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Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and practices of social production, especially in urban contexts. To consider traffic environment factors, more and more researchers are taking time-varying factors into ac...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
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  • Open Access
2,820 Views
17 Pages

17 October 2022

For periodic time-varying systems, a method of parameter identification based on the block-pulse function is presented. Firstly, the state-space equation of the system was expanded using the block-pulse function, then the recursion formula of the par...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State Monitoring and Health Management of Complex Equipment)
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31 October 2026

In electrohydraulic operation benches (EHOB), one of the significant challenges of advancing toward intelligent control is ensuring operational safety under time-varying constraints, where excessive position or velocity may cause mechanical damage or...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,240 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2022

Due to planetary movement of planet gears, the vibration signal perceived by a stationary sensor is modulated and difficult to diagnose. This paper proposed a vibration separation methodology compensated by a time-varying transfer function (TVTF-VS),...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Instrument and Measurement Based on Sensing Technology in China)
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14 Citations
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38 Pages

Feature selection aims to select crucial features to improve classification accuracy in machine learning and data mining. In this paper, a new binary grasshopper optimization algorithm using time-varying Gaussian transfer functions (BGOA-TVG) is prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms 2024)
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6 Citations
3,389 Views
20 Pages

Abnormal Spatial and Temporal Overlap of Time-Varying Brain Functional Networks in Patients with Schizophrenia

  • Jie Xiang,
  • Yumeng Sun,
  • Xubin Wu,
  • Yuxiang Guo and ,
  • Jiayue Xue,
  • Yan Niu and
  • Xiaohong Cui
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31 December 2023

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex psychiatric disorder with unclear etiology and pathological features. Neuroscientists are increasingly proposing that schizophrenia is an abnormality in the dynamic organization of brain networks. Previous studies have...

(This article belongs to the Section Neuropsychiatry)
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15 July 2026

In this brief paper, we investigate the practical stabilization problem of multiple time-delayed positive linear time-varying systems. Firstly, a sufficient condition for the practical stability of the system is derived using the maximal separable Ly...

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9 Citations
3,228 Views
21 Pages

This paper investigates the problem of fixed-time distributed time-varying optimization of a nonlinear fractional-order multiagent system (FOMAS) over a weight-unbalanced directed graph (digraph), where the heterogeneous unknown nonlinear functions a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Multiagent Systems: Theory and Applications)
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3 Citations
1,859 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2024

This paper investigates the fault-tolerant control problem for vehicular platoons with time-varying actuator fault directions and distance constraints. A bias constraint function is introduced to convert the asymmetric constraints into symmetric ones...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
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19 April 2025

Multifactor uncertain differential equations (MUDEs) are effective tools to model dynamic systems under multi-source noise. With the widespread use of MUDEs, parameter estimation as the bridge between the observed data and the MUDE becomes increasing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry Applications in Uncertain Differential Equations)
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9 Citations
2,302 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2023

The transmission tower is an important infrastructure for transmission lines. To secure the operation of the power grid, it is particularly important to evaluate the safety of the in-service transmission tower under the action of random wind loads th...

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6 Citations
2,119 Views
24 Pages

The design of a hypersonic vehicle controller has been an active research field in the last decade, especially when the vehicle is studied as a time-varying system. A time-varying compound control method is proposed for a hypersonic vehicle controlle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Innovations in Aircraft Flight Control)
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10 Citations
6,421 Views
22 Pages

20 August 2017

Modeling of a time-varying dynamical system provides insights into the functions of biological neural networks and contributes to the development of next-generation neural prostheses. In this paper, we have formulated a novel sparse multiwavelet-base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Signal Analysis)
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49 Citations
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22 Pages

SINS/CNS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Based on an Improved Federated Sage–Husa Adaptive Filter

  • Shuqing Xu,
  • Haiyin Zhou,
  • Jiongqi Wang,
  • Zhangming He and
  • Dayi Wang

3 September 2019

Among the methods of the multi-source navigation filter, as a distributed method, the federated filter has a small calculation amount with Gaussian state noise, and it is easy to achieve global optimization. However, when the state noise is time-vary...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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28 November 2025

