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1 September 2025

This paper proposes an optimal-sliding-mode-based adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) master–slave synchronous control strategy for the actuator saturation and performance constraints that AUVs face in dynamic recovery. First, by introducing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,798 Views
20 Pages

30 August 2020

This paper addresses the problem of leader–follower synchronization of uncertain Euler–Lagrange systems under input constraints. The problem is solved in a distributed model reference adaptive control framework that includes positive μ...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,089 Views
21 Pages

3 November 2021

The efficient control of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) requires the development of a technique for loss optimization. The best approach is the implementation of power loss minimization algorithms, which are hard to model and design. Ther...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,246 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2023

This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) through a shared bandwidth-limited channel. Considering the random arrival of status updates, we measure the data freshness with the age of sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,048 Views
23 Pages

29 May 2025

This work focuses on fixed-time synchronized trajectory tracking control for unmanned airships subject to time-varying error constraints and unknown disturbances. First, to guarantee strict adherence to prescribed performance bounds, an error transfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,488 Views
19 Pages

Trajectory Planning for Coal Gangue Sorting Robot Tracking Fast-Mass Target under Multiple Constraints

  • Peng Wang,
  • Hongwei Ma,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Xiangang Cao,
  • Xudong Wu,
  • Xiaorong Wei and
  • Wenjian Zhou

30 April 2023

Aiming at the problems of grab failure and manipulator damage, this paper proposes a dynamic gangue trajectory planning method for the manipulator synchronous tracking under multi-constraint conditions. The main reason for the impact load is that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
921 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2025

AC/DC parallel transmission is a critical approach for large-scale centralized transmission. Existing assessments of power transfer capability in AC/DC corridors rarely incorporate comprehensive security and stability constraints, potentially leading...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,146 Views
18 Pages

22 June 2021

This paper proposes a command filtering backstepping (CFB) scheme with full-state constraints by leading into time-varying barrier Lyapunov functions (T-BLFs) for a dual-motor servo system with partial asymmetric dead-zone. Firstly, for the convenien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,130 Views
14 Pages

Fixed-Time Output-Constrained Synchronization of Unknown Chaotic Financial Systems Using Neural Learning

  • Qijia Yao,
  • Hadi Jahanshahi,
  • Larissa M. Batrancea,
  • Naif D. Alotaibi and
  • Mircea-Iosif Rus

8 October 2022

This article addresses the challenging problem of fixed-time output-constrained synchronization for master–slave chaotic financial systems with unknown parameters and perturbations. A fixed-time neural adaptive control approach is originally pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,144 Views
24 Pages

Trajectory Generation Method for Serial Robots in Hybrid Space Operations

  • Yan Xu,
  • Yaqiu Liu,
  • Xun Liu,
  • Yiyang Zhao,
  • Peibo Li and
  • Pengjie Xu

8 March 2024

The hybrid space of robots is divided into task space and joint space, with task space focused on trajectory-tracking accuracy, while joint space considers dynamic responsiveness and synchronization. Therefore, the robot-motion control systems need t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
71 Views
14 Pages

The accelerating adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has positioned them among the fastest-growing sectors in the electricity market. Since reliability, energy efficiency, and robustness are the fundamental criteria in motor drive selection, the perm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,969 Views
18 Pages

18 September 2019

Energy efficiency and end-to-end delay are two of the major requirements for the monitoring and detection applications based on resource-constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs). As new advanced technologies for accurate monitoring and detection&m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,659 Views
27 Pages

Robust Stabilization and Synchronization of a Novel Chaotic System with Input Saturation Constraints

  • Ahmad Taher Azar,
  • Fernando E. Serrano,
  • Quanmin Zhu,
  • Maamar Bettayeb,
  • Giuseppe Fusco,
  • Jing Na,
  • Weicun Zhang and
  • Nashwa Ahmad Kamal

27 August 2021

In this paper, the robust stabilization and synchronization of a novel chaotic system are presented. First, a novel chaotic system is presented in which this system is realized by implementing a sigmoidal function to generate the chaotic behavior of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,756 Views
15 Pages

14 July 2022

In a wireless sensor network (WSN), reducing the energy consumption of battery-powered sensor nodes is key to extending their operating duration before battery replacement is required. Message bundling can save on the energy consumption of sensor nod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,275 Views
21 Pages

30 April 2023

The wind turbine generator participates in the primary frequency regulation of the power system by releasing kinetic energy from the rotor. It is necessary to ensure that the rotor speed and converter capacity are within the safe range during the fre...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,259 Views
25 Pages

30 July 2019

Home Healthcare (HHC) is an emerging and fast-expanding service sector that gives rise to challenging vehicle routing and scheduling problems. Each day, HHC structures must schedule the visits of caregivers to patients requiring specific medical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,810 Views
13 Pages

