Accurate prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) is a key function for ensuring the safety and stability of lithium-ion batteries. To solve the capacity regeneration and model adaptability under different working conditions, a hybrid RUL prediction model based on complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) and a bi-directional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU) is proposed. CEEMDAN is used to divide the capacity into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) to reduce the impact of capacity regeneration. In addition, an improved grey wolf optimizer (IGOW) is proposed to maintain the reliability of the BiGRU network. The diversity of the initial population in the GWO algorithm was improved using chaotic tent mapping. An improved control factor and dynamic population weight are adopted to accelerate the convergence speed of the algorithm. Finally, capacity and RUL prediction experiments are conducted to verify the battery prediction performance under different training data and working conditions. The results indicate that the proposed method can achieve an MAE of less than 4% with only 30% of the training set, which is verified using the CALCE and NASA battery data.

A digital twin (DT) system is a virtual system that can provide a comprehensive description of a real physical system. The DT system continuously receives data from physical sensors and user input information and provides information feedback to the physical system. It is an emerging technology that utilizes an advanced Internet of Things (IoT) to connect different objects, which is in high demand in various industries and its research literature is growing exponentially. Traditional physical systems provide data support for the monitoring of physical objects such as buildings through digital modeling techniques, data acquisition tools, human computer interfaces, and building information models (BIM). However, DT can offer much more than data presentation. DT uses the received data to perform operations such as analysis, prediction, and simulation, and finally transmits the analysis results to the physical system as feedback. Compared with other physical systems, DT has the characteristics of bidirectional data exchange and real-time autonomous management. The plant factory control system based on digital twin technology continuously measures the power consumption of electrical equipment through the sensors of the physical system and makes the corresponding virtual color-coded gradient map based on the obtained data. The darker the virtual device is, the more power it currently requires, and just based on the shade of color gives the user a very intuitive idea of the current power usage of the electronic device. There has been extensive research on digital twin technology, but there are few studies on implementing plant factories based on digital twin technology. This paper proposes the idea of combining digital twin technology with plant factories to provide research directions for future smart agriculture. It proves that smart agricultural production with sustainability can also benefit from this idea.

Insulators of the kind used for overhead transmission lines institute important kinds of insulation control, namely, electrical insulation and mechanical fixing. Because of their large exposure to the environment, they are affected by factors such as climate, temperature, durability, the easy occurrence of explosions, damage, the threat of going missing, and other faults. These seriously influence the safety of the power transmission, so insulation monitoring must be conducted. With the development of unmanned technology, the staff used unmanned aircraft to take aerial photos of the detected insulators, and the insulator images were obtained by naked eye observation. Although this method looks very reliable, in practice, due to the large quantity of insulator-collected seismic data, and the complex background, workers are usually relying on their experience to make judgements, so it is easy for mistakes to appear. In recent years, with the rapid development of computer technology, more and more attention has been paid to fault detection and identification in insulators by computer-aided workers. In order to improve the detection accuracy of self-exploding insulators, especially in bad weather environments, and to overcome the influence of fog on target detection, a regression attention convolutional neural network is used for optimization. Through the recursive operation of multi-scale attention, multi-scale feature information is connected in series, the regional focus is recursively generated from coarse to fine, and the target region is detected to achieve optimal results. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the fault diagnosis ability of insulators. Compared with the accuracy of other basic models, such as FCAN and MG-CNN, the accuracy of RA-CNN in multi-layer cascade optimization is higher than that in the previous two models, which is 74.9% and 75.6%, respectively. In addition, the results of the ablation experiments at different scales showed that the identification results of different two-level combinations were 78.2%, 81.4%, and 83.6%, and the accuracy of selecting three-level combinations was up to 85.3%, which was significantly higher than the other models.

The journal retracts the article titled “Research on the Interface of Sustainable Plant Factory Based on Digital Twin”