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Multi-Objective Cooperative Control for a Ship-Towing System in Congested Water Traffic EnvironmentsDu, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)This paper proposes a multi-objective cooperative control method for a ship-towing system in congested water traffic environments. The control objectives are to coordinate multiple autonomous tugboats for transporting a ship to: (i) follow the waypoints, (ii) adjust the heading, (iii) track the speed profile, and (iv) resolve collisions. The...journal article 2022
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Gu, Guanjie (author), Yang, Changgui (author), Li, Zhuhao (author), Feng, Xiangdong (author), Chang, Ziyi (author), Wang, Ting-Hsun (author), Zhang, Yunshan (author), Luo, Yuxuan (author), Zhang, Hong (author), Wang, Ping (author), Du, S. (author), Chen, Yong (author), Zhao, Bo (author)Body Channel Communication (BCC) offers a low-loss signal transmission medium for ultra-low-power wearable devices on human body [1]. However, the effective communication range on human body is limited to less than 1m in the state-of-the-art BCC transceivers [2], where the signal loss at the interface of body surface and BCC receiver remains to...conference paper 2022
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Li, G. (author), Guo, Mingxing (author), Du, Jinqing (author), Zhuang, Linzhong (author)A new non-isothermal pre-aging treatment was proposed and utilized in Al-Mg-Si-Cu-Zn alloys, together with natural aging and artificial aging. The influence of cooling rates on subsequent precipitation behaviors was investigated by experimental and thermodynamic simulations. The results show that by controlling the formation of clusters/GP...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Yan (author), Yan, Jianwei (author), Huang, Mengshi (author), Bian, Guangmeng (author), Du, Y. (author)The settlement space along China’s Grand Canal is an important part of cultural heritage, boasting high value of conservation and inheritance as a museum of local culture in an active state. The paper is aimed at revealing the current situation and satisfaction with the settlement space environment along China’s Grand Canal Tianjin Section...journal article 2022
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Du, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)This paper proposes a distributed control scheme for autonomous tugboats to tow a ship in a restricted water traffic environment ensuring collision avoidance while being compliant with maritime regulation called COLREGS. The complex problem is cooperatively solved by addressing three sub-optimization problems. The first is to optimize the...journal article 2022
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Du, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)This paper proposes a novel dynamic coordination control scheme for a physically connected multi-vessel towing system to transport an offshore platform. The transportation process is executed by four tugboats, and each of them has a leading or following role. To render the transportation faster, the roles of the tugboats can be switched in...conference paper 2022
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Zhou, Hengshun (author), Du, Jun (author), Zou, Gongzhen (author), Nian, Zhaoxu (author), Lee, Chin Hui (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Chen, Jingdong (author)In this paper, we describe and release publicly the audio-visual wake word spotting (WWS) database in the MISP2021 Challenge, which covers a range of scenarios of audio and video data collected by near-, mid-, and far-field microphone arrays, and cameras, to create a shared and publicly available database for WWS. The database and the code ...journal article 2022
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Chen, Hang (author), Du, Jun (author), Dai, Yusheng (author), Lee, Chin Hui (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Chen, Jingdong (author), Yin, Bao Cai (author), Pan, Jia (author)In this paper, we present the updated Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) corpus of MISP2021 challenge, a large-scale audio-visual Chinese conversational corpus consisting of 141h audio and video data collected by far/middle/near microphones and far/middle cameras in 34 real-home TV rooms. To our best knowledge, our corpus is the first...journal article 2022
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Wu, Guohua (author), Luo, Qizhang (author), Du, Xiao (author), Chen, Yingguo (author), Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam (author), Wang, X. (author)Satellite observation scheduling plays a significant role in improving the efficiency of Earth observation systems. To solve the large-scale multisatellite observation scheduling problem, this article proposes an ensemble of metaheuristic and exact algorithms based on a divide-And-conquer framework (EHE-DCF), including a task allocation phase...journal article 2022
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Du, L. (author), Zhao, Xiujuan (author), Watte, Piet (author), Poelma, René H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The objective of this article is to investigate the thermal-fatigue properties of a commercially available lead-free solder alloy (SnBiAgCu) under the use of different types of potting compounds. Solder alloys with lower silver content are expected to substitute the conventional solder alloys SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu). First, the tensile...conference paper 2022
