|Many services that were previously o ered only on a speci c device, now have become available on a wide range of devices. For example, E-mail is not only checked on a PC anymore, E-mail clients also exist for PDA's, cellular phones and prototypes of in-vehicle Platforms. End Users often switch between di erent devices | e.g. laptop, cellular phone, in-vehicle Platform | but they want to use th...

[Abstract] The paper deals with the optimal design of road vehicles and their subsystems. The highly competitive nature of the automotive industry demands constant product innovation and reduction in product development both in time and cost while satisfying performance and legal requirements. Optimization procedures provide a scientific approach to automatically determine the most efficient de...

Plus-sizing in the tire industry is the growing practice of replacing a vehicle’s original equipment wheel size with a larger diameter wheel and replacing the tire with a lower aspect ratio tire of the same diameter. This practice is normally associated with aftermarket sales, and there is a growing trend for vehicle dealerships to fit these larger wheels/tires to new cars. This paper discusses...

This paper presents a control architecture designed to accommodate a selection of modern control algorithms on a full-scale rotary-wing, unmanned aerial vehicle. The architecture integrates a visual landing system, two path planners, a flight envelope protection algorithm, and two low-level flight controllers that were developed independently by six agencies in academia and industry. A newly de...

This paper describes the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, which will be used to demonstrate multiple-vehicle flight control algorithms. Planned demonstrations include vehicle coordination experiments involving autonomous air, ground, and marine vehicles. More immediately, a system of two UAVs will be used to demonstrate adaptive visual tracking algorithms. To speed develo...

Automobile emissions such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter are coming under progressively strict regulations worldwide. Meeting the increasingly severe requirements will require wider use of electric vehicles, including hybrid electric cars, and of high-efficiency electrified powertrains for better fuel economy. For this, implementation of still more compact, higher outp...

Now in the world, the exchange of information between vehicles in the roads without any fixed infrastructure is enabled thanks to the novel technology of the Vehicular ad hoc networks called (VANETs). The accidents and congestions warning, Internet access e.g. via gateways along the road are the main applications of these networks related to the safety and comfort applications. A high requireme...

Energy absorption performance is one of the most important indexes in the vehicle safety during impact. Research on the car frontal structure energy performance and structure optimization was conducted in this paper. Whole vehicle model was established by HyperMesh and simulated in LS-DYNA. Simulation results indicated that modification was need for the original structure to meet requirement. B...

We developed a system that detects the vehicle driving immediately ahead of one’s own car in the same lane and measures the distance to and relative speed of that vehicle to prevent accidents such as rear-end collisions. The system is the first in the industry to use non-scanning millimeter-wave radar combined with a sturdy stereo image sensor, which keeps cost low. It can operate stably in adv...

In order to address the need for an affordable reduced gravity test platform, this work focuses on the analysis and implementation of atmospheric acceleration tracking with an autonomous aerial vehicle. As proof of concept, the vehicle is designed with the objective of flying accurate reduced-gravity parabolas. Suggestions from both academia and industry were taken into account, as well as requ...