Browsing by Subject "Acceleration"

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Acceleration-dependent sampling for ingestible endoscopic imaging capsule

Demosthenous, P.; Georgiou, J. (IEEE, 2012)

A methodology is proposed for regulating the image-acquisition sampling rate of endoscopic capsules. The proposed method utilizes acceleration information to increase the sampling rate during rapid movement. In order to ...

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Analysis of traffic flow with mixed manual and semiautomated vehicles

Bose, A.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2003)

The introduction of semiautomated vehicles designed to operate with manually driven vehicles is a realistic near-term objective. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on traffic-flow characteristics and ...

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Evaluation of ACC vehicles in mixed traffic: Lane change effects and sensitivity analysis

Ioannou, Petros A.; Stefanovic, M. (2005)

Almost every automobile company is producing vehicles with adaptive cruise control (ACC) system onboard that enables a vehicle to do automatic vehicle following in the longitudinal direction. The ACC system is designed for ...

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Generating proper dynamic models for truck mobility and handling

Louca, Loucas S.; Rideout, D. G.; Stein, J. L.; Hulbert, G. M. (2004)

The effectiveness and utility of an energy-based model reduction algorithm for two different vehicle system modeling applications are discussed. The first case study focuses on the vehicle dynamics model of a military ...

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Simulation of the response of ancient columns under harmonic and earthquake excitations

Komodromos, Petros I.; Papaloizou, Loizos; Polycarpou, Panayiotis (2008)

In this paper, the seismic behavior of ancient monumental structures with monolithic or multi-drum classical columns is investigated. In particular, the Discrete Element Methods (DEM) are utilized in the study of ancient ...