An engineering design framework for an autonomous ground vehicle vision system is discussed. We present both the conceptual and physical design by following the design process, development and testing of an intelligent ground vehicle vision system constructed for the 2008 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. During conceptual design, the requirements for the vision system are explored via fu...

In this chapter we discuss the use of computer simulation in design and operation of car and truck assembly plants as well as automotive components manufacturing plants. Most of the automotive manufacturers worldwide and, in particular, the big three U.S.-based companies (General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler Corporation) currently require that all new and modified manufa...

An input to the conceptual database design phase contains a description of the target database. This description is usually given in some natural language, for instance in English. Conceptual design aims at transforming English sentences into a conceptual database schema. A conceptual data model should therefore possess modeling features that can represent English sentence structures. Since Che...