The 2009 stimulus package released a burst of pent-up creativity in the applications submitted by US researchers, but there was a complicating factor with funding decisions: the need for quick results. Quinn Eastman provides a progress report.

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...

The earliest industrial monuments in Britain are the Neolithic flint mines, dating to around 4000 bce . These mining shafts, which tunnel deep into chalk geologies, evidence extremes that ancient Britons were willing resort order obtain valuable raw materials. Numerous scholars, marvelling at excavation processes and hand tools used aid extraction of flint, have studied flint-mining industry. R...

Cross-docking is a logistic concept, which plays an important role in supply chain management by decreasing inventory holding, order packing, transportation costs and delivery time. Paying attention to these concerns, and importance of the congestion in cross docks, we present a mixed-integer model to optimize the location and design of cross docks at the same time to minimize the total transpo...

the paper investigates into the vibrational characteristics of the truck chassis including the natural frequencies and mode shapes. truck chassis forms the structural backbone of a commercial vehicle. when the truck travels along the road, the truck chassis is excited by dynamic forces caused by the road roughness, engine, transmission and more. modal analysis using finite element method (fem) ...

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Since the implementation of the regulations on the limit-driving of truck in urban areas of big cities, the study on route and time of city distribution gradually gets more attention. To improve the efficiency of distribution transport, not only the length of the routes need to be considered, but also the traffic conditions as well, even along with freight station locations and etc. Based on th...