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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,945 Views
22 Pages

26 October 2022

The suspension system of the maglev train is a complex system, which is difficult to model accurately. The horizontal misalignment between the suspension magnet and the rail is one of the common uncertainty factors in the suspension system, which wil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,156 Views
11 Pages

Research on Optimization of Horizontal Omnidirectional Misalignment Tolerance of WPT Based on Double D Coupler

  • Fuhai Chi,
  • Pan Wang,
  • Chenglong Sun,
  • Yuming Wu,
  • Zhenlan Dou,
  • Chenjin Xu,
  • Shuo Wang and
  • Wei Wang

DD (Double D) coils have been researched and utilized due to their excellent misalignment tolerance. Here, a compound DD coupler sets for stationary wireless power chargers, which has significantly better anti-misalignment performance than single DD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,605 Views
22 Pages

Contributions to Unsupervised Online Misalignment Detection and Bumper Error Compensation for Automotive Radar

  • Alexandru Bobaru,
  • Corina Nafornita,
  • George Copacean,
  • Vladimir Cristian Vesa and
  • Michael Skutek

29 July 2023

One of the fundamental sensors utilized in the Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) is the radar sensor. Automotive-related functions need highly precise detection and range of traffic and surroundings; otherwise, the whole ADAS performance suffers....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,173 Views
16 Pages

25 November 2019

Foot-mounted inertial pedestrian positioning (FIPP) plays an important role for facilitating pedestrian activities. It is suitable for indoor environment applications where global navigation satellite systems are unavailable such as during firefighti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,416 Views
16 Pages

A Uniform Voltage Gain Control for Alignment Robustness in Wireless EV Charging

  • Yabiao Gao,
  • Kathleen Blair Farley and
  • Zion Tsz Ho Tse

7 August 2015

The efficiency of wireless power transfer is sensitive to the horizontal and vertical distances between the transmitter and receiver coils due to the magnetic coupling change. To address the output voltage variation and efficiency drop caused by misa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,683 Views
15 Pages

S-SP Inductive Power Transfer System with High Misalignment Tolerance Based on a Switch-Controlled Capacitor

  • Mengqi Xie,
  • Heng Zhang,
  • Yajing Yang,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Ningchao Zhang and
  • Zhaowei Gong

In order to reduce the sensitivity of an inductive power transfer (IPT) system to the misalignment coupling coil, an S-SP-compensated IPT system with high misalignment tolerance based on a switch-controlled capacitor (SCC) is proposed. Firstly, the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,653 Views
20 Pages

Dynamic Charging of Electric Vehicle with Negligible Power Transfer Fluctuation

  • Md Morshed Alam,
  • Saad Mekhilef,
  • Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian and
  • Ben Horan

16 May 2017

High-efficiency inductive power transfer (IPT) with low misalignment effects is a key issue in the dynamic charging of electric vehicle (EV) systems. In this study, an advanced concept of analysis and design of transmitter and receiver coils with a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access

The efficiency of power transfer is a critical issue for wireless charging applications in electric vehicles. The misalignment between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil in wireless charging leads to a significant reduction in efficiency. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,542 Views
15 Pages

Wireless charging of electric vehicles is achieved by a resonance-enhanced inductive power transfer technique. In this paper, a new method is proposed for the estimation of the operating frequency under the contingency of misalignment of the pickup c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,715 Views
25 Pages

Processing Chain for Estimation of Tree Diameter from GNSS-IMU-Based Mobile Laser Scanning Data

  • Juraj Čerňava,
  • Martin Mokroš,
  • Ján Tuček,
  • Michal Antal and
  • Zuzana Slatkovská

13 March 2019

Mobile laser scanning (MLS) is a progressive technology that has already demonstrated its ability to provide highly accurate measurements of road networks. Mobile innovation of the laser scanning has also found its use in forest mapping over the last...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,746 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2024

This paper proposes a novel double-mosquito combination (DMC) coil for inductive wireless power transfer (IPT) systems to improve their anti-misalignment capability. The DMC coil consists of a mosquito coil with single-turn spacing and a tightly woun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,606 Views
26 Pages

