Understanding naturalistic driving in complex scenarios is an important step towards autonomous driving, and several approaches have been adopted for modeling driver’s behaviors. This paper presents the methodology known as “Think Aloud P...
The paper studies and analyzes electric vehicle engines powered by hydrogen under the WLTP standard driving protocol. The driving range extension is estimated using a specific protocol developed for FCEV compared with the standard value for battery e...
Decreased vigilance associated with drowsiness is a major cause of motor vehicle crashes, but its physiological characterization and detection remain difficult due to behavioral and environmental confounding factors. This study presents an original e...
Partially automated driving (PAD, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) level 2) features provide steering and brake/acceleration support, while the driver must constantly supervise the support feature and intervene if needed to maintain safety. PAD...
A new method to evaluate the energy consumption and driving range of electric vehicles running on intercity routes is proposed. This method consists of a hybridization of a predictive method and the application of online information during the drivin...
Research on external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) has recently become a major area of interest in the field of human factors research on automated driving. The broad variety of methodological approaches renders the current state of research...
This study aims to improve the battery performance in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) by reducing the vehicle speed. We developed a specific protocol for managing battery use and optimizing the energy consumption rate to achieve this goal. The protoc...
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Protocol design complexity has increased substantially during the past decade and this in turn has adversely impacted drug development economics and performance. This article reviews the results of two major Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Develo...
Driving simulators offer a safe and controlled way to study fatigue in truck drivers, but variation in scenario design and incomplete reporting limit reproducibility and cross-study comparison. This systematic review synthesized scenario parameters u...
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and communication networks, the concept of a smart city emerged spontaneously. In the traffic control of a smart city, the vehicular network plays an important role. If the driving information of v...
The expansion of mobile connectivity with the arrival of 6G paves the way for the new Internet of Verticals (6G-IoV), benefiting autonomous driving. This article highlights the importance of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) co...
The media access control (MAC) protocol is responsible for channel resource sharing and conflict management in the communication process in VANET, which is of great significance for ensuring efficient and reliable communication. The existing MAC prot...
The safety of various road users and vehicle passengers is very important in our increasingly populated roads and highways. To this end, the correct perception of driving conditions is imperative for a driver to react accordingly to a given driving s...
Fixed sleep schedules with an 8 h time in bed (TIB) are used to ensure participants are well-rested before laboratory studies. However, such schedules may lead to cumulative excess wakefulness in young individuals. Effects on older individuals are un...
Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have experienced significant development in recent years, playing a crucial role in enhancing the driving experience by enabling safer and more efficient inter-vehicle interactions through information exchange. Vehicl...
Road intersections are shared among several conflicted traffic flows. Stop signs are used to control competing traffic flows at road intersections safely. Then, driving rules are constructed to control the competing traffic flows at these stop sign r...
Controlling the motional state of a particle in a multidimensional space is key for fundamental science and quantum technologies. Applying a recently found two-dimensional invariant combined with linear invariants, we propose protocols to drive a par...
Exposure therapy approaches are recognized as effective treatments for specific phobias; however, certain phobias, such as fear of driving on urban highways, present unique challenges in order to expose the patient to the triggering stimuli in a safe...
The growing demand for personalized healthcare is driving the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). These networks enable continuous monitoring of physiological parameters. In WBANs, routing protocols are essential for ensuring reliable...
Recent research advances in sensors, wireless communications, network protocols, microelectronics, cloud computing, and machine learning, among others, are driving the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) [...]
This paper proposes “An Integrated Self-diagnosis System (ISS) for an Autonomous Vehicle based on an Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway and Deep Learning” that collects information from the sensors of an autonomous vehicle, diagnoses itself...
The electrification of vehicles is without a doubt one of the milestones of today’s automotive technology. Even though industry actors perceive it as a future standard, acceptance, and adoption of this kind of vehicles by the end user remain a...
To address the difficulty of obtaining real fault data from elevator traction drive systems and the potential overestimation caused by random window splitting, this study uses two public motor-drive datasets to examine how validation protocols, signa...
The escalating impact of climate change on global weather patterns threatens the functionality and resilience of infrastructure systems. This paper presents a rigorous risk assessment protocol tailored to existing bridge infrastructure, integrating c...
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of mission-profile-based stress testing methods for AC electric motor drives, focusing on the impact of stress factors on long-term performance. Special attention is given to the categorization of stress f...
The optimal development of biosensors is a costly and time-consuming task, since an enormous amount of experiments is required. Therefore, the possibility of reusing the biosensors is highly desirable. In this work, a protocol based on the use of for...
