Provably safe and scalable multi-vehicle path planning is an important and urgent problem due to the expected increase of automation in civilian airspace in the near future. Although this problem has been studied in the past, there has not been a method that guarantees both goal satisfaction and safety for vehicles with general nonlinear dynamics while taking into account disturbances and poten...

In the earlier days, vehicles such as Motorbikes hardly had Mechanical support in all concerns, in the recent past the development in Electronic devices in Motorbikes are evolving, with components such as E-breaks, Digital speedometers, etc. and most interesting from an engineering point of view, dealing with motorcycle dynamics is more complex than it is for four wheeled vehicles. In fourwheel...

Autonomous Vehicle technology is quickly expanding its market and has found in Silicon Valley, California, a strong foothold for preliminary testing on public roads. In an effort to promote safety and transparency to consumers, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has mandated that reports of accidents involving autonomous vehicles be drafted and made available to the public. The present...

Introduction In future we envision the role of UAVs or Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles to grow significantly, ultimately encompassing multiple roles such as combat, reconnaissance and surveillance. More broadly, we envision a large class of high performance, highly maneuverable, autonomous vehicles which span the spectrum from VTOL to supersonic flight. A desired feature for such nonlinear, autonom...

Hypersonic airbreathing vehicles are characterized by highly-integrated airframe and propulsion system. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools have been used extensively in the design and analysis phrase of hypersonic vehicles. In this paper, an engineering method and a finite volume method based on the center of grid are developed for preliminary research of interested integrative hypersonic...

Integrated simulation capabilities that are high-fidelity, fast, and have scalable architecture are essential to support autonomous vehicle design and performance assessment for the U.S. Army's growing use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). The HMMWV simulation described in this paper embodies key features of the real vehicle, including a complex suspension and steering dynamics, wheel-soil mod...

Real-life cyber-physical systems, such as automotive vehicles, building automation systems, and groups of unmanned vehicles are monitored and controlled by networked control systems. The overall system dynamics emerges from the interaction among physical dynamics, computational dynamics, and communication networks. Network uncertainties such as time-varying delay and packet loss cause significa...

We present a unified formulation for describing the dynamics of a new class of aquatic multi-body soft robots. This formulation accounts for the continuum hyperelastic nature of the vehicles and for the interaction with the dense fluid across which they dwell. We start by introducing the highly unconventional design concept of a soft underwater vehicle inspired by the octopus capable of swimmin...

Real-life Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as automotive vehicles, building automation systems, and groups of unmanned air vehicles are monitored and controlled by networked control systems. The overall system dynamics emerges from the interaction among physical dynamics, computational dynamics, and communication networks. Network uncertainties such as time-varying delay and packet loss caus...

A general proecological urban road traffic control idea for the street canyon is proposed with emphasis placed on development of advanced continuum field gasdynamical (hydrodynamical) control model of the street canyon. The continuum field model of optimal control of street canyon is studied. The mathematical physics' approach (Eu-lerian approach) to vehicular movement, to pollutants' emission,...