On August 1, 2007, the I-35W bridge crossing the Mississippi river collapsed. In addition to the human tragedy that it caused, the bridge failure also impacted how people moved. The bridge on average carried 140,000 vehicles daily and the failure required a significant amount of traffic find new routes to reach their destinations. In its aftermath travelers had to adjust their trips, requiring ...

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In vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems, electric vehicles interact with the grid as distributed energy storage systems that offer many potential benefits. As an energy interface between a vehicle and the grid, the bidirectional converter plays a crucial role in their interaction. Its reliability, safety, cost, efficiency, weight, size, harmonics, and other factors are of essential importance for V2G ...

Object detection and tracking have been studied separately in most cases. Particle filtering has proven very successful for non-linear and nonGaussian estimation problems. This paper presents a new method for tracking moving vehicles with temporal disappearance. The proposed method can continue tracking after disappearance. Color distribution of objects is integrated into particle filtering alg...