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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Vehicle Control"”.
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Motion cues in man-vehicle control.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis. 1968. Sc.D.
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Autonomous Vehicle Control using Image Processing
… the design of an inexpensive autonomous vehicle system using a small scaled model vehicle. The system is capable of operating in two different modes: telerobotic manual mode and automated driving mode. In telerobotic manual mode, the model vehicle is controlled by a human driver at a …
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Flight Vehicle Control and Aerobiological Sampling Applications
Aerobiological sampling using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an exciting research field blending various scientific and engineering disciplines. The biological data collected using UAVs helps to better understand the atmospheric transport of microorganisms. Autopilot-equipped UAVs can …
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Correctness of vehicle control systems a case study
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Hybrid Electric Vehicle Control Strategy Based on Power Loss Calculations
… Parallel Architecture (SPA) Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) is accomplished through calculating powertrain component losses. The results of these calculations define how the vehicle can decrease fuel consumption while maintaining low vehicle emissions. For a HEV, simply operating the vehicle's …
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Humanseat : semi-wearable seating concepts for vehicle control, medical, and wellbeing applications
… bodily movements can be translated into a control interface for vehicles. Focusing on the car, our goal is to increase human performance and wellbeing while eliminating the traditionally antagonistic relationship between comfort and freedom of movement vs. support, safety and sensing the …
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Improved Underwater Vehicle Control and Maneuvering Analysis with Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
… used to simulate the dynamics of underwater vehicles perform well in most steady flow scenarios, and are therefore acceptable for modeling today\'s fleet of endurance-focused autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). However, with their usage of numerous assumptions and simplifications, these …
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Model-Based Design of a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Control Strategy
… industry has been toward more complex electronic control systems. The number of electronic control units (ECUs) in vehicles is ever increasing as is the complexity of communication networks among the ECUs. Increasing fuel economy standards and the increasing cost of fuel is driving hybridization …
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A State Space Partitioning Scheme for Vehicle Control in Pursuit-Evasion Scenarios
… some level of autonomy to mobile, robotic vehicles with on-board controllers. Applications of these controllers include defense topics such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) navigation for threat surveillance, assessment, or engagement. Controllers …
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An asymptotic approach in the preliminary design of a launch vehicle control system
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989.
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Micro air vehicle control design : a comparison of classical and dynamic inversion techniques
Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are envisioned as autonomous aerial robots capable of flying into an urban environment to perform reconnaissance, targeting, and remote sensing. These vehicles are significantly smaller than current aircraft, with maximum dimensions of 15 centimeters, presenting challenges …
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Model Based Estimation of Road Friction for Use in Vehicle Control and Safety
… that must be measured accurately to navigate vehicles effectively under different conditions. This parameter is very difficult to estimate correctly as it can take up a value from a broad spectrum of possibilities and the knowledge of this characteristic is of utmost significance in modern day …
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Computer simulated visual and tactile feedback as an aid to manipulator and vehicle control
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1981.
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Effectiveness of Compensatory Vehicle Control Techniques Exhibited by Drivers after Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Surgery
… Additionally, the degree of success in vehicle operation by comparing an ideal turn to the path taken by the driver allows for a level of quantification of the effectiveness of the compensatory techniques. Moreover, driver trajectories inferred from the vehicle Controller Area Network …
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Hardware in the Loop Simulation of a Heavy Truck Braking System and Vehicle Control System Design
… transmitted and received with the electronic control unit utilized by the ABS system. For the software in the loop simulation (SIL), anti-lock braking (ABS) and roll stability control (RSC) algorithms were developed using Simulink and tested with the TruckSim model. By properly simulating the …
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Development of Predictive Vehicle Control System using Driving Environment Data for Autonomous Vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
… are focusing on the development of advanced vehicle control systems such as autonomous vehicle systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Furthermore, Driver Assistance Systems (DAS) such as cruise control, Anti-Lock Braking Systems (ABS), and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) …
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Appling Machine and Statistical Learning Techniques to Intelligent Transport Systems: Bottleneck Identification and Prediction, Dynamic Travel Time Prediction, Driver Run-Stop Behavior Modeling, and Autonomous Vehicle Control at Intersections
… driver safety at signalized intersections and uncontrolled intersections in a connected vehicles environment. For signalized intersections, we exploit datasets collected from four controlled experiments to model the stop-run behavior of the driver at the onset of the yellow indicator for various …
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Verification of a six-degree of freedom simulation model for the REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle
… of modular, low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in such applications as long-range oceanographic survey, autonomous docking, and shallow-water mine countermeasures requires improving the vehicles' maneuvering precision and battery life. These goals can be achieved through the …
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