimizing route selection in urban road networks with sparsely placed traffic counters. By leveraging graph theory and Dijkstra’s algorithm, we propose a new method to determine the shortest path between o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,213 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2024

Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) imaging has gained attention for its ability to detect and reconstruct objects beyond the direct line of sight, using scattered light, with applications in surveillance and autonomous navigation. This paper presents a versati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,263 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2023

Solid-state hydrogen storage is the best choice for balancing economy and safety among various hydrogen storage technologies, and hydrogen storage in the secondary phase might be a promising solid-state hydrogen storage scheme. In the current study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,944 Views
16 Pages

The secondary porosity of rocks and formations plays an important role in water exploration and exploitation in crystalline rocks. Furthermore, cracks and voids are paths for contaminated fluid propagation and, thus, their location can be very import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,671 Views
11 Pages

18 January 2022

This paper presents an investigation on the feedback controller design for active noise control headphones under the condition that the frequency responses of the primary and secondary paths corresponding to the feedback microphone do not match to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,438 Views
14 Pages

9 April 2022

In active noise control (ANC) headphones, the audio signal is modified together with the primary noise if a feedback controller is used. Although this problem can be alleviated with an FIR model of the secondary path, practical implementations are us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,194 Views
29 Pages

27 June 2019

A predictive guidance obstacle avoidance algorithm (PGOA) in unknown environments is proposed for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that must adapt to multiple complex obstacle environments. Using the environmental information collected by the Forw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,965 Views
14 Pages

A Feasibility Study of an ESG to Suppress Road Noise of a Car

  • Young-Sup Lee,
  • Seokhoon Ryu,
  • Eunsuk Yoo and
  • Chasub Lim

4 March 2022

This study considered implementing an active road noise control (ARNC) system using an electronic sound generator (ESG) as a secondary actuator to suppress road noise in a car cabin. The ESG was installed to the cowl panel of a test car to generate s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,493 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Validations of Hybrid Excited Linear Flux Switching Machine

  • Noman Ullah,
  • Faisal Khan,
  • Abdul Basit and
  • Mohsin Shahzad

3 November 2021

Linear Flux Switching Machines (LFSMs) possess the capability to generate adhesive thrust force, thus problems associated with conventional rotatory electric machines and mechanical conversion assemblies can be eliminated. Additionally, the unique fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,041 Views
22 Pages

Phase Formation Study of Solid-State LLZNO and LLZTO via Structural, Thermal, and Morphological Analyses

  • Chengjian Li,
  • Frank Kern,
  • Lianmeng Liu,
  • Christopher Parr,
  • Andreas Börger and
  • Chunfeng Liu

28 October 2025

Garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) is a solid electrolyte candidate for ASSLBs, owing to its wide electrochemical window and intrinsic safety. Yet phase-pure LLZO remains difficult because secondary phases form, and the transition towards the tetragonal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,547 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2022

Many application scenarios require indoor positioning in fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems in recent years. However, non-line of sight and multipath propagation lead to poor accuracy in a traditionally received signal strength-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,688 Views
13 Pages

13 August 2018

In recent times, the issue of a “Phosphate Peak” has entered the academic debate and it is widely present in social media. Arguments in favour and against are similar to those mentioned in the much earlier debate on the “Oil Peak&rd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,692 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2018

The normal communication between smart meter and concentrator is a key factor influencing the normal function of users’ power consumption systems. To solve the communication failure of the smart meter caused by the signal conflict as well as th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,565 Views
24 Pages

Impact of Niobium Reduction on the Microstructure and Properties of Alloy 625 Weld Overlay Claddings: A Review

  • Reylina Garcia Tayactac,
  • Mark Christian E. Manuel,
  • Jaime P. Honra,
  • Tiago Bohn Kaspary and
  • Raimundo Cabral de Medeiros

2 July 2025

Alloy 625 is a widely utilized nickel-based superalloy known for its excellent mechanical strength and corrosion resistance in aggressive environments. However, its high niobium (Nb) content can lead to the formation of detrimental phases, such as La...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,346 Views
19 Pages

The urban network is an important method of spatial optimization, and measuring the development level of the urban network is a prerequisite for spatial optimization. Combining geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis, social network anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,585 Views
20 Pages

