Human Detection for Flood Rescue: Application of YOLOv5 Algorithm and DeepSort Object Tracking

This thesis proposes a method of human detection using high-resolution surveillance cameras to monitor sections of the Chattahoochee River that require frequent search and rescue efforts due to flooding. The areas of interest are located in the city of Columbus, Georgia. The goals of this study are to evaluate the effectiveness of the YOLO (You Only Look Once) algorithm for human detection on the river as well as to propose future improvements to the city’s existing alert methods in the event of a flood.M.S

INTEGRATION OF FUZZY LOGIC METHOD AND COCOMO II ALGORITHM TO IMPROVE PREDICTION TIMELINESS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COST

This study discusses improving the prediction of timeliness and cost of software development using the Constructive Cost Model II (COCOMO II) method and the application of Fuzzy Logic. And aims to obtain accurate time and cost prediction estimates on software development projects to obtain maximum cost results for a software development project. This study utilizes an adaptive fuzzy logic model to improve the timeliness of software development and cost estimates. Using the advantages of fuzzy set logic and producing accurate software attributes to increase the prediction of the time and price of software development. The fuzzy model uses the Two-D Gaussian Membership Function (2-D GMF) to make the software attributes more detailed in terms of the range of values. In COCOMO I, NASA98 data set; and four data projects from software companies in Indonesia were used to evaluate the proposed Fuzzy Logic COCOMO II, commonly known as FL-COCOMO II. Using the Mean of Magnitude of Relative Error (MMRE) and the Pred evaluation technique, the results showed that FL-COCOMO II produced less MMRE than COCOMO I, and the Pred value (25%) in Fuzzy-COCOMO II was higher than COCOMO I. In addition, FL-COCOMO II showed an 8.03% increase in prediction accuracy using MMRE compared to the original COCOMO. Using the advantages of Fuzzy Logic, such as accurate predictions, adaptation, and understanding can improve the accuracy of the timeliness and cost estimates of the software

An Assessment of PIER Electric Grid Research 2003-2014 White Paper

This white paper describes the circumstances in California around the turn of the 21st century that led the California Energy Commission (CEC) to direct additional Public Interest Energy Research funds to address critical electric grid issues, especially those arising from integrating high penetrations of variable renewable generation with the electric grid. It contains an assessment of the beneficial science and technology advances of the resultant portfolio of electric grid research projects administered under the direction of the CEC by a competitively selected contractor, the University of California’s California Institute for Energy and the Environment, from 2003-2014

Development of LabVIEW FPGA program for Energy Management System (EMS) Controller for Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV)

This dissertation explains the construction of LabVIEW Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for Energy Management System (EMS) Controller for Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV). The HEV is engineered to reduce the world’s dependency on fossil fuels. An HEV is designed to utilize two power sources which are from electric motor and an internal combustion engine (ICE). These sources need to be carefully controlled so that the energy of both sources can be synergized to achieve fuel and power efficiency in the vehicle. The control algorithm is implemented by an EMS Controller for which in this project, it will run on a National Instruments (NI) CompactRIO, cRIO-9076. This EMS controller algorithm will be built and designed in FPGA of NI LabVIEW to extract and control parameters from the electric motor controller, which is the Motor Control Unit (MCU) and the engine controller, which is the Engine Control Unit (ECU). The extracted and controlled parameters are engine RPM, vehicle speed and vehicle fuel consumption. These data will be output using the embedded server to the client, which is a windows-based tablet PC and the embedded server is cRIO-9076. The communication between server and client will be implemented using HTTP-based communication protocol making the data appear in HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) which will be rendered into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) web page interface. This GUI will enable the driver to monitor and control the MCU and ECU of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Supply Chain (micro)TMS development