8 December 2022

The uncertainty of high penetration of renewable energy brings challenges to the safe and stable operation of a power system; the virtual synchronous compensation (VSCOM) can shift the demand and compensate real-time discrepancy between generation an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,613 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we used Lyapunov theory and Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) to design a generalized observer by adding more complexity in the output of the dynamic systems. Our designed observer is based on the optimization problem, minimizing error...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,297 Views
17 Pages

26 February 2023

This work deals with jerk–continuous trajectory planning for robotic manipulators by means of the fourth-order S-curve to ensure motion smoothness. The algorithm presented in this work can cause the acceleration and jerk to stay in a saturated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,942 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2023

This paper presents a cascade predictive control structure based on field-oriented control (FOC) in the dq rotor reference frame for the synchronous reluctance machine (SynRM). The constant d-axis current control strategy was used, and thus, the elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,904 Views
11 Pages

8 September 2022

A non-cascade structure with a simple parameter adjustment method and satisfying dynamic performance is investigated so as to address the problem of the complicated structure of a typical cascade control system of permanent magnet synchronous motor (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,841 Views
18 Pages

4 May 2017

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used to collect valuable information in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of bridges, using various sensors, such as temperature, vibration and strain sensors. Since multiple sensors are distributed o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
358 Views
13 Pages

Clock Synchronization with Kuramoto Oscillators for Space Systems

  • Nathaniel Ristoff,
  • Hunter Kettering and
  • James Camparo

As space systems evolve towards cis-lunar missions and beyond, the demand for precise yet low-size, -weight, and -power (SWaP) clocks and synchronization methods becomes increasingly critical. We introduce a novel clock synchronization approach based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,114 Views
25 Pages

The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is a critical device that converts kinetic energy into mechanical energy. However, it faces issues such as nonlinearity, time-varying uncertainties, and external disturbances, which may degrade the system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,809 Views
28 Pages

Hierarchical Optimization Configuration Strategy of Synchronous Condenser in High Penetration Wind Power Sending Systems

  • Zhenglong Sun,
  • Jianhua Qiao,
  • Xin Meng,
  • Chao Pan,
  • Zewei Li,
  • Juri Belikov and
  • Yoash Levron

6 November 2024

The increasing deployment of large-scale wind turbines in place of conventional generators is expected to lead to the dominance of asynchronous power sources in future power systems, further accelerating the trend toward grid electrification. As a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
870 Views
23 Pages

5 September 2025

Leveling of the crane support platform plays a vital role in operational safety and lifting efficiency; it requires both precise horizontal positioning and the rational distribution of outrigger load. However, the current synchronous leveling methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,485 Views
16 Pages

BSFuzz: Branch-State Guided Hybrid Fuzzing

  • Qi Hu,
  • Weijia Chen,
  • Zhi Wang,
  • Shuaibing Lu,
  • Yuanping Nie,
  • Xiang Li and
  • Xiaohui Kuang

25 September 2023

Hybrid fuzzing is an automated software testing approach that synchronizes test cases between the fuzzer and the concolic executor to improve performance. The concolic executor solves path constraints to direct the fuzzer to explore the uncovered pat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
195 Views
30 Pages

As critical end-effectors enabling the practical deployment of marine robotic systems, soft hands face persistent challenges including multi-finger asynchronization, unbalanced force distribution, and insufficient anti-disturbance robustness, compoun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,290 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2024

In this paper, adaptive fault-tolerant control for multi-joint robot manipulators is proposed through the combination of synchronous techniques and neural networks. By using a synchronization technique, the position error at each joint simultaneously...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,662 Views
59 Pages

20 October 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to change the everyday life of its users by enabling data exchanges among pervasive things through the Internet. Such a broad aim, however, puts prohibitive constraints on applications demanding time-synchronized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,171 Views
14 Pages

This study investigates the problem of overlarge current protection for a DC–DC synchronous buck converter with the existence of uncertainties and disturbances. Aiming to deal with the hardware damage in the electric circuit of a DC–DC bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
607 Views
24 Pages

23 February 2025

Since the research of μ-synchronization helps to explore how complex networks (CNs) work together to produce complex behaviors, the μ-synchronization task for uncertain time-delayed CNs is studied in our work. Especially, bounded external pertu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,860 Views
19 Pages

This paper proposes a real-time embedded system for joint space control of omnidirectional mobile robots. Actuators driving an omnidirectional mobile robot are connected in a line topology which requires synchronization to move simultaneously in tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,387 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2021

Home Health Care (HHC) is a worldwide issue. It focuses on how medical and social organizations of different countries handle providing patients with health support at home. In most developed countries, reducing hospital cost constitutes a main objec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,980 Views
17 Pages

UAV-Assisted Low-Consumption Time Synchronization Utilizing Cross-Technology Communication

  • Ziyi Tan,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Mingzhi Pang,
  • Shouwan Gao,
  • Ming Li and
  • Pengpeng Chen