This study presents a comprehensive methodology for evaluating electric vehicle (EV) energy consumption by integrating coast down testing with standardized chassis dynamometer protocols under WLTP Class 3b and EPA driving cycles. Coast down tests wer...
Driving-impairing medicines (DIMs) are associated with an increased risk of traffic accidents. While Dutch pharmacy staff are expected to counsel patients at the first and second dispense of DIMs, current practice suggests that second-dispense consul...
In this paper, a time-varying formation tracking protocol for second-order multi-sgent systems (MASs) is presented. The time-varying formation considers translation, rotation, and scaling of the geometric pattern that defines the formation. The contr...
The high fidelity generation of strongly entangled states of many particles, such as cat states, is a particularly demanding challenge. One approach is to drive the system, within a certain final time, as adiabatically as possible, in order to avoid...
In-vehicle communication has become an integral part of today’s driving environment considering the growing add-ons of sensor-centric communication and computing devices inside a vehicle for a range of purposes including vehicle monitoring, phy...
Directed differentiation protocols have recently been developed to produce stem cell-derived α (SC-α) cells as a potential component of a complete cell-based therapy for T1D, to complement the more widely studied stem cell-derived β...
This work presents the results of an on-road test campaign on an aged mid-size battery electric vehicle. After a full charge, the vehicle was completely discharged by driving on the road, with different routes (combining speeds and road slopes) and p...
Stimulated by the increase in user demands and the development of intelligent driving, the automotive industry is pursuing high-bandwidth techniques, low-cost network deployment and deterministic data transmission. Time-sensitive networking (TSN) bas...
This paper mainly studies fault-tolerant control for a class of semi-linear fractional-order multi-agent systems with diffusion characteristics, where the actuator fault is considered. The adaptive fault-tolerant control protocol based on the adjacen...
With the maturity and popularization of the Internet of Things, we saw the emergence of the Internet of Vehicles. This collects and processes real-time traffic information, alleviates traffic congestion, and realizes intelligent transportation. Howev...
Self-driving vehicles have experienced an increase in research interest in the last decades. Nevertheless, fully autonomous vehicles are still far from being a common means of transport. This paper presents the design and experimental validation of a...
In a context of global warming, the energy-efficiency topic has never been as hot as it is now, especially as far as transportation is concerned. Road and rail transportation are both included in what currently is the main attempt to tackle climate c...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide information and entertainment to drivers for safe and enjoyable driving. Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) is designed for VANETs to provide services efficiently. In particular, infotainment s...
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) is the communication technology designed to support road safety for drivers and autonomous driving. The light-weight security solution is crucial to meet the real-time needs of on-board V2X applications. However, most of t...
The control synchronization of multiple electrohydraulic actuators (MEHAs) is initially discussed to ensure the consensus of every electrohydraulic actuator (EHA) with three-order isomorphic dynamics. First, the EHA model is linearized using the Lie...
The high-speed dynamics of nodes and rapid change of network topology in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) pose significant challenges for the design of routing protocols. Because of the unpredictability of VANETs, selecting the appropriate next-hop...
Wearable sensors are widely used to gather psychophysiological data in the laboratory and real-world applications. However, the accuracy of these devices should be carefully assessed. The study focused on testing the accuracy of the Empatica 4 (E4) w...
This review aims to provide an insight into the application and efficiency of CIDR-based protocols for ES in goats raised under tropical and subtropical environments. In temperate regions, short-term CIDR treatments are replacing long-term treatments...
I propose a quantum metrology protocol for measuring frequencies and weak forces based on a periodic modulating quantum Jahn–Teller system composed of a single spin and two bosonic modes. I show that, in the first order of the frequency drive, the ti...
With wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a driver can access various useful information for convenient driving, such as traffic congestion, emergence, vehicle accidents, and speed. However, a driver and traffic manager can be vulnerable to various attac...
In driver attention zone prediction tasks, accurately identifying and locating the driver’s attention zone is crucial. Traditional models have significant limitations in complex driving scenarios due to their failure to fully utilize multidimen...
Mind wandering during driving is one of the major sources of road safety risk, but its expression across drivers of different styles remains unclear. Few studies have examined attentional state and driving style concurrently in a 1 h multimodal simul...
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication has played a pivotal role in modern intelligent transportation systems, enabling seamless information exchange among vehicles to enhance road safety, traffic efficiency, and overall driving experience. However,...
In Internet of Vehicles (IoV), the secure data transmission between vehicles and transportation infrastructure effectively ensures the safety and fast driving of vehicles, while authentication and key agreement protocols between vehicles and transpor...
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