The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated a pilot program in 2002 with researchers at the University of Michigan Air Quality Laboratory to investigate motor vehicle mercury emissions. The program included exhaust emissions characterization of vapor and particulate phase mercury from three light-duty gasoline vehicles, one diesel vehicle and mercury analysis of fuel, lubricating oil, en...

As electric vehicles become increasingly popular, the need for convenient and efficient charging solutions is becoming more urgent. One promising technology that addresses this wireless car charging. This allows to charge without physical connections or cables, making it a seamless user-friendly solution drivers. However, there are still challenges be overcome, such as optimizing efficiency ens...

This paper develops an improved robust multi-surface sliding mode controller for a complicated five degrees of freedom Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System with floating base. The proposed method combines the robust controller with some corrective terms to decrease the tracking error in transient and steady state. This approach improves the performance of the nonlinear dynamic control scheme a...