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UWB/GNSS-based cooperative positioning method for V2X applications
Limited availability of GNSS signals in urban canyons is a challenge for the implementation of many positioning-based traffic safety applications, and V2X technology provides an alternative solution to resolve this problem. As a key communication component in V2X technology, Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) not only allows vehicles to exchange their position, but also traffic safety related information such as real-time congestion, up-to-date accident details, speed limits, etc. This position and traffic information could underpin various traffic safety applications - for instance, lane departure warnings, potential collision avoidance, and traffic congestion warnings. By taking advantage of DSRC, a vehicle in a GNSS denied environment is able to calculate its position using the assistance of other vehicles with sufficient GNSS signals to fix their locations. The concept of cooperative positioning, which is also called collaborative positioning, has been proposed to achieve this goal
Improving Tolerance Control On Modular Construction Project With 3D Laser Scanning and Bim: A Case Study of Removable Floodwall Project
Quality control is essential to a successful modular construction project and should be enhanced throughout the project from design to construction and installation. The current methods for analyzing the assembly quality of a removable floodwall heavily rely on manual inspection and contact-type measurements, which are time-consuming and costly. This study presents a systematic and practical approach to improve quality control of the prefabricated modular construction projects by integrating building information modeling (BIM) with three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning technology. The study starts with a thorough literature review of current quality control methods in modular construction. Firstly, the critical quality control procedure for the modular construction structure and components should be identified. Secondly, the dimensions of the structure and components in a BIM model is considered as quality tolerance control benchmarking. Thirdly, the point cloud data is captured with 3D laser scanning, which is used to create the as-built model for the constructed structure. Fourthly, data analysis and field validation are carried out by matching the point cloud data with the as-built model and the BIM model. Finally, the study employs the data of a removable floodwall project to validate the level of technical feasibility and accuracy of the presented methods. This method improved the efficiency and accuracy of modular construction quality control. It established a preliminary foundation for using BIM and laser scanning to conduct quality control in removable floodwall installation. The results indicated that the proposed integration of BIM and 3D laser scanning has great potential to improve the quality control of a modular construction project
A BACKPACK MMS APPLICATION
Over the years, MMS systems have demonstrated that accuracies suitable for all but the most demanding cadastral and engineering
applications can be achieved. This result, combined with a reduction in both the time and cost of data collection, made MMS a very
interesting technology potentially able to meet the demand of GIS operators for rapid spatial data updating. However, the high costs
involved in the arrangement of such systems did not favoured their growth in the market, so that MMS are still today mainly operated
by the companies or institutions that build them. To allow a wider community of spatial data user to benefit of mobile mapping
applications - in particular the lower costs and greater efficiency of data collection – a portable systems, the Backpack MMS, was
developed at the University of Calgary MMS in 2001. The research centre of CIRGEO re-implemented such system introducing a
few significative changes due to the adoption of different hardware and software solutions with respect to the original project. Then,
within a collaborative work with a research team of the Vesuvius Observatory, in summer 2006 this version of the Backpack MMS
was tested in a real environment: the goal was to assess the effectiveness of the Backpack as a tool for mapping evacuation routes on
areas subjected to natural hazards. In this paper we report a description of our system configuration and the results of performed test
along with a few comments on practical issues that affected the final accuracy of mapped routes
Development of multiple media documents
Development of documents in multiple media involves activities in three different
fields, the technical, the discoursive and the procedural. The major development problems of
artifact complexity, cognitive processes, design basis and working context are located where these
fields overlap. Pending the emergence of a unified approach to design, any method must allow for
development at the three levels of discourse structure, media disposition and composition, and
presentation. Related work concerned with generalised discourse structures, structured
documents, production methods for existing multiple media artifacts, and hypertext design offer
some partial forms of assistance at different levels. Desirable characteristics of a multimedia
design method will include three phases of production, a variety of possible actions with media
elements, an underlying discoursive structure, and explicit comparates for review
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