The on-board design discipline is sometimes ignored during the first aircraft design iterations. It might be understandable when a single on-board system architecture is considered, especially when a conventional architecture is selected. However, se...
To meet the real-time, multi-task processing demands of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems under limited onboard resources, this paper presents a configurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architecture that supports both water b...
This study investigates the integration of hybrid-electric distributed propulsion (DEP) systems in aviation to improve environmental sustainability. It aims to develop practical and integrated aircraft solutions by addressing the architectural comple...
The increasing penetration of electrified vehicles is accelerating the evolution of on-board and off-board charging systems, which must deliver higher efficiency, power density, safety, and bidirectionality under increasingly demanding constraints. T...
In this study, an ORC plant is considered that recovers the heat source from 1800 cc Diesel Engine exhaust gases. The power recovered by the ORC system could be used, as an auxiliary system, to provide energy to the electronic parts of the car. The p...
The increasing adoption of exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCSs) in the maritime industry has raised concerns regarding the management of sludge residues generated during wet scrubber operation. Conventional onboard sludge handling methods primarily r...
In modern aircraft, energy supply management has become a critical matter, since many aboard electrical loads have to be supplied, especially those related to flight safety. However, at the same time, the size and weight of electrical generators must...
Among several usages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), wireless relay systems for high altitudes using fixed-wing UAVs, or high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are some of the most promising applications. To realize the systems by making the most...
This study addresses the general problem regarding the power supply in specific on-board unit (OBUs) solutions. In detail, this paper refers to a subset of the so-called electronic toll collection (ETC) applications such as assets control and vehicle...
Highly automated shuttle vehicles (SAE Level 4) have the potential to enhance public transport services by decreasing the demand for drivers, enabling more frequent and flexible ride options. However, at least in a transitionary phase, safety operato...
The collection series presents various emerging approaches for designing growing renewable energy (RE), energy storage (ES), and smart transportation with electric vehicles (EVs) in the power and automobile industries [...]
The aircraft design process is a complex task that requires the collaboration of disciplinary experts from various fields. In practice, this complexity requires a large investment in setting up communication interfaces for the exchange of disciplinar...
The article suggests design principles of an advanced onboard computer network with an intelligent control system. It describes the main advantages of designing an onboard computer network based on fibre optics, which allows the implementation of an...
In this paper, we investigate the design of an integrated system consisting of two non-rigidly connected bodies: A floating buoy and an emerged offshore structure. When waves excite the buoy to oscillate, the relative motion between the two bodies ar...
This article presents a complete test equipment for the promising on-board serial high-speed SpaceFibre protocol, published by the European Committee for Space Standardization. SpaceFibre and SpaceWire are standard communication protocols for the lat...
This study proposes and implements a dual-processor FPGA-ARM architecture to resolve the critical contradiction between massive data volumes and real-time processing demands in UAV-borne hyperspectral imaging. The integrated system incorporates a sho...
This paper presents a comparative reliability analysis of spacecraft onboard control systems based on their structural representation using directed graph models. A modified approach to reliability assessment is proposed, grounded in representing onb...
High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools provide facilities for the development of specialized hardware accelerators (HWacc). However, the verification stage is still the longest phase in the development life-cycle. Unlike in the software industry, HLS tools...
There are many real-world applications that require high-performance mobile computing systems for onboard, real-time processing of gathered data due to latency, reliability, security, or other application constraints. Unfortunately, most existing hig...
Accurate and robust on-board orbit determination is essential for enabling autonomous spacecraft operations, particularly in scenarios where ground control is limited or unavailable. This paper presents a novel method for achieving robust on-board or...
The VisionCube is a 2-unit CubeSat developed in house, of which the primary mission is detecting the occurrence of transient luminous events (TLEs) in the upper atmosphere and obtaining corresponding images from a low Earth orbit. An onboard TLE obse...
The automatic emergency braking (AEB) system plays a crucial role in reducing rear-end collisions and is mandatory on certain heavy-duty vehicles, with future regulations extending to passenger cars. However, most current AEB systems are designed bas...
Since the data generation rate of high-resolution satellites is increasing rapidly, to relieve the stress of data downloading and processing systems while enhancing the time efficiency of information acquisition, it is important to deploy on-board ed...
The need for greener and cleaner aviation has accelerated the transition towards more electric systems on the More Electric Aircraft. One of the key challenges related to the increasing number of electrical devices onboard is the control of bidirecti...
This paper presents the hardware design and integration process employed to develop an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) helicopter. The design process evolves from the bare airframe (without any electronics), to become a complete and advanced UAS platf...
