As the number of electric vehicles (EVs) significantly increases, excessive charging demand parked EVs in station may incur an instability problem to electricity network during peak hours. For take a microgrid (MG) structure, economical and energy-efficient power management scheme is required for provision while considering local load MG. these purposes, this study presents interdependent MG EV...

In this paper, we present a simple implementation of an ambulance robot controller. The responsibility of the ambulance in the system is to transport dead robots from their current location to a nearby charging station. This helps in solving the problem of having dead robots in the environment resulting in a more robust and autonomous system. Results from a simulated MedBot controller indicate ...

Trolley dilemmas are widely used to elicit moral intuitions. Most people do not think it would be morally right to push a heavy man from a bridge, thereby killing him, in order to avoid the death of several other people. Here we empirically tested a prediction by Unger (1996) who claims that adding more options to this scenario would shift people’s intuition from the normally preferred option o...

We consider a model of occupational choice in large economies where individuals differ in their wealth endowment. Individuals can remain self-employed or engage in productive matches with another individual, i.e., form firms. Matches are subject to a moral hazard problem with limited liability. The division of the gains from such matches is determined by competitive forces. When the incentive p...

The nexus of autonomous vehicle (AV) and electric vehicle (EV) technologies has important potential impacts on our transportation systems, particularly in the case of shared-use vehicles. There are natural synergies between shared AV fleets and EV technology, since fleets of AVs resolve the practical limitations of today’s non-autonomous EVs, including traveler range anxiety, access to charging...

A wireless charging station (WCS) transfers energy wirelessly to mobile nodes within its charging region. This paper investigates the impact of node speed on the throughput of WCS overlaid mobile networks when packet transmissions are constrained by the energy status of each node. The energy provision for each node depends on its moving speed. A slow-moving node outside the charging region is u...

We study how the electric vehicles (EVs) of today would perform in meeting the driving needs of vehicle owners, and propose an optimization model to find locations for charging stations needed to support EV usage. We take publicly available data from travel surveys that are person oriented and construct vehicle centric datasets. Chicago and Seattle metropolitan areas are selected as showcases f...