5 October 2015

In this paper, an improved inertial frame alignment algorithm for a marine SINS under mooring conditions is proposed, which significantly improves accuracy. Since the horizontal alignment is easy to complete, and a characteristic of gravity is that i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,486 Views
13 Pages

8 January 2025

Electric vehicles (EVs) wireless charging is enabled by inductive power transfer (IPT) technology, which eliminates the need for physical connections between the vehicle and the charging station, allowing power to be transmitted without the use of ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,136 Views
18 Pages

A Misalignment Tolerate Integrated S-S-S-Compensated WPT System with Constant Current Output

  • Zhaoyang Yuan,
  • Qingxin Yang,
  • Xian Zhang,
  • Xianjie Ma,
  • Ran Wang,
  • Ming Xue and
  • Pengcheng Zhang

17 March 2023

This paper proposes a cooperative (Cx) coil design for the series-series-series (S-S-S)-compensated wireless power transfer (WPT) system to improve the horizontal misalignment tolerance and the system efficiency. The Cx coil is formed by four series-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,915 Views
15 Pages

14 March 2011

The temporal stability and static calibration and analysis of the Velodyne HDL‑64E S2 scanning LiDAR system is discussed and analyzed. The mathematical model for measurements for the HDL-64E S2 scanner is updated to include misalignments between the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,858 Views
14 Pages

8 November 2019

The scientific and applied problems discussed in this paper are related to the development of a wireless charging station using an inductive power transfer (IPT) module power supply with energy dosing and dynamic matching. A computer simulation and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
917 Views
14 Pages

A Wireless Power Transfer System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with CC/CV Charging Based on Topology Switching

  • Jin Chang,
  • Weizhe Cai,
  • Haoyang Wang,
  • Yingzhou Guo,
  • Junhao Wu,
  • Cancan Rong and
  • Chenyang Xia

10 November 2025

To enhance the battery endurance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this article addresses key issues in traditional wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. These issues occur during constant current/constant voltage (CC/CV) switching, such as poor s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,063 Views
21 Pages

1 June 2018

Registration of large-scale optical images with airborne LiDAR data is the basis of the integration of photogrammetry and LiDAR. However, geometric misalignments still exist between some aerial optical images and airborne LiDAR point clouds. To elimi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,001 Views
26 Pages

Wireless power transfer systems (WPTSs) are critical for efficient and reliable electric vehicle (EV) charging, but challenges such as misalignment and coupling variations limit their performance. This paper addresses a proposed design approach for W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,434 Views
14 Pages

28 September 2022

In order to solve the misalignment problem of wireless power transmission, this paper designed and analyzed the omnidirectional receiver with multi-coil. The circuit models and transmission characteristics of the wireless power transfer system (WPTS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,269 Views
16 Pages

SAFDet: A Semi-Anchor-Free Detector for Effective Detection of Oriented Objects in Aerial Images

  • Zhenyu Fang,
  • Jinchang Ren,
  • He Sun,
  • Stephen Marshall,
  • Junwei Han and
  • Huimin Zhao

3 October 2020

An oriented bounding box (OBB) is preferable over a horizontal bounding box (HBB) in accurate object detection. Most of existing works utilize a two-stage detector for locating the HBB and OBB, respectively, which have suffered from the misaligned ho...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,407 Views
8 Pages

21 November 2016

Breath analysis is a powerful technique for detection of respiratory diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) present in breath...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,097 Views
17 Pages

6 May 2023

Tidal energy resource characterisation using acoustic velocimetry sensors mounted on the seabed informs developers of the location and performance of a tidal energy converter (TEC). This work studies the consequences of miscalculating the established...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,610 Views
15 Pages

It is well known that when eddies are small, the eddy fluxes can be directly related to the mean vertical gradients, the so-called flux-gradient relation, but such a relation becomes weaker the larger the coherent structures. Here, we show that this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,756 Views
16 Pages

Parallax of Head-Up Displays and Visual Safety for Driving

  • Jun Song,
  • Zihang Fan,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Zhengxin Ji and
  • Yandan Lin

