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Showing 1 to 20 of 5101 for “"Vehicles"”.
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Modeling Automated Vehicles and Connected Automated Vehicles on Highways
The deployment of Automated Vehicles (AV) is starting to become widespread throughout transportation, resulting in the recognition and awareness by legislative leaders of the potential impact on transportation operations. To assist transportation operators in making the needed preparations for …
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Analysis of automatic guided vehicles and self-guided vehicles for hospital foodservice
… the relative merits of "Automatic Guided Vehicles" (AGVs) and "Self Guided Vehicles" (SGVs) in the area of hospital foodservice; Data is derived from the bids of Apogee Robotics for their Orbiter{dollar}\sp{\rm TM}{dollar} system (AGV) and Transitions Research Corp for the …
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Dynamic analyses of vehicles
The overall objective of this thesis is to improve the method engineers use to predict the performance of earthmoving vehicle systems. The motivation for this work is shown by illustrating how these predictions are used in the design process to impact the financial well-being of the corporations …
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Wireless Communication in Vehicles
… deployment of wireless communication systems in vehicles. The motivation for this work is to provide a fundamental characterisation of the in-vehicle Electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation environment, and to demonstrate how this can be used to aid the deployment of wireless communication systems …
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Forces on underwater vehicles
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1995.
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Social networking in vehicles
… known as Flossers, stand to revolutionize vehicles, and how their drivers interact with their physical and social worlds. With Flossers, users can broadcast and share information, communicate with one another, and experience a more information-rich environment. Instead of seeing only a …
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Dynamic Stability and Handling Qualities of Small Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles UNMANNED-AERIAL-VEHICLES
<p>General aircraft dynamic stability theory was used to predict the natural frequencies, damping ratios and time constants of the dynamic modes for three specific small UAVs with wingspans on the scale from 0.6 meters to 1.2 meters. Using USAF DatCom methods, a spreadsheet program for predicting …
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Motion Coordination of Aerial Vehicles
The coordinated motion control of multiple vehicles has emerged as a field of major interest in the control community. This thesis addresses two topics related to the control of a group of aerial vehicles: the output feedback attitude synchronization of rigid bodies and the formation control of …
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RF Fingerprinting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
<p>As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) continue to become more readily available, their use in civil, military, and commercial applications is growing significantly. From aerial surveillance to search-and-rescue to package delivery the use cases of UAVs are accelerating. This accelerating popularity …
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Locating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
… the popularity and usefulness of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones, they are not allowed to fly in some areas without prior permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). However, many incidents of UAVs breaching such restrictions have been reported. A UAV location system can …
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Electric Vehicles as Grid Resources
Electric vehicles (EV) are poised as environmentally-friendly alternatives to conventional combustion vehicles because of the internal battery which uses electricity for transportation. It is estimated the global EV penetration will hit upwards of 20 million on the road by 2020. Even with this …
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Self Synchronization of Moving Vehicles
… scheduling scheme for conflict-free movement of vehicles at road intersections. We claim that our scheduling scheme not only guarantees conflict-free movement at any intersection, it also provides nonstop movement for the maximum possible number of vehicles at multiple intersections on its route. …
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Shock estimation in supersonic vehicles
Improving the design of future high-Mach vehicles is crucial to enhance performance,safety and sustainability of future air travel. Advanced designs can be realized by improving low fidelity modelling in the context of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) on one side and making the use of …
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Open Platforms for Connected Vehicles
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Safe and secure autonomous vehicles
… plethora of safety challenges facing autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to save and improve lives, however, their widespread usage and adoption have been severely inhibited by challenges in ensuring the safe operation of these vehicles. This work redesigns the autonomy …
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Bridge optimization considering moving vehicles
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Adaptive control of hypersonic vehicles
… guidance, navigation and control of hypersonic vehicles are highly challenging tasks due to the fact that the dynamics of the airframe, propulsion system and structure are integrated and highly interactive. Such a coupling makes it difficult to model various components with a requisite degree of …
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Parametrized maneuvers for autonomous vehicles
… parametrized maneuver classes for autonomous vehicles. These classes provide useful tools for motion planners, bundling sets of related vehicle motions based on a low-dimensional parameter vector that describes the fundamental high-level variations within the trajectory set. The method follows …
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Diffusion of new technology vehicles
… evaluation for the competency of New Technology Vehicles, such as Fuel Cell vehicles, Hybrid vehicles and Current vehicles with incrementally improved combustion engines are examined as well as fuel systems that support those power train alternatives. The competency for each alternative is …
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Cooperative Perception for Connected Vehicles
… cooperative perception, explores how connected vehicles can learn to collaborate to improve their perception, and introduces an affordable, experimental vehicle platform for connected autonomy research.
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