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Study of Modified Offset Trajectory for Bonnet Polishing Based on Lifting Bonnet Method

  • Shujing Sha,
  • Shaohang Ma,
  • Shanqiang Han,
  • Chenhao Pan,
  • Hang Li,
  • Jieqiong Lin,
  • Mingxing Zhang and
  • Lulu Jiang

6 December 2023

The inability to converge at the edge of a workpiece during polishing affects the edge profile accuracy and surface quality of the workpiece. In this study, a bias trajectory generation method based on the lifting bonnet method that can maintain the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,839 Views
20 Pages

In the existing research on the intelligent navigation of ships, navigation route planning often regards light buoys as fixed obstructions. However, due to factors such as water ripples, the position of the buoys keeps periodically changing. If the b...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,389 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2024

The vehicular trajectory offset represents a critical controlling element in the design of lane width. In light of the paucity of extant research on the lane widths for dedicated autonomous vehicle lanes, this study deployed the PreScan-Simulink co-s...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
728 Views
22 Pages

ViTrans: Inter-Frame Alignment Enhancement for Moving Vehicle Detection in Satellite Videos with Stabilization Offsets

  • Tao He,
  • Kaimin Sun,
  • Yu Duan,
  • Wei Cui,
  • Ziang Wang,
  • Song Gao,
  • Yuan Yao and
  • Zijie Chen

27 August 2025

Satellite videos typically employ image registration techniques for video stabilization in order to achieve persistent observation. However, existing methods largely neglect the residual stabilization offsets, particularly when exceeding the physical...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,584 Views
16 Pages

15 May 2023

Laser-induced thermal crack propagation (LITP) is a high-quality and efficient processing method that has been widely used in fields such as glass cutting. However, the problem of trajectory deviation often arises in actual cutting operations, especi...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,900 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...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,172 Views
15 Pages

Movement Intent Detection for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Based on Series Elastic Actuator as Force Sensor

  • Yukio Rosales-Luengas,
  • Daniel Centeno-Barreda,
  • Sergio Salazar,
  • Jonathan Flores and
  • Rogelio Lozano

27 July 2024

In this paper, serial elastic actuators (SEAs) in conjunction with an accelerometer are proposed as force sensors to detect the intention of movement, and the SEA is proposed as a gentle actuator of a patient’s upper-limb exoskeleton. A smooth...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,877 Views
17 Pages

A New Method for Detecting Onset and Offset for Singing in Real-Time and Offline Environments

  • Behnam Faghih,
  • Sutirtha Chakraborty,
  • Azeema Yaseen and
  • Joseph Timoney

22 July 2022

This paper introduces a new method for detecting onsets, offsets, and transitions of the notes in real-time solo singing performances. It identifies the onsets and offsets by finding the transitions from one note to another by considering trajectory...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,890 Views
34 Pages

28 November 2021

In this paper, the characteristics of hot spots on an accretor surface are investigated for two types of polars: the eclipsing synchronous polar V808 Aur and the non-eclipsing asynchronous polar CD Ind in configuration of an offset and non-offset mag...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,315 Views
19 Pages

In order to solve the problem that, when the vehicle speed of an agricultural distributed dual-wheel electric-drive tractor changes or the system is disturbed by off-load, the traditional PI control cannot be adjusted in time, resulting in the oversh...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,411 Views
19 Pages

26 January 2023

As an emerging type of spatio-temporal big data based on positioning technology and navigation devices, vehicle-based crowdsourcing data has become a valuable trajectory data resource. However, crowdsourcing trajectory data has been collected by non-...

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  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,113 Views
22 Pages

25 August 2021

To enhance obstacle avoidance abilities of the plant protection UAV in unstructured farmland, this article improved the traditional A* algorithms through dynamic heuristic functions, search point optimization, and inflection point optimization based...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,158 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Vehicle Trajectory Tracking towards Digital Twin Intersections for Internet of Vehicles

  • Zhanhao Ji,
  • Guojiang Shen,
  • Juntao Wang,
  • Mario Collotta,
  • Zhi Liu and
  • Xiangjie Kong

Digital Twin (DT) provides a novel idea for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), while Internet of Vehicles (IoV) provides numerous positioning data of vehicles. However, complex interactions between vehicles as well as offset and loss of measur...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,333 Views
19 Pages

