scholarly journals Integration of autonomous electric transport vehicles into a tactical microgrid : final report

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Rolufs ◽  
Amelia Trout ◽  
Kevin Palmer ◽  
Clark Boriack ◽  
Bryan Brilhart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Electric Transport ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Operational Testing ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Operational Tests ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Transportation Technologies ◽  
Support Research

The objective of the Autonomous Transport Innovation (ATI) technical research program is to investigate current gaps and challenges and develop solutions to integrate emerging electric transport vehicles, vehicle autonomy, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging and microgrid technologies with military legacy equipment. The ATI research area objectives are to: identify unique military requirements for autonomous transportation technologies; identify currently available technologies that can be adopted for military applications and validate the suitability of these technologies to close need gaps; identify research and operational tests for autonomous transport vehicles; investigate requirements for testing and demonstrating of bidirectional-vehicle charging within a tactical environment; develop requirements for a sensored, living laboratory that will be used to assess the performance of autonomous innovations; and integrate open standards to promote interoperability and broad-platform compatibility. This final report summarizes the team’s research, which resulted in an approach to develop a sensored, living laboratory with operational testing capability to assess the safety, utility, interoperability, and resiliency of autonomous electric transport and V2G technologies in a tactical microgrid. The living laboratory will support research and assessment of emerging technologies and determine the prospect for implementation in defense transport operations and contingency base energy resilience.

scholarly journals Autonomous Transport Innovation (ATI) : integration of autonomous electric vehicles into a tactical microgrid

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Rolufs ◽  
Amelia Trout ◽  
Kevin Palmer ◽  
Clark Boriack ◽  
Bryan Brilhart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Electric Transport ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Operational Testing ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Operational Tests ◽  
Transportation Technologies ◽  
Support Research ◽  
Autonomous Electric Vehicles

The objective of the Autonomous Transport Innovation (ATI) technical research program is to investigate current gaps and challenges then develop solutions to integrate emerging electric transport vehicles, vehicle autonomy, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging and microgrid technologies with military legacy equipment. The ATI research area objectives are to: identify unique military requirements for autonomous transportation technologies; identify currently available technologies that can be adopted for military applications and validate the suitability of these technologies to close need gaps; identify research and operational tests for autonomous transport vehicles; investigate requirements for testing and demonstrating of bidirectional vehicle charging within a tactical environment; develop requirements for a sensored, living laboratory that will be used to assess the performance of autonomous innovations; and integrate open standards to promote interoperability and broad-platform compatibility. The research performed resulted in an approach to develop a sensored, living laboratory with operational testing capability to assess the safety, utility, interoperability, and resiliency of autonomous electric transport and V2G technologies in a tactical microgrid. The living laboratory will support research and assessment of emerging technologies and determine the prospect for implementation in defense transport operations and contingency base energy resilience.

scholarly journals From Air Pollution to the Climate Crisis: Leaving the Comfort Zone

Daedalus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Patrick L. Kinney
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Public ◽  
Zero Carbon ◽  
Climate And Health ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Support Research

While climate change poses existential risks to human health and welfare, the public health research community has been slow to embrace the topic. This isn't so much about a lack of interest as it is about the lack of dedicated funding to support research. An interesting contrast can be drawn with the field of air pollution and health, which has been an active and well-supported research area for almost fifty years. My own career journey started squarely in the latter setting in the 1980s, but transitioned to a major focus on climate and health starting around 2000. The journey has been punctuated with opportunities and obstacles, most of which still exist. In the meantime, a large body of evidence has grown on the health impacts of climate change, adding more urgency to the imperative for action. Institutionalization of climate and health within the federal regulatory and funding apparatus is now needed if we are to make the transition to zero carbon in ways that maximize health and equity benefits.

scholarly journals A Survey of Technologies and Recent Developments for Sustainable Smart Cycling

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3422
Author(s):  
Franklin Oliveira ◽  
Dilan Nery ◽  
Daniel G. Costa ◽  
Ivanovitch Silva ◽  
Luciana Lima
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
High Pollution ◽  
Transportation Technologies ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Among the problems resulting from the continuous urbanization process, inefficient urban mobility and high pollution levels have been complex challenges that have demanded a lot of public investments and research efforts. Recently, some alternative transportation means have been leveraged as sustainable options for such challenges, which has brought bicycles to a more relevant setting. Besides the sometimes obvious benefits of adopting bikes for transportation, technologies around the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm have been advocated as important supportive tools to boost smart cycling initiatives. Actually, new technologies can be exploited to improve the efficiency of bike paths and parking spots, while reducing accidents and enhancing the cycling experience of the users. Therefore, in this highly vibrating scenario, this article facilitates the understating of current research trends and promising developments, surveying and classing recent works. Since there is a global interest for the promotion of cleaner and more sustainable solutions in large cities, this survey can be valuable when supporting new developments in this highly relevant research area.

