A crawling Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) has been developed for scientific activities within coastal and estuarine regions of the ocean for multiple research activities such as environmental impact assessment and integrated coastal zone management. The Modular Amphibious Research Crawler (MARC-1) ROV is designed to operate underwater and in the surfzone to a depth of five meters. The vehicle ...

Autonomous flight of a single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle has become routine for many research teams. Our interests include multi-vehicle operation as well as developing guidance and control algorithms for each vehicle. These algorithms also need to be implemented in flight hardware and successfully flight tested. A flexible simulation environment is one of the key ingredients towards this goal, mo...

Dynamic stability is critical to achieve the safety of cars, particularly during emergency maneuvers. Coordinated control algorithms are suggestive enhanced and a vehicle. Hence, novel adaptive robust multi-input framework developed using combination direct yaw moment (DYC) active front steering (AFS). The dynamics system mechanism included for reliability proposed scheme. controller according ...

This paper presents a novel lateral stability control system for electric vehicle based on sideslip angle estimation through Kalman filter using the integration of a single antenna GPS receiver and yaw rate sensor. Using multi-rate measurements including yaw rate and course angle, time-varying parameters disappear from the measurement equation of the proposed Kalman filter. Accurate sideslip an...

When an elementary or secondary school student is away from school for an extended period of time due to illness, the student is provided with a tutor or access to in-hospital classrooms to keep up with his/her studies. This arrangement is not only expensive but isolates the child from normal, everyday classroom experiences. PEBBLES (Providing Education By Bringing Learning Environments to Stud...

Airbreathing hypersonic systems offer distinct performance advantages over rocket-based systems for space access vehicles. However, these performance advantages are dependent upon advances in current state-of-the-art technologies in many areas such as ram/scramjet propulsion integration, high temperature materials, aero-elastic structures, thermal protection systems, transition to hypersonics a...

Control of wellbore pressure during drilling operations has always been important in the oil industry as this can prevent the possibility of well blowout. The present research employs a combination of automatic process control and statistical process control for the first time for the identification, monitoring, and control of both random and special causes in drilling operations. To this end, ...