12 December 2023

Head-up displays (HUDs), a novel form of virtual display, are characterized by their optical structure as a typical binocular virtual display system. This structure exhibits the effect of binocular parallax on visual perception, especially when diver...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,599 Views
7 Pages

Acousto-Optic Q-Switched Ho:YLF Ring Laser Based on Anti-Misalignment Resonant Cavity

  • Yunpeng Wang,
  • Dongming Zhang,
  • Dong Yan,
  • Tongyu Dai and
  • Youlun Ju

8 October 2023

An acousto-optic Q-switching Ho:YLF ring oscillator at 2066.33 nm with two anti-misalignment corner cube reflectors (CCRs) pumped by a 1940 nm thulium-doped fiber laser is demonstrated. The depolarization effect of the CCR is expressed in the form of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,835 Views
15 Pages

Applicability of Dynamic Inflow Models of HAWT in Yawed Flow Conditions

  • Chihoon Hur,
  • Carlos Ferreira and
  • Gerard Schepers

10 December 2022

Horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) experience yaw misalignments due to the physical limitations of yaw controllers and various novel active yaw controls. Moreover, the motion of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) accelerates yaw misalignment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,292 Views
29 Pages

This study proposes an enhanced integration framework for the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and inertial navigation system (INS). The framework combines real-time differential GNSS corrections with an adaptive extended Kalman filter (EKF)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,410 Views
13 Pages

This study is a comprehensive experimental and computational investigation into high-resolution laser beam diagnostics, combining classical statistical techniques, numerical image processing, and machine learning-based predictive modeling. A dataset...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,489 Views
15 Pages

This experimental study focuses on the comparison between two different sensors for vibration signals: a magnetoresistive sensor and an accelerometer as a calibrated reference. The vibrations are collected from a variable speed inductor motor setup,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
690 Views
24 Pages

6 November 2025

The gyroscopic effect has significant impacts on the stability, dynamic behavior, and vibration characteristics of high-speed rotating systems. A floating offshore vertical axis wind turbine (FOVWT) exhibits gyroscope-like motions under combined wind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,454 Views
15 Pages

22 December 2022

The self-noise level of a seismometer can determine the performance of the seismic instrument and limit the ability to use seismic data to solve geoscience problems. Accurately measuring and simultaneously comparing the self-noise models from differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,269 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Unbalanced Incentives on Threshing Drum Stability during Rice Threshing

  • Kexin Que,
  • Zhong Tang,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Zhan Su and
  • Zhao Ding

As a result of the uneven growth of rice, unbalanced vibration of threshing drum caused by stalk entanglement in combine harvester is more and more severe. In order to reveal the influence of unbalanced excitation on the roller axis locus during rice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,838 Views
23 Pages

12 September 2024

Object detection in aerial images has had a broader range of applications in the past few years. Unlike the targets in the images of horizontal shooting, targets in aerial photos generally have arbitrary orientation, multi-scale, and a high aspect ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,435 Views
16 Pages

In this paper, theoretical analysis and system simulations are carried out to study the effects of the transmitter-compensated inductance mistuning on charging power, transfer efficiency, and the phase angle between the input voltage and input curren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,414 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2019

A modern horizontal axis wind turbine was simulated by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The analyzed machine has a diameter of 100 m and is immersed in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). The velocity and turbulence stratifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,115 Views
12 Pages

Effects on Posture of a Two-Diopter Horizontal Prism Base Out on the Non-Dominant Eye

  • Davide Marini,
  • Giovanni Rubegni,
  • Lorenzo Sarti,
  • Alessandra Rufa,
  • Marco Mandalà,
  • Fabio Ferretti,
  • Gian Marco Tosi and
  • Mario Fruschelli

23 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Ocular proprioception is implicated in balance control and heterophoria is associated with abnormal posture, though previous research focused mainly on the role of vertical phoria and the use of vertical prisms. This study aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,721 Views
12 Pages

Circular planar spiral coils are the most important parts of wireless power transfer systems. This paper presents the optimization of wireless power transfer coils used for wireless power transfer, which is a problem when designing wireless power tra...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
725 Views
19 Pages