DyTAM: Accelerating Wind Turbine Inspections with Dynamic UAV Trajectory Adaptation

  • Serhii Svystun,
  • Lukasz Scislo,
  • Marcin Pawlik,
  • Oleksandr Melnychenko,
  • Pavlo Radiuk,
  • Oleg Savenko and
  • Anatoliy Sachenko

4 April 2025

Wind energy’s crucial role in global sustainability necessitates efficient wind turbine maintenance, traditionally hindered by labor-intensive, risky manual inspections. UAV-based inspections offer improvements yet often lack adaptability to dy...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,620 Views
17 Pages

A Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Method for Generative Adversarial Networks Based on Scene Constraints

  • Zhongli Ma,
  • Ruojin An,
  • Jiajia Liu,
  • Yuyong Cui,
  • Jun Qi,
  • Yunlong Teng,
  • Zhijun Sun,
  • Juguang Li and
  • Guoliang Zhang

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is one of the most important topics to be researched for unmanned driving and intelligent mobile robots to perform perceptual interaction with the environment. To solve the problem of the SGAN (social generative adver...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,305 Views
22 Pages

27 June 2025

In modern oil and gas exploration and development, wellbore trajectory optimization and control is the key technology to improve drilling efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure safety. In the drilling operation of non-vertical wells in complex formatio...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,091 Views
13 Pages

Omnidirectional Nonprehensile Manipulation Using Only One Actuator

  • Mitsuru Higashimori,
  • Kohei Yamaguchi and
  • Akihide Shibata

This paper presents a novel nonprehensile manipulation method that uses the vibration of a plate, where the two degrees of freedom of a part on the plate are controlled by only one actuator. First, a manipulator whose end effector is a flat plate is...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,062 Views
22 Pages

Diff-Pre: A Diffusion Framework for Trajectory Prediction

  • Yijie Liu,
  • Chengjie Zhu,
  • Xin Chang,
  • Xinyu Xi,
  • Che Liu and
  • Yanli Xu

25 July 2025

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation, accurately predicting vehicle trajectories is crucial for ensuring road safety and enhancing traffic efficiency. This paper proposes a trajectory prediction model that integrates a diffusion m...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,691 Views
20 Pages

Hand Dexterity Evaluation Grounded on Cursor Trajectory Investigation in Children with ADHD Using a Mouse and a Joystick

  • Alexandros Pino,
  • Nikolaos Papatheodorou,
  • Georgios Kouroupetroglou,
  • Panagiotis-Alexios Giannopoulos,
  • Gerasimos Makris and
  • Charalambos Papageorgiou

This study investigates disparities in upper limb motor skills between children with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), employing one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) point-and-click experiments using a mouse and a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,325 Views
19 Pages

Stability Control of the Agricultural Tractor-Trailer System in Saline Alkali Land: A Collaborative Trajectory Planning Approach

  • Guannan Lei,
  • Shilong Zhou,
  • Penghui Zhang,
  • Fei Xie,
  • Zihang Gao,
  • Li Shuang,
  • Yanyun Xue,
  • Enjie Fan and
  • Zhenbo Xin

The design and industrial innovation of intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment for saline alkali land are important means for comprehensive management and capacity improvement of saline alkali land. The autonomous and unmanned agricultural...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,379 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2022

The lateral control of the vehicle is significant for reducing the rollover risk of high-speed cars and improving the stability of the following vehicle. However, the existing car-following (CF) models rarely consider lateral control. Therefore, a CF...

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  • Open Access
519 Views
20 Pages

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology can effectively improve spectrum efficiency, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication has the advantage of flexible deployment, and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can intelligently control...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,539 Views
11 Pages

Techniques of Frameless Robot-Assisted Deep Brain Stimulation and Accuracy Compared with the Frame-Based Technique

  • Shanshan Mei,
  • Kaijia Yu,
  • Zhiwei Ren,
  • Yongsheng Hu,
  • Song Guo,
  • Yongjie Li and
  • Jianyu Li

Background: Frameless robot-assisted deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an innovative technique for leads implantation. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy and precision of this technique using the Sinovation SR1 robot. Methods: 35 patients with P...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,259 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2023

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) vehicle trajectory data play an important role in obtaining timely urban road information. However, most models cannot effectively extract road information from low-frequency trajectory data. In this study, w...

