An effective fuel level data cleaning and repairing method for vehicle monitor platform

With energy scarcity and environmental pollution becoming increasingly serious, the accurate estimation of fuel consumption of vehicles has been important in vehicle management and transportation planning towards a sustainable green transition. Fuel consumption is calculated by fuel level data collected from high precision fuel level sensors. However, in the vehicle monitor platform, there are many types of error in the data collection and transmission processes, such as the noise, interference, and collision errors are common in the high speed and dynamic vehicle environment. In this paper, an effective method for cleaning and repairing the fuel level data is proposed, which adopts the threshold to acquire abnormal fuel data, the time quantum to identify abnormal data, and linear interpolation based algorithm to correct data errors. Specifically, a modified Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based on the synchronous iteration method is proposed to acquire the thresholds, which uses the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm and the steepest descent algorithm to optimize the parameters of GMM. The experiment results based on the fuel level data of vehicles collected over one month prove the modified GMM is superior to GMM-EM on fuel level data, and the proposed method is effective for cleaning and repairing outliers of fuel level data

Index to 1986 NASA Tech Briefs, volume 11, numbers 1-4

Short announcements of new technology derived from the R&D activities of NASA are presented. These briefs emphasize information considered likely to be transferrable across industrial, regional, or disciplinary lines and are issued to encourage commercial application. This index for 1986 Tech Briefs contains abstracts and four indexes: subject, personal author, originating center, and Tech Brief Number. The following areas are covered: electronic components and circuits, electronic systems, physical sciences, materials, life sciences, mechanics, machinery, fabrication technology, and mathematics and information sciences

Space transportation booster engine configuration study. Addendum: Design definition document

Gas generator engine characteristics and results of engine configuration refinements are discussed. Updated component mechanical design, performance, and manufacturing information is provided. The results are also provided of ocean recovery studies and various engine integration tasks. The details are provided of the maintenance plan for the Space Transportation Booster Engine

Index to 1983 NASA Tech Briefs, volume 8, numbers 1-4

Short announcements of new technology derived from the R&D activities of NASA are presented. These briefs emphasize information considered likely to be transferrable across industrial, regional, or disciplinary lines and are issued to encourage commercial application. This index for 1983 Tech Briefs contains abstracts and four indexes: subject, personal author, originating center, and Tech Brief Number. The following areas are covered: electronic components and circuits, electronic systems, physical sciences, materials, life sciences, mechanics, machinery, fabrication technology, and mathematics and information sciences

Health and usage monitoring system for military vehicles

© Cranfield University, 2019The aircraft industry has been able to adopt improved maintenance and logistics planning as a result of the technological advances in Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM). Same cannot be said about the land system. In the land environment, military vehicles are well behind in achieving the same abilities and hence, the problem of inefficiency in the maintenance and logistics for land based system needs to be addressed. To address this and assess the viability of integrating HUMS and Autonomic Logistics on military land vehicles, this project was proposed. Three main contributions from this research which adds to the knowledge are: (1) assessment of some real system failure which could lead to a poor operational readiness, (2) evaluation of how HUMS can improve the availability and operational readiness and reduction in maintenance cost that leads to the development of cost model and (3) a use of case studies to evaluate degradation of systems under consideration and how their continuous monitoring can help reduce the maintenance cost. A cost modelling study presented a simple and effective method to analyse the financial implication of integrating HUMS system was proposed for military land vehicles. The model provides logical steps to estimate the yearly repair costs, operational availability and the overall costs to understand the financial implication of HUMS integration over the whole service life. The model was also used to assess the financial viability of integrating HUMS in other military platforms e.g. light armoured vehicle, Piranha and Main Battle Tank, Challenger 2. In both the cases, the analysis showed significant financial savings in the long term. A case study was conducted on two different military vehicles to identify the frequency of different systems and sub-systems failures. The 20 challenger 2 and 40 Piranha were studied over the period of 10 years of service time. Study has found that cooling-, lubrication- and the suspension- system were the mostly affected systems in those particular vehicles. An experimental protocol was developed to study the failure detection techniques for the suspension system. The frequency response function was used to identify the failure of the damper and hence the suspension system. The study has observed the changes in the resonance frequency of the failed suspension system with different excitation magnitudes. Effect of vibration waveform was observed to be negligible. However, the small changes in the resonance frequencies using different magnitudes of base excitation seems to suggest the excitation magnitude has the potential to identify the failure based on the frequency response function.Another experimental protocol was developed to examine the failure detection technique for the cooling system of the military vehicle. When the failure was introduced to the cooling system, the significant variations in the temperature were observed for all the engine running conditions at the lab as well as the test with the vehicle running in the field. The variations observed in the temperature measured in different locations in the cooling system could be used to diagnose an early stage of failure in the cooling system, and it can be used to take a preventive action before the actual failure occurs

Index to 1981 NASA Tech Briefs, volume 6, numbers 1-4

Short announcements of new technology derived from the R&D activities of NASA are presented. These briefs emphasize information considered likely to be transferrable across industrial, regional, or disciplinary lines and are issued to encourage commercial application. This index for 1981 Tech Briefs contains abstracts and four indexes: subject, personal author, originating center, and Tech Brief Number. The following areas are covered: electronic components and circuits, electronic systems, physical sciences, materials, life sciences, mechanics, machinery, fabrication technology, and mathematics and information sciences

2009 Government and Industry Pipeline R&D Forum Report

Nine government and industry organizations via a steering committee organized, planned and executed this forum. The forum brought together approximately 215 representatives from Federal, State and foreign government offices along with domestic and foreign natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline operators. The forum’s goals included identifying key challenges facing industry and government, sharing information on current research efforts, and identifying research that can help to meet the challenges

An advanced technology space station for the year 2025, study and concepts

A survey was made of potential space station missions that might exist in the 2020 to 2030 time period. Also, a brief study of the current state-of-the-art of the major subsystems was undertaken, and trends in technologies that could impact the subsystems were reviewed. The results of the survey and study were then used to arrive at a conceptual design of a space station for the year 2025. Factors addressed in the conceptual design included requirements for artificial gravity, synergies between subsystems, and the use of robotics. Suggestions are made relative to more in-depth studies concerning the conceptual design and alternative configurations