Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems
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Multifractal Terrain Generation for Evaluating Autonomous Off-Road Ground Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)We present a multifractal artificial terrain generation method that uses the 3D Weierstrass–Mandelbrot function to control roughness. By varying the fractal dimension used in terrain generation across three different values, ... -
Robust Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environment Based on Motion Detection and Segmentation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this study, we propose a robust and accurate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method for dynamic environments. Our approach combines sparse optical flow with epipolar geometric constraints to detect motion, ... -
Advancing Vehicle Trajectory Prediction: A Probabilistic Approach Using Combined Sequential Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper addresses the critical need to quantify vehicle trajectory uncertainty in autonomous driving under environmental variability. We focus on predicting the posterior distribution of vehicle trajectories over a fixed ... -
Effective Map Merging for Long-Term Autonomous Navigation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)An algorithm is presented that intelligently merges multiple 3D point clouds used for localization based on when the point cloud was recorded to create an updated map that is more similar to the current environment. The ... -
Prescribed Performance Backstepping and Sliding Mode Control for Automated Platoons With Internal Type-2 Fuzzy Logic and Exponential Spacing Policy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study presents a control strategy employing a hybrid backstepping and sliding mode control (BSMC) approach for automated platoons. The control scheme integrates an exponential spacing policy tailored to varying driving ... -
Optimization of Power Control for Autonomous Hybrid Electric Vehicles With Flexible Power Demand1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Technology advancement for on-road vehicles has gained significant momentum in the past decades, particularly in the field of vehicle automation and powertrain electrification. The optimization of powertrain controls for ... -
Decentralized Swarm Control in Communication-Constrained Environments Using a Blended Leader Follower-Artificial Potential Field With Biologically Inspired Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper presents a study of how communication ranges influence the performance of a new decentralized control method for swarms of autonomously navigating ground vehicles that uses a blended leader–follower/artificial ... -
Enhance Road Detection Data Processing of LiDAR Point Clouds to Specifically Identify Unmarked Gravel Rural Roads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Gravel roads lack standardized features such as curbs or painted lines, presenting detection challenges to autonomous vehicles. Global positioning service (GPS) and high resolution maps may not be reliable for navigation ... -
Tracking Algorithm Application Integrating Visual and Radar Information in Intelligent Vehicle Target Tracking
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)With the continuous development of various automobile technologies, the concept of intelligent automobile automatic driving has been introduced into people's lives, and it has great research value in traffic safety, traffic ... -
Simulation Study on Hydraulic Braking Control of Engine Motor of Hybrid Electric Vehicle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Taking the hybrid electric vehicle as the research object, under the premise of ensuring braking safety, aiming at maximizing the use of motor regenerative braking force and improving the coordination performance of motor ... -
Design and Application of Deep Learning-Based Crash Damage Prediction Model for Self-Driving Cars
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The collision damage of automated cars has grown in importance as self-driving car technology has advanced to the pilot operation stage. To enhance the safety of autonomous vehicles by predicting and preventing potential ... -
Cooperative Eco-Driving for an All-Electric and Mixed Two-Vehicle Platoon Based on Pontryagin's Minimum Principle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Cooperative eco-driving (Co-ED) is a promising technology for improving vehicle efficiency through appropriate coordination. Additionally, platooning can significantly improve the vehicle's energy efficiency by reducing ... -
Time-Critical Unified Rendezvous Guidance for an Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper addresses the time-critical rendezvous problem for a pursuing autonomous unmanned vehicle, e.g., an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), guided using the concept of true proportional-navigation guidance, which is a ... -
Two-Carrier Cooperative Parking Robot: Design and Implementation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Parking robots have been designed to alleviate parking stress in crowded areas. Existing models occupy large spaces and have limited adaptability to uneven ground. This article aims to enhance the performance of parking ... -
Weld Seam Recognition and Tracking With Omnidirectional Wall-Climbing Robot for Spherical Tank Inspection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Weld seams of in-service pressure storage equipment, such as spherical tanks, require regular inspection to ensure safe operation. Wall-climbing robots can replace manual operations, increasing inspection efficiency and ... -
Hydroplaning of Tires: A Review of Numerical Modeling and Novel Sensing Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article represents an extensive literature on tire hydroplaning, specifically focusing on the assessment of real-time estimation methodologies and numerical modeling for both partial and total hydroplaning phenomenon. ... -
Electric Vehicle Energy Management via Traffic Light Detection and Segmental Velocity Forecasting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Predictive-based power control has been widely recognized as a promising approach to boost driving range and improve system-level energy efficiency for electric vehicles (EVs), in which vehicle velocity forecasting generally ... -
Multi-Point Path Planning Algorithm for a Mobile Robot With Composite Moving Costs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Multi-point path planning problem is a classic problem of the mobile robot. The present research is concerned with solving the shortest path. In some realistic applications, the shortest path length is not always the ... -
Incipient Immobilization Detection for Lightweight Rovers Operating in Deformable Terrain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This article presents a new method of detecting incipient immobilization for a wheeled mobile robot operating in deformable terrain with high spatial variability. This approach uses proprioceptive sensor data from a ... -
Online Robust Model Predictive Control Based Emergency Maneuvering System for Autonomous Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Nonlinear robust model predictive control (RMPC) provides a promising solution to the problem of automatic emergency maneuvering and it is capable of handling multiple, possibly conflicting objectives of robustness and ...