Establishing an automatically controlled system to obtain a maximum productivity of a bulldozer running on a weak terrain, the total traffic performance of a tracked vehicle could be clarified by use of a microcomputer in robotics from initial informations of terrain material and vehicle dimensions, Here, an useful estimation method of terrain properties : cohesion, angle of internal friction, ...

Grieving Patients and Families Statistics on how often critical care patients must be informed of the death of a loved one are not generally tracked. However, at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, a level I trauma center, the Trauma Registry does track the number of patients with trauma due to motor vehicle accidents (ranging from minor injuries to critical injuries) in which a fatality h...

The objective of the study was to shorten the design cycle and evaluate the performance of infantry fighting vehicle using advanced multi body dynamics (MBD) environment before physical prototypes built. The MBD model is built with tracked vehicle module consisting of tracks (Links), sprocket, Support rollers, and hydro pneumatic suspension with suitable connections. Hull, turret are characteri...

In this paper, we present a low-level object tracking system that produces accurate vehicle trajectories and estimates the lane geometry using uncalibrated traffic surveillance cameras. A novel algorithm known as Predictive Trajectory Merge-and-Split (PTMS) has been developed to detect partial or complete occlusions during object motion and hence update the number of objects in each tracked blo...

Safety critical applications for recently proposed vehicle to vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs) rely on a beacon signal, which poses a threat to privacy since it could allow a vehicle to be tracked. Mix-zones, where vehicles encrypt their transmissions and then change their identifiers, have been proposed as a solution to this problem. In this work, we describe a formal analysis of mix-zones. We...

This paper presents a reinforcement learning (RL)–based energy management strategy for a hybrid electric tracked vehicle. A control-oriented model of the powertrain and vehicle dynamics is first established. According to the sample information of the experimental driving schedule, statistical characteristics at various velocities are determined by extracting the transition probability matrix of...

In this paper, we present a real-time algorithm for online simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with detection and tracking of moving objects (DATMO) in dynamic outdoor environments from a moving vehicle equipped with laser sensor and odometry. To correct vehicle location from odometry we introduce a new fast implementation of incremental scan matching method that can work reliably in d...

Intelligent vehicle systems need to distinguish which objects are moving and which are static. A static concrete wall lying in the path of a vehicle should be treated differently than a truck moving in front of the vehicle. This paper proposes a new algorithm that addresses this problem, by providing dense dynamic depth information, while coping with real-time constraints. The algorithm models ...

This paper presents a vision-based tracking system suitable for autonomous robot vehicle guidance. The system includes a head with three on-board CCD cameras , which can be mounted anywhere on a mobile vehicle. By processing consecutive trinocular sets of precisely aligned and rectiied images, the local 3D trajec-tory of the vehicle in an unstructured environment can be tracked. First, a 3D rep...

In this paper, we present a real-time algorithm for local simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with detection and tracking of moving objects (DATMO) in dynamic outdoor environments from a moving vehicle equipped with a laser scanner and two radars. To correct vehicle location from odometry we introduce a new fast implementation of incremental scan matching method that can work reliably ...