Inter-plant hydrogen integration can reduce the consumption of hydrogen utility in petrochemical parks. However, the fluctuation of operating conditions will lead to complex multi-period problems of hydrogen network integration. This work develops a...
A mining complex is composed of mines, mineral processing streams, stockpiles, and waste facilities, which culminate with generated products that are delivered to customers. The supply uncertainty and variability of materials extracted from the mines...
Compared to conventional vehicles Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) provide fairly high fuel economy with lower emissions. To enhance HEV performance in terms of fuel economy and emissions, and ensure user satisfaction with driving performance, the nee...
Effective engineering modeling requires simultaneously addressing feature selection and hyperparameter interdependence, a challenge exacerbated by high-dimensional data characteristics in complex engineering modeling. Traditional optimization methods...
The simultaneous stochastic optimization of mining complexes optimizes various components of the related mineral value chain jointly while considering material supply (geological) uncertainty. As a result, the optimization process capitalizes on the...
This paper reviews the optimization strategies for the optimal simultaneous allocation of distributed generation (DG) and shunts capacitor banks (SCBs) in electrical distribution networks. These optimization strategies aim to determine the optimal si...
Stratospheric balloons serve as cost-effective platforms for wireless communication. However, these platforms encounter challenges stemming from their underactuation in the horizontal plane. Consequently, controllers must continually identify favorab...
Tracking maneuvering targets is a challenging problem for sensors because of the unpredictability of the target’s motion. Unlike classical statistical modeling of target maneuvers, a simultaneous optimization and feedback learning algorithm for...
The development of analytical procedures capable of simultaneous determination of two or more drugs is in crucial demand due to the availability of different formulations that are composed of different APIs. The presented study aimed to optimize and...
In recent years, with the development of electronic products toward high frequency and high speed, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) routing technology has been continuously evolving to meet the requirements of complex signal transmission. Meanwhile, the i...
Habanero pepper leaf, annually discarded as a by-product, is a source of phenolic compounds with functional activity. However, their recovery requires sustainable strategies that overcome the limitations of conventional organic solvents and low extra...
In the context of sustainable logistics planning, carbon emission costs have become a critical factor influencing distribution decisions. Meanwhile, the time-dependent characteristics of urban road networks and simultaneous pickup–delivery oper...
With the rapid advancement of mobile robotics technology, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become indispensable for enabling robots to autonomously navigate and construct maps of unknown environments in real time. Traditional SLAM alg...
The integration of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promises high-throughput and flexible wireless connectivity, yet it faces critical challenges in simultaneously guaranteeing data rates and long-term energy harv...
Due to various typical unstructured factors in the environment of photovoltaic power stations, such as high feature similarity, weak textures, and simple structures, the motion model of the ORB-SLAM2 algorithm performs poorly, leading to a decline in...
We consider the optimal dividend problem in the so-called degenerate bivariate risk model under the assumption that the surplus of one branch may become negative. More specific, we solve the stochastic control problem of maximizing discounted dividen...
In high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) for prostate cancer treatment, interstitial hyperthermia (IHT) is applied to sensitize the tumor to the radiation (RT) dose, aiming at a more efficient treatment. Simultaneous application of HDR-BT and IHT is...
Coal heavy-haul railway has been aiming at maximizing capacity utilization, but ignoring energy consumption for a long time. With the focus on green production, heavy-haul railways need transportation organization plans that can balance energy consum...
This paper presents a method of optimizing the design of robotic manipulators using a novel kinematic model pruning technique. The optimization departs from an predefined candidate linkage consisting of a initial topology and geometry. It allows simu...
This paper introduces a simultaneous optimization approach to synthesizing work and heat exchange networks (WHENs). The proposed work and heat integration (WHI) superstructure enables different thermodynamic paths of pressure and temperature-changing...
Regarding the discretization issue in the process of a simultaneous approach for dynamic optimization problems, a configuration strategy based on the density function has been proposed for the finite element distribution of dynamic optimization probl...
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the basis for intelligent robots to explore the world. As a promising method for 3D reconstruction, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) integrated with SLAM systems has shown significant potential. However, du...
In this paper, a design approach for simultaneous cooperative interception is presented for a scenario where the successful handover cannot be guaranteed by a single interceptor due to the target maneuver and movement information errors at the handov...
Bread and bakery products are among the most discarded food products in the world. This work aims to investigate the potential use of wasted bread to obtain a high-glucose slurry. Simultaneous hydrolysis of wasted bread using α-amylase and gluc...
The effective design of nearly zero-energy buildings depends on a large set of interdependent variables, which affect both energy demand and supply. Considering them simultaneously is fundamental when searching for optimal design of nearly zero-energ...
