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Pollution, congestion and urbanistic considerations are leading to a change in the use of private vehicles in dense city centers. More frequently, the last-mile is covered with systems such as public transport, car sharing and bike sharing as well as an in ...

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The Visual Object Tracking VOT2014 Challenge Results

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The Visual Object Tracking challenge 2014, VOT2014, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. Results of 38 trackers are presented. The number of tested trackers makes VOT 2014 the ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Analysis of Ballast Transport in the Event of Overflowing of the Drainage System on High Speed Lines

Giovanni De Cesare, Tamara Ghilardi, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi, Elena Battisacco

The transport of ballast caused by the overflowing of longitudinal drains is a prime example of the interactions between the railway track and its environment. In such conditions, water flowing from the platform, along with debris, may drag the ballast off ...

2015

Fault Tolerant Chip-to-Chip Communication with Advanced Voltage Regulator

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Systems and circuits are described for transmitting data over physical channels to provide a fault tolerant, high speed, low latency interface such as between a memory controller and memory devices. Communications signals are communicated over interconnect ...

2015

Flexible triangular formation keeping of marine robotic vehicles using range measurements.

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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 ...

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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

Ground terminal antenna for Ka-band satellite communications

Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

This paper presents a new low-cost antenna intended for moving platforms like planes, high-speed trains or buses, allowing communications with Ka-band satellites. Beam scanning capability covers the range from 0° to 65° in elevation and 360° in azimuth. Th ...

2013

Assessment of Dynamic Speed Limits on freeway A20 near Rotterdam, The Netherlands

On Freeway A20 near Rotterdam, Netherlands, a trial with dynamic speed limits began on June 28, 2011. On a 4.2-km stretch, the speed limit increased from 80 to 100 km/h as soon as congestion appeared to set in and at night. The aim of dynamic speed limits ...

2013

TBM tunneling in marble rock masses with high in situ stress and large groundwater inflow: a case study in China

Lijun Yin

Two of four headrace tunnels in the Jinping II hydropower project were constructed using tunnel boring machines (TMBs). The geology along the tunnel alignment is dominantly massive to highly fractured marble and the maximum overburden depth is 2,525 m. The ...

Springer Verlag2013

Un noeud de trafic densifié pour l'EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg

Martin Wyss

Today's airports aren't anymore pure interfaces between ground and air. Since several years they are going through an intense development. Their ground and air accessibility attracts real estate development and (re-) links the region it is implemented in. ...

2011

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