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  • Open Access
330 Views
18 Pages

Does Resistance Indicate Malposition? A Standardized Comparison of Pedicle Screw Placement

  • Sascha Kurz,
  • Benjamin Fischer,
  • Janine Schultze,
  • Florian Metzner,
  • Toni Wendler,
  • Christoph-Eckhard Heyde and
  • Stefan Schleifenbaum

Pedicle screw malpositioning remains a frequent complication, with reported rates from 2% to 15%, often leading to revision surgeries. Analyzing mechanical resistance and torque encountered during screw insertion has been implicated as a promising ap...

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  • Open Access
563 Views
22 Pages

1 August 2025

This study investigates a modified five-dimensional chaotic system by incorporating structural term adjustments and Caputo fractional-order differential operators. The modified system exhibits significantly enriched dynamic behaviors, including offse...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,447 Views
13 Pages

1 July 2022

Fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing technology for continuous fiber-reinforced composite (CFRC) printing has become a trend. This article is based on ‘independent extrusion’ FFF CFRC printing. The continuous fiber-reinforced fila...

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  • Open Access
611 Views
20 Pages

The control of a biped robot is a challenging task due to the hard-to-stabilize dynamics. Generating a suitable walking reference trajectory is a key aspect of this problem. This article proposes a novel method of generating walking patterns for bipe...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,338 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2023

Shadow detection is a new method for video synthetic aperture radar moving target indication (ViSAR-GMTI). The shadow formed by the target occlusion will reflect its real position, preventing the defocusing or offset of the moving target from making...

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  • Open Access
779 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2025

Skeleton is an extreme sliding sport in the Winter Olympics, where formulating targeted sliding strategies, based on training videos to navigate complex tracks, is particularly important. To make in-depth use of training video records, this study pro...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,046 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2023

Tracked mobile robots can overcome the limitations of wheeled and legged robots in environments, such as construction and mining, but there are still significant challenges to be addressed in terms of trajectory tracking. This study proposes a kinema...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,319 Views
26 Pages

Design and Control Strategies of Multirotors with Horizontal Thrust-Vectored Propellers

  • Ricardo Rosales Martinez,
  • Hannibal Paul and
  • Kazuhiro Shimonomura

16 February 2025

With the growing adoption of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in industrial and commercial sectors, the limitations of traditional under-actuated multirotors are becoming increasingly evident, particularly in manipulation tasks. Limited control over t...

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  • Open Access
750 Views
16 Pages

This paper addresses the aperture limitation problem faced by array-equipped underwater gliders (UGs) in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. A passive synthetic aperture (PSA) method for DOA estimation using a single hydrophone mounted on a UG is...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
572 Views
14 Pages

This study deals with P-type iterative learning control (ILC) techniques for switched impulsive systems governed by composite fractional derivatives. The systems considered incorporate non-instantaneous impulses and an initial state offset, with the...

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  • Open Access
431 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2025

This research tackles the intricate machining properties of cylindrical aspheric surfaces with a versatile adaption approach utilizing a robotic arm and a compact tool head, incorporating trajectory optimization. A three-step integrated error compens...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,041 Views
18 Pages

Deconvolutional Neural Network for Generating Spray Trajectory of Shoe Soles

  • Jing Li,
  • Yuming Wang,
  • Lijun Li,
  • Chao Xiong and
  • Hongdi Zhou

16 August 2023

The footwear industry is moving towards automation and intellectualization. To overcome the drawbacks of the high-cost and low-efficiency traditional manual shoe sole gluing process, automatic methods were utilized for generating spray trajectories....

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,432 Views
13 Pages

Deposition Offset of Printed Foam Strands in Direct Bubble Writing

  • Prasansha Rastogi,
  • Cornelis H. Venner and
  • Claas Willem Visser

16 July 2022

Direct Bubble Writing is a recent technique to print shape-stable 3-dimensional foams from streams of liquid bubbles. These bubbles are ejected from a core-shell nozzle, deposited on the build platform placed at a distance of approximately 10 cm belo...