Maritime journeys significantly depend on weather conditions, and so meteorology has always had a key role in maritime businesses. Nowadays, the new era of innovative machine learning approaches along with the availability of a wide range of sensors...
Emerging wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, such as silicon carbide (SiC), will enable chargers to operate at higher switching frequencies, which grants the ability to deliver high power and enhances efficiency. This paper addresses the modeling of a...
Space missions are facing disruptive innovation since the appearance of small, lightweight, and low-cost satellites (e.g., CubeSats). The use of commercial devices and their limitations in cost usually entail a decrease in available on-board computin...
With ever-increasing demand on energy conservation, there is fast growing interest in the technologies to improve the fuel economy for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), especially the exhaust gas waste heat energy recovery. Meanwhile, the use of solar...
With the development of remote-sensing technology, optical remote-sensing imagery processing has played an important role in many application fields, such as geological exploration and natural disaster prevention. However, relative radiation correcti...
Existing on-board planning systems do not apply to small satellites with limited onboard computer capacity and on-board resources. This study aims to investigate the problem of autonomous task planning for small satellites. Based on the analysis of t...
This paper discloses the architecture and related performance of an environment control system designed to be integrated within a complex multi-functional thermal and energy management system that manages the heat loads and generation of electric pow...
The even more restrictive regulations imposed on chemical and acoustic emissions of ships necessitate the installation of after-treatment systems onboard. The spaces onboard are limited, and the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCSs) have big dimension...
While ammonia offers several benefits as an alternative fuel, its adoption poses significant technical and economic challenges, particularly with respect to onboard storage and handling. To facilitate the large-scale deployment of ammonia in marine a...
In this novel conceptual fuel cell vehicle (FCV), an on-board CH4 steam reforming (MSR) membrane reformer (MR) is considered to generate pure H2 for supplying a Fuel Cell (FC) system, as an alternative to the conventional automobile engines. Two on-b...
The operational effectiveness of a railroad track robot that is designed for railcar undercarriage inspection is provided. Beyond describing the robot’s design details and onboard imaging system, the paper analyzes the recorded video images and...
Single-stage single-phase onboard electric vehicle (EV) chargers are popular owing to their simple structure and high efficiency. However, their performance during grid connection is highly dependent on grid impedance characteristics. In a real-world...
With the development of spaceborne processing technologies, the demand for on-board processing has risen sharply. Against this background, spaceborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) processing has become an important research area. I...
With the vigorous development of industrial automation and the Internet of things, the transmission of data is more dependent on immediacy, so network devices have higher and higher requirements for time synchronization accuracy. The clock source of...
In this work, we describe in detail how Deep Learning and Computer Vision can help to detect fault events of the AirTender system, an aftermarket motorcycle damping system component. One of the most effective ways to monitor the AirTender functioning...
Current onboard hydrogen storage systems are volumetrically inefficient and represent a major constraint on the driving range of heavy-duty fuel cell vehicles. This work presents a conceptual model of an internally reinforced Type I rectangular-shape...
The upcoming Salinity Satellite, scheduled for launch in 2024, will feature the world’s first phased array radar scatterometer. To validate its capability in measuring ocean surface backscatter coefficients, this paper conducts an in-depth anal...
The main objective of this study is to develop and analyse different harbour grid configurations that can facilitate the charging of batteries for modern vessels and supply onshore power. The use of battery energy storage systems in modern hybrid or...
Acquiring high-quality images from space at low-latitude areas is challenging due to the orbital requirements of the satellites and the frequent cloud coverage. To address this issue, a low-latitude remote sensing satellite constellation—the Ha...
Among the several usages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a wireless relay system is one of the most promising applications. Specifically, a small fixed-wing UAV is suitable to establish the system promptly. In the system, an antenna pointing cont...
This paper describes the relative frequency of reports of oil and hydraulic fluid fumes in the ventilation supply air (“fume events”) compared to other types of fumes and smoke reported by U.S. airlines over 10 years. The author reviewed and categori...
This paper discusses some design issues of a magnetic rotating to linear motion converter (RLMC), suitable for the propulsion system of a short-distance low-capacity vehicle. It basically operates like a magnetic rack, which executes the contactless...
In this article, to enhance the power output capability and system efficiency during charging, an approach to motor winding optimization for HEFS machine-based integrated on-board charging systems is proposed and analyzed. Firstly, the design process...
Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping have a great impact on various applications such as search-and-rescue and agriculture. For each agent, the key to performing collaboration is to measure the motion relative to other participants or...
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