This paper analyzes the feasibility of using cellular telephone location data to determine the geographic extent of trucks from intermodal facilities. The feasibility analysis includes three aspects: location technology, cell phone penetration, and truck tracking methodology. As the results shows, the cell phone location technology is able to provide accurate location data. It can provide updat...

For a vehicle equipped with active single-wheel steering, brake, drive and suspension systems a nonlinear vehicle model is presented. On the basis of this model an integrated vehicle dynamics control is developed comprising all of the mentioned chassis actuators to control the plane vehicle motion. The basic control strategy consists in two parts. One part is a flatness based tracking controlle...

Paladin is an upgrade of the 1960s-era M109-series howitzer. While the vehicle includes a new turret, many components—such as the chassis, its automotive capability, and the level of protection it affords—are fundamentally the same as in the earlier versions of the M109. Today the technologies that Paladin helped pioneer are becoming increasingly common on more modern and capable selfpropelled ...

This paper is concerned with the design of a multivariable Global Chassis Controller (GCC), using LPV/H∞ robust controllers for suspension, active steering and electro-mechanical braking actuators which aim at improving comfort and safety performance in critical driving situations. The proposed solution is to schedule the three control actions (braking, steering and suspension) according to the...

Total or shared autonomous behavior is still an open challenge for service robots. An example of such system is FRIEND (Functional robot arm with user-friendly interface for Disabled people) (Figure 1). In the project ReIntegraRob care robot FRIEND will carry out all necessary manipulations for a completely paralyzed person who with support of FRIEND will be able to work in library. The task of...

The efficient and safe movement of freight is one of the important goals of urban transportation systems and vital to not only the local economy, but nationally as well. Given the importance of the freight transportation system, opportunities to utilize state of the art Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies are increasing to improve the operation of the existing infrastructure t...

Over the last decade there has been an increasing interest on power drive train topologies for hybrid electric fuel cell vehicles. A review of previous publications revealed that little work provided direct comparisons between the topologies. This paper details the development of a simulation model that has formed the basis of an assessment of all the topologies, addressing the advantages and d...

During the Summer of 1997 Nomad a planetaryrelevant mobile robot, was driven via satellite link for more than 125 miles in the Atacama Desert of Chile by novice operators in North America, demonstrating many technologies relevant to robotic exploration of the planets. An innovative \transforming" chassis was demonstrated which uses a simple linkage to change the footprint of the vehicle from a ...

TRIUMF’s Central Control System has a large investment in CAMAC. To protect this investment but allow the current trend of PCI-bus based computers to be supported, TRIUMF has configured a PCI to CAMAC system. In this setup, TRIUMF has connected PCI based computers into the CAMAC equipment of their Central Control System. DEC Alpha computers running OpenVMS have been interfaced via the PCI bus t...