ELVIS (Eigenvectors for Land Vehicle Image System) is a road-following system designed to drive the CMU Navlabs. It is based on ALVINN, the neural network road-following system built by Dean Pomerleau at CMU. ALVINN provided the motivation for creating ELVIS: although ALVINN is successful, it is not entirely clear why the system works. ELVIS is an attempt to more fully understand ALVINN and to ...

An automated liquid column height measurement technique using the total internal reflection of a collimated laser beam from the convex meniscus surface is proposed. This new technique can alleviate the shortcomings of the traditional cathetometer that tends to introduce user bias. Experimental measurements and theoretical predictions have been conducted to examine the detected signal broadening...

This paper deals with the problem of adaptive beamforming using a uniform linear array to provide multiple-beam constraints and suppress coherent jammers simultaneously. By constructing a steering matrix with each column vector corresponding to the steering vector of a selective beam and a constraint vector with each entry equal to the gain of a selective beam, we can achieve an adaptive array ...

This paper deals with the problem of adaptive beamforming under random array position errors to provide multiple-beam constraints and suppress jammers simultaneously. Using a steering matrix with each column vector corresponding to the steering vector of a selective beam and a constraint vector with each entry equal to the gain of a selective beam, we construct the quiescent weight vector and t...

At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Incas cultivated almost as many species of plants as the farmers of all Asia or Europe. On mountainsides up to four kilometers high along the spine of a whole continent and in climates varying from tropical to polar, they grew a wealth of roots, grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Without iron, wheels, or work animals for plowing, the Indians ...

In recent years, many systems for visualizing and exploring massive amounts of data have emerged. A topic that has not yet been investigated much, concerns the analysis of constraints that different objects impose on one another, regarding co-existence. In this paper, we present concepts toward visualizing mutual constraints between objects in a three-dimensional virtual and ARbased setting. We...

steering assist system controls the force transfer behavior of the steering system and improves the steering probability of the vehicle. moreover, it is an interface between the diver and vehicle. fault detection in electrical assisted steering systems is a challenging problem due to frequently use of these systems. this paper addresses the fault detection and reconstruction in automotive elect...