Multirobot Task Planning Method Based on the Energy Penalty Strategy

  • Lidong Liang,
  • Liangheng Zhu,
  • Wenyou Jia and
  • Xiaoliang Cheng

13 April 2023

In multirobot task planning, the goal is to meet the multi-objective requirements of the optimal and balanced energy consumption of robots. Thus, this paper introduces the energy penalty strategy into the GA (genetic algorithm) to achieve the optimiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,119 Views
13 Pages

25 December 2022

Secondary problems, such as the occurrence of side reactions and the accumulation of by-products, are a major challenge in the application of wet denitrification technology through urea solution. We revealed the formation mechanism of urea nitrate an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,262 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2021

A computationally efficient design of interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor rotor features is investigated utilizing analytical methods. Over the broad operating range of IPM machines, interactions of MMF sources, permeances, and currents result in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,789 Views
11 Pages

2 June 2022

Ecological and cultural forestry need to be integrated for successful rural revitalization. A proper rural revitalization strategy should be linked to the value of the eco-cultural forestry industry. To adjust and optimize the structure of this indus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,236 Views
26 Pages

23 July 2025

Under the context of the dual-carbon policy, reducing energy consumption and emissions in automobiles has garnered significant attention, with automotive lightweighting being particularly important. This paper focuses on the lightweight design of aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,207 Views
14 Pages

The driving mechanism of expansion is the basis for policymaking in urban land management and control. In this study, Yangzhou city in China was used as an example. Based on the supply and demand theory of land, a framework was constructed to analyze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,192 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2023

In an ultra-wideband (UWB) system, the two-dimensional (2D) multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithms based on high-precision 2D spectral peak search can jointly estimate the time of arrival (TOA) and angle of arrival (AOA). However, the comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,715 Views
26 Pages

Dynamics of Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihood Adaptation Decision-Making in Central Ethiopia

  • Dula Etana,
  • Denyse J. R. M. Snelder,
  • Cornelia F. A. van Wesenbeeck and
  • Tjard de Cock Buning

2 June 2020

In previous studies mainly focusing on determinants of adaptation, evidence of the dynamic process of adaptation decision-making is negligible. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of socio-cultural factors, changes in household...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,618 Views
15 Pages

26 February 2022

To investigate the mechanical properties of frozen saline soil, the deep calcareous clay in the Huanghuai mining area was chosen as the research object, and an orthogonal test was carried out to study the true triaxial mechanical properties of frozen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,217 Views
20 Pages

26 July 2024

In this paper, we propose a novel system integrating reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with cognitive radio (CR) technology, presenting a forward-looking solution aligned with the evolving standards of 6G and beyond networks. The proposed RI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,117 Views
25 Pages

24 September 2025

Fire risks during the construction phase remain one of the most critical challenges in the construction industry, often leading to property losses, casualties, project delays, and long-term reputational damage. To address these issues, this study pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,745 Views
17 Pages

Hot-Dip Aluminizing on AISI F55–UNS S32760 Super Duplex Stainless Steel Properties: Effect of Thermal Treatments

  • Andrea Francesco Ciuffini,
  • Silvia Barella,
  • Cosmo Di Cecca,
  • Andrea Gruttadauria,
  • Davide Mombelli and
  • Carlo Mapelli

29 November 2017

The behavior of super duplex stainless steels AISI F55-UNS S32760 in hot-dip aluminizing process has been studied, investigating the influence of cold working and of different initial microstructures obtained through a preliminary thermal treatment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,159 Views
41 Pages

23 October 2025

Within the framework of the Healthy China strategy, daylighting in primary and secondary schools is crucial for students’ health and learning efficiency. Most schools in China still face insufficient and uneven daylighting, along with limited o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,155 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2025

Quantum error correction (QEC) is crucial for achieving reliable quantum computation. Among topological QEC codes, color codes can correct bit-flip and phase-flip errors simultaneously, enabling efficient resource utilization. However, existing decod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,847 Views
12 Pages

27 September 2024

This paper discusses the fabrication of three-dimensional dendritic Ag nanostructures, showcasing pronounced Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) effects. These nanostructures, employed in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), function as s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
27,691 Views
23 Pages

20 May 2010

We outline a path to sustainable development that would give future generations the chance to be as well-off as their predecessors without running out of natural resources, especially metals. To this end, we have to consider three key resources: (1)...

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