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Modeling and Compensation Methods for Trajectory Errors in Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Using 3D Printing

  • Manxian Liu,
  • Sheng Qu,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Xiaoqiang Yan and ,
  • Wei Li and
  • Yesong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 July 2025

Defects arising from the 3D printing process of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites primarily hinder their overall performance. These defects particularly include twisting, folding, and breakage of the fiber bundle, which are induced...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Polymers Science and Technology: From Nano-Engineering to Multifunctional Applications)
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  • Open Access
313 Views
20 Pages

3 September 2026

To improve the prediction reliability of model predictive control under model mismatch and environmental disturbances, this paper proposes a prediction-error-compensated MPC method with a forgetting factor for ship trajectory tracking and collision a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicle—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,001 Views
20 Pages

22 February 2022

For underwater gliders (UGs), high trajectory accuracy is an important factor in improving the observation of ocean phenomena. In this paper, a novel method of trajectory optimization is proposed to increase the trajectory accuracy of UGs, which is a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology Advances in Ocean Observation)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,998 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2025

To address the challenge of low computational efficiency in nonlinear Economic Model Predictive Control (EMPC) for large-scale systems such as wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), this paper proposes a Trajectory Piecewise Linearization (TPWL)-based...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,878 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Robust Controller Design-Based RBF Neural Network for Aerial Robot Arm Model

  • Izzat Al-Darraji,
  • Dimitrios Piromalis,
  • Ayad A. Kakei,
  • Fazal Qudus Khan and ,
  • Milos Stojmenovic,
  • Georgios Tsaramirsis and
  • Panagiotis G. Papageorgas
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Aerial Robot Arms (ARAs) enable aerial drones to interact and influence objects in various environments. Traditional ARA controllers need the availability of a high-precision model to avoid high control chattering. Furthermore, in practical applicati...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,797 Views
25 Pages

Autonomous Multi-Floor Localization Based on Smartphone-Integrated Sensors and Pedestrian Indoor Network

  • Chaoyang Shi,
  • Wenxin Teng,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Yue Yu and ,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Ruizhi Chen and
  • Qingquan Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 June 2023

Autonomous localization without local wireless facilities is proven as an efficient way for realizing location-based services in complex urban environments. The precision of the current map-matching algorithms is subject to the poor ability of integr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Concurrent Positioning, Mapping and Perception of Multi-Source Data Fusion for Smart Applications II)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,295 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2021

In order to solve the problems of complex dynamic modeling and parameters identification of quadrotor formation cooperative trajectory tracking control, this paper proposes a data-driven model-free adaptive control method for quadrotor formation base...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,475 Views
18 Pages

30 July 2024

In this paper, we introduce a control method for the linear quadratic tracking (LQT) problem with zero steady-state error. This is achieved by augmenting the original system with an additional state representing the integrated error between the refer...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,016 Views
13 Pages

A CNN-GRU Model-Based Trajectory Error Predicting and Compensating for a 6-DOF Parallel Robot

  • Zhenjie Zhou,
  • Zhihua Liu,
  • Chenguang Cai,
  • Hongsheng Han and ,
  • Yufen Cao,
  • Shaohui Li and
  • Rongyu Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 December 2025

The six-degree-of-freedom parallel robots is crucial for intelligent manufacturing, motion simulation, aerospace and other fields. Their trajectory performance level directly affects the reliable application of high-precision operation scenarios. How...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,517 Views
30 Pages

A Hybrid-Model-Based CNC Machining Trajectory Error Prediction and Compensation Method

  • Wuwei He,
  • Lipeng Zhang,
  • Yi Hu,
  • Zheng Zhou and ,
  • Yusong Qiao and
  • Dong Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of Industry 4.0, pointing towards the future development of manufacturing. The core component of intelligent manufacturing is the computer numerical control (CNC) system. Predicting and compensating for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Embedded Deep Learning Systems)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,942 Views
21 Pages

Digital Twin Modelling Method of Five-Axis Machine Tool for Predicting Continuous Trajectory Contour Error

  • Dun Lyu,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Shiyou Luo,
  • Shuo Liu and ,
  • Qunlin Cheng and
  • Hui Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 December 2022

The CNC machine tool is the passive executor of machining code. It cannot predict the machining accuracy during machining. If the error is found to be out of tolerance after processing, it will not only scrap the parts, but also greatly affect the pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Machining Processes: From Mechanisms to Equipment)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,050 Views
25 Pages

IMU-Aided Registration of MLS Point Clouds Using Inertial Trajectory Error Model and Least Squares Optimization

  • Zhipeng Chen,
  • Qingquan Li,
  • Jiayuan Li,
  • Dejin Zhang and ,
  • Jianwei Yu,
  • Yu Yin,
  • Shiwang Lv and
  • Anbang Liang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 March 2022

