This paper describes the design of an optimal-control-based active safety framework that performs trajectory planning, threat assessment, and semiautonomous control of passenger vehicles in hazard avoidance scenarios. The vehicle navigation problem is formulated as a constrained optimal control problem with constraints bounding a navigable region of the road surface. A model predictive controll...

A deterministic model based on ray tracing and dealing with periodic roughness is developed, for an indoor radio propagation channel and experimentally validated at a frequency of 10GHz. Two different scenarios are studied, namely a smooth corridor and a corridor having artificial periodic roughness. The periodic roughness consists of a set of conductive semi-cylinders attached to the corridor ...

The corridor between Oslo and Berlin is by the politicians of the regional authorities in the Scandinavian part of the corridor seen a region with unique qualities and a large innovation and growth potential. In order to explore and develop this potential an Interreg project has been launched. Even though development of transport infrastructure is seen as pivotal in this process, there is a com...

Supply chains are the backbone of trade and commerce. Their logistics use different transport corridors on regular basis for operation al purpose. The international supply chain transport corridors include different infrastructure elements (e.g. weighbridge, package handling equipments, border clearance authorities, and so on). Th is paper presents th e use of multi-agent systems (MAS) to model...

The purpose of this study is to characterize the indoor channel for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) at 3.3 to 3.6 GHz frequency. This work presents a channel model based on measurements conducted in commonly found scenarios in buildings. These scenarios include closed corridor, wide corridor and semi open corridor. Path loss equations are determined using log-distance path loss model and a Rayleigh multipa...

The influence of spatially distinct host subpopulations on helminth community structure and pattern was examined in a migratory avian host species. Forty helminth species represented by 24,082 individuals were collected from 184 blue-winged teal (Anas discors; BWT) from 2 primary migratory corridors in Florida (eastern migratory corridor; EMC) and Louisiana and Texas (western migratory corridor...

Leeches are fascinating creatures: they have simple modular nervous circuitry yet exhibit a rich spectrum of behavioural modes. Leeches could be ideal blue-prints for designing flexible soft robots which are modular, multi-functional, fault-tolerant, easy to control, capable for navigating using optical, mechanical and chemical sensorial inputs, have autonomous inter-segmental coordination and ...

The dynamical system approach to behaviour based robotics [8] provides a sound mathematical framework to behaviour design and integration. So far this approach has been used in various simulation work and in simple real world settings. This paper is a rst step towards application in a more realistic scenario such as a typical oÆce environment. The robot perceives its environment via a set of so...

The widespread urbanization of the corridor of the Sarno River has drastically modified the environment of this fluvial system. The aerial recognitions show that “the river continuum” was replaced by a continuum of town centres developed along the course of the Sarno River and its tributaries often on both banks. The urban and industrial building areas appear as a continuum and the agricultural...

Investment in public and mass transit can be viewed as amenities for adjacent and proximal businesses and commercial properties thereby increasing their sale value. Bus rapid transit is a cheaper alternative to light and heavy rail, requiring fewer modifications of existing transit infrastructure. Lane Transit District (LTD) located in Eugene/Springfield, Oregon has operated a BRT system known ...