Detecting mud hazards is a significant challenge to unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) autonomous offroad navigation. A military UGV stuck in a mud body during a mission may need to be sacrificed or rescued, both unattractive options. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is currently developing a daytime mud detection capability under the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Robotics Collaborative Technology Alli...

CMC polymer is used as an additive to decrease water loss and mud-cake-thickness in mud drilling. In this study, the effect of CMC and CMC nanoparticles on water loss and mud-cake-thickness in mud drilling is investigated. CMC nanoparticles are made by using of ball milling and their size is measured by Particle size analyzer. CMC and CMC nanoparticles which were prepared by Hamilton batch mixe...

Position: 39°21.9370′N, 72°41.6750′W Start hole: 1400 hr, 29 June 1997 End hole: 1500 hr, 2 July 1997 Time on hole: 73 hr (3.04 days) Seafloor (drill pipe measurement from rig floor, mbrf): 109.5 Total depth (drill pipe measurement from rig floor, mbrf): 416.3 Distance between rig floor and sea level (m): 11 Water depth (drill pipe measurement from sea level, m): 98.1 Penetration (mbsf): 306.8 ...

In the natural gas pipelines, so-called black powder is formed. It can take many forms, including wet tarred substance or fine dry powder. Black occurs in both newer and older pipelines. This disrupt distribution of either by interrupting to customer reducing quality products delivered customers. residue, damage operations that place transport such as reduced inspection accuracy, erosion contro...

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In the Bayer process of extraction of alumina from bauxite, the insoluble product generated after bauxite digestion with sodium hydroxide at elevated temperature and pressure is known as ̳red mud‘ or ̳bauxite residue‘. Enormous quantity of red mud is generated worldwide every year posing a very serious and alarming environmental problem. This paper describes the production and characterization ...

There is little question that current role-playing MUD systems provide entertainment for their users. Nevertheless, experience with these systems, however entertaining, often falls short of the compelling, rich and varied experiences we associate with dramatic art. This limitation is in part due to the nature of control in MUDs. Control within a MUD is, by de nition, distributed; unlike convent...

An investigation was conducted to estimate approximate production and assess the marketing of mud crab in the south-western region of Bangladesh. Crab culture was done by hardening and fattening collected from the natural source. Most of the fattening farms were 0.2 to 2 acres. Fattening and hardening period varied from 10 to 30 days. The Sundarban mangrove, tidal rivers, estuaries, canals, shr...

Based on the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) between the data stream and the linear combiner output, a new multiuser detection (MUD) algorithm that combines space–time (ST) processing and antenna array on directsequence CDMA signals is proposed. The proposed ST-MUD algorithm is proved to be equivalent to two existing MMSE-based ST-MUD algorithms, and the theoretical BER performances for all t...

This paper analyzes performance of optimal channel estimation and multiuser detection (MUD) in a block-fading code-division multiple-access (CDMA) channel on the assumptions of random spreading and large-system limit, by using the replica method developed in statistical mechanics. The authors find that the asymptotic spectral efficiency of the linear minimum mean-squared error (LMMSE) MUD which...