STAND FOR OPERATIONAL TESTS LED LAMP

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
D.A. VANKIN ◽  
V.V. MARKOV ◽  
K.V. PODMASTERYEV
Keyword(s):  
Cooling System ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Operational Testing ◽  
Operational Tests ◽  
Lighting Systems

The description of the stand for operational testing of led lamps is presented. The results of operational tests of led lamps are presented. The tests were carried out under real operating conditions. The fact of deterioration of technical characteristics of lamps is established. One of the reasons for the deterioration of technical characteristics is recognized as the release of a large amount of heat by the lamp. Variants of the led lamp design containing elements of the cooling system are proposed. The prospects for the development of lighting systems based on led grids are shown.

DART: Diversity-enhanced Autonomy in Robot Teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (12-13) ◽  
pp. 1329-1337
Author(s):  
Nora Ayanian
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Robot Teams ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Robot Systems ◽  
Controlled Environments ◽  
Multi Robot

This paper defines the research area of Diversity-enhanced Autonomy in Robot Teams (DART), a novel paradigm for the creation and design of policies for multi-robot coordination. Although current approaches to multi-robot coordination have been successful in structured, well-understood environments, they have not been successful in unstructured, uncertain environments, such as disaster response. Although robot hardware has advanced significantly in the past decade, the way we solve multi-robot problems has not. Even with significant advances in the field of multi-robot systems, the same problem-solving paradigm has remained: assumptions are made to simplify the problem, and a solution is optimized for those assumptions and deployed to the entire team. This results in brittle solutions that prove incapable if the original assumptions are invalidated. This paper introduces a new multi-robot problem-solving paradigm which uses a diverse set of control policies that work together synergistically within the same team of robots. Such an approach will make multi-robot systems more robust in unstructured and uncertain environments, such as in disaster response, environmental monitoring, and military applications, and allow multi-robot systems to extend beyond the highly structured and highly controlled environments where they are successful today.

scholarly journals A Review on Energy Efficiency in Three Transportation Sectors: Railways, Electrical Vehicles and Marine

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris Brenna ◽  
Vittorio Bucci ◽  
Maria Carmen Falvo ◽  
Federica Foiadelli ◽  
Alessandro Ruvio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Railway Transportation ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Electrical Vehicles

The present paper is a review on efficiency issues related to three important sectors of the transportation systems: railways, electrical vehicles, and marine. For the three sectors, the authors, in reference of their knowledge and research area, show the results of a wide literature analysis, in order to highlight which are the measures, in terms of technological solutions and management techniques, which are recently investigated and implemented, for improving the three transportation systems, from the point of view of efficiency. In particular, for the railway transportation sector, a wide analysis is presented, detecting which are the main measures adopted for improving the efficiency, related to the power systems for supplying trains and to the train traffic control, with a focus on the storage system integration. For electric road vehicles the analysis is focused on the plug-in electrical vehicles and on the infrastructure for their recharge, with an emphasis on how these vehicles can support the grid, e.g., through Vehicle to Grid (V2G) applications. Finally, for the marine transport service the review is related to the propulsion systems and on how the different solutions can meet the objective of efficiency.

VISIONAIR: A European Infrastructure to Support Research Based on Visualization and Interaction Techniques

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Noël
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
World Class ◽  
Art Research ◽  
New Research ◽  
High Level ◽  
Support Research

VISIONAIR is an acronym for “VISION Advanced Infrastructure for Research”. VISIONAIR is a European infrastructure for high level visualization facilities that is open to research communities across Europe and around the world. By integrating existing facilities, VISIONAIR creates a world-class research infrastructure for conducting state-of-the-art research, thus significantly enhancing the attractiveness and visibility of the European Research Area (ERA). VISIONAIR allows researches into Scientific Visualization, Ultra High Definition Networks, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Collaborative Environments. VISIONAIR expects high level research inside these fields and enables new research perspectives. This paper presents the aims of VISIONAIR and analyzes some challenges and opportunities open by such an infrastructure.

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