Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Lidar Attenuation Through a Physical Model of Grass-Like Vegetation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Off-road autonomous vehicles face a unique set of challenges compared to those designed for road use. Lane markings and road signs are unavailable, with soft soils, mud, steep slopes, and vegetation taking their place. ... -
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 ... -
Lidar Attenuation Through a Physical Model of GrassLike Vegetation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Offroad autonomous vehicles face a unique set of challenges compared to those designed for road use. Lane markings and road signs are unavailable, with soft soils, mud, steep slopes, and vegetation taking their place. ... -
Value of Information in MultiAttribute Decisions With Applications in Ground Vehicle Autonomy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work presents some results in the value of information calculations for multiattribute decisionmaking under uncertainty. Almost all engineering activities are undertaken in the face of uncertainty and a decision that ... -
Simultaneous HumanRobot Matching and Routing for MultiRobot Tour Guiding Under Time Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work presents a framework for multirobot tour guidance in a partially known environment with uncertainty, such as a museum. In the proposed centralized multirobot planner, a simultaneous matching and routing problem ... -
SafetyAware Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Highway Autonomous Driving
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) has been successfully applied in many robotics and autonomous driving studies without the need for handtuning a reward function. However, it suffers from safety issues. Compared to the ... -
Safe Learning Reference Governor: Theory and Application to Fuel Truck Rollover Avoidance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper proposes a learning reference governor (LRG) approach to enforce state and control constraints in systems for which an accurate model is unavailable. This approach enables the reference governor to gradually ... -
A MultiObjective Optimization Approach for MultiVehicle Path Planning Problems Considering Human–Robot Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)There has been unprecedented development in the field of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) over the past few years. UGVs have been used in many fields including civilian and military with applications such as military ... -
RealTime Trajectory Planning for Automated Vehicle Safety and Performance in Dynamic Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Safe trajectory planning for highperformance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in ... -
Design of a SelfBalancing Vehicle As a Test Rig for Safety Control Strategies Investigations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The present paper is related to a research activity concerning selfbalancing vehicles, with particular reference to the interaction between driver and vehicle’s dynamics, at the aim to investigate safety management and ...