An Ancient Locomotive

An Optimization-Based Approach for Locomotive Planning

The Locomotive Routing Problem

Given a schedule of trains, the locomotive planning (or scheduling) problem (LPP) is to determine the minimum cost assignment of locomotive types to trains that satisfies a number of business and operational constraints. Once this is done, the railroad has to determine the sequence of trains to which each locomotive is assigned by unit number so that it can be fueled and serviced as necessary. ...

Grafting Locomotive Motions

The notion of transplanting limbs to enhance a motion capture database is appealing and has been recently introduced [Sha04], [Ike04]. A key difficulty in the process is identifying believable combinations. Not all transplantations are successful; we also need to identify appropriate frames in the different clips that are “cutpasted.” In this paper, we describe motion grafting, a method to synt...

Ancient Gold Mining Activities in India - An Overview

Gold was obtained through washing or panning of the river sands during initial periods of civilisation. With the advent of knowledge of metallurgical processing of ores it was recovered through mining of in-situ quartz reefs, and then from auriferous sulphide ores. The metal mining activities are evidenced in the form of large number of ‘ancient metal mines’ or ‘old workings’ and ‘placer mining...

Locomotive Crashworthiness Research

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