An advanced engineering mechanics course teaches students to analyze and model a variety of dynamical systems using Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics approaches. The modeling task typically produces nonlinear differe...
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(纸本)0791847233
An advanced engineering mechanics course teaches students to analyze and model a variety of dynamical systems using Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics approaches. The modeling task typically produces nonlinear differential equations that are best solved numerically. In order to prepare students to competently solve these systems numerically, the students must master a suitable programming environment. This mastery is achieved incrementally throughout the semester. This paper describes a successful approach to developing the necessary programming skills, culminating in a course project in which the students model a complex dynamical system and produce a graphical animation allowing visualization of dynamical behavior. The paper also describes two typical course projects that have been successfully completed by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Copyright 2004 by ASME.
The predicted dramatic increase in demand for IT workers in the next decade suggests an opportunity for IT educators to establish plans to ramp up to meet these needs. The purpose of this paper is to help educators un...
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The predicted dramatic increase in demand for IT workers in the next decade suggests an opportunity for IT educators to establish plans to ramp up to meet these needs. The purpose of this paper is to help educators understand factors that are important to IT workers and that can be influenced by the educational process. The work reported here is part of an NSF grant that explored current IT worker experiences and motivations. Data for the study was collected using a forty-four-item questionnaire sent to currently employed IT workers in the Boston area. Stepwise multiple linear regression was used to relate certain outcome variables to attributes and opinions of the respondents as represented by question item responses. Relationships have been discovered that will help educators craft academic programs and identify potentially successful students in IT. For example, the analysis indicates questionnaire items associated with the challenge presented by an IT profession and family educational backgrounds in technical areas are important outcome predictors, while gender and age are less important.
The positioning problem of mobile robot is an important part of control problem for mobile robot. Dead Reckoning is widely used for positioning of mobile robot. However this method has problems because it accumulates ...
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In this paper, the position of a mobile robot using DGPS(Differential GPS) and UPS(UItrasonic Positioning System) is measured and the performance of UPS is analyzed using DGPS. UPS is absolute positioning system using...
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This paper presents an integrated damper and pressure reset (IDPR) method for variable air volume (VAV) system fan control. The IDPR method controls the static pressure at a minimum required level while maintaining at...
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Experiments were performed to reveal how humans acquire information about the shape and mechanical properties of surfaces through touch and how this information affects the execution of trajectories over the surface. ...
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Experiments were performed to reveal how humans acquire information about the shape and mechanical properties of surfaces through touch and how this information affects the execution of trajectories over the surface. Subjects were instructed to make reaching movements between points lying on the boundary of a virtual planar disk object of varying stiffness. It was found that subjects' trajectory adaptation was dependent on the stiffness of the object. When the virtual boundary exceeded a threshold stiffness, subjects adapted by learning to produce a smooth trajectory on the object boundary, while at lower stiffness they adapted by recovering their original kinematic pattern of movement in free space. This adaptation suggests the internal representation of two distinct categories through a continuum of force fields: force perturbations and object boundaries. In the first case, the interaction forces are opposed and the trajectory is restored. In the second case, the trajectory is modified so as to reduce the interaction forces.
In 1997, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded three Earthquake engineering Research Centers (EERCs) to focus on earthquake hazard mitigation through systems-oriented research, education and outreach, and indus...
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In this paper, the position of a mobile robot using DGPS (differential GPS) and UPS (ultrasonic positioning system) is measured and the performance of UPS is analyzed using DGPS. UPS is absolute positioning system usi...
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(纸本)0780387309
In this paper, the position of a mobile robot using DGPS (differential GPS) and UPS (ultrasonic positioning system) is measured and the performance of UPS is analyzed using DGPS. UPS is absolute positioning system using ultrasonic waves and has better performance in low price than the other absolute positioning systems. So in order to evaluate the performance, UPS is compared with the RTK (real-time kinematics) method, which is of the most accurate methods in the DGPS. As a result, the possibility of using UPS can be discussed as pseudolites or pseudosatellites in the place where GPS is not available.
The positioning problem of mobile robot is an important part of control problem for mobile robot. Dead Reckoning is widely used for positioning of mobile robot. However this method has problems because it accumulates ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780387309
The positioning problem of mobile robot is an important part of control problem for mobile robot. Dead Reckoning is widely used for positioning of mobile robot. However this method has problems because it accumulates estimation errors. In this paper, we propose a new method to increase the accuracy of estimated position using the U-SAT (Ultrasonic Satellite system). U-SAT is composed of a distance measurement using ultrasonic wave and the position acquisition in the world coordinate using the GPS. It is shown that we will be able to estimate the position of mobile robot precisely, in which errors are not accumulated. The experimental results show that the proposed method is enable to estimate the position of the mobile robot.
This paper describes the development of navigation system for an autonomous ground vehicle at limited area by using RTK-DGPS. Before the autonomous drive, we make map data by using RTK-DGPS that is a reference traject...
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(纸本)0780387309
This paper describes the development of navigation system for an autonomous ground vehicle at limited area by using RTK-DGPS. Before the autonomous drive, we make map data by using RTK-DGPS that is a reference trajectory for the autonomous vehicle. The navigation system with map data computes the yaw angle of the vehicle by using its present position and next position. And the steering wheel of the vehicle is controlled by using fuzzy logic controller. A prototype of the autonomous vehicle by the navigation method is developed and navigation performance of the system is evaluated. The experimental results show that the navigation system based RTK-DGPS can exactly track the map at the low speed. We expect that this navigation system can be more accurate by augmenting other sensors.
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