10 research outputs found
Reliability and Efficiency of Vehicular Network Applications
The DSRC/WAVE initiative is forecast to enable a plethora of applications, classified in two broad types of safety and non-safety applications. In the former type, the reliability performance is of tremendous prominence while, in the latter case, the efficiency of information dissemination is the key driving factor. For safety applications, we adopt a systematic approach to analytically investigate the reliability of the communication system in a symbiotic relationship with the host system comprising a vehicular traffic system and radio propagation environment. To this aim, the¬ interference factor is identified as the central element of the symbiotic relationship. Our approach to the investigation of interference and its impacts on the communication reliability departs from previous studies by the degree of realism incorporated in the host system model. In one dimension, realistic traffic models are developed to describe the vehicular traffic behaviour. In a second dimension, a realistic radio propagation model is employed to capture the unique signal propagation aspects of the host system. We address the case of non-safety applications by proposing a generic framework as a capstone architecture for the development of new applications and the efficiency evaluation of existing ones. This framework, while being independent from networking technology, enables accurate characterization of the various information dissemination tasks that a node performs in cooperation with others. As the central element of the framework, we propose a game theoretic model to describe the interaction of meeting nodes aiming to exchange information of mutual or social interests. An adaptive mechanism is designed to enable a mobile node to measure the social significance of various information topics, which is then used by the node to prioritize the forwarding of information objects
Real time collision warning system in the context of vehicle-to-vehicle data exchange based on drivings behaviours analysis
Worldwide injuries in vehicle accidents have been on the rise in recent years, mainly
due to driver error regardless of technological innovations and advancements for
vehicle safety. Consequently, there is a need for a reliable-real time warning system
that can alert drivers of a potential collision. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) is an extensive
area of ongoing research and development which has started to revolutionize the
driving experience. Driving behaviour is a subject of extensive research which gains
special attention due to the relationship between speeding behaviour and crashes as
drivers who engage in frequent and extreme speeding behaviour are overinvolved in
crashes. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) set guidelines on
how different vehicle automation levels may reduce vehicle crashes and how the use
of on-board short-range sensors coupled with V2V technologies can help facilitate
communication among vehicles. Based on the previous works, it can be seen that the
assessment of drivers’ behaviours using their trajectory data is a fresh and open
research field. Most studies related to driving behaviours in terms of acceleration�deceleration are evaluated at the laboratory scale using experimental results from
actual vehicles. Towards this end, a five-stage methodology for a new collision
warning system in the context of V2V based on driving behaviours has been designed.
Real-time V2V hardware for data collection purposes was developed. Driving
behaviour was analyzed in different timeframes prior obtained from actual driving
behaviour in an urban environment collected from OBD-II adapter and GPS data
logger of an instrumented vehicle. By measuring the in-vehicle accelerations, it is
possible to categorize the driving behaviour into four main classes based on real-time
experiments: safe drivers, normal, aggressive, and dangerous drivers. When the
vehicle is in a risk situation, the system based on NRF24L01+PA/LNA, GPS, and
OBD-II will pass a signal to the driver using a dedicated LCD and LED light signal.
The driver can instantly decide to make the vehicle in a safe mood, effectively avoid
the happening of vehicle accidents. The proposed solution provides two main functions: (1) the detection of the dangerous vehicles involved in the road, and (2) the display of
a message informing the driver if it is safe or unsafe to pass. System performance was
evaluated to ensure that it achieved the primary objective of improving road safety in
the extreme behaviour of the driver in question either the safest (or the least aggressive)
and the most unsafe (or the most aggressive). The proposed methodology has retained
some advantages for other literature studies because of the simultaneous use of speed,
acceleration, and vehicle location. The V2V based on driving behaviour experiments
shows the effectiveness of the selected approach predicts behaviour with an accuracy
of over 87% in sixty-four real-time scenarios presented its capability to detect
behaviour and provide a warning to nearby drivers. The system failed detection only
in few times when the receiving vehicle missed data due to high speed during the test
as well as the distances between the moving vehicles, the data was not received
correctly since the power transmitted, the frequency range of the signals, the antenna
relative positions, and the number of in-range vehicles are of interest for the V2V test
scenarios. The latter result supports the conclusion that warnings that efficiently and
quickly transmit their information may be better when driver are under stress or time
pressure
Modeling Human Mobility Entropy as a Function of Spatial and Temporal Quantizations
The knowledge of human mobility is an integral component of several different branches of research and planning, including delay tolerant network routing, cellular network planning, disease prevention, and urban planning. The uncertainty associated with a person's movement plays a central role in movement predictability studies. The uncertainty can be quantified in a succinct manner using entropy rate, which is based on the information theoretic entropy. The entropy rate is usually calculated from past mobility traces. While the uncertainty, and therefore, the entropy rate depend on the human behavior, the entropy rate is not invariant to spatial resolution and sampling interval employed to collect mobility traces. The entropy rate of a person is a manifestation of the observable features in the person's mobility traces. Like entropy rate, these features are also dependent on spatio-temporal quantization. Different mobility studies are carried out using different spatio-temporal quantization, which can obscure the behavioral differences of the study populations. But these behavioral differences are important for population-specific planning. The goal of dissertation is to develop a theoretical model that will address this shortcoming of mobility studies by separating parameters pertaining to human behavior from the spatial and temporal parameters
