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Carlo Ciaponi, Enrico Creaco, Armando Di Nardo, Michele Di Natale, Carlo Giudicianni, Dino Musmarra and Giovanni Francesco Santonastaso
This paper proposes a combined management strategy for monitoring water distribution networks (WDNs). This strategy is based on the application of water network partitioning (WNP) for the creation of district metered areas (DMAs) and on the installation ...
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Mengzhen Wu, Xianghong Xu, Haochen Zhang, Rui Zhou and Jianshan Wang
As a traditional numerical simulation method for pantograph?catenary interaction research, the pantograph?catenary finite element model cannot be applied to the real-time monitoring of pantograph?catenary contact force, and the computational cost require...
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Costas Panagiotakis
In this paper, we present a general version of polygonal fitting problem called Unconstrained Polygonal Fitting (UPF). Our goal is to represent a given 2D shape S with an N-vertex polygonal curve P with a known number of vertices, so that the Intersectio...
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Lin Guo, Anand Balu Nellippallil, Warren F. Smith, Janet K. Allen and Farrokh Mistree
When dealing with engineering design problems, designers often encounter nonlinear and nonconvex features, multiple objectives, coupled decision making, and various levels of fidelity of sub-systems. To realize the design with limited computational resou...
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Manli Dai and Zhongyi Jiang
An improved slime mold algorithm (IMSMA) is presented in this paper for a multiprocessor multitask fair scheduling problem, which aims to reduce the average processing time. An initial population strategy based on Bernoulli mapping reverse learning is pr...
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Xiuling Wang, Yong Yin and Qianfeng Jing
Due to the complicated and changing circumstances of the sea environment, path planning technology is essential for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to fulfill search tasks. In most cases, the location of the underwater target is unknown, so it is necess...
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Zeyang Zhou and Jun Huang
To study the influence of the tilt-back design of a vertical tail on its aerodynamic stealth characteristics, an optimization method based on a quantitative weight coefficient and a two-particle search algorithm is presented. When the aerodynamic perform...
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Xuan Zhou, Yang Zheng, Bo Xu, Wushuang Liu, Yidong Zou and Jinbao Chen
Speed governing control is significant in ensuring the stable operation of pumped storage units. In this study, a state-space equation mathematical model of the pumped storage governing system considering the complex hydraulic pipeline structure of the p...
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Jiaqi Dong, Zengzeng Lian, Jingcheng Xu and Zhe Yue
The Ultra-Wideband (UWB) indoor positioning method is widely used in areas where no satellite signals are available. However, during the measurement process of UWB, the collected data contain random errors. To alleviate the effect of random errors on pos...
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Xiaobing Yan, Qiqi Hao, Rui Yang, Jianyu Peng, Fengpeng Zhang and Sanyuan Tan
To identify the magnitude and direction of in situ stress in deeply buried tunnels, an inversion method for the stress field was proposed based on a finite number of measurement points of surface strain. Firstly, elastic strain data of finite points on t...
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