257 research outputs found
Effect of freeze-thaw cycles on triaxial strength properties of fiber-reinforced clayey soil
Understanding effect of freezing phenomenon in a fiber-reinforced soil structure is essential to foundation technology, road
construction and earthwork application in cold region. This research aims to present the results of experimental investigation relative
to the unconsolidated-undrained triaxial compression behavior of fine-grained soil as a function of freeze-thaw cycles and fiber
volume fractions. All measurements were carried out for 3 selected glass and basalt fiber fractions (0%, 0.5%, and 1%) and 5 selected
freeze-thaw cycles (0, 2, 5, 10, and 15). It has been observed that for the studied soil, strength of unreinforced soil reduced with
increasing number of the freeze-thaw cycles while fiber-reinforced soil shows greater effect and the strength reduction amount
reduces from 40% to 18%. Moreover, the reduction trend for cohesion of the fiber-reinforced soil decreased, this was seen more
prevalent on 1% glass fiber-reinforced soil. The resilient modulus of all specimens reduced with increasing number of the freezethaw
cycles. The experimental results demonstrated that different fiber fractions and their mixtures could be employed as supplement
additive to improve the freeze-thaw performance of cohesive soils for road construction and earthworks
Literary destination familiarity and inbound tourism: evidence from mainland China
Destination familiarity is an important non-economic determinant of tourists’ destination choice that has not been adequately studied. This study posits a literary dimension to the concept of destination familiarity —that is, the extent to which tourists have gained familiarity with a given destination through literature—and seeks to investigate the impact of this form of familiarity on inbound tourism to Mainland China. Employing the English fiction dataset of the Google Books corpus, the New York Times annotated corpus, and the Time magazine corpus, we construct two types of destination familiarity based on literary texts: affection-based destination familiarity and knowledge-based destination familiarity. The results from dynamic panel estimation (1994–2004) demonstrate that the higher the degree of affection-based destination familiarity with a province in the previous year, the larger the number of inbound tourists the following year. Examining the influence of literature and its consumption on tourism activities sheds light on the dynamics of sustainable tourism development in emerging markets
Research and Design of Indoor Parking Guidance System for Urban Traffic
In view of the existing drawbacks of indoor parking guidance system in commercial areas, this paper designs an indoor parking guidance system suitable for urban traffic. The owner first selects the appropriate parking lot through the Mini Program, and reserves a detailed parking space on the Mini Program, and after arriving at the parking lot, the Mini Program performs optimal path planning according algorithm to guide the owner to find the parking space. After arriving at the reserved parking space according to the prompts, the smart parking lock is unlocked by "one-key unlock", and the video detection system observes the parking behavior in real time to avoid the occurrence of illegal parking. At the same time, voice assistants and blind spot guidance facilities are also provided during the induction process to optimize the urban parking guidance system
Driving Control Research for Longitudinal Dynamics of Electric Vehicles with Independently Driven Front and Rear Wheels
This paper takes the electric off-road vehicle with separated driven axles as the research object. To solve the longitudinal dynamics driving control problems, vehicle dynamics model, and control strategies were studied and the corresponding simulation was carried out. An 8-DOF vehicle dynamics model with separated driven axles was built. The driving control strategies on the typical roads were put forward. The recognition algorithm of the typical road surfaces based on the wheels’ slip rates was proposed. And the two control systems were designed including the pedal opening degree adjustment control system based on PI algorithm and the interaxle torque distribution control system based on sliding mode control algorithm. The driving control flow of the proposed vehicle combining the pedal adjustment control system with the interaxle torque distribution control system was developed. And the driven control strategies for the typical roads were simulated. Simulation results show that the proposed drive control strategies can adapt to different typical road surfaces, limit the slip rates of the driving wheels within the stable zone, and ensure the vehicle driving safely and stably in accordance with the driver's intention
Virtual Reality Based Robot Teleoperation via Human-Scene Interaction
Robot teleoperation gains great success in various situations, including
chemical pollution rescue, disaster relief, and long-distance manipulation. In
this article, we propose a virtual reality (VR) based robot teleoperation
system to achieve more efficient and natural interaction with humans in
different scenes. A user-friendly VR interface is designed to help users
interact with a desktop scene using their hands efficiently and intuitively. To
improve user experience and reduce workload, we simulate the process in the
physics engine to help build a preview of the scene after manipulation in the
virtual scene before execution. We conduct experiments with different users and
compare our system with a direct control method across several teleoperation
tasks. The user study demonstrates that the proposed system enables users to
perform operations more instinctively with a lighter mental workload. Users can
perform pick-and-place and object-stacking tasks in a considerably short time,
even for beginners. Our code is available at
https://github.com/lingxiaomeng/VR_Teleoperation_Gen3
Enhance Connectivity of Promising Regions for Sampling-based Path Planning
Sampling-based path planning algorithms usually implement uniform sampling
methods to search the state space. However, uniform sampling may lead to
unnecessary exploration in many scenarios, such as the environment with a few
dead ends. Our previous work proposes to use the promising region to guide the
sampling process to address the issue. However, the predicted promising regions
are often disconnected, which means they cannot connect the start and goal
state, resulting in a lack of probabilistic completeness. This work focuses on
enhancing the connectivity of predicted promising regions. Our proposed method
regresses the connectivity probability of the edges in the x and y directions.
