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The paper considers a motion control problem for kinematic models of nonholonomic wheeled systems. The class of maneuverable wheeled systems is defined consisting of systems that can follow any sufficiently smooth non-stop trajectory on the…
Precise pick-and-place is essential in robotic applications. To this end, we define a novel exact training method and an iterative inference method that improve pick-and-place precision with Transporter Networks. We conduct a large scale…
We have carried out car-following experiments with a 25-car-platoon on an open road section to study the relation between a car's speed and its spacing under various traffic conditions, in the hope to resolve a controversy surrounding this…
The aim of this paper is to estimate the damage of railway carriage wheels caused by lock-up braking. First, we investigate the typical characteristics of wheel-rail contact including the parameters of contact patch, longitudinal creep and…
This article examines a symbolic numerical approach to optimize a vehicle's track for autonomous driving and collision avoidance. The new approach uses the classical cost function definition incorporating the essential aspects of the…
This paper presents a robust path following control method for vehicles that explicitly considers steering resistance dynamics to improve tracking accuracy. Conventional methods typically treat the steering angle as a direct control input;…
Autonomous systems, like vehicles or robots, require reliable, accurate, fast, resource-efficient, scalable, and low-latency trajectory predictions to get initial knowledge about future locations and movements of surrounding objects for…
In many covering settings, it is natural to consider the presence both of elements that we seek to include and of elements that we seek to avoid. This paper introduces a novel combinatorial problem formalizing this tradeoff: from a…
Transporting causal information across populations is a critical challenge in clinical decision-making. Causal modeling provides criteria for identifiability and transportability, but these require knowledge of the causal graph, which…
A track layout of a graph consists of a vertex coloring and a total order of each color class, such that no two edges cross between any two color classes. The track number of a graph is the minimum number of colors required by a track…
Determining the precise integrality gap for the subtour LP relaxation of the traveling salesman problem is a significant open question, with little progress made in thirty years in the general case of symmetric costs that obey triangle…
Railcar shunting is a core planning task in freight railyards, where yard planners need to disassemble and reassemble groups of railcars to form outbound trains. Classification tracks with access from one side only can be considered as…
In this paper we investigate real-time, dynamic traffic optimization in railway systems. In order to enable practical solution times, we operate the optimizer in a receding horizon fashion and with optimization horizons that are shorter…
The force transmitted from the front tires to the steering rack of a vehicle, called the rack force, plays an important role in the function of electric power steering (EPS) systems. Estimates of rack force can be used by EPS to attenuate…
We give a combinatorial proof of an unpublished result of E. Klarreich: The Gromov boundary of the complex of curves of a non-exceptional oriented surface S of finite type can naturally be identified with the space of minimal geodesic…
Road traffic crashes have been the leading cause of death among young people. Most of these accidents occur when the driver becomes distracted and a loss-of-control situation occurs. Steer-by-Wire systems were recently proposed as an…
This paper presents a method based on linear programming for trajectory planning of automated vehicles, combining obstacle avoidance, time scheduling for the reaching of waypoints and time-optimal traversal of tube-like road segments.…
The most widely used method for finding relationships between several quantities is multiple regression. This however is restricted to a single dependent variable. We present a more general method which allows models to be constructed with…
Robots are increasingly being deployed in agriculture to support sustainable practices and improve productivity. They offer strong potential to enable precise, efficient, and environmentally friendly operations. However, most existing…
We investigate two types of graph layouts, track layouts and layered path decompositions, and the relations between their associated parameters track-number and layered pathwidth. We use these two types of layouts to characterize leveled…