--Basic research in information management, software architecture, human factors, traffic prediction and transportation planning is necessary to manage the integration of millions of disparate computers and sensors, in a high mobility environment, into a collaborative system. This system will then enable solutions to a set of transportation problems ranging from autonomous real-time routing and...

The intelligent vehicle navigation based on machine vision is the important part to realize Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), and it includes road detection, obstacle detection and motion control. Combining with foreign and domestic latest research trends, in this article, we mainly study the typical method of road detection, and point out the research and development tendency of intelli...

This paper focuses on multi-sensor fusion for navigation in difficult environments where none of the existing navigation technologies can satisfy requirements for accurate and reliable navigation if used in a stand-alone mode. A generic multi-sensor fusion approach is presented. This approach builds the navigation mechanization around a self-contained inertial navigator, which is used as a core...

due to their advantages, omni-directional mobile robots have found many applications especially in robotic soccer competitions. however, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. this situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensive omni directional mobile robot. such...

nowadays, the environmental impact of transportation project and, especially air pollution impacts, are major concerns in evaluating transportation projects. based on this concern, beside definition of traditional objective functions like total travel time and total investment cost, different type of environmental related function is considered as objective function in urban network design. in ...

Pedestrian navigation systems (PNS) need to incorporate contextual information to achieve a benefit for the user. However, most PNS do not incorporate this information. To study context in PNS we created the PNS ROSE. First we present the pedestrian navigation system ROSE which recommends context-aware events, context-aware routes and allows point-to-point navigation by means of mixed mode tran...

We present a study of the transportation polytopes appearing in product rule elementary multi-symmetric functions introduced by F. Vaccarino.

This paper introduces the basic concept of the Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) Module as future part of a ship side Integrated Navigation System (INS). Core of the PNT Module is a sensor fusion based processing system (PNT Unit). The paper will focus on important aspects and first results of the initial practical realization of such a PNT Unit, including a realization of a Consiste...