Satoshi F. Noguchi, Hui Wang, Junya Inoue
Scientific Reports·
2022·
cited by 15
Identifying which microstructures critically affect a material's physical properties normally requires human expert prior knowledge.
Matej Dobrevski, Danijel Skočaj
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems·
2021·
cited by 45
Robotics & Autonomy
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
partially solved
importance 5/10
scale stated
Mobile robots normally need an explicit map of the environment to navigate, which is impractical or impossible in new or dynamic environments. The study developed a local navigation method that steers a robot to global goals without a map.
Oualid Doukhi, Deok Jin Lee
Sensors·
2021·
cited by 34
Micro aerial vehicles must autonomously navigate obstacles and reach goals in unknown, GPS-denied outdoor environments despite limited size and computational power.
Sunguk Hong, Cheoljeong Park, Seong Jin Cho
Sensors·
2021·
cited by 42
Rail tracks (especially continuous welded rails) can buckle in hot weather and cause derailments, so operators need early warning of dangerous rail temperatures.
Salman Ul Hassan Dar, Mahmut Yurt, Mo Shahdloo, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Berk Tınaz, Tolga Çukur
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing·
2020·
cited by 174
Medicine & Health
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
partially solved
importance 5/10
scale stated
Multi-contrast MRI scans take excessive time because each added contrast lengthens acquisition, limiting clinical use.
Silviu‐Marian Udrescu, Max Tegmark
Science Advances·
2020·
cited by 1,074
Physics & Astronomy
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
ai assisted
importance 5/10
scale stated
Discovering the equations governing physical systems from raw data, without knowing the formulas in advance.
Cong Wang, Qifeng Zhang, Qiyan Tian, Shuo Li, Xiaohui Wang, David M. Lane, Yvan Pétillot, Sen Wang
Sensors·
2020·
cited by 99
Robotics & Autonomy
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
ai assisted
importance 5/10
scale stated
Whole-body mobile manipulation in unstructured environments using only on-board sensors is harder than fixed-base manipulation because the mobile base and manipulator must coordinate.
Alexander Marinšek, Gregor Bajt
IET Renewable Power Generation·
2020·
cited by 20
Short-term wind power forecasting to mitigate wind inconsistency effects on the electric grid.
Ruilong Chen, Ruth A. Little, Lyudmila S. Mihaylova, Richard John Delahay, Ruth Cox
Ecology and Evolution·
2019·
cited by 90
Screening still and video camera surveillance of wild animals for species of interest is laborious and expensive, hindering wildlife conflict management such as bovine tuberculosis control.
Zhiliang Bi, Xiwang Guo, Jiacun Wang, Shujin Qin, Guanjun Liu
Drones·
2023·
cited by 45
Robotics & Autonomy
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
ai assisted
importance 5/10
scale stated
Optimally scheduling mixed truck-drone delivery operations over real road networks despite drone range and payload limits.
Honggui Deng, Yu Cheng, Yuxin Feng, Junjiang Xiang
Symmetry·
2021·
cited by 75
Existing methods poorly handle diverse industrial laser weld image data, so robust automatic defect detection and recognition is needed.
Ahsan Zafar, Yanbo Che, Muhammad Faheem, Muhammad Abubakar, Shujaat Ali, Muhammad Shoaib Bhutta
IET Smart Grid·
2024·
cited by 38
Accurate prediction of solar power plant parameters is needed to minimise losses when traditional grids convert to smart grids.
Le Gao, Kun Wang, Xin Zhang, Chen Wang
Sustainability·
2023·
cited by 15
Science & Research
Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
partially solved
importance 5/10
scale stated
Predicting ore deposit locations is hindered by scarce labeled geological images, small irregular features with high image similarity, and hard-to-quantify prospecting factors.
Khurram Shaikh, Imtiaz Hussain Kalwar, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry
Sensors·
2023·
cited by 26
Detecting railway wheel defects early despite interfering vibrations that cause false alarms during operation.
Nier Wang, Zhanming Li
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy·
2022·
cited by 13
Traditional short-term wind power forecasting struggles with large, highly volatile time-series data and limited processing capacity.
Muhammad Yaqub, Jinchao Feng, Shahzad Ahmed, Kaleem Arshid, Muhammad Atif Bilal, Muhammad Pervez Akhter, Muhammad Sultan Zia
Applied Sciences·
2022·
cited by 28
Medicine & Health
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
partially solved
importance 5/10
scale stated
GAN-based MRI reconstruction from under-sampled data normally requires large training sets of raw k-space patient data, which is difficult to gather in clinical practice.
Farhan Quadir, Raj S. Roy, Elham Soltanikazemi, Jianlin Jack Cheng
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences·
2021·
cited by 21
Predicting the quaternary structure of dimeric protein complexes, which is useful for function analysis, protein engineering and drug design.
Simian Pang, Zixuan Zheng, Fan Luo, Xianyong Xiao, Lanlan Xu
Sustainability·
2021·
cited by 19
Short-term forecasting of clustered hybrid renewable energy systems (wind, photovoltaic, concentrating solar power) is difficult due to spatial and temporal uncertainties.
Zheng Liang, Junjie Chen
Energy Informatics·
2025·
cited by 11
Building energy consumption is hard to forecast accurately due to uncertainty and noise, hindering energy-saving measures.
Carlos Torroja, Fátima Sánchez‐Cabo
Frontiers in Genetics·
2019·
cited by 51
Bulk RNA-Seq cannot distinguish whether observed expression changes come from shifting cell-type proportions or aberrant behavior of a specific cell type, while single-cell experiments remain complex and expensive.
Masato Sakai, Akihisa Sakurai, Siyuan Lu, J. Francisco Sibón Olano, Conrad M Albrecht, Hendrik F. Hamann, Marcus Freitag
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·
2024·
cited by 18
Finding figurative Nazca geoglyphs was extremely slow: only 430 were discovered over nearly a century, and small relief-type ones are hard to see.
Changjian Xie, Xiaolei Zhu, David R. Yarkony, Hua Guo
The Journal of Chemical Physics·
2018·
cited by 90
Accurately representing coupled diabatic potential energy matrices of molecules, needed to model non-adiabatic photodissociation dynamics.
Kapil Vaidya, Anshuman Dutt, Vivek R. Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment·
2021·
cited by 20
Software & Coding
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
solved
importance 4/10
scale stated
Parametric query optimization must cache a small set of plans for parameterized queries and then quickly pick the best cached plan per query instance.
Muhammad Faseeh, Abdul Jaleel, Naeem Iqbal, Anwar Ghani, Akmalbek Bobomirzaevich Abdusalomov, Asif Mehmood, Young Im Cho
Mathematics·
2024·
cited by 39
Automated essay scoring systems face persistent challenges in delivering accurate and efficient evaluations.