scholarly journals Designing a Vehicle Collison-Avoidance Safety System using Arduino

Author(s):  
Manas Metar

Abstract: The future of automotive relies on the mechatronic and electronic systems. The worldwide growth of automotive towards electronic systems suggests that driverless cars would soon be the common commuters. With such improvements safety of the passengers becomes first priority for the manufacturers. Nowadays automobiles come with high end technologies and quick responsive electronic systems. In addition to the passive safety systems, active safety systems definitely avoid collision thereby reducing the chances of injury and death. This project shows the working of an active safety system that is collision avoidance system. To create the model, TINKERCAD software has been used and a detailed working is explained. As a result, the system detects traffic and can alert the driver and stop the vehicle before meeting the collision. Keywords: Active Safety System, Arduino, Tinkercad, Vehicle Electronics System, Automotive Safety System, Collision Avoidance System, Self-Driving Car, Driverless Vehicle.

Author(s):  
Jue Yang ◽  
Xuenong Zhu ◽  
Xiangang Fu ◽  
Wei Cai ◽  
Jie Ye ◽  
...  

Developing the advanced nuclear power plant design to meet the demanding safety, efficiency and environmental goals of electric utilities requires great efforts. In this paper, a design of the safety systems for the large-power PWR units is introduced, which is deemed a optimal combination of the passive safety systems with the active safety systems. The typical design basis accidents are analyzed for this safety system design, such as the Small Break LOCA, SGTR, SLB and Loss of Flow Accidents (LOFA). The results show that the safety systems of the passives combined the actives can mitigate effectively these typical accidents in large-power PWRs. PSA results also show that the passive safety systems contributes to the reduction of the CDF. It is preliminarily concluded that the passive combined active safety system is designed in balance.


Author(s):  
Takashi Sato ◽  
Keiji Matsumoto ◽  
Kenji Hosomi ◽  
Keisuke Taguchi

iB1350 stands for an innovative, intelligent and inexpensive boiling water reactor 1350. It is the first Generation III.7 reactor after the Fukushima Daiichi accident. It has incorporated lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident and Western European Nuclear Regulation Association safety objectives. It has innovative safety to cope with devastating natural disasters including a giant earthquake, a large tsunami and a monster hurricane. The iB1350 can survive passively such devastation and a very prolonged station blackout without any support from the outside of a site up to 7 days even preventing core melt. It, however, is based on the well-established proven Advance Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) design. The nuclear steam supply system is exactly the same as that of the current ABWR. As for safety design it has a double cylinder reinforced concrete containment vessel (Mark W containment) and an in-depth hybrid safety system (IDHS). The Mark W containment has double fission product confinement barriers and the in-containment filtered venting system (IFVS) that enable passively no emergency evacuation outside the immediate vicinity of the plant for a severe accident (SA). It has a large volume to hold hydrogen, a core catcher, a passive flooding system and an innovative passive containment cooling system (iPCCS) establishing passively practical elimination of containment failure even in a long term. The IDHS consists of 4 division active safety systems for a design basis accident, 2 division active safety systems for a SA and built-in passive safety systems (BiPSS) consisting of an isolation condenser (IC) and the iPCCS for a SA. The IC/PCCS pools have enough capacity for 7-day grace period. The IC/PCCS heat exchangers, core and spent fuel pool are enclosed inside the containment vessel (CV) building and protected against a large airplane crash. The iB1350 can survive a large airplane crash only by the CV building and the built-in passive safety systems therein. The dome of the CV building consists of a single wall made of steel and concrete composite. This single dome structure facilitates a short-term construction period and cost saving. The CV diameter is smaller than that of most PWR resulting in a smaller R/B. Each active safety division includes only one emergency core cooling system (ECCS) pump and one emergency diesel generator (EDG). Therefore, a single failure of the EDG never causes multiple failures of ECCS pumps in a safety division. The iB1350 is based on the proven ABWR technology and ready for construction. No new technology is incorporated but design concept and philosophy are initiative and innovative.


Author(s):  
KB Devika ◽  
Nithya Sridhar ◽  
Harshal Patil ◽  
Shankar C Subramanian

Performance enhancement of typically sluggish pneumatic brake actuators in Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles (HCRVs) is necessary for the efficacious operation of active safety systems. This study develops a robust Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller using the Kharitonov theorem for pneumatic brakes. To account for the inherent time delay present in pneumatic brakes, Padé approximation and state prediction methods were used. The efficacy of the brake controller when used for active safety system operation has been investigated by conducting Hardware-in-Loop (HiL) experiments. It was found that state prediction based design turned out to be a better choice for handling time delays in the brake actuator. This controller was then compared with a Sliding Mode Control (SMC) based brake controller and the performance of both controllers was comparable. Further, the state prediction based PID brake controller was found to be robust up to 100% variation in system time constant and 40% variation in time delay for different road and load conditions.