Intelligent Circuits and Systems
ICICS-2020 is the third conference initiated by the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University that explored recent innovations of researchers working for the development of smart and green technologies in the fields of Energy, Electronics, Communications, Computers, and Control. ICICS provides innovators to identify new opportunities for the social and economic benefits of society.  This conference bridges the gap between academics and R&D institutions, social visionaries, and experts from all strata of society to present their ongoing research activities and foster research relations between them. It provides opportunities for the exchange of new ideas, applications, and experiences in the field of smart technologies and finding global partners for future collaboration. The ICICS-2020 was conducted in two broad categories, Intelligent Circuits & Intelligent Systems and Emerging Technologies in Electrical Engineering
Fuzzy Logic
The capability of Fuzzy Logic in the development of emerging technologies is introduced in this book. The book consists of sixteen chapters showing various applications in the field of Bioinformatics, Health, Security, Communications, Transportations, Financial Management, Energy and Environment Systems. This book is a major reference source for all those concerned with applied intelligent systems. The intended readers are researchers, engineers, medical practitioners, and graduate students interested in fuzzy logic systems
Future Transportation
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with transportation activities account for approximately 20 percent of all carbon dioxide (co2) emissions globally, making the transportation sector a major contributor to the current global warming. This book focuses on the latest advances in technologies aiming at the sustainable future transportation of people and goods. A reduction in burning fossil fuel and technological transitions are the main approaches toward sustainable future transportation. Particular attention is given to automobile technological transitions, bike sharing systems, supply chain digitalization, and transport performance monitoring and optimization, among others
New advances in vehicular technology and automotive engineering
An automobile was seen as a simple accessory of luxury in the early years of the past
century. Therefore, it was an expensive asset which none of the common citizen could
afford. It was necessary to pass a long period and waiting for Henry Ford to establish
the first plants with the series fabrication. This new industrial paradigm makes easy to
the common American to acquire an automobile, either for running away or for
working purposes. Since that date, the automotive research grown exponentially to the
levels observed in the actuality. Now, the automobiles are indispensable goods; saying
with other words, the automobile is a first necessity article in a wide number of
aspects of living: for workers to allow them to move from their homes into their
workplaces, for transportation of students, for allowing the domestic women in their
home tasks, for ambulances to carry people with decease to the hospitals, for
transportation of materials, and so on, the list don’t ends. The new goal pursued by the
automotive industry is to provide electric vehicles at low cost and with high reliability.
This commitment is justified by the oil’s peak extraction on 50s of this century and also
by the necessity to reduce the emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere, as well as to reduce
the needs of this even more valuable natural resource. In order to achieve this task and
to improve the regular cars based on oil, the automotive industry is even more
concerned on doing applied research on technology and on fundamental research of
new materials. The most important idea to retain from the previous introduction is to
clarify the minds of the potential readers for the direct and indirect penetration of the
vehicles and the vehicular industry in the today’s life. In this sequence of ideas, this
book tries not only to fill a gap by presenting fresh subjects related to the vehicular
technology and to the automotive engineering but to provide guidelines for future
research.
This book account with valuable contributions from worldwide experts of
automotive’s field. The amount and type of contributions were judiciously selected to
cover a broad range of research. The reader can found the most recent and
cutting-edge sources of information divided in four major groups: electronics (power,
communications, optics, batteries, alternators and sensors), mechanics (suspension
control, torque converters, deformation analysis, structural monitoring), materials (nanotechnology, nanocomposites, lubrificants, biodegradable, composites, structural
monitoring) and manufacturing (supply chains).
We are sure that you will enjoy this book and will profit with the technical and
scientific contents. To finish, we are thankful to all of those who contributed to this
book and who made it possible.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Recent Developments in Smart Healthcare
Medicine is undergoing a sector-wide transformation thanks to the advances in computing and networking technologies. Healthcare is changing from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive and personalized, from disease focused to well-being centered. In essence, the healthcare systems, as well as fundamental medicine research, are becoming smarter. We anticipate significant improvements in areas ranging from molecular genomics and proteomics to decision support for healthcare professionals through big data analytics, to support behavior changes through technology-enabled self-management, and social and motivational support. Furthermore, with smart technologies, healthcare delivery could also be made more efficient, higher quality, and lower cost. In this special issue, we received a total 45 submissions and accepted 19 outstanding papers that roughly span across several interesting topics on smart healthcare, including public health, health information technology (Health IT), and smart medicine