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AGV indoor localization: a high fidelity positioning and map building solution based on drawstring displacement sensors
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies are bringing drastic changes to society and industry in these recent years. The impressive progress in facilitating smart manufactu...
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Synergistic effect of Zr and Mo on precipitation and high-temperature properties of Al-Si-Cu-Mg alloys
This study focuses on finding a solution to the sharp decline in mechanical properties of Al-Si-Cu-Mg alloys due to rapid coarsening of traditional intermediate phases at high temperature. A new type of modifi...
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P- and S-wave arrival time combined Bayesian location method for a microseismic event
Microseismic (MS) source location is a critical technology in MS monitoring. Traditionally, P-wave or S-wave travel time-based ray-tracing algorithms are adopted for a mine MS event location. However, only a f...
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Fully Onboard Single Pedestrian Tracking on Nano-UAV Platform
Nano-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been attracting growing attention from both academia and industry with their compact and versatile nature. With the size of merely several centimeters, they are ...
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Development of metal-organic deposition-derived second-generation high-temperature superconductor tapes and artificial flux pinning
The second-generation high-temperature superconductor tape (2G-HTS, also known as a coated conductor) based on REBaCuO (REBa2Cu3O7–δ) exhibits high current density and potential cost-effective price/performance, ...
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Corrected Mode-Converted Wave Method for Detecting Defects in TOFD Dead Zone
The dead zone in ultrasonic time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) restricts the quantitation of near-surface defects. Alternative TOFD techniques introduce other tip-diffracted/scattered waves with longer propagat...
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Open AccessDeep learning enables parallel camera with enhanced- resolution and computational zoom imaging
High performance imaging in parallel cameras is a worldwide challenge in computational optics studies. However, the existing solutions are suffering from a fundamental contradiction between the field of view (...
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Experimental study on triaxial creep characteristics of the anthracite coal under low confining pressure
The creep characteristics of coal pillars left over from old mining directly affect the long-term stability of underground engineering. To study the creep characteristics and long-term stability of the No. 3 a...
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Sol-gel synthesis of metal ions doped TiO2 catalyst with efficient photodegradation of dye pollutant
Water pollution problem is a significant trouble in our life. The photodegradation of organic pollutants in water, which is an environmentally friendly and economically feasible approach, has attracted conside...
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Dynamic and Damage Characteristics of Mortar Composite under Impact Load
In the process of underground construction, it is common to spray concrete on the working surface, which will form a concrete-rock composite structure, to achieve the expected reinforcement effect. Compared wi...
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Discussion on the extended form of internal solitary wave models between two typical stratification systems
The two-layer fluid system and the continuous density system are based on two typical simplified stratification conditions to support the propagation of the internal solitary waves (ISWs). The aim of this stud...
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A review on metal additive manufacturing: modeling and application of numerical simulation for heat and mass transfer and microstructure evolution
Metal additive manufacturing technology has been widely used in prototy**, parts manufacturing and repairing. Metal additive manufacturing is a multi-scale and multi-physical coupling process with complex ph...
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Ultra-high speed random bit generation based on Rayleigh feedback assisted ytterbium-doped random fiber laser
In this paper, we propose an ultra-high speed random bit generator without the time-delay signature based on an ytterbium-doped random fiber laser (YRFL) with Rayleigh scattering feedback. The spectrum of the ...
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Rockburst prediction in hard rock mines develo** bagging and boosting tree-based ensemble techniques
Rockburst prediction is of vital significance to the design and construction of underground hard rock mines. A rockburst database consisting of 102 case histories, i.e., 1998–2011 period data from 14 hard rock...
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Semantic segmentation of microscopic neuroanatomical data by combining topological priors with encoder–decoder deep networks
Understanding of neuronal circuitry at cellular resolution within the brain has relied on neuron tracing methods that involve careful observation and interpretation by experienced neuroscientists. With recent ...
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Adaptive Neural Tracking Control for Uncertain Switched Nonlinear Non-lower Triangular System with Disturbances and Dead-zone Input
This work investigates the adaptive neural tracking control problem for a class of uncertain switched nonlinear non-lower triangular systems with disturbances and dead-zone input. First, radial basis function ...
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Experimental simulation investigation of influence of depth on spalling characteristics in circular hard rock tunnel
A series of true-triaxial compression tests were performed on red sandstone cubic specimens with a circular hole to investigate the influence of depth on induced spalling in tunnels. The failure process of the...
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Open AccessA fusion optimization algorithm of network element layout for indoor positioning
The indoor scene has the characteristics of complexity and Non-Line of Sight (NLOS). Therefore, in the application of cellular network positioning, the layout of the base station has a significant influence on...
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Review of oxidant resistant coating on graphite substrate of HTR fuel element
The core components of HTR mainly consist of graphite, which is an excellent solid moderating material and structure material with good irradiation performance. However, graphite is easier to be oxidized at hi...
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Flotation of a Low-Grade Zinc Oxide Ore After Surface Modification at High Temperature
There are abundant low-grade zinc oxide ores in Yunnan Province, China, but it is extremely difficult to recover Zn and Pb from them using traditional technology. They are often stockpiled during the exploitat...