ADVANCES IN ZERO ENERGY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

‌Optimal design of onboard energy storage systems with volume limitation for urban electrical rail transportation

Train braking energy regeneration in urban electrical rail transportation systems can reduce energy consumption and operational cost of the system. In this paper, optimal design of an onboard energy storage system (OESS) with volume constraint is presented for urban electrical rail transportation systems (ERTS). Onboard super-capacitors are considered as the storage system. The objective functi...

Recent Advances in Microdevices for Transportation Industry

Advances in emerging technologies of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology, especially relating to the applications , constitute one of the most challenging tasks in today's microme-chanics and nanomechanics. In addition to design, analysis, and fabrication capabilities, this task also requires advanced test methodologies for determination of functional characteristics of dev...

Functionally Graded Biomimetic Energy Absorption Concept Development for Transportation Systems

Some Investigations on Recent Advances in Wind Energy Conversion Systems

Wind energy one of the world’s fastest growing energy technologies. It is estimated that 16% of the world’s electricity will be harnessed from wind power by 2020. Efficient and stable utilization of wind energy has been an important problem. The present work is a comprehensive report on various topologies and generators used in WECS aimed at drawing comparison between the various options availa...

Recent Advances in Zero-shot Recognition

With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to scale the recognition to a large number of classes with few or now training samples for each class remains an unsolved problem. One approach to scaling up th...