Mechatronics Technology

ISSN: 2959-376X (Print)

ISSN: 2959-3778 (Online)

CODEN: MTEEEV

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Innovations in Electromechanical Systems through Intelligent Equipment and Digital Twin Technology under Industry 5.0
Special Issue Editor:   Jiehan Zhou, Quanbo Lu, Zisheng Wang, Shouhua Zhang, Kai Ding
Submission Deadline:  31 October 2026
Intelligent Diagnostics, Health Management, and Operations and Maintenance of Complex Electromechanical Equipment
Special Issue Editor:   Shuiqing Xu, Zhiqiang Zhang, He Zhao, Junjian Zhang, Hongtian Chen
Submission Deadline:  31 December 2026
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A multi-perception feature-guided network with dynamic sample matching for bearing surface defect detection
Xuan Chen,Yongyi Chen,Dan Zhang
Article22 Jul 2026OPEN ACCESS

In mechanical systems, bearings play a vital role, yet their surfaces frequently develop defects during the production process. Hence, automated detection of such defects becomes indispensable for ensuring industrial quality control. To enhance the robustness of bearing surface defect detection, a dynamic sample matching detection network is proposed, which is guided by multi-level perceptual features. A lightweight adaptive feature extraction method is introduced to enhance defect representation while maintaining low parameter complexity and computational cost. To address diverse defect patterns, a multi-shape perception module with a dual-axis cross-weighting mechanism across multiple scales is designed to improve sensitivity to different defect types. Furthermore, a dynamic sample selection strategy with dual-label weighting is introduced to improve training sample quality. The proposed approach is evaluated on a self-developed bearing defect platform, where it outperforms mainstream detection models in complex environments and achieves superior performance and robustness.

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Advancing the future of intelligent mechatronic systems: a vision for mechatronics technology
Ruqiang Yan
Editorial29 Jun 2026OPEN ACCESS

It is my great honor to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Mechatronics Technology. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the founding EiC – Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi, the editorial team, authors, reviewers, and readers whose dedication and support have laid the foundation for the journal’s continued growth. Mechatronics Technology was established as an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and gold open access journal dedicated to disseminating advances in sensing, signal processing, modeling, control, actuation, and intelligent system integration across a broad range of engineering applications. The journal covers diverse topics including sensors and actuators, measurement and instrumentation, digital twins, artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, advanced manufacturing, energy systems, fault diagnosis, healthcare technologies, and intelligent electromechanical systems. By embracing this broad scope, the journal aims to serve as a platform where researchers from different disciplines can exchange ideas and contribute to the advancement of next-generation mechatronic systems.

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A cross-modal alignment-based time-series large model for water supply networks flow forecasting
Tao Yang,Hanqi Gui,Juan Xu,Xiaochuan Li,Xu Ding,Yongbin Liu
Article25 Jun 2026OPEN ACCESS

Water supply networks, as critical urban infrastructure, play an essential role in ensuring stable city operations. Accurate flow forecasting is therefore of great significance for optimizing operational scheduling, reducing energy consumption, and maintaining system stability. With the strong capability of large language models (LLM) in sequence modeling and representation learning, their application to time-series forecasting has become an emerging research direction. However, a key challenge lies in the modality gap between numerical time-series data and the semantic embedding space of language models. To address this issue, this paper proposes a cross-modal alignment-based time-series foundation model for forecasting. The proposed method constructs a mapping between time-series features and the semantic embedding space, enabling effective projection of numerical sequences into a semantic domain. Furthermore, a cross-modal alignment mechanism is designed to enhance feature fusion, thereby improving the model’s ability to capture multi-scale periodic patterns, long-term temporal trends, and stochastic demand fluctuations commonly observed in water distribution systems. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms baseline approaches across different prediction horizons in terms of mean absolute error (MAE) and mean squared erro (MSE), verifying the effectiveness and strong generalization capability of the cross-modal alignment strategy in water distribution network flow forecasting.

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Adaptive learning-based energy management for HEVs using soft actor-critic DRL algorithm
Ozan Yazar,Serdar Coskun,Fengqi Zhang
Article31 Dec 2024OPEN ACCESS
In this work, we design an energy management strategy (EMS) for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) using a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm. Specifically, this paper introduces a soft actor-critic (SAC)-based EMS, tailored for devising optimal energy distribution for HEVs. The proposed SAC-based approach is useful for addressing inherent drawbacks that exist in many DRL methods such as slower convergence rate, discretization error, as well as suboptimal solutions. The designed SAC algorithm presents a self-adaptive efficiency in executing continuous decision-making policies through the balance of exploration and exploitation using an entropy-based action selection method and an entropy-added reward function. Extensive experiments are carried out to demonstrate the merits of the adaptive SAC algorithm over the widely adopted Q-learning (QL), deep-Q-network (DQN), and deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) approaches on fuel economy and battery charge sustainability. An unknown driving cycle is also employed to show the adaptability feature of the proposed scheme, revealing fuel savings of 6.26%, 3.01%, and 2.03% over the QL-based, DQN-based, and DDPG-based methods, respectively.
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Digital Twins, history, metrics and future directions
Juan J. Nieto
Commentary16 Jun 2025OPEN ACCESS
We present the current state of the Digital Twin technology. We give some historical notes, the strengths and weaknesses, the evolution of the publications on the topic and some future perspectives.
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Recent advances in hand movement rehabilitation system and related strategies
Dapeng Wang,Chuizhou Meng,Mingyuan Wang,Dazhuang Liu,Teng Liu,Shijie Guo
Review11 Dec 2023OPEN ACCESS
Hand movement disorders caused by neurological diseases like brachial plexus injuries significantly impact daily activities of patients. Compared with the upper-limb rehabilitation that is focused on the large movements of joints, the rehabilitation of the hand movements that are dexterous remains challenging due to its exceptional flexibility. This article aims to reviewing the latest research on the system and related strategies for hand movement rehabilitation. Firstly, the development on the cutting-edge sensing technologies, actuator-driven rehabilitation equipment and hand movement pattern recognition algorithms, all contributing to the design of the hand movement rehabilitation system, are introduced. Secondly, the various rehabilitation strategies, including the active rehabilitation, passive rehabilitation, and guided rehabilitation that are tailored for patients with different disability levels at varying rehabilitation stages, are reviewed. Furthermore, the limitations of current methods and techniques are discussed and future research directions are put forward.
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