Design and validation of the reconfiguration strategy for a redundantly actuated intelligent autonomous vehicle T K Bera, R Merzouki, B Ould Bouamama and A K Samantaray 1 LAGIS, UMR CNRS 8219, Polytech’Lille, Avenue Paul Langevin, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 721302 Kharagpur, India Abstract: This article deals with the ...

The basic principle of optimal traffic control is the appropriate real-time response to dynamic traffic flow changes. Signal plan efficiency depends on a large number of input parameters. An actuated signal system can adjust very well to traffic conditions, but cannot fully adjust to stochastic traffic volume oscillation. Due to the complexity of the problem analytical methods are not applicabl...

15. Supplementary Notes Supported by a rant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. 16. Abstract Arterial traffic signal control is a very important aspect of traffic management system. Efficient arterial traffic signal control strategy can reduce delay, stops, congestion, and pollution and save travel time. Commonly used pre-timed or traffic actu...

The promise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) technology is to augment human capabilities by enabling interaction with computers through a conscious and spontaneous modulation of the brainwaves after a short training period. Indeed, by analyzing brain electrical activity online, several groups have designed brain-actuated devices that provide alternative channels for communication, entertainme...

During robotic assembly of flexible payloads, gravity and inertial forces acting on these payloads may induce both static shape deformation and vibration of the thin-walled payloads. Static deformations, which arise from deformation of the part due to its own weight under the influence of gravity, lead to misalignment of mating points of the part. Unwanted vibrations, arising from inertial forc...

Quadrotors are coming up as an attractive platform for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research, due to the simplicity of their structure and maintenance, their ability to hover, and their vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability. With the vast advancements in small-size sensors, actuators and processors, researches are now focusing on developing mini UAV’s to be used in both research and ...

For their inherent stability and simplicity, wheeled robots are very common in robotics applications – but a major drawback of wheeled robots is their inability to navigate over large obstacles or steps without assistance. Active systems that have been designed for use on wheeled robots to lift the robot over a step – such as USU‟s T3 and Virginia Tech‟s IMPASS – are effective, but are limited ...

This paper describes two innovative brain-actuated applications for rehabilitation developed in the University of Zaragoza: the first one is a brainactuated wheelchair with automated navigation, and the second one is a brain-actuated robot to carry out teleoperation tasks between remote places. Briefly, the subject faces a real-time virtual reconstruction of the scenario (wheelchair) or video c...

Abstract: A hierarchical sliding mode control approach is proposed for a class of SIMO under-actuated systems. This class of under-actuated systems is made up of several subsystems. Based on this physical structure, the hierarchical structure of the sliding surfaces is designed as follows. At first, the sliding surface of every subsystem is defined. Then the sliding surface of one subsystem is ...