Mobile laser scanning (MLS) point cloud registration plays a critical role in mobile 3D mapping and inspection, but conventional point cloud registration methods for terrain LiDAR scanning (TLS) are not suitable for MLS. To cope with this challenge,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends in 3D Modelling from Point Clouds)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,045 Views
35 Pages

XGBoost-Based Digital Twin Model for Predicting Trajectory Errors in a Hexapod Coordinated Machining System Using Positioning Accuracy and Vibration Data

  • Kanglin Xing,
  • Miao Feng,
  • Ilian A. Bonev,
  • Henri Champliaud and ,
  • Mohamed Cheriet and
  • Zhaoheng Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 November 2025

Dynamic errors in robotic machining can degrade part quality, particularly in flexible platforms that are susceptible to both geometric and inertial disturbances. This work introduces a data-driven digital twin for pointwise prediction of circular tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Robotic Systems: Integration of Perception, Calibration, and Adaptive Control)
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  • Open Access
67 Citations
14,894 Views
15 Pages

Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Driving Vehicles

  • Trieu Minh Vu,
  • Reza Moezzi,
  • Jindrich Cyrus and
  • Jaroslav Hlava

24 October 2021

The field of autonomous driving vehicles is growing and expanding rapidly. However, the control systems for autonomous driving vehicles still pose challenges, since vehicle speed and steering angle are always subject to strict constraints in vehicle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Control Systems and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,772 Views
21 Pages

28 October 2021

Six degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) robotic manipulators have been increasingly adopted in various applications in industries due to various advantages, such as large operation space, more degrees of freedom, low cost, easy placement, and convenient progra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Robots and Precision Machining)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,623 Views
18 Pages

The accuracy of the end-effector motion trajectory is a critical performance indicator for cable-driven parallel mechanisms. This study aims to address the problem of trajectory error during the end-effector motion in a cable-driven parallel mechanis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Applications of Parallel Robots)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,230 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2018

Sensor alignment plays a key role in the accurate estimation of the ballistic trajectory. A sparse regularization-based sensor alignment method coupled with the selection of a regularization parameter is proposed in this paper. The sparse regularizat...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
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  • Open Access
357 Views
46 Pages

17 August 2026

Multi-sensor data fusion is essential for accurate target tracking and trajectory reconstruction. However, common forms of systematic error in multi-sensor observations, including constant biases, linear drifts, and saturating exponential drifts, can...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,173 Views
17 Pages

5 August 2024

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is crucial for developing collision avoidance algorithms in autonomous driving systems, aiming to predict the future movement of the detected pedestrians based on their past trajectories. The traditional methods for p...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,644 Views
19 Pages

Map matching of trajectory data has wide applications in path planning, traffic flow analysis, and intelligent driving. The process of map matching involves matching GPS trajectory points to roads in a roadway network, thereby converting a trajectory...

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  • Open Access
424 Views
29 Pages

10 June 2026

To address the difficulty of directly applying finite element simulation trajectories to actual spinning machines, as well as the discrepancy between simulation data and equipment execution in the spinning process, this paper proposes a trajectory ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,421 Views
27 Pages

15 July 2021

Fiber-optic gyroscopes (FOGs)-based Measurement While Drilling system (MWD) is a newly developed instrument to survey the borehole trajectory continuously and in real time. However, because of the strong vibration while drilling, the measurement accu...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,251 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Velocity-Based Control in a Sensor Space for Parallel Manipulators

  • Antonio Loredo,
  • Mauro Maya,
  • Alejandro González,
  • Antonio Cardenas and ,
  • Emilio Gonzalez-Galvan and
  • Davide Piovesan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 September 2022

It is a challenging task to track objects moving along an unknown trajectory. Conventional model-based controllers require detailed knowledge of a robot’s kinematics and the target’s trajectory. Tracking precision heavily relies on kinema...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,172 Views
18 Pages

Accuracy of Balloon Trajectory Forecasts in the Lower Stratosphere

  • Selvaraj Dharmalingam,
  • Riwal Plougonven,
  • Albert Hertzog,
  • Aurélien Podglajen and ,
  • Michael Rennie,
  • Lars Isaksen and
  • Sélim Kébir
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 February 2019

This paper investigates the accuracy of simulated long-duration super-pressure balloon trajectories in the lower stratosphere. The observed trajectories were made during the (tropical) Pre-Concordiasi and (polar) Concordiasi campaigns in 2010, while...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
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  • Open Access
470 Views
28 Pages

Flange Trajectory Prediction for LNG Unloading Arms Using KSE-GRU

  • Guicai Liu,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Wuwei Feng,
  • Rongsheng Lin and ,
  • Chuanyu Wu,
  • Shujie Yang,
  • Zhujun Zhang,
  • Jiahang Du and
  • Liangan Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