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  • Open Access
3,599 Views
14 Pages

Reduction of Visual Artifacts in Laser Beam Scanning Displays

  • Peng Zhou,
  • Huijun Yu,
  • Xiaoguang Li,
  • Wenjiang Shen and
  • Dongmin Wu

19 August 2025

Laser beam scanning (LBS) projection systems based on MEMS micromirrors offer advantages such as compact size, low power consumption, and vivid color performance, making them well suited for applications like AR glasses and portable projectors. Among...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,288 Views
20 Pages

Insect Migration Flux Estimation Based on Statistical Hypothesis for Entomological Radar

  • Teng Yu,
  • Muyang Li,
  • Weidong Li,
  • Jiong Cai,
  • Rui Wang and
  • Cheng Hu

10 May 2022

Measuring migration flux with entomological radar is of great importance to assess the biomass of migratory insects and study the influence of insects on the ecosystem. However, the migration flux is measured with a large quantity of errors for the e...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,561 Views
15 Pages

For lower limb rehabilitation robots, different patients or patients in different rehabilitation stages have different motion abilities, and the parameters of the traditional impedance control model are fixed and cannot achieve the best active supple...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,195 Views
22 Pages

This research introduces an online system for monitoring maritime traffic, aimed at tracking vessels in water routes and predicting their subsequent locations in real time. The proposed framework utilizes an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pipelin...

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2,041 Views
31 Pages

This article presents an alternative variant of motion planning techniques for autonomous vehicles (AVs) centered on an inverse approach that concurrently optimizes both trajectory and speed. This method emphasizes searching for a trajectory and dist...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,328 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2021

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of different trajectory planning methods on the mechanical properties of components. The scope of the research includes finite element simulation calculation and experimental tests of the actual struc...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,743 Views
14 Pages

An important area of research in electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems is the detection of the secondary pad, which is vital evidence to determine whether the vehicle is in the effective charging area. However, the detection based on senso...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,597 Views
17 Pages

Anomalous Sun Flyby of 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)

  • Klaus Wilhelm and
  • Bhola N. Dwivedi

7 December 2020

The findings of Micheli et al. (Nature2018, 559, 223–226) that 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) showed anomalous orbital accelerations have motivated us to apply an impact model of gravity in search for an explanation. A small deviation from the 1/r pote...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,301 Views
23 Pages

Passive Exercise Adaptation for Ankle Rehabilitation Based on Learning Control Framework

  • Fares J. Abu-Dakka,
  • Angel Valera,
  • Juan A. Escalera,
  • Mohamed Abderrahim,
  • Alvaro Page and
  • Vicente Mata

31 October 2020

Ankle injuries are among the most common injuries in sport and daily life. However, for their recovery, it is important for patients to perform rehabilitation exercises. These exercises are usually done with a therapist’s guidance to help stren...

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993 Views
48 Pages

27 March 2025

To maximize arterial green wave bandwidth utilization, this study aims to minimize average travel delays at coordinated intersections and maximize vehicle throughput. In view of the aforementioned points, the present paper sets out a collaborative op...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,044 Views
15 Pages

25 April 2019

Conventional relative kinematic positioning is difficult to be applied in the polar region of Earth since there is a very sparse distribution of reference stations, while precise point positioning (PPP), using data of a stand-alone receiver, is recog...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,316 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of Lower Limb Exoskeleton Alignment on Knee Rehabilitation Efficacy

  • AmirHossein MajidiRad,
  • Yimesker Yihun,
  • Nils Hakansson and
  • Allyson Mitchell

This study focuses on a musculoskeletal analysis of human lower extremity and associated muscle forces during different rehabilitative tasks and exoskeleton alignment models. By changing the size and orientation of the impairment levels that could be...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,253 Views
38 Pages

On-Line Learning and Updating Unmanned Tracked Vehicle Dynamics

  • Natalia Strawa,
  • Dmitry I. Ignatyev,
  • Argyrios C. Zolotas and
  • Antonios Tsourdos

Increasing levels of autonomy impose more pronounced performance requirements for unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). Presence of model uncertainties significantly reduces a ground vehicle performance when the vehicle is traversing an unknown terrain or...

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