Networked Control System for the Guidance of a Four-Wheel Steering Agricultural Robotic Platform by Eduardo Paciência Godoy, Giovana Tangerino Tangerino, Rubens André Tabile, Ricardo Yassushi Inamasu, Arthur José Vieira Porto

“…Even though the simplicity of the NCS solution developed, it also overcame some verified control challenges in the robot guidance system design such as the hydraulic system delay, nonlinearities in the steering actuators, and inertia in the steering system due the friction of different terrains.…”
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Active Fault-Tolerant Control for Wind Turbine with Simultaneous Actuator and Sensor Faults by Lei Wang, Ming Cai, Hu Zhang, Fuad Alsaadi, Liu Chen

“…The effectiveness of the design strategy is verified by implementing the controller in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 5-MW nonlinear, high-fidelity wind turbine model (FAST) and simulating it in MATLAB/Simulink.…”
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Investigation of Lade-Kim Plastic Potential Applicability under Various Stress Paths for Rockfill Materials by Liping Chen, Shihai Bian, Xiaokai Niu, Yongbo Zhao

“…Finally, the Lade-Kim plastic potential, together with nonlinear dilatancy equation, is evaluated by changing the dilatancy equation in the framework of generalized plasticity. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Inlet Thermodynamic Conditions on Solid Fuel Ramjet Performances by Weixuan Li, Dan Zhao, Xiong Chen, Liang Zhu, Siliang Ni

“…In addition, a secondary vortex is generated at the corner of the backward facing step in the presence of a swirl flow resulting from the instability of the shear layer. Finally, the nonlinear correlations between the heat transfer, combustion characteristics, and flow field characteristics and the corresponding inlet thermodynamic parameters are identified.…”
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Decarbonizing Japan: The role of nuclear energy and environmental taxation in mitigating CO2 emissions by Yasir Habib, Minhaj Ali, Usman Mehmood, Noor Raida Abd Rahman

“…The current study uses the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) method to obtain accurate results regarding the positive and negative shocks of nuclear energy and environmental taxes. …”
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Single Objective Optimization Methods in Electrical Power Systems: A Review by Ali Abdulmunim Ibrahim Al-kharaz, Ahmed Bahaaulddin A.Wahhab, Mohammed Fadhil Ibrahim, Shahab Abdulla

“…Generator Maintenance Scheduling (GMS) is a nonlinear optimization problem, highly dimensional and constrained, and determines when power-producing units must undertake well-planned preventative maintenance. …”
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Optimal Scheme for Process Quality and Cost Control by Integrating a Continuous Sampling Plan and the Process Yield Index by Chunzhi Li, Shurong Tong, Keqin Wang

“…The probabilities of Type I and Type II errors are concurrently controlled at the stipulated level with the risk control scheme, which is constructed with two nonlinear inequation based on the accurate distribution of the index Spk. …”
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Crystal growth, structural phase transitions and optical gap evolution of FAPb(Br1-x Cl x )3 hybrid perovskites (FA: formamidinium ion, CH(NH2)2 +) by Carlos A. López, Oscar Fabelo, Carmen Abia, María T. Fernández-Diaz, José A. Alonso

“…The band-gap engineering brought about by the chemical doping of FAPb (Br1-x Cl x )3 perovskites (x = 0.0, 0.33, 0.5, 0.66 and 1.0) can be controllably tuned: the gap progressively increases with the concentration of Cl− ions from 2.17 to 2.91 eV at room temperature, presenting a nonlinear behavior. This study provides an improved understanding of the structural and optical properties of these appealing hybrid perovskites.…”
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Parameter Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Coupling Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle by Haibing Chen, Wei Lin, Tielin Ma, Hengxian Jin, Cheng Xu

“…The highly nonlinear and coupling characteristics of a flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicle create great challenges to its flight control design. …”
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Heat and mass transfer performance of power-law nanofluid flow with thermal radiation and joule heating aspects: Surface heat flux analysis by Mhamed Benaissa, Zia Ullah, A. Dahshan, Md Mahbub Alam, Khadijah M. Abualnaja, Hanaa Abu-Zinadah, Abdullah A. Faqihi, Nidhal Ben Khedher