13 June 2026

To autonomously dock LNG unloading arms under adverse sea states, this study formulates a dynamic docking process as a trajectory forecasting task. By integrating visual-perception-based spatial localization with trajectory acquisition and forecastin...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,003 Views
22 Pages

A Method for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Using INS-GNSS Wearable Devices

  • Shengli Pang,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Shiji Xu,
  • Weichen Long and ,
  • Ruoyu Pan and
  • Honggang Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 February 2026

Driven by advancements in artificial intelligence technology, pedestrian trajectory prediction is shifting from traditional machine learning methods toward autonomous decision-making frameworks based on neural networks. However, the spatiotemporal un...

(This article belongs to the Section Wearables)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,904 Views
21 Pages

GL-STGCNN: Enhancing Multi-Ship Trajectory Prediction with MPC Correction

  • Yuegao Wu,
  • Wanneng Yv,
  • Guangmiao Zeng,
  • Yifan Shang and
  • Weiqiang Liao

In addressing the challenges of trajectory prediction in multi-ship interaction scenarios and aiming to improve the accuracy of multi-ship trajectory prediction, this paper proposes a multi-ship trajectory prediction model, GL-STGCNN. The GL-STGCNN m...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,791 Views
21 Pages

This paper focuses on the trajectory planning and trajectory tracking control of articulated tracked vehicles (ATVs). It utilizes the path planning method based on the Hybrid A-star and the minimum snap smoothing method to obtain the feasible kinemat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,921 Views
20 Pages

A Hybrid Prediction Model Based on KNN-LSTM for Vessel Trajectory

  • Lixiang Zhang,
  • Yian Zhu,
  • Jiang Su,
  • Wei Lu and ,
  • Jiayu Li and
  • Ye Yao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 November 2022

Trajectory prediction technology uses the trajectory data of historical ships to predict future ship trajectory, which has significant application value in the field of ship driving and ship management. With the popularization of Automatic Identifica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods and Application in Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,769 Views
12 Pages

Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data Supported Ship Trajectory Prediction and Analysis via a Deep Learning Model

  • Xinqiang Chen,
  • Chenxin Wei,
  • Guiliang Zhou,
  • Huafeng Wu and ,
  • Zhongyu Wang and
  • Salvatore Antonio Biancardo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 September 2022

Automatic Identification System (AIS) data-supported ship trajectory analysis consistently helps maritime regulations and practitioners make reasonable traffic controlling and management decisions. Significant attentions are paid to obtain an accurat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,313 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2023

This research presents a nonlinear adaptive fuzzy control method as an analytical design and a simple control structure for the trajectory tracking problem in wheeled mobile robots with skew symmetrical property. For this trajectory tracking problem...

(This article belongs to the Topic IOT, Communication and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,831 Views
11 Pages

31 May 2022

The assessment of shoulder kinematics and kinetics are commonly undertaken biomechanically and clinically by using rigid-body models and experimental skin-marker trajectories. However, the accuracy of these trajectories is plagued by inherent skin-ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Simulation of Human Locomotion)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,846 Views
21 Pages

29 November 2024

Simplifying trajectory data can improve the efficiency of trajectory data analysis and query and reduce the communication cost and computational overhead of trajectory data. In this paper, a real-time trajectory simplification algorithm (SSFI) based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT and Big Data Applications in Smart Cities: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Critical Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,059 Views
19 Pages

Measuring the similarity between a pair of trajectories is the basis of many spatiotemporal clustering methods and has wide applications in trajectory pattern mining. However, most measures of trajectory similarity in the literature are based on prec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Uncertainty Modeling in Spatial Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,528 Views
14 Pages

8 May 2024

A novel variable structure controller based on sliding mode is developed for addressing the trajectory tracking challenge encountered by wheeled mobile robots. Firstly, the trajectory tracking error model under the global coordinate system is establi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
611 Views
33 Pages

Trajectory Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using GP-Based Model Predictive Control

  • Yuankui Wang,
  • Zhiwei Sun,
  • Xiange Tian,
  • Yuhang Jia and ,
  • Hao Li,
  • Bohan Wang,
  • Dahai Zhang and
  • Peng Qian
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2026

In this paper, a Gaussian process-based model predictive control (GP-MPC) method is proposed, which aims to enhance the trajectory tracking performance of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This method can compensate for internal errors and exter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Underwater Drones: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1,188 Views
14 Pages

This study introduces a novel framework for defining screw trajectory that utilizes PointNet—a deep neural network trained on lumbar vertebrae point clouds—to improve the manual surgical planning procedures. The conventional architecture...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Cross-Disciplinary AI: Theory and Application, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,783 Views
24 Pages