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Du, T. (author)Architectural design greatly influences building energy performance (BEP), and<br/>energy-efficient design is therefore often studied. Architectural space layout also can affect BEP. However, only a few of the numerous studies on energy-efficient design considered the effect of space layout. Within these studies, the isolated effect of space...doctoral thesis 2021
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Cao, Yixing (author), Chen, Shanghuan (author), Li, Yutong (author), Du, Yunjia (author), Chen, Wei (author), Fan, J. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The emission spectra of high color rendering phosphors, mixed with the yttrium aluminium garnet, silicon based oxynitride and nitride based phosphors, were predicted by the Lambert-Beer theory and back propagation neural network (BP NN). Firstly, the modified Lambert-Beer model was used to calculate the proportional coefficient of the...journal article 2021
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Du, T. (author), Jansen, S.C. (author), Turrin, M. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)Numerous studies have shown that architectural design affects energy performance significantly. However, the effect of space layouts on building energy performance has not been fully analysed. In this paper, we aim to study the effect of space layouts on energy performance. An office building was used as the reference, and 11 layout variants...journal article 2021
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Du, Cong (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Wang, H. (author), Sun, Yiren (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Leischner, Sabine (author), Oeser, Markus (author)Porous asphalt (PA) pavements are widely employed in areas with wet climates. As particle enhancement inclusions in asphalt mastic, mineral fillers play essential roles in improving the performance of PA pavements. This study developed a coupled multiscale finite element (FE) model, involving the mesostructure of PA mixture and PA pavement....journal article 2021
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Du, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)This paper proposes a multi-agent control scheme for multiple physically interconnected tugboats performing a ship towing process. These tugs are coordinated by two control layers. In the higher layer, the supervisory controller outputs the desired towing forces and reference trajectories for the tugs. This information is used by a tug's...journal article 2021
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Du, Zhe (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Reppa, V. (author)Among the promising application of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) is the utilization of multiple autonomous tugs for manipulating a floating object such as an oil platform, a broken ship, or a ship in port areas. Considering the real conditions and operations of maritime practice, this paper proposes a multi-agent control algorithm to...journal article 2021
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Zhou, Tony X. (author), Carmiggelt, J.J. (author), Gächter, Lisa M. (author), Esterlis, Ilya (author), Sels, Dries (author), Stöhr, Rainer J. (author), Du, Chunhui (author), Fernandez, Daniel (author), Rodriguez-Nieva, Joaquin F. (author), Büttner, Felix (author), Demler, Eugene (author), Yacoby, Amir (author)Scattering experiments have revolutionized our understanding of nature. Examples include the discovery of the nucleus [R. G. Newton, Scattering Theory of Waves and Particles (1982)], crystallography [U. Pietsch, V. Holý, T. Baumback, High-Resolution X-Ray Scattering (2004)], and the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA [J. D. Watson...journal article 2021
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Du, Haiquan (author), Zhang, Shasha (author), Zhang, Bingyi (author), Tao, Xuewei (author), Yao, Zhengjun (author), Belov, Nikolay (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Liu, Zili (author)Al-Mg alloys are normally prone to lose part of their yield and tensile strength at high temperatures due to insufficient thermal stability of the microstructure. Here, we present a Ca-modified Al–Mg–Sc alloy demonstrating high strength at elevated temperatures. The microstructure contains Al<sub>4</sub>Ca phases distributed as a network...journal article 2021
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Du, Zhe (author), Reppa, V. (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author)Collision avoidance plays a vital role in autonomous vehicle systems. As the complexity and scale of missions increase, multi-vehicle systems are adopted in practice. However, there is limited research on collision avoidance of a physically interconnected multi-vessel system. This paper proposes a control scheme for tugboats to tow a ship in...conference paper 2021
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Li, Yue (author), Li, Hongxiang (author), Katgerman, L. (author), Du, Qiang (author), Zhang, Jishan (author), Zhuang, Linzhong (author)Hot tearing is one of the most severe and irreversible casting defects for many metallic materials. In 2004, Eskin et al. published a review paper in which the development of hot tearing of aluminium alloys was evaluated (Eskin and Suyitno, 2004). Sixteen years have passed and this domain has undergone considerable development. Nevertheless,...review 2021