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24 September 2025

The development of electromechanical linear actuators (EMLAs) aims at compactness, energy efficiency, and high reliability. Conventional design methods often rely on costly prototypes and individual considerations of mechanics, electromagnetics, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,938 Views
22 Pages

22 April 2018

Recently, nonlinear blind compensation technique has attracted growing attention in array signal processing application. However, due to the nonlinear distortion stemming from array receiver which consists of multi-channel radio frequency (RF) front-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,162 Views
6 Pages

1 November 2022

Aiming at the problems of lack of data on the nonlinear morphology to divide uneven grain boundary in bulk ceramics, a unique approach of nanorobot-based characterization of three-dimensional nonlinear structure length can be creatively proposed unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,996 Views
16 Pages

17 March 2023

In this paper, we developed a probability density function (PDF) shape control method for non-linear stochastic systems using a hybrid logistic function (HLF) as an approximate PDF of the state variable. First, the functional relationship between the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,529 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2021

Nonlinear factors such as the contact stiffness and friction damping at the threaded interface of a projectile–fuse system significantly affect the dynamic response characteristics. To obtain the dynamic response of the fuse body accurately during pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
582 Views
21 Pages

An Efficient RMA with Chunked Nonlinear Normalized Weights and SNR-Based Multichannel Fusion for MIMO-SAR Imaging

  • Jingjing Wang,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Haowei Duan,
  • Rongbo Sun,
  • Kehui Yang,
  • Jing Fang,
  • Huaqiang Xu and
  • Pengbo Song

18 September 2025

Millimeter-wave multiple-input multiple-output synthetic aperture radar (MIMO-SAR) has been widely used in many scenarios such as geological exploration, post-disaster rescue, and security inspection. When faced with large complex scenes, the signal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,840 Views
19 Pages

8 June 2016

This paper presents a global calibration method for widely distributed vision sensors in ring-topologies. Planar target with two mutually orthogonal groups of parallel lines is needed for each camera. Firstly, the relative pose of each camera and its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,317 Views
20 Pages

On Dispersion and Multipath Effects in Harmonic Radar Imaging Applications

  • Florian Bischeltsrieder,
  • Markus Peichl and
  • Wolfgang Utschick

9 December 2021

In harmonic radar applications, images produced using algorithms of conventional radar applications experience some defocusing effects of the electronic targets’ impulse responses. This is typically explained by the dispersive transfer function...

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2025

The Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder (GIIRS) onboard the Fengyun-4B satellite plays a critical role in numerical weather prediction and extreme weather monitoring. To meet the requirements of quantitative remote sensing and high-precisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
7,047 Views
20 Pages

1 June 2019

Ensemble learning is an important group of machine learning techniques that aim to enhance the nonlinearity and generalization ability of a learning system by aggregating multiple learners. We found that ensemble techniques show great potential for i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,785 Views
19 Pages

Application of Spherical-Radial Cubature Bayesian Filtering and Smoothing in Bearings Only Passive Target Tracking

  • Wasiq Ali,
  • Yaan Li,
  • Zhe Chen,
  • Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja,
  • Nauman Ahmed and
  • Xiao Chen

7 November 2019

In this paper, an application of spherical radial cubature Bayesian filtering and smoothing algorithms is presented to solve a typical underwater bearings only passive target tracking problem effectively. Generally, passive target tracking problems i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
20 Pages

9 December 2025

Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of residents’ leisure travel distances (hereafter referred to as “RLTD”) and their underlying influencing factors is pivotal to reducing leisure travel costs and enhancing travel expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,258 Views
23 Pages

3 November 2020

Shake tables are one of the most widespread means to perform vibration testing due to their ability to capture structural dynamic behavior. The shake table acceleration control problem represents a challenging task due to the inherent non-linearities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,856 Views
17 Pages

4 February 2024

Life detection is important in earthquake rescue, but weak vital signal is susceptible to interference by clutters. Due to the undesirable characteristics of the hardware, there are two main types of clutter generated by the frequency modulation cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,016 Views
24 Pages

11 August 2021

In many applications of airborne visual techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), lightweight sensors and efficient visual positioning and tracking algorithms are essential in a GNSS-denied environment. Meanwhile, many tasks require the ability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,535 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2025

To achieve precise detection of target geometric features, Ka/W/sub-terahertz band imaging radar systems with ultra-wide instantaneous bandwidth have been developed. Although dechirp-based receiver architectures allow for low-sampling-rate signal acq...

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

10 November 2021

In order to adapt to the actual scene of a stereo satellite observing the same area sequentially and improve the accuracy of the target-oriented 3D reconstruction, this paper proposed a building DSM fusion update method based on adaptive splines and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,047 Views
27 Pages

7 August 2025

Nonlinear wind-induced vibrations and coupled static–dynamic instabilities pose significant challenges for long-span suspension bridges, especially under large-amplitude and high-angle-of-attack conditions. However, existing studies have yet to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,905 Views
16 Pages

To realize the stable tracking control of the optoelectronic stabilized platform system under nonlinear friction and external disturbance, an active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) with friction compensation is proposed to improve the target...

