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  • Open Access
31 Citations
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22 Pages

In order to protect wetland resources, China has developed wetland conservation policies and has made significant conservation investments, but there is still a lack of pathways for the conversion to economic value, making it difficult to meet the de...

(This article belongs to the Collection Ecosystem Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,333 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2025

Chinese grassland ecological industry is at a critical stage of mid-term adjustment and development. Accurately assessing the benefits of grassland ecological product value conversion during its mid-term development can provide a reasonable basis for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,541 Views
15 Pages

13 June 2024

The analysis of the realization path of the value of ecotourism products in agro-cultural heritage sites from the perspective of farmers’ behaviors can not only provide decision-making references for improving the well-being of farmers and alle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing: Linking Science, Policy and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,159 Views
31 Pages

24 November 2020

Systems composed of multiple sensors for exteroceptive perception are becoming increasingly common, such as mobile robots or highly monitored spaces. However, to combine and fuse those sensors to create a larger and more robust representation of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Sensors: Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,108 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2020

In the context of the Internet, there is a historical fusion between the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation and the accelerated transformation of economic development methods. The task of the Shandong c...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,255 Views
20 Pages

Distributed Fibre Optic Sensor-Based Continuous Strain Measurement along Semicircular Paths Using Strain Transformation Approach

  • Prashanth Nagulapally,
  • Md Shamsuddoha,
  • Ginu Rajan,
  • Luke Djukic and
  • Gangadhara B. Prusty

25 January 2021

Distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) are popular for structural health monitoring applications in large engineering infrastructure because of their ability to provide spatial strain measurements continuously along their lengths. Curved paths, parti...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,998 Views
20 Pages

25 April 2018

China’s resource-based cities have currently entered a period of comprehensive transformation. The differences in the economic and technical environment and significant policy orientation make it unique to some extent. This study applied value...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,085 Views
10 Pages

18 December 2021

The performance of warping transformation in diminishing the error in underwater source-bearing estimation, caused by horizontal refraction effects (also named 3D effects), is studied. First, the capability of warping transformation for separating th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling Techniques for Underwater Acoustic Scattering and Propagation (including 3D Effects))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,912 Views
28 Pages

22 May 2025

With the increasing awareness of human environmental protection, eco-products, a green and sustainability resource, are increasingly valued; however, the dynamics that drive the realization of the environmental benefits of the products are poorly und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,416 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2021

Fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) is a useful tool to detect linear frequency modulated (LFM) signal. However, the detection performance of the FrFT-based method will deteriorate drastically in underwater multi-path environment. This paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,108 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2020

We generalize the Schrödinger equation on graphs to include long-range interactions (LRI) by means of the Mellin-transformed d-path Laplacian operators. We find analytical expressions for the transition and return probabilities of a quantum part...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Random Processes on Graphs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,521 Views
26 Pages

23 April 2025

To enhance the efficiency and accuracy of detecting insulation faults such as discharge carbon traces in large oil-immersed transformers, this study employs an inspection micro-robot to replace manual inspection for image acquisition and fault identi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,073 Views
17 Pages

Automatic Parking Trajectory Planning Based on Warm Start Nonlinear Dynamic Optimization

  • Hongbin Ren,
  • Yaqi Niu,
  • Yunong Li,
  • Lin Yang and
  • Hongliang Gao

27 December 2024

In this paper, we propose an optimal parking path planning method based on numerical solving, which leverages the concept of the distance between convex sets. The obstacle avoidance constraints were transformed into continuous, smooth nonlinear const...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,042 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2023

With the continuous advancement of digital globalization, enterprises need to seek development opportunities in the context of diversification and resource shortage. Frugal innovation provides a new way for enterprises to realize social value and cre...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,220 Views
15 Pages

Path Planning of Hydraulic Support Pushing Mechanism Based on Extreme Learning Machine and Descartes Path Planning

