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The distributed sensor network can be implemented in transport applications. There is a lot of information in traffic that can be used as a source for certain detections. In this case we are using acoustic emissions of the traffic. The idea is to analyze the captured audio signal and to identify vehicles with prior right of way. Thanks to distributed network the data may be processed in traffic lights...
In this research simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem of unmanned systems which has emerged in last decade is identified by detecting SLAM algorithms particularly in air vehicle platforms and particle filter based SLAM implementation of aerial systems is first introduced as well. Regarding to survey consequences the variety of SLAM applications span from parametric filters such as...
Automotive industry is about to make a cutting-edge step in terms of vehicular technologies by letting vehicles communicate with each other and create an Internet of Things composed by vehicles, i.e., an Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In this context, information dissemination is very useful in order to support safe critical tasks and to ensure reliability of the vehicular system. However, the industrial...
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are deployed in search and rescue operations where it is difficult for divers to reach. During the operation a fleet of AUVs communicate among themselves and exchange two type of information. The first includes control signal which has a low-data rate but has a very stringent bit error rate (BER) requirement and the second being the data collected by the AUVs...
In the era of the Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV), all components in an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) can be connected to improve the traffic safety and transportation efficiency. In order to maximize the utilization of the resources, e.g., computation, communication and storage resources, the cloud computing technique could be integrated into vehicular networks. Meanwhile, a cloud-assisted vehicular...
Platooning is an emergent vehicular application aiming at increasing road safety, efficiency and driving comfort. The cooperation between the vehicles in a platoon is achieved by the frequent exchange of periodic broadcast Cooperative Awareness Messages (CAMs) also known as beacons. CAM triggering conditions are drafted in the standard ETSI EN 302 637-2 and are based on the dynamics of an originating...
We study the presence of social communities in mobility traces from vehicular fleets. By analyzing publicly available sets of fleet vehicle mobility traces obtained from two real-world deployments — consisting of more than 2000 taxis in Shanghai and Beijing respectively, we confirm the existence of small numbers of distinct social communities in vehicular networks, which is in direct contrast to the...
Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs) have been attracted a lot of research recent years. Although VANETs are deployed in reality offering several services, the current architecture has been facing many difficulties in deployment and management because of poor connectivity, less scalability, less flexibility and less intelligence. We propose a new VANET architecture called FSDN which combines two emergent...
In this paper, a load sharing strategy based on control allocation with a modified pseudo inverse method is developed and used to generate virtual control inputs for the actuators of a flexibly coupled multi-motor system. The performance of the control allocation algorithm is compared with that of equal distribution. By taking into consideration copper, iron, mechanical and inverter losses, the proposed...
The international interdisciplinary field training of marine robotics and applications 'Breaking the Surface BtS started in 2009 as one of the two flagship dissemination activities of the EU-funded FP7 Capacities REGPOT-2008-1 project ‘De-veloping the Croatian Underwater Robotics Research Potential — CURE’. Three BtS field-trainings were organized as CURE activities (BtS2009, BtS2010 and BtS2011)...
This work reports the experience gathered along 6 years in developing a team-based project activity to promote engineering programs among secondary school students. The aim of the activity is to increase the interest of students for science and technology in general, but also to promote engineering skills, capabilities and values, leading to attract more secondary school students to enrolment for...
Increasing safety and environmental requirements of modern cities transport infrastructure rely on progress in the area of intelligent transportation systems and presume the widespread use of V2V and V2I communication to implement the user-oriented cloud services like persistent Internet access, traffic accidents information and routing capabilities. Because of the noticeable time delay in vehicles...
In this paper, we describe our system for object tracking over a multiple-camera network task in BigMM Challenge in conjunction with the first IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2015). We focus on the detection and tracking of pedestrians and vehicles. Based on background modeling, we use HOG and SVM to detect pedestrian and morphological processing to detect vehicle in single...
As cars are ubiquitous in today's and tomorrow's cities they could play a major role in the communication of the future. In the last years the development of Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) took huge steps forward and therefore gives us exactly the tools needed to accomplish this task. We propose an architecture, named Car4ICT, that puts cars into the middle of future ICT systems. In this system...
In cognitive vehicular networks, unlicensed secondary users heavily depend on spectrum sensing to find unused spectrum bands for communications. The performance study of existing spectrum sensing algorithms often overlooks the impact of secondary user mobility.Many of them assume secondary users stationary or with low mobility. In this paper, we investigate the joint impact of secondary user mobility...
This paper proposes a conceptual framework and experimental analysis of low-cost bus tracking system. This system eases every user with a simple basic functionality mobile phone to get the information of the bus. The main advantage of the system is that it neither requires a GPS nor an internet connection. The user has to simply send a sms from his mobile phone in a specified format to a standard...
This paper describes the possibilities of automotive series production short range radar sensors in a vehicle environment for Highly Automated Driving. Four 24GHz sensors in our test vehicle provide measurements for an occupancy grid based environmental perception approach. Two example scenarios show the usage of the short range radar data for landmark detection and for free space estimation in construction...
The availability of high-resolution image radars allows estimating the orientation of vehicles from a single measurement without temporal filtering. This gives the opportunity to react even faster to certain critical traffic scenes. This paper presents an approach for estimating the orientation of a vehicle. The orientated bounding box algorithm known from literature is adapted to this end and a quality...
The usual search options provided in music player are very less in number. In this paper, the number of options for accessing the music player are increased. The ARM 7 Microprocessor is used to perform the control operation. Here speech recognition and touch interface are used to access the music player. This is beneficial to people in many ways.
Collegiate competitions provide a way for University students to gain a multi-discipline and multi-cultural experience while working on a real-world engineering project. These competitions rely on the natural competitive drive of students to force them to move beyond their comfort bounds to work with individuals from different educational and cultural backgrounds.
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