Author(s):  
Takashi Sato ◽  
Keiji Matsumoto ◽  
Toshikazu Kurosaki ◽  
Mitsuhiro Maida

The paper presents study result on an innovative, intelligent and inexpensive BWR (iBR). It is the first Generation III.7 reactor after the Fukushima Daiichi accident. It has incorporated lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident and WENRA safety objectives. It has innovative safety to cope with devastating natural disasters including a giant earthquake, a large tsunami and a monster hurricane. The iBR can survive passively such devastation and a very prolonged SBO without any support from the outside of a site up to 7 days even preventing core melt. It, however, is based on the well-established proven ABWR design. NSSS is exactly the same as that of the current ABWR. As for safety design it has a double cylinder RCCV (Mark W containment) and an in-depth hybrid safety system (IDHS). The Mark W containment has double FP confinement barriers and the in-containment filtered venting system (IFVS) that enable passively no emergency evacuation outside the immediate vicinity of the plant for a SA. It has a large volume to hold hydrogen, a core catcher, a passive flooding system and a passive containment cooling system (PCCS) establishing passively practical elimination of containment failure even in a long term. The IDHS consists of 4 division active safety systems for a DBA, 2 division active safety systems for a SA and built-in passive safety systems (BiPSS) consisting of an isolation condenser (IC) and the PCCS for a SA. IC/PCCS pools have enough capacity for 7 day grace period. The IC/PCCS, core and spent fuel pool are enclosed inside the CV building and protected against a large airplane crash. The iBR can survive a large airplane crash only by the CV building and the built-in passive safety systems therein. The dome of the CV building consists of a single wall made of steel and concrete composite. This single dome structure facilitates a short-term construction period and cost saving. CV diameter is smaller than that of most PWR resulting in the smaller R/B. The iBR is based on the proven ABWR technology and ready for construction. No new technology is incorporated but design concept and philosophy are initiative and innovative.


Author(s):  
Takashi Sato ◽  
Keiji Matsumoto ◽  
Kenji Hosomi ◽  
Keisuke Taguchi

iB1350 stands for an innovative, intelligent and inexpensive boiling water reactor 1350. It is the only Generation III.7 reactor incorporating Fukushima lessons learned and complying with Western European Nuclear Regulation Association (WENRA) safety objectives. It is about twice safer than any existing Gen III.5 reactors. It has 7-day grace period for SBO and SA without containment venting. It enables no evacuation and no long-term relocation in SA. It, however, is based on the well-established proven ABWR. The NSSS and TI are exactly the same as those of the existing ABWR. The iB1350 only enhanced the ABWR safety by adding an outer well (OW) as additional PCV volume, built-in passive safety systems (BiPSS) for SA, DEC systems and an APC shield dome over the containment. The BiPSS include an isolation condenser (IC), an innovative passive containment cooling system (iPCCS), in-containment filtered venting system (IFVS), and innovative core catcher (iCC). All the BiPSS are embedded and protected in the containment building against APC. No specialized safety features remote from the R/B are necessary, which reduces plant cost. The primary system has only one integrated RPV. There are no SGs, no pressurizer, no core makeup tanks, no accumulators, no hot legs, and no cold legs. The iB1350 consists of only one integrated RPV and passive safety systems inside the containment building. This configuration is simpler than the simplest large PWR and as simple as SMR. While SMR have rather small outputs, the iB1350 has 1350 MWe output. It is simple, large and economic. As for the safety design it has an in-depth hybrid safety system (IDHS). The IDHS consists of 4 division active safety systems for DBA, 1 or 2 division active safety systems for DEC and the built-in passive safety systems (BiPSS) for SA. The IDHS is originally based on the four levels of safety that have provided an explicit fourth defense level against devastating external events even before 3.11. It also can be explained along with WENRA Defense in Depth (DiD). It is said that independence between DiD levels are important. However, there are many exceptions for independence between DiD levels. For example, SCRAM is used in DiD2, DiD3a and DiD3b. Any DiD that allows exceptions of independence of DiD levels is fake. The iB1350 is rather based on the three levels of safety proposed by Clifford Beck (AEC, 1967). There is complete independence between level 2 (core systems) and level 3 (containment systems) without any exceptions of independence. DiD without exceptions of independence is a real DiD. Only passive safety reactors can meet the real DiD.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (17) ◽  
pp. 6714
Author(s):  
Vicente Milanés ◽  
David F. Llorca ◽  
Jorge Villagrá ◽  
Joshue Pérez ◽  
Ignacio Parra ◽  
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