This paper proposes a cost-effective method to estimate the vehicle sideslip angle on various frictional surfaces on banked roads. This paper demonstrates that the vehicle sideslip can be estimated by combining measurements of Global Positioning System (GPS), Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and a magnetometer in the Kalman filter framework. Among all the measurements, the magnetometer is the m...

An improved algorithm for two-dimensional triangular mesh generation in arbitrary polygonally bounded domains with holes and isolated interior points is presented. The algorithm is quad-tree based and follows the ideas of Bern, Eppstein and Gilbert 1]. Using a rhomboid structure of the quad-tree and a number of new ideas for warping and centering points and for shifting grids, we are able to ge...

Full utilization of multispectral data acquired by whiskbroom and pushbroom imagers requires that the individual channels be registered accurately. Poor registration introduces errors which can be signiicant, especially in high contrast areas such as boundaries between regions. We simulate the acquisition of multispectral imagery in order to estimate the errors that are introduced by co-registr...

Drivable free space information is vital for autonomous vehicles that have to plan evasive maneuvers in realtime. In this paper, we present a new efficient method for environmental free space detection with laser scanner based on 2D occupancy grid maps (OGM) to be used for Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS). Firstly, we introduce an enhanced inverse...

Self reactanceXd in direct axis ’d’ and self reactanceXq in quadrature axis ’q’ influence the load characteristics of the permanent magnet machine. Their calculation methods are known. All calculations should be verified by measurements. Measurement with AC variable voltage and frequency source applied on stator winding is correct when eddy currents do not exist. Other methods evaluate the DC c...

We investigate the properties of geometrically modified water models by performing molecular dynamics simulations of perturbations of the extended simple point charge (SPC/E) model of water over a wide range of temperatures at 1 bar. The geometric modification consists of altering the H-O-H angle in SPC/E. The dipole moment is held constant by altering the O-H bond length, while the electrostat...

a field study was undertaken with four farming systems (fs) such as; grasses and fodders, agro-forestry, agriculture (new farming systems) and shifting cultivation (old practice), to investigate the effect of land use on the soil properties, erosion and crop productivity on a loamy acidic alfisol. besides crops, the livestock were also kept and their dropping were incorporated in the respective...