Browsing Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science by Author "Ren, Jing"
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Coordinated control of active safety systems for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles
Zhu, Shenjin (2016-06-01)To improve the directional performance of multitrailer articulated heavy vehicles (MTAHVs), the model-based active safety systems, including the active trailer steering, trailer differential braking and the active roll ... -
Deep learning methods applied to anomaly detection in vehicle manufacturing and operations
Ren, Rui (2019-09-01)As one of the most common modes of transportation, vehicles are very closely related to our lives. As a result, safety is an important issue in both vehicle production process and vehicle operations. Recently, unmanned ... -
Deep learning models for defect and anomaly detection on industrial surfaces
Saberironaghi, Alireza (2023-12-01)Automated quality control is essential across various industries to reduce manual inspection and improve operational efficiency. While there are advances in computer vision and machine learning for defect detection, ... -
Design and development of advanced control techniques for an unmanned ground vehicle
Mohamed, Amr (2018-11-01)Recent years have seen considerable progress towards the goal of autonomous and unmanned ground vehicles which became essential for conducting military operations. These autonomous vehicles have the capability to operate ... -
Design and Optimization of Intelligent PI Controllers (Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy) for HVDC Transmission System
Multani, Munish (2010-08-01)This thesis deals with enhancing the performance of Fuzzy Logic (FL) based PI controllers for High Voltage Direct Current Transmission Systems (HVDC) by optimizing the key parameters i.e. membership functions (MFs) and ... -
Design of active trailer steering systems for long combination vehicles using robust control techniques
Sikder, Tushita (2017-07-01)The exponential growth in freightage and the ever-increasing traffic congestion has aided Long Combination Vehicles (LCVs) to emerge as an economical and pragmatic solution for freight transport compared to single unit ... -
Design synthesis of car-trailer systems with active trailer differential braking strategies.
Sun, Tao (2013-08-01)To this date, various control strategies based on linear vehicle models have been proposed and developed for improving the lateral stability of car trailer (CT) systems. Is a linear-model-based controller applicable to ... -
Determining fuzzy link quality membership functions in wireless sensor networks
Kazmi, Syed Ali Hussain (2014-04-01)Wireless Sensor Network routing protocols rely on the estimation of the quality of the links between nodes to determine a suitable path from the data source nodes to a data-collecting node. Several link estimators have ... -
Development of active trailer steering systems for pickup truck-trailer combinations
Shastry, Priya (2019-08-01)Lateral dynamics of articulated vehicles continue to remain a subject of concern in the design of safety systems. Vehicle-trailer combinations tend to exhibit low lateral stability and poor maneuverability, especially under ... -
Fault tolerant control of active trailer steering systems for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles
Kapoor, Saurabh (2017-07-01)Faults in a controlled plant often deteriorate the system performance. In severe cases, faults pose a risk of component damage, plant shutdown or even personnel safety. Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) aims at preventing the ... -
A framework of image processing for image-guided procedures
Abdalbari, Anwar (2016-07-01)Contrary to the cases of open surgery, during minimally invasive procedures, surgeons have no direct access or very limited access to the operative site and can only visualize the site and the focal region with the aid of ... -
Haptic controls in cars for safer driving
Asif, Fayez (2011-06-01)With the spread of latest state of the art technologies geared towards utilization of the human senses, haptic technologies have been introduced as a way of utilising the sense of touch to either solve real world problems ... -
Incremental learning algorithm for anomaly detection applied to computed tomography scans in nuclear industry
Adegboro, Oluwabukola G. (2022-12-01)During routine nuclear power plant (NPP) inspection, each maintenance tool is inspected manually before and after use on a nuclear reactor. This could result in long inspection duration (up to months), time, and resource ... -
Modelling and prediction of tire-rim slip with finite element analysis
Collings, William (2023-07-01)In this thesis, tire-rim slip was simulated with a FEA model of a RHD truck tire. Multiple simulations were conducted to validate the model and investigate the effects of different parameters such as terrain type, tire-rim ... -
Motion planning for multi-link robots with artificial potential fields and modified simulated annealing
Yagnik, Deval (2010-12-01)In this thesis we present a hybrid control methodology using Artificial Potential Fields (APF) integrated with a modified Simulated Annealing (SA) optimization algorithm for motion planning of a multi-link robots team. The ... -
Semi-direct visual SLAM for stereo cameras: system design and validation
Gao, Boyu (2021-11-01)Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) requires an autonomous vehicle in an unknown environment to learn about the environment, generates a map and localize itself at the same time. To solve this problem, various ...