  • Suhua Li,
  • Jiacheng Xie,
  • Xuewen Wang,
  • Fang Ren and ,
  • Xin Zhang and
  • Qingbao Bao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 January 2021

As a floating system connecting hydraulic support and scraper conveyor, the path planning of pushing mechanism is of great significance for their coordinated movement. In this paper, a method for path planning of hydraulic support pushing mechanism b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,432 Views
18 Pages

In recent years, the outbreak of numerous environmental risk incidents aroused widespread public concern about the amplification mechanism of environmental risk in China. However, few studies have investigated the influence path of environmental risk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hazard, Risk and Disaster Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,839 Views
18 Pages

The innovation and development practices of the pharmaceutical industry are of great importance for the continual enhancement of public health. Industrial clusters are one of the important means by which the pharmaceutical industry can be transformed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Public Health: Management of Technology and Innovation for Challenges and Opportunities of Pharmaceutical Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,983 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Development Trajectory of Digital Transformation

  • Pin-Shin Wang,
  • Tzu-Chuan Chou and
  • Jau-Rong Chen

10 July 2025

Digital transformation (DT) has become a critical focus in both academia and industry. However, its rapid evolution complicates our understanding of its core concepts and developmental patterns. Understanding the development path of DT is crucial for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,733 Views
14 Pages

20 September 2019

A generalized contour-sum method has been proposed to measure the topological charge (TC) of an optical vortex (OV) beam using a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor (SH-WFS). Moreover, a recent study extended it to be workable for measuring an aber...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,508 Views
24 Pages

4 February 2025

For the multi-UAV path planning problem, environmental modeling and an improved swarm intelligence-based optimization algorithm are discussed in this paper. Firstly, to align with reality, specific constraints of UAVs in motions, attitudes and altitu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,493 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2020

Temporally-spatially modulated Fourier transform imaging spectrometers (TSMFTISs) provide high-throughout-type push-broom spectrometry with both temporal and spatial modulation features. The system requires strict registration between the detector an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors and Signal Processing of Sensor Data: Recent Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
221 Views
25 Pages

23 September 2026

For efficient energy management, precise PV power forecasting is essential. This study proposes a unique hybrid Deep Learning (DL) architecture with bio-inspired hyperparameter optimization for PV power forecasting. The proposed process starts with e...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,797 Views
16 Pages

Aiming at the problem of multiple constraints and low solving efficiency in the process of vehicle path tracking, an improved hp-adaptive Radau pseudospectral method (I-hp-ARPM) which uses a double-layer optimization iteration strategy and the residu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,363 Views
26 Pages

This article deals with the identification of a superior forecasting method for market liquidity using a calibrated Heston model for the bid/ask price path simulation instead of a standard Brownian motion, as well as a compound Poisson process and in...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,101 Views
25 Pages

21 April 2022

At the beginning of the 21st century, with the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, production factors such as population, capital, and land between urban and rural areas in China have gradually shifted to non-agricultural fields,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Rural Transformation under Rapid Urbanization)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,168 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2018

We present a computational method for calculating the phase transformation start for arbitrary cooling paths and for different steel compositions after thermomechanical treatments. We apply the method to quantitatively estimate how much austenite def...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Low-carbon and Stainless Steels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,519 Views
22 Pages

Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autonomous Path Planning Algorithm Based on Whale-Inspired Deep Q-Network

  • Wenshan Wang,
  • Guoyin Zhang,
  • Qingan Da,
  • Dan Lu and ,
  • Yingnan Zhao,
  • Sizhao Li and
  • Dapeng Lang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 September 2023

In emergency rescue missions, rescue teams can use UAVs and efficient path planning strategies to provide flexible rescue services for trapped people, which can improve rescue efficiency and reduce personnel risks. However, since the task environment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Trajectory Generation, Optimization and Cooperative Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2026

This paper proposes Phase-PCANet, a new image representation method for fingerprint liveness detection. Phase-PCANet integrates both local and global phase features. The local phase, capturing fine-grained edges and textures, is extracted via short-t...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,901 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2022

