3D thermal climate monitoring in factory buildings

Guaranteeing defined conditions, such as the temperature levels inside the factory's building shell, is often important to produce high-quality products. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, as part of the technical building services, is energy intensive and accounts for a major share of the factory's energy demand. For an...

DynaMap: A Dynamic Map for road side ITS stations

This paper presents the rationale and design of the DynaMap, a Local Dynamic Map (LDM) for infrastructure-based cooperative applications on Road side and Central ITS Stations. Most LDMs are developed primarily for use in cooperative vehicles. The requirements for infrastructure-based applications are different from vehicle-based applications...

Road side unit & sensor system for the A270 test site

The Road Side Unit for the A270 Test Site

The design and implementation of the Road Side Unit for the A270 Test Site is presented. It consists of a sensor platform and V2I communication platform with full coverage of the test site. A service platform enables applications to make use of these facilities. The RSU will be used both for the implementation of real-time cooperative...

Traffic Information Unit, Traffic Information System, Vehicle Management System, Vehicle, and Method of Controlling a Vehicle

A traffic information unit (MD1, MD2, MD3) according to the invention comprises a facility (MI) for tracking vehicle state information of individual vehicles present at a traffic infrastructure and a facility (T) for transmitting said vehicle state information to a vehicle (70B, 70E). A traffic information system may comprise a plurality of...

Vehicle Tracking System, Vehicle Infrastructure Provided with Vehicle Tracking System and Method for Tracking

A vehicle tracking system is described comprising - a plurality of sensor nodes (10) that each provide a message (D) indicative for an occupancy status of a detection area of an vehicle infrastructure monitored by said sensor node, said sensor nodes (10) being arranged in the vehicle infrastructure (80) at a density of at least 0.2 per square...

Collaborative control of the Manus manipulator

The Manus manipulator is a wheelchair mounted assistive device for severely motor disabled persons. It is a six degrees of freedom rehabilitation robot (excluding external lift and gripper) of which the control can be improved through the introduction of sensors, especially for users with very limited rest functionality. The approach presented...

MANUS: A wheelchair-mounted rehabilitation robot

Rehabilitation robots are assistive devices designed for use by people with severe disability in order to gain independence in tasks of daily living. MANUS is a wheelchair-mounted general-purpose manipulator now in use with over 100 people in their homes in the Netherlands, in France and in other countries. MANUS has six main degrees of freedom,...

Efficient adaptive fuzzy control scheme

The paper presents an adaptive nonlinear (state-) feedback control structure, where the nonlinearities are implemented as smooth fuzzy mappings defined as rule sets. The fine tuning and adaption of the controller is realized by an indirect adaptive scheme, which modifies the parameters of the fuzzy mapping. The performance index gradients are...