Stable attitude control of unmanned or autonomous operations of vehicles moving in three spatial dimensions is essential for safe and reliable operations. Rigid body attitude control is inherently a nonlinear control problem, as the Lie group of rigi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Vehicle Operations: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Trends)
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4 Citations
3,345 Views
22 Pages

Constrained Optimal Control for Nonlinear Multi-Input Safety-Critical Systems with Time-Varying Safety Constraints

  • Jinguang Wang,
  • Chunbin Qin,
  • Xiaopeng Qiao,
  • Dehua Zhang and ,
  • Zhongwei Zhang,
  • Ziyang Shang and
  • Heyang Zhu
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3 August 2022

In this paper, we investigate the constrained optimal control problem of nonlinear multi-input safety-critical systems with uncertain disturbances and time-varying safety constraints. By utilizing a barrier function transformation, together with a ne...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics: Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,504 Views
13 Pages

4 July 2025

This paper presents a distributed optimization algorithm for time-varying objective functions utilizing a prescribed-time convergent multi-agent system within undirected communication networks. Departing from conventional time-invariant optimization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Switched Systems and Control Theory: Theory and Application)
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1 Citations
756 Views
25 Pages

3 November 2025

This research examines the Lyapunov-based criterion for global asymptotic stability of Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM) neural networks that have mixed-interval time-varying delays. Using a second-order reciprocally convex approach, this paper...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,487 Views
16 Pages

Stability Analysis of Switched Linear Singular Systems with Unstable and Stable Modes

  • Jiandong Xiong,
  • Yidian Wang,
  • Yanfang Huo and
  • Hongpeng Zhao

5 September 2023

In this paper, stability is studied for a class of switched singular systems containing both stable and unstable modes. By introducing a time-varying piecewise Lyapunov function (TVPLF) and a mode-dependent average dwell time (ADT) switching rule, th...

(This article belongs to the Topic Evolutionary Differential Equations, Dynamic Systems, Computation and Optimization)
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512 Views
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29 December 2025

This paper addresses the tracking control problem for stochastic nonlinear systems (SNSs) subject to distributed time-varying delays and output dead zones. A novel dynamic event-triggered control scheme is proposed by integrating the backstepping tec...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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4 Citations
2,270 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2025

Lateral handling stability control is crucial for ensuring vehicle driving safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes a lateral handling stability control method that considers time-varying full-state constraints. By constructing a time-varyi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Modeling, Cooperative Control, and Decision-Making Method for the Collective Large-Scale Intelligent Systems)
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29 Citations
3,721 Views
12 Pages

Novel Robust Stability Criteria for Lur’e Systems with Time-Varying Delay

  • Wei Wang,
  • Jinming Liang,
  • Mihan Liu,
  • Liming Ding and
  • Hongbing Zeng

15 February 2024

This paper focuses on addressing the issue of absolute stability for uncertain Lur’e systems with time-varying delay using a delay-segmentation approach. The approach involves decomposing the delay interval into two distinct subintervals of une...

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9 Citations
4,280 Views
24 Pages

Simulation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images for Ocean Ship Wakes

  • Shuya Wu,
  • Yunhua Wang,
  • Qian Li,
  • Yanmin Zhang and ,
  • Yining Bai and
  • Honglei Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 November 2023

To assist in the detection of ship targets in complex sea conditions, a numerical simulation method is proposed to obtain synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of time-varying ocean ship wakes under various radar, ship, and sea surface parameters. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
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8 Citations
3,160 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2022

The existence of local soft interlayer can significantly amplify or attenuate the ground motion and thus might influence the lagged spatial coherency between spatially varying earthquake ground motions. A target site with a local soft interlayer was...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earthquake-Resistant Design of Geotechnical Structure)
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3 Citations
2,383 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2022

For analyzing recurrent event data, we consider a generalization of the classical accelerated failure time model. In the proposed approach, the general function is no longer assumed to be a singleton but allowed to be time-varying. This is in the sam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Statistics)
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13 Citations
4,673 Views
23 Pages

26 January 2018

In this study, we proposed a new empirical method by combining generalized autoregressive score functions and a copula model with high-frequency data to model the conditional time-varying joint distribution of the government bond yields between Polan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Measures with Applications in Finance and Economics)
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2 Citations
2,395 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents a unified framework for controllability and minimum-energy control of linear fractional differential systems with Caputo derivative order γ∈(0,1) and fully time-varying state and control delays. An explicit mild solutio...