Project Work presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Information Systems and Technologies ManagementThe rise of technology across many verticals has necessitated the company’s move to digitalization. Despite “XPTO” company a well know player on the retail and success on e‐commerce internal market, they aimed at the strategy of continuous innovation to drive business growth and strengthen their position as a premium brand. They decided to move forward into digitalism inside cloud based solutions to get all the advantages of microservices architecture: optimize logistics and supply chain management, speed up the workflow and maximize service efficiency. An agile organization is not achieved purely by shifting the focus from traditional functional/ technological oriented organizations. The new way to organize teams must reflect all the principles and right segregations of roles, which will be the most immediate and visible disruption and cutover from the traditional way of managing the IT. In this project we aim to use agile framework with development based in house cloud microservice solution for a (micro)TMS solution/system that address the immediate needs imposed by the market in order to use it has competitive advantage

Recommended System for Optimizing Battery Energy Management with Floating Car Data

Atualmente, os veículos pesados que transportam mercadoria sensível à temperatura utilizam sistemas de refrigeração ruidosos e com elevado consumo de combustível. Para combater estas desvantagens, está a ser instalado um sistema capaz de recuperar e produzir energia elétrica durante as travagens e a partir de painéis fotovoltaicos. Esta energia é armazenada num conjunto de baterias para, posteriormente, alimentar o sistema frigorífico em modo elétrico. Adicionalmente, estão a ser recolhidos dados em tempo real sobre o comportamento do veículo e do sistema.Tendo em conta que toda a energia disponível durante a condução está condicionada por diversas variáveis de operação, é fulcral extrair conhecimento a partir da análise dos dados recolhidos, identificando padrões que possam otimizar a produção e gestão da energia preditivamente. Este processo de extração de conhecimento inclui seleção e avaliação dos dados a recolher, construção do modelo preditivo do sistema e estudo da sua aplicação. Assim sendo, num dado momento, tendo em conta não só as métricas recolhidas da viagem atual, mas também de dados históricos de um dado percurso, será possível ao sistema de gestão de energia instalado no camião decidir qual a melhor ação a tomar de forma a otimizar a energia produzida sem causar stress ao sistema.Nowadays, heavy vehicles that transport temperature-sensitive goods, generally use a fuel-needy dedicated diesel engine. Towards solving this problem, an energy management system (EMS) capable of producing energy on-board of the vehicle is being developed. This recovery is possible due to the regenerative braking (RB) functionality, which consists in converting kinetic energy to electrical energy during a slowdown. The recovered energy is then stored in a set of batteries that supplies the refrigeration system when needed, allowing it to run in electrical mode. Using data retrieved from the vehicle's operation and this management system, an opportunity towards intelligently using the regenerative braking functionality emerges. By introducing an intelligence layer on the energy management system, a decision on applying the RB functionality could be made based on the trip's energetic potential. This decision will optimize the battery usage and reduce the load and wear on the EMS components.In order to calculate the energetic potential of a certain route, an estimation of the road is needed. This document presents context information and different approaches towards this end. In the modeling approach recommended and implemented, a route is divided in several spatial segments and each segment is categorized among three pre-defined classes. A classification model is used to predict traffic historical data as input. By using this modeling approach based on travel times, information on traffic flow and intersection queues are incorporated and by calculating the most likely sequence of states, a estimation of the road ahead is made.Using the information of the modeled path, when the RB systems detects a situation where the functionality can be applied, a decision will be made by weighting the energetic potential of the path ahead and the energy need. When the algorithm sees fit, a higher torque may be applied to the generator, which will result in a larger quantity of energy recovered. Since this causes stress to the system, this functionality needs a robust intelligence layer

Performance Measures to Assess Resiliency and Efficiency of Transit Systems

Transit agencies are interested in assessing the short-, mid-, and long-term performance of infrastructure with the objective of enhancing resiliency and efficiency. This report addresses three distinct aspects of New Jersey’s Transit System: 1) resiliency of bridge infrastructure, 2) resiliency of public transit systems, and 3) efficiency of transit systems with an emphasis on paratransit service. This project proposed a conceptual framework to assess the performance and resiliency for bridge structures in a transit network before and after disasters utilizing structural health monitoring (SHM), finite element (FE) modeling and remote sensing using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). The public transit systems in NY/NJ were analyzed based on their vulnerability, resiliency, and efficiency in recovery following a major natural disaster