5 October 2025

This theoretical article examines how belongingness, defined as the sense that one’s participation is legitimate and valued, interacts with cultural value orientations to help explain persistent disparities in U.S. technology engagement, includ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,342 Views
14 Pages

CMOS Detector Staggered Array Module for Sub-Terahertz Imaging on Conveyor Belt System

  • Moon-Jeong Lee,
  • Ha-Neul Lee,
  • Ga-Eun Lee,
  • Seong-Tae Han,
  • Dong-Woo Kang and
  • Jong-Ryul Yang

20 January 2023

A complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) detector array is proposed to improve the sub-terahertz imaging resolution for objects in the conveyor belt system. The image resolution is limited to the implemented configuration, such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,712 Views
12 Pages

26 July 2023

The edge coupler is an indispensable optical device for connecting an external fiber and on-chip waveguide. The coupling efficiency of the edge coupler affects the effective integration of optical circuits. In this study, three-dimensional (3D) edge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,878 Views
24 Pages

30 November 2018

The dynamic response of floating horizontal axis wind turbines (FHWATs) are affected by the viscous and inertia effects. In free decay motion, viscous drag reduces the amplitude of pitch and roll fluctuation, the quasi-static mooring system overestim...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,329 Views
11 Pages

20 December 2017

This article introduces the special issue “REDD+ crossroads post Paris: politics, lessons and interplays”. The contributions to the special issue demonstrate, first, that REDD+ design in the studied countries has generally lacked social legitimacy an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,695 Views
15 Pages

Concave Ferrite Core for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT)

  • Elisa de Melo Henriques and
  • Sascha Stegen

6 June 2023

High-efficiency wireless power transfer (WPT) systems can present a perfect solution for fast-charging autonomous guided vehicles (AGV) to improve working hours in high-tech warehouses. Stationary charging stations reduce separation distance, improvi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,393 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2023

An optimized scheme can improve the navigation accuracy of RINS without changing the inertial devices. In the multi-position stop scheme, the IMU remains stationary for most of the time, which makes motor control easier. However, the installation err...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
841 Views
26 Pages

A Scalable and Consistent Method for Multi-Component Gravity-Gradient Data Processing

  • Larissa Silva Piauilino,
  • Vanderlei Coelho Oliveira Junior and
  • Valeria Cristina Ferreira Barbosa

29 July 2025

We demonstrate the potential of using the convolutional equivalent layer to jointly process large gravity-gradient datasets. Based on the equivalent-layer principle, we assume a single fictitious physical property distribution on a planar layer can a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,147 Views
22 Pages

13 June 2025

Oriented ship detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has broad applications in maritime surveillance and other fields. While deep learning advancements have significantly improved ship detection performance, persistent challenges remain f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,490 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2022

Aimed at improving the navigation accuracy of the fixed-wing UAVs in GNSS-denied environments, this paper proposes an algorithm of nongravitational acceleration estimation based on airspeed and IMU sensors, which use a differential tracker (TD) model...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,836 Views
23 Pages

Bore-Sight Calibration of Multiple Laser Range Finders for Kinematic 3D Laser Scanning Systems

  • Jaehoon Jung,
  • Jeonghyun Kim,
  • Sanghyun Yoon,
  • Sangmin Kim,
  • Hyoungsig Cho,
  • Changjae Kim and
  • Joon Heo

4 May 2015

The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique has been used for autonomous navigation of mobile systems; now, its applications have been extended to 3D data acquisition of indoor environments. In order to reconstruct 3D scenes of indoor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,797 Views
14 Pages

An Adjustment Strategy for Tilted Moiré Fringes via Deep Q-Network

  • Chuan Jin,
  • Dajie Yu,
  • Haifeng Sun,
  • Junbo Liu,
  • Ji Zhou and
  • Jian Wang

Overlay accuracy, one of the three fundamental indicators of lithography, is directly influenced by alignment precision. During the alignment process based on the Moiré fringe method, a slight angular misalignment between the mask and wafer wi...

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