9 September 2020

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been used in many fields due to its wide applicability. In this kind of network, each node is independent of each other and has its own local clock and communicates wirelessly. Time synchronization plays a vital r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
682 Views
23 Pages

This study investigates the synchronization of coupled fractional-order Markovian reaction-diffusion neural networks (MRDNNs) with partially unknown transition rates. The novelty of this work is mainly reflected in three aspects: First, this study in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,491 Views
18 Pages

Pair Nodes Clock Synchronization Algorithm Based on Kalman Filter for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xiaomeng Ni,
  • Ting Lu,
  • Sijia Ye,
  • Yunsi Zheng,
  • Pengfei Chen and
  • Lingyu Chen

28 June 2021

Time synchronization is the basis of many applications. Aiming at the limitations of the existing clock synchronization algorithms in underwater wireless sensor networks, we propose a pairwise synchronization algorithm called K-Sync, which is based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
904 Views
21 Pages

This paper investigates a class of uncertain fractional-order delayed cellular neural networks (UFODCNNs) with fuzzy operators and nonlinear activations. Both fuzzy AND and fuzzy OR are considered, which help to improve the robustness of the model wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access

21 March 2026

In this paper, a moving horizon estimation (MHE)-based state estimation problem is studied for asynchronous multi-rate nonlinear systems. First, the asynchronous multi-rate system is transformed into a synchronous system at measurement sampling point...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,782 Views
13 Pages

22 July 2022

The crack problem in mass concrete is a difficult problem to thoroughly solve, especially for the crack of dam construction in high-altitude regions. High altitude regions have the fundamental features of a dry climate and strong solar radiation. Whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,399 Views
23 Pages

High-Precision Time Difference of Arrival Estimation Method Based on Phase Measurement

  • Jihao Xin,
  • Xuyang Ge,
  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Xingdong Liang,
  • Hang Li,
  • Linghao Wu,
  • Jiashuo Wei and
  • Xiangxi Bu

29 March 2024

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based time difference of arrival (TDOA) positioning technique, baselines are limited due to communication constraints. In this case, the accuracy is highly sensitive to the TDOA measurements’ error. This article...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,117 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2021

Underway replenishment is essential for ships performing long-term missions at sea, which can be formulated into the problem of leader-tracking configuration. Not only the position and orientation but also the velocities are required to be controlled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,124 Views
26 Pages

A New LoRa-like Transceiver Suited for LEO Satellite Communications

  • Mohamed Amine Ben Temim,
  • Guillaume Ferré and
  • Romain Tajan

25 February 2022

LoRa is based on the chirp spread spectrum (CSS) modulation, which has been developed for low power and long-range wireless Internet of Things (IoT) communications. The structure of LoRa signals makes their decoding performance extremely sensitive to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,649 Views
20 Pages

1 May 2020

The discontinuities of a five-axis linear-segment toolpath result in fluctuation in the feedrate, acceleration and jerk commands that lead to machine tool vibration and poor surface finish. For path smoothing, with the global curve-fitting method it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,502 Views
23 Pages

In-Depth Exploration of Design and Analysis for PM-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Machines: Implications for Light Electric Vehicles

  • Cristina Adăscăliței,
  • Radu Andrei Marțiș,
  • Petros Karaisas and
  • Claudia Steluța Marțiș

In electric or hybrid vehicles’ propulsion systems, Permanent Magnet-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Machines represent a viable alternative to Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines. Based on previous research work, the present paper proposes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,565 Views
22 Pages

14 November 2020

In this paper, we propose a synchronous cooperative path planning (SCPP) algorithm for the robot and the positioner to process complex space curve workpieces. The specific algorithm design is illustrated by using the intersecting line welding as an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,265 Views
24 Pages

11 May 2023

In this paper, we present a finite-time synchronization (FTS) for quantized Markovian-jump time-varying delayed neural networks (QMJTDNNs) via event-triggered control. The QMJTDNNs take into account the effects of quantization on the system dynamics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,916 Views
14 Pages

7 January 2023

The interior permanent magnet synchronous machine (IPMSM) has been widely used in industrial applications due to its several favorable advantages. To further improve the machine performance, an improved nonlinear predictive controller for the IPMSM i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,958 Views
21 Pages

8 July 2018

This paper analyzes the infeasibility of half-wavelength transmission systems in the aspects of power-frequency overvoltage and synchronization stability. The circuit model of the long-distance transmission system is established at first for steady-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,331 Views
16 Pages

What Constraints the Expansion of Urban Agriculture in Benin?

  • Mawuna Donald Houessou,
  • Mirte van de Louw and
  • Ben G. J. S. Sonneveld

17 July 2020

Propelled by rapid urbanization, city administrations in low- and middle-income countries face a raft of challenges to secure food and nutrition for its poor urban dwellers. Urban agriculture (UA) seems a viable intervention to address urban food ins...

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