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Shao, X. (author), Pustina, P. (author), Stölzle, Maximilian (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), De Luca, Alessandro (author), Wu, Ligang (author), Della Santina, C. (author)Model-based strategies are a promising solution to the grand challenge of equipping continuum soft robots with motor intelligence. However, finite-dimensional models of these systems are inherently inaccurate, thus posing pressing robustness concerns. Moreover, the actuation space of soft robots is usually limited. This article aims at solving...journal article 2024
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Yao, X. (author), Du, Zhaocheng (author), Sun, Zhanbo (author), Calvert, S.C. (author), ji, Ang (author)Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has made remarkable progress in autonomous vehicle decision-making and execution control to improve traffic performance. This paper introduces a DRL-based mechanism for cooperative lane changing in mixed traffic (CLCMT) for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The uncertainty of human-driven vehicles (HVs...journal article 2024
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Li, Wanda (author), Xu, Zhiwei (author), Sun, Yi (author), Gong, Qingyuan (author), Chen, Y. (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Wang, Xin (author), Hui, Pan (author)Outstanding users (OUs) denote the influential, 'core' or 'bridge' users in online social networks. How to accurately detect and rank them is an important problem for third-party online service providers and researchers. Conventional efforts, ranging from early graph-based algorithms to recent machine learning-based approaches, typically rely on...journal article 2023
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Fang, B. (author), Moultos, O. (author), Lü, Tao (author), Sun, Jiaxin (author), Liu, Z. (author), Ning, Fulong (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)Hydrate dissociation is often accompanied by the formation of nanobubbles. Knowledge of the effects of nanobubbles on hydrate dissociation is essential for understanding the dynamic behavior of the hydrate phase change and improving the gas production efficiency. Here, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to study the methane hydrate...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Jing (author), Knoop, V.L. (author), Sun, Jian (author), Ma, Zian (author), Wang, M. (author)Path dispersion (the spatial distribution of vehicular paths) is an important feature of traffic flow inside intersections and differs from traffic flow running along traffic lanes at road segment, especially under conflicting movements. The path dispersion reflects the operational features of traffic flow and is related to driving behaviour,...journal article 2023
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Xie, Weiming (author), Sun, J. (author), Guo, Leicheng (author), Xu, Fan (author), Wang, Xianye (author), Ji, Hongyu (author), Fan, Yaoshen (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), He, Qing (author)Coastal tidal flats provide valuable ecosystems, but are highly sensitive to tidal dynamics, sea-level rise, and human activities. Tidal inundation depth and frequency are known to affect tidal flat morphodynamics. However, the causes, processes and extent remain uncertain, particularly given the associated changes in sediment availability. In...journal article 2023
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Jamshidnejad, A. (author), Sun, D. (author), Ferrara, Antonella (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Model predictive control (MPC) has been widely used for traffic management, such as for minimizing the total time spent or the total emissions of vehicles. When long-term green urban mobility is considered including e.g. a constraint on the total yearly emissions, the optimization horizon of the MPC problem is significantly larger than the...journal article 2023
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Olive, Xavier (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Basora, Luis (author), Spinielli, Enrico (author)In this paper, we analyze two months of trajectory data for aircraft landing in five major European airports. Based on open ADS-B data from the OpenSky Network and open performance models, we enrich all trajectories with automatically detected procedure information, fuel consumption, and emissions for supported aircraft types. To assess the...journal article 2023
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Sun, W. (author)A western discourse of public space, originating in ancient Greece and Rome, has been widely used in architectural and urban research in China and is constantly contested in this geographical and cultural context. The contestation often stems from the cultural differences in understanding and operating the collective realms in Chinese and...journal article 2023
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Bobbink, I. (author), Chouairi, A. (author), Sun, P. (author)Considering ‘infrastructures as landscapes’ and ‘landscapes as infrastructures’, this article uses an open framework to reconsider the distinctive water infrastructure of France’s UNESCO-listed heritage Canal du Midi. More specifically, it profiles the Canal’s Mediterranean outlet. Viewed through a landscape architectonic lens, we investigate...journal article 2023