The widespread use of mobile devices has popularized the idea of indoor navigation. The Wi-Fi fingerprint method is emerging as an important alternative indoor positioning method for GPS usage difficulties. This study utilizes RSSI signals with three...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,733 Views
13 Pages

14 September 2022

The air-quality index (AQI) is an important comprehensive evaluation index to measure the quality of air, with its value reflecting the degree of air pollution. However, it is difficult to predict the AQI accurately by the commonly used WRF-CMAQ mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,362 Views
21 Pages

Investigating the Impact of Energy Source Level on the Self-Guided Vehicle System Performances, in the Industry 4.0 Context

  • Massinissa Graba,
  • Sousso Kelouwani,
  • Lotfi Zeghmi,
  • Ali Amamou and ,
  • Kodjo Agbossou and
  • Mohammad Mohammadpour
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 October 2020

Automated industrial vehicles are taking an imposing place by transforming the industrial operations, and contributing to an efficient in-house transportation of goods. They are expected to bring a variety of benefits towards the Industry 4.0 transit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 and Industrial Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,029 Views
12 Pages

Data Collection Mechanism for UAV-Assisted Cellular Network Based on PPO

  • Tuo Chen,
  • Feihong Dong,
  • Hu Ye,
  • Yun Wang and
  • Bin Wu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly gaining in application value in many fields because of their low cost, small size, high mobility and other advantages. In the scenario of traditional cellular networks, UAVs can be used as a kind of ae...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,069 Views
31 Pages

A Study on Path Planning for Curved Surface UV Printing Robots Based on Reinforcement Learning

  • Jie Liu,
  • Xianxin Lin,
  • Chengqiang Huang,
  • Zelong Cai and ,
  • Zhenyong Liu,
  • Minsheng Chen and
  • Zhicong Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 February 2025

In robotic surface UV printing, the irregular shape of the workpiece and frequent curvature changes require the printing robot to maintain the nozzle’s perpendicular orientation to the surface during path planning, which imposes high demands on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
860 Views
29 Pages

A Dual-Path CNN and Transformer Network for Continuous Pavement Crack Detection

  • Jinhe Zhang,
  • Shangyu Sun,
  • Weidong Song,
  • Yuxuan Li and
  • Qiaoshuang Teng

22 May 2026

Cracks are among the most common pavement distresses, and their timely detection is crucial for road maintenance. Existing methods struggle to completely capture elongated and irregular cracks, often resulting in fragmented detection outputs, which l...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,370 Views
4 Pages

Digital Fourier Transform Holography Using a Beam Displacer

  • Mohit Rathor,
  • Shivam Kumar Chaubey and
  • Rakesh Kumar Singh

6 March 2023

Fourier transform holography overcomes the phase recovery challenge through recording complex field information of the object in an interference pattern recorded at the far field, i.e., Fourier plane. Moreover, this geometry helps to reconstruct the...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Conference on “Holography Meets Advanced Manufacturing”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,216 Views
23 Pages

30 November 2022

The servitization of manufacturing enterprises has two main directions: production servitization and product servitization. The value co-creation model describes the transformation process of servitization of manufacturing enterprises; it is far more...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,009 Views
19 Pages

Industrial Transformation and Urban Economic Efficiency Evolution: An Empirical Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

  • Yin Dong,
  • Baishu Guo,
  • Dawei He,
  • Xiaoli Liao and ,
  • Zhengyu Zhang and
  • Xueqin Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Industrial transformation and high-quality urban development have become the core issues of urban-rural coordination and the leap forward in development in the new era. The research perspective of ‘pattern-process-mechanism’ is needed to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Integration of Land-Use Planning and Management with Environmental and Public Health Impact Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,099 Views
22 Pages

15 December 2025

The narrow courtyard houses in the rural areas of Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province, China, are a spatial representation of the long-term interaction of multiple influencing factors. This study, based on 716 questionnaires and 125 semi-structured...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewal Design and Challenge of Urban and Rural Livable Environments in the Age of Population Shrinkage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,595 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2023

