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Ke Chen, Bo Xiao, Chunyang Wang, Xuelian Liu, Shuning Liang and Xu Zhang
In today?s automation control systems, the PID controller, as a core technology, is widely used to maintain the system output near the set value. However, in some complex control environments, such as the application of ball screw-driven rotating motors,...
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Karol Król and Wojciech Sroka
The spatial planning system in Poland is undergoing a fundamental reform. It emphasises the digital representation of spatial data. Low performance of geoportals, no Internet access, or poor connectivity can contribute to the exclusion from the spatial p...
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Clara Borén, Manel Grifoll and Marcella Castells-Sanabra
Maritime transportation is the prevalent mode of transport for overseas freight, and it is frequently recognised as a relatively environmentally sustainable means of transport. However, shipping is still a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Paul Whitworth, Anthony S. Clare, John A. Finlay, Richard F. Piola, Joseph Plummer and Nick Aldred
The biofouling of marine structures must be controlled if crippling operational and maintenance costs are to be avoided and biological invasions prevented. However, traditional methods of biofouling control typically involve the use of toxic chemicals, w...
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Frank A. Plua, Francisco-Javier Sánchez-Romero, Victor Hidalgo, Petra Amparo López-Jiménez and Modesto Pérez-Sánchez
The selection of pumps as turbines (PATs) for their respective use in energy optimisation systems is a complicated task, because manufacturers do not provide the characteristic curves. For this reason, some research has been carried out to predict them w...
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Angelo Borneo, Luca Zerbato, Federico Miretti, Antonio Tota, Enrico Galvagno and Daniela Anna Misul
In recent decades, the automotive industry has moved towards the development of advanced driver assistance systems to enhance the comfort, safety, and energy saving of road vehicles. The increasing connection and communication between vehicles (V2V) and ...
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Ali Khosravani, Jacky M. A. Desbiolles, Chris Saunders, Mustafa Ucgul and John M. Fielke
Disc seeders are commonly used in no-till farming systems, and their performance evaluation generally rely on expensive and time-consuming field experiments. Mathematical models can help speed up force-related evaluations and improve the understanding of...
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Jean-Charles Maré
A top-down process is proposed and virtually validated for the position control of electromechanical actuators (EMA) that use conventional cascade controllers. It aims at facilitating the early design phases of a project by providing a straightforward me...
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Brett Friskney, Panagiotis Alevras, Sourabh Londhe, Stephanos Theodossiades and Donald Michael McFarland
Nonlinear energy sinks (NES) have recently attracted significant interest for the suppression of unwanted vibrations in a variety of mechanical systems. The key advantage in employing this (vibration absorber) approach is the broadband nature of the inte...
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Pejman Goudarzi, Mehdi Hosseinpour, Roham Goudarzi and Jaime Lloret
Cloud computing leads to efficient resource allocation for network users. In order to achieve efficient allocation, many research activities have been conducted so far. Some researchers focus on classical optimisation theory techniques (such as multi-obj...
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