This report describes the enhancements to the video data collection of the Berkeley Highway Laboratory (BHL), a unique surveillance system on a section of I-80 freeway in the city of Emeryville. We also present the development of advanced machine vision algorithms to process the video data to generate vehicle trajectories. A pilot application of the BHL system produced trajectories of over 4700...

This paper reports the results of a Pilot-Induced Oscillation (PIO) and human pilot control characterization study performed using flight data collected with a Remotely Controlled (R/C) unmanned research aircraft. The study was carried out on the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. Several existing Category 1 and Category 2 PIO criteria developed for manned aircraft are first surveyed and their ...

This paper desribes a study that assessed the feasibility of developing an adaptive pilot/vehicle interface (PVI) prototype that uses measures of pilot workload and computational situation assessment models to drive the content, format, and modality of military cockpit displays. The system architecture consists of three distinct modules: 1) an on-line situation assessor that generates a “pictur...

A cornerstone of next generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is a seamless integration of in-vehicle networking with existing wireless telephony infrastructure. Remote access to on-board diagnostics and performance data is a crucial requirement for ITS. In this paper, we present an extensible vehicle performance monitoring system that exploits data transmission capabilities of GSM,...

in this study, stability control of a three-wheeled vehicle with two wheels on the front axle, a three-wheeled vehicle with two wheels on the rear axle, and a standard four-wheeled vehicle are compared. for vehicle dynamics control systems, the direct yaw moment control is considered as a suitable way of controlling the lateral motion of a vehicle during a severe driving maneuver. in accordance...

According to the demand for applied innovative talents of the railway industry and enterprises, based on the railway specialized characteristics advantage of the East China Jiaotong University, and in accordance with the system engineering thoughts as “setting training objectives, setting up training standards, building course system, reforming teaching methods and perfecting security system”, ...

In this paper, we propose a new approach “HVB senseless maneuver optimal washout filter” which is based on human vestibular system, senseless maneuver and motion platform limitation for designing washout filter such that a cost function constraining the pilot sensation error (between simulator and vehicle) is minimized. This approach can curtail over strong feelings of pilot reception and incre...

The current work focuses on the development of a comprehensive scheme for the coordinated control of remotely operated vehicle–manipulator (ROVM) systems, and it proposes a novel mode for their operation. The proposed scheme consists of 2 main stages: redundancy resolution, and and robust model based control. In the redundancy resolution stage, the end-effector input commanded by a human pilot ...

Many extreme scale scientific applications have workloads comprised of a large number of individual high-performance tasks. The Pilot abstraction decouples workload specification, resource management, and task execution via job placeholders and late-binding. As such, suitable implementations of the Pilot abstraction can support the collective execution of large number of tasks on supercomputers...

In this paper we argue that e-government initiatives need to take the competence involved in producing high-quality services for citizens into account. We draw on insights from a Pilot project in a Norwegian municipal aiming at radically re-structuring the Norwegian welfare sector and show how the competence to provide high-quality services rely on the collective achievement of individuals’ kno...