Autonomous vehicles will be used without a driver. This will make them less inspected because the driver often listens to the engine and its sounds; however, a passenger in an autonomous vehicle will do other things and even sleep, so there will be no effective inspection on the engine and particularly on the pipes system. This paper suggests a technique to alert about worn out pipes before the...

A method of calculating the coupling impedance and the wake function of resistive beam pipes is given including the short-range behavior of the wake. The pipe is uniform longitudinally but the cross section is arbitrary. The beam is assumed to be ultra-relativistic. A simple computer code is written using the boundary element method. Some results for elliptic, rectangular and hyperbolic pipes a...

This paper focuses on obtaining pipe layout information from depth images, and on the development of damage models for 3D shapes. Techniques are given for recognizing various pipes and pipe features. Methods for generating compact geometric descriptions of pipes and pipe features are discussed. These methods and techniques are analyzed for error, and error measurements are given. 3D shape damag...

Assessing the condition of underground pipelines such as water lines, sewer pipes, and telecommunication conduits in an automated and reliable manner is vital to the safety and maintenance of buried public infrastructure. In order to fully automate the condition assessment of buried pipes, it is necessary to develop a robust defect analysis and interpretation system. This paper presents the dev...

The peer-to-peer (p2p) paradigm is attracting increasing attention from both the research community and software engineers, due to potential performance, reliability and scalability improvements. This paper emphasizes that JXTA can help teachers to teach p2p with Java. This paper also presents an approach for performance analysis of JXTA pipes one of the key abstractions in JXTA, which has not ...

In most coal-fired power plants, pulverized coal and primary air flow from the pulverizers through a network of pipes to the burners. For proper operation of the boiler, all the coal pipes connected to any one of the pulverizers should carry the same coal flow rates and the same flow rates of primary air. Instrumentation is available commercially for making on-line measurements of coal flow rat...