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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Automated Data Collection"”.
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The value of accurate automated data collection to manufacturing
… the value of implementing a novel, accurate automated data collection system and to describe a practical method for doing so. This thesis addresses the value of accurate automated data collection to manufacturing, focusing on a combined passive power monitoring and auto RFID data collection …
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Measuring journey time reliability in London using automated data collection systems
… of transit systems. The rapid spread of Automated Data Collection Systems, such as Automated Fare Collection (AFC) and Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), provides new sources of information that can be used to measure and assess service reliability. The main objective of this thesis is to …
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Bus passenger Origin-Destination Matrix estimation using Automated Data Collection systems
Automatic Data Collection (ADC systems can enhance the ability of transit agencies to obtain useful planning information that was previously too expensive to obtain. This thesis documents the development of an algorithm to estimate a Bus Passenger Trip Origin-Destination Matrix (OD Matrix) based on …
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An Integrated Framework for Automated Data Collection and Processing for Discrete Event Simulation Models
… in different disciplines. DES models require data in order to determine the different parameters that drive the simulations. The literature about DES input data management indicates that the preparation of necessary input data is often a highly manual process, which causes inefficiencies, …
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Bus passenger origin-destination estimation and travel behavior using automated data collection systems in London, UK
… research explores the application of archived data from Automatic Data Collection Systems (ADCS) to transportation planning with a focus on bus passenger Origin-Destination (OD) inferences at the bus-route level and on travel behavior, using London as an example. This research demonstrates the …
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A Methodology for the Development of a Production Experience Database for Earthmoving Operations Using Automated Data Collection
Automated data acquisition has revolutionized the reliability of product design in recent years. A noteworthy example is the improvement in the design of aircrafts through field data. This research proposes a similar improvement in the reliability of process design of earthmoving operations through …
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The planning and analysis implications of automated data collection systems : rail transit OD matrix inference and path choice modeling examples
… by prior studies) by integrating AFC and AVL data and utilizing GIS and DBMS technologies. A software tool is developed to facilitate the implementation of the algorithm. The other study is of rail path choice, which employs the Logit and Mixed Logit models to examine revealed public transit …
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Beagle : automated extraction and interpretation of visualizations from the web
In this paper, we present Beagle, an automated data collection system to mine the web for SVG-based visualization images, label them with their corresponding visualization type (i.e., bar, scatter, pie, etc.), and make them available as a queryable data store. The key idea behind Beagle is a new …
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Whitespace Exploration
… called Thalia has been created to allow for automated data collection and experimentation with the whitespace exploration methodology.</p> <p>In this work, whitespace exploration is defined and the current state of the art of whitespace exploration algorithms is reviewed. The whitespace …
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GAP ACCEPTANCE STUDY USING VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING
… recording are one of the common ways of data collection in gap acceptance studies. Tedious and laborious as it is, this manual method is rather inaccurate in time recording. Using a carefully chosen site for investigation, this thesis proposes that it is possible to employ a more …
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Extracting capacity metrics for General Aviation airports from ADS-B data
… is to develop a method to provide precise data for small airports that operate mainly with small single or multi-engine aircraft. These airports are typically not towered and, hence, do not benefit from traditional automated data collection technologies. This research addresses the issues …
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Application of an automatic data acquisition system in mass transit
A robust algorithm has been developed to do data processing accurately, removing the need for a radio signal to be imbedded for locational accuracy. This, consequently eliminates the signposts installation and maintenance costs and worries. A sensitivity analysis of the algorithm using a real life …
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Visual Inertial Odometry with Sparse Deep Learning
… position and orientation of a robot by analyzing data from cameras and inertial sensors. As state-of-the-art VIO systems achieve remarkable accuracy, there are still improvements to be made in terms of the performance of such real-time systems. This paper presents an end-to-end VIO implementation …
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Evaluation of spontaneous potential for monitoring groundwater movement in karst terrain
… precipitation are major variables influencing SP data. An automated data collection system was devised and used for long term monitoring of SP changes and environmental variables and for measuring SP changes induced by artificial recharge of water into a sinkhole. Results were evaluated by …
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Understanding bus service reliability : a practical framework using AVL/APC data
… provides the opportunity to gather large sets of data at relatively low cost and evaluate service to improve performance, schedule planning and operations control. This thesis presents a comprehensive review of key elements of service reliability, focused on the measures of reliability, the causes …
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Barometer-Based Tactile Sensing: Characterization, Processing, and Applications for Dynamic Manipulation
… sensor and a slimmer ellipsoid variant. An automated data collection pipeline is developed to generate temporally-continuous, uniformly sampled datasets across the sensor surface. RNN models trained on this data show that temporal modeling improves force prediction accuracy across both …
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Understanding transit travel behavior : value added by smart cards
… guide his/her decisions. Thanks to the advent of automated data collection including smart cards, each customer transaction can now be recorded, providing a far more accurate, detailed and continuous stream of data for travel behavior analysis than the data previously available only from …
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Collaborative Path Planning and Control for Ground Agents Via Photography Collected by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… and unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs], the rapid collection of aerial data after a natural disaster has become increasingly common. This data can be used to quickly appraise the damage to critical infrastructure, which can help solve navigational and logistical problems that may arise after the …
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Development of a State-of-the-Art Atomic Force Microscope for Improved Force Spectroscopy
… developed during this research were fully automated, allowing autonomous operation of the instrument for long periods of time. To compliment the data collection programs, both manual and automated analysis programs with force-volume imaging capabilities were also developed.</p><p>By …
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Using automatically collected data for bus service and operations planning
Transit agencies have traditionally used manual data to measure performance and plan service, but many transit agencies now fulfill these tasks by using automated data collection systems (ADCS), including Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), Automatic Passenger Counters (APC), and Automated Fare …
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