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22 September 2026

This paper investigates the delay-dependent stability problem of cyber–physical microgrid load frequency control (LFC) systems subject to time-varying communication delays. In the considered microgrid framework, renewable energy sources, hybrid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Stability Analysis, and Advanced Control of Modern Energy Systems)
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2 Citations
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Continuous-Time Markov Chain Modelling for Service Life Prediction of Building Elements

  • Artur Zbiciak,
  • Dariusz Walasek,
  • Vazgen Bagdasaryan and
  • Eugeniusz Koda

5 April 2026

A continuous-time Markov chain framework is developed for service life prediction of building assets, and three formulations are compared: a homogeneous generator, a time-varying generator, and a fractional model. The framework delivers survival, den...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Prognostic Models for Complex Systems: From Theory to Industrial and Scientific Applications)
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4 Citations
2,054 Views
16 Pages

6 October 2023

In this work, we consider a Timoshenko-type system in a bounded one-dimensional domain under Dirichlet conditions with time-varying delay and internal friction damping acting in the displacement. First, we show that the system is well-posed using sem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Symmetry Methods for Dynamics, Control, Optimization and Applications in 2023)
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1 Citations
1,080 Views
18 Pages

5 February 2026

This paper addresses nonlinear time-varying cascade systems governed by differential equations with finite delay. Several sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability are derived, based on differing assumptions regarding the isolated subsystems and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Delay Differential Equations and Their Applications)
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11 Citations
2,489 Views
15 Pages

6 July 2023

The displacement tracking performance of the electro-hydraulic servo actuator is critical for hydraulic active suspension control. To tackle the problem of slow time-varying parameters in the existing actuator dynamics model, a nonlinear adaptive bac...

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25 Citations
3,792 Views
23 Pages

BHHO-TVS: A Binary Harris Hawks Optimizer with Time-Varying Scheme for Solving Data Classification Problems

  • Hamouda Chantar,
  • Thaer Thaher,
  • Hamza Turabieh,
  • Majdi Mafarja and
  • Alaa Sheta

15 July 2021

Data classification is a challenging problem. Data classification is very sensitive to the noise and high dimensionality of the data. Being able to reduce the model complexity can help to improve the accuracy of the classification model performance....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning, Data Mining and Data Sciences)
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28 November 2025

Chlorinated solvents, common groundwater contaminants, can cause coexistence of the original contaminant and its degradation products during the transport process. Practically applicable analytical models for reactive transport are essential for simu...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
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8 Citations
3,994 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2020

This paper is concerned with the problem of finite-time control for nonlinear systems with time-varying delay and exogenous disturbance, which can be represented by a Takagi–Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. First, by constructing a novel augmented Lya...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Mathematical Aspect in Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,831 Views
11 Pages

A New Slack Lyapunov Functional for Dynamical System with Time Delay

  • Can Zhao,
  • Kaibo Shi,
  • Yiqian Tang and
  • Shouming Zhong

26 November 2022

The traditional method of constructing a Lyapunov functional for dynamical systems with time delay is usually dependent on positive definite matrices in the quadratic form. In this paper, a new Lyapunov functional is proposed and the corresponding pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well-Posedness, Dynamics, and Control of Nonlinear Differential System with Initial-Boundary Value)
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3 Citations
2,455 Views
16 Pages

2 May 2020

In this manuscript, we consider the finite-time H ∞ control for nonlinear systems with time-varying delay. With the assistance of a novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional which includes some integral terms, a matrix-based on quadratic con...

