The Media Point concept aims to facilitate the provision of personalized services to mobile users within WLAN hotspots. In this paper we describe our prototypical implementation of a Media Point network. An insight into our performance evaluation using the prototype is given. Our work has shown that the Media Point system functionalities can already be realized and demonstrated using state-of-t...

The Driver’s Vision Enhancer (DVE) program is providing thermal imaging systems to enlarge the driving envelope for the community of military wheeled and tracked vehicles. The DVE provides the driver with thermal images of the forward scene under night and adverse day conditions. During the DVE development program, several questions emerged that required performance-based data to resolve. A mul...

In this paper a robust road departure avoidance system based on a closed-loop driver decision estimator (DDE) is presented. The main idea is that of incorporating the driver intent in the control of the vehicle. The driver decision estimator computes the vehicle look ahead lateral position based on the driver input and uses this position to establish the risk of road departure. To induce a risk...

We propose a method to reuse unmodified device drivers and to improve system dependability using virtual machines. We run the unmodified device driver, with its original operating system, in a virtual machine. This approach enables extensive reuse of existing and unmodified drivers, independent of the OS or device vendor, significantly reducing the barrier to building new OS endeavors. By allow...

It is generally accepted that the electrochemical discharge capacity of a hydrogen storage alloy is closely related to its crystal characteristics. From our experiment, the discharge capacity of AB type Laves phase hydrogen storage alloy ZrCr Mn V Ni 2 0.4 0.2 0.1 1.3 21 21 decreased sharply from 324 mAh g to 25 mAh g after amorphization by mechanically milling the crystalline (as-cast) alloy w...

The problem addressed here involves a controller seeking to enhance traffic network performance via real-time routing information provision to drivers while explicitly accounting for drivers’ likely reactions towards the information. A fuzzy control modeling approach is used to determine the associated behavior-consistent information-based network control strategies. Experiments are performed t...

The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended that states establish a per se blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit of 0.05 or lower for all drivers who are not already required to adhere to lower BAC limits in a national effort to reduce alcohol-impaired driving. There is strong evidence for adopting this recommendation. A comprehensive review of the literature on BAC limits w...

Mobile is taking center stage and becoming the device of preference for all aspects of communication because of our increasingly “on the go” lifestyles. With this the demands on mobile’s capability to execute increasingly complex operations are also on the rise. However, despite improvements in device computing power in the last couple of years a mobile device continues to have limitations. Mob...

Effective management of the vehicles plays an important role in transportation sector. There are some novel approaches in software engineering which can be used to dynamically control the trucks. One of the example technologies is multi-agent systems. Multi-agent-based technologies could be used for truck dispatching in real time. The trucks in such systems have their own transportation plan an...

Drowsy driving is a major cause of automobile accidents. Previous studies used neuroimaging based approaches such as analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) activities to understand the brain dynamics of different cortical regions during drowsy driving. However, the coupling between brain regions responding to this vigilance change is still unclear. To have a comprehensive understanding of neura...