The protection of vulnerable road users (VRU) remains one of the most challenging problems for our society and several governmental and consumer organization has set targets to reduce the VRU fatality and injury rates...
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(纸本)9781467321181
The protection of vulnerable road users (VRU) remains one of the most challenging problems for our society and several governmental and consumer organization has set targets to reduce the VRU fatality and injury rates. The automotive industry is, therefore, developing pedestrian and cyclist detection systems that combine pre-crash sensing, risk estimation and vehicle dynamicscontrol (braking, steering) with the objective to meet the challenging VRU accident reduction targets set by various governments. The complexity of VRU detection makes the development process of these systems a complicated and time-consuming activity. Simulation software can help to overcome these difficulties by providing an efficient and safe environment for designing and evaluating VRU safety systems. This paper outlines the use of a software packages that provide the ability to cover all critical aspects of VRU safety design. It focuses on the sensing and controlsystems, as well as the evaluation of these systems for a range of different traffic scenarios. The presented system model uses fused information from radar model for collision estimation and vision sensor model for object classification, to deploy autonomous braking and thus mitigate the effect of collision with VRUs.
Electroporation is an effective means to deliver molecules into the cellular cytoplasm, and has been widely applied in both biological research and clinical applications. The process however suffers from low viability...
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(纸本)9780791854761
Electroporation is an effective means to deliver molecules into the cellular cytoplasm, and has been widely applied in both biological research and clinical applications. The process however suffers from low viability and efficiency. In this work, we present a multi-pulse feedback control scheme for enhancing viability and efficiency of electroporation process. We first present a spherical model for cell transmembrane potential (TMP) dynamics to describe the spatial distribution of electric potential on cell membrane. Then we analyze the models and discuss the bifurcation property of the system. Based on the dynamic models, we design a nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) to track pore size profiles in electroporation. We demonstrate that by using NMPC, the pore size can be precisely regulated to targeted values for drug delivery applications. The control design is illustrated through simulation examples.
Particle processes with agglomeration or breakage are often described by population balances. This leads to mathematical models containing partial integro differential equations. It is quite challenging to solve such ...
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Late-phasing homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) operating conditions have the potential to expand the useful operating range of HCCI. However, these conditions exhibit significant variation in combustion t...
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(纸本)9780791854761
Late-phasing homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) operating conditions have the potential to expand the useful operating range of HCCI. However, these conditions exhibit significant variation in combustion timing and work output from one cycle to the next. Cyclic variations in the combustion timing of HCCI combustion at late-phasing operating conditions can be removed through the use of cycle-to-cycle control of pilot fuel injection timing. A nonlinear, discrete-time model of the recompression HCCI process captures the oscillations in late-phasing HCCI;when this model is linearized, it represents these dynamics as a pole on the negative real-axis. A simple lag compensator eliminates the oscillations in combustion phasing and drastically improves the operability of late-phasing HCCI. in both simulation and experiment.
This work aims to develop an approach to study and capture the collective dynamics of particulate systems, which are important for operation of those processes. The collective dynamics of particles in a horizontal rot...
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In this paper, a Fault Detection (FD) procedure for Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) systems via analytical redundancy is presented. The motivation to develop this work is to generalize the parity space approach for dyn...
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We present a new approach to motion planning under sensing and motion uncertainty by computing a locally optimal solution to a continuous partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). Our approach represents b...
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We present a new approach to motion planning under sensing and motion uncertainty by computing a locally optimal solution to a continuous partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). Our approach represents beliefs (the distributions of the robot's state estimate) by Gaussian distributions and is applicable to robot systems with non-linear dynamics and observation models. The method follows the general POMDP solution framework in which we approximate the belief dynamics using an extended Kalman filter and represent the value function by a quadratic function that is valid in the vicinity of a nominal trajectory through belief space. Using a belief space variant of iterative LQG (iLQG), our approach iterates with second-order convergence towards a linear control policy over the belief space that is locally optimal with respect to a user-defined cost function. Unlike previous work, our approach does not assume maximum-likelihood observations, does not assume fixed estimator or control gains, takes into account obstacles in the environment, and does not require discretization of the state and action spaces. The running time of the algorithm is polynomial (O[n(6)]) in the dimension n of the state space. We demonstrate the potential of our approach in simulation for holonomic and non-holonomic robots maneuvering through environments with obstacles with noisy and partial sensing and with non-linear dynamics and observation models.
In this note, we present a model-free approach to solve an active fault-tolerant control problem in the behavioral framework. In our control structure, we do not require an explicit fault diagnosis module that identif...
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For model based controlsystems, such as MPC, the model plays a key role in controller design and tuning. For linear systems, many different approaches have been well developed for MPM detection while nonlinearity was...
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The parallel hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) with a single pre-transmission electric motor (the P2 configuration) has a challenging drivability issue during engine-starts because the motor must simultaneously provide th...
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(纸本)9780791854761
The parallel hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) with a single pre-transmission electric motor (the P2 configuration) has a challenging drivability issue during engine-starts because the motor must simultaneously provide the propulsion torque demand and start the engine. The goal of this study is to present a design process to achieve optimal balance between these two conflicting goals. We first develop a control-oriented HEV powertrain model to accurately predict the engine, clutch, and vehicle dynamics. Assuming that the clutch torque can be accurately estimated and perfectly cancelled, an optimal engine-start control problem is formulated to minimize engine-start time while accurately supplying the driver torque demand simultaneously. This nonlinear constrained optimal control problem is solved numerically using Dynamic Programming (DP). DP results show that a proper constant clutch pressure level, which leads to constant torque disturbance that is easy to cancel out using the motor, can achieve near-optimal performance. Furthermore, the DP control policy is found to be time-invariant, and thus can be directly implemented in the form of a full state feedback controller
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