As the core engine of the digital economy, the digital transformation can make modern enterprises survive and develop better now. By the sample data of listed companies in the years from 2015 to 2020, this paper identifies the degree of enterprise di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Policy, Institutional Quality, and Sustainable Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,608 Views
27 Pages

29 January 2025

Based on complex system theory and multi-dimensional coupling analysis paradigm, this study constructs a dynamic model covering land use, real estate development, and carbon emissions, and deeply explores the internal mechanism and evolution law of l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Neutrality and Green Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,308 Views
22 Pages

15 April 2021

Active vibration control (AVC) can solve many vibration problems. However, structural vibration in underwater vehicles often involves other factors such as complex excitation and path coupling, etc. At present, the traditional algorithm (e.g., multi...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,770 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Cleaning Method of Unmanned Sweeper Based on Target Distribution Situation Analysis

  • Yufan Liu,
  • Peng Ping,
  • Quan Shi,
  • Hailong Chen and ,
  • Qida Yao and
  • Jieqiong Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2023

Replacing traditional manual sweeping with unmanned sweepers in closed parks can not only greatly reduce labor costs, but also improve sweeping efficiency. Efficient path planning is the key technology for unmanned sweepers to complete the sweeping t...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Automation and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
723 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2025

To address the challenges of insufficient robustness and limited feature extraction in photovoltaic module image segmentation under complex scenarios, we propose a high-precision PV module segmentation model (Pv-UNet) that integrates Transformer and...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental and Green Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
25 Pages

Parallel Transport on Spectral Subbundles of the Similarity Group

  • Tianyu Wang,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Xinghua Xu,
  • Shaohua Qiu and
  • Changchong Sheng

15 May 2026

We construct a connection-theoretic framework for parallel transport of spectral components along parameter families of signals on the similarity group G˜=R×SO(2). Let {ft}t∈I be a signal family that evolves under a C1 group trajecto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,468 Views
17 Pages

In the last decade, more and more attention has been paid to the efficiency of ecological products’ value in the literature. Studying the value-conversion efficiency of forest ecological products can measure and reflect the huge value contained...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
892 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2025

Recent advances in forward-looking sonar (FLS) have enabled the acquisition of high-resolution acoustic images. However, the accuracy of image-based rotation estimation remains limited owing to speckle noise, perceptual ambiguity, and shadows. In rec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Underwater Positioning and Navigation Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,492 Views
31 Pages

29 April 2017

Anisotropic cloak shells can be used for the spatial transformation of a space to alter the propagation of acoustic waves by redirecting them along a pre-determined path. This paper outlines the design, fabrication, and experimental analysis of a cir...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
820 Views
20 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of Core Drilling Rig Gearbox Based on Transformer and DCA-xLSTM

  • Xiaolong Wu,
  • Yaosen Du,
  • Pengju Gao,
  • Xiaoren Tang and ,
  • Jianxun Liu and
  • Hanchen Ma
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 December 2025

The gearbox is a core component of drilling rigs, valued for its high efficiency and load capacity. However, prolonged operation under heavy loads makes it prone to wear and failure. Complicating diagnosis, the vibration signals generated are highly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,754 Views
25 Pages

Obstacle Avoidance Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Workshops Based on Parameter-Optimized Artificial Potential Field A* Algorithm

  • Xiaoling Meng,
  • Zhikang Zhang,
  • Xijing Zhu,
  • Jing Zhao and ,
  • Xiao Wu,
  • Xiaoqiang Zhang and
  • Jing Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 October 2025

As the intelligent transformation of manufacturing accelerates, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly being deployed for workshop operations, making efficient obstacle avoidance path planning a critical requirement. This paper introduces a parame...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,368 Views
32 Pages

5 November 2024

The intense diversity of the Next-Generation Networking environments like 6G and the forthcoming deployment of immersive applications with varied user-specific requirements transform the efficient allocation of resources into a real challenge. Tradit...

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