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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Cavs"”.
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Transportation equity in a future with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVS): Rethinking the readiness framework
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Estimating the Effect of Connected and Autonomous vehicles (CAVs) on Capacity and Level of Service at Freeway Merge Segments
… freeways when Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are present inside the traffic stream. Accordingly, various two-lane heterogeneous flow scenarios were modelled which included variations in free-flow speed and percent of heavy vehicles wherein the possible impact of the CAVs on the current …
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UNRAVELLING SEX-DEPENDENT MECHANISMS IN CALCIFIC AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS
Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is the most common form of heart valve disease and affects about 3% of the population. Its prevalence increases with age, without a causal relation between ageing and CAVS development. To date, CAVS is a slow, progressive, multifactorial disorder considered to …
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Microscopic Simulation Model for Mixed Traffic of Connected Automated Vehicles and Conventional Vehicles on Freeways
… models of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and manually-driven vehicles (MDVs) at the full-spectrum of mixed penetration rates on a freeway segment by incorporating the car-following and lane-changing models via a conditional linkage to investigate the sensitivities in highway capacity …
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Joint Communication, Control, and Learning for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
… vehicles, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) combine autonomy and wireless connectivity and use both sensors and communication systems to increase their situational awareness and for their decision-making. However, in order to reap all the benefits of deploying CAVs, one must consider …
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SMART INTERSECTIONS: COOPERATIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR LONGER BATTERY LIFE OF COMMUNICANT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
… battery life of communicant autonomous vehicles (CAVs), however, are not necessarily positive. This research develops an analytical model for the battery-capacity loss rate of CAV platoons coordinated to pass through signal-free smart intersections with no interruption. The main objective of the …
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Cyber-security Aware Traffic Flow Modeling and Data Processing Power Optimization
… deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) introduces new opportunities and challenges at the intersection of traffic engineering and cybersecurity. While CAVs leverage onboard sensors and computing to navigate their environment, the integration of vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and …
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Perception and Planning of Connected and Automated Vehicles
Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) represent a growing area of study in robotics and automotive research. Their potential benefits of increased traffic flow, reduced on-road accident, and improved fuel economy make them an attractive option. While some autonomous features such as Adaptive …
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Potential impacts of connected-autonomous vehicles on congestion and safety : a look at Austin, Texas
… of a vehicle system highly saturated with CAVs in Austin, Texas. Traffic factors such as capacity, intersection delay, and crash rate are examined with respect to their effect on an urban corridor in Austin. The case study relies almost entirely on collected field data to be used as a …
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Autonomous Vehicle Implementation into Existing Garrison Infrastructure
… and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology. CAVs, with their array of sensors and software, are able capture, store, and analyze remarkable amounts of data. Military installations have a need to develop an understanding of the data systems involved in CAV deployments. This thesis explores the …
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Modulation of Mitochondrial Respiration and Metabolic Signalling in Skeletal Muscle by Caveolin-3
Caveolins (Cavs) represent the principal constituent of caveolae, and since their discovery have long been associated with the plasma membrane as regulators of cholesterol homeostasis and scaffolds for signalling molecules and receptors such as the insulin receptor. Recent work however, has …
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External communication displays for connected truck platoons in mixed traffic : a federated simulator study
… obstacle is the issue of communication between CAVs and the surrounding traffic. For example, research has shown that communication between CAV and pedestrians and cyclists is facilitated by using external status displays on the CAVs. In order to investigate the communication between truck …
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Optimized and energy-efficient cooperative platooning for autonomous vehicles
… platooning of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles(CAVs) in simulation frameworks using energy modelling. A lightweight physics-based energy model was integrated into a framework to capture kinematics data, such as aerodynamic drag and inertial dynamics in real time. This thesis focuses on …
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Development of eco-driving control system for connected and automated hybrid electric vehicles
… of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have provided huge possibilities to push the boundaries of HEVs even further and thus have been extensively studied. In this study, a bi-level MPC-based eco-driving strategy for CAHEVs is proposed and designed to improve fuel economy, reduce …
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Safe and Efficient Intelligent Intersection Control of Autonomous Vehicles
… system are Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and capable of wireless Vehicle-to-Intersection communication. The main advantage of DICA is that it enables us to utilize the intersection space more efficiently resulting in less delay for vehicles to cross the intersection. In the proposed …
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Design and development of a context-aware collaborative autonomous real-time vehicle systems framework
… systems for connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) using edge, fog, and cloud computing. Furthermore, we study the quantification of uncertainty in ML algorithm predictions to describe their behaviours and decision-making mechanisms. This research provides valuable insights for the continuous …
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SAFE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED GREEN LIGHT OPTIMAL SPEED ADVISORY FOR MIXED-TRAFFIC PLATOONS
… GLOSA under different penetration rates of CAVs. These results suggest our algorithm can achieve a balance between energy and travel efficiency while ensuring car-following safety and red-light safety.
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Reliable and efficient wireless communication channel management using optimization and artificial intelligence
… framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), which integrates real-world and simulated data to dynamically predict signal quality across heterogeneous V2V communication links. Among various ML models evaluated, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieved the best performance in SNR …
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RSU-Based Intrusion Detection and Autonomous Intersection Response Systems
… smart solutions have been heavily researched. CAVs provide the means to increase the safety of travel as well as its efficiency. However, before connected vehicles can be deployed and utilized, safe and secure communication and standards need to be created and evaluated to ensure that the …
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Conditions Variable: Assemblage Theory and Systems Theory in Creative Practice
… and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In light of these developments, I argue that a flexible, descriptive, Assemblage theory is needed to better articulate how art (the work and its making) functions within an expanded field of …
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