The maximumof the degree of nonholonomy of the control system attached to a kinematic model for the car with n trailers is F n+3 where F n is the n th term of the Fibonacci's sequence (F 0 = 0; F 1 = 1; F n+2 = F n+1 + F n ; n 0). This value is obtained if and only if each trailer (except for the last one) is perpendicular to the previous one.

In this paper, we present a technique for automatic classification of movies based on their content. This technique analyses shot duration and motion energy of movie trailers to characterize them as Action/Character movies. This approach is then combined with a features-based technique for content-based retrieval of video. Experiments indicate a high retrieval accuracy (greater than 96%) togeth...

With rapid industrial development, the overloading of bridges caused by heavy multi-axle vehicles has become a critical problem worldwide. This work conducts performance-based evaluation for tied-arch subjected to vehicles, and prediction function dynamic impact factor (DIF) is proposed considering bridge frequency, vehicle speeds, road quality level. Specifically, main parameters affecting res...

Bike sharing systems (BSSs) are widely adopted in major cities of the world due to traffic congestion and carbon emissions. Although there have been approaches exploit either bike trailers via crowdsourcing or carrier vehicles reposition bikes “right” stations time, they did not jointly consider usage both vehicles. In this paper, we aim take advantage reduce loss demand by determining whether ...

Existing methods for nonholonomic feedback stabilization can only be applied to exactly nilpotentizable or flat systems. In this paper, a car towing two off-hooked trailers is considered as a canonical example of robot that does not fall into the above class. We show that exponential convergence to arbitrary configurations can be obtained by means of an iterative steering technique based on a n...

The Baltic Sea shipping is at a crossroads as sulphur regulation will lead to excessive cost increases from the year 2015 onwards and CO2 emission trading is planned to be implemented for the entire shipping sector within the EU area. Therefore, shipping is going to be minimized and hinterland transportation (road and rail) will act as substitute. This research analyzes the situation on one of ...

3 COPA, Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia {amedagli, nvelasco}@uniandes.edu.co In the truck and trailer problem (TTRP), raised for instance by milk collection in rural areas, a heterogeneous fleet composed of mt trucks and mr trailers (mr < mt) serves a set of customers N = {1, 2, ..., n} from a main depot, denoted as node 0. Each customer i ∈N h...

T a r g e t i n g t h e M a r k e t f o r first noticed a problem when they were S t o l e n G o o d s : P u t t i n g a plagued with an unusually high number of N e e d l e i n t o t h e H a y s t a c k "trailer theft" calls for service. During the first eight months of 1996, more than 37 trailJudge's Commentary ers were stolen and only three trailers were Officers and agencies wishing to enga...