Shared-ride trip planning is one potential field of application within the research domain of geosensor-networks. Such a system is envisioned to provide people in need of transportation (clients) and transportation providers (hosts) with an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer communication, positioning, and planning infrastructure within an urban environment. By doing this, shared-ride trip planning can contr...

With the continuous development of the industrialization process, the countries all over the world gradually appeared lack of agricultural labor force and aging phenomenon, which was especially prominent in developed countries. However the agricultural robot with high operating efficiency, high qualities of work will play an increasingly important role in future agricultural production. Robot n...

Ride Connect is a tool integrated into the social networking site Facebook’s (www.Facebook.com) event planning feature. Ride Connect helps people coordinate transportation to specific events. We chose to focus on undergraduate students because changes in their attitudes and habits towards shared transportation will lead to a sustainable increase in public transportation (PT) use. Ride Connect e...

Mobile robot navigation is one of the basic problems in robotics. In this paper, a new approach is proposed for autonomous mobile robot navigation in an unknown environment. The proposed approach is based on learning virtual parallel paths that propel the mobile robot toward the track using a multi-layer, feed-forward neural network. For training, a human operator navigates the mobile robot in ...

Navigation signal simulator can generate signals consistent with real GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals, which can be processed by GNSS receivers in the same manner as it processes satellite signals in a real testing environment. The simulator can offer a high-fidelity means of testing GNSS receivers and other related systems. Such tests can be carried out in laboratories due to...

1. INTRODUCTION Since the eighties constant augmentation of the demand on worldwide maritime transportation together with acute economical competition have increased the pressure on ship owners and commercial fleets. Crews are often reduced to a minimum and sometimes to even one officer of the watch in the deck. In order to counterbalance these negative effects on safety navigation, and to faci...