Coordinating traffic signals can provide great savings to motorists in terms of reduced delays and number of vehicular stops. In order to maximize benefits, engineers need to use a mechanism by which the most optimal timing plans are activated when the traffic patterns change. Common ways of accomplishing this need is by using Time of Day (TOD) plan scheduling, or Traffic Responsive Plan Select...

Santa Barbara Infrared is working with TNO Human Factors Research Institute to develop the equipment and procedures necessary for a new standardized test method for characterizing electro-optical system performance. This method called Triangle Orientation Discrimination (TOD), offers a statistically more accurate and less subjective method of characterizing electro-optical system performance. T...

In this paper, a task-oriented design (TOD) procedure is proposed by which a robotic arm can be designed to achieve predefined tasks. To define the target tasks, we have spent about six months, observing everyday life of disabled people, and have determined 12 important tasks. By using TOD procedure in a coherent and consistent manner, we have developed a working prototype of a care-providing r...

This study seeks to examine the ways in which transit agencies and local governments have been considering transportation needs of older adults when planning for transit-oriented development (TOD). Surveys with representatives from a sample (n= 15) (n=31) across US were conducted. Few surveyed indicated that they had specific practices encourage TOD help meet adults. Respondents identified cost...

Tod Morrison University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center 14.

As the labeling cost for different modules in task-oriented dialog (ToD) systems is high, a major challenge to learn tasks with least amount of labeled data. Recently, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown promising results few-shot learning ToD. To better utilize power PLMs, this paper proposes Comprehensive Instruction (CINS) that exploits PLMs extra task-specific instructions. We des...