Publications related to Adaptive cruise control

Design ontology for cognitive thread supporting traceability management in model-based systems engineering

Industrial information integration engineering (IIIE) is an interdisciplinary field to facilitate the industrial information integration process. In the age of complex and large-scale systems, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is widely adopted in ind ...

Elsevier2024

The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back

Auke Ijspeert, Pavan P Ramdya

Robotics and neuroscience are sister disciplines that both aim to understand how agile, efficient, and robust locomotion can be achieved in autonomous agents. Robotics has already benefitted from neuromechanical principles discovered by investigating anima ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2023

Haptics based collaborative steering control in automated driving environments

Tomohiro Nakade

A vehicle's steering is a particular system in that it is exposed to individual subjective reviews based on criteria that are hard to assess quantitatively. Haptic design of such systems is a prime concern that has been at the center of industrial developm ...

EPFL2023

On the Self-Calibration of Aerodynamic Coefficients in Vehicle Dynamic Model-Based Navigation

Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré

The performance of vehicle dynamic model (VDM)-based navigation largely depends on the accurate determination of aerodynamic coefficients that are unknown a priori. Among different techniques, such as model simulations or experimental analysis in a wind tu ...

2020

Small Variance Asymptotics for Non-Parametric Online Robot Learning

Sylvain Calinon, Ajay Kumar Tanwani

Small variance asymptotics is emerging as a useful technique for inference in large scale Bayesian non-parametric mixture models. This paper analyses the online learning of robot manipulation tasks with Bayesian non-parametric mixture models under small va ...

2019

Extracting High Resolution Snow Distribution Information with Inexpensive Autonomous Cameras

Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Steven Vincent Weijs

This study details a procedure to derive high resolution snow cover information using low-cost autonomous cameras. Images from time lapse photography of target areas are used to obtain temporally resolved binary snow-covered area information. Various image ...

EasyChair2018

Dexterous Underwater Manipulation from Distant Onshore Locations

Sylvain Calinon, Ajay Kumar Tanwani

Underwater manipulation is a challenging problem. The state of the art is dominated by Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV). ROV operations typically require an offshore crew consisting of at least an intendant, an operator, and a navigator. This crew often ha ...

2018

Detecting EEG correlates during preparation of complex driving maneuvers

Lucian Andrei Gheorghe

The main focus of this research is the development of real-time recording and analysis devices and algorithms for detecting Electroencephalography (EEG) correlates of steering actions. First, offline analysis where performed in a high fidelity driving simu ...

EPFL2017

Adaptive Assistance for Brain-Computer Interfaces by Online Prediction of Command Reliability

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Robert Leeb, Sareh Saeedi

One of the challenges of using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) over extended periods of time is the variation of the users' performance across different experimental days. The goal of the current study is to propose a performance estimator for an electroe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Autonomous Vehicle Dynamic Model-Based Navigation for Small UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs, with no extra sensor added to the conventional INS/GNSS setup. The proposed method significantly increases the accuracy and reliability of autonomous navigation, especially for s ...

2016

Reliability and Adaptive Assistance in Brain-Computer Interfaces

Sareh Saeedi

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim at offering an interaction modality for people with severe motor disabilities. Despite promising advances, BCIs are still confronted with multiple challenges in determining user's intentions reliably, mainly due to high ...

EPFL2016

Image processing on reconfigurable hardware for continuous monitoring of fluorescent biomarkers in cell cultures

Julien Michel Ghaye

Fluorescence microscopy is a widespread tool in biological research. It is the primary modality for bioimaging and empowers the study and analysis of multitudes of biological processes. It can be applied to fixed biosamples, that is samples with frozen bio ...

EPFL2015

EEG-based decoding of error-related brain activity in a real-world driving task

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Huaijian Zhang, Lucian Andrei Gheorghe, Zahra Khaliliardali

Objectives. Recent studies have started to explore the implementation of brain–computer interfaces (BCI) as part of driving assistant systems. The current study presents an EEG-based BCI that decodes error-related brain activity. Such information can be us ...

Institute of Physics2015

Network of automated vehicles: The AutoNet2030 vision

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Arnaud de La Fortelle, Jean Grégoire

AutoNet2030 – Co-operative Systems in Support of Networked Automated Driving by 2030 – is a European project connecting two domains of intensive research: cooperative systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Automated Driving. Given the latest de ...

2014

Control concepts for facilitating motorway on-ramp merging using intelligent vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Congestion at motorway junctions is a traffic phenomenon that degrades operation of infrastructure and can lead to breakdown of traffic flow and associated reduction in capacity. Advanced communication technologies open new possibilities to prevent or at l ...

2014

Flexible triangular formation keeping of marine robotic vehicles using range measurements

Colin Neil Jones, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This paper addresses the problem of keeping an autonomous marine vehicle in a moving triangular formation by regulating its position with respect to two leader vehicles. The follower vehicle has no prior knowledge of the path described by the leaders but h ...

2014

Real-time model learning using Incremental Sparse Spectrum Gaussian Process Regression

Novel applications in unstructured and non-stationary human environments require robots that learn from experience and adapt autonomously to changing conditions. Predictive models therefore not only need to be accurate, but should also be updated increment ...

2013

Factors affecting the development and dynamics of hypoxia in a large shallow stratified lake: Hourly to seasonal patterns

Damien Bouffard

[1] The examination of hypoxia in the hypolimnion of large lakes traditionally focuses on the assessment of its spatial and temporal extent and its effect on water quality. In Lake Erie, hypoxia typically occurs between July and October in the central basi ...

American Geophysical Union2013

SCOOP: A Real-Time Sparsity Driven People Localization Algorithm

Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Mohammad Golbabaee

Detecting and tracking people in scenes monitored by cameras is an important step in many application scenarios such as surveillance, urban planning or behavioral studies to name a few. The amount of data produced by camera feeds is so large that it is als ...

Springer Verlag2012

Adaptive Highways on a Grid

Raffaello D'Andrea, Hajir Roozbehani

The primary objective of this paper is to introduce the adaptive highways algorithm, a path planning algorithm for vehicles moving on a grid. We consider a workspace that consists of a symmetric grid and a large number of vehicles that move on the grid to ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011