Loss in crop production gives a significant impact to food security. The decreasing in crops production has produced imbalance between the food demand of world population and the global agriculture output. There are m...
Loss in crop production gives a significant impact to food security. The decreasing in crops production has produced imbalance between the food demand of world population and the global agriculture output. There are many factors that may affect agriculture productivity. Abiotic and biotic constrains including water scarcity, poor soils, unsuitable temperatures and the pests, diseases and weeds attacking crops are among the causes that reduce the productivity of food crops. Hence, these lead to the low efficiencies of input use, suppressed crop output, and ultimately reduced food security. The plant pests, diseases and weeds have given significant impact on plant health and causing a great loss in crop production. Therefore, this paper presents a comprehensive review from the available literatures to provide understanding of the role of geospatial technology in combating plant pests and diseases outbreaks. Geospatial data and technologies including Geographic Information System, remote sensing and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and have been used in collecting, mapping, analysing the distribution and predicting the events. The geospatial technology has been used from the early tasks of surveying the status of crop health until forecasting when the disease likely to be occurred. Although many big challenges are facing by the global and local agricultures to produce good outputs and to secure the world food population, however the rich of geospatial data and advancement of technologies have playing certain roles, particularly assisting the decision makers in forming strategies for combating various pests and diseases that affecting plant health and food crops.
In this paper, an inductive wireless charging lane for electric vehicles is presented. The lane proposed here consists of multiple spiral coils, which are laid down on a track. The specific parameters for the layout o...
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(纸本)9781509058853
In this paper, an inductive wireless charging lane for electric vehicles is presented. The lane proposed here consists of multiple spiral coils, which are laid down on a track. The specific parameters for the layout of the proposed lane are determined through simulation by the finite element analysis (FEA) software Maxwell. A small prototype of the wireless charging lane is constructed and experimental results show that, a modified, scaled-down model vehicle, with receiver coils attached to the bottom, can move smoothly along the lane without any external power excitation.
Along with the fast development of battery technologies and growing criticism on heavy air pollution caused by traditional automobiles, electric vehicles (EV) draw more attention in these years. The inconvenience of b...
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(纸本)9781509041695
Along with the fast development of battery technologies and growing criticism on heavy air pollution caused by traditional automobiles, electric vehicles (EV) draw more attention in these years. The inconvenience of battery charging is the main barrier to the widespread use of EVs, and the EV battery-swapping technology is a promising method to assist overcoming this difficulty eventually because of its flexibility. In this paper, a battery schedule framework is studied to dispatch batteries between battery charging stations (BCS) and battery swapping stations (BSS) efficiently. A two-direction battery dispatch model to reduce the transportation cost is established and solved by PSO method. Moreover, considering the serving ability limitations, the K-means clustering algorithm is utilized to pre-partition the BCS and BSS to make the battery dispatch more efficient and effective. The proposed methods is finally verified by an urban battery logistics case.
Tool wear measurement has drawn a significant of attention in the past decades. However, no research has been found on the investigation of tool wear measurement in ultra-precision raster milling (UPRM) process since ...
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At present, two important processes, namely CNC machining and rapid prototyping (RP) are being used to create prototypes and functional products. Combining both additive and subtractive processes into a single platfor...
At present, two important processes, namely CNC machining and rapid prototyping (RP) are being used to create prototypes and functional products. Combining both additive and subtractive processes into a single platform would be advantageous. However, there are two important aspects need to be taken into consideration for this process hybridization. First is the integration of two different control systems for two processes and secondly maximizing workpiece alignment accuracy during the changeover step. Recently we have developed a new hybrid system which incorporates Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) as RP Process and CNC grinding operation as subtractive manufacturing process into a single setup. Several objects were produced with different layer thickness for example 0.1 mm, 0.15 mm and 0.2 mm. It was observed that pure FDM method is unable to attain desired dimensional accuracy and can be improved by a considerable margin about 66% to 80%, if finishing operation by grinding is carried out. It was also observed layer thickness plays a role on the dimensional accuracy and best accuracy is achieved with the minimum layer thickness (0.1 mm).
Nowadays wind turbine rotors are usually employed with pitch control mechanisms to avoid deep stall conditions. Despite that, wind turbines often operate under pitch fault situation causing massive flow separation to ...
Nowadays wind turbine rotors are usually employed with pitch control mechanisms to avoid deep stall conditions. Despite that, wind turbines often operate under pitch fault situation causing massive flow separation to occur. Pure Blade Element Momentum (BEM) approaches are not designed for this situation and inaccurate load predictions are already expected. In the present studies, BEM predictions are improved through the inclusion of a stall delay model for a wind turbine rotor operating under pitch fault situation of -2.3° towards stall. The accuracy of the stall delay model is assessed by comparing the results with available Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations data.
Demands for human-robot collaboration in production line has increased and the problem of safety in robot becomes more and more important. This paper presents a manipulator with counterbalancing mechanism to secure sa...
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Demands for human-robot collaboration in production line has increased and the problem of safety in robot becomes more and more important. This paper presents a manipulator with counterbalancing mechanism to secure safety of a human worker in human-robot collaboration environment by reducing a needed power to drive a manipulator. A counterbalancing torque to cancel out a gravitational torque was generated by a restoring force of spring. Also a control algorithm to minimize the effect of spring on tracking performance was proposed. Experimental results were suggested to verify the performance of the proposed method.
In this paper, we describe quantitative graph theory and argue it is a new graph-theoretical branch in network science, however, with significant different features compared to classical graph theory. The main goal of...
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In this paper, the disparity map is extracted by the method of segment-based stereo matching using cooperative optimization from multi-view. The Mean-Shift method is employed to segment the reference image in the firs...
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