The access to the information on the vehicle motion state is of great significance for the vehicle stability control and the development of active safety products. However, the vehicle state parameter extraction is primarily accessed by attaching special sensors to the vehicles, which usually requires modification of redesign of the vehicle with high cost. Smartphone integrate gyro, orientation...

Deterioration of bridges under repeated traffic loading has called attention to the need for improvements in the understanding of vehicle–bridge interaction. While analytical and numerical models have been previously explored to describe the interaction that exists between a sprung mass (i.e., a moving vehicle) and an elastic beam (i.e., bridge), comparatively less research has been focused on ...

The liquid cargo contained in a partly-filled road tank vehicle is prone to dynamic slosh movement when subjected to external disturbances. The slosh behavior has been identified as a significant factor impairing the safety of liquid cargo transportation. The laboratory experiments have been conducted for analyzing fluid slosh in partly filled tanks. The experiment results measured under forced...

The paper deals with a novel fuzzy feedback linearization control of dynamic positioning marine vehicle with the almost disturbance decoupling performance. The main contribution of this study is to construct a controller such that the resulting dynamic positioning marine vehicle is valid for any initial and desired positions with the following characteristics: input-to-state stability with resp...

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This paper considers vehicle routing problems (VRP) where customer locations and service times are random variables that are realized dynamically during plan execution. It proposes a multiple scenario approach (MSA) that continuously generates plans consistent with past decisions and anticipating future requests. The approach, which combines AI and OR techniques in novel ways, is compared with ...

Marine robots communicating wirelessly is an increasingly attractive means for observing and monitoring in the ocean, but acoustic communication remains a major impediment to real-time control. In this paper we address through experiments the capability of acoustics to sustain highly dynamic, multi-agent missions, in particular range-only pursuit in a challenging shallow-water environment. We p...

M real-world vehicle routing problems are dynamic optimization problems, with customer requests arriving over time, requiring a repeated reoptimization. In this paper, we consider a dynamic vehicle routing problem where one additional customer arrives at a beforehand unknown location when the vehicles are already under way. Our objective is to maximize the probability that the additional custom...

Fast detection of moving vehicles is crucial for safe autonomous urban driving. We present the vehicle detection algorithm developed for our entry in the Urban Grand Challenge, an autonomous driving race organized by the U.S. Government in 2007. The algorithm provides reliable detection of moving vehicles from a high-speed moving platform using laser range finders. We present the notion of moti...

Dennis Huisman geboren te Dordrecht. Acknowledgements Thinking back on the last four-and-a-half years, immediately Richard Freling comes in my mind. I met him about five years ago for the first time, when I started to write my master thesis, which was an extension of Richard's research on integrated vehicle and crew scheduling. Later on, after I became a PhD student, we had a lot of discussions...