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Amphibious and Sprawling Locomotion: From Biology to Robotics and Back

A milestone in vertebrate evolution, the transition from water to land, owes its success to the development of a sprawling body plan that enabled an amphibious lifestyle. The body, originally adapted for swimming, evolved to benefit from limbs that enhance ...

2020

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Roland Siegwart, Stefano Mintchev, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Davide Scaramuzza, Tomislav Horvat, Marco Hutter

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a particularly rel ...

2019

Environomic design for electric vehicles with an integrated solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) unit as a range extender

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

This article investigates an innovative concept of vehicle propulsion. An electric vehicle with limited battery packs is coupled with an innovative converter – a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with gas turbines system (SOFC- GT). This energy integrated converter is ...

Elsevier2017

Techno–economic design of hybrid electric vehicles and possibilities of the multi-objective optimization structure

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The design criteria for modern sustainable development of vehicle powertrain are the high energy efficiency of the conversion system, the competitive cost and the lowest possible environmental impacts. In this article a multi-objective optimization methodo ...

2016

Associations among Household Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics and Emissions Failures: An Application of Targeted Marketing Data

Michel Bierlaire, Stefan Yves Gabriel Binder

Many U.S. cities use vehicle emissions testing programs to improve air quality by identifying gross polluting vehicles and requiring their owners to make emissions-related repairs. All vehicles that meet certain criteria must pass an emissions test as part ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Consideration of nonlinear wheel-rail contact forces for dynamic vehicle-bridge interaction in high-speed railways

Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Nan Zhang

In this work models with nonlinear wheel-rail contact forces are considered for analysing the dynamic interaction between high speed trains and bridges, in order to study dynamic effects both in the bridge and in the vehicles resulting from the coupling. N ...

2013

Cooperative guidance of UAVs for area exploration with final target allocation

Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

Fulfillment of complex missions, such as zone watching or multiple target tracking by an UAV can prove very demanding in terms of vehicle ability. A potential way of lessening these demands consists in splitting the initial task into several complementary ...

2013

Structuration of the low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) using novel sacrificial graphite paste with PVA–propylene glycol–glycerol–water vehicle

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq

A novel formulation for thick-film graphite sacrificial pastes is studied in this paper. It is composed of coarse graphite powder (grain size: 25 μm), dispersed in a vehicle consisting of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) dissolved in a propylene glycol (PG)–glycero ...

Elsevier2011

Energy Storage for Railway Systems, Energy Recovery and Vehicle Autonomy in Europe

Alfred Rufer

The benefits of the use of energy storage means for traction vehicles has been demonstrated for many years, as well in academic research as in industrial prototypes. Today, the well developed storage equipments are coming in commercial vehicles and first e ...

2010

UECML: Unified Enterprise Competence Modelling Language

Rémy Glardon, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Grégoire Pepiot

This paper introduces the principles of a unifiedlanguage devoted to the area of competence-based enterprisemodelling. The language, named UECML, for UnifiedEnterpriseCompetenceModellingLanguage, is intended to provide a neutral interface to enterprisemode ...

Elsevier2007

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