Publications related to Off-road vehicle

pNEUMA dataset

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

pNEUMA is an open large-scale dataset of naturalistic trajectories of half a million vehicles that have been collected by a one-of-a-kind experiment by a swarm of drones in the congested downtown area of Athens, Greece. A unique observatory of traffic cong ...

Zenodo2024

Routing and charging game in ride-hailing service with electric vehicles

John Lygeros, Kenan Zhang

This paper studies the routing and charging behaviors of electric vehicles in a competitive ride-hailing market. When the vehicles are idle, they can choose whether to continue cruising to search for passengers, or move a charging station to recharge. The ...

IEEE2023

Artificial Intelligence for road quality assessment in smart cities: a machine learning approach to acoustic data analysis

Simon Elias Bibri

In smart cities, ensuring road safety and optimizing transportation efficiency heavily relies on streamlined road condition monitoring. The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has notably enhanced the capability to detect road surfaces effectively. ...

Springernature2023

Detecting Anomalies and Obstacles in Road Scenes

Krzysztof Maciej Lis

We address the problem of segmenting anomalies and unusual obstacles in road scenes for the purpose of self-driving safety. The objects in question are not present in the common training sets as it is not feasible to collect and annotate examples for every ...

EPFL2023

Potential of electric mobility as service to the grid in renewable energy hubs

François Maréchal, Cédric Terrier, Luise Middelhauve

The electrification of private mobility is becoming a popular solution to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. However, uncontrollable charging of a large electric vehicle fleet challenges the distribution grid due to transmission bottlenecks, voltage limi ...

2022

The applications of Internet of Things in the automotive industry: A review of the batteries, fuel cells, and engines

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The current advances in the integration of devices through the internet of things (IoT) have encouraged researchers to focus on the applications of IoT in the automotive industry. Although different achievements in the in-vehicle network analysis and traff ...

ELSEVIER2022

Vehicle sharing systems: A review and a holistic management framework

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

Although different vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) use different vehicle types, the management challenges and optimization problems to be solved are similar or even the same. This observation led us to create a generalized and holistic VSS management framew ...

2021

Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Florian Mueller

Significant shares of regional passenger railway still rely on pollutive diesel vehicles. Alstom, Bombardier, Siemens, and Stadler have reacted and recently announced Battery Electric and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (BEVs and FCEVs). In this paper, we anal ...

2020

Motor-wheel for an omni-directional mechanism and vehicle using the same

Mohsen Falahi

The present invention relates to a motor-wheel for an omni-directional motion vehicle, comprising a ring-shaped structure with a central axis, presenting an outer radial surface and an inner radial surface, whereby the outer radial surface comprises a plur ...

2020

Collecting Large-Scale Traffic Data with a Swarm of Drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

The new era of “big data” requires going past the current conventional methods for gathering traffic information that until now depend either on fixed-area sensors or GPS devices. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or just "drones" have been proposed as a moder ...

2020

Reliable Frequency Regulation through Vehicle-to-Grid: Encoding Legislation with Robust Constraints

Daniel Kuhn, François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger

Problem definition: Vehicle-to-grid increases the low utilization rate of privately owned electric vehicles by making their batteries available to electricity grids. We formulate a robust optimization problem that maximizes a vehicle owner’s expected profi ...

2024

An optimization framework for a light electric vehicle sharing system

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more and more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, imbalance of the vehicles, ...

2019

A framework for a vehicle sharing system

Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more and more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, imbalance of the vehicles, ...

2019

Range-based underwater target localization using an autonomous surface vehicle: Observability analysis

In the field of marine robotics, the problem of range based underwater target localization can be defined as that of localizing an unknown - fixed or moving - target from a surface vehicle called the tracker, using range information available about the tar ...

2018

Cooperative Perception Algorithms for Networked Intelligent Vehicles

Milos Vasic

The degree of intelligence built-in in today's vehicles in constantly on the rise. The vehicles are being equipped with sensors, with the goal to estimate the state of the vehicle and the environment surrounding it. Intelligent algorithms that process the ...

EPFL2017

On the use of reservation-based autonomous vehicles for demand management

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

Automated mobility on demand is foreseen as the future of urban passenger mobility. While mixed-traffic for autonomous and conventional vehicles could be considered, separation amplifies the benefits of automation. Combined with mobility as a service, sepa ...

2017

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

Internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the organic Rankine cycl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

An integrated optimization-simulation framework for vehicle and personnel relocations of electric carsharing systems with reservations

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Burak Boyaci, Konstantinos Zografos

One-way electric vehicle carsharing systems are receiving increasing attention due to their mobility, environmental, and societal benefits. One of the major issues faced by the operators of these systems is the optimization of the relocation operations of ...

Elsevier2017

Simulation of Cooperative Automated Driving by Bidirectional Coupling of Vehicle and Network Simulators

Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, David Mansolino, Guillaume Stefan Jornod

The convergence of sensor-based vehicle automation and Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) will be a key to achieve the full automation of vehicles. In this paper we present a new method for the design and performance evaluation of Cooperative Automated Driv ...

2017

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

An aerial vehicle including self-autonomous deployable arms and methods of deploying the vehicle are disclosed. The arms may include patterns located thereon that allow the arms to transition between wrapped, flat, and deployed configurations autonomously ...

2016