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5 Citations
3,317 Views
22 Pages

6 April 2024

This paper is concerned with the predefined-time exact sliding mode control issue of a class of high-order uncertain nonlinear systems with disturbances. The proposed control scheme is composed of a predefined-time exact disturbance observer and a tw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Control Schemes for Actuators—2nd Edition)
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The problem of delay-range-dependent stability analysis for linear systems with distributed time-varying delays and nonlinear perturbations is studied without using the model transformation and delay-decomposition approach. The less conservative stab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Proceedings of the International Conference in Mathematics and Applications 2020_Mahidol University)
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3 Citations
767 Views
18 Pages

Novel Results on Global Asymptotic Stability of Time-Delayed Complex Valued Bidirectional Associative Memory Neural Networks

  • N. Mohamed Thoiyab,
  • Saravanan Shanmugam,
  • Rajarathinam Vadivel and
  • Nallappan Gunasekaran

27 May 2025

This study investigates the global asymptotic stability of hybrid bidirectional associative memory (BAM) complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs) with time-varying delays and uncertain parameters, where the system matrices are assumed to be symmetric....

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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4 Citations
2,524 Views
14 Pages

4 August 2022

In this paper, the asymptotic stability problem of neural networks with time-varying delays is investigated. First, a new sufficient and necessary condition on a general polynomial inequality was developed. Then, a novel augmented Lyapunov–Kras...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well-Posedness, Dynamics, and Control of Nonlinear Differential System with Initial-Boundary Value)
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4 Citations
1,977 Views
14 Pages

28 June 2023

In this paper, a Lotka–Volterra (L-V) competitor–competitor–mutualist system with time-varying delays is studied. Some dynamical behaviors of the considered system are investigated. Firstly, we obtain the boundedness, permanence and...

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1 Citations
1,315 Views
32 Pages

This paper investigates the leader–follower consensus problem for fractional-order nonlinear multi-agent systems operating under simultaneous Sybil and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The communication topology is modeled as a time-varying dir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamics and Control of Fractional-Order Systems)
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24 Citations
3,075 Views
20 Pages

29 June 2021

This paper deals with non-perturbed and perturbed systems of nonlinear differential systems of first order with multiple time-varying delays. Here, for the considered systems, easily verifiable and applicable uniformly asymptotic stability, integrabi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Professor Hong-Kun Xu)
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17 Pages

2 June 2025

This paper proposes a novel control function approach to identify and estimate linear models with endogenous variables in the absence of valid instrumental variables. The identification strategy exploits time-varying volatility to address the multico...

(This article belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
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1 Citations
1,858 Views
17 Pages

1 January 2023

This paper investigates the imperfect premise matching-based (IPMB) static output feedback (SOF) controller for T–S fuzzy systems with time-varying delays. Firstly, by employing integral inequality techniques, the membership-function-independen...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
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6 Citations
3,513 Views
18 Pages

The issue of the robust exponential passivity analysis for uncertain neutral-type neural networks with mixed interval time-varying delays is discussed in this work. For our purpose, the lower bounds of the delays are allowed to be either positive or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Proceedings of the International Conference in Mathematics and Applications 2020_Mahidol University)
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4 Citations
2,764 Views
25 Pages

Study on Non-Stationary Wind Speed Models and Wind Load Design Parameters Based on Data from the Beijing 325 m Meteorological Tower, 1991–2020

  • Shihan Yang,
  • Xiaodong Ji,
  • Yifan Tao,
  • Jingjing Jia and ,
  • Zeyu Zhang and
  • Li Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 May 2024

As the capital of China and a densely populated major city, the characteristics of Beijing’s near-surface wind field change significantly with the increase in the density of underlying urban structures. The high randomness of natural wind makes...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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Admissible Convexity for Time-Varying Fractional Lyapunov Inequalities

  • Jiale Chen,
  • Osama F. Abdel Aal,
  • Jairo Viola and
  • Weigang Sun

3 August 2026

Fractional Lyapunov inequalities provide an effective tool for stability analysis of fractional-order systems, since classical chain and product rules are not directly applicable to fractional operators. This paper investigates admissible convexity c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Discrete-Fractional Mathematics and Its Application)
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7 December 2023

This paper presents an application of the Simulink stvmgain S-function for the thermal modelling of a building zone based on the resistance–capacitance scheme of EN ISO 13790. That model in the form of the state-space matrix with time-varying e...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)

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