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We present a method to dramatically reduce the level of effort and lead time required to take autonomy algorithms from initial development to field experiments when using shared assets. The method leverages the Docker containerization environment coupled with automatic configuration and deployment modules and a standardized autonomy framework. The result is a quickly-deployable, easily reconfigurable,...
Remora III, a 6,000-meter rated Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) designed, built, and operated by Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix), has performed extremely well during its 16 years of service as a search and recovery vehicle. While several mechanical upgrades have been made to the vehicle during this period, the desire to increase Remora's service capability and operational availability...
This paper addresses the development and implementation of a testbed for object's manipulation by using unmanned aerial vehicles AR.Drone and the VICON Cameras System. Such testbed allows the user to choose among two development environments to perform aerial manipulation establishing a communication with LabVIEW, ROS and the C++ Qt library; thus, the user can employ the development environment more...
Teaching first-year students is a balance between introducing technical content and providing perspective for students to forge connections to the context of what engineers do. Making the possible impact of engineers real and visible to introductory students in an authentic manner can be challenging. This paper describes the implementation and impact for a Traffic Simulation engineering design challenge...
This paper describes the process of designing a GUI (Graphical user interface) for a remotely operated quadrotor UAV. In the process of building this quadrotor project, SolidWork 2009 software was used to develop the prototype before the actual model is made. An IMU sensor is used to measure the orientation of the quadrotor which is processed by a microcontroller to indicate the current orientation...
The Train Communication Network (TCN) is a high-performance local area network for information transfer of modern train control, state detection, fault diagnosis and passenger service and so on. The Multifunction Vehicle Bus (MVB) is a critical part of the TCN and the design of the MVB's protocol analysis tool plays a very important function. Supported by the friendly Windows graphics user interface,...
We introduce integrated parking management system (IPMS) based on wireless sensor network. The system was designed with the object of a large scale deployment in existing facilities, and has been actually deployed to monitor over 400 parking spaces. This paper describes the fundamentals of hardware and software design, and several efforts to facilitate a long-term operation and ease of management...
Today a large number of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are evaluated or operated all over the world. Most of them use their own control systems created by the vehicle's manufacturer or scientists of different research areas. The Fraunhofer Application Center System Technology currently owns three underwater vehicles (both AUVs and remotely operated vehicles, ROVs), a forth is under development...
We present an interface for controlling mobile robots that combines aspects of graphical trajectory specification and state-based programming. This work is motivated by common tasks executed by our underwater vehicles, although we illustrate a mode of interaction that is applicable to mobile robotics in general. The key aspect of our approach is to provide an intuitive linkage between the graphical...
The main objective of this study is to design and implement a suitable algorithm and its simulation for vehicle detection to control road traffic. The system developed is able to detect moving metal objects (vehicles) and then to calculate the appropriate duration for the traffic signals at an intersection to operate. By employing mathematical functions to calculate the appropriate timing for the...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a portable control console for autonomous ocean-going vehicles and discusses lessons learned from operational deployments.
Cooperative systems based on V2X wireless communications offer promising opportunities for automotive safety and traffic efficiency improvement. Under preventive safety, cooperative assistance systems increase in-vehicle integrated safety systems functionality, enlarging driver's time-space perception as well as the quality and reliability of the environment data, and therefore enhancing his response...
This paper presents an architecture to support fast prototyping of augmented reality systems, based on virtual reality. The architecture defines simulation services separated from other aspects of the system. These services support incremental evolution of simulated prototypes into nonsimulated systems. Focus is also placed on user interaction,through the definition of an interaction architecture...
The trend over the past decade in computer science and computer engineering curricula has been to use computer graphics as a junior- or senior-level elective course focusing on 3-D graphics and data visualization. Alternatively, it is possible to develop a computer graphics course that can address core curricular needs beyond its obvious topical and algorithmic scope. The development of an interactive...
Traffic congestion on major roadways costs our nation billions of dollars in lost earnings, wasted fuel consumption, injury and loss of human life. Providing motorists with real time roadway conditions is essential to mitigating traffic congestion. We propose a novel real-time messaging system that can be used to communicate imminent traffic conditions to motorists. Having such information can allow...
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