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Sustainability and Automation: Intelligent Control and Its Applications

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 3682

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Weicun Zhang

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School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: adaptive control; intelligent control; CAM of CNC
Prof. Dr. Quanmin Zhu

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School of Engineering, University of the West of England-Frenchy Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, UK
Interests: dynamic system modeling; identification; control; simulation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability and automation are the two main trends of our society and its economy development. Automation, especially, intelligent automation, is a supporting technology in sustainable development all over the world, in applications such as production systems (processes), transportation systems (automobile, plane, train, etc.), and power systems (power generation, power transmission, and power consumption). This Special Issue focusing on the latest advances in intelligent automation technologies aims to promote scholarly communications among related researchers.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore recent technological development, including artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, etc., in automation-related fields (robotics, manufacturing, transportation, power systems, etc.).

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Intelligent sensing;
  • Intelligent control;
  • Intelligent manufacturing;
  • Intelligent diagnosis;
  • Intelligent signal processing.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Weicun Zhang
Prof. Dr. Quanmin Zhu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • intelligent sensing
  • intelligent control
  • intelligent manufacturing
  • intelligent diagnosis
  • intelligent signal processing

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Gear Up for Development: The Automation Advantage for Sustainability in Manufacturing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
by Samar S. Alharbi
Sustainability 2024, 16(11), 4386; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16114386 - 22 May 2024
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The goal of this study was to determine the impact of business process automation on the performance of manufacturing companies in Saudi Arabia through the use of a specially designed questionnaire that covered 301 senior employees of the operations, production, and information technology [...] Read more.
The goal of this study was to determine the impact of business process automation on the performance of manufacturing companies in Saudi Arabia through the use of a specially designed questionnaire that covered 301 senior employees of the operations, production, and information technology departments in these companies. This research focused on the use of automation in manufacturing companies and its impact on sustainability, operational performance, and institutional performance, including the impact of automation on profitability. The results reflect the status of automation in the Saudi manufacturing market. We observed a strong trend towards automation and this contributes to enhancing profitability, increasing the market share of companies, raising efficiency and productivity, and achieving sustainability. These results were obtained through regression and correlation analysis. The agreement of the survey participants with the data related to automation reflects the relative importance of automation in the Saudi market, shows the positive relationship between automation and performance development, and opens the door to further studies in other sectors or countries. Full article
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Improved Multi-Person 2D Human Pose Estimation Using Attention Mechanisms and Hard Example Mining
by Lixin Zhang, Wenteng Huang, Chenliang Wang and Hui Zeng
Sustainability 2023, 15(18), 13363; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813363 - 6 Sep 2023
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In recent years, human pose estimation, as a subfield of computer vision and artificial intelligence, has achieved significant performance improvements due to its wide applications in human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and smart security. However, most existing methods are designed for single-person scenes and [...] Read more.
In recent years, human pose estimation, as a subfield of computer vision and artificial intelligence, has achieved significant performance improvements due to its wide applications in human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and smart security. However, most existing methods are designed for single-person scenes and suffer from low accuracy and long inference time in multi-person scenes. To address this issue, increasing attention has been paid to developing methods for multi-person pose estimation, such as utilizing Partial Affinity Field (PAF)-based bottom-up methods to estimate 2D poses of multiple people. In this study, we propose a method that addresses the problems of low network accuracy and poor estimation of flexible joints. This method introduces the attention mechanism into the network and utilizes the joint point extraction method based on hard example mining. Integrating the attention mechanism into the network improves its overall performance. In contrast, the joint point extraction method improves the localization accuracy of the flexible joints of the network without increasing the complexity. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method significantly improves the accuracy of 2D human pose estimation. Our network achieved a notably elevated Average Precision (AP) score of 60.0 and outperformed competing methods on the standard benchmark COCO test dataset, signifying its exceptional performance. Full article
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