  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
18 Pages

11 July 2025

The realization of high-precision target positioning requires the systematic suppression of nonlinear perturbations in the UAV optoelectronic system and the optimization of the cumulative deviation of coordinate transformations through error transfer...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,210 Views
10 Pages

2 January 2021

In order to eliminate the nonlinearity in the laser modulation process, the dual-interferometers system is often adopted in the frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) laser ranging. However, the dispersion mismatch between the fiber reference in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,813 Views
12 Pages

Assessment of the Nonlinear Electrophoretic Migration of Nanoparticles and Bacteriophages

  • Adrian Lomeli-Martin,
  • Zakia Azad,
  • Julie A. Thomas and
  • Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas

8 March 2024

Bacteriophage therapy presents a promising avenue for combating antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Yet, challenges exist, particularly, the lack of a straightforward purification pipeline suitable for widespread application to many phage type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,067 Views
19 Pages

Transmedia Performance Research and Motion Control of Unmanned Aerial–Aquatic Vehicles

  • Xiangren Sun,
  • Jian Cao,
  • Yueming Li,
  • Haipeng Li and
  • Weikai Wang

This paper presents an improved motion controller based on the backstepping method to address nonlinear control challenges in unmanned aerial–aquatic vehicles (UAAVs), enabling them to navigate between two different media. The nonlinear control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,999 Views
16 Pages

Sparse recovery space–time adaptive processing (SR-STAP) technology improves the moving target detection performance of airborne radar. However, the sparse recovery method with a fixed dictionary usually leads to an off-grid effect. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,527 Views
21 Pages

24 June 2024

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scenes is a challenging task due to the varying scales and complexities of targets. To address this, we propose a novel object detection model, AFE-YOLOv8, which integrates three innovative modules: t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,949 Views
26 Pages

SVM+KF Target Tracking Strategy Using the Signal Strength in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xing Wang,
  • Xuejun Liu,
  • Ziran Wang,
  • Ruichao Li and
  • Yiguang Wu

9 July 2020

Target Tracking (TT) is a fundamental application of wireless sensor networks. TT based on received signal strength indication (RSSI) is by far the cheapest and simplest approach, but suffers from a low stability and precision owing to multiple paths...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,866 Views
12 Pages

Wafer-Scale Periodic Poling of Thin-Film Lithium Niobate

  • Mengwen Chen,
  • Chenyu Wang,
  • Xiao-Hui Tian,
  • Jie Tang,
  • Xiaowen Gu,
  • Guang Qian,
  • Kunpeng Jia,
  • Hua-Ying Liu,
  • Zhong Yan and
  • Zhilin Ye
  • + 3 authors

9 April 2024

Periodically poled lithium niobate on insulator (PPLNOI) offers an admirably promising platform for the advancement of nonlinear photonic integrated circuits (PICs). In this context, domain inversion engineering emerges as a key process to achieve ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,949 Views
20 Pages

8 May 2024

The controllable pitch propeller hydraulic system has high constraints and nonlinearity. Due to these inherent deficiencies, the proportional–integral–derivative (PID) control algorithm cannot meet the control accuracy requirements of non...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,678 Views
17 Pages

11 March 2022

This paper investigates the cooperative control problem for a group of autonomous nonholonomic mobile robots, in which the robots are required to collaboratively enclose and track a stationary or moving target in a circular formation. In order to sol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,282 Views
17 Pages

A Robotic Drilling End-Effector and Its Sliding Mode Control for the Normal Adjustment

  • Laixi Zhang,
  • Jaspreet Singh Dhupia,
  • Mingliang Wu and
  • Hua Huang

11 October 2018

A robotic drilling end-effector is designed and modeled, and a sliding mode variable structure control architecture based on the reaching law is proposed for its normal adjustment dynamic control. By using a third-order nonlinear integration chain di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
438 Views
19 Pages

An Azimuth-Continuously Controllable SAR Image Generation Algorithm Based on GAN

  • Yongjie Cui,
  • Zhiqu Liu,
  • Linian Ruan,
  • Bowen Sheng,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Xiulai Xiao and
  • Xiaolin Bian

19 November 2025

The performance of deep learning models largely depends on the scale and quality of training data. However, acquiring sufficient, high-quality samples for specific observation scenarios is often challenging due to high acquisition costs. Unlike optic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,913 Views
21 Pages

6 December 2018

Many biomedical applications such as ultrasonic targeted drug delivery, gene therapy, and molecular imaging entail the problems of manipulating microbubbles by means of a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) pressure field; namely stable cavitati...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,909 Views
18 Pages

27 January 2021

Thin coal seam mining is a development direction to solve the problem of energy supply at this stage, which cannot be realized by small working space, low automation, and drilling deviation. In this paper, a nonlinear adaptive backstepping controller...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,182 Views
26 Pages

2 September 2025

Pervious concrete is challenged by the inherent trade-off between permeability and mechanical strength. This study presents a systematic optimization of its mix design to achieve a balance between these properties. Single-factor experiments and an L9...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,810 Views
26 Pages

