in this paper the effect of braking force error on the dynamic behavior of the truck is investigated. in the previous studies concerning the braking force error on the vehicle lateral deviation, to avoid complexity, researchers have assumed that the vehicle velocity during the braking process remains constant. in the present work, based on the realistic assumption that the vehicle velocity woul...

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Marc Schoenauer and Edmund Ronald Abstract|The precise docking of a truck at a loading dock has been proposed in [Nguyen & Widrow 90] as a benchmark problem for non-linear control by neural-nets. The main di culty is that back-propagation is not a priori suitable as a learning paradigm, because no set of training vectors is available: It is non-trivial to nd solution trajectories that dock the ...

This paper demonstrates an approach in data analysis to minimize overall maintenance costs for the air pressure system of Scania trucks. Feature creation on histograms was used. Randomly chosen subsets of attributes were then evaluated to generate an order and a final subset of features. Finally, a Random Forest was applied and finetuned. The results clearly show that data analysis in the field...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the available literature related to ergonomical problems (especially musculoskeletal disorders) of truck drivers in order to trace the origin, objectives, trends and scope for future work. Design/methodology/approach – A review of research articles was conducted for various terms, namely, ergonomic, whole body vibration and musculoskeletal disord...

In this paper we steer wheeled nonholonomic systems that can be represented in a so called chained form Su cient conditions for converting a multiple input system with nonholonomic velocity constraints into a multiple chain single generator chained form via state feedback and a coordinate transformation are presented along with sinusoidal and polynomial control algorithms to steer such systems ...

Blood-engorged black flies were captured by 2 methods: early morning application of a quick knock down insecticide (resmethrin) into tree canopies, and late afternoon to early evening truck trapping. More engorged flies were captured per man-hour with the tree spraying method than with the truck trap. The percentages of females captured by the spraying and truck trap methods that were engorged ...

We have been developing new abilities of humanoid robot to realize proxy drives of a lift truck. Construction machines such as a lift truck play an important role in many tasks, but sometimes the environments are too hazardous for human operators. If a tele-operated humanoid robot can drive a construction machine, it can work at a dangerous place. This humanoid robot operator has two advantages...