“…The physical problems are converted into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation under the implementation of similarity transformations, stream functions and Keller box method. …”
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Thermal Behavior of Cylindrical Buckling Restrained Braces at Elevated Temperatures by Elnaz Talebi, Mahmood Md. Tahir, Farshad Zahmatkesh, Airil Yasreen, Jahangir Mirza

“…The primary focus of this investigation was to analyze sequentially coupled nonlinear thermal stress, using a three-dimensional model. …”
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Investigations into Recycling Zinc from Used Metal Oxide Varistors via pH Selective Leaching: Characterization, Leaching, and Residue Analysis by Toni Gutknecht, Anna Gustafsson, Christer Forsgren, Christian Ekberg, Britt-Marie Steenari

“…Metal oxide varistors (MOVs) are a type of resistor with significantly nonlinear current-voltage characteristics commonly used in power lines to protect against overvoltages. …”
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A spherical vector-based adaptive evolutionary particle swarm optimization for UAV path planning under threat conditions by Yanfei Liu, Hao Zhang, Hao Zheng, Qi Li, Qi Tian

“…Additionally, dynamic nonlinear and adaptive factors are integrated to balance exploration and exploitation capabilities. …”
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Online Algebraic Estimation of Parameters and Disturbances in Brushless DC Motors by David Marcos-Andrade, Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Alexis Castelan-Perez, Ivan Rivas-Cambero, Jesús C. Hernández

“…The proposed method is based on algebraic identification, known for its robust performance in both linear and nonlinear systems. In utilizing the mathematical model of a BLDC motor, a set of equations is derived to enable parameter estimation, assuming the availability of input and output measurements in open loop. …”
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Optimizing cut order planning: A comparative study of heuristics, metaheuristics, and MILP algorithms by Sharif Al-Mahmud, Jose Alejandro Cano, Emiro Antonio Campo, Stephan Weyers

“…The first approach uses conventional metaheuristic algorithms, while the second transforms the nonlinear COP mathematical model into a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem and uses commercial solvers for solution. …”
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A Diagnostic Method for a Multi-Connected PEM-type Electrolysis System by Current Sweeping by Jiachen GE, Shinji FUJITA, Akira GUNJI, Motoyuki HIROOKA, Masatoshi SUGIMASA, Hiromu KAKUYA

“…Then, swept current and response voltage measurements are collected and subjected to linear and nonlinear regression based on an equivalent circuit, -R0-(R1, C1)-, to obtain its circuit parameters. …”
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Experimental Study on Seepage Anisotropy of a Hexagonal Columnar Jointed Rock Mass by Yanxin He, Zhende Zhu, Wenbin Lu, Yuan Tian, Xinghua Xie, Sijing Wang

“…The experimental results showed that the similar material model samples of columnar jointed rock mass showed obvious seepage anisotropy. The nonlinear seepage characteristics were well described by the Forchheimer and Izbash equations, and the fitting coefficients of the two equations were in good correspondence. …”
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Highway Traffic Speed Prediction in Rainy Environment Based on APSO-GRU by Dongqing Han, Xin Yang, Guang Li, Shuangyin Wang, Zhen Wang, Jiandong Zhao

“…In order to accurately analyse the impact of the rainy environment on the characteristics of highway traffic flow, a short-term traffic flow speed prediction model based on gate recurrent unit (GRU) and adaptive nonlinear inertia weight particle swarm optimization (APSO) was proposed. …”
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Adaptive Parameter Approaching Law-Based Sliding Mode Control for Wheeled Robots by Ming Hou, Limeng Jia, Zhengqin Wang

“…A method combining adaptive parameter approaching law with Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network hierarchical sliding mode control is proposed to address the issues of low accuracy and significant oscillations during the trajectory tracking process of wheeled inverted pendulum robots (WIPR) with nonlinear underactuation characteristics. Compared to the traditional approach of combining approaching law with neural network sliding mode control, the innovation lies in the adaptive adjustment of the velocity of the motion point based on its distance to the sliding mode surface. …”
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Interaction of Calf Thymus DNA with the Ni(II) Complex of Sodium 1,4-Dihydroxy-9,10-Anthraquinone-2-Sulphonate: A Novel Method of Analysis Using Cyclic Voltammetry by Partha Sarathi Guin, Piyal Das, Saurabh Das, Parikshit Chandra Mandal

“…Analysis of binding data using nonlinear curve fit in a cyclic voltammetry experiment is the first such attempt. …”
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