The Nonlinear Relationship and Synergistic Effects between Built Environment and Urban Vitality at the Neighborhood Scale: A Case Study of Guangzhou’s Central Urban Area

  • Zhenxiang Ling,
  • Xiaohao Zheng,
  • Yingbiao Chen,
  • Qinglan Qian,
  • Zihao Zheng,
  • Xianxin Meng,
  • Junyu Kuang,
  • Junyu Chen,
  • Na Yang and
  • Xianghua Shi

1 August 2024

Investigating urban vitality and comprehending the influence mechanisms of the built environment is essential for achieving sustainable urban growth and improving the quality of life for residents. Current research has rarely addressed the nonlinear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,177 Views
18 Pages

Two-Point Localization Algorithm of a Magnetic Target Based on Tensor Geometric Invariant

  • Cheng Chi,
  • Dan Wang,
  • Ronghua Tao,
  • Jianwei Li,
  • Ye Wang,
  • Zhentao Yu and
  • Lu Yu

30 March 2024

Currently, magnetic gradient tensor-based localization methods face challenges such as significant errors in geomagnetic field estimation, susceptibility to local optima in optimization algorithms, and inefficient performance. In addressing these iss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,382 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2018

Enhancing speech captured by distant microphones is a challenging task. In this study, we investigate the multichannel signal properties of the single acoustic vector sensor (AVS) to obtain the inter-sensor data ratio (ISDR) model in the time-frequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,988 Views
25 Pages

Research on Dynamic Characteristics of Joint of RC Frame Structure with NES

  • Haixu Yang,
  • Baolei Yang,
  • Haibiao Wang,
  • Maohua Zhang and
  • Songyuan Ni

7 September 2022

The NES (nonlinear energy sink) is a new type of nonlinear tuned mass damper that is connected to the shock-absorbing main structure through strong nonlinear stiffness and viscous damping. The vibrational energy in the main structure is transferred t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,205 Views
23 Pages

17 June 2024

Aiming at the problems of the poor robustness and universality of traditional contour matching algorithms in engineering applications, a method for improving the surface defect detection of industrial products based on contour matching algorithms is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,386 Views
30 Pages

Numerical Study of the Pulsation Process of Spark Bubbles under Three Boundary Conditions

  • Chunlong Ma,
  • Dongyan Shi,
  • Chao Li,
  • Dongze He,
  • Guangliang Li and
  • Keru Lu

In this study, a compressible three-phase homogeneous model was established using ABAQUS/Explicit. These models can numerically simulate the pulsation process of cavitation bubbles in the free field, near the flat plate target, and near the curved bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,363 Views
14 Pages

Finite Volume Method and Its Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Abdulkafi Mohammed Saeed and
  • Thekra Abdullah Fayez Alfawaz

10 May 2025

Various numerical techniques have been developed to address multiple problems in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The finite volume method (FVM) is a numerical technique used for solving partial differential equations that represent conservation l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,830 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2024

The problem of state estimation based on bearing-only sensors is increasingly important while existing research on distributed filtering solutions is rather limited. Therefore, this paper proposed the novel distributed cubature information filtering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,389 Views
12 Pages

11 November 2024

Accurate and stable estimation of the position and trajectory of noncooperative targets is crucial for the safe navigation and operation of sonar-equipped underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs). However, the uncertainty associated with sonar observation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,395 Views
24 Pages

10 July 2024

Recent research has revealed that the deep neural network (DNN)-based synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) techniques are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses significant security risks for their deployment in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,405 Views
19 Pages

5 July 2023

Domain adaptation is a learning strategy that aims to improve the performance of models in the current field by leveraging similar domain information. In order to analyze the effects of feature disentangling on domain adaptation and evaluate a model&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,289 Views
13 Pages

4 March 2023

Feature extraction is an important process for the automatic recognition of synthetic aperture radar targets, but the rising complexity of the recognition network means that the features are abstractly implied in the network parameters and the perfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,228 Views
22 Pages

1 October 2021

The feasibility that the transverse reinforcements in steel-reinforced Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) columns could be reduced or even totally eliminated has been experimentally demonstrated. However, due to the effect of the tie volume rat...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
817 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2025

Nonlinear frequency modulated (NLFM) signals can be used to enhance the resolution, anti-jamming capability, and imaging quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems through optimized design, demonstrating substantial application potential. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,305 Views
22 Pages

Electrical Resistivity Tomography Methods and Technical Research for Hydrate-Based Carbon Sequestration

  • Zitian Lin,
  • Qia Wang,
  • Shufan Li,
  • Xingru Li,
  • Jiajie Ye,
  • Yidi Zhang,
  • Haoning Ye,
  • Yangmin Kuang and
  • Yanpeng Zheng

This study focuses on the application of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) for monitoring the growth process of CO2 hydrate in subsea carbon sequestration, aiming to provide technical support for the safety assessment of marine carbon storage....

  • Article
  • Open Access
664 Views
25 Pages

Inverting seawater sound speed profiles (SSPs) using Bayesian methods enables optimal parameter estimation and provides a quantitative assessment of uncertainty by analyzing the posterior distribution of target parameters. However, in nonlinear geoph...

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