In addition, it calculates the weight of the promising edges in loss to guide
the neural network to pay more attention to the connectivity of the promising
regions. We conduct a series of simulation experiments, and the results show
that the connectivity of promising regions improves significantly. Furthermore,
we analyze the effect of connectivity on sampling-based path planning
algorithms and conclude that connectivity plays an essential role in
maintaining algorithm performance.Comment: Accepted in Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 202
Dynamic behavior of fiber-reinforced soil under freeze-thaw cycles
This research presents the dynamic behavior of fiber-reinforced soil exposed to freeze-thaw cycles. The series of
dynamic triaxial tests were conducted on fine-grained soil mixed with different percentages of basalt and glass
fibers subjected to freeze-thaw cycles. The results showed that after freeze-thaw cycles, with the addition of
basalt and glass fibers, the damping ratio and the shear modulus increased at a constant confining pressure
because of the increase of stiffness, but the shear modulus decreased with increasing shear strain. Moreover, the
theoretical analytical formulations were developed to define for dynamic shear stress and dynamic shear
modulus. The parameters were predicted by Hardin-Drnevich model and Kondner-Zelasko model. The shear modulus was expressed as a function of freeze-thaw cycles, fiber contents, confining pressure and initial water content. Finally, ten coefficients were calibrated by analyzing the experimental results and then employed to describe dynamic shear modulus of the fiber-reinforced soil
Multi-Risk-RRT: An Efficient Motion Planning Algorithm for Robotic Autonomous Luggage Trolley Collection at Airports
Robots have become increasingly prevalent in dynamic and crowded environments
such as airports and shopping malls. In these scenarios, the critical
challenges for robot navigation are reliability and timely arrival at
predetermined destinations. While existing risk-based motion planning
algorithms effectively reduce collision risks with static and dynamic
obstacles, there is still a need for significant performance improvements.
Specifically, the dynamic environments demand more rapid responses and robust
planning. To address this gap, we introduce a novel risk-based
multi-directional sampling algorithm, Multi-directional Risk-based
Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (Multi-Risk-RRT). Unlike traditional algorithms
that solely rely on a rooted tree or double trees for state space exploration,
our approach incorporates multiple sub-trees. Each sub-tree independently
explores its surrounding environment. At the same time, the primary rooted tree
collects the heuristic information from these sub-trees, facilitating rapid
progress toward the goal state. Our evaluations, including simulation and
real-world environmental studies, demonstrate that Multi-Risk-RRT outperforms
existing unidirectional and bi-directional risk-based algorithms in planning
efficiency and robustness
Experimental and modeling investigation of the thermal conductivity of fiber-reinforced soil subjected to freeze-thaw cycles
The thermal conductivity of fine-grained soil, both unreinforced and reinforced with randomly oriented
basalt, glass, and steel fibers, was tested by means of the transient hot-wire method with a Quickline-30
Thermal Properties Analyzer. The thermal conductivities of specimens were determined as a function of
fiber volume fractions, freeze-thaw cycles, and temperature through laboratory studies. Thermal conductivity
of the fiber-reinforced soil decreased for all freeze-thaw cycles and temperature values. The most
remarkable reduction of thermal conductivity was measured on all ratios of the steel fiber-reinforced soil
and 1% basalt fiber-reinforced soil. Moreover, the statistical-physical model proposed by Usowicz was
applied to evaluate the thermal conductivity of fiber-reinforced soil by considering soil-fiber composites
and environmental factors. The results showed a close match between the values estimated by the
statistical-physical model and the experimental values for various fiber-reinforced soils in a wide range
of fiber ratios, temperatures, water contents, and freeze-thaw cycles
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