Simultaneous wireless power and data transfer (SWPDT) technology is usually needed in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. In this paper, to achieve the efficient and stable SWPDT, the signal to noise rate (SNR) is first optimized through the analy...
This paper proposes a new method for financial portfolio optimization based on reducing simultaneous asset shocks across a collection of assets. This may be understood as an alternative approach to risk reduction in a portfolio based on a new mathema...
Simultaneous simulations of liquid water, water vapor, and heat transport are essential for modeling unsaturated hydrological processes, especially in semi-arid and arid regions. Modeling such coupled hydrothermal processes greatly depends on accurat...
Shrimp waste is a valuable source for chitin extraction and consequently for chitosan preparation. In the process of obtaining chitosan, a determining step is the chitin deacetylation. The main characteristic of chitosan is the degree of deacetylatio...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a key role in modern surveillance-related missions. A major task for performing these missions is to find the precise location of a moving target in real-time, for which the main challenge is to estimate the targe...
The reaction and separation sections are the keys to the methanol-to-olefins (MTO) chemical processes, and they should be optimized to reduce the cost of production. This work develops a framework for the simultaneous design and optimization of the r...
The liquid-only transfer dividing wall column (LDWC) eliminates the difficulty of controlling the vapor-phase distribution ratio; however, it involves numerous structural and operating parameters, resulting in high initialization difficulty and conve...
Antibiotics and hormones widely exist in fertilizers and manures, which are excessively used in agriculture and animal husbandry. Considering their potential harm to the environment and human health, the detection of antibiotics and hormones has beco...
Hybrid powertrain technologies are successful in the passenger car market and have been actively developed in recent years. Optimal topology selection, component sizing, and controls are required for competitive hybrid vehicles, as multiple goals mus...
In process engineering, optimization is usually carried out without the simultaneous consideration of material and process. This issue is addressed in the following contribution. A model-based optimization is presented to improve the performance of a...
In order to promote the cost reduction and efficiency improvement of the logistics distribution process and to guarantee the safety of goods transportation, this paper studies the portfolio optimization of goods loading and the problem of simultaneou...
This paper introduces a secure simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system using simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). To enhance secrecy and energy harvesting, we propose a...
Camera calibration is a crucial problem in many applications, such as 3D reconstruction, structure from motion, object tracking and face alignment. Numerous methods have been proposed to solve the above problem with good performance in the last few d...
The influence of cardinality constraints on the simultaneous optimization of truss sizing, shape, and topology, when used for weight minimization, is explored in this study. By integrating precise cardinality constraints, the implications for achievi...
Antenna beamforming for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) and Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) in an indoor 6G communication system is presented in this paper. The objective function is to maximize the total harvesting power f...
Serious congestion and delay problems exist in most of the busiest airports worldwide because of imbalance between scarce airport slot resources and increasing traffic demand. Various factors, especially weather conditions, exacerbate the demand&ndas...
The paper presents the results of studies on the modeling and optimization of organic pollutant removal from an aqueous solution in the course of simultaneous adsorption onto activated carbons with varied physical characteristics and oxidation using...
Sesame is a nutritional agricultural product with medicinal properties. Accurate determination of micronutrients is important for the improvement of sesame quality and nutrition assessments. Our previous study showed that 10 antioxidants—d-homoprolin...
The main purpose of the work was examining various methods of decomposition of a network optimization problem of simultaneous routing and bandwidth allocation based on Lagrangian relaxation. The problem studied is an NP-hard mixed-integer nonlinear o...
The simultaneous optimization of complex process units and hydrogen networks is a significant challenge in refinery hydrogen network integration. To address this, an evolutionary response surface-based collaborative optimization method is proposed, e...
In this study, a multi-objective optimization procedure with embedded topology optimization was presented. The procedure simultaneously optimizes the spatial arrangement and topology of bodies in a multi-body system. The multi-objective algorithm det...
This paper presents a numerical method for simultaneous optimization of blank shape and forming tool geometry in three-dimensional sheet metal forming operations. The proposed iterative procedure enables the manufacturing of sheet metal products with...
Aiming at addressing the issues related to the tuning of loop closure detection parameters for indoor 2D graph-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), this article proposes a multi-objective optimization method for these parameters. The p...
The contribution of this work is introducing a multi-objective optimization method based on finite element (FE) numerical simulation to simultaneously control the curing time and cure-induced defects of C-shaped composites during a curing cycle. Ther...
The separation section of the methanol-to-olefin (MTO) process is energy-intensive, and the optimization and heat integration can enhance energy efficiency and reduce costs. A bi-level optimization model framework is proposed to optimize the separati...
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