Informer-Based Model for Long-Term Ship Trajectory Prediction

  • Caiquan Xiong,
  • Hao Shi,
  • Jiaming Li,
  • Xinyun Wu and
  • Rong Gao

Ship trajectory prediction is a complex time series forecasting problem that necessitates models capable of accurately capturing both long-term trends and short-term fluctuations in vessel movements. While existing deep learning models excel in short...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications in Intelligent Ship Navigation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,932 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2025

The trajectory-tracking capability of autonomous mining trucks is critical for accomplishing transportation tasks efficiently. However, due to the diverse road surfaces and rugged terrains in open-pit mines, the existing vehicle dynamics models strug...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
600 Views
22 Pages

Accurate vessel trajectory prediction from Automatic Identification System (AIS) records is important for maritime traffic monitoring, route planning, and intelligent vessel traffic management. However, reliable prediction remains challenging for lon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence-Enhanced Ship Maneuvering, Navigation, and Management for Safe and Efficient Shipping)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,749 Views
29 Pages

4 March 2025

For the problem of large joint angular velocity and high input in the trajectory planning and control of robots, an explicit-time trajectory tracking for a state-constraint continuum free-floating space robot with smooth joint-path and low input is p...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,541 Views
15 Pages

A Random Forest-Based Method for Predicting Borehole Trajectories

  • Baoyong Yan,
  • Xiantao Zhang,
  • Chengxu Tang,
  • Xiao Wang and ,
  • Yifei Yang and
  • Weihua Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 March 2023

Drilling trajectory control technology for near-horizontal directional drilling in coal mines is mainly determined empirically by manual skew data, and the empirical results are only qualitative and variable, meanwhile possessing great instability an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining: Analysis and Applications)
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  • Open Access
653 Views
26 Pages

Robust Trajectory Inference for Quadrotor UAVs Under External Disturbances via a Sliding-Mode-Enhanced CLOE Approach

  • Fabrizio Ricardo Cahuas-Talledo,
  • Juan Eduardo Velázquez-Velázquez and
  • Alberto Luviano-Juárez

2 August 2026

This article examines the challenge of trajectory inference for an unknown system affected by external disturbances, with the objective of reconstructing the trajectory of a quadrotor using a reference model. The proposed methodology extends the Clos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Path Planning, Trajectory Tracking and Guidance for UAVs: 3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
592 Views
23 Pages

Trajectory Tracking of Intelligent Sweeping Vehicles Based on Adaptive Strong Tracking EKF and Laguerre MPC

  • Zhijun Guo,
  • Hao Su,
  • Tong Zhang,
  • Yanan Tu and ,
  • Yixuan Li and
  • Mingtian Pang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To improve the accuracy and real-time performance of trajectory tracking control for a four-wheel differential drive intelligent sweeping vehicle, a trajectory tracking control method based on an adaptive strong tracking extended Kalman filter (ASTEK...

(This article belongs to the Section Automated and Connected Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,042 Views
19 Pages

To address the problem of low accuracy and efficiency in trajectory planning algorithms for interceptors facing multiple constraints during the midcourse guidance phase, an improved trajectory convex programming method based on the lateral distance d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
585 Views
17 Pages

Modeling and Error Compensation for Concentric Grinding of Spherical Surfaces

  • Baozhen Li,
  • Keyan Song,
  • Dongxu Wu,
  • Lin Sun and
  • Yunfei Li

To improve the form accuracy of spherical surfaces generated by cup-wheel grinding, this paper presents a geometric modeling and error compensation method for concentric grinding of spherical surfaces. A cup-shaped arc grinding wheel, hereafter refer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,139 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Trajectory Feature-Boosting Network for Trajectory Prediction

  • Qingjian Ni,
  • Wenqiang Peng,
  • Yuntian Zhu and
  • Ruotian Ye

23 July 2023

Trajectory prediction is an essential task in many applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and surveillance systems. In this paper, we propose a novel trajectory prediction network, called TFBNet (trajectory feature-boosting network), t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatiotemporal Prediction and Simulation Methods at the Nexus of Statistical Physics, Spatial Statistics and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,402 Views
15 Pages

Predicting the future trajectories of multiple agents is essential for various applications in real life, such as surveillance systems, autonomous driving, and social robots. The trajectory prediction task is influenced by many factors, including ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,049 Views
16 Pages

17 July 2018

Due to the growing interest using model predictive control (MPC), there are more and more researches about the applications of MPC on autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and these researches are mainly focused on simulation and simple application of...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,869 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2018

To address the problem of model error and tracking dependence in the process of intelligent vehicle motion planning, an intelligent vehicle model transfer trajectory planning method based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed, which is able to o...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

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