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Ni, Ying (author), Li, Y. (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Sun, Jian (author)In recent years, the interest in riding in cities using the two-wheeler (e.g., bicycles, electric bicycles, electric mopeds, etc.) increases. Mixed-traffic road segments are one of the most common traffic scenes where the mixed two-wheeler flows exist. Because the movements are often not restricted by lanes, the two-wheeler uses lateral road...journal article 2023
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Wang, Jiepeng (author), Zhou, Hong (author), Sun, Xinlei (author), Yuan, Y. (author)Due to the fact that there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of how the dynamic nature of supply chain networks (SCNs) interrelates with network structures, particularly network topologies under disruptions. This research employs a novel evolving model of a supply chain network (SCNE model) by modifying the Barabási and Albert (BA)...journal article 2023
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Sun, Yubo (author), Cheng, H. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Mohan, Manu K. (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)Alkali-activated concrete (AAC) is regarded as a promising alternative construction material to reduce the CO<sub>2</sub> emission induced by Portland cement (PC) concrete. Due to the diversity in raw materials and complexity of reaction mechanisms, a commonly applied design code is still absent to date. This study attempts to directly...journal article 2023
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Sun, Beibei (author), Sun, Yubo (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)Although the application of blast furnace slag and fly ash-based alkali-activated concrete (BFS/FA-AAC) has both economic and environmental benefits, it is limited by the lack of a straightforward mix design method. In this paper, an experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of control factors, including the Na<sub>2</sub>O/binder...journal article 2023
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Wu, C. (author), Pan, W. (author), Staa, Rick (author), Liu, Jianxing (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)This paper investigates the deep reinforcement learning based secure control problem for cyber–physical systems (CPS) under false data injection attacks. We describe the CPS under attacks as a Markov decision process (MDP), based on which the secure controller design for CPS under attacks is formulated as an action policy learning using data....journal article 2023
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Kuo, Po Chih (author), Sun, Zhuang (author), Özdemir, F. (author), Aziz, Muhammad (author), Wu, Wei (author)Efficient CO<sub>2</sub> utilization in the thermochemical conversion of biomass plays an important role in creating a future low-carbon economy. This study attempts to explore the CO<sub>2</sub>-assisted chemical looping gasification and co-gasification process of lignocellulosic biomass components (hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin) with...journal article 2023
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Zhan, Teng (author), Sun, Jianwen (author), Feng, Tao (author), Zhang, Yulong (author), Zhou, Binru (author), Zhang, Banghong (author), Wang, Junxi (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The authors regret an error in the abstract of the published article: the text ‘‘(i) the Schottky emission mechanism at a low reverse voltage (0–1 V) before the current is fully turned on.’’ should be changed to ‘‘(i) the Schottky emission mechanism at a low reverse voltage (0 to 1 V) before the current is fully turned on.’’ This change does...journal article 2023
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Yang, J. (author), Chen, Xiaohong (author), Sun, Yuanxi (author), Feng, Chen (author), Yang, Zheng (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Bai, Long (author)The advent of additive manufacturing has facilitated the design and fabrication of hybrid lattice structures with multiple morphologies. These structures combine multiple distinct architectures into a single structure with an exceptional performance that far exceeds that of each constituting architecture. However, combining strut-based...journal article 2023
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Roosenbrand, E.J. (author), Sun, Junzi (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)As global flight volume rises, the aviation industry is facing increasing climate challenges. One major factor is the impact of contrails, which trap outgoing terrestrial radiation and counteract emission reduction benefits from emission-optimized flight routes. Our study quantifies contrail-forming flights globally and assesses altitude...journal article 2023
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Sun, D. (author), Jamshidnejad, A. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)We propose a novel method to improve the convergence performance of model predictive control (MPC) for setpoint tracking, by introducing sub-references within a multilevel MPC structure. In some cases, MPC is implemented with a short prediction horizon due to limited on-line computation capacity, which could lead to deteriorated dynamic...journal article 2023