To be presented at the workshop "Organizing the search for technological innovation" Abstract This study analyzes the processes whereby organizations develop radical innovations in response to environmental transformations. It explores the complementary changes in organizational structures, practices and business strategies entailed by the implementation of such innovations. We build upon two s...

The heavy vehicle industry has today no requirement to provide a tire pressure monitoring system by law. This has created issues surrounding unknown tire pressure and thread depth during active service. There is also no standardization for these kind of systems which means that different manufacturers and third party solutions work after their own principles and it can be hard to know what work...

In this paper, a realistic simulation model for Wheeled Mobile Robot (WMR) is given by a dynamical system that switches between three models corresponding to three different tire/road contact conditions: ideal condition, skidding condition and slipping condition. Then, an algebraic based numerical identification for the discrete state (tire/road contact condition) of this switching system is pr...

Explicit solutions of the two-dimensional floating body problem (bodies that can float in all positions) for relative density ρ 6= 1 2 and of the tire track problem (tire tracks of a bicycle, which do not allow to determine, which way the bicycle went) are given, which differ from circles. Starting point is the differential equation given by the author in [12, 8]. The curves are also trajectori...

A steering by wired haptic system based on disturbance rejection control techniques is presented. High gain Generalized Proportional Integral (GPI) observers are considered for the estimation of tire and steering wheel dynamic disturbances. These disturbances are on line canceled to ensure efficient tracking between the commanded steering wheel angle and the tire orientation angle. The estimate...

Inflatable robotic rovers (IRRs) are a promising concept for long-range exploration and access to high-risk areas on planetary surfaces. Through inflation or expansion of their locomotion elements, inflatable rovers can achieve extraordinary terrainability not possible by other conventional mobility systems while maintaining respectable travel speeds. Early work by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborat...

For future advanced active safety systems, in road-vehicle applications, there will arise possibilities for enhanced vehicle control systems, due to refinements in, e.g., situation awareness systems. To fully utilize this, more extensive knowledge is required regarding the characteristics and dynamics of vehicle models employed in